The Advocate and news., 1898-06-22

The illness of his father has called
Congressman Vincent to his home at
Clay Center
John M. Steele, formerly city editor
OF the Leayenworth Times, has enlisted
as n private.
The hearing In the coal rate cases
before the railroad commissioners be-
gan Tuesday.
q. q. Clemens will speak at Scammon
Labor day and at Phllipsburg on the
Fourth Of July.
Harry Morris, son of Auditor Morris,
| has enlisted as a private in the Twen-
tieth regiment.
The State Board of Charities let con-
tracts for supplies for the various insti-
tutions Tuesday
Judge Botkin, who has been appointed
assistant adjutant general, has been Or.
dered to Chickamauga.
Chester I. Long has appointed but six
old soldiers to places and has turned
down more than forty.
The Twenty-second Kansas has nor,
yet been supplied with guns. The gov
OAhheuI ID mlBuJy SLOW.
The usual number of graduates Of
Kansas colleges have been turned out
during the past few weeks.
All of the reports from recruiting Of.
ficers indicate that little trouble is had
in securing the desired number.
p. B. Gillett has been nominated for.
district Judge by the Republicans in the.
kingman- Barber Harper district.
The idea of State insurance was sug.
gested in Governor Lewelllngs first
message to the Legislature, in 1893.
Ratification meetings for the Repub-
lican candidates for State offices were
held at their various homes last week.
Measles, bad weather, heat and vac
cination had 315 Of the boys of the
Twenty-seCond on the sick list last Mon
day.
Coroner v. T. Boaz, of Crawford coun-
ty, has enlisted in the Twentieth Kansas
and will go to San Francisco. He has [
resigned.
Private Lynn Hilliker, Of Lawrence. !
who came home to assist in recruiting,
availed himself Of the opportunity to get
married. 4
Under the Kansas banking law banks J
are closely restricted as to Investments
but they are permitted to buy govern
ment bonds.
More than the desired number of re-
crults were obtained at Atchison, and
much the same condition existed at all
of the towns. 49, "a
OF about sixty tTamps at Emporia it
is reported that but three accepted jobs
which were offered in the track depart
meRt of the Santa Fe.
MePherson's light and water plants
have both been shut down owing to a
fight with the city government as to the
terms upon which the same shall be fur
nished
James L. Green, an Oswego boy who'
captured and shot near Cardenas re-
Gently He went to Cuba in the Gussie,
expedition.
Assistant Attorney General Snelling-
says that the eight-hour day don't apply
to Sheriffs and that they can't collect
mileage for three days for twenty-four'
hours service.
w. F. Rightmire, who will be remem-
bered as having been nominated for
Chief Justice in 1890, when nobody knew
him, has become Republican and is in
the Stanley band wagon.
Since their present terms began Con-
gressmen Botkin and Curtis have at
tended the funerals of their fathers, and
now Congressman Vincent is called
from his seat by the serious illness Of
his father.
A mob hung John NJ. Becker at Great
Bend, June 13. He killed Miss Myrtle
Hoffmeister some months ago. The i'm.
mediate cause of the mob's action was,
the granting OF a change Of venue to,