The advocate., 1897-11-10
Kansas Gleanings.

Tcpeka's Modoc Club is twenty-one
years old.
The Central hotel at Lyons is to be
converted into a county jail.
Ex-Governor Morrill,, who has been
quite sick, Is recovering slowly.
Usage City has a curfew ordinance eff
fective from October to April /.
There are 27O State banks in Kansas,
with an aggregate capital Of $6,Ol5,29S.
The newspapers are full of rumors
that the Chicago & Alton will buy the
Kansas Pacific and operate 1t.
AN effort is being made to resurrect
ex-Congressman Funston and nominate
him for Governor on the Republican
ticket.
Reports Of the discovery of a six-foot
vein Of coal twenty-seven feet below the
surface come from near Hepler in Bour-
bon county.
Superintendent Stryker has dates at
which he will speak to teachers and
school officers associations on every Sat
urday for the coming three months.
Very little about the mot paid for want
OF funds" matter is seen in Republican
papers since election. The State treas
ury is paying promptly and regularly
now.
Ex-Governor Lewelling says that the
metropolitan police were the cause Of
the defeat of the Popullst ticket In Sedg-
wick county and that the whole outfit
nught IN no abolished
Governor Leedy has appointed P. B.
Maxson as Probate Judge Of Lyon
county to succeed r. A. Reaburn, de-
ceased. Mr. Maxson was a Grreenbacker
long before Union Labor days
Pension Agent Leland is trying to get
rid Of Chief Clerk Howe. The latter has
been in the Office for thirty-three years,
having begun as an Office boy when the
agent did all OF the work alone.
The Methodist Womans Missionary
Society will send Miss M. A. Livermore,
OF Smith Center, and Miss Elizabeth
Barney, of Topeka, as missionaries to
some point In India, China or Japan.
A Caldwell man who licked his neigh
Dor for calling his child a kid, has
learned from a local justice that his
neighbOr was In the right. The infor-
nation carried with II a S. fine and costs.
Charles Bluejacket, Chief of the Shaw
nee tribe of Indians, died at his home in
the Territory last week. He had just
been on a trip to Kansas City, Kas., to
locate the grave Of The Prophet, Te-
cumseh's brother who was buried in
Wyandotte county,
A Missouri book agent wrote State Au-
ditor Morris asking If any license was
required "for any one who travels
through the country and sells books or
maps In Kansas" to which Capt. Morris
replied: Unfortunately for the people
and the State no license is required"
]. w. Tanner has become steward Of
the Topeka asylum He succeeds Austin
Prescott, who It Is stated gave up his po-
sition. AS his term did not expire until
January and as Republicans are not In
the habit Of giving up good positions
willingly, It is presumable that he did
not so on his own motion.
John R. Lane has given up his lease
of the Abilene Monitor and 1t has passed
into the hands OF Grant Gaines the new
owner Mr. Gaines Is younger brother
Of ex-State Superintendent Gaines. II
il develops into as good a newspaper as
his brother has, he will have done well
ia embarklng in the business.
"A mass convention OF st0ckmen of
Kansas and adjoining States which ship
10 Kansas City, to be held at Represen-
tative hall, Topeka, in the near future,
isbeing discussed The object Is to form
ar organization to protect the interests
Of st0ckmen in such contests as the re-