Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1888 — Some Man Has to Be Last. [ARTICLE]

Some Man Has to Be Last.

R. J. Burdette. “Why, sir,” said the Kansas man, enthusiastically, “there are half a dezan fortunes in every corner lot in this town. Take that one there you’re looking at now—eighty feet front. Man bought that lot three years ago for S2OO. Five months ago I paid him $2,000 for it; in ten days I sold it to a Wichita man for $5,000; inside a week he shoved it on a Kansas City man for SB,OOO, and before the moon was old that fellow sold it .to a Boston man for $15,000 spot cash.” “And what did the Boston man get?” “Oh, he got the lot. Say, here’s a little piece of earth I want you to look at, and if there isn’t a gold mine in every foot of it you may bury me in it”