From the Lawrence Daily World for July 2, 1906: “Gov. Hoch wants the convicts at the penitentiary to run a state denatured alcohol distillery. Alcohol makes convicts so why have convicts making alcohol? : Douglas County had $18,907 in fruit sales the past year. There are more than 200,000 fruit-bearing trees in the county, half of them apple trees. . . . It is rumored at Fort Leavenworth that President Roosevelt will come west in September to witness the army maneuvers at Fort Riley. Secretary of War Taft may also come since he and the president are close friends.”