Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-05
KANSAS TOPICS.

webb McNall is about as dead as John
w. Hillmon," says a Kansas exchange.
Really he is deader-leastwise his claim
appears to have been paid.
tt Clay Center Dispatch declares that
Secretary Coburn, of the state board of
agriculture. win bear analysis as a candi-
date for governor.
The Atchison Globe says that the fact
that Bale Waggener has not yet rented a
suite of rooms in Topeka is tolerably good
evidence that no special session will be
celled.
The Herald and Republican. Of Ottawa.
are engaged In a red hot fight over which
owes the most taxes. Neither of them is
in it with Ed Snow, whose office was seized
and sold by the sheriff.
The only calamity bowler in Kansas who
has not been disconnected in the least by
prosperous times is P. P. Elder, of OF
tawa. He declares that the Populist vote
fell OF 10000 at the recent election because
the downtrodden slaves and serfs had no
shoes to wear to the polls.
The Osborne Farmer has discovered a
new kind Of crank in. the person of a farmer
who resides near that town. Thirty-five
years ago he stopped his local paper be-
cause 1t turned rebel, and made the vow
that he would never again subscribe for Q
newspaper. He has kept the pledge.
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Every county in the old Fifth" says Del
Valentine, where Lawyer Hessin has made
Republican speeches for the past seven or
eight years Of trouble, every county that
has been under his benign smile and not
his ridicule for their political shortcomings,
will rally to his support in a grand down.
hill charge. providing he is a candidate for
governor"
1t has leaked out that before Hon. Case
Broderick left for Washington a determined
effort was made by some of his friends to
make him become a candidate for governor,
but he answered that his mind was fully
made up to run for reelection to congress.
Broderick has always been a safe, eau
tious. conservative man. and unusual good
fortune has followed his political ambitions.
AS a candidate for congress he has always
run ahead Of his ticket. He has made no
concealment of the fact that he is a pro-
h%ibitionist. and yet. in Leavenworth and
Atchison, where the anti-prohibitionists are
usually in control of the party, he has al
ways received the full Republican vote and
a little more. 1t was this consideration
that led his friends to urge him to run for
governor.
An dudiySlS OIL tHe returns IEOIn tn0 re-
cent election reveals one odd circumstance;
in nearly every county the Republican cam
didate for surveyor ran ahead of the rest
Of his ticket. There seems to be but one
way to account for this, and that is upon
the theory that the Populist party does
not contain man. competent surveyors. or
at least that such did not receive the NOM
nation. The returns from one congress
sional district will give an idea of how
the Republican surveyors ran ahead all
over the state. In the ten counties COM
posing the Fifth district the Republican
candidates for surveyor receiveds an ag-
gregate plurality of 6.197, while the aggre-
gate plurality for the next highest office
on the Republican ticket was but 2,137.
7. go
H came to town one Saturday night"
says the McCracken Enterprise, land he
was as tired and wretched appearing as
hoboes generally are. having apparently
walked a long distance At the hotel
where he stopped for supper he reluctant
ly admitted hat he only had 81 to last
him through the remainder of his journey,
almost 400 miles. Surely, If there ever was
a man looking for work 1t was he. After
supper one of those sort of fellows you
will find in every town casually asked him
II he ever played poker. to which he re-
piled that he had played the game a little
when he was a young man. Then his en-
tertainer set forth the beauties of the
game, and wound up the discourse with
a reference to a. small game that was then
In progress, and suggested that he could
set in with his 81. and mighty soon win
enough to carry him through, so easy
were the town sports. You will readily
see the heartless scheme the villagers had
planned to secure the 81. They played
till long past midnight, and the stranger
was his turn to deal the cards. And the
next morning when he purchased a rail-
way ticket to a n~eighboring town
he had about all the loose sill
yer in town, and some rag currency of
various denominations. It was afterwards
discovered that he had made the county
seat his headquarters for three months,
and that he had made the fleeing of in
nocenss his life study"
Editor Mickey, Of the Usage City Free
Press. last week entertained at his home
DIR. Rachel Benn. of Tien Tsin, China. DR..
Benn is an American girl who went to
China years ago and became very prosper
GUS in the practice of medicine. She is at
present family physician to the great Ii
Hung Chang. She and Mr.. Mickey
were schoolmates in Pennsylvania when
both were young, and in passing across the
continent on her return to China, after a
visit at her gfrlhood home She stopped of
and made the Kansas editor a visit.
The batteries at Fort Riley are now en-
gagged In regular practice on the dats Of