The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-02
lNSlXTR DISTRICT.
Reminiseence Of Justice Clark
4. Smith.
Taught the First School in
Solomon Valley.
ANOTHER NEW PAPER.
Rumor That There Is to Be One
in Smith Center.
Tide of immigration Still Flow
Ing Into Northwest.
ANOTHER NEW PAPER.

In pioneer "reminiscences of Cawker
City and the Solomon Valley. pfinted
in the Record. 1t is learned that Judge
Clark A Smith. now supreme court
judge, taught the first regular district
school in that town as early as 1S71-'72
In those good old times people came
to Cawker City for distance of $50
miles for their mail, and it is said that
IN 1873 the deposits IN the money order
business alone were as high as $4,000
and $1,000 a week
The position Of county superintend-
ent of Mitchell county is a worthy one.
/ There are three candidates, and it looks
4 If Miss Ada Hitchcock might win un-
4 less the two men who are after the
office pool their interests. During the
days Of Populism in this county, there
was a lady candidate for superintend-
! ent on the Republican ticket. and she
was showed under as were all the Re
/ publican candidates.
The city government Of Burr Oak
refuse to grant a license to operate a
billiard hall
Most of the Sixth district newspapers
are making money. Major John Con-
way of the Norton Champion, has made
his paper so successful that he is giving
away presents by the wagon load.
Smith county has seen and called
Norton county, Frank 1ockard of Nor
ton was exhibiting a few days since q
cotton tail rabbit with two horns, and
now Smith county man has killed one
with four horns.
Petitions are being circulated in
Rocks county for a bond election for
the Gulf, Plaipville & Northern road
The petitions are being generally sign
ed. In one township so far So out of
40 taxpayers signed the petition, and in
Plalnville township only five so far
have refused to sign out Of Pas resi-
dents al
presented. PlainvilIe is growing so fast
that new addition to the place is be- /
ing laid out in town lots, besides work
is progressing on no less than a dozen
new residences ranging in cost at $3.50
to $4,000 each.
Kensington's new opera house, the
property of L. c. Ahlborn is completed
It is one of the best up-to-date build
fngs OF its kind in this part of the state,
FURNISHED with large stage and
scenery. fine opera chairs, electric
lighted and heated by a furnace and
is credit to the city Of Kensington
and to the enterprise of its owner It
is something that Kensington has long
needed and its opening will be hailed
with delight by all of her people.
1t is said simth Center is soon to
have her fourth newspaper. Nothing is
said about its politics. Her present
three papers represent about all the
politics, and It is a conundrum to
know what political faith the new jour
something IN the rumor that Vete
Hutehings viii retire from the Pioneer
and enter the race for state printer af-
ter Tom McNeal has served a second
term.
The prairie country around Bird City.
in Cheyenne county, is rapidly being
improved. No less than three steam
.plows are now converting the raw prai-
ries into improved farms, which viii
be sown to wheat.
Alnena, in Norton county, has be-
come big shipping center. In the
month Of January 124 car loads were
forwarded, and 152 car loads in Febru-
airy.
The Plainville papers a few weeks
ago printed the local fact that Para
disc creek. in Rocks county, had been |
bridged, and was now safe for wagons |
to cross over. A writer in the Wa
keeney Independent has this to say:
They say that Paradise creek has T
been bridged. I know some fellows
who would do well to get busy on the
other one"
The building boom in Hill city is SO
promising this year that third lun-
Der yard is being added to her bust
ness.
The capital stock of the First Ma
tional bank of Hoxie has been
doubled, and is now $50, 900, with s6,-
600 surplus.
On the Beaver valley branch of the
B. & NJ. railroad. a few days ago. there
were three coaches niIeQ with paSS6n-
gers, mostly enigrants, going to Raw
Inns and Cheyenne counties For the
last three years these counties have |
been filling up with new settlers and
It looks as If the year 1906 was going
to surpass all former years in settle
ment and development.
If all the projected railroads are
constructed this year which are md
ing paper outlets in the Sixth dis
triet, there will be a network of rail-
roads in northwest Kansas OberIIn
will have three railroads instead of
one; Norton will have three where she
now has two; Atwood will have four
instead of one: Colby. Goodland, Plain
vile, Stockton, Osborne, Downs Re
lott Cawker City. Hill City and Hoxfe
will each be benefited with from two
to three new railroads. And If work
is progressing on all of them at the
same time there may not be enough
hands left to harvest the big crop of
wheat IN that section which is now
promised.
The new church 70 be built in Hill
City this year viii settle all the diff
culties the members can. It is now
said it viii be erected on a site mid
way between the two towns
BeiOit ladies have fad" for settling
the marriage problem One of them
went as far as Manila to marry the
man of her choice: another one followed
the example. and went as far as Ari-
zena to marry her life partner; the
third chose to go as far as Montana
where the marriage knot was tied for
good or worse, while a fourth one VIII
during the year, 50 to Oregon to marry
the gentlelnan4she loves best. And these
four ladies' have taught successful
schools in elliott.
Ga @W0 R9A.
Bsara the Tbs kind You HaH Always Bought