The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-06-14
THE FORT DODGE HOME.

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The Kansas State Soldiers Home a
old Fort Dodge seems to be a success.
meeting it's obligations and filling it:
destinies as such in very satisfac.
tory way The first irrigating expert
ment ever attempted in Kansas was
at Dodge. 1t was by a quartermaster
before Kansas was a state, and it was
a failure. But the following extract
from the letter Of an old soldier who
| served under the writer seems to iudi-
cate that a real home is being success
fully built up at that point. The letter
! is from G.. B. Jackson and runs:
Dear ColoneI-We have seventy eight
houses that are filled, the most of them
by from two to eight families each,
! besides a school house. commissary
! barracks, postoffice, bath room, smith
! shop, barber and shoe shop, carpenter
shop, twenty-five head of cattle, two
hundred apple trees, one hundred and
| fifty cherry trees, shade trees through
| the streets and two beautiful parks
surrounded with shade trees. All of the
400 inmates are well fed and clothed.
We also have an ice house and a bak-
cry. Come up and see for yourself.
We also have fine garden of six or
seven acres, and hydrants all over the
town, kept full by a tank on a hill
north Of town that holds 440 barrels of
water. I do not use any glasses to
read or write-never did. 1 was 70
years old on the 18th of May last"
Well, who won? Probably the farmers.
Joseph Letters firm chin has dropped.
II there are any Moors extant. thew
ought TO be enjoying this war.
The really shrewd man Just now is Or
ganizing cable repair company
Tt is awful TO think Cervera's squadron
may stay as long at Santiago as it did
at Cape Verde.
With plenty OF sunshine and another
Letter, the farmers will get big price
for their wheat.
The man who was dead sure we would
take Porto Rico first" should come for
ward and own he said it.
It is absolutely demonstrated that no
n ha 1,a
paper artists imagination.
The Spaniards claim they are very proud
of Cervera, but you viii notice they are
naming no babies after him.
The first American to set foot on Cuba,
in the army of invasion Will soon be writ
ing home to his 10000 mothers.
Santiago was not down on the program
and the audience which IS still expecting
70 appear. may yet stone the or
chestra.
Gomez VIII have TO move a great deal
faster If he wants 20 get the homage
OF the brass bands Of America away from
Aguinaldo.
BY carefully distributing our ships at
q distance Of $500 miles we have COM I
pletely bottled up the Camara fee. a:
Cadiz. Spain
All the Cuban cables are not cut One.
which we control, viii no; be cut q, all. 4
This = really the most refreshing news /
Of the war
The American soldiers are arriving at /
Cuba al last. Il will nor take another
week to demonstrate why the spauiards
have never licked the Insurgents
While the alleged war has been in prog
-ess FOR Two years and half. this week
the first battle Cuba has seen for twenty
years viii be fought.
Dewey IS stIll ahead OF Hobson, but =
do5son ana his men should escape and
swim out 20 the American squadron. the
present Fourth Of July poster would be
urned 1owerd the wall
ESe Journal wrote fake dispatch telling
low Recipe ". Thenuz. an Austrian fight
nE with the Spaniards. had been killed.
The World stole the dispatch and printed
( as is Own Then the journal came cut.
exposed the World and showed that trans
'osed TIE Fictitious name, RsaEpe w.
rhenuz. reads; we pllfer the news"