Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-02-12
HOW WE CAME TO KANSAS

We have asked the members of the newspa-
per fraternity of Garrett to tell how they came
to Kansas, and have received the following re-
plies:
w. R. Smith, editor of the Plaindealer, says:
"The male members of the Plaindealer force
came to Kansas in the same manner in which
Abraham Lincoln was brought to Illinois
There is no one, however, who ever claimed
that they have seen the editor of the Plain
dealer split hundred rails in any one day of
ten hours, besides acquiring good law educa-
ton by The ala Of candle after supper
"The young lady members of the force posi-
lively refuse to give out any facts, especially as
to dates, in answer to the questions asked. The
question with the Plaindealer force is not how
we came to Kansas but What are you people
going to do with us now siuce we are here?"
Judge Manford Schoonover, OF the Journal
came to Kansas he says, because he had no.
where else to go. His folks were in Kansas,
and they were the only ones who wanted him.
In fact, he said, after the Chicago fire, he had
to go somewhere, SO he came to Kansas. He
had to have some place to eat and sleep, and
Pas table was located in Kansas, so he just
got on the covered, cars and came he1e, too
and now, you couldn't drive him away He
says he is not ashamed of Kansas. He is hav-
ing strenuous time, like just the Republicans,
and if he hadn't been called to Missouri, he
would have written something to fill this space,
hrt he In ~ inf ~
osity He said he would tell me about it, and
would agree 10 stand by anything said. Now,
what do you think of that? A candidate for
governor of the great state of Kansas making
making such rash promised Cause might
say heap. But Populists are an honest sort
friends. l might say that he has promised to
make me bank commissioner when he gets
elected governor, and he'd have to do it, be.
cause he said he'd stand by anything I'd say.
"DoRoTHY"
Judge Schoonover said Ed Eaton was Just
one O. them ere tramps," born in Iowa, but
came to Kansas as soou as he could walk; that
Bess Stewart and Minnie Askns, the two Office
CANCELS" came unheraded and unsung-came
in on sunbeam-destituie OF all the necessa-
ries of life-ddn't even have given names, but
they couldn't help it. They have been doing
the best they could ever since they came
Mrs. Eaton says she came up out of Egypt
(Ill. in "kivered wagon" when she was six
years old. She likes Kansas so we'll that she
is never going back.
Judge W. A. T1igg, Of the Eagle, says:
'We came to Kansas from Iowa in June,
1873. Mrs. Trigg and the children spent the
summer of 1875 here with relatives, and liked
the climate. A part OF the family came in the
spring of 1878, and the other i'll June, by the
Rock Island to Beverly; thence to Kansas City,
by the Hannibal & St joe thence to Fontana,
by the K. c., F. S. & G.; thence to Twin
Springs, by wagons"
Clark 7. Richardson, who still clings to the
"perfesh," says be came to Kansas in "prai.
RE schooner" when he was quite young; says
he'd tell us all about the trip, but he got tel.
egram calling him to Bartlesville, I. T., and,
as he now travels in the 'varnIshed cars" in