Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-28
KANSAS TOPICS.

side or George r. Peck.
In their massacre of the British money
power the Pops appear to have overlooked
Johnny Bull Of Eldorado, who is a photog-
rapher by crime
Speaking of men who talk loud, but won't
fight, We observe that jim Corbett is the
name Of the new city circulation agent on
Joe Bristows Ottawa Gaily.
The only way Kansas can play even with
her Eastern slanderers is to get Willis
Gleed to write another piece for the Arena
If ex-Speaker George L. Douglass has
not become famous since his removal TO
Chicago. he can at least be congratulated
upon the fact that he has not fallen under
suspicion. The editor of the Lawrence
World recently addressed a lette.. to him
without street or house number, and it
came back with this inscription upon the
envelope: Not known to the postoffice or
police authorities"
It is Just simply impossible to hide any
thing from Ed Snow, of the Ottawa Jour
nal, or from Walter Costigan. his blood
snortins assistant. The last issue of the
journal contains an editorial in the exor-
dunn of which 1t is recited that General
Miles has recommended that the standing
army be increased to 10000 men, and in the
peroration of which it is declared that this
is for the purpose of holding Mckinley and
the gold standard in power against the hon
| est masses.
IF DIR. Graham OF Winfield. is to be fined
| SO for not reporting a case which he knew
| to be diphtheria, what sort of punishment
| should be meted out to those Russell doc
tors who allowed a large portion of the
! youth of the city to die before they dis
| covered that diphtheria was the deadly
cause?
There is no law business in Kansas"
| remarks eX-Attorney General S. B. Brad
| ford, and there is not much likelihood of
| its increasing in the future. You will nev-
| er see lawyers prosper in a purely agri-
| cultural state after it's formative period has
| passed.. OF course, there will be some busi-
| ness for few, but not many. In Topeka
| We have about 200 mer in the practice. If
| a man wants to practice law and make a
| permanent success of it he must establish
| himself in business in commercial, man.
utacturing or mining community
| D. c. Tillotson got nothing in his damage
| suit at Lawrence. 1t was probably the
| opinion of the jury that the man who ran
| free silver bunco game just outside of
the recent Populist circus was beyond the
| reach of libel.
| In view of the way the election returns
| counted out. Bill Morgan is convinced that
the $4,000 expended by the Republican
state committee was nothing short of a
| shameful waste of money.
Sidney Clarke has at last landed an Of
fee. The mayor of Oklahoma City has ap-
| pointed him delegate to the Arkansas river
| Improvement convention which meets in
Fort Smith,. December Is.
when, woman in Topeka" remarks
the Atchison Globe. says she belongs to
ha ha. Topeka's 400 is composed of 400
| deserted wives"
That Topeka Pop paper which recently
stated that Mr.. Schlegel has kept two
| vicious bulldogs which some time ago bit
| a small boy and again this week bit an
| other small boy, insomuch that an officer
was compelled to kill each of them,' finds
worthy comDatriot in a Canadian paper
which recently closed an advertisement of
nursing bottle as follows: when the
| baby is done drinking 1t should be un-
| screwed and placed in a cool place under
a tap. IT the baby does not thrive on
fresh milk, it should be boiled
1--WE are calmly waiting" says the wich-
ita Eagle, for some Kansas Populist pa
| per 20 assure the East that there will be
| no radical and dangerous legislation this
Writer at Topeka. Why don't they speak
up? Do they dare?'
The Republic City News declares that
| during the political canvass all of the can
| didates for postmaster could be picked out
| with unerring certainty. When political
| procession came to mudhole in the road,
| tho candidates for postmaster sloshed
straight through. while the others care
fully picked their way around.
Edward Jauuins the Populst member of
the legislature just elected from one of
the districts in Cowley county, filed an
| affidavit in which the astounding fact was
cited that he had expended $3.50 for cam
paign purposes. An investigation disclosed
that Mr. Jaqufns knew more about plow
handles than punctuation marks, and that
his real expenses were $3.50.
An odd sort of query came to the attor-
ney general yesterday from the probate
judge of Dickinson county. a man ap-
piled for a license to marry his aunt by
marriage, who however is no blood re-
lation. The probate judge suspended the
| license and referred the matter to the
attorney general who decided that the
law prohibiting ahe marriage of auntS and
nephews refers only to blood kindred.
When United States District Judge Fos.
ter entered his court room at Topeka
the other day, all the Eastern attorneys
who were present for the purpose of argu-
ing the Santa Fe receivershp case rose tc
their feet and remained respectfully stand
ing until the judge had taken his seat upon
the bench. His honor seized the occasion
to make a little speech, in which he in
formed the visitors that this was d Gus
tom which he did not approve of and
which he had never permitted to be adopt
ed in his court. While Judge Foster nc
doubt objects to this worldwide custom
because he modestIy dcprecates any ex.
altation of himself he appears to overlooR
the fact that the courtesy is not extended
so much in Difference to the personality OF
the judge as TO the high position which
hs occupies.
That no man knows precisely when he
is well of was aptly illustrated at Troy
the other day one Jim Butler was or
trial in the district court on the charge
of violating the prohibitory law. He asked
TO step out of the court room a moment
and made use of the permission to skir
across to Missouri soil and safety. The
| jury went right on. however, and found
! verdict which was of acquttal. The
| prisoner returned when this news was
carried to him and the officers at once
flung him into Jail for escaping from Gus
tod!.
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