Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1911 — Man Aged 75 Returns to Pioneer Life [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Man Aged 75 Returns to Pioneer Life

ELDORADO, KAN.—Not many men! are pioneers at the age ot seventy- j five. This Kansas town presents one ; who is Just as active and as anxious i to penetrate desert aad jyngie ad were any men who located In the west fifty years ago. He is William 1. Joseph. . ■(< . . . *#»> ,• ‘ This interesting Kansan was bora in Morgantown, W. Va., came to Kansas forty years ago and located a homestead out near PotwlU; ln Butler county. He and his , wife passed through all the hardships of the frontier, rearing a family of two sops and one daughter. Aa Mr. Joseph pros; pered. he bought land until he was owner of thousands of acre#.. Fifteen years ago Mrs. Joseph died and then the old pioneer spirit began to assert Itself In this successful stockman and farmer. * ■ *■' Ignoring his age, he sold some of his Interests and, with his only daughter. Alice, started for Africa, having heard ot xhe possibilities of the land /there Arriving Jo Salisbury, Rho-

desia, which is 300 mties fnland and a; Portuguese possession, Mr. Josephs looked around and soon; bad bought! 25,004 acres of land at 50 cents am acre. Tbe? lived undetr r' the same, conditions which provoiMl In early Kansas days. After spending a few*months there! Mr. Joseph and his daughfir returned; to their home in Butler,#flhty. But the wanderlust still was nq| satisfied,! so a year ago he gathered up all hla family and they ihade the second trip, the old pioneer loading the way to! the promised land. H»la thno the party stayed during the summer, and when they came home brought a Kats fir boy with them. .