The Advocate and news., 1898-03-09
BY J. W. MoRPHY.

mercial club and Is fOur-horse team
all by himself.
Olathe has granted a franchise to |
gas company which is to supply gas b!
drilling a well or piping IL from Osa
watomie within a year.
Thirteen of the seventeen business
houses in Bern, Nemaha county, were
destroyed by fire last week. Five resi-
dences were also burned.
Bishop Hennessey, of Wichita, says
that he does not intend to move from
Wichita. Parsons and Pittsburg were
anxious to have him reside with them.
Stanley, of Wichita, who has taken out
his first papers in the gubernatorial con-
test, was member Of the Legislature In
1888. This Is the only Office he has held
The boom notices OF its editor which
appear in the Washington Post-Register
must get wearisome to its readers. A
little Of that sort Of thing goes long
way.
j. d. Bowersock, Of Lawrence, has an
nounced his candidacy for the Republi-
can nomination for Congress. He is a
wealthy man and has held few local
Offices
The Sabine Pass people have walked
up to the fact that people are not run
ming after them to learn about their
town and have inaugurated low-rate ex-
cursiOns.
1t lis a little surprising to find nine
quotations from Thomas Jefferson In the
editorial columns of one issue Of the
Emporia Daily Republican. Can such
things be?
War has been declared at Wichita.
The Eagle and Beacon are having dis
cussion of the question Of circulation.
That sort Of thing Is worse than a
county printing row.
A. r. Fisher, of Garfield, Washington,
has bought the Pleasanton Herald. J.
=. Latimer, who has grown up from boy
hood in the Office, will become Assist
ant State Librarian.
The fact that there is no possible
chance for a Republican to go to Con-
gFess from the Third district is probably
the reason why there Is so little oppo-
sitiOn to kirkpatrick.
The Lincoln Beacon prints card say
ing that 1t is authorized to announce
that ex-Congressman William Baker
will not under any circumstances be a
candidate for Governor.
When Fred Funston spoke in Topeka
last week seventy-One men occupied
seats on the platform. The AtchisOn
Globe wonders il he feared that the au
dience might attack him.
Billy Morgan thinks that If Ferdinand
and Isabella had foreseen the present
trouble that they would never have
grubstaked Columbus for his expedi-
tion to discover America.
The petition of citizens of Horton
asking the council to call an election to
vote on the question of buying the wa
terworks lacked seventeen names of hav-
ing the requisite number.
After taking considerable testimony
Referee Nettels reports that he is unable
to find any property belonging to Mar
shal w. Il. Sterne upon which to levy
to satisfy q $4,000 Judgment.
Conner Davies and Fl. N. Gaines both
deny that they are candidates for the
Populist nomination for Congress. There
seems to be no opposition to Congress
manz Vincents denomination.
About two months ago William Samp-
son, son Of w. B. Sampson of the Salina
Republican, Journal, went to Alaska, to
become postmaster Of Skaguay. He died
February rs Of spinal meningitis,
The announcement OF ex-State Super
intendent Stanley of his desire to again
fill his old position leads Topeka Re-
publican to observe that Some men
never know when they are dead"
The Atchison Globe says that If the
reports from other counties are as ac-
curate as the one that Charley Curtis
will get four votes in Atchison county
that Mr.. Curtis is not in the race at all.
Frank T. BROWN hos more frinnHs in