The Advocate and news., 1897-12-08
CONCERNING KANSAS.
BY J. W. MoRPHY.


There are over 1900 insurance agents
In Kansas
There were 581 stay-at-home voters II
Clay county.
The addition to the Topeka city jail
has been completed.
There are but two druggists at New
ton who have permits.
c. B. Hoffman says that he Is not a
candidate for Congress
Tank avenue Is an appropriate name
of a street In Neodesha.
The Newton mill shipped eight cars
of -four to London last week.
The snow storm which began last
Friday was general over the State.
One days session of the District court
is all that 1t required in Greeley county.
A street railway franchise has been
granted to private company at Weir
City.
The State encampment OF the G. A. r.
will be held at Wichita, April 20, Il
and %.
w. p Douthitt, the Oldest lawyer in
Topeka, is dead. He was an ardent
GreenbaCker
The Wichita Eagle says that Cy Le-
land owns the Troy Times. How about
that, Deacon?
Bank Cashier Taylor of the defunct
Argentine bank has begun his term in
the penitentiary.
It is stated that about 10000 copies Of
Major Inman's Santa Fe Trail have
been sold already.
Wheat thieves are getting to be more
common in the Arkansas river country
than horse thieves.
1t is Stated that Major Inmans roy
altles on his Santa Fe Trail have al
ready amounted to $4,000.
Rev. Richard Cordley has been pastor
Of the Plymouth Congregational church,
at Lawrence, for forty years.
A perceptible earthquake shock was
reported from Wichita and surrounding
towns last Wednesday night.
Governor Leedy has appointed dele
gates to the National Fishery Congress,
which meets at Tampa, Fla, January 49,.
Editor Phillips, of the Junction City
Sentinel, denies that he will start an
anti-fusion Democrat paper at Bmporia.
Private Secretary Ed. G. Little, denies
that he is the candidate for the Populist
nomination for Congress in the Fifth
district.
The debt Of Kansas City, Kas., is 80
great that taxpayers object to its in
crease, even for necessary additions to
the fire department.
Mayor Davis OF CoHPeyville has been
arrested on charge Of allowing joints
to run contrary to law without notifying
the County Attorney.
The new compilation of the statues
will be sold at $5 per set. The 1889
statutes cost $40. The Legislature fixed
the rate on the new books.
Frank McGrath, of Beloit, who was
at one time President Of the State ALI
ance, Is juror at the present term Of
the Federal court at Topeka.
The attendance of county officers at
church In Cove county Is such an un-
usual thing that the Cove City Leader
notes the fact whenever they go.
Representative Brown, of Pratt,
charges that Senator Harris and Jerry
Simpson aided the Republicans in de-
feating railroad legislation last winter,
Th1 Topeka Journal thinks that the
proposition to divide Kansas into two
Federal Judicial districts is a Leland
scheme to provide places for his hench-
men.
Sumner county Republican editors
don't seem to be in good standing with
the national administration. They are
being left out in the postoff1ce distribu-
tion.
The Emporia Gazette warmly endorses
the boom which has been started for
r. G. Plpp, Of the Burlingame Chronicle
for the Republican nomination for Con-
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