The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-29
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N. B. BURCE.
7O1 Jackson ST., Both Phones

said. when he went down there with a
posse to take or kill Sam Robinson of
Hugoton. Robinson heard of the
Wood raid in time and secured aid
Woodsdale people and killed four of
them
Sam Wood lived by the sword and
he died by the sword. He was shot
down as he was leaving the court
house at HugCton in the early nineties,
in cowardly manner by an assassin
named Brennan. who was never tried.
Talks of Aldrich and Cannon.
The governor went after Aldrfch and
Cannon in his speech at Liberal Tues
day night AMI he went after them
again at Hugoton. He referred to
Roosevelt as the greatest man alive. I"
The governor in his Richfield speech
branded as lie the story started re-
Gently to the effect that he wanted
county officers appointed. He said he
wanted the public utilities commission
made appointive because by that means
1t was easier and more certain to get
better men for the places.
Richfeld, county seat of Morton, the
southeast county of the state is like
some banquet hall deserted, Where
once six solid blocks of business houses
wooden buildings and row upon row
of foundations and traces of exca ba-
tions. Yes, and big brick school
house and a church and a great stone
the prairie as a monument to the wild
enthusiasm of the boom days.
1t is impossible to describe this court
house and it's setting. 1t rises up out
of the plain giant sentinel to guard
a few wooden shacks that nestle behind
it like branches around a California
Redwood tree.
1t is ridiculous, only there is a trag-
edy to tinge the comedy. This court
house is as handsome, as conveniently
arranged and almost as large as the
Shawnee county court house, and yet
today there are scarcely 1900 people in
this county. This court house has a
much larger court room than the one
in Topeka and it is better lighted as
regards windows. Fifteen foot CORR
doris fnak the Offices. two great stair
ways lead to the upper floor and there
are four outside entrances, one at each
corner of the Building.
Once inside one imagineS he is in the
center of a city of 10000 people, but the
prairie solitEdes surround this stately
pile except when some coyote comes
along and howls in derision at the mis-
laid plans of man.
Nowhere else in the world can one
find SO fine building in so strange
place 1t is a mockery of the plains.
A fine picture in a miserable frame.
The Stubs party visited the court
house at night and all of US felt like
tourists wandering about some old ruin
outside the walls of Rome or Jericho,
only the ruins came from without and
not within, for a few hundred dollars
would put this building in good repair.
Governor Stubbs has had record
breaking crowds at every meeting. The
Liberal opera house was crowded TO
the doors and 100 people stood up in the
back of the building and scores stood
around outside. Over 700 people heard
the governor at Liberal
The Quaker school house west of Lib
eral was crowded. The Hugoton court
loom was crowded and 100 people stood
up. Even at Richfield, where a night
meeting was neld and the farmers live
so far from town, the place of meet
ing was damned to capacity.