The advocate., 1897-09-08

| hlCE EuCIbDu Will nave LdIl I6bLlVdl
September "a and 25. It will be In thu
nature Of a fair, with an old settlers
and old soldiers reunion feature.
Judge Ray, of Wellington, announces
that he will support Mcbride in the Ju
dlcial contest in the Sumner-Cowley dis.
trict. This is becoming and proper.
The fight of Governor Eskridge, of the
Emporia Republican, on Senator Baker
reminds the Kansas City Star Of the fact
that it was he who opened the fight on
Ingalls,.
The Santa Fe, Rock Island and NJ, X
& r. have notified the Railroad Commits
slOners that they have restored the car
load rate on stock In accordance with
their order
Later reports from the Johnson county
Populist convention indicate that 1t was
more harmonious than at first appeared
and that there is a good prospect Of
electing the ticket.
A Wichita negro politician sued an
other for $40 which 1t was alleged was
to have been paid him II he got the other
on the police force. The court refused to
give MIN judgment
The lola Friend, after reviewing David
Oyermyers recent article in the Arena,
concludes by observing that David
talks so much like POpulist that you
can't tell the difference"
New Time, B. o. Flowers and F. U.
Adams new reform magazine, has pic
ture of Chief Justice Doster as a frOntis-
piece in the September number It is
a splendid picture of a great man.
The Sallna Unions sixteen-page spe-
cial edition is the best of the kind issued
in central Kansas in many years 1t
is we'll filled with live matter and shows
a very healthy advertising patronage.
Senator Harris says that the loss to
the government by the sale of the Union
Pacific will amount to $2S,000,000, and
that If the Central Pacific is handled the
same way much more will be lost on 1t.
William S. Jay, a silver Republican,
has started the Lantern at Emporia. Mr..
Jay was nominated by the Populists for
Representative for the uneXpired term
Of Representative Lambert, but declined
to accept
Representative Fairchild, Of Kingman,
one of the strong Populist members of
the last House. has rendered his resig
nation. He has moved to Kansas City,
Kas, where he will engage in the prac
tlce of law
Chautauqua POpulists indOrsed the
Chicago and st. Louis platforms. AS one
declares for redeemable money and the
other for full legal tenders, 1t is not easy
to determine where the boys stand in
that county.
Senator Harris has gone to Washing
ton to attend a meeting of the sub-com-
mittee on Pacific railroads, which met
September Z, to endeavor to prevent the
sale of the Union Pacific until after Con-
gress convenes.
Douglas county newspapers are Offer
ing cash prizes for the best composition
by sixth, seventh or eighth grade pu-
pills in the schools Of that county on the
subject, why should Douglas county
have fair in 1872"
Newspaper support in the case Of Cy
Leland Of Troy seems to be lacking The |
Leavenworth Times Lawrence Journal,
Wichita Eagle and host of others are
scoring him about as vigorously as Pop
ulist papers ever did.
The miners at one of the shafts at
Weir City are out because of local trou-
bles affecting their mine only Two
mines at Pittsburg are also closed on
account of strike. In both cases the
trouble Is purely local.
An Abilene preacher who got into
scrape their two or three years ago has
written back from Indiana for creden-