The advocate., 1897-11-03

building, when in fact he was located OF
the third The Judge held that the place
Of sale must be definitely stated.
In Brown county the Republicans ex
hiblted their usual lack Of law-abldinG
tendencies by refusing to give the Oppo'
sitiOn proper representation on election
boards in some precincts, but when
they had listened to the roar that came
up from the people they concluded tC
obey the provisions OF the law.
The first blizzard of the season was
reported in Colorado last week. The
Weather Bureau expected 1t to reach
Kansas and possibly Missouri but il
only covered small area In the extreme
western portion If the State. A cold
wet rain with a falling temperature
prevailed in the rest OF the State.
Judge Elric Cole, the retiring Judge
Of the Court of Appeals in the Garden
City district, took with him all Of the
reports and other law books belonging
to the Judges Office, valued at about
5000, and Judge Milton is trying to get
him to return them. OF course Repub-
licans will insist that this is persecution
In Barton county the farmers estab-
lish routes to take their milk to the
creamery skimming stations and each
farmer takes turn about gathering 1t up
The empty cans have to be returned, so
the farmer making the collection also
gets the mail of each and distributes It,
giving free rural delivery to people on
the route.
Capt. Joe Waters delivered a speech
at celebration at Topeka last summer
of Queen VictOria's diamond jubilee. A
copy Of the speech was sent by her ex-
subjects to the Queen, and it is now
announced that it is one Of six, selected
from hundreds, which Victoria has Sc
lected for preservation. Who says Kan
sas don't produce bright, able men?
Another attempt to lynch Warren, the
murderer of Sheriff Lard, was made at
Manhattan last week. The lynching
crowd had assembled but were fright
ened away by a statement that the jail
was guarded by soldiers. The story
appeared to be quite plausible, as sew
eral companies Of regulars returning to
Fort Riley were camped in the town.
The Mail and Breeze observed in an
issue just before election that the fight
ON Sheriff in Shawnee county was Re-
publican and anti-Republican fight. In
another place in the same issue it was
stated that it was prohibition and anti
prohibition fight. In the next issue re-
submission was said to not he an issue
in the campaign, that it was question
Of law enforcement.
Kansas ought to have law requiring
the payment of a fee for the filing Of
charters, amounting to 1 per cent. Ol
the capital stock. Then these million
dollar companies whose assets consist
entirely of wind would not be organized
During the operation of such law
swindlers would not be likely to be dup
ing the people with wildcat companies
with fictitious capital
Down in Wyandotte the Republican
Commissioners had the ballots printed
at an expense Of about $500, when 1t was
discovered that there was no blanl
ticket left in which to write names
Through this careless blunder the wOrl
was all done over, and of course the
county has to pay for it. Such mex
cusable blunders should be charged III
to the officer making them.
Governor Leedy says: 80 far as an
concerned, just as long as there is
dollar in the treasury which can b.
| legitimately applied to defray the eX
penses of such a fight propose to stant
by McNall and Boyle in their effort t
enforce the laws of Kansas. These cor
poratioMs must be taught the lesson o
submission to the will of the majority o
the people, or be driven out"