The Advocate and news., 1897-12-22

mas secured the dlBc0ntinuance order tC
even political scores
The rise Of water In the Arkansas
river afforded an opportunity for thor.
ough test OF the Koen ditch. The ditch
and elaterals filled in good shape and
oyerfiOwed on surrounding land, soaking
1t in good shape.
The management of the Wichita
High school commencement exercises
will limit orations to three minutes time
Why not eliminate them altogether, OIL
have them delivered out on some short
grass cattle range?
According to their story Of the matter
the Wichita Eagle and the LeavenWorth
Times were each the only papers in
Kansas which printed the story of the
death Of Mother Mckinley on Sunday
morning, December 12.
Senator George Campbell, of Oswego,
is working on a scheme to hold nom
partisan State convention to denounce
the McKinley-Gage proposition to retire
treasury notes and greenbacks.
In recent opinion given by Attor-
ney General Boyle, 1t Is held that the
Probate Judge and not the county is
entitled to the fees in connection with
the issuing of druggists permits.
In his candidacy for postmaster Ed
Howe, Of the Atchison Globe, Is run
ming against boulders in the shape OF a
compilation of extracts from his paper
rejecting on Baker and Mckinley.
The Wells-Fargo agent at Cherryvale
was robbed last Thursday night. The
robbery occurred while he was attend
ing passing train and he was not abb
sent from the depot more than ten min
utes.
The Council Grove Courier and Guard
have been consolidated. Messrs Padgett
& DeWald, who have published the
Courier, have retired and will probably
locate somewhere else in the same line
soon.
Judge Riggs, Of Lawrence, Is not pro-
hibitionist, but he gave some o. M. B.
fellows such heavy sentence that they
imagine that they would have been hung
If a prohibitionist had been on the
bench.
Oswego is trying to secure the location
of plant which through newly dis
covered process utilizes the pith found
In corn stalks. The product is of such
value that SO per ton is paid for the
stalks.
While Tom Stevens was employed in
the Hiawatha postof1ce in 1877 he made
a list Of the letters received in one week
on which the name of the town was
mis-spelled. He found forty-five differ
ent ones.
Some years ago an ordinance was
adopted by the Mankato city council
prohibiting the rendition of after the
BALI inside of the city limits Now
an -"anti Hot Time" ordinance is being
considered
Dick Blue is in Washington trying to
get Governor Rowland, of the Leaven-
worth Soldiers Home, replaced with
some Kansas politician. The Board of
managers does not look with favor on
Blues schemes.
Cy Leland's antipathy for ex-Secretary
of State Osborn has led him to file
charges against and cause the removal
of his son, Charles Osborn, who has been
employed in the pension Office. The
charge on which the removal was based
was incompetency.
The Mankato Advocate (Pop.) was the
only paper in Jewell county which pub
lished the Presidents message the week
1t was delivered. Jewell county's three
Republican papers must be managed by
fellows.
Superintendent Stryker says that
school statistics show that Wyandotte
county pays the highest teachers wages,
the average being $49.76. Brown is
next with an average Of $48.21. Men are
paid 10 to Is per cent better wages than
Mr.. Kitchen, who has not missed any,
thing in the shape of an Office In Flnney
county since it's organization, has the
inside track for postmaster of Garden
City, He is in the habit of referring to
Populists as "a set of sore-headed Office