Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-01-29
KANSAS TOPICS.

the barber shoD which used to be patron
lied by Thomas jefferson. Topics was in
the same shop once. They are still using
the Thomas Jefferson razor.
This paper did Railroad Commissioner
billiard a great. though unattended, injury
the other day. 1t said that he ana John
Prudential drank from the same canteen.
Prudential was never known to drink
anything stronger than mineral water, and
billiard quite naturally feels offended.
Bill Morgan: The Topeka Capital, which
is authority. says the proper pronunciation
Of Quo Vadis' is as spelled. with the long
sound of a in Vadis. The Western Kansas
people. who generally use the Roman pro-
nunciation, and call it Quo Wahdees,"
will please take notice.
Gentlemen shrieked a medicine fakir
| on the streets of Abilene. II pledge you my
| honor that there is no whisky in this medi-
| cine" With which the crowd gazed on
him reproachfully and melted away, says
the Reflector.
When John Madden became a candidate
| for congress in the Fourth district Parson
Fleharty withdrew in his favor. A little
later Mr.. Yearout became a candidate, and.
| with cheerful impartiality, Parson File
herty withdrew in his favor also. There
| remains but one future contingency to Sc
| cure for Parson Fleharty an unqualified
| expression of public approval. He must
stay Withdrawn.
Carlyle once said that a man could not
make tracks in the mud without leaving
| something which marked his own identity
and the difference between himself and his
fellow men. This is true in every direction,
but perhaps it is best illustrated in the diff
ferent manner in which different men will
handle the same thing, such as a locomo-
tive whistle. for example. Every engineer
puts his personality into the blast of his
whistle. In the country towns the people
are able to recognize the engineer in the
Shrek which comes from his approaching
engine, and this Is explanation enough Of
the following item from the Independence
Reporter: Engineer Bill Lowe of the
Santa Fe is still on duty. We say this be-
cause his familiar whistle has been missed
for the two last trips, and his friends were
afraid that something was the matter. He
has been given a new engine the whistle
whereof is a little weak. and Bill is not
able to wake up the town as heretofore"
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In his reply to President Ripley, of the
Santa Fe, Ed Little says: who can point
to a case where the people ever got the
best of a railroad company" We can, Ed
"NA"- Aoh SSahS 10 SSlkCiSol toullis
voted $1,000 in subscription to Santa Fe
stock. but the commissioners refused to
issue the bonds and take the stock. The
Santa Fe brought suit, which finally landed
in the supreme court, and received a de-
cision favorable to the company. Five
years have elapsed, however. and Santa Fe
stock had gone to the price of s1.15, or
something like that. The order of the court
was that the commissioners issue the bonds
| and fnka tho Stnnk whicl r,nayt thnt tho
company must deliver stock worth Sic, 900
'for 500, 700 in bonds. The company paid
jefferson county $4,000 to be let off from a
contamination of the deal. 1t is perhaps
the only case on record in which a rail-
road company won a case and, in winning,
lost.
Mr.. Dan Hart, of Abilene. told Mrs. Dan
Hart to pick out a hen from the flock that
looked too old to lay and kill it for supper.
Mrs. Dan Hart picked out the hen. killed it,
and the family had it for supper. but the
next morning Mr.. Dan Hart discovered
that she had slaughtered a thoroughbred
which he had just received from Georgia
at a cost of SIS.
The Neosho County Journal recounts the
fact that Farmer Jim Whitaker has sold
his fat hogs for enough to buy a couple of
Kansas farms. Farmer Whitaker hired
the teams of all his %neighbors the other
day and formed a hog train from his
farm to the depot. The wagons were dec
GRATED with American flags and Whitaker
rode at the head of the procession like a
drum major in a Fourth of July Celebra-
ton. A few years ago Farmer Whitaker
was as poor as the poorest.
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A great legal battle is expected over the
estate of Uncle Jimmie Wright. the illit-
$500 4. IL 1N1-r ,rlN~ nNN,.1, a. - IkTl1
lington. He long ago made a will in which
he decided all of his property to a son. a
few days before his death, however, he
called several people to his bedside and
stated that he wished to leave all of his
personal property to his daughter. and at
the same time handed over to her securi-
ties to the value of about 100000. The peo-
pie at his bedside wrote out n will and
signed 1t, and it has now been filed for
probate-forming what is known in legal
phraseology as a nuncupative will. In
most states a nuncupative will is recog-
niZed only when the statements of the
~testator are made in immediate fear of
death, as by a soldier on the battlefield or
n sailor in a sinking ship. In Kansas
such a will must be reduced TO writing
within ten days after the words are spoken
and signed by the witnesses. which was
lone in the Wright case. However. as he
| ulI IOl u.c lpt way oiA'h Sii1 tS-
visement was made, it will no doubt be
set up that there was plenty of time for a
will in the regular form.
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General A.. l.. Williams. of Topeka. was
in Washington at the time of Presiden:
Llncoin's second Inauguration. Genera.
Williams has an innate hatred of POM
and show and took no part in the inaug.
uratiCn ceremonies, beyond standing at d
second story window with Ward Burlin'
game when the procession went by. Com
menting on the story of the inauguration
furnished The Journal by Ex-Governor
Thomas a. Osborn, General Williams yes
terday told Topics his version of the par
Kansas took in the affair:
About 30 per cent of the leading mer
CT Kansas" said he, and every either
Washington at the time of the Inaugural
ton: not for the purpose of attending
that: but to secure offices and to lool
after the award of certain contract!
which Jim Lane had procured for hi:
friends, some OF which. If consummated
!, would have been for the favored few +;
bigger thing than klondike. In addition
to this, a political change had just &C
Cured in Kansas, whereby Carter Wilder
our congressman, had been retired anc
, Sid Clarke. with his followers, was il
the saddle. The Kansans. good, bad AM
Indifferent, were nearly all corralled at
big boarding house on Tenth and E, gen
orally known as the Kansas something
or other. Ward Burlingame and 1 wer,
loafiEg in Washington at that time, no
because we had any business there O.