The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-20
NORTH SIDE NEWS
Nat Taylor Returns From Trip
Through Oklahoma.
Says There Is No Excitement
About Crazy Snake.
Dixie MEN LEAVING.
No Riot Followed Completion OF
Work as Predicted.

Most of Them Will Work in the
West.
Nat Taylor of the Kaw Milling COM
| pany has returned from a business
| trip through Oklahoma. He spent
some time at Millerton, where he for
merly conducted a postoffice. He re-
! ports that the town is growing and
| has bright prospects for the future.
| He was also near the scene of Crazy
Snakes capers, and says that the
Oklahoma people regard the stories
of his fighting there as a huge news
paper joke.
The people of Oklahoma never en-
tertained any apprehension of Crazy
| Mr.. Taylor today. "The people there
consider the whole war as manufac-
tured by the newspapers. Some of
! them are indignant that so much fuss
has been made of the matter. How
ever, it is probable that the Indian
had got bad for a short time and had
lodged arrest, but in the opinion of
many Oklahoma people that is about
all there is to it,"
1t was rumored that Mr.. Taylor's
Crazy Snake. but the former refuses
to affirm or deny the report.
"Spring has come and the dixie men
are leaving said Sam Dolman this
morning, "but the wave of crime
Eaton predicted for this time as the
result of the dixie men being out of
employment when the bikes were
finished has not come. AS a matter of
fact most of the laborers have the
same kind of work elsewhere. Some
are going to New Mexico, others to
the western coast and other places.
"Of course, some of the camp fellows
are rough, but as a rule they are good
hearted and fairly honest,'' continued
Mr.. Dolman. Naturally they haze a
new man little. Yet il man has
the grit to stick it out the camp life
is good for him.
"The work is hard but healthy. ]
remember of one sickly fellow who
started in the work He had never
driven teams before but he learned to
do that. He got well and strong and
now is making about $3.50 a month in
1oadroad construction work in Cali
fornia."
Sing song of garden time,
Pockets full of seeds,
Papa goes down town
And buys just what he needs.
In the gentle spring air.
IT,
If the neighbors chickens
Do not scratch them out.
W.. A. Forbes. of Rochester, yester-
day said he dug up corn which he
PLANTED last Wednesday and found that
the seeds had about one fourth of an
iEch sprout on them.
Were you ever an agent? Did you
ever knock at the front door of a house
and wait trenblingly for the occupant
to appear while you tried to frame up a
speech about the merits of an article
you had for sale and at the same time
kept on eye looking for the advent of
an excited dog? A North Topeka boy
is selling stereopticon views in Kansas
this spring. He has agreed to write
letters to the State Journal from time
to time about his experience. The first
one follows:
Blankville. Kan, April II, ,'09
Dear State Journal and North Topeka
People:
At the close of a very eventful week.
l am writing in stuffy hotel office in
little country town. This place has
been my headquarters this week In
this time / have canvassed the village
and have made trips-on foot-on the
roads leading in and out of the town.
have heard and seen things which are
almost unbelievable even in this short
time. Altogether I have been treated
fairly good and have had excellent sue
cess. However, I must say, that 1 had
no idea 1 could see as much of the
vagaries and varieties of human nature
with such limited experience
I will never forget my first day. 1
started for the country about 6 a m.
1t was a beautiful day, just the kind
of weather which makes it seem good,
merely to be alive. The first house I
came to was about a mile from the
edge of town. 1t was off the main road
and surrounded by trees. Some one in
the town had directed me there or I
would never have found it,
With much fear and trembling
knocked at the door. However a very
pleasant faced young woman came to
the door and with courtesy that aston
ished me, asked me in. 1 took an order
from her. She preferred foreign views
She had just finished her first term of
school and her interest and enthusiasm
about foreign countries and about cur
rent events was inspiring. She thought
she could use the views as object les
sons in her school work especially in
geography and history classes.
At the next house / also took an or
der but there the comic scenes appealed
to the people more. The young lady of
the family voted foreign scenes and all
things of an educational nature such
a bore. don't you know" However. her
ma and pa gave me the order. The old
man and woman happened to be water
ing the horses at an old trough in the
yard when / entered. 1 hadn't much
difficulty in getting their attention or
interest.
Then came a few cold turn downs. :"
One German woman repeated to all my
urgings, 'Aber 1 no money got" and
her home bore out her statements Just
across the road was one of those oily