Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-10-02

Will go out OF SeuSWlCh county Will 'iS
| largest majority ever given any candidate
of any party, whether national. state or
county.
The Solomon Sentinel tells of a woman Of
that town who has five children with
| birthdays falling in the same month. She
strikes an average day and gives them all
| a big feast.
A more remarkable case still is reported
by the same paper. Harry Leedy, little
boy of that town, has III the flesh and
blood two Observation-Disclosures, one great
grandmother, two grandfathers and one
| grandmother. all of whom live in Solomon.
| Despite the fear of a honey famine. MI
Al Swan, of Seneca. has eighty-three
stands of bees from which he expects to
take 1000 pounds of honey. In South Cen
trail Kansas the bees are said to be starv-
| ing to death because the flowers are bar
rem of nutriment.
| Captain Beck. editor of the Holton Re
| corder, says there is scarcely day when
| he does not hear of one or more Jackson
county PopuIists who have returned to
! the tepuDllcdN ldllil SoptSiiii i'NA .-S' -.
says things unless he knows them TO be
true. He is one of those foolish. old-fash-
toned men who won't lie even in politics.
DR.. Rafter, chief surgeon of the Twenti-
| eth Kansas appears to have secured line
reputation among the troops at San Fran
CISCO A soldier correspondent of the Fort
I Scott Monitor quotes Major John Goodale.
of the Twenty-third regular infantry, as
saving: IF 1 were taken down with ty-
phoid fever ! would send at once for Dr..
Rafter. of the Twentieth Kansas. He has
never lost a case of typhoid fever in the
camp He fills his patients with listerine,
which seems to be a sure cure. l have
, heard also that he is very strict about the
sanitary condition of his camp" This
judgment on the Kansas doctor appears to
be warranted by facts. There is little
, sickness in the Kansas regiment. In this
respect it bears the best record OF any
, regiment that has been in camp at San
Francisco.
Empire Hawkins is the name of a Fort
t Scott boy with the colored troops in Cuba.
He writes as follows: THE Cubans are hall
t naked and nearly STAYED. 1 wouldn't take
500 for my experience and trip. l bought
) a parrot in Santiago for 30 cents. The
5 Ninth and Tenth cavalry are hot stuff here
All the Cubans are in love with the col
ored soldiers. We are strictly in it with
!. the girls, but 1 can't tell whether they
!. cuss me or not, for 1 can't understand
f them. I can't get cigarette papers here
y and 1 am nearly dead for a smoke. Tel
: the boys to send me some
Colonel John S. Holman died at tn:
: home of his daughter in Pottawatomi'
, county the other day. He accumulated
q large fortune in Noble county. o., and wa!
, | rich when he entered the civil war as com
II mander of an Ohio regiment. After thu
"a war he came to Kansas. where misfortune
+. pursued him until his riches were all gon
:. and he became forced to depend upon tn
il care of his daughter. He was singular!
,e conscientious. He stubbornly refused Il
irl apply for a pension, alleging that he cam
le out of the war in good health and there
d fore was not entitled to his nations bounty
- Charley Bremen. a member OF Compan
NJ. of the Twentieth Kansas, is now WISH
III ing his parents in Ottawa county. He de
sires to give testimony against the yello'
n journals. He says the stories of the mis-
e treatment of his regiment are malicious
n false and that all of the boys are satisie
e with their surroundings. For short TIM
e while Ouartermaster Sergeant Young wa
e getting away with them, there was litt
d shortage of certain provisions, but at n
lie other time has there been cause for con
e. plant He says no regiment In the servic
/ has better officers than the Twentieth kar
e. sas and he makes no exception of Ed LII
tie, who is becoming popular with his ba
m TALON Young Bremen is fat and heart
IS and says that the boys with scarcely an e.
in ception are enjoying the best of health
lie all of which will be good news to somethir
r like 1900 Kansas mothers.
y Mention was made recently Of a silv'
mine which Bale Waggener thought he hs
- discovered in Atchison county. the stol
as told by Mr.. Waggener is curious on
=, He had been engaged to defend a farm
- nv the name of Joe Barber who was a
:, | cused of statutory offense along with
Young woman of the neighborhood. 1
drove out to the Barber farm to consu
ne with Mrs. Barber and while in the hou
ne noticed tin pan full Of rocks sitting on
Sc window SILL Carelessly picking up one
ne the rock fragments he inquired where
he had come from. Mrs. Barber told hi
r. that in blasting at the bottom of their W
Mr.. Barber has gone through six feet
no queer looking stone and that she had saw
III a few specimens of It. Looking closely n
les Waggener became convinced that he he
as a bit of silver ore and he asked tire pr
Sc ilege of taking some Of it home. T
'a' woman told him he could have all tn
ne was in the pan and he carried it off, lat
IN sending it to an assayer at Omaha W
VI electrified him by reporting that such {
'i- would 20 81, 800 in silver to the ton, besi6
Oh Welding a large amount of copper. }
lily Waggener at once leased the Barber IA
Try and now has force of men sinking sh;
me near the we'll whence the ore is alleged
vi have come. The common opinion in Ate
, son is that Mr. Waggener has been work
err but he does not think SO himself. He sa
ace he stumbled on the ore by accident, Il
Dry no one has tried to sell him anything a
ro- that the BARRIERS have nothing to gain
be- deceiving him. Anyway he will soon KIN