Bisbee daily review., 1911-03-21

ST LOUIS, Iarch lS-N0W here is town that has eloped, been mar ried and and changed her name, down in The panhandle Of Texas. in the most unique county seat cscapade n all ,he annals or the one-time COW country. Here in the wholesale dis trict one continually hears of the wild adventures Of Emma, the im- petuOus youngster whose wooing and mad dash across the prairie have ended this spring by Emma losing her identity and settling down to married life at the geographical cen ter of Crosby county as part and : parcel of Crosbyton.
 Sales managers anG credit men
 rive long odds that Emma will raise a big family, after the fashion of the panhandle since they began turning the big ranches into farms, building new railroad lines and new towns overnight. and starting the time -honored county seat leh.s oi ! fhe older states. From her old de- serted home, where tin cans strew | the landscape OCT and OCT and where cellars yawu, there are deep grooves in the prairie which mark the route of Emma's elopement, the ! most remarkable one since the Loch- inyar affair. In. passing Emma leti marks of her dry goods and grocery 1 emp0riums, her churches, her school and her homes.
 Until last sammer, Emma has beeI county seat of Crosby county evei since Emma began-seyerai months but the discovery was made il, Aug ust that the exact geographical cen ! ter of the county was nearer to Cros by,on than to Emma. Crosbyton wa: 1000 feet inside of a five-mile ra- cius from the exact center specidet by law, and Emma was 500 feet out side. A certified designation of tho ! county center as established by act r ual survey which was furnished by the state and office started things and was the beginning of an entirey changed life for Emma John I{. Rails of Emma, Immediately proposed t, his toWnsmen that if they would join him in project to open a new town on his land at the junction o the CrOsbyton and South Plans rail way he would set aside GAO acre. for that puSpose and give each Io fowner in Emma half as many lot. in the new town, and they were tc keep their Emma lots as well. O ! course, in consideration for this the town was to be moved to the new town site. and live there. That was Emma's first proposal, made on tho ] fourth of August and like all suel events, created wide, deep and i'm I portant emotions. The Crosby Coun- ty News, published at Emma. came out for acceptance, strong. All of tho county officers. including the count, judge. wanted Rails offer to be ac- cepted
 But on the sth of August Crosby
 ton put in an appearance. Emma wa. in town meeting assembled in behall of Rails when came Julian Bassett who listened to County Attorney Cranford berate his town and ther stated the proposal Crosbyton haG to offer, a proposition which matched Rails offer and added attractions likely to make any new town lose its head. That very day Croshyton filed application for a county seat electio'' 10 be held September r. In prep aration for that election the popula- tion of Crosby County -ook off it's coat and worked tooth and nail. the opposing factions matching rumoi with rumor and circumvention with circumyentiOn County Judge Par rish wrote to the State Land Com missioner for information as to .he exact county center But a lawyer from Amarillo. named Cooper turned up and persuaded Judge Par rish that a certificate once recorded became final, and in pursuance of this doctrine he took certain docu- ments to Austin himself and induced | the commissioner 70 write letter which did much to ser;le the con | test The tactics of Emma were !