Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
KANSAS TOPICS.
Let us hope that Mr.. Sharpneck, of Ga
lena, doesn't affect the decollete.

What Is Man?" was the text of Rev.
| Edith Booker-Hilrs sermon at Independ-
| ence last Sabbath. Rev. Edith has been
married something more than year now
and she must certainly have learned that
man is largely a chump.
The Hutchinson News calls the attention
| of the Kansas legislature to the humiliat-
| ing fact that as yet it has passed no res
| olutions about the bubonic plague.
There is "A rich Western Kansas favor
| about the report from Ardmore, o. T., that
one of the players in a poker game got
mad and shot all the chips off the table
with his gun.
| In giving an account of how he got one
of his fingers mashed off in job press the
| editor of the Quenemo Republican says the
injury gave him an "attack of coproIalia
which lasted several minutes"
Quaker Joe Satterthwafte, of the Doug
| las Tribune, says the election of an eX-
| Confederate TO the senate from Kansas
reminds him of Abe Lincon's story about
| the mare which gave birth to a mule colt.
| She was very much ashamed of it, yet ii
was the natural consequence of her own
| indiscretion.
Mrs. Emma Hail. who went from Rocks
| county as a missionary TO Jamaica six
| months ago, died there few weeks ago.
| Miss Grace White, who went from King
| man in 1891 to preach the Gospel at Bara-
| ka, Africa, also crossed over the dark riv-
| er a short time since. BY the way, Bishop
Hartzell, who has just gone to Africa in
the interest of the Methodist mission there.
has sister in Kansas i'll the person of
| Mrs. John Rapp, of Dodge City.
The latest recruit to the anti-Leedy re-
bellion is Pap Hagaman, editor of the
Populist Concordia Blada. who declares
that the appointment of his townsman, S.
C. Wheeler to place on the board of
charities is 4 burning disgrace Pap
Hagaman is the man who last fall gave
the Methodist church an opportunity to try
conclusions with the devil. He was the
Pop nominee for county attorney and de-
clared in the course of a speech that hell
held more and better Christians than the
Methodist church. The Methodist preacher
responded that the election would tell
whether the Methodist church or the min
ions of the devil could poll the most votes
in Cloud county. and the church won out
by a large majority.
There is a tailor in Sterling by the name
! of James ]. Phelan who years ago served
ford. During Crawford's recent entertain
ment tour in Kansas he met Phelan for
the first time in many years and the two
spent day together talking over old
times. Last Friday Phelan was summoned
to the express office, where he found a
handsome, silver-mounted Columbia bicy-
Gle. bearing the inscription, From Capt.
Jack Crawford to James ]. Phelan.' Odd
sort of present for an old man, wasn't it?
Hurrah for the Oklahoma, preachers.
There are six of them in the Oklahoma
legislature and the other day they gave
vigorous evidence that they do not regard
themselves as privileged class who
should escape any of the burdens of citi-
zenship. A bill had been introduced which
exempted all clergymen from working on
the roads. The preachers hoped on to it
in Indignation and it was defeated in the
first round. One of them made speech
in which he declared that preachers were
neither sQuaws nor medicine men and did
not ask to be treated as SUCH"
But the bill which went to most 'gno-
minious defeat in The Oklahoma legisla-
ture was one which sought to prohibit
''any habitual drinker'' or the user of NOR
phine or any of the other dream-giving
eliAirs of life, from holding office of any
scrt The legislature rose up as one man
and smote the measure to the earth-aad
then went out and took a drink.
The Oklahoma legislature is even more
unanimously Populist than the Kansas
body, and like the latter it is busily en-
gagged in regulating" everything under
the shining sun. Among the measures
which have already passed the house is
one which taxes mortgages upon real es-
tate and which also restricts the legal
rate of interest to per cent. lit is pro-
vided that any mortgage holder who fails
to pay the tax shall be denied the privi-
lege of foreclosing. The same result would
have been effected If simpler law lad
passed declaring it to be a felony to bring
morey into the territory to loan.
One law passed by the Oklahoma. legis-
lature, however, has considerable merit.
l. provides that no man shall be assisted
in any manner in filling out his ballot,
which virtually is an adoption of an edu-
cational qualification for voters.
The manner in which Bill Rogers landed
that reappointment as regent of the state
university ought to wiring from Cy Leland
the reluctant admission that Bill is rot
now too drunk to fish,
Congressman Calderhead has succeeded
in securing the allowance of pension
claim which is somewhat remarkable in its
details. One John Campbell was drowned
at sea in 1862. while serving in the volun-
teer navy His widow made claim for
pension which for years has been hanging
fire. Calderhead pushed 1t successfully and
secured the woman s. month from 1862
to 1886, and $l2 a month from 1885 to the
III esent time, together with 81 a month
for each of two minor children up to the
age of 16 making more than $4,000
in back pay. Mrs. Campbell is living in
Nova Scotia. Calderhead was interested
through her brother-in-law, who lives at
Marysville.
A remarkable case has just reached a
verdict at Brynteg. Wales, by which a
Kansas man comes into possession of prop
erty valued at more than 100000. His name
is r. J. Edwards, and his home is at Bun
ker Hill. Russell county. The suit was for
the recovery of a large farm in Wales;
which was being held by certain people
who claimed to be heirs-at-law of Thomas;
Edwards who died there intestate in 1895.
The Kansas Edwards was nephew of the
| dead man. and the nearest in line of de-
scent He visited his uncle in 1856, and it
was then understood all around that he
was to become possessor of the property
at his uncles death. After the death oc-
Cured he went to Wales to claim his own,
but other cousins set up the claim that
he was not the Edwards who had visited
the estate in 1886, but an impostor The
| whole case therefore hinged on the iden-
| tity of the Kansas man. He took no less
than fifteen witnesses across from America
| and proyed his claim beyOnd any dOubt