The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-30
Mitchell County Has Three As.
p1rants for Reeder's Job.
Young, Mead and Perdue Are
in the Race.
INSURGENTS IN SMITH
People Put Up Ticket to Oppose
Dan Dyer's Crowd.
Other Interesting Items From
Northwest Kansas.

MitcheH county may have two or
more candidates for congress when
the time comes to down Reeder
again." as the old saying has been in
the last three elections. Ex-State
senator Young is the only pronounced
candldate so far from Mitchell coun-
ty. A g. Mead is looking on, but re-
tuses to say whether he will or will
not be q candidate. Now comes the
friends Of w. c. Perdue, who insist
they are going to draft him. These
friends come to Beloit to see Perdue
from all over Mitchell county. and be-
sldes letters are coming to him from
friends in other counties.
The Benton-Hopkins auction sale
on their ranch near Oberlin is said to
have been one of the largest and most
successful ever held in that section
OF the state. The proceeds of the sale
amounted to over S., 200, much Of it
being cash. In the six years this firm
has bred. raised, fattened and market
ed from the ranches upwards of $780,
900 worth of hogs alone. The ranch
mas been in charge of Otis L. Benton.
VINO has lived in Decatur county for
nearly quarter of century. He has
been the means in a large measure of
building up a market for the surplus
products or the farmers, and has help
ed them in many ways by being at all
times generous cash buyer.
The Jewell City Republican sizes up
Jewell county farmers are contented.
Big crops and big prices last year, the
bulk OF the mortgages cleaned off, nine
out of ten farmers with a bank ac-
count, big acreage of wheat coming
out all right. and the spring rains
starting on schedule time The natur-
al born kicker isn't being given fair
chance
In 1908 the rainfall in Norton coun-
ty according to the Norton News, was
about 20 inches. That paper goes on
to say: "It would not surprise us to
have 40 bushels OF wheat to the acr-
and so bushels OF corn Taking the
conditions as whole, we are justly
right in expecting such.' The same
paper keeps standing this nice bou-
quet: Morton county has good soil,
water and home people and has sup
Piled a good living to many old set
tiers and has room for new ones to
enjoy the same blessings. This is the
county to come to and stay in
Hill City Is SO progressive that her
business men will organize a CONNER
cial club at once. One of the enter
prises the town is going after is new
railroad. The proposition isto build a
standard gauge road from Great Bend,
in Barton county, and Hill City wants
to be on the line.
There will be a reunion of the old
soldiers of Mitchell county, April 80,
at the home of James Ravens, about
three miles from Glen Elder.
A peoples caucus was held in Smith
Center which resulted in the nominal
ton of a second city ticket, and the
adoption Of the following resolution:
believing that the real interests are
paramount to the interests of the in
dividual, the professional politician or
any clique, we, as representatives of
those who pay taxes and contribute
our mite toward the betterment of
the moral status of Smith Center, be-
lieve that the time has not yet come
when the broad interests along strictly
moral lines should be forsaken in ca
tering to the whims Of personal ag-
grandizement." The first meeting was
held at the court house, and 1t is said
a few old line politicians, including
Sergeant-at-Arms Dan Dyer, wanted
to control it, hence the peoples eau
Gus which followed a few days later.
A hot, bitter fight will be the result
whichever way the election turns.
Sherman county is credited with an
appointment from Gov. Stubs. The
winner is Frank Lockard, who has
been put on a committee with two
others. Their work is to select about
5000 acres Of government land in the
state which belongs to the State Ag-
ricultural college. For this work the
committee will be paid travelling ex-
penses and no more. Lockard is all