Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-12-16

speaker of the lower house of the legis
lature
Will Maddox, of Kingman, is sailor
and is on his way to Manila, to join
Dewcy's force.
W. H, Coulter, of the Western Veteran,
wants to be department commander of
the G. A. r. OF Kansas.
Pie.hunters arc so numerous that
Stanley had to call on Mort Albaugh to
help him to attend to them.
Webb McNall, it is said, is worth $780,
600. He didn't make it out of his Office
as insurance commissioner, either.
Another State normal school is to be
asked for of the incoming legislature.
Concordia and Holton are after it.
There was a wedding out at Kcarney,
the other dav, where the bridegroom
was so years old and the bride was 10.
1t is claimed that a Chicago commits
sion firm seized four jack rabbits on one
of Gillett's farms under their mortgage
on his cattle.
An independence Republican says Mont
gomery county has enough candidates
to fill all of the Offices within the gift of
the governor.
People living within the natural gas
regions are beginning to kick against
piping the gas to towns outside of the
gas belt. They are wise.
Some fellow out at Beloit put Il So
gold piece in the Sunday school collection
basket That fellow must have been S.
II. Dodge, of the Gazette.
Allen county ofice-seekers seem to have
been economically inclined. Seventy-fiye
men elected to office swear they didn't
spend red cent in the campaign.
Henry A. Young, son of Hon H. W.
Young, Of the independence Populist,
has been appointed by Congressman
Ridgely as a cadet at West Point
A young lady out at Golden wagercd
1000 kisses that Jerry Simpson would
be elected and she is now paying the
wager at the rate of twenty kisses per
week.
A Santa Fe conductor had $4,000 in
the Kirby bank, of Abilene. when it
"busted." He got As per cent of it, and
put it in the First National bank of Bm-
poria. He now has nothing.
Ed Little wrote home from Honolulu
that there were only two things to mar
the voyage from San Francisco to that
place. There were thirteen women and
a black cat on board the ship.
Rev. c. II. St John formerly an ardent
free silver advocate, but a strong sup
porter of Governor-clect Stanley, is after
his old position in the pension depart
ment He believes that Stanlcvs friends
can help him materially
An eastern insurance paper last week
contained picture of a tombstone
which it calls The Lone Prairie Grave"
On the tombstone is engraved, "lIic (D |
Jac McNall. Erected 1898, by the Adj
miring Agents of Kansas"
A subscriber of the Humboldt Union .
has received every copy Of the paper
since it's first issue, nearly SO years ago;
and that he is the right kind of a sub
scriber is shown by his act last week in
sending the cash to extend his account
two years.
The mayor and police judge of lola
have been indicted by the grand jury for
collision with the joints, and now the
jury is after the sheriff and his deputy
for the same thing Now let these grand
jurics all over the state go after the
county attorneys.
The Insurance Report a Denver insur
ance journal, contained cartoon last
week showing the state of Kansas as
young woman with drawn sword, and
her foot on the neck of Webb McNall,
and beneath, kansas Kills McNallism.
Mr. McNall enjoys looking at the car
looms of himself as much as ANYBODY
Kansas City Times.
Webb McNall was feeling a little blue
Thursday afternoon, so he took couple
IF hours off to look through the insur-
.nce journals which have been accumu-
ating on his desk since the election. No
onc in the country gloated more over the
iefcat of the Populists than did the in
urance journals, because it meant that
McNall would be ousted Webb finds a
treat deal of amusement in reading the
mplimentary without CHARGE notices
which they give him. Kansas City =
Times.
According to the statement of the
oopulist state central committee they
pent SO ,S76.91 in the campaign, which