Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-15
KANSAS TOPICS.

KANSAS TOPICS.
| governor Leedy remarked in his inaugur-
ai message that Wellington had his Bluch-
| er. He should also remember that Level
ling had his Pete Kline.
Rev. Ephriam Mewmaw is the names of
| the man who was defeated for sergeant-at-
| arms or the Oklahoma legislature without
further Investigation
Ihat pretty little story which has gone
| the world over about General Buckner
sendlng ten gallons of whisky and a $50
Dill to Dudley precinct, in Haskell county.
is lake, pure and simple The only true
thing about it is the fact that the precinct
gave Palmer and Buckner a majority.
According to Bill Morgan, the criminal
record IN Ottawa county was very short
last year. Ten persons were put in jail for
minor offenses, two were sent to the peni-
tentiary, and Joe Tomlinson was defeated
for representative.
The appearance of DR.. Pitcher at the
state capital yesterday gave color to the
rumor that Attorney General Dawes had
not yet ran him out of the state.
IL cannot be said that Senator J,1mp's
Dill Tor the regulation of passenger tariffs
does not allow the railroads some latitude.
1t provides that the rate shall be cents a
mile or anything less which the railroads
choose to make it.
hal Reid may have believed he was Civ
ing an accurate impersonation of Governor
Leedy on the stage at the Topeka opera
house, but the audience who saw the can
italist of the play come and go without
having any blood blown in his ears knew
better.
Abe Steinberger fired his departing shot
at the Reformed Press Association yester-
day when he directed his letter of resigna-
ton as president to the "Deformed Press
ASS"
An investigation will probably reveal that
Mr.. Mckenzie, who has been discharged as
legislative reading clerk because he can't
talk loud enough, is a Republican in dis
guise.
The little town of Harper has produced
number of celebrities. Fred Taral, the IA
nous jockey, got his start there, as also
did Marley kettleman, the champion foot
racer. Two or three league baseball play
ers claim Harper as their home, and now,
in the person of w. F. NIcManigIe. she has
produced a hypnotist and mind reader who
Is said to perform with ease all of the feats
which have made others famous. He is a
boy and discovered his power only recently.
Topics recounted shortly after election
the case of Joe Housed, of Lebanon, who
bet his cork leg on Bryan and lost it. There
is a funny sequel to the story The other
day Mr.. Housed received a letter from one
t. B. Stringfield, of Sheldon, Ia, who stat
ed that he had won u cork leg on the cleo
ton. and, as he had no use for it, had TAX
en- the liberty to forward it by express to
the Lebanon man so that he could get
about and work for Bryan. As the Repub
ican who won Housels leg gave it back
after a few days exhibition of his trophy,
the latter will now be well equipped with
trotters.
On Tuesday night the Atchison city coun-
Gil adopted an ordinance which imposes n
fine upon managers of theaters who permit
women to wear their bonnets during per-
formances. The city clerk sprang the mat
ter as joke, but the councilmen passed
the ordinance in dead earnest.
Do the workingmen give undivided sun |
port to Senator Sternes bill exemptine |
wages of all kinds from garnishment?
There never was law of this kind passed |
which did not react upon the workingmen |
by destroying their credit. The working |
man who pays his bills has nothing to gain |
by it and considerable to lose.
The Hutchinson News says Harry Bone |
has vindicated the fellows who voted |
against him by taking part in an amateur |
minstrel show.
Ex-Chief Justice Horton was forced. by |
press of legal business, to decline to deliver |
an address before the Oklahoma Bar Asso-
citation.
The new editor of the Alton Empire is
carving n place for himself in Western
Kansas journalism under the cognomen oil
Jack-the-Ripper."
There has been 4 great deal of newspaper
given recently to the fact that
PIX Governor John A. Martins grave in the
Atchison cemetery IS unmarked by even
so much as Il board. It has drawn a card
Il ont Mrs. Martin, in the course of which
she says: My daughter, Mrs Tonsing, |
sent me clipping from Scottsvile pa
Der. and says L am severely criticized. The |
lrticle speaks of Colonel Martins grave
5einE in obscure part of the cemetery |
That is 1afse, as 1t is only a few rods from
he entrance on the main avenue. In re-
gard to the imputed neglect, l would say
hat ii has always had my personal and
owing care, and, until We moved to the
made almost weekly visits
here. We have erected no monument be-
,ause we have never had the means to
,lace there one that we thought appro-
,riate. Love and devotion fortunately are
lot measured by the height of monuments
md happy is the man that after being
zone seven long years, still lives enshrined
n the loving hearts of wife and children as
loes my husband"
What are they firing that cannon for?"
inquired Private Secretary Ed Little, as
he booming of the inaugural guns Jared
lis quarters at the state house. 1t was ex-
,lained to him that fourteen guns were
,eing fired in recognition of the fact that
4eedy was the fourteenth governor of
Kansas. Fourteen, said Little; well !
when 1 was inaugurated as consul general
n Egypt they fired twenty-one guns. That
s the number that is always fired in honor
# newly arrived foreign dignitaries." All
If which goes to show that Secretary Lit
lie holds an edge over Governor Leedy in |
more ways than one.
lovel system of voting to determine wheth-
r or not a man should stay in Jail. At Eu-
eka the authorities have the landlord of a |
lotel in confinement under sentence for
cling llqucr. a movement was started to ,
ecure his release and the authorities de- /
Jared their willingness 10 turn him out if |
he good people of the town wished it done. .
20 determine this every pastor in .own