The Western Homestead from Tribune, Kansas • 1

tl i Kt' 1-71 1 -SV 3 iffn Devoted to tlie Interests of Central and Western' Kansas. Number 2. 180S. HUTCHINSON TRIBUNE, KANSAS, FEI5KUAHY Volume 7. WESTERN" KANSAS MEX.

I it the formative period he was nominated for Di3trict Clerk and was defeated by 61 majority, and in 1896 he was nominated and elected representative for the 110th district, receiving both these nominations without solicitation on his part. While in the Legislature he was chairman of the committee on County lines and county seats. He was also a member of the committees on Federal Relations, Congressional Apportionment and Irrigation. While he gave his earnest support in favor of all the many beneficial measures that passed the House and many that did not pass, he labored more particularly' in the interest of the anti-oleomargarine bill, and the leading irrigation bill which he assisted in preparing. He looked upon both of these measures as of vital importance to western Kansas.

The irrigation bill proposed would forever have settled the question of artesian water and also the geological composition of the western part of the state. He looked upon the anti-oleomargarine bill as a protective measure to one of the most important industries it is in our power to develop, and one that is especially adapted to the West, and in order to get the best returns to our state for the vast resources we possess the dairying interests must be protected from imposition by a spurious article. He thinks the demand should go up from every county in the state for protection from this outrageous impos'tion upon the legitimate dairy interests of the state. Mr. Epperson is the father ot seven children.

Yhile a large portion of his married life has been cast in a locality where climatic conditions have rendered agricultural pursuits very discouraging, and when the clouds of adversity and disappointment have well-nigh overwhelmed him, his wife, like a true Kansas woman, has stcod loyally by him and hever by word or deed expressed a desire that would lead him to sacrifice his property and desert the home they, are laboring to build up in western Kansas. E. II. EPPEUSOX. yard on the ground he now occupies.

Mi. Haywood has never been a politician1 in the generally accepted sense of ihe terra, but had general acquaintance with men in public life in Iowa and later in Kansas. He never sought any official position untill 1896 when he was elected to represent his county in the Legislature. Mr. Haywood has dollars hidden away in this country, as the figures of Canada, Great Britain and other countries having the system in operation indicate that large amounts are annually deposited in their postal savings banks in small accounts.

The establishment of the proposed-postal savings banks system will provide the facilities needed for making small savings where there are none. In but few states are there now enough savings banks. Where they are distributed over the territory with some uniformity in relation to business and population, affording all the opportunity, deposits. in the aggregate are enormous. In a letter to the Boston Mr.

Edward Atkinson says: "In a recent address before the Savings Banks Association of the state of New York, I submitted the following figures: 'In round figures, one half the inhabitants of Massachusetts, m.vinly persons jot small or moderate means, possess certificates of deposit in the savings banks of the commonwealth to the amount of with their, reserves and cash-; added $188,000,000 at the last report; probably today $500,000,000. If my approximate estimate is correct, the average deposit is at the rate of $200 for every head of population in the Rtate ot Massachusetts. The number that l.ave open account's at the present time is considerably more than one-half the' entire population. A small number had duplicate "Now let it be borne in mind that there is not a state in this Union whi2h is not in possession of greater natural resources from which savings may be derived than the state of Massachusetts. So far as conditions or resources create opportunities, there is not a state in the whole country which has not a greater ability to make such savings in greater measure if these resources are worked with the intelligence and vigcr which are compulsory in Massachusetts.

"Let it be assumed that, the course of twenty years, by the exercise of thrift and intelligence under just and equal laws, the people of this country, as a whole, should have attained a saving in small sum3 equal to one-half ihe present average in the stntf of Massachusetts, or $100 ahead. Wt. approximate 75,000,000 in our population. A saving of one half that which exists on deposit in the sav ng banks of Massachussett3 would require an investment of $7,500,000, 000. vol tr.

the irpiiMkit it iickt-t and consequently was not in sympatny with the majority in the last house. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Haywood was blessed with two children, a son who died in boyhood, and daughter, who being married, came with her parents and her hv.sbaEd to Kansas, and died shortly afterwards. IV.

P. HAY WOC D. AV. P. Haywood of Lakin, Kearny county, was born near Sharon, Mercer county, in 1807.

His parents died when he'waa about ten yeafs of age. He received his education in tha public schools of that county and at the Poland (O.) Presbyterian Academy. At the age of fourteen he with a nephew came went and settled for a time ay- iu.ey. whw h- er-iMiieti as a clerk in a dry g(n)ds store, tnen to St. Louis and later to Muscatine, Iowa, where he joined a surveying party ior a railroad since built from Muscatine to Oskaloosa.

In 1855 he returned to his old home where he spent a year, bat tirirr.f of the East he again took up the line of march westward, settling this time in Jackson county, Iowa, where he formed the acquaintance of Miss Sarah Maskery, whom he married in April 1S58, and resided there until the rebellion, when he enlisted in Co. 12th Iowa Vo). Inf. He was un detail from his regiment when he was taken prisoner at Shiloh in April 1862, as recruiting sergeant. Ileturmng to the Held after said battle wiih squads of recruit 3, he" was assumed to duty in Co.

ISth Iowa, and was with them during the advance on and evacuation of Corinth, whence he wa3 sent lack to the hos-pital, thence to Keokuk (la.) hospital from where he was discharged from the service, llefrurning to Jackson POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS. E. II. Epperson, of Grigshy, Scott county, was born in Bent6n county, Iowa, November 11, 1352, and consequently is a little over forty-five years of age. He.

emigrated to Kansas in the spring of 1S70 and has resided on a farm in this State continuously since thut date. In the fall of 1872 he settled with his parents in Sumner county, Kansas, and lived in that county 14 years. In 1880 he was married to Miss Susie Nottingham, daughier of N. Nottingham, of Oxford, Kansas. In the spring of 188G Mr.

Epperson emigrated to Scott county and has resided there ever since engaged in farming and raising horses to some extent. In 1888 Perhaps one of the mo, interesting to farmers is Gary's scheme for the jablishmentof postal savings banks. General Gary is cocked and primed t'j go to Congress and exploit the advantages of his scheme, and undoubtedly has plenty cf statistics and figures with which to back up his statements. He claims that the establishment of these banks throughout the rural districts will be of incalculable benefit to the farmer, the mechanic and the laboring man generally, whose savings may be comparatively small, and who is not situated near to or does not desire to place them in the hands of a private bank. Mr.

Gary states that there must be hundreds of thousands, millions of county, he taught school and took up the tnde of carpentery, which he had learned in the years before the war. Removing to Lyons, Clinton county. Iowa, in 1SGG, he took the line of architecture, contracting and building of which he seemed- well adapted. Moving to Bagky, Iowa, he put in the after several months of earnest study and meditation Le became convinced that the dominating political influences in the country were fostering and building up systems that were unjustly exploiting the producing laboring classes. As a result of this conviction he severed his life-long connection with the republican party, and has since been an active and energetic populist.

In 1890 while tho party was yet in Charles Deng purchased a car load of young two-year old cows from Fred Shultz of Kansas City. They are as good a bunch as has been shipped into Scott county, weighing an average of aoout 850 pounds. Scott County News-Lever. liis'i stock of lumber and hardware on! the M. St.

P. Railway, residing; there until 1885, when he came Kansas, and in 1883 started a lumber.