The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-13
vlneenes Attorneys Hair Stood on
End When He Drove by the
Orchard Where Many Vic
Tins Were Buried.
NOTES FROM SOUTHWEST
Most Interesting letter From a Form
er Cats City Correspondent
Who Has Been Busy
seeing Country.

hANS AS CITY, MO-, Dec. rl3.--Y our
old Vincennes correspondent, at the
present time is connected with the
Legal Department. of the International
Harvester Co.. with headquarters at
Kansas City, Mo-, and In his work he
has had occasion to travel over good
deal of Oklahoma, Kansas and Mis-
souri,
In the section of Oklahoma that 1
travelled in cannot say that am In
fatuated with that part Of Uncle Sans
domain.
travelled In the eastern part, near
the Arkansas line, and in going on the
Kansas City Southern R.. R. passed
through portions of Arkansas.
cannot say that the portions that
passed through are very pleasing to
the eye. for the portions in those two
states that travelled over are very
rough and broken,
Nevertheless it is great fruit coun-
try and the northwest county of
Arkansas is the banner county of the
] state for fruit. There are great many
Indians in that section of Oklahoma,
mostly Cherokees. Some are full
& blooded, some half and quarter and
8 some almost white, but as class they
are like all Indians, lazy and sh1ftless..
In Oklahoma saw my first cotton
field and | plucked one of the cotton
balls and kept it as souvenir. A cot
ton blossom looks very pretty and at
distance looks like a field covered
with snow.
While ! was in the town of Grove
they had street fair, but in that coun-
try they call it picnic week" On the
last day of the fair. just outside of the
town they had roping contest and
cowboys from all over the eastern part
L of the state came to enter the contest.
n They had political day, and on
that day Governor G. N. Haskell was
N the principal speaker. As is well
e known Governor Haskell was the
. treasurer of the last Democratic Ma
n tional committee.
u / heard him speak and he is a good
Z speaker, but. 1t seems to me that
she is on the grand stand order. 1t is
well known also that he is under in
dictment by the Federal grand jury in
the state for fraud in obtaining some
n town lots.
He lambasted his opponents in great
style and seemed to be in great favor
with the people present.. He was en-
4 Enthusiastically appladded when he
seemed to make a pleasing hit with
the crowd.
The part of Kansas ! was in is
where the great oil and gas wells are
located. 1t seemed to me that almost
every farm had either a gas or an oil
well on 1t. and on almost every hand l
could not but help notice the farms
were being neglected for the Oil and
gas business. 1t is quite interesting
to see the arrangement that they use
4 to pump the oil from the wells. A
central pumping station is located on
farm and from this radiates all the
machinery that works the pumps of all
the wells.
Il The country where the oil and gas
u WILD al . iOSutGu 10 NSIy rocky ana Tile
B soil Is not very deep, only averaging
n about a foot to foot and a half deep.
VI was in the city of Topeka, the cap.
Il ital of the state of Kansas, and while
81 in the Capital | had the pleasure OF
meeting the Hon. J D. M. Hamilton,
n the we'll known attorney, formerly of
N TT. Madison, Iowa. AT the pi esent time
q Mr.. Hamilton is the general claim
attorney for the A. F. & st. Fe.
&zsR r., with headquarters at Topeka.
We had a very pleasant time talking
lover Lee county, TT Madison and Keo-
kuk happenings of days gone by. Mr..
Hamilton ventured the fact that Lee
s county still had very warm place in
3 his heart.
While in Topeka ! could not resist
" the temptation of calling on Governor
Stubbs, told the Governor that he
need not be alarmed at my calling on
him as | wanted no Office, being citi-
zen of the great state of Iowa He
laughed and said he was glad to see
me and to know that / wanted no