Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1907-01-24

place for lI,5, 900 people, more than
there are in any one of four of our
States, viz. Arizona. Idaho. Nevada
or Wyoming. About fifty miles from
Durango, COL, there i. point where
four, State, corner. At thi. place by
stepping a few feet in either direction
one can walk in four different Common.
wealth in as many seconds. These
These States are Colorado, Utah, New
Mexico and Arizona. \ nearly
parallel case is at Ilarpers Ferry,
where the train stope, few minute,
to allow the passenger, to alight
and enjoy a view which permits them
to look into three States Maryland
Virginia and West Virginia.
The highest and lowest elevation in
thu, country are in California, within
one hundred miles of each other.
The Hottest i Mt. Whitney II, 499
feet high, and the lowest i, Death
Valley, about $50 feet below the
level of the sea. Two Oceans pass,
in Yellowstone Park, i 50 named be-
cause whenever there i, shower in
the vicinity and a certain small creek
overhows, its waters spread out over
the edge of the continental divide
and pass into tributaries of rivers,
part of which flow to the Atlantic
aud tho other to the Pacific ocean.
There number cases where unique
situation have developed in cities
that happened to be divide by State
lines. These oddities are the result
of differences in law. The boundary
between Texas and Arkansas runs
along the main street Texarkana. and
forme rly if fight occurred on the
side of the street, the combatants
merely had to cross to the other side
walk to be out Of the jurisdiction of
the authorities governing the territory
where the disturbance had taken place.
The two sides of Texarkana did not
develope equally, because the admin
istration of one State was more en-
terprising than the other.
Bristol is located on the State line
betweed Tennessee and Nirginir.
One of these States has regulation
preventing colored people from oc-
cupying the same street car seats with
whites, aud the has not, consequently
the colored people have merely to stay
on one side of the car, on the bound
AIRY street, to sit were they please,
The dividing line between Missouri
and Kansas is State street in Kansas
city. Missouri is wet and Kansas is
dry, so one side Of that particular
avenue is literally lined With First
and ''Last Chance saloons, This
locally is supposed to have been the
birth place of this orr ginal form of
saloon advertisement.
North Dakota has prohibition law
and Minnesota has not. The Red
river of the north is the boundary, and
it separates the two towns of Fargo
and Morehead. Each saloonkeeper in
Morehead has little blackboard, and
these vehicles are sent for anyone on
the other side of the river who wants
drink. When citizens of Fargo
begin to have dry feeling in his
throat he merely telephones the bar
tender who keeps his favorite brand
of liquor, and low and behold, he is
given free ride both ways for the
price OF his drink Such enterprise
is certainly novel if nothing else.
Undoubtedly the most extraordinary
boundary complications are those re-
sulting from what are known as the
international stores. These places
are scattered all along the line be-
tween the United States and Canada
from Vancouver to New Brunswick.