Annals of Emporia and Lyon County . ter be-ing introduced by Col. H. C. Cross,General Grant made this speech : Ladies and Gentlemen of Emporia: There are more of you here than I canpossibly make hear me if I was to domy utmost to make myself heard. I as-sure you that it is very gratifying to meto see so many American people out herewhere but a few years since the buffaloand the wild Indian occupied the territo-ry, and it is gratifying to me also thatthis country, which when I first saw it,constituted and was supposed to be a partof a desert, which the farmer never couldcultivate, has been so p
Annals of Emporia and Lyon County . ter be-ing introduced by Col. H. C. Cross,General Grant made this speech : Ladies and Gentlemen of Emporia: There are more of you here than I canpossibly make hear me if I was to domy utmost to make myself heard. I as-sure you that it is very gratifying to meto see so many American people out herewhere but a few years since the buffaloand the wild Indian occupied the territo-ry, and it is gratifying to me also thatthis country, which when I first saw it,constituted and was supposed to be a partof a desert, which the farmer never couldcultivate, has been so prosperous. Inour whole beautiful country we havenone that looks to be more productivethan the very land I see around me wish for all of you continual prosper-ity in your new homes. May they con-tinue productive in all industries. I likeKansas. I like the Kansas people; theyimplanted in our soil the principles ofuniversal liberty. If all the populationof our country was like the popilatio 78 ANNALS OF EMPORIA AND LYON TOM EVANS, of Hartford. You can see Tom Evans, of Hartford,in these Annals as he appears in hisevery day working clothes. He has beenone of the stand-bys at Hartford for nearlytwenty years, and has always been a goodworker, not only in his locality but for allof Lyon county. For four years he wasLyon countys sheriff and it may be saidwithout disparagement to others, that thecounty never had a better public is said that during his two terms helanded more criminals in the penitentia-ry than any other sheriff who has occu-pied the office. Mr. Evans is now en-gaged in the fine stock business. He hastwo farms near Hartford, and attendsstrictly to business. E. p. BANCROFT, Major E. P. Bancroft was a prominentand very efficient actor in our early his-tory. He opened a real estate oftice in theold hotel building in the spring of everything touching the interests ofthe new town and country he was called upon to take a leading part, and he
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