The advocate., 1897-09-15

make their headquarters there and bu
stock while it Is In transit. This af
fOrds considerable business for this en-
terprising town.
Representative Fitzgerald, Of Dodg
City, sOlmenly asserted in a speech be
fore the Ford county Republican con
Vention that the miners strike was al
evidence of prosperity. He said tina
for several years they had not had tn
courage to strike, but that with the re
turn OF prosperity they were demanding
their share Of it. Everybody gave hin
what resembled a horse laugh.
e. J, Westgate, Clerk of the Court o
Appeals at Garden City, has bought tn,
Sentinel at that place and will cOnduc
1t as POpulist paper in the future. Mr.
Westgate is a member of the Populis
State and Executive committees, and il
known as clean, honorable man with {
splendid capacity for organization anC
management in political matters. The
Sentinel has hitherto been Democratic
The Republicans will open headquar
ters for the fall campaign, Chairman
Simpson says, il anybody can be found
who will put up the expense money.
The Lyon county Republican conven-
ton indorsed Congressman Curtis, anC
the friends of Senator Baker had to be
satisfied with a resolution indOrsing
Kansas members Of Congress who voted
for the Dingley bill. Eskridge seems to
be cutting some ice.
Kansas City Times, September 6: 1.-TWO
hundred thousand Kansas children will
start to school this morning. They will
wear on their feet the hides of 1900
calves; the clothing they will wear, if in
one piece, would extend l 1,445 miles; the
books they will carry in their hands il
piled one upon another, would be eight
times higher than Pixies Peak, and the
states they will carry would roof the Col
iseum of ancient Rome. The entire num-
ber Of pupils in Kansas is 1886, 900, but all
the schools will not open this morning. "
George LaWless of the St. Francis
Eagle, Is asking the District court to in
vestlgate charge Of libel which he has
preferred against Editor c. E. Denison,
Of the st. Francis Rustler. LaWless took
his medicine gracefully when he was
called liar, boodler, thief, public
plunderer and job lot Of other equally
pleasing names, but he began warlike
preparations when he was called "Pud-
denhead Lawless, the cur" LibelOus
articles, amounting in all to thousands
Of words, will be submitted in evidence.
Professor Goss, the well-known Ornith-
ologist, gave to the State of Kansas at
the time of his death a splendid collec-
ton of American birds properly pre-
served. A condition of the beQuest was
that they should be permanently kept
kept together in room in the State
House and that good care should be
taken Of them. Nothing has been done
to them for several years, and the Bx-
ecutive Council is now having Professor
Lantz, Of the Agricultural College, clean
and renovate the collection, which is the
finest in this country.
Railroad engineers come to regard
their trains orders as part Of their re-
ligiOn and follow them strictly. Will
Frisbie, one of the engineers who was
injured and afterward died as result
of the recent EmpOria wreck on the
Santa Fe, was taken from the wreck un-
conscious. When he regained conscious
ness the first thing he said was, 81 didn't
do it," He then asked for his overalls
and asked that his train order be taken
from his pocket. While this was be-
ing done he repeated the order word for
word. He had the satisfaction OF know
ing that he was not blamewOrthy for his
own death nor for that Of others. Is 1t
any wonder that so few wrecks occur
when such men are in charge Of trains?
The Garnett Agitator tells of brutal
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