The Advocate and news., 1898-08-03

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Nearly all of the young men who are
In charge Of Kansas creameries came
from or were educated in other States.
The dairy school at the State Agricul-
tural college is designed to educate Kan
sas boys within their own State for these
positions and to make skilled dairymen
of them.
When Charley Sessions, the Kansas
City Journals Topeka correspondent,
has dull news day, he discovers some
imaginary Populist or Democrat who
has been personally assured by Gov
ernOr Leedy that he will re-establish
the metropolitan police system the day
after election.
Father Eskridge says that the reports
that he has sold the Emporia Republican
are like Mark Twains statement with
reference to reports Of his own death
they are greatly exaggerated He says
that everything he has Is for sale or
trade, but that up to date he has no
deals to report.
Ed Little Is being abused now because
he replied to the Topeka Karnival
Knights that, having been in four con-
tinents, he believed that there were none
like Kansas queens, and he advised that
neither Hawaiian or Philippine queen
be imported. His critics insist that he is
boasting wretch.
When Dave Leahy lived in Wichita
his residence was on Morris street.
There was another street in the same
city of the some name and the compli-
cations which arose had bad influence
on Dawes usual good nature. He is
now petitioning the Mayor to change
the name Of his street to Dewey avenue.
Lew Headley, of the Gaylord Herald
(Rep) apologies for the failure to re-
deem any Of the promises made in 1890
by saying that The Republicans of
Kansas did some mighty foolish things
in 1890, it is true, for the party was
dominated that year by the worst gang
of political shysters any State was ever
cursed with"
The write-ups of officers of the COL
ored companies in the Twenty-third
Kansas in the last Colored Citizen indi-
cate one thing very clearly. Colored men
can be trusted to govern themselves.
almost without exception the officers are
men Of education and training which
peculiarly fits them for the duties which
they have been called on to perform.
Fletcher Helms, who was one of Sher-
iff Cooks deputy sheriffs in Shawnee
county and who was released with an in
significant fine in case in which he was
charged with holding up disorderly
houses for money which was not prop
erly accounted for, has been Tearrested
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protested against such lenient treatment.
Two nephews of Gen. Joe Wheeler live
in Smith county. Their name is Swal-
| low, and one of them was a private in
the Union army in an Indiana regiment
The regiment was captured at Cumber-
land Gap. Swallow recognized General
| Wheeler when he came down the line
after the surrender. The general prompt
ly paroled him and sent him home to
! his mother.
Corporal John d. Rhodes, Troop d.
rough riders, who is specially commend
ed for his gallant conduct at La Qua
sina, by Colonel Roosevelt, is a Kan
sas boy, having lived at Caldwell. He
was wounded and sent back to the hos
pital, but at night he slipped away and
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The captain arrested him, but Colonel
Roosevelt thought that his determina-
tion to fight was worthy of commenda-
tion and he was released.
Shortly after the Kansas colored vol
unteers went into camp white man,
giving his name as Capt. A. H. Allison,
a retired army officer, appeared and Of
fered to help the new officers drill their
men. He took a lively interest, asked
no pay, and proved to be a very useful
man. The government commissary en-
ployes did not take liking to him and
it was intimated that he was an impos-
ter. They now assert that it is their
belief that he is a government detective,
who has been detailed to watch the Op-
! aratinns of the cnmmissarY dAnartment