Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
KANSAS TOPICS.

Il NA1NbJAA vi i
49, KANSAS TOPICS.
Daddy Mead, of the Mcpherson Republic
an is one of those old-fashioned men who
always speaks OF a turkey gobbler as a
master turkey
Miss Mary o. Sheeleigh was married at
Fort Washington. Pa, on the 18th inst, to
Rev. U. S. G. Rapp. The lady is niece
OF Judge T. F. Carver, and has made her
home with his family at Salina. The int-
tials of the groom stand for Ulysses S.
Grant.
Major ]. W. BoTius, of Fort Scott, has
unhitched himself from the plow. scraped
the mud off his boots and gone to Topeka
in pursuit Of the position of clerk of the
supreme court. Major Bowlus was a can
dldate for state treasurer before the late
Pop state convention and developed cred
table following.
During the agitation of 1854 over the at
tempt to extend slavery to Nebraska the
papers used to speak of the extensionists
as ''Neb. rascals." In fact, for many years
thereafter the Democrats of the state were
called Neb. rascals. We mention this SIM
ply as suggestion in case Mr.. Bryan can
find no better name for that new party he
is talking of organizing.
The prohibition idea was born in Law
renee. On February q, 1857, the town voted
upon the question: Shall liquor be solo
in Lawrence?" and the result was II ayes
to 10 nays.
Editor Harmon, of the Oskaloosa Times,
who is said to be slated for place on the
penitentiary board, will have fine oppor-
tunity to remedy the evils in that institu-
ton which his father discovered while serv-
ing a term for sending free love literature
through the mails. BY the way Harmon
bears a strong letter of Endorsement from
Judge Myers, of Santa Fe fame, who de-
clares that the editor is worthy of a much
better place, but that he has been studying
prison matters for several years and will
be more valuable to the state in that ca
pacity.
Professor Haworth, of the state univer
sity, informed the Topics man yesterday
that the alleged discovery of zinc in Rus
sell, Ellis and Trego counties was very
much of humbug He had analyzed spec
linens from nine different localities. he
said, and nothing beyond the merest trace
of zinc was found in any of them. 1t is
| true the prospectorS in these counties have
certificates of analysis from number of
| alleged assayers, which show the metal in
paying quantities, but Professor Haworth
| is convinced the specimens were loaded
before they were sent or else the certifi-
| Gates are bogus. 1t is said that "Gin'ral'
| Artz has sold a large amount of stock in
| the zinc mire he is endeavoring to develop
| in Trego county, and that Kansas City par
ties are largely the victims.
The news comes via George Martin that
| Joe Bristow intends to become a candidate
| fo1. tyEO hnnpp
General W. w. Guthrie and wife cele-
| brated the thirty-third anniversary of their
marriage at Atchison on Monday.
|
"If you would list to the accumulated
| wisdom of ages remarks Pa Finch, of
| the Ottawa Republican. as he starts in to
| show that he can crack a joke as well as
| the next one, go to the congress of moth
| ers, and seek no father"
Farmer Literal, of Reno county, de-
| clares that next year will be one of the
greatest wheat seasons the state has ever
known, but it is a little too early to regard
it as that kind of a fact
The Chicago Times-Herald prints pict-
ure of Bill White and labels it William
Allen. editor of the Wichita Gazette"
4 Gene Ware did his first newspaper work
on the Burlington, Ia, Hawkeye. The
first item which came from his pen was
considered the best pun ever made in the
state and secured him unlimited fame. The
Union Pacific railroad was building at that
| time and Il Chicago paper remarked that
it's lines were built almost exactly in the
form of "Y.' To this Ware responded
That's because they cross a 'Yd' country
1 tod nd oy,
| pensive law suits Kansas has ever known
| grew out of a matter more trivial thar
| even that in the famous Iowa calf case
| A farmer went into store and bought s
| box of axle grease, which he paid for anC
| left on the counter while he went around
| and attended to some other errands. Be
fore he returned to the store the sheriff
had seized the stock under attachment
| The farmer was refused his axle grease
| and went to law about it. Half dozer
trials followed and before the farmer
gained his suit the costs mounted up t.
goods in the store. A bulI-headed farmer
and bull-headed sheriff furnish precisel!
tho material for first-class law suit.
|
It can not be said that Mr.. Carmichael
who committed suicide at Wichita, made
| no provision for the future of his family
Just before he pulled the trigger he called
his four children to him and gave each o
them a nickel.
The real name of the outlaw known az
Dynamite Dick" who was recently re
ported killed in Oklahoma, was William
! Raider, and his former home was Topeka
He derived his title from the manner il
| which he loaded his Winchester cartridges
| In the bullet of each he drilled Il hole whiCl
he filled with dynamite, with the eXpecta
| ton that it would explode and tear t.
pieces any object which 1t struck. In tht
famous fight at ingalls,, in which so man,
citizens were killed. at least three of thes
bullets were found in the bodies of Raid
ler's victims, but none of them had ex
ploded.
Two years ago the Kansas Legislature
memorialized congress to appropriate money
| for the betterment of the channel of tn
Neosho river. The stream is so crooked
| and sluggish that at each spring freshe
large areas are overfowed and much dam
age to crops is done. Congressman Kirk
patrick secured an appropriation of $2,0O
for preliminary surveys of the stream ant
sent out to Kansas to perform the work
The surprise of kirkpatrick may well b
imagined when few days ago he un
| earthed the report of this engineer in tn
war department at Washington and foun
that he had recommended no further oper
ations along the Neosho, because, from tn
: nineteen bridges which spanued it AM
the three dams which crossed it. nayiga