The Advocate and news., 1898-05-25

put in use during the coming schoo
year.
Representatives of insurance com
panies refuse to pay the policies held by
J. S. Collins, of Topeka, until they find
out how he was killed.
DR.. Charles H. Morton of Columbus
formerly well-to-dO but now in ilnan-
Cial straits, has starved to death at Fort
Scott rather than beg.
A country paper which has to set its
locals in nonpareil and which has no
room for editorial ought to be a good
thing to have in the family.
A lively time is anticipated in the
State Republican League meeting. All
of the candidates are trying to work the
meeting in their own interest
w. c. Boyd, a Hutchinson butcher,
was found dead in his place of business
last Friday with his skull crushed, An
ex-employe is charged with the crime.
II Chester |. Long don't try his old
scheme Of getting joint debates with
Jerry Simpson he will be unable to
stump the district for lack Of audiences.
The Wichita Beacon edltorialIy pre-
diets Leedy's reelection, but the leg
man on the local page overrules the
editor by saying that it will be Stanley.
James Chumos, a native Of Greece,
won the OratOriCal hOnors at the Wash
burn academy contest last week He is
a bright young man and very hard stu
dent.
C. A. Hamlin has retired from the
Girard News and ex-Meutenant Gov
ernor Daniels will be the new editor
Mr.. Hamlin will enter the insurance
business.
After crowding John c. Johnson out Of
the race for postmaster, Judge S. t..
Peters wants to square himself by Sc
curing his appointment as paymaster in
the army.
jim Simpson says that things are har-
monious in Republican politics this year,
which being properly interpreted means
that the bosses are running the whole
establishment.
The Friends church has accepted the
gift Of Garfield university, at Wichita,
made by j. NJ Davis, of st. Louis, re-
Gently, and will raise an endowment Of
$4,000 for It,
Ulysses Bricker of Geuda Springs,
who was crippled for life on the Frisco
at Ellsworth in 1892, has been awarded
damages amounting to $1,000 by jury
at Wellington.
The grand lodge of the Knights of
Pythlas was held at Fort Scott last week.
w. II. Swartzell, Of Parsons, was elected
Grand Chancellor. Topeka is the next
! meeting place.
| M. NJ. Beck, Of the Hoton Recorder
who was BrOderick's manager, is sup
porting Blue for Congressman-at-lar
= has neither aid nor comfort for Le-
lands man, Bailey.
J. G.. Slonecker, a Topeka lawyer
thinks that the Congressional appor-
tionment bill, by which the First dis
trict swapped POttawatOmie for Shaw
nee, Is unconstitutional.
Wichita may be a little slow at times
but it makes a desperate effort to keeE
up with the procession. To Offset To-
peka's cruiser it has given Colonel Tom
Fitch a horse named for the town.
Reports from independence indicate
that the continued rains have caused
wheat to rust, thereby materially dam
aging the crop. 1t is predicted that II
will be ready to harvest in four weeks.
The Simpson-McKay fight, about
which Republican papers have had sc
much to say, don't seem to be In evi
dence to the extent that the readers Of
those papers should reasonably expect
1T is well understood, says the Law
renco Journal, commenting on the ap
pointment OF Il. +. Caldwell as post
master, that his appointment is made
as a reward for having participated II