The Advocate and news., 1897-11-24
CONCERNING KANSAS.
BY J. w. MoRPAY.

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Medicine Lodges city marshal has
made himself solid with the people by
arrestlng Halloween fends. May be he
wants to go TO Congress too?
The Salvation Army gets very little
encouragement in its troubles from the
Hutchinson papers. In most other towns
the papers treat 1t as a good thing.
Ellsworth ingalls, has been assigned
special work In connection with the
government department OF justice. He
will have headquarters at Atchison.
Chester l. Long, encouraged by the
Republican victory In Barber county,
has announced his candidacy for Con-
gress. This decision, he says, is final.
The odor Of onions or the presence Of
onions themselves on the person Of
pupil is sufficient ground for dismissal
for the day at Clay school, in Topeka.
A. NJ. Kooken, a cattle thief, disarmed
the Sheriff, Santa Fe detective and
policeman, who had arrested him, and
escaped at Emporia last Wednesday.
The WaKeeney Independent says that
0. B. Jones, whom Judge Monroe has ap-
pointed as County Attorney Of Cove
county, lives at Oakley, in Logan county.
Dick Pickler, the newly-elected Judge
of the Fifteenth district, was chairman
of the Colby convention which nOmi-
mated Webb McNall for Congress In 1890.
Judge Moore, of Abilene, holds that
the State Board Of Agriculture has moth
ing to do with fixing valuations Of rail-
road property for local taxation pur-
poses.
J. Z. Latimer, who has become vet
eran in newspaper work, has sold the
Pleasanton Herald to j. w. Latimer and
T. B. Harper He will engage in other
business.
The Regents of the Normal school
have adopted some new textbooks. The
three new books selected are all in the
list adopted by the State Textbook Com
mission.
A sixteen-inch vein Of coal thirty feet
below the surface has been discovered
by men who were digging we'll in
school house yard, near Auburn, in
Shawnee county.
Usage county coal operators have
formed the Usage County Coal Company.
The following prices have been agreed
on: Scranton, $1.6O, Burlingame $1.75,
Usage City $1.9O.
The Clark County Clipper observes
that the rule of the railroads not to issue
passes to persons to go home to vote will
probably be continued until the Republi-
cans get in power again,
Fifty-eight of sixty Kansas bankers
who responded to an inquiry are Op-
posed to postal savings banks. An in
qulry directed to the whole people would
bring q different response.
What has become of those Republican
campaign orators who were travelling
over the State a few years ago telling the
people that the Republican party was
the only true friend of silver?
Pioneering in Kansas in the Fifties"
is new book by DR.. Charles William
son, Of Washington. 1t Is said to con-
tain considerable historical matter
which has never been in print.
| Speaker pro tenn Weilep, OF Cherokee
county, has been appointed to a posi-
ton in the Office Of the Sergeant-at-Arms
of the United States Senate on the rec
ommendation OF Senator Harris.
N. H. Harmon, OF the Valley Falls Vim
dicator, is dead. He Is one of the old
reformers of Kansas and was a man
whose personal character and daily walk
in life won him the respect Of all.
The National Bank of the Republic has
again been designated as the Kansas
fiscal agency. The rates are per cent.
on balances, 81 per thousand on bonds
collected and so cents on coupons
State Librarian j. L. King, who will
retire in March, has made very salts
factory record. Mr.. King is one of those
men whose disposition Is such that men
of all political parties are his friends.
The Judges OF the Court of Appeals of
the northern department were in ses-
sion at Topeka last week. This court is