The Advocate and news., 1898-02-23

absorbing their party.
Vice President Paul Morton of the
Santa Fe says that his road is doing vel
and that the only threatening thing in
sight is the proposed extra session OF
the Legislature.
The Marysville Advocate and the Dem.
ocrat have consolidated s. e. Ruede
of Osborne, has bought both papers
! G. A. Hammett will still be associated
with the paper.
Representative Charley Harris, Of EN-
pOria, expresses his willingness to vote
for Governor Leedy's railroad bill. He
is Republican who was elected to fill a
vacancy last fall.
A civil engineer figures that at the
present rate the penitentiary coal mine
will be worked out in twenty years.
Prison methods ought to be revolution
lied by that time.
The Republicans are opening up this
year as IL they had business on the map
The Third district convention will be
held April 6, while Second district people
will get together May 3.
The Hugoton Hermes, published way
down in Stevens county, thinks that If
eVerybodyis to have boom for Governor
that 1t Is high time for some one to
launch one for w. Y. Morgan.
DR.. Gill, Secretary of the State Board
Of Health, thinks that the sanitary con-
ditions Of school buildings should be
ascertained by inspection and that all
milk sold in cities should be inspected.
The Lyndon Journal publishes a card
from b. G. Pipp announcing his candi-
dacy for Congress and in the same issue
declares that Judge Graves, the Lyon
county candidate, Is the only one who
can be elected.
When asked II he would be candi-
date for Congress, Speaker Bill Street
proceeded to give the reporter an in
teresting statement relative to the merits
Of hog cholera cure with which he is
experimenting.
Last year Cowley county elected a Re-
publican Sheriff. Last week his deputy
was sent to remote town in the county
to arrest a thief, but he got so drunk
on the way that he was arrested and put
in Jail himself.
People who would like an object lesson
in picturesque profanity should have
been in Abe Ellis presence when he read
Postmaster W. H. Nelson's boom for w.
H. Haskell for the Republican nomina-
tlOn for Congress.
A. +. Ham, who went against dis
tressing circumstance when he ran
against Judge McElroy last year, didn't
get enough of 1t and Is working the Sixth
district circuit for the Republican nomi-
nation for Congress.
Superintendent Dyer, of the Wichita
High school, has confiscated the effects
of the High School Messenger because it
printed poem in which sarcastic refer
enCes were made to the teachers. The
are rebelling.
Ed Hoch wants the Republicans to
adopt the plan, first put in operation by
Breidenthal, of having all of the county
conventions to elect delegates held on
the same day. 1t was tried in 1894 and
gave good satisfaction.
Senator Young says that he Is willing
to vote for the Leedy railroad bill but
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He will not agree to vote for measure
in which defects may be made apparent
after reasonable discussion
About a wagon load of tariff literature
has arrived at Topeka for distribution
when Leland's executive committee gets
its headquarters running. Kansas peo-
pie ought to enthuse over Leland and
the tariff but they won't interest.
Tom Kelly, Of Paola, having become
receiver for a national bank, has lost
his desire to run for Office A good re-
ceivership beats q State Office and it
don't put a fellow under obligations to
every ward heeler in the universe,
Senator w. A. Mosher, of the Cloud
Republic district, died in California last
week, Of cancer Of the stomach. He was