Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1913 — Colonel Phillips Tells Of Recent Trip to Kansas. [ARTICLE]

Colonel Phillips Tells Of Recent Trip to Kansas.

Col. Fred Phillips and wife and little daughter, Grace Augusta, returned several days ago from a trip to Greensburg, Kans., and from there they went by auto to Clark county in the Simmaroon valley, where Greenleaf Bros., friends of the Colonel, have leased 20,000 acres of land, on which they are ranging 2,500 head of cattle. Simmeroon is a Spanish word and means “run of sheep.” It was way back in 1885 that Colonel Phillips, then a youngster, spent a season in the cattle ranch lands of Kansas, working as a cattle herder. He formed acquaintances at that time that he has found much pleasure in visiting since then and among those he holds in the closest esteem are the Greenleaf brothers. They were rounding up some 500 head of cattle that had been sold and Fred slipped into a pair of chaps, he already had the hat, put on a spur and mounted a broncho and made a cowboy hand out of himself, and he reports that he thoroughly enjoyed the experience again. Fred went to the west with the expectation of buying some cattle for parties here, but there had been very heavy rains in September and this had given a luxuriant, growth to the wheat and the cattle throughout that country have been turned onto the wheat, which does not hurt the wheat in the least and is fine forage for the stock. This had caused the price to go up again and many Kansans who had been greatly discouraged by the terrible drouth of the summer, are very much encouraged. Fred and family were at Greenleaf only a short time, but there saw Cash Hopkins, a former Jasperite, who is now making his home with his son, Claud Hopkins. Cash has prospered in the west and owns a good acreage of land near Greensburg.