The Holbrook news., 1910-04-22
B1eNEss OF THE WEST.
A Few Stories, y'cracfous of Course,
 Leave No Rooan for Doubt.


 The great west is big. Every year the east hears a new crop of stories about the bigne5s of the west that makes it marvel. Here is portion of this last seasons crop of big stories of the things of the west, says the Los Angeles correspondence of the New York Herald
 During corn growing time Kansas newspaper printed startling dispatch from the southern part of that State saying that a boy climbed a cOrnstalh to see how the clouds looked and that the stalk was growing faster thau the boy could climb down.
 At the date of the dispatch the boy was clear out of sight Three men were engaged to cut down the corn stalk with axes to save the boy from starvation, but the stalk grew so rapid ly that they could not hit twice in the same place. The boy was living on green corn alone and had already thrown down more than four bushels of cobs.
 The later fate of the boy is not known. That is of minor importance. anyway The great and burning ques- tion is: Does corn really grow that fast in Kansas?
 man whose word has never been disputed with any degree of success went east with this story from south western Kansas. His two brothers were working clearing out the weeds in a deserted pasture lot. After a trip to the farmhouse one of the brothers returned to find the other missing.
 Where are you. Ed?" he shouted.
 Here I am.y he heard the answer ing voice of Ed. coming from some where near the fence.
 Well, shake a weed, so I can tell where you are,'' commanded the brother L.
 They tell down east that if farm CT in the west plants his ground with corn and takes. first class care of it he will get 100 bushels to the acre, and if he takes middling care of it he will get seventy-five bushels to the acre, and if he does not plant at all he will get fifty
 It is also told in the east that west ern farmers have been known to start out in the spring and blow a fucrOw until fall and turn around and harvest back; while a man in Detroit has a friend in Dakota who owned a farm on which he had to give a mortgage and the mortgage was due on one end before they could get it recorded on the other.
 Not so long ago a man-perhaps it was the same man-was telling some acquaintances about a pathetic scene he witnessed on one of those big Da- kota farms three years ago. He said he saw an entire family prostrated with grief-women yelling, children Dawling and dogs barking. One man had his camp outfit placed on seven four-mule wagons and was going around bidding everybody goodbye.
 Where is he going?" asked one of the party
 Half way across the farm to feed the pigs" was the answer.
 Some one wanted to kGow if he ever got back to his family again, but the narrator said it was not time for him to get back yet.
 One man, it is said, started in to cut a tree of his place. When he had cut away at one side for about ten days he decided to take a look around the tree, and when he got around on the other side he found a man who had been cutting at that same tree for three weeks and they had not heard the sound of each others axes.
 The quick growth of Western cities is a matter of common talk and the East no longer doubts these tales. An engine driver of a train crossing the prairie was surprised one day to see town of considerable size just ahead, at a spot where there was nothing the day before. He yelled over to his fire man, asking what town that was, but the fireman was stumped, too. When he pulled into the station there were nearly 1000 persons waiting to see the first train come in. When they pulled out the conductor stationed a brake man on the rear platform to watch for any towns that sprang up after the train got by.
 They never have anything small or ordinary out in that section at all. WindstorIas blow down wire fences, draw stoves out of chimneys and blow the bottoms out of empty bottles. Dur ing one of these remarkable wind storms whisky barrel standing in front of saloon was sucked out of the bunghole and turned inside out, and the dirt was blown from around a post hole in the hillside, leaving the hole sticking out of the ground about two feet with no dirt around 1t.
 Refused to Be Fooled.