The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-26


part OF. the. Kansas language-and de-
clare that from az much maligned
commonwealth Kansas has developed
into the greatest agricultural state of
the union, ..teeming with millionaire
farmers who ride to town in automo-
biles on the profits of dollar wheat,
fifty cent corn, and forty cent eggs
John Sebastian, third vice president
of the Rock Island railroad, will tell
the diners how it felt to appear in the
how he got his real start in the rail-
road business in Topeka.
Boosters for "OId Kansas
Harry Olson, chief justice of the
municipal court; B. L. Winchell, presi-
dent of the Frisco railway; and the
Rev. Charles Bayard Mitchell, pastor
of st. James Methodist Episcopal
Norton, general attorneys for the
Santa Fe railroad; and F. J. ". Skiff,
director of the Field museum, are
scheduled to tell something of the
glories of their former state. George
T. Nicholson, president of the Kansas
of the Santa Fee railroad, will do his
best to give every former Kansan a
chance to say something about Kan
sas and its present prosperity.
George B. Harris, president of the
Burlington railroad; J. U. Higginbot-
ham, treasurer of the National Biscuit
company; H. U. Nudge, president of
the Rock Island SYSTEM d. A. Moul-
ton, vice president of the Corn Ex-
change bank; and Mrs. 1. S. Black
welder, a well known Chicago club
woman, are others of the Stand up
for Kansas type who have promised
L. J. Flint, secretary of the Chicago
society, to help make the Kansas day
dinner a boost for the Sunf1ower state.
George r. Peck, general counsel for
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railway, will have special place on the
evenings program, for he occupies a
unique place in Kansas history along
with F. D. Coburn, secretary of the
Kansas state board of agriculture.
They are the only two Jayhawkers eX-
tant who have refused to accept ap-
pointmeIlt as United States senators.
Kansas has never quite understood
these two men, for this common
wealth is the political cradle of the
nation, and it has often been said that
the politicians of the state were never
outnumbered in their own territory
by living things except once. and that
was during the grasshopper raids OF
the. '70s-the Kansans will never adj
nit that the grasshoppers were a
Kansas productivity came from the
headwaters of the Arkansas, over in
Colorado.
Guests From sE3ack Home
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their guests Chancellor Frank Strong
of the University of Kansas; Eugene
Ware (IronquilD, the Kansas lawyer
poet: and Ewing Herbert, the editor
orator of Hiawatha. They will fur
nish the latest educational and polit-
ical gossip from the land of the Kaw
The greatest Kansan-so named by
Governor Stubbs-F. D. Coburn, is to
be the guest of honor at the dinner
He's the man the Chicago Kansans
are going to the dinner to listen to. Il
there is a man on earth who stand:
up for his state and tells of it's glories
! in the wealth of epigrams that the
prophet of Kansas does he has mo-
/ been heard Of. Coburn is the pres.
agent, the publicity man and the bill
board advertiser of Kansas all rolled
| into one Coburn is the greatest math
ematician Kansas ever produced. He
takes the returns of an ordinary Kan
sas wheat crop and proves by Taught!
an aught and figger's figger" that nj
plot of ground since Eden has evel
| produced as Kansas soil does.
It was Coburn who introduced al
falfa into the state: <he made the Kan
sas hog and the 'beef steer and hi!
sister" what they are today In the Sun