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HASKELL COUNTY, KANSAS NEWSPAPER ARTICLES D. R. EGGERS RAISED 10,000 BUSHELS OF GRAIN D. R. Eggers of Haskell county has raised over 10,000 bushels of small grains this year. (Topeka Weekly Capital, October 20, 1892, page 12, part second) THE INDWARDNESS OF THE HASKELL COUNTY HOWL Garden City, Kan., Dec. 7, 1892 - A gentleman just in from Haskell county and who is a friend of County Clerk Hussey is very indignant at the statement of Joe Rosenthal, circulated through the public press, in regard to the mistake in the returns from that county to the state board of canvassers. This gentleman states that there is no such excitement in that county as Rosenthal asserts; that there has been no threats of hanging, or anything of the sort. He further states that it is an infamous falsehood that Hussey had left the county; that the facts are the Mr. Hussey was over at West Plains where he has been engaged all the season in buying grain, alternating between there and Santa Fe, and that Rosenthal well knew that Hussey was there, and was so informed on last Friday and Saturday; and to say that Hussey's family knew nothing of his whereabouts is a lie out of whole cloth. Rosenthal's statement that there is a court house ring in Haskell county is on a level with his other statements. His other statement that he did not want to run for representative in untrue, for he has been scheming for mroe than a year past to prevent a People's party man from running and to prevent other Democrats from running and also to prevent the nomination of any Republican but Stubbs as he knew that Stubbs was poor financially and could not use any money in the election, and Rosenthal could if he desired, Rosenthal being a rich man. It is openly asserted that at the Republican primaries that Rosenthal procured his personal friends and heelers, a great many of whom had no moral right to participate on account of their being Democrats to go into the Republican primary and vote for Stubbs and thus defeat Dr. Cowdin who was a candidate for the Republican nomination. After the Republican nomination was made, Rosenthal openly boasted of having done this. In the late election there was a great many votes cast in Haskell county for Rosenthal by persons who did not reside in the county and did not have a right to vote there but these themselves were not sufficient to change the result; in Boone precinct, a Republican ballot was cast for Stubbs but was not counted by the board which was Democratic; there are rumors of money being used in every precinct in the county by Rosenthal's heelers and from past elections in that county it is morally certain that the result was largely affected by boodle. This gentleman who was in from Haskell county says that Mr. Stubbs had openly stated that he would not take any advantage of any mistake, and if there had been any mistake made he did not know it and the first he knew of a mistake being claimed to have been made was when he learned that the certificate had been issued to him. It is further stated by the best of men in that country that if a mistake was made, it was purely inadvertence, as Hussey is a man of irreporachable character and it is a mistake to say that he was a bitter personal enemy of Joe Rosenthal or anybody else. This gentleman claims that Rosenthal is a sensationalist and enjoys the sort of notoriety that he is getting through the public prints, and "when the newspapers cease to notice Joe he will be like a horse with his feed cut off." (The Wichita Daily Eagle, December 11, 1892) MR. CRIST APPOINTED RECEIVER Mr. Lee of Clark County has been appointed Register at Dodge City and Mr. Crist of Haskell County receiver. (The Globe-Republican, January 12, 1894) C. F. BUSTER CANDIDATE FOR SHERIFF C. F. Buster was a candidate for Sheriff before the Republican convention in Haskell county, but Murphy beat him. He now spells his nameBusted. (The Globe-Republican, October 10,1895) VICTORY FOR GOLD DEMOCRATS Palmer and Buckner Sweep Dudley, Haskell County, Kansas Topeka, Kan., Nov. 21 - Consolation will come to General John M. Palmer and General Buckner out of Kansas for at this late day it is discovered that the National Democracy has scored a victory. The candidates of the National Democracy swept Dudley Township, Haskell County, Kansas, and they are to be officially notified of the fact. On Monday Secretary of State Edwards will forward to Generals Palmer and Buckner a certified copy of the returns, which will show the vote to have been as follows: Palmer and Buckner, 3; McKinley and Hobart, 2; Bryan and Sewall, 1. (Inter Ocean, November 22, 1896, page 1) DAVE SHEPLAR IN WESTERN KANSAS WANTS FEDERAL HELP - HIS APPEAL TO DEPUTY MARSHALL TRIGG David Sheplar of Haskell county has written to Deputy Marshal Trigg under registered cover, demanding fedearl help. Mr. Sheplar's letter recites that the authorities out in Haskell county aided and abetted by a loan company which is in pursuit of him and his happiness are making life miserable for him but that he has so far successfully defied them. Mr. Sheplar's controversy has lasted