The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02

Kearney, Neb. where they had been
with their racing dogs They came
away from the Nebraska meets with
over five hundred dollars of the stake
money besides selling two or three dogs
for about a hundred plunks each. Tn.
Horne boys are enthusiastic breeders OF
fast grey hounds. and they make II
pay. Charlie was elected secretary and
treasurer of the great Mississippi Valle5
F'uturity association. which holds a big
coursing event every October.
1t may be that Mitchell county will
lose in the Mitchell-Jewell county sena-
toriaI contest. but all the same about
80, 900 head of sheep will be fed there
this winter. Raising good mutton IS
worth more than all the state senator
ships.
The north central Kansas editors,
many of whom reside in the Sixth dis
trict have been invited to attend the
St Louis exposition in May next, pro-
viding they can save enough money be-
hotel rates while in ST. Louis. The rail-
roads will deadhead the editors, and
the exposition managers Will also head-
head them.
turned from his months outing in
Wyoming. While there he gathered up
about car load of souvenirs, including
deer horns Indian weapons and many
quantities of vegetables grown by irri-
cation which he is distributing to his
friends
Wen improved quarter sections of
Mitchell county lands are worth nice
sum in good hard money. The H.
Brigham $50 acre farm near Beloit was
sold for $4,000.
One of the Goodland real estate agents
is in trouble. He brings suit to recover
So 600 fees in the sale of Sherman coun-
ty lands by another firm of which he
was an agent. The Sixth district real
estate agents are in the swim in more
| H. Nv -,
Colby a short time ago. and now th:s
case in Goodland.
| Percy Root sold his Esbon paper a.
around the towns in the Sixth district
! with view of again entering the held OF
| Journalism.
Decatur county people have been so in
dustriouS gathering crops and fall seeding
and business is good in all towns. that
politics, although it is the home of Otis
L. Benton, who has many times been
mentioned for congress But. like all the
| other good fellows in the Sixth districl,
who will make a creditable congressman.
Benton is perfectly wiling to wait until y
| it is that with so much prosperity as De
catur is now enjoying; her people say the
county is far better on than be mixed VI
The year 1903 will be record-brea ker
| for the farmers of the Sixth district They
are making money. And not a business
| failure in all that great territory has Deen
reported. The elevators are full of grain
| and the Touring mills are running day
| and night. Her banks are full of money
and several new ones have started up,
Building is going on in many towns ana
| residence houses are scarce in every place
| Hotel conveniences have been inadequare
| and the real estate sellers have been kept
| on the hop, skip and jump from morning
/ till night Grain is piled on the ground
in many places and the railroads report
car famine. Courts meet regularly. but
/ the doczets are light. the people who Will
work are busy and there seems a dIsposi--
Etion TO keep out of courts The press OF
the district is making more than good