Show A County Campaign in Kansas KANSAS Crrr Dec 25A county seat election Is soon to be held in Rawlins county in the northwestern part of Kansas Kan-sas Two towns are competing for the honor of being the seat of government Atwood and Blakeman The latter town has inaugurated a novel method of campaigning cam-paigning A fund has been subscribed to purchase all the houses in Atwood and move them to Blakeman and thus depopulate depopu-late its rival Forty seven dwelling houses hou-ses and stores have already been purchased pur-chased and moved to Blakeman and the purchasing committee is negotiating for a majority of the remainder The people at Atwood are said to be hard up and quite willing t dispose of their houses at fair prices Blakeman purchasing committee is backed by the railroad and town company com-pany and finds no difficulty in raising tho I necessary funds The Blakeman people are confident of success and the coming election i |