Kansas City daily journal., 1896-08-20
suNFLowER SEED.


Shawnee county permits its convicted
jointists to go at large and pay their fines
in s. monthly installments.
r. B. Welch, the Topeka man who was
spoken of a candidate for insurance
superintendent. says that 1t was false
alarm.
Coffeyville's big new mill. built by Colonel
McGrew. of Lexington. Will be completed
by the lst of September. and will give
employment to forty men.
The Salina city council passed an ordi-
nance over the mayors veto Tuesday night.
under the provisions OF which the joints
are practically recognized and licensed.
Jerry Simpson thinks he has an under
standing with Chairman Jones whereby he
will be able to get Bryan for meeting at
Hutchinson some time during the cam
paign.
Lottie Bowes. the Topeka actress. is to
so on the road again this season Bos-
sy, in "a Texas Steer" She took the part
at very short notice in an emergency last
spring and made decided hit in il.
Leavenworth is figuring on the COM
ing of delegations by the trainload from
many of the surrounding towns when Ros-
well G. Horr makes his campaign speech
there, probably about the tth OF Septem-
ber.
Professor Worran Kansas most re-
nowned decorative artist. will have charge
of the preparation of the floats for Tope-
ka's fall festivities. Professor Worrall won
| his fame as a decorator in his Kansas
| display at the Centennial exhibition in Phil
| adelphia in 1876
| Chief Justice Martin tells the Champion
| in an interview that under no circum-
stances will he permit the use of his name
| a candidate for district judge in Atch-
! ison county. Talk of his nomination by the
Republicans there had been freely indulged
in since his defeat at Topeka
Six meetings wherein joint debates will
| take place between Jerry Simpson and
| Chester Long have been arranged for in
the Seventh district, and will probably be-
| gin about September IS. in Hutchinson. the
| others following later in Wichita, Welling-
ton. Arkansas City, Winfield and Newton.
A row occurred between the editor OF the
| Times and the Salvation Army in Leaven-
worth the other night. as a result of the
| disturbance of the former by the latter.
| in the course of which the lamb-like Colo
mel Anthony, after having gently kicked
hole through the big bass drum. was set
upon by the entire battalion. he says. and
narrowly escaped a severe drubbing..
Whether nominated on one Tuesday or
another what the Journal said or Judge
| Postlethwaite seems to have been the
unanimous opinion of the delegates since
they named him by acclamation. And on
another Tuesday, early in November. the
voters in his district will elect him by a
substantial majority. although the Pops
| claim the odds are greatly in their favor
Ex-Governor Clicks son-in-law, Jim Orr.
| one of Atchison's leading Democrats. and
Eugene Hagan, of Topeka, equally promi-
| nent in the party's councils. made an cleo
ton wager in Topeka the other day. Orr
betting that Bryan will carry Kansas and
that he will be elected president. and Ha-
gan, of course. taking the Mckinley end of
il. 1t was claimed by the Bryan men that
Orr had a wad of 5000 in his inside pock-
ct all of which he was willing to risk on
the same terms.