The Liberal Democrat from Liberal, Kansas • Page 4

THE LIBERAL DEMOCRAT. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 19. 1920. MtN LIKE THESE WOULD RULE YOU 1 Plant 1 Buy Seeds Early 1 TYPES OF COMMUNIST AGITATORS DEPORTED BY U.

8. DEPART. MENT OF JUSTICE. ADOLPH SCHNADEL, Leader of Union of Russian Workers, a powerful, anarehlGtle organization in America. ALEXANDER SCHATZ, Leader of CommuniGt group in this Country.

JOHN DUBOFF, Active organizer of Communist group In Elizabeth, N. NICHOLOS MICHAILOV, Violent agitator among anarchist In America. IK -I i fs Carrying aTon a Mile for less than a Cent Freight rates have played a very small part in the rising cost of living. 1 tf Other causes the waste of war, under-production, credit inflation have added dollars to the cost of the necessities of life, while freight charges have added only cenrs. The average charge for hauling a ton of freight a mile is less than a cent A suit of clothing that sold for $30 before the war was carried 2,265 miles by rail from Chicago to Los Angeles for cents.

i Now the freight charge is 22 cents and the suit sells for $50. The cost of the suit has Increased 30 dollar. The freight on it has increased only 5 cents. Other transportation charges enter into the cost of the finished article carrying the wool to the mills and the cloth to the tailors but these other charges amount to but a few cents more. The $10 pair of shoes that used to sell for $5 goes from the New England factory to the Florida dealer for a freir ht charge of 5 cents only one cent more than the pre-war rate.

Beef pays only two-thirds of a cent a pound freight from Chicago to New York. American freight rates are the lowest in the world. Qfiis advertisement 'is published by the 2ssociation of 6lailway executives 'a- Thott dmrmf information am mfa th rmilrtoi titumtion wy Eatmtimu. tl Broadwy, Aw Ytrk. A TALE OF NO-MAN'S- LAND A CAST-OFF CHILD OF SLAVERY This Once Bad Land Now Scenes of Busy Activity in World's Work By Fred L.

Vandergrift, in The Pittsburg' Sun THE Hutchinson News, devoting much of its space to the southwestern counties of Kansas and those adjoining over in Oklahoma, is full of progress of that region in the world's work. This purview covers town and ountry. For, as the region fills with new settlers, the towns grow accordingly, rnd branch line of railroads coming in and the ranchers getting automobiles, scenes of activity and immediate prosperity are wit nessed unknown in the old period of pioneer settlements. The automobile invites better roads. A road in that region is easy to build, since the porous soil absorbing rainfall, or the rolling surface carrying it off quickly, the ground packs by travel, becoming hard and smooth as a boulevard.

But there are numerous water courses, sometimes called arroyas, a word left in the vocabulary of the west by the Spaniards, who, centuries ago were the first to cross these plains. The water courses are dry, ordinarily, but when it rains out that way, the storms often are torrential, and flooding the streams bankful, make the fords 'impassable. So the streams must be bridged. This the counties are doing by tax levy; if the streams be no more than draws. Building Massive Bridges But the Cimarron, Beaver and other large streams flowing out of the hilly country of New Mexica, require massive and costly bridges of steel, and the money for this is raised by 'voting bands.

Just now, a cap- paign is on for two bridges to span the Cimarron in Morton county, which lies in the far southwestern corner of Kansas. These bridges will be built for the trade of new towns, founded since a branch of the Santa Fe railroad was built from Dodge City southwesterly, a distance of 120 miles, to Elkhart, on the Oklahoma border. Elkhart is a new town come into existence, following the advent of the railroad. As the country in Kansas north of the Oklahoma line is prospering, by the advent of new settlers, bo it is building up southward, in the region commonly known as the "Panhandle ofOkla homa." The soil and surface are the same as that adjoining over in Kansas; the same staple products grown, the same prosperity and the same neighborly relations. Indeed, it is the same region of country, the geographical line which divides it making no difference in trade relations of the ranches, whose pastures, fields and farmsteads lie on the bor der.

In the "Panhandle" In its original political following the creation of Oklahoma territory, this region was "Beaver county," extending westward to the border of New Mexico, and lying between Kansas and the "Texas Panhandle." Afterwards, Oklahoma's statehood coming, it became Cimarron, Beaver and Texas counties. They are the "Panhandle of Oklahoma," comprising an era of perhaps twenty-five miles wide and 125 long. Nature designed it for livestock and the production of feed crops. So long as it was open range, cattlemen let their stock run upon it. However, becoming a part of the homestead domain settlers, came and took it in quarter sections and, immediately, it became a land of farms, people trading over the border at Liberal and Hugoton.

