The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-30
IN SIXTH DISTRICT
Thomas County Farmers Are
Doing Well.
Harvesting Tons and Tons Of
Fine Alfalfa.
ATHERTON BUYS MORE.
Former State Treasurer Pays
$4,000 for Farm.
Cove County Land Is on the
Boom.
ATHERTON BUYS MORE.

The farmers of Thomas county are
making money, If one can believe this
story from the Colby Free Press: 1.-THE
alfalfa raisers this year find they are
on easy street. J. n. Fike Will have
four or five hundred tons; John Gil
more a like amount. Asa Smith will
have three hundred tons. II. w. Mar
shall hundred tons. Henry kuudson
and =. T. Smith two or three hundred
tons EACH while a number Of farm
ers have a less amount. The stuff Is
staple at ten dollars a ton. We can
see now how these fellows are going
to pay their grocery bills this winter"
j. H. Grihith, 4 Graham county
farmer, has $50 acres Of corn, which
he believes will average fifty bushels
an acre. This Graham county farm
er refused an offer of S11 an acre for
his corn.
On Saturday last there vas plenty
going on in Wakeeney to interest all.
Besides a game Of baseball. there was
g street auction and teachers assoc
citation. Nor was this all: Politicians
were about as plentiful as lies in a
sugar barrel, and the way they were
electioneering the good people re-
minded the writer that the of1ceseek-
er was ON to his job.
Ex-State Treasurer Otis L. Atherton
has recently bought $50 acres OF Rus
sell county lands, paying $4,000 for the
same Mr. Atherton has been a resi-
dent OF Russell county for more than a
quarter Of a century, and has unbound
ed confidence -in the future Of his coun-
tV- He says the farmers OF RuSsell
county are so busy making money out
of the soil that politics are quieter
than for many years. IneEe Is not
poor field of wheat IN all the county;
and the recent rains have given the SOIL
q more thorough soaking and Wetttng
down than has ever before been known
a this time of year. In fact, IN pass
ing through that county from east TO
west. the traveller is led to believe it
is one continuous wheat field, the fields
show up so green.
Grinnel. out in Cove county. is push
ing out. Forty acres acres Of land ad-
Joining the town. sold for $40 an acre.
The purchaser VIII lay out d part of IL
in town lots And Cove county lands
are also getting out of sight Chas-
D. Eastlack, who owns q quarter sec
tion close to Grinnel, refused an offer
of $1,000 for his farm.
The new milling enterprise which
Goodland is after is assured. Officers
have beea elected as follows. President
VIM Walker. Jr..; vice president. John
Hartzler. secretary. VIM. Seyler; treas
urer, c.. J. ShimealL The new plant
viii have machinery Tor grinding maca-
Ioni wheat.
cove county has increased in popula-
ton not less than roo since the last cen
Eus- In the last IS months the increase
will be over LOCO. IT was only few
years ago when people wouldn't 90 so
far west as Cove county to farm Nov
one viii see as good cultivated farms
and general prosperity as in the favor
ed east. And Cove county too has bro
ken all records in raising extra fine
wheat.
An Ellsworth county Republican is
of the opinion that whoever succeeds
Congressman Reeder will come from
the line of the Rock Island road. 1t
VIII be remem bered that l.. W Vel
lngton Of Ellsworth, once tried to sue
Holland Of Russell county. and both Of
these counties are on the Union Pa
cific. So far as heard from Holland
has promised to be in the race again
in 1908. He IS a fighter, and he is i'm
the fight in time TO make il interesting
two years from now.
The two barber shops i'm WaKeeney
are on Easy street" having made so
much money out of their business that
the proprietors Of each shop have gone
into politics. The Republicans have
put up one of them for the office Of
sheriff. while the Democrats nominated
the other for clerk of the court.
The Sharon Springs Times COM
menced on its twenty-secOnd year last
week In commenting on this fact
w. f. Ward, the editor and publisher.
SAYS. During all the time, and in
every issue during the twenty-one
years gone by, this paper has had a
word of praise for Wallace county. To
be consistent we must believe thor
oushly in every proposition we advo-
cate. That's why we are always say
ing a good word for the future OF the