The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-14

ing many families to the county. His
sales of thousands of acres of land |
have brought to him big financial |
bank account. At one time he printed |
papers in Morland, Graham county, |
and Wakeeney.
Frank McIvor. of Hoxie. has been a |
western Kansas boy since 1892, and
located in Decatur county that year.
In 1884 he was hearding cattle in
Cove county. After the breaking up
of the range stock business he went
to work learning the printing trade in
the office of the Buffalo Park Pioneer.
Later he worked on the Grainfield
Cap Sheaf and between times clerked
in a store. Later on he was the editor
of the paper and for a number of
in the state. In 1892 he went to work
on the Hoxie Sentinel, and for nearly
a quarter of a century he edited that
paper. In the SO years he has lived
in northwest Kansas he has seen that
seton develop from an antelope and
cattle range to a wealthy farming
community. He says he wouldn't
trade his Hoxie home for one farther
east If he had to live there. He says
the old adage is true of him that,
where a mans heart is SO is he also"
He is the member of the legislature
from Sheridan county. His people
like him so well they are pushing
him for state senator of the Thirty
d
state job, being one Of the deputy fire
marshals.
T. V. Lowe. of Goodland. was kept
away from the recent Kansas day
BANQUET on account of his business
He is a pushing western Kansas real
estate man and he is doing his share
in the settlement and development of
his section Of state. His friends
are pushing him for delegate from the
CT i; -
| ton.
| J. P. Noble, of Oberlin, is on bust
ness before the supreme court. His
| ruary %. He says the wheat pros
poets are good turnout Decatur county
and the flu epidemic has been bad.
| The Logan Republican throws this
| bouuet to one of the former sub
scribers of that paper who stopped it
and refused to pay the arrearages:
| Hell is full of people who got there
| just that way. There's only one other
gink quite so adorable in the eyes of an
editor, and he it is who finds the paper
mighty nice until he gets a polite re-
quest to pay, and then has the CUTS to
| say, Stop it. I never ordered 1t, and
amt going to pay fer it, Say. them
| guys, like the deuce they are, and
they're scheduled for a jolting, that
will finish the job of splitting their gall
all thru their system. We have
rogue's gallery and there are some so
called respectable fork represented
| too"
One of the pioneer landmarks of
Rawlins county was the old Horn"
well, on the divide" road few miles
east of Atwood. 1t had been sunk to
depth of nearly zoo feet. It caved
in and was abandoned many years
lago. There are old-timers living in
Atwood now who will remember the
well and some of the history con-
Injected with it. On his first visit there
he writer of these notes was driven
er the well, the travelled road be-
en- Oberlin and Atwood in those
y days running close to the well.
.eral persons had mysteriously dis
appeared, and the belief existed
among some of the citizens that they
had been foully murdered and their
bodies thrown in the we'll At any
irate, some of them never turned up.
At one time there was sentiment to
have the well cleaned out and see
what was at the bottom of it. Others
believed If this was done 1t would re-
suit in the finding OF human bones
The well was never cleaned out. Along
about that time a young boy had died
in farm house not far from the we'll
The father claimed he died suddenly
| l.
When discovered the father was car
rying his dead body on his shoulders
| and was going in the direction of the
/ well. There are those who believe the
boy was destined to find a grave in
the old we'll At one time many years
ago the Associated Press printed a
story about this then famous we'll. and
1t was published in all the papers ir
the association at the time. The
father of the boy was arrested and
convicted on circumstantial evidences
of the murder of the boy, and Judge
| G. Webb Bertram sentenced him tc
the penitentiary for 40 years, saying a,
| he passed sentence that If he knew
| the prisoner would live his term ou
1 he would make it so years.
Kenneth was the first county seat Of
l Sheridan county. 1t was named II
honor of Kenneth Turner, who wa:
born there. His father, E. j. Tur
ner, served two terms in congress from
| the Sixth district and prior to tina
time he represented Sheridan count,
in the state legislature. In the earl!
sos two young men landed in Ken
1 meth, there being no Hoxie in thos'
days. One was from Nebraska. anc
the other resided in Emporia. Thes,
/ young men being "tenderfeet" an at
| tachment sprang up between them.
| few years later a boom struck tina
4 country and with the influx of new
corners came also the towHsit
boomers" They were unable L
gobble all the lots in Kenneth. so the.
started a new town and named /
III HoXie, in honor of H. NJ. Hoxie of TIL
Missouri Pacific railroad at the time
II In short time they had Kenneth OF
III wheels moving to the new townsite
1t was advertised in all the papers tina
III Hoxie would be the future metropoli
III of northwest Kansas. Along with tn
rush to the new town the two tender
feet" fellows followed, E. H. Lupto
and E. P. Jay, who remained an
doomed Hoxie for several year:
when Jay returned to Emporia. an
Lupton stuck it out until 1912. Whe
he came to Topeka and took tn
/ presidency of the Bank Savings Lii
| Insurance company, while Jay is 0
4 the state payroll as deputy fire maj
shall. These two men met at the Ma
Il tiona1 hotel. Topeka, a few days agt
i for the first time in many years. e