Another trade center there since the advent of the Rock Island railroad, is Guymon. So this region has come to be reckoned with in commerce. For it produces livestock by many thousand train-loads and drouth resistant crops for feed. "Reporting Progress In a recent issue, the Hutchinson News, "reporting progress" out that way, told of J. A.

Alexander, a rancher who lives near Guymon, on the Rock Island. Mr. Alexander filed on a quarter section there thirteen years ago, and by this start has earned the money to pay for 1,000 acres. Of his land, he has 1000 acres in wheat this winter. Last year he had 800 acres of wheat, growing twenty-four bushels and four pounds to the acre and selling the crop for $40,000.

Wurner, settled th-re ten years ago, Alexander's Gottlieb Wurner, settled tVre ten years ago, without a dollar. Tn 1918, he sold his crop for and the 1919 one for $17,000. TIe has 900 acres in wheat this year. Only a visitation of grass hoppers his wheat below forty bushels fT acre last year. We now have on hand Early Ohio and Early Triumph Seed Potatoes Extra Good Stock in Fine Condition Also the Old Reliable FERRY SEEDS You have known these seeds for years and know they are as good as can be grov n.

s. Several Different Varieties Onion Sets I Come in and make your selections from full riggle brothers I 1 GROCERS As it was, he said in conclusion, to a correspondent of the Hutchinson News, writing from Liberal: "But as it was, I had 5,540 bushels of wheat, 3,461 bushels of maize, 586 bushels of kafir, 400 bushels of barley and 600 bushels of oats." In "No Man's Land." Getting over toward Liberal in Kansas, where these farmers trade, David Curtis last year, on a strip of land one and one-half miles square, grew 27,000 bushels of maize. Mr. Curtis says maize, kafir, feterita and cane are remarkable crops there. The prairie of this region, "plains" no longer, teem with examples of the production of this once neglected and forbidden land.

But those here given are enough for the purpose of this article, which is to lead up to the "why and the wherefore" of the "Panhandle of Oklahoma," once the hiding place of fugitives from justice, the practice ground of lawless night riders, the scene of murders and assassinations, the battle ground of town site boomers, crossing over from Kansas to fight out their feuds. This strip of country, originally on the map, or, more accurately speaking, in the vocabulary of the people, was "No Man's Land." NATIONAL Guardsmen can get genuine Army Shoes for the inspection Friday night, at the Evans Harness Company. 40tlc UIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1 NOTICE! Owing to the increase in price of leather and harness hardware we will be forced to make an advance on all harness goods the first of March. YOU CAN MAKE A BIG SAVING BY BUYING NOW AT THE Evans Harness Co. C.

EARL AMES, Mgr. IIINIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllf BRING 'EM BACK Persons having our ice cream packers will please return same or call us and tell us where they are. They are expensive and we cannot afford to lose them. 38tfc EQUITY CREAMERY. (First published February 5, 1920.) NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Department of the Interior, U.

S. Land Office at Topeka, Kansas. February 4, 1920. Notice is hereby given that Calvin D. Day of Satanta, Kansas, who, on MoVi IS 1917 mnria 'additional homestead entry, SeHal No.

04710 (014254 D. for JNEtt, ejection 21, Township 31 Range 34 VJ fitti Prinoinnl Meridian, has filed notice of intention to make three- year proof to establish claim to the land above described, before the Pro- Koto nf Spwnrrl cnuntv. Kan sas, at Liberal, Kansas, on the 27th day of March, izu. Claimant names as witnesses: Adam P. Ridenour.

Otto Ridenour, William C. Davis, Clarence R. Davis, all of Satanta, 'Kansas. GEORGE S. ALLEN, 38t5 Tire Rotation Is practicable only when fully interchangeable tires like Michelin Universal Tread Casings are used on both front and rear wheels.

Many non-skids, while perhaps satisfactory on the rear wheels, cannot be used to advantage in front because their small sharp projections make steering difficult Recognizing this fault, many tire manufacturers are now recommending smooth tread "driving tires" for front wheel equipment. Michelin Universals are equally satisfactory for all four wheels because of their broad, flat treads. Use Michelins and secure all the economical advantages of tire rotation. Protect yourself against dangerous front skids and obviate the necessity of carrying two types of spares. The Tire Hospital WEST SECOND STREET 1.