The Advocate and news., 1898-06-29

Whatever IL may Inc OJner CdhuludIeh
cannot do less.
The ladies of Topeka are organizing
an association to furnish sick volunteers
with medicines not provided by the gov
ernment.
Eugene f. Ware may become candi-
date for the Republican nomination for
Representative in the Topeka district in
Shawnee.
In the seven years that Phil Keener
has operated the Scammon Miner he has
not been called upon to print any For
Rent" signs.
Burglars blew up the safe in a general
store at Kanopolls last week Consid-
erable money and other things Of value
were secured.
Col. Fred. Funston is not likely to go
down in history as the son Of his father.
His father will not be likely to be men
toned at ALL
A Kansas volunteer registers a Wig
orcus kick because the boys in his reg
lment have been ordered to wash their
feet every day.
The Lincoln Sentinel says that If the
branch don't have better train facilities
soon that business men along the line
will boycott it.
Congressman Botkin's son Guy tried
to enlist in Company G., Twenty-second
Kansas, but was rejected because Of de-
fective eyesight.
The Abilene Chronicle (Rep.) has not
mt no1dorboodio papna of tho hand NJ
its columns and will not do so. There
are others, too.
Both light and water have been shut
off by the local company at Mcpherson.
The city would have less trouble If it
owned the plants.
Smith county Republicans are not at
all pleased over the nomination Of
Reeder for Congress. Russell county is
not satisfied either.
Justice McClintock has bound John
H. Collins over to the District court to
answer the charge of numbering his
father, ]. S. Collins.
Seven bushels of potatoes are neces-
sary for meal at the boys reform
school, and they are all raised on the
farm at the institution.
People with only fairly good memories
will note that the tone of the Republican
press toward David Overmeyer is not
just what it was in 1894
The old soldier and the negro have
rights, but in Kansas they have to go to
Governor Leedy and the POpulist party
to get proper recognition.
The Emporia Times says that the cry
Of ION, Stanley, on" has changed to a
lament of Gone, Stanley, gone," since
the Populist State convention.
Editor Herold, of the Seneca Courier
Democrat, has brother who left a
good job in an Arizona bank to join
Teddy Roosevelt's rough riders.
F. l.. Heisler, of Kansas City, who has
been associated with his father in the
publication of the Sun, is sergeant Of
Company A, Twentieth Kansas.
The contracts for the erection of the
new machine shops and electric build
ing at the State university at Lawrence
have been let to local contractors.
The Chetopa Advance (Rep.) refuses
to support Clark, the Republican NOM
ineo for County Attorney, because he is
an unfit man, morally, for the place.
AS a newspaper-one that tells all
about everything that happens-the Sa-
lima Union is great success. 1t ought
to pay well, and undoubtedly does.
o. L. Rankin editor of the Strong City
Derrick, has enlisted in Company H,
Twenty-second Kansas. Jack Crawford,
of Newton, is in charge of the paper,
A Republican paper alleges that there
is a soldier on the Republican State
ticket 1t says that it is Richter, who
was named for Lieutenant Governor.
! But this Republican paper fails to pro-