The Advocate and news., 1898-03-23

worked on a Dickinson county farmer
last week. An agent agreed to rod the
farmers house as an advertisement and
he was asked to sign an agreement to let
the agents to do the work. The permit
turned up later as note for S140 In the
hands Of an innocent purchaser.
Ex-Representative H. ]. Butler OF
Bourbon county is defaulter and re-
ceiver of an Eastern land company, Of
which he. was agent, has taken posses
sion Of his effects. The amount of the
shortage Is not yet known. Butler was
one of the members who answered to
roll call on the Douglass side in 1893.
Startling admission by the Topeka
Capital: kansas is always close up to
the band-wagon. Charley Gleed's uncle,
Harvey Fiske, of New York city, fixes
the price Of government bonds for the
whole United States. If you send to Chi
Cago to buy or sell government bonds in
any considerable quantity they will wire
Harvey Fske & Sons for the price"
A. l.. Wilson, a lawyer of Cherryvale,
who can't talk about anything but poll
tics on any sort of an occasion, and who
makes a very Indifferent job even at
that, wants the Republican nomination
for Congress in the Third district. His
home showing Is not quite such as he
would care to have it. Three Republi-
can papers of his county are supporting
other fellows.
Commenting on Charley Lobdell's sug-
gestion that Charley Curtis should have
become candidate for Congressman-at-
large, the Fort Scott Monitor says that
Curtis had better stay out OF any fight
in which the south part of the State
would get whack at him. The Moni-
tor is sore at him because he knocked
out the absolutely unnecessary judicial
district division bill
Del Valentine for private secretary,
Ewing Herbert for Railroad Commits
sioner, H. A. Perkins for State Printer,
and other Republicans of like character
are the subjects Of favorable newspaper
comment What surprise Kansas would
get If the old barnacles were left to
tramp the weeds down around the out
side, and new men without bad records
were installed in their places.
Grant Shaw thinks Mayor Hood should
appoint Ewing Herbert as Railroad'Com-
missioner in payment for his support.
II Mr. Hood is elected he will make
friends by giving the people new deal,
and he would make friends among young
Republicans by favoring Herbert, but as
Mr.. Hood has only one vote on the Rail-
road Commissioner matter it is not like
ly that he will appoint any one.
Frank L. Brown, who became secre-
tary of the Republican StaLe committee
by means which are wearying to a
large number of the party members,
knows all about how things are go
ing this year. He swells up and tells
the Mail and Breeze that the Republi-
cans are never beaten in off years, and
that the people are longing for a. chance
to turn down the rotten Leedy admins
tration." ...
The Kingman Leader-COurier, Mort
Albaugh's paper, asserts that DR.. Pitcher,
who was LeWelling's worst appointee, is
retained by the Leedy administration to
lend respectability to the rest of the
crowd Mort Albaugh, who was men,
ber Of MorrilPs Board of Charities,
signed a very warm recommendation Of
III. TllCuSIJ dlI6L having LCIdluSu Hlh
as Superintendent of the Winfield insti-
tuition for several months.
Two patrons of the Lebanon creamery
suspicioned that the tester was not fair
one and loaded two cans for the purpose
of finding out. After filling two cans
about half full of milk, one was filed up
with water and the other with cream.
When taken to the creamery the report
of the water can showed the highest test
The Attorney General was asked for in
formation as to how to proceed to get
justice. He replied that they had better
water all Of the cans.
At the Shawnee Republican convention
to name Congressional delegates, Col
onel Alexander, veteran in the Repub-