to a great length and his communications with the federal government have been frequent but to what purpose it did not appear until his registered letter arrived. He says ? in the quarrel he had quoted United States law at his opponents and he wanted to back it up, saying: "Send the soldiers out here and punch them with bayonets." While a detachment of regulars or even volunteers sent to Haskell County might be very exciting and cause great uproar, the United States Government and its soldiers and bayonets will not take part in the controversy and Mr. Sheplar will have to go it alone. He has been so notified and by this time has probably dropped down to the state statutes. (The Wichita Daily Eagle, December 16, 1898) S. DERBY HAS A VERY GOOD CROP S. Derby of Haskell county, has threshed his cane and kaffir corn and he had a very good crop. He had 487 bushels of cane seed from 19 acres, making a little over 25 bushels to the acres; and 195 bushels of kaffir corn from five acres of ground, making 39 bushels to the nere. Mr. Derby's cane crop will pay him better than wheat if it was a dollar a bushel. (Sedan Lance, March 30, 1899, Page 6) MISS FRANCES KATNER IS COMING BACK TO KANSAS Miss Frances Katner is "coming back to Kansas." Miss Katner is one of the best known of the successful teachers of north east Kansas. For years she taught in the schools of Atchison and Doniphan counties. Some months ago she up a position in the Atchison county high school at Effingham to take a place in an Indian school in California. Now she has been appointed assistant principal at Haskell Institute. (Kansas Semi-Weekly Capital, February 22, 1901, page 4) TWISTER IN HASKELL COUNTY - TAUGHT SOME RANCHMEN
THE ART OF PRAYING HASKELL COUNTY FARMER IS KILLED Sublette - Geo H. Walton, 77, Haskell county farmer, residing here, was fatally injured when he drove into a highway at an intersection here, ahead of a Santa Fe Trail bus. The bus struck his car broadside. He was hurt, so badly that he died some hours later at Dodge city hospital. The twelve passengers on the bus escaped more than slight injuries. Among the passengers were Paul Grimes, Dodge City, Viola Reynolds, Hugoton and Mrs. Martin Hanson, Liberal. Walton formerly lived in Larned, and later in Spearville and Cimarron. He had lived in Sublette for seven years. The widow, and a daughter, Mrs. Barbara Osborne, of San Bernardino, Calif., survive. The funeral will be at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the Hulpieu Chapel in Dodge City. (Hutchinson News, July 26, 1944) 3 HASKELL COUNTY RESIDENTS HONORED Sublette - It was 20 degrees below zero according to the wind chill chart but that failed to stop the "chefs" from boiling the steaks over an outdoor barbeque. Occassion was the annual meeting of the Haskell County Soil Conservation District, Thursday noon in Sublette at the 4-H Building. Braving the cold to prepare the steaks over the outdoor barbeque pit were personnel of the SCS board and office and the Haskell County Extension Office. The steaks were served to some 110 Haskell County farmers, their wives and businessmen - a larger than normal crowd for the annual meeting. Three Haskell County farm couples were awarded the Kansas Banker's Soil Conservation Award during the meeting for following the steak dinner. They are Mr. and Mrs. Earl Menirs, Sublette; mr. and Mrs. Mark McLain, Satanta; and Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Kleysteuber, Copeland. The awards were presented by Larry Meyers of the Haskell County State bank in Sublette. Menirs lives 9 miles north and 1 mile east of Sublette and has been a SCS cooperator since 1950. He drilled his first irrigation well in 1955 on his mother's land and now has a well on his own quarter drilled in the fall of 1965. He now has 8 quarters under irrigation in Haskell County and has leveled all of his own land and 160 acres of rented land. On his mother's land he recently installed 4,850 feet of underground pipe for more efficient water distribution. McLain lives 5 miles north and 6 west of Sublette and has been a cooperator since 1965. He drilled his first irrigation well that year and now has leveled all crop land on three quarters which is under irrigation. He also farms five quarters of dryland on which he practices stubble mulch tillage to protect the soil from wind and water erosion. Kleysteuber lives 8 miles east and 13 miles north of Sublette and has been a cooperator since 1958. He completed a Great Plains Conservation contract in 1965 and has established all the essential conservation practices on three quarters of land. He has two irrigation wells, 4,222 feet of undergroup pipe and has leveled 87 acres. He has 100 other acres that is terraced and is being contoured farmed. For the past two years he has served as a Haskell County Soil Conservation District supervisor. Featured speaker was Dr. Gerald Tomanck, chairman of the division of biological sciences at Fort Hays State College. He showed slides and told of a trip he had made several years ago to Argentina. (Garden City Telegram, January 25, 1969)
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