Kansas City journal., 1897-11-08
KANSAS TOPICS.
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Southern Kansas editor has discovered
WHAT the Topeka police are good for. He
says they render valuable service by stand
| ing on the street corners and steering
strangers to the joints.
|
Chanute is coming to the front. A few
weeks ago a telephone system was placed
in operation and now a force of men is
at work getting up city directory.
|
citizen of Marion county who knows
| Judge Foote pretty we'll claims the Phila-
delpnla insurance Company paid him too
| much when 1t gave him $l57 for a two
| hours talk on free silver. He says he has
| known the judge to talk two hours for a
| drink.
Cold weather has not yet set in, but a
| bitter cold wave struck the Kansas Pops
| on November .. They have not ceased
shivering yet.
since the Republicans of Kansas scored a
touchdown over the fusionists at the
election in the way of wonderful gains
| there are all kinds of good material in the
Republican ranks that would like to get
IN the game before the time for nomina-
tions arrives next year.
Now that the Republicans of Wyandotte
county have demonstrated to the party in
Kansas that all is harmonious there. no
rear OF an outbreak in any other section Of
| the state should be felt
Wichita now has just cause for complaint
Kansas City claims that the first electric
street railway in the world was built here
Wichita has the records-court records at
that-to prove that the first electric street
car ever operated was over a line in the
D~f,,
fore Kansas City ever thought of electric
ity as motive power for street cars.
Swift retribution came to the Republicans
of Ellis county who fused with the Popu
lists to beat the Democrats The fusion
ticket was Overwhelmingly defeated That
was the first and will be the last case
where the Republicans of Kansas ally
themselves with the Pops for anything.
The record of Justice Field In writing
1.o42 opinions during his career on the fed
eral bench is unusual but in some respects
1t Is surpassed by the history of the Kan
sas courts. Judge D. NJ. Valentine who
was on the Kansas supreme bench for
twenty-four years. wrote 1572 opinions:
Judge Horton, who was chief justice for
seventeen years. wrote 1922 opinions. and
Justice Brewer while a member of the
LOB opinions.
John Mcdonald, editor of the Western
School Journal. wants n state grammarian
appointed to correct laws after they are
passed by the legislature and before they
are published. This officer should also be
clothed with authority to correct the gram
mars adopted by the state textbook COM
mission. Complaint is made that the gram
mars Won't parse.
Prosperity item from the Anthony Re-
publican: Mr.. H. S. Lombard, living six
miles southeast of town, bought eleven
bushels of seed wheat last year, making the
seed cost him s4.iO He put it on a twelve
acre patch, seeding less than n bushel to
the acre. while the average farmer puts
in hushel and peck. His wheat Welded
36i bushels. little more than thirty-three
bushels per acre; 1t was of good quality
and sold for 75 cents per bushel. the ton
OF the wheat market when it sold. An in
Vestment of $40 in seed returning s275 is
rather more than the average Harper coun-
ty twelve acre patch will do but there's
lots of farms, Just as good" and hest of
all, can be had at the old-time drouth-
buSted-boom rates