The Advocate and news., 1897-12-29

WON bchlpb cOmmaHu DounJy VI %
each In Elk county.
The Wichita Beacon (Dem.) does not
believe In the civil service idea.
The Clay Center Dispatch prints the
pictures of four handsome Clay Center
young ladies'
w. r. Bair, Council Grove minister
is a candidate for department COM
mander Of the G. A. r.
The Wichita Beacon thinks that II
special session Is not called soon that 1t
will interfere with spring plowing.
Barney Kelly, who has been appointed
chaplain in the regular army, has been
temporarily assigned to duty at Fort
Riley.
There was a Christmas tree enter
tainment at the Rattlesnake Gulch
school house on the blackberry in Chey-
enne county.
The Spring Hill New Era (Rep.) dis
cOurages Farmer Funston's Congress
sional boom. 1t says that people are
tired Of him.
w. A. Reeder, Of Logan, will make a
uknL dEuAubJ AUC NllAlp III LAO ANVPAbAA-
can nomination for Congress in the
Sixth district.
The State Bar Association will meet
at Topeka January q and %. The an
nual address will be delivered by Judge
Grosscup, Of Chicago.
r. s. Eastman, of Meridian, has
brought suit against the Travellers In
suranCe Company to force a settlement
on an accident policy.
When the new officers take their
places next month there will not be a
single Republican or Popullst in the
Ellis county court house.
An Ellsworth man says that this was
a sad Christmas for him. Only fifteen Of
his. children were with him, the Lord
has taken the three away.
The elegant Autographed cover Of the
Christmas edition of Abilene Chronicle,
together with the up-to-date matter,
reflects credit on the paper.
A correspondent OF the Olathe Tri-
bune suggests ex-Attorney General John
r. Little for the Populist nomination
for Congress in the Second district.
A New York postmaster has written
to Postmaster Arnold at Topeka asking
for information as to parties who have
money to loan on New York farms.
The population of counties is now as
follows Wyandotte 59,479, Shawnee,
1896, Crawford 4O,649, Sedgwick 49,
851, Cherokee 3S.04l, LeaVenworth 35,-
569.
]. r. Burton is careful to say that
"they (Kansas people, are paying their
debts in Washington interview, and
he says nothing Of his personal obliga-
tions.
The Florence Bulletin (Rep.) says
that there is a candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination for Congress in every
county Of the Fourth district except
Chase.
The Hoislngton Dispatch, Caldwell
News and Hutchinson News are agreed
that 1t would not be to the best interest
Of the Republican party to renominate
Chester /. Long.
With three near relatives in good pay
ing Federal positions and first-class
Job for himself, Mr. Leland seems to
have worked the Mckinley administra-
ton for all that there Is In it.
A. h. Campbell, who was we'll known
In Kansas few years ago and who
served as Adjutant General of the State,
committed suicide at Clark street
hotel in Chicago December 21,
The government will soon sell 1900
acres of land In Ford county, located
close to the Soldiers Home. 1t has been
appraised at from 81 to $3.50 per acre,
and will be sold in forty-acre lots.
According to the report of the railroad
commissioners eighty-Dine persons were
killed In wrecks and accidents on Kan
sas roads during the past year. Five
hundred and twenty-nine were injured.
A decision of the Supreme court has