Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-08

he should go to glory and be assigned a
tenor horn in the heavenly band he would
kick a hole in the bass drum because 1t
wasn't a b Why. If that man was the
only human being on earth he would com
mit suicide because he didn't like the So
cicty!
Warden Harry Lands accused Sheriff
Cone, of Sedgwick county. Of keeping back
sentenced prisoners from the penitentiary
in order to collect money for their board.
Not desiring to appear abrupt or to dis
turb in any way the harmonious relations
existing between the Populist leaders,
Sheriff Cone, calmly. cO~urteously. and with
dispassionate breyity, responded as fol-
lows: Harry Lands is a d-n liar
Hs
There IS nothing so distasteful as "A lot
Of men who think they are advancing the
cause Of morality by ostentatiously pdrad-
ing the ~frailties of the community in which
they reside. At Lexington the other day
there was a consultation between the min
listers Of the town. who fixed up some res
OlutiOns declaring that 'wickedness in all
its various forms Is stalking abroad in our
town. Not content with this general ar
raignment. specifications were given which
would be bound to convince a stranger
that Il large portion of the women Of the
town were given over to mmOralities.
HcringtOn is as well-behaved as any other
Kansas town. and the people out there
ought to shut on the preachers salaries
until they learn that giving the town Il
black eye is not an essential element OF
moral education.
A couple Of young fellows at Ottawa
had a bushel of fun on the Fourth of July.
They fixed up a monster imitation cannon
trecracker, in one end of which was fitted
"a hin nf fuse nna Of than, mould ain into
j crowd in which there were a number of
ladies', light the fuse. set the cracker down
and run. Amidst the screams and frantic
hustle TO get away from the dangerous
looking thing the other young fellow would
dash in, seize the cracker, tear out the
burning fuse. and then pose as a hero be-
fore the admiring women. They played the
game all over town, and at one time all
the police were hunting for them to pre-
vent an explosion that would strew the
earth with manned and bleeding humans.
In appointing the editor OF this paper
a delegate TO the gold mining convention"
says Tom LeftwiCh in his Larned Eagle
Optic, Governor Leedy exercised the most
exquisite discrimination 1t would be hard
for him to find anyone so thoroughly in
formed regarding the use and abuse of the
yellow metal as a Kansas Democratic ed
itor, who always uses II, ground to pow
der, in connection with diamond dust. to
dry his correspondence, instead OF employ
ing the modern blotting paper which has
into general use with people in less
affiuent circumstances"
II the Kansas state administration keeps
up the rapid gait at which it has travelled
for the past three months there won't be a
dollar left in the contingent fund of any of
the departments after d few months longer.
The big bulk of Governor Leedy's contin-
gent fund is already gone. The first draft
it was 10 pay the expenses of the far
ciCal legislative investigation, and now the
stock yards litigation is bleeding it day by
day. Already the governor has drawn
vouchers for s., TI9. the most Of which went
to pay some Kansas City real estate ex-
perts who valued the holdings of the stock
yards company. By the time the half a
dozen or more assistant attorney generals
who have been employed to defend depart
ment officers from the consequences of their
unlawful acts have been paid, there won't
be much loose change of any sort drifting
around the state house.
The Arkansas City Traveller says that
many years ago a well known citizen of
the Indian Territory by the name of Jesse
Paul died and was buried. His mother was
an Indian woman, and. following the Gus
tom of her tribe, placed a lot of gold in
the coffin. that Jesse might have a COM
potency when he reached the happy hunt
ing ground. For twenty years the grave
undisturbed. but a week or two
ago some ghoul tunneled down into 1t and
stole the money. The Indians are not par |
t~icularly anxious TO catch the thief. They
say he will be pursued relentlessly by the
ghost of Jesse Paul and that his punish |
apt mill h. ton Zines uvr fhan ,or,-. |
could infict.
1t is impossible to more than hint at the
of which DIR. Pitcher was accused be-
fore the state board of charities by Popu-
Representative Ed ~Jaquins. of Cowley
county. The girl was not an inmate of the
idiotic asylum. but lived with her parents
In Winfield. The board of charities desired
to swear to the story, but he re-
fused to do SO on the ground that his
knowledge was hearsay. and therefore not
competent testimony. When Jaquins re-
fused to swear, the board appointed Pitcher
superintendent of the idiot asylum and re-
fused TO delay in order to make an inves-
of Jaquins' charges. II Pitcher is
innocent he must forever travel under a
or else arrest Jaquins for libel.
A Montgomery county man informs Top
- AAAAt AANC VIZ "a O. AdAAAAN NSNfAA < I
whose name he could not remember, com-
suicide last Monday by taking a
arge dose of strychnine. She left a note
,ehind which read as follows: II suppose
t is true that those who take their own
ives go straight 10 perdition, but II couldn't
,e any worse down there than living with
hat man up here" She had quarreIed
With her husband before taking the poison.
That bicycling may sometimes furnish
n opportunity for the display of chivalry
nd heroism is aptly illustrated by an affair
at Dodge City the other day. Miss
Alice Watson and Mr.. William Henry were
along near the Santa Fe stock
ards. when an Arizona steer rushed out
nd poked his horns through Miss Wat
on's bicycle. Mr.. Henry sprang to her
eScue. and, Selling the steer by the horns,
him until the lady could run to a place
{ safety. after which the young man let
% all hollis and ran on his own account.
1t is announced that the coal miners Of
will not join in the strike now in
rcgress in the East, and in this they are
rise. When they were striking on their
account I'm 1894 they received no as
stance from the Fasteners, and they owe
hem no recompense. If the Eastern strike
mounts to anything il will be a Godsend
D the Kansas miners. for 1t assures them
work. Before another month rolls
Kansas may be furnishing the en-
ire country with coal. just as her mar
elous fields are supplying it with bread.
MISSOURI POINTS.