Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-04

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theory of McNaHs the Gaylord Herald
says that all a fellow would have 20 do
would be TO keep himself out Of sight for
seven years and then walk into the in
surance office and collect his own life in
s~urance, for he would be judiciaIly dead.
Major Woodson, who is agent for the
Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians at Oar
lington. has furnished the county record
ers of Oklahoma a list of all the Indians
who are practicing polygamy. Oklahoma
recently passed a law for the punishment
of polygamy. and the Indians declare they
will refuse to obey it until they hear from
Washington. They have an idea that the
only laws that can apply to them must
| come from Washington. Major Woodson
says there are forty bucks at his agency
who have from two to a dozen wives each.
A nervous little old gentleman, with a
rusty silk hat and a suit of ill-made clothes
that hung over his person like rags on a
pole, recently landed at Burlington and
commenced to work up a land deal. Fin
ally it was completed and the little ola
man had to pay $4,000 down in cash. He
went TO Il bank and drew a check for this
sum on a Memphis bank, but, of course. the
bankers refused to take it. They believed
he was crazy, or else was trying to work
a mighty gauZy confidence game. After a
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digging up the money to pay for the dis
patch, the little old man got the cashier
to telegraph to the Memphis bank in re
gard to the check. In an hour the reply
came back: Perfectly good. Take all that
kind of paper you can get The little old
man was p. G. Meth, one of the best known
financial operators in the South.
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The Atchison Globe says that wherever
a town has been built on the site of an
old Indian village it has always escaped
cyclones. This won't hold water. One of
the greatest Indian villages in Southern
Kansas was on the present site of yelling
ton, and once a cyclone so badly turned
that town inside out that there wasn't any
thing left but its shirt collar sticking out
of its eyes.
George Finley says that he was promised
the collectorship if he did certain things,
which certain things he did.
The latest rumor to arrive in Topeka is
TO the effect that all of the Kansas federal
appointments will be made inside of three
weeks.
According to the popular Kansas idea of
the situation, Cy Leland losses in his bed
from night until morning, trying to de-
eide whether or not he will accept the pen
sion agency.
The other day the Atchison Globe printed
this paragraph: What has become of the
old-fashioned tumble bug?" Yesterday
morning the editor received a box by mail,
looking as though it might contain wedding
cake. On top of it was written: Here We
are" On opening the box it was found TO
be full of old-fashioned tumble bugs.
A big church row is said to be brewing at
M~OehImau Ration I'm Riley county A SIM
day school social was given the other night,
at which q guessing game was employed to
determine who should be partners at The
supper table. A goblet was filled with
shelled corn and the man guessing nearest
to the number of grains was entitled 10
pick the best looking woman. while the
woman guessing nearest had the same
choice among the men. Some of the Chris
tians of the ~neighborhood declare that the
performance was as bad as a game of
poker.
Lay downi Lay down. was the ring
ing-voiced command that startled the pco-
pie at the park in Winfield the ether day,
says the Courier. The band was playing a
piece entitled "Recollections of the War"
and the man who gave the command was
Comrade Reuben Buck, who had been car
ried away by the music and who threw
himself at the same time from a bench to a
PROSTATE position on the ground.
"Only the old veterans present" says the
Courier. knew the significance of hat
command. and while Mr.. Buck to-day is
the victim of a great deal of good natured
raillery, the incident at the time was pro-
ductive of more sadness than merriment.
THE band had sounded all the bugle
| calls, the enemy was advancing and the
roll of musketry and booming of cannon in
front told of the deadly conflict in which
the picket was engaged when Mr.. Bucks
order to Lay down rang out. In actual
war this order was always given TO idle
troops in the rear during al engagement. as
it lessened the danger"
Courts often go a long ways to find laws
or precedents fitting a case, and in this re-
gard Kansas certainly holds the record.
She once hung two men upon a law found
in the Bible, and there alone. These men
were Samuel Scott and Russell Kinds, and
they were executed in the vicinity of
Mound City by the men belonging to the
command Of Colonel JennisOn and Colonel
| Montgomery, on November Il, 1860, They
had been accused Of conveying a fugitive
| slave back TO his owner in Missouri for
the sake of a reward. A jury was regu-
larry impaneled and proof of their guilt
was easily secured, but after celebrating
awhile the jury demanded TO know under
what law they were being prosecuted.
Jennison and Montgomery put their heads
| together and debated the question for a
, few moments. when Montgomery advanced
to where the jurymen were sitting and
| read to them the sixteenth verse of the
twenty-frst chapter of Exodus, as follows:
And he that stealeth n man and selleth
him. or II he be found in his hand, he
shall surely be put TO DEATH This was
| sufficient for the jury and they at once
| found a verdict of guilty and sentenced the
men to be hanged. In the State Historical
| Society is a document in the handwriting
| of Montgomery, purporting to be the rec
ord of this court. which reCites that Sam
uel Scott and Russell Kinds were duly ex-
| ecuted. after being found guilty by a jury
of their peers, according to the laws of
God, Elk. 2l-16."
It would seem from the following item
J from the Monitor that prohibition is do
ing a small job in the way of prohibiting
at Fort Scott: Since the suppression of
the Joints. the old system Of chipping in
on kegs as il were, IS apparent. Each
man pays a quarter and sends to Mis-
souri, after the beer. In the course Of time
it gets so they send for the key and chip
in afterwards County Attorney Shep-
pard has notified several persons that such
work must cease Immediately"
MISSOURI POINTS.