Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-03
KANSAS TOPICS.

If cleanliness is next to sodliness. Mr..
Skourup, of Ottawa, ought to be mighty
close to the throne.
The first of the month has arrived. and
1t is hoped the secretary of the state tenn
perance union will not overlook that SIS
subscription from Governor Leedy.
1t is said that Jake Admire will land in
an Oklahoma Office after all. 1t is to be the
receivership of some land office.
The full name of the Oklahoma patriot
is said to be Dennis Theocrates Flynn.
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The Wichita Eagle says the fragrant way
in which the ~jointkeepers are violating the
law is causing much uneasiness in phar-
m~aceutical circles all over the state.
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The editor of the Newton Republican re-
Gently interviewed William Radcliffe, who
had come all the way from England to
settle some land matters. and was very
much surprised to learn that the news of
the moving CT the Santa Fe shops from
Nickerson to Newton had not reached Len
don.
The Populist central committee met at
Fort Scott the other day for the avowed
purpose of investigating the alleged connec-
ton of Senator Ed Shaffer with legislative
boodling. 1t was decided not TO open the
matter, however, as it would almost GER
tainly cause d~issension in the party. SEN
ator Shaffer will no doubt be pleased to
learn that he escaped. not because his peo-
pie believed him innocent, but because it
would cause a row.
Ex-Governor Porter. of Indiana, who was
recently gathered to his fathers, at one
time owned 21,0OO acres of land in Brown,
Nemaha and jackson counties, Kas., and
his estate is still possessor of vast tracts
in those regions. In 1873, Governor Porter
sought in vain for a purchaser for these
lands, at S an acre. They are now worth
$40 an acre, and it is estimated that the
estates holdings in Kansas would bring
100000.
The one who will clear his slayer from
blame or responsibility under the law is
a pretty square sort of fellow after all.
Just before Litch Pickerell. of Butler coun-
ty, who had been shot by Joe Gilbert, pass
ed in his checks, he said to those around
him: IT am dying. 1 will give you the
straight of it. l thought he was thick with
my wife, and 1 went out and got an ak to
Kill him. and I never put the ak down.
either, till he shot me. and then l had to
drop it."
The editor of the Columbus Courier read
in a Coneyville paper that a merchant had
made a test by asking the first seven men
he met on the street IL they could give him
the name of the congressman from their
district-to the end that only two out of
the seven could answer correctly. The Col
umbus man did not believe such ignorance
could be possible, and so tried the expert
ment himself. He Wake around one block
in his town and accOsted just thirty-seven
men. Out of this number only seven an
swered correctly. though a few more knew
the congressman's last name. but could
not give his initials. And yet a greenhorn
congressman no doubt imagines that his
constituents watch his incomings and put
goings at all times, and that his name is so
constantly used in the household that even
the little children know it.
49,
Western Kansas must be as full of Curl
osities as a first-class museum. Here is a
list OF things a Jefferson county man
brought back with him from a visit to XII
owa county: Two fine specimens of
horned toads; cushion, cob, corn, cone. dog
and mountain tree cactus; an extra fine
sandstone used for polishing; Chinese Der
ries; a number of buffalo and deer horns: a
ScIssor-tail bird; iron stone; seed pods from
the Mexican soap weed; prairie dog skins:
gypsum, and shittim wood Ithe kind used
in Noah's ark.
Gene Ware recently wrote a poem COM
mencing in this way: ''Once in a place of
last resort. a man whose name was Dives"
etc. A friend met him in the street and
asked him where he got that name Dives"
why. out of the Bible, of course re-
sponded Mr.. Ware. There IS no such name
in the Bible, or anywhere else" responded