The Brinkley argus., 1908-05-22
SHOOTING TnR0' KANSAS. The Argus Editor Writes Of
 His Trip Thro' Kansas
Aboard The Frisco Limited
 Train "The Meteor"


 train the Frsco runs. with a pencil tab on my knee I'm going to give you a few lines of gossip.
 I We left Brinkley yesterday afternoon and thro the good offices of the clever. Rock Island Agent. Kerkendall. found a comfortable lower birth ir sleeping car "Cenyon.' awaited us when we reached Memphis en route to Kansas City. The sleeper was crowded and then many who didn't get place in it who thought they ought to have been taken care off.
 We've just finished delightful breakfast and nov. ain enj ,ying pret- ty panorama as we occupy comfort able leather chair in the observator of this Meteor train-its well named too for its in reality. kin to shooting star" The panorama being enjoyed is the beautiful green fields of Kan sas the Nation of Garry. Here we 20 out of Fort Scott. Kansas and as note the hundreds of busy trainmen. engines. etc. I'm reminded of cer- tain railroad center down in old Arkan- sas that some day hope to see as busy as any other busy railroad center But up here they tell me that the busi- ness men believe in going after rail roads. They say that all railroad promoter has got to dc Is to have a I thought of new line and these busi- ness men and farmers fall over them selves to get 10 offer him inducements to build the line. These people used to be narrow minded. short sighted and thought that railroads JUST HAD to build into their towns and that they'd come any way Then their lands were worth less than l4 of what they are now. They began giving and found out that the more they geve :he more they had and so it went until to-day there is not more prosperous section in all America than this beautiful Kansas Hand thro' which we are passing. |
 Another thing notice in this beau tful and enhancing panorama is that all along the line this Meteor" is shooting over beautiful permanent roai-ways. l can't help but think of the foolish way, we of old Monroe. are playing at road making The dis graceful waste of the peoples money in pretense atIoad making A man doesn't have to be financier to see the great foolish waste that we are now indulging in. say let'there be general mass meeting of property owners and tax payers in Monroe cc,s..- X and then let them devise ways and means 10 moi only stop the foolish waste but to unite in a plan 10 build roadways When these Kansas pco pie woke up." the first thing they realized was that the public roads were the commercial arteries of the county. the source Of real prosperity
 l Phewl that dirty "ogiental' aiea- rette! A ..dude" stands near by and 1 the wind gives me the full essence Of his doped coffin tack. It smells ex- actly like the odor of the opium dens Fin Chinatown of Frisco and is equally as nauseating to me as were those odors which remember so we'll. l, Carry Nation is not excusable in say ing that such an odor as this discounts the pole cat do not know why.
 Now cur Meteor is shooting past the Kansas oil wells and it is quite novel and interesting sight to me. l However much rather be back in old Arkansas during the next few weeks. If 1 consulted my own personal desires. That would be far more in tcresting to me than these Kansas sights. This trip Is one of duty. II l had my personal desires W 'uld be in Little Rock this Wsek in attendance at the Arkansas Press Association which body in ysars past. did me the honor to make me their President. I'd be right there with them and would be engaged in this competitive prize printing display which is to be pulled off' there In connection with the Ark ansas Association. know that there lis not printing office in all Arkansas, or in America. as for that, which can suFpass sn high avs printing some of Ethe magnificent pieces which had IL