Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1911 — HOOSIERS IN THE WEST ALL DOING SPLENDIDLY. [ARTICLE]

HOOSIERS IN THE WEST ALL DOING SPLENDIDLY.

Billy Blodgett Writes A boat Their But Says Alll Long for Banks of the Wabash* W. H. Blodgett, who is now in Los as fffor spec in i correspondent for the Jndianapolis News, in reporting the trial of the McNamara brothers/ accused of dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building,, sends the following article about “Hoosiers” back to his newspaper: .< Not only is Indiana interested in the trial of the McNamara brothers from a local point of view, but the entire west has many thanks to bestow on the Hoosier state, for Hoosiers have helped to make the west. Indiana brains, labor and capital are found everywhere west of the Mississippi river. I saw many Indianians who have made good and who have added to the life of the communities in which they reside “temporarily,” for let it be known that no matter how far from the banks of the Wabash the Hoosier may wander, his heart" is still with the folk back home. It is estimated there are more than twenty-five' thousand Indiana people in the western country and in many of the states there are large Indiana societies. This is particularly true in Denver, Kansas City, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Los Angele/ and other large cities. ' .. In Los Angeles there is an Indiana Society with more than five thousand members. Indiana goods are offered everywhere. Away out in the desert between Albuquerque and Los Angeles I saw the word Studebaker many times and on a signpost in front of an adobe village I read “Oliver Chilled Plows.” J saw goods made in Richmond, and other Indiana industrial centers. I saw Premier motor cars in San Bernardo and Mannons, Coles and Auburns at Needles, Ariz. There are scores of th£be cars in Los Angeles. In Kansas City I saw a car load of auItomobiles direct from Auburn, Ind., and away up in the mountains at Barstow, Cal., I saw a Nyberg car, made at Anderson, Ind. In many hardware stores I saw Atkins saws offered for sale. The west is expecting many hundreds of Indiana tourists this fall. It is a pleasant trip out here and you see many things that interest you, but you find no place that “has anything on” the good old Hoosier state. The day of the cowboy and the bad man are gone for the most part on the Pacific* coast Back Up in the mountains there is still plenty of large game. There are great herds of cattle and the “gun man” is still in evidence in the interior west but you see neither from the window of the Pullman. About the only specimens of the noble red man you see are a lot of “moochers” who : try to hold up tourists for trinkets. At. Navajo,, N. M., where our train stopped for a few minutes, I saw a cowboy. He had on “chaps,” a broad - white sombero pinched- to a peak and properly dented, a red handkerchief about his neck and a cigarette in his ’ fingers. But he gras not bowlegged like the theatre cowboys, and his handkerchief was looped at the back of the neck Instead of In front He appeared to be lonesome. “Waiting for a train?” I asked. “Yes, and it can’t come any too quick for me.” “Live far from here?” “A hell of .a long ways, stranger; and if I ever get back home I’ll stay there.” ' .

I looked at the ‘chape”—they were store made. Bvery trie cowboy wears bls handkerchief looped under his throat, and not back of his ears, and every true bowlegged from riding. This mournful youth was a counterfeit —the kind of cowboy you see at the Park theatre, in Indianapolie. And where do you think he belonged. He was a member of Buckskin Ben's Band, of Cambridge City, Ind. Our train Was only fourteen hours late when it arrived at Gallup, K If., and I went into a barber shop to get shaved. The barber studied me a minute and then grinned. "What are you doing away out here?” he asked, and I told him. His name is J. P. Peterson and he used to have the first chair in the Oliver hotel barber shop at South Bend. He said he left South Bend with 9800. took up a homestead, lost all bis money trying to farm and then returned to the rasor and lather. ‘When you see the boys beck home tel' them that when I make good here 1 am coming back tp see them," said Peterson. Hoosiers, Hoosiers everywhere. C. J. BoWes, former claim agent of the Louisville division of the Pennsylvania lines at Columbus, Ind., has a good railroad position at San Fran cisco. Albert N. Blessing, who used

to practice law in Columbus, has a similar position in Montrose, Colo. Crockett Ricketts, a former Columbus, Ind., newspaper man, is owner and editor of a daily paper at Boulder, Colo., and John M. Pope, who used to set type bn the Columbus Republican, is now associate editor of the Daily Vanguard, at Venice, near Los Angeles. ’ * . j Simon Bamberger left Indianapolis a good many years ago with two bits in his pocket and landed in Salt Lake City. He has accumulated a million or more, has been a state senator a few times, and is principal owner of the Daly West Mining Company and other big producers in the state of Utah. Mr. Bamberger is the head of the Salt Lake coal trust and for his amusement between campaigns has built the first interurban railroad in Utah and controls the entire line. Frank Sefrlt, brother of Charley Sefrit, resigned his job as postmaster at Washington, Ind., and went to Salt Lake City to become managing editor of a paper' started there by Perr/ Heath, of Muncie.