The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-29

Goodland was chosen by decisive
majority. Eustis retained the records
and offices until the spring of 1888
by terrifying the town with rifle pits
and posting guards around town on
account of the rumors that Goodland
was going to send a crowd of people
to Eustis to forcibly remove the rec
ords. For time it looked if blood
would be spilled and militia was or
dered there by the governor. An in
cident in the county seat fight was
when a bunch of Goodland people on
horseback accompanied wagon to
Eustis. Driving up in front of the
court house when the colored janitor,
known as Niger Bob" asked them
what they wanted, he received
blow on the head. accompanied by
the remark that they were hunting
coons. This is the only act of violence
recorded. The records were quietly
gathered up and moved to Goodland,
the town company having built a new
court house and presented it to the
county. The county officers and the
people of Eustis also moved to Good
land, together with the other towns,
The First National bank building Is
one of the few remaining in Goodland
that was moved from Eustis. Vim.
walker. Jr, postmaster, implement
dealer and farmer, was one of the pio-
neer EustiS boosters. Z. F. Murphy,
one of the leading attorneys of north
west Kansas, now~of Goodland, was
one of the original pushers for Sher-
man Center. T. P. Leonard, whom the
town of Leonard was named for, is
also working for Goodland. He is do
ing a loan and real estate business.
Judge c. /. Sparks, of the Thirty
fourth district, is glad he lives in so
progressive a town as Goodland, and
O. A. Edwards, member of the legisla-
ture from Sherman county, knows he
lives in one of the best counties and
towns in northwest Kansas. And he
loves politics well enough to someday
Goodland is both a passenger and
freight division on the Rock Island
road.
Representative W. P. Lambertson
was born in Brown county, the county
he now represents in the legislature,
but he says if his fathers plans had
matured as he figured they would, he
would have been born six miles south
of Formoso, Jewell county, where his
father selected homestead in 1871.
The elder Lambertson came out from
Iowa in that year-and filed on a piece
of land near the present town OF
Forn1oso. He went back after his
family, but in the mean time he was
delayed SO that he over stayed his six
months and thus lost his right to the
land. The family came on to Kansas
but stopped in Brown county. where
the subject of this sketch was born
Strangely enough, Mr.. Lambertson
seatmate Mrs. Ida NJ. Walker, of Nor
ton county, was born in Jewell county.
within a few miles of the old Lam
bertson homestead
r. NJ. Picker. of Smith Center, ex-
Judge of the Fifteenth district, who
served from 1898 to 1920. and resigned
on account of failing health. writes
the following letter to your Sixth dis
trict correspondent He Is so favor
| ABLY known all over the state that this
column is glad to publish 1t, as roi-
lows;
Smith Center. Kan. JAN 10. 1921.
Dear Harry: do not want You TO meas
ure my regard by the promptness with
many moons ago. At the time Of your com
municatioh / was entirely incapacitated
from the performance along the line OF en- !.
lethargy that seemed to grip me and hoid
me helpless for many months robbed me OF
the past two years my wife and have had
an Interesting time to say the least we
were both in the hospital at Rochester,
Minnesota. at the same time and the past
months with the exception of the last SIX
have seemed like a nightmare; But Things
are now looking brighter. Ny vile re
covered more rapidly than /, and she has
endured all my grouches and complainIngs
like an angel For the past month l have
been working from six to ten or more hours
l a day and it is certainly good to get ct
something again. Harry, when a person
gets to the point where she does not know
whether he will ever again be able to re-
sumo his work and Is fearful that he Is
down and out for good he will find that his
business Is not only his meat and drink
but his pleasure and recreation as well 1
can assure you that at the time when 1t
looked like We were both out of the run
ming. we were thanking our stars that we
had lived economically and had laid by
enough TO keep off the. wolf in the future,
If things do not break Zoo ungenerousiy Tor
us.
| The way I have been tearing into the
work lately is quite reassurfng. and altho
it certainty did break my heart to give up
the iudgeship when the first wrench was
over and I began TO improve l came TO the
conclusion that after all We we're msAeh
more fortunately situated than so many
others that we ought to be ashamed TO COM
plain We are now beginnin 2 to look up some
! good place to go fishing in the spring or