The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1905-12-28

bsen printed without bis knowledge
The statement regarding the land office.
lnslnuatlug that home seekers are turned
away aud refused Information 10 80 flag
rantly improbable upon its face that II Ia
hard to conceive Of To being printed In .
repatabls newspaper The Capital ss,s
editorially:
B. r. Woods, OF Donlphan county, 10
ono man who d0es net regard the fencing
In VI public land In Western Kansss ~
merely 4 joke He has just returned
from thres months quest OF y home stead
10 the Dodge City district. unsuocenful.
He got no information or satisfaction Of
his Inquiries from the Dodge City ONCE
end b claims there are plenty Of other
homo seekers who have returned without
getting q chance 10 settle on ths public
land. 1.-THE government will open this
land. facilitate entry and settlement and
stop tho bulldoxing and irIchery Of fhe
illegal occupants, Mr. Woods predicts
thar next spring there will be snch q
throng ~ homeseekers In thst direction
- has not been witnssssd In many years.
Hundreds Of entries are being made 1t
the Dodge City land office everv month.
A. many In fact "A the working force
Of tho Office can handle. This morning,
two hours after the office opened forty
fiva homeseekers had filed m land
Each one was handled according to
government regulations and they were
all treated with uniform courtesy They
were all complete strangers to the officers
at the land Office. none II them had any
complaint to make against the treatment
received. The writer has seen the same
kind Of q rush at the land Office man,'
times In the last year and In all cases the
officials have exerted themselves to give
all information within. their power.
Often they have Showed great patience
With what seemed to the writer as need
less inquiries.
A goud many homeseekers get their In
formation first from county officers In
the counties where the claims are located
many OF them send In their filing papers
to the land office for lands that are al.
ready taken. This of course puts the
homeseeker to the trouble Of hunting
another piece OF land. but the mistake
does not come from the land Office. II
Is great big district. All land seekers
are looking for the best Of IL Ittakes
weeks to look over the territory Many
home. seekers are quite unreasonable.
OFTEN fellow comes along who thinks
that the government should be ready to
tell him exactly where the best claim In
all Western Kansas is located, and hold
Il for him until he can examine 1t. and
get the opinion of his wife regarding It.
Some OF them are born kickers con.
stisutionally ferniust tho government, 'snd
come to- tile land Office convinced that
they viii be badly treated, The una ority
Of the kicksrs, probably, are men who are
hunting for "snsps" for speculative pur-
poses, and when they can find them they
charge commission Of some fellow for
4" putting him on. The Globe Rspub
lican IL indeed very much surprised to see
the Topeka Capital take up most impro
bable story, prompted BY some fsllows
Imagined grIsvsnce, and In its editorial,
comment give the story a. substantiaied
facts. II 10 oil the greater surprise too.
because Of this fact: The average reader
knows, II the Capital really had any.
thing like relIble information that the
land officials ut Dodge City were prevent
Ing homeseeker from getting govern.
ment claims, It would have made half
page sensation Of the matter and print
cd Is upon the 'front.' page with great
black headlines.