Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04

which he writes for his new paper Joe
Lowe will explain why he stumped the
state in 1894 against fusion, and then in
1896 fused
I'VE are all hands on the dial plate of
Kansas" said Mr. Ed Little in his MESA ge
to the Kansas legislature. Mr.. Little is mis-
taken. Some of US are the little second
marks which the hands pass without stop
ping, and at least one OF US is a rusty
edged keyhole.
One of the causes of action in an AK
tell woman's suit for divorce is the charge
that her husband would not stay out of
the kitchen. and it is dollars to doughnuts
that one of her witnesses will be curly
headed hired girl.
Let the excitement now subside. The
Eureka Literary Society has decided that
the present indications do not indicate
the downfall of the republic
Ihat Ottawa stonemason who is suing the
PRESBYTERIAN church for $1,000 damages may
get Judgment below. but it is sure to stand
on the debit side when he goes above.
Mr. w. NJ. Jenkins. of Kay county, has
officially withdrawn from the race for gov
cfnor or Oklahoma. as has also eX-Gov-
ernor Seay. Jenkins is the man who voted
Tor Mckinley on every ballot in the Re
puhilcan national convention of 1858, and it
was supposed he had cinch.
Senator PETER is out with Il two-coumn
interview, in which he declares that four
years hence there will be no fusion between
the Populists and Democrats. Senator Pef-
Ter has no authority 10 speak for the Popu-
lists. They have repudiated him.
In passing sentence upon Senator Hell
mick for going to sleep yesterday and dis
turhing the senate with his snores, the
mitigating circumstance should not be over
looked that Senator King was speaking.
The Hon. Bill Sapp, of Cherokee is out
with long newspaper interview. in which
he asserts that the Populists and Demo-
Gratis will not fuse on a state ticket in 1888
The Hon. Bill belongs to that class of
Democrats who always vote the Populist
ticket. and then try 10 hold Il place in re-
spectacle society by declaring after eacl.
election that they will never do so again.
Kansas has at least one consistent be-
licver in the doctrine that the tail should
always go with the hide. Pap Eckert has
insisted on the acceptance of his resigna-
ton from the board of penitentiary direct
ors in face of the statement by Governor
Leedy that he could serve out his term,
which has yet year to rum
The petition of the state G. A. r. to the
legislature for room in which to store the
Kansas battle flags recalls the memory
that Kansas men were the first to force a
rebel to haul down his flag, and that the
first flag captured in the rebellion from
the Southerners was by a Kansas COM
pany. On April u. 1861, Fort Sumter was
fro
New Sam Gaty" arrived at Leavenworth
flying the rebel flag An immense crowd at
once gathered on the levee and in short.
order the captain was forced to haul down
the traitor ensign and hoist the stars and
stripes.
ON June 3 of the same year Frank H.
Drenning. Frank NJ. Tracey Thomas Mer-
rick. q. Mellen Lewis, Richard D. Lender
William Smart, James Liddle, Emil I'm
fried, Mr. Foeth. Fred Amerine. Thomas
kroll and Henry Laurenzer, all members
OF Leavenworth military company. pro-
ceeded 10 latan, Mo-, where they engaged
a small band Of Confederates and captured
their flag. 1t created tremendous excite
ment and many people pronounced the pro-
ceedingly unjustified. In the course of the
discussion r. G. Satterlce printed an ar
ticle in the beavenworth Herald charging
u. X. Anthony, of the Conservative with
ialsehood. This led TO a shooting affray
IN which Anthony killed Satterlee. An
thony was tried and acquitted
The demand by State Treasurer Hef17e-
bower that all money, postage stamps.
lead pencils and rubber bands should he
counted before he would give recent to
the outgoing treasurer, reminds us that all
OF the state treasurers of Kansas were not
so punctilious. The first two treasurcrs did
not even furnish their successors with a
statement of cash on hand No report
whatever was made by the treasury de-
partment in 1861 and 1862 In fact. no one
knew anything about the transactions of
lhe department until 1865. when State
reaSurer 5. I. Howe made out the re-
ports Tor the two years named. In Janu-
airy. 1863, State Treasurer Sprisgs reported
TO the legislature that his predecessors had
not even made footings for any of the ac
counts.
Some people have asserted that the mes.
sage OF Governor Leedy in reply to a
courteous request from the Texas Ierfs-
iature to know If Kansas had made anv
provision for taking care of idiots was y
prcmeditated insult but we do not lool,
upon it in that light. 1t will be remem-
heied that he responded, Yes; bring on
your entire legislature" 1t was but the
spontaneous bubbling forth of a Coney
c"ChtF humor which had grown somewhat
sfCss and elephantine through years of
between the plow handles.
Ihe possibilities of surgery received an
Illustration at Ottawa the other day. when
a little boy cut off half an inch of one of
his fingers. He wrapped the severed
portion in piece of paper and carried it
TO doctor who rnpInna1 Il m tho G,0,,
where it grew tight and fast.
William Rowe, of Cherokee. is the single |
survivor of four children born at the same |
birth, but all of whom lived for a number |
Of years. His mother was the parent of |
sixteen children. Besides the four there !
were two sets of triplcts and one set of |
twins. making twelve children at four
births. The remaining four were born |
SiEEly. Mr.. Rowe, who is now 45, is the |
only one of the sixteen alive.
Senator King has exhibited his ad-
Tanoed craftsmanship" says the Topeka
Capital. by introducing in the senate a
bill making 1t a felony for the state prin.-
II to use typesetting or typecasting ma
chimes in his office. The bill ought not to
De passed without being amplificd to in
,lude the whole subject of ianor saving
machinery. The farm laboryIs OF the
state are equally interested in the some
'eform in their business. Let Senator King
his bill at once from the COM
nittee and add clause making it
'apital offense for farmers to use binders,
steam threshers and other plu.orratic farm
machinery. This would be a raform worth
alking about. Where there Is one state
printer using typesetting machines there
ire million farmers driving men out of
YCrk by hifaIutin machinery that iS