The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-25

paste it on your looking glass. Then
paste beside it the item which tells of
a yield of IS bushels of wheat to the
acre Then hunt up that one about
break king out a piece of land in the
spring, sowing it to barley and reap
ing a paying crop from it.
They raise some stock other than
hogs and cattle way out in Cheyenne
county In the past six months E. B.
Tressel the big horse raiser Of that
his own raising.
The prospects now are that it will
be the order to re-elect Frank LOCK-
ard and Dan Dyer sergeant-at-arms of
the senate and lower house this win
ter They live in the fighting Sixth
district and served their respective
bodies with dignity two years ago.
They are fighters too, and it may
need their services to quell any dis
| turbances. There is going to be a
some of the bosses contend, and that
body will need good men to stand on
guard
The Sixth district prairie chickens
are ripe. Hunting parties from east
ern Kansas are making them scarcer
every day.
Here it is sT,out the 1st of October,
and not a shovel of dirt has been
thrown on the dozen or more rail-
roads projected to tap Sixth district
Northern. Every paper in the district
has been full of railroad talk for a
year or more If one-half of them are
built the Sixth district viii have as
complete a railroad service as any
section on top OF earth.
How the farmers are making mon
ey and the way the banks are bulging
out on account Of deposits, this item
from the Norton Champion will show
how the First National bank of that
town is standing the strain: ain the
statement published last week by the
First National bank you ray note one
of the most remarka Bile conditions
that can make a small city in new
country famous cash deposit of al
most half a million dollars
Successful fairs have been held in
Hoxie and Selden. both in Sheridan
county. There wasn't any rivalry. they
are not built that way. The farm ex-
hibits were hrst-class at both fairs.
and the prizes offered attracted a
| large number of exhibitors People
attended these Sheridan county fairs
because something was doing all the
| time Sheridan Is one of the banner
Sixth district counties, and her far
mers are getting well along financial
". They raise crops and stock. and
the towns prosper because the right
/ kind of people to push forward is be-
hind them. Both fairs were financial
" successful.
Twenty-Five years ago Salem was one
i of the prosperous towns of Jewell county.
It was a sure enough town, with banks
lumber yards and all branches of bust
ness well represented Her people held
on while there was any hope of getting
the Missouri Pacific road from Burr Oak
but it never came. And then. again. the
Rock Island missed it. and the Salem
died Now the townsite Of 40 acres has
been sold for $50 per acre. which included
about $50 lots. At one time business lots
in the town sold as high as $1,000. The
town was one Of the most beautiful sites
there Is in all northwest Kansas In its
best days it supported two newspapers
The large majority of the business men
of Salem moved to Lebanon, Esbon, Burr
| Oak and other towns.
DR. n. Crank has been nominated by
the Socialists of Graham county for the
! legislature.
Out In Graham county there is more
political everyday fun going on than il
! any other county in the Sixth district
The red card Socialists. whatever thai
Is, have put a full county ticket in the
field, as follows. Representative. DR. n
Crank: treasurer, Leopold Meyer. jr
sheriff. Frank McManis; clerk of court
J. B. Crank probate judge, T. H Nc
GIL. register of deeds. A Boiler; county
attorney James T. PTout. county clerk
VIM. HiibeI; surveyor, Peter Hiibel- Ths
nominee for county superintendent NJ G
Porter. wouldn't stand hftched, and de
clined the honor.