Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1905-06-29

nual income of considerably over $4,000.

COO .a'
r I3 Gerow director of the state free
employment bureau ut Topeka. estimates
that at least 10000 men from other states
will be given employment to harvest the
wheat crop. Thousands OF these men will
come from New York and New England
to share In the profits of the bountiful
harvest. -
The Kansas farmer . can afford to
employ others to do the drudgery whilc
he rides In his new trap or automobile
Under big headlines prosperity In
Kansas Land" Home Seekers Arc
Rushing Into Kansas" etc, the Topeka
Daily Capital, May II, states present
conditions as follows:
So steadily are the settlers going into
western Kansas that in Thomas county
alone this year there will be ten acres
plowed and put into grain to every ono /
in its past history.
The future OF western Kansas never
was brighter than 1t is now 1t has be-
gun Il new career The work on the |
farms is improving, and the facilities that
make the work easier add something each
year to the farmers success. He has
good roads. rural delivery and u telephone
in his house that connects him with
town, and whether he Is five or twenty
miles away. his means !or comfort may
be amply provided for by modern invcn-
tions OF many kinds. The schools arc
good and towns of any size have we'll
equipped high schools. for Kansas ia
ono OF the states which has never grudg-
cd money for education, and her young
| people have opportunities equal to tho
| communities settled when Kansas was
| supposed TO be wilderness and buffalo
roamcd over her western territory now
| occupied by wheat fields
Bank reports show that there are on
deposit in the banks OF the state S66
for every person in Kansas.
Money In North Dakota.
The Grand Forks Herald, the leading
of space to lists OF new building op-
erations throughout the state and says
IN comment in Il recent issue:
The present season promises to be one
Of the busiest Grand Forks contractors
have seen for many years, and the same
Is true throughout the state. Since the
| middle of March nearly every contractor
and builder of the city and state has
been busy "A large proportion of the new
| buildings are of the smaller class of
dwelling homes and cottages. Many me-
chanies and laboring men who have
l bought lots within the past year are hav-
ing erected medium cost dwellings and
in many cases unprctentious cottages.
Throughout the state there are many
new public buildings. churches. schools,
ETC., under construction and projected.
Perhaps Prohibition has little to do
with prosperity in Kansas and North
| Dakotu. .hi,t this IL IL r.--L.l.A,
I were really the bugbcar and blight 1t
is alleged to be there is plenty of terri
tory in the great west where settlers
could go instead of to Kansas and
North Dakota if they chose to do SO.
Liquor men declared that all the natu-
yal advantages of Kansas and North
Dakota would count for nothing II
Prohibition Were adopted. Time has
exploded that slander.
saloon Anarchy Growing.
Meanwhile the liquor traffic, made
desperate by the steadily rising public
sentiment against 1t, has begun to
strike back with the only weapon II
knows how to use, the boycott, dyna-
mite and assassination.
Texas on April "a startled the nation
with a riot at a law enforcement meet
ing at Hampstead, provoked by drunk
en- anti i-Prohibitionists, in which four
prominent citizens were shot to death,
one, Judge John W. Pinckhey, being
the congressman from the Eighth dis.
trict Of TeyAs Twice the people of
Waller county, where the tragedy oc-
Cured, had voted overwhelmingly for
Prohibition, but the liquor mems def
ance of law became more and more
open and climaXed in murder and an
archy. Texas rangers were sent to the
scene ana the affair has fred thou
sands to an abliorrence Of the traffic
who otherwise would never have given
it passing thought
Patience ut breaking Point.
Editor G. c. Rankin Of the Texas
Christian Advocate In Il letter TO your
correspondent thus summed up the ef
fects Of these events:
Whisky shipped into the county inspired
the tragedy. People are already SO en-
ragged Mt the liquor traffic for its disre.
gard of the local option law that theil
patience is pressed to the point of de
mandins its determination in the state
This tragedy shows to the people thai
there arc those fighting for the life o.
the barro1n who disregard all law, VIII,
abuse The will Of the people as expressed
at tho ballot box, and the Hampstead
matter is an Illustration. Their principle
In some places is to rule or ruin, and tn,
people sEre firing of their methods w,
have already carried local option IN 15
counties. have partially carried It in more
than fifty moro. and there are only thir
ty-eight totally wet. These arc on tn,
borders of Mexico and near the gull
coast, where the negroes and the foreign
element arc in control The issue IL
squarcly before the people. and these act,
OF violenoe inspired Dy liquor. are hasten
Ing the tlLYl OF the barroon'S doom