Show 0 11 L 1 7 I 1 VV 1 I 4 9 1 11 1 1 I 1 iriv F advertises ats INJURY iN jUlty AK jl F farmer aner boand to get hank with the railroad parmer farmer jake stoddard of ai county believes in telling the tf world d ct cf his grievance he has been arm aront on and he is determined that all who whirl by his house on the burlington road shall know all about it uncle jakes troubles are told by a st signboard agn 1 oar d which stands near his house by the sido side of the railroad tracks tra eks the passenger on the burlington if he is a lover of the romantic scenery which abounds in northwestern kansas kans may observe from the car window as the train from atchison Atch lson approaches panning fanning station a large sign covering a board one by five feet nailed to a pole twelve feet high which reads 1 THIS W MAN HAS S BEEN WRONGED W N G i I 1 BY THE RAILROADS 1 when the road was built it suited the convenience of the company according to a local correspondent to lay the within ten feet of the corner of farmer stoddards studdards dards house the cn can rt It ruction gang plowed through his tam barnyard yard removed his hen house and cut a wide swath through a fine young orchard which was the pride of farmer barme r studdards stoddards dards heart the agriculturist fixed his damages at I 1 ix high figure so high in tact fact that the company compelled him to go into court and take what he regarded a ridiculous sum it was not long until the trains were running when the first excursion steamed out of atchison the passengers when the train reached farmer stoddards studdards dards place observed the sign in bold black letters with a background as white as snow stoddard had painted the sign himself and while it was waa not executed in the highest style of the axt art it could be distinctly read farmer stoddard has raised a large family of boys and he has taught them to hate corporations not less than half a dozen dogs of doubtful breed can always be found on the stoddard the dogs too are taught to hate the railroad and when a train passes the entire pack runs out and barks at it the old farmer feels that he is in a measure getting even brakemen on freight trains have great sport throwing pieces of coal at the dogs as the train passes stoddard figures that he be gathers up almost enough coal around his premises to keep one stove running through the winter months |