The Advocate and news., 1898-02-23
CONCERNING KANSAS.
BY ]. W. MoRPHY.

Madison will experiment in gas and
oil drilling.
The court house at Burlington has
been condemned.
Representative Bennett, Of Dickinson
county, Is quite sick.
Seven Sixth district Republican edi-
tors have been given postofflCes.
The Sixth district Populist convention
will meet at Smith Center, June Z.
Wyandotte silverItes seem to favor
Congressman Peters denomination.
The Hlawatha World says that Brown
county will elect a Hood delegation.
Brown Of Pratt expresses his willing
ness to vote for the Leedy railroad bill.
Judge Houk, who formerly presided in
the Newton district, died in Chicago re-
Gently
The Pittsburg Daily Tribune runs de-
partment printed in the French Ian
guage.
The municipal ownership fight at lola
is still going on at Presidential cam
paign gait.
The lola schools are crowded and pu-
pills under six years of age are refused
admission.
Senator Harris has been elected chair
man of the Populist Congressional cam
paign committee.
T. H. Brundage has sold his interest
in the FL Dorado Advocate to Artie Pef-
fey, Of that city.
Senator Cooke very sensibly believes
that special session, II called, should
not last longer than a week.
The Lawrence Gazette says that the
Leedy railroad bill is fair to the roads
and just what the people want.
The Smith county examining board
did right in revoking the certificate of a
teacher who used liquor to excess.
The formal order dismissing the New
York Life from the Hillmon case has
been approved by Federal Judge Will
liams
Steps are being taken to construct the
bridge across the Kaw at Lecompton
which was authorized by the last Legis-
lature.
The Wa-Keeney Independent Is taking
n poll of Trego county on the scalp
bounty question, About four to one favor
the bounty.
Salina has been agitated over a pro-
posed prize fight but public sentiment
was too strongly opposed to 1t and 1t
did not occur.
There Is no reason that any sane man
can give why counties should pay cent
Of commission to agents who handle re-
funding bonds.
w. Il. Stanley, Republican candidate
for Governor, Cultivates strawberry bed
in his back yard and his friends are rat
ing him as farmer.
The Kansas Cattlemen's Association is
new organization with Headquarters
at Abilene, where a convention will be
held March 22 and %.
News" and not "views," is what Tom
Highley, of the Paola Times, believes
that newspaper readers want. Thomas
Is unQuestiOnably right.
F. T. Shepard has sold the Meriden
Ledger to George w. COnnell and II. C.
Chacey, Mr. Connell was formerly with.
Crane & Co. at Topeka.
The A. o. U. w. grand lodge Is in ses-
sion at Wichita this week. The pro-
posed classified assessment plan will be
considered at this session.
The Sixth district Republican commit
tee will meet at Colby March 10 to select
a place and date for the convention.
Smith Center wants it.
A Beloit man says that he has inter
viewed about a hundred men of free
silver proclivities and they all favor
Webb McNall for Congress
A rock pile Is to be an attachment Of
the Washington county Jail in the fu-
ture. The Commissioners think that ex-
ercise is good thing for prisoners.
Dispatches state that Indiana parties