Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-07-14
FACTS ABOUT OMAHA
Beautiful and Progressive Young
Giant of the West.
Visit to the Big Packing Houses
and Other Points Of
Interest.

OF summer have literally jumped
out of the frying pan into the fire.
1t was hot when we got here Tues
day and it has been getting hotter
every day The heat is intense
and has greatly married the pleas
ure OF an otherwiseIenjoy able meet
ing of the National Editorial
Association.
Mr.. M. F. Conley and wife, OF
Louisa, arrived yesterday and Ken
lucky now has a party of FIVE, viz;
Mr.. and Mrs, Chas. NJ. Meacham,
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. F. Conley and
Col John G. Craddock. Kentucky
was entitled to six delegates, but
the other three did not come. All
of the small Kentucky party ex'
cepting Col Craddock will take the
Yellowstone Park trip. Col. Grad
dock will take the Black Hills trip
of six days and hurry home IN time
to attend the State meeting July D.
1t is a source of modification to a
Kentuckian to see how his State is
looked upon away iron home.
The first day we got here one Of
the papers referring to the Evans
Vile riot had printed across its
first page IN blood red letters;
"Evansville, Ind, should be moved
10 greathitt county, Kentucky
where it belongs
The writer in discussing
the matter with some Indiana PEG
pie told them that Kentucky coult
succeed better at furnishing he
criminals If Indiana would qui
harboring Kentucky assassins
Gov. Durbin probably realizes nov
that his own contempt for law i
bearing bloody fruit in his owl
State. The Breathitt count,
feuds are bad enough an
the horrors of the Taylor regim
were terrible enough, but even /
the height of his infancy, when hi
fellow conspirators were ordere
to shoot Down the Governor of tn
State, Taylor did not go so far a
| Durbin and order his militia t
shoot down young women who wer
ldriving along the streets.
Again when boastiDg of the siz
of his state, the president of tn
Nebraska press association sai'
half a dozen OF the eastern state
could be cut out of Nebraska ant
leave enough for a 'good size'
cemetery for Kentucky" Thit
was considered quite funny, and o
course raised a laugh.
At another time group Of editor
were Boosting about the compare
tive beauty and splendorof their re
spective state capitols, and the Ken
lucky delegate discreetlY kept quiet
The conversation then drifted in
to a discussion of the amount eac
state represented in the group ha
appropriated for the big st. Loui
fair next year. AT this junctio
the Kentuckian thought it abor
time for him to leave and he wake
rapidly away.
But Kentucky, God bless her, wi
come out all right. She will rigt
her own wrongs, she will some da
punish her assassins, build a cred
table capitol and catch step wit
other states in the march of pre-
gress. AS for the st. Louis fair he
enterprising citizens will do wha
her niggardly Legislature failed t
do, and Kentucky, like other states
will be there with both feet.
But we started out to write abou
Omaha and not Kentucky.
These Westerners are imbue'
with the idea that their town i
at" And they have a wide awake
hustling little city about the size G
Memphis, Tenn. Adopting tn
language of the handsome souveni
folder prepared for our information
at occupies a remarkably ad
vantageous position, and her ener
getic, thrifty and faithful citizen
have lost no time in carrying for
ward the building of great cit
upon natures firm foundation
: with fbe davelonn1ent of her terr