Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-28

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voted a great many years to the perfecting
of this formula. and that 1t is the quint-
essence Of oceans Of experience. He has
observed that the laws against gambling
and horse stealing and train robbing have
"queered' all the attempts of the preachers
to dissuade their parishioners from these
fascinating vices; that it is of no use to
try to convince a man of the wrong of
murder while the moose Is around his neck;
that officers. on the other hand. always
fail to enforce laws during and just after
a revival. finding that you can not catch
a thief. much less convict him, when he
has been converted and convinced of his
evil ways. AS an observer and general
izer, MIR. Griffin Is q paralyzer.
KANSAS TOPICS.
Charlie Dickerson, late of Nemaha coun-
ty, is now a mounted officer in the Hawaii
an military service.
Nine. Williams, a French d~ressmaker, has
been employed by the government to teach
the squaws at Darlington agency to make
gowns.
TIL Western Kansas newspaper boys
are trying to get Colonel Tilton to reprint
the complimentary editorial produced in his
paper when Joe Bristow was appointed.
Mr.. Briepatoliskbly, of Blue Rapids. fell
from a haymow the other day and dislocat-
ed his neck and four syllables of his name.
Congressman Jerry Botkin will keep house
at Washington and Congressman Ridgley
will board with him.
Judge Heren has a string to his partner
ship deal with Ex-Governor Altgeld. He
says that If he does not like Chicago he
will return to Western Kansas at the end of
six months.
rumor hat John ]. Ingalls, will make his
| permanent residence in Washington.
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A right lively fight Is going on between
Ed Howe and Jim Chisham for the Atchi-
son postofice, but they appear to ave
agreed to keep the details out of the news
| papers.
At Olathe. one day last week, Mr.. Will
lam Short celebrated. his 90th birthday with
a family gathering. One Of the features
was a brass band composed of seven OF
Mr.. Shorts %grandsons, which played while
the guests took dinner.
This somewhat remarkable story Is re-
1dlcu ny luc 11ldWd Una DCulOCA d. 0OuAS
years ago a stranger got OF Of an east
bound Grand Island train at Hiawatha.
and after ascertaining how long he woul
have to wait for the Missouri Pacific south.
started up street. Coming to a sign which
| read &c. W. johnson, Attorney at Law
he walked in and said to Mr.. johnson:
Are you the lawyer"
Mr.. johnson pleaded guilty.
How long have you been practicing?"
about twenty. years." was the reply.
"Have you made, your pile yet?" was the
next question.
MI. johnson sadly admitted that he had
not. 40 49,
"I suppose you think you are a pretty
good lawyer said the stranger.
Mr.. johnson admitted that he did. !
You think you know the law pretty
well. I suppose?"
BY this time Mr.. Johnson had made up
his mind to go into the cross-examination
business himself and commenced.
Are you a lawyer?"
The stranger said he was.
How long have you been practicing?"
About thirty years."
Have you made your pile yet?"
NO"
You think you are a pretty good lawyer.
/ suppose?"
~ oAo Aou6h& SA0S AS "a
do you think you know the law"
THAT is what I am paid for" was the
reply. The fact is I am Associate Justice
Miller, of the supreme court"
It is safe to say that Mr.. johnson will
never forget this meeting with the distin-
guished jurist.
At the close of the present year in the
law school at the state university seventy
four students will be graduated. It takes
only two years to grind out a lawyer. For
admission the student must come with a
second grade teachers certificate, with a
certificate that he has already been ad-
mitted to the bar, or else stand a pretty
stiff examination in English branches. A
great many students appear who have al
ready been admitted to the bar, which
would seem to indicate that the district
courts do not require a very high standard
in al applicant. The student who has thus
been admitted goes at once into the senior
} class and gets his diploma in one year.
Dean Green told Topics yesterday that one
of the new students this year who had
been admitted to practice in one Of the
western districts insisted on going into
the Junior class. He said he didn't know
anything about law and wanted to COM
mence at the bottom. Dean Green is try
ing to work up a sentiment that will ex-
tend the course to three years. The only
way it can be done Is to change the law
which permits admission to the bar after
two years course of study in a lawyers
Office. Pupils will not attend a three years
course in college when they can secure adj
mission after two years in a lawyers
Office.
It is evident that good times in Kansas
have resurrected the old-fashioned real es-
tate boomer. Haskell is one of the only
five counties in the state that have no rail-
road and the only one that has not a
stream of water large enough to appear
upon the maps. An Indiana man writes to
n friend in Finney county that he is ne
gotisting to trade some Indiana land for
land in Haskell county. He says the man
who owns the Haskell county land has as
sured him that the county contains a huge
lake covering $4,000 acres which is fed by
a large river and measures from forty
to fifty feet deep; also that the D. c. Y.
NJ. & T. railroad is building rapidly through
the county and that other roads are rae
ing to reach there by early spring.
Charles Plumb. Of this county, brother
Of the late Senator Plumb and father OF
Mrs. A. 8. Harwood. of this city," says
the ~Phillipsburg Dispatch, walked a dis
lance of sixteen miles to visit with friends
on Tuesday, Notwithstanding the fact that
he is in his 90th year. Mr.. Plumb is hale
and hearty and neither acts nor looks
more than 80 years DID,"
It seems that the OLD fake about a horse
being unable to pull a sack of sand at the
end Of a rope will never cease to catch