Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-09


Pherson.
The Abilene Reflector remarks that one
of the sad features about Kansas present
situation is that she cannot even perpetratc
joke without being taken seriously.
There was a man named Riordan," says
the Wichita Eagle, who never recovered
sufficiently to claim foul on Fitzsimmons.
Mr.. Sharkey is in luck"
George Parker, OF Gaylord, who appears
to know more about secret societies than
politics. has filed his application with Gov
| ernor Leedy for the position of Junior
warden" of the penitentiary
The boast that Kansas people always
take the law into their own hands where
the courts fail to do them justice does not
| seem to be sustained in the case of ].
Byron Cain, editor of the Belle Plaine
News. who recently sang Light of My
Life, Love YOU before a school house
audience and yet escaped with his life.
The Globe is responsible for the state
ment that Andy White, who was beaten for
representative in the country district of
Atchison county. is about to move into
Atchison and become a candidate for post
master.
Ed Bass is the name of an Arkansas City
| man who has made application for state
house job on the somewhat remarkable
plea that ne lost his reputation working
for the cause.
The fact that Wyatt carp lived in Well
ington. Wichita and Dodge City would
seem to satisfactorily account for it ALL
Congressman Ridgely makes affidavit
that it cost him but 1885 to hang the
crinkly dry hide of Mr.. Kirkpatrick upon
the fence.
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The Pop state officer who got off cheapest
| in election expenses was Auditor Morris,
| who swears that he expended but SEQ.
In addition to the disgrace of Topping
from the high estate of a goldbug Demo-
| crat, Morris Cliggitt makes adavit that it
presidential elector.
In view of the affidavit OF Abe Stein
| berger, in which he declares that he ex-
| pended 81 $50 for the middle-of-the-road
| campaign and received but Sl,750 in con
| tributions from the people," 1t seems a
low-down jim Simpson shame that the
people" should have left Abe in the hole
that way.
Governor-elect Leedy and Private Sec
retary Little are now busiiy engaged in
writing the governors first message. AS
| fast as the governor completes a page he
| passes 1t over to Secretary Little, who
| takes his pencil and fixes up all the have
| saw" and Il seen" and Il done and have
| did expressions.
| Nat Barnes told the Arkansas City Trav-
! eler the other day that during his recent
| visit to Major Mckinley at Canton the
| major told him that he had never expected
| Kansas to go for the Republicans. In fact,
| says Nat the major predicted that Kansas
was lost at the time the notification COM
mittee called upon him in September.
| Yesterday the final report OF the ref
| cree in the investigation against a. u.
| Hubbard, the defaulting receiver of the
| Hamilton printing plant, was made to
! Judge Hazen, when it was determined that
I after allowing all reasonable claims Hub
| bard was still S6,99l short. Judge Hazen
| gave Hubbard ten days to pay this sum,
! which is assumed to mean that if he does
| not DO so within that time the Kansas
) y. p \. will have to transact business with
| its state president through the bars Of the
| county Jail.
| Out in Marion county, says Fred Whit
/ ing. lives editor who enjoys the distinC-
| tion of publishing the only newspaper of
! its kind in America. Its name Is the An
| Zisger,' and it is printed in German. 1t
| is the official organ of a religious society
I which has loigas in Marion county and
/ also in that portion Of the Russian empire
/ from which the Marion county colonists
! came. Before the paper Is allowed to be
! distributed to its subscribers in Russia a
! press censor looks il carefully over and
! every article assumed 10 be in the slight
! est degree objectionable to the Russian
! government is bIotted ont with an ink pad.
/ a performance by the way. which tine
/ Marion editor reports "a frequently taking
/ place Il might BE- added with proPriety
| that It is such incidents as this that teach
an American to understand and appreciate
! the liberty of thought, speech and !itera-
| ture which is so gloriously his own.
| A poor. little innocent babe out in Mime
| apolis is trying to learn to creep while
| fettered down with the name Of William
Mckinley Garrett \. Hobart Boner.
VIII Mr.. Bob SempIe. who is burdenng the
! papers with interviews about the govern
| ment ownership OF coal mines, stand up
I for a moment and tell US what has become
/ of that government ownership OF railroads
/ on which the PopuliSts MADE their cam
| paign two years ago?
] Ewing HerbsTtS father CeitoTd~tu MS
| 14th birthday last Sunday, and. in testi-
! nOny to the vigor Of his ancestor. Ewing
says ne can eat pie and meat for break
| fast
! We have heard a great deal about brave
| girls. but the bravest one who ever came
! under our notice was that Miss Nixon, of
/ Girard, who went out into the barn and
| cut down Captain Beezley, the suicide, as
he hung by the neck with his tongue pro-
truding and his eyes forced out OF their
| sockets.
! State Auditor Cole makes affidavit that It
cost him s79l to discover that the people
| would not virdicate an auditing depart
! ment which refused to allow travelling
sherifTs - cents a meal.
Speaking of the crop which will be gar
nered at the next annual visit OF the fool
killer, Mr.. and Mrs. Vancleef, of Seneca,