The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-14
KANSAS COAAENT
DEVELOPERS IN KANSAS.

| 11t<OHEtlS LIN KANSAS.
Inc development of far-western
Kansas from an agricultural stand
point, Is now assured. The Mennon-
| ties are settling there. and they are
developers Near Syracuse last year
= rev OF them settled and the colony
mas since grown to about two hundred
Families. The other day, according to
dispatches. some thirty families set
tieo near Deerf1eld, in F1nney county,
follow soon.
the first thing these Mennonites
oio IN their respective settlements
was to build a church; the next was
to build a school house No colony
IN the worlds history began with bet
ter foundations or with better reasons
TOT success. The people who build on
renglous and educational foundations
tine true pillars Of order in any hui
man settlement-will succeed, and
ought to succeed.
me colony at Deerfield is located
outAoe the sugar beet belt. They To-
Gated there purposely. They are not
specialists in farming and do not care
10 be- They want to till the soil as
their fathers titled it., and they desire
to raise general agricultural products.
In other words, they have gone there
70 make homes that will not be en-
tlrely dependent on monopoly,
whether 1t be sugar monopoly or
4 DSSS
evidence of their Intentions to develop
western Kansas
Each member of the colony has
purchased from 100 to $50 acres OF
land and has paid for it. They will
build substantial home and farm
build substantial homes and farm
trees and within ten years the travel
er over western Kansas today will not
know the country when he revisits It.
wichita Eagle.
THE WATER DRUNKARD.
when taken in moderation, but the
man who can't govern his appetite
for 1t takes great risks
An Illinois man woke the other
morning with consuming thirst.
He had eaten Goldfish balls and other
Casting moderation to the winds, he
drank eighteen pints of the sparkling
fluid, after carefully blowing the
foam off it, and straightway died.
The eminent surgeon who held tho
autopsy said that the water unques-
home is laid desolate by a mans
passionate fondness for water. Drink
acknowledgements Gazette.
ANENT THE PRIMARY LAW.
The new primary law, which is now
ing election, but petitions must be cir
culated before candidate can get his
name on the nominating ballots. A can
didate for a state office must secure
signed requests from at least 2 per cent
Of the voters of his party in the state.
asking him to become candidate, and
these signatures must be secured In at
least ten counties. But the candidate
must not circulate these petitions, nor
may he hire men to circulate them;
disinterested citizens must circulate
them. as matter Of patriotism. Who
doubts that this provision will be ev-
erywhere violated?. More law-breakers
for Kansas.-Atchison Globe.
Bale WAGGENER'S FEARS.
Senator Bale Waggener, who is
general attorney for the Missouri Pa.
cif1c, is afraid the new tax law will
work a hardship On the farmers to
the benefit. of the railroads. 1t is too
bad that the farmers will have to
rely on the state tax commission in
stead of Bale for protection under
this law. And how thoughtless it
was of such a friend of the farmers
as Bale is to fail to see the injustice
of this law until the legislature had
adjourned.-Hutchin News.