The advocate., 1897-08-11

Some weeks ago the Advocate stated
that John II. Hamilton, Of Norton,
would be the Republican candidate for
Judge in the Seventeenth district.
Hamilton always manages to get on the
ticket when there is no earthly chance
for him to win.
Butler county Populists lndorsed the
State administration, the good work
Of the Legislature, and declared that
while the financial question was an inn
portant political issue, other Populist
ideas should be kept prominently be,
fore the people.
wave Of Prosperity Has Reached
Topeka" is the heading of the first arti-
Gle in the last Mail and Breeze The
last four pages, making twenty-eight
columns in all, is given up to the de-
linquent tax list. Something seems to
be out Of joint somewhere.
Judge Randolph, Of Emporia, holds
that where a note draws per cent
until due and 10 per cent. after ma
turity, but per cent. can be collected
even after the note is due. He holds
that the extra interest is in the nature
Of penalty and is not lawful.
The Santa Fe road began business
with a twelve-mile line from Topeka to
Wakarusa. The first sod was turned
by G. X. Holiday. People assumed
an incredulous air when he said that
he would live to see the day when the
line would reach Fort Larned.
Kansas City Times: "a Washington
county man failed to give in 1000 bush
els Of old corn for assessment. He says
he overlooked it when making out his
statement for the assessor. An cpl
demiC Of forgetfulness Of this kind pre-
vailed all over Kansas this year."
The sixteen disappointed applicants
for the Lansing postof1ice are making
life miserable for the fellow who won.
They allege that he was appointed as
a guard at the Penitentiary before he
was citizen of the State and that he
never did anything for the party.
The last issue Of the Western Home
stead contains very good pictures Of
Senators A. H. Lupfer and Levi Pritch-
ard. These two men are two of west
ern Kansas's best citizens who are al
ways ready and willing to stand by
their home country and help build it
up.
The tax levy this yearin Cloud county
is, considering valuations, the lowest
ever made in the county. During the
last seven years of Populist control the
levy for county purposes has averaged
TAI mills. During the preceding seven
years Of Republican control the levy
averaged S.8 mills.
County Attorney Egan of Cheyenne
county says that crop conditions out
there are very gloomy, owing to the
prevalence Of grasshoppers. He thinks
that much of that county will be given
up to the cattlemen and that cOndi-
tions are such that very satisfactory
profit can be made in that line.
Five members of the present admin
istratiOn have died since Inauguration
They were G. II. Fish, watchman State
Treasurer's office; e. Dupree, clerk
Secretary Of States Office; B. F. Wal
lack and d. McTaggart, directors of
the Hutchinson RefOrmatOry, and Har-
rison Kelley, Regent of the State Agri-
cultural college.
Cowley county Republicans assert in
their resolutions that from every di-
rection comes the news of restored
confidence and general improvement in
all branches of trade" Unfortunately
they fail to name any particular di-
rection or place where these conditions
are in evidence. The people are left as
much at sea as ever
The Scott County News-Lever has a
column Of important business an
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