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pension agent.
Cy Leland will save $3.50 per year TO
the government by moving the Topeka
pension agency from one building to an
other. If Cy ever did another equal!
good thing no record Of the fact is before
the people.
Ottawa county Republicans failed tC
say anything in their resolutions de-
rogatory to the present Popullst admin
istration. It would have been embar
RAISING to them to have commended 1t
so they said nothing.
j. M. Senter is in the field making
speeches in the local campaigns Mr.
Senter has little to say Of the matter
but his friends are trying to secure the
Populist nomination for Congress in the
First district for him.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal ad-
vises banks to unload their real estate
now. He says that banks have no use
for land, other than for the lots Occu-
pied, and that they should get out oi
the real estate business.
The Lakin Index Dem) "Tammany
avoided indOrsing the Chicago platform
and now they are hopelessly beaten by
! Henry George OH free silver platform
The Republicans figure they have George
to beat and not Tammany."
A State officer, commenting on the
Joyful feeling which was exhibited by
Attorney General Boyle when the stock
yards decision was rendered, said: "The
General is stepping as high as a blind
horse ON a corduroy road"
Judge Grlnstead Rep), who lost his
seat on the bench to j. II. Andrews four
years ago, is trying again this year. He
rides over the district on pass but
tells the people he will pay fare If he is
elected. Why don't he pay now?
Frank MCGrath, whose action in leav-
ing the Alliance was recorded years ago
has never been rewarded His defeat
for the Republican nomination for Sher-
iff of Mitchell county by vote Of 80 to
is tends to indicate that he never
will be-
Attorney General Boyle has brought
an action to dissolve the franchise Of the
Lawrence & EmpOria railroad, branch
of the Union Pacific 1t was built in
1881 but was abandoned In 1887. The
landowners along the route want to re-
cover the right-ofway.
Speaking about the fine manner in
which some of the State House offices
were fixed up by the last Republi-
can administration, State Treasurer Hef-
lebOwer said recently: They fixed
things up nice for themselves. They
never expected us to get here"
The Emporia Gazette (Rep.), Will
Whites paper, observes that few first
class funerals would be good thing for
the Republican party of Lyon county.
The man who wrote What is the mat
ter with Kansas?" should be compelled
TO take his chances with the rest.
The Jennings brothers, who held up
a Rock Island passenger train in Okla
hOma recently, lived in COmanChe
county in an early day. Their father
served as Probate Judge. The leader,
Ed is lawyer and was County Attor-
ney of Canadian county Oklahoma, at
one time.
At the Clay Center G. A. r. reunion,
October q, % and %, speeches will be
made by Governor Leedy, Senator Har-
ris, Jerry Simpson, ex-Congressman Cal
derhead. f. b. Dawes and A. J. Felt.
Extensive preparations are being made
with view to making the reunion a
very successful and enjoyable one.
Kansas had a strike last week. A
Kansas City man operates a furniture
factory at Garnett. He telegraphed to
his manager to reduce wages 10 per cent.
When the employees received the notice
they walked out In a few days the
owner restored the old wages and the