The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-08
JAYHAWKER JoTs.

| Judge Peters refers to Hutchinson as
"Salttown."
Newton has a Kamera FRANKS KIub.
It's object is to shoot people
The postoffice at Wakeman, McPher-
son county, has been discontinued.
Atchison has scored again: A kisser
| bug has been captured there, the first
| one west of the Missouri.
The Atchison county normal, which
| opened this week, was attended by only
| IS teachers on the first day
A Pittsburg boy played with a powder
| key this week and what there was left
of him attended his own funeral the
next day.
Kansas editors are now roaring be-
| cause the type trust has advanced the
price of printers materials from so to
100 per cent.
Atchison county has refunded 1921, 600
of its z per cent bonds at 4 per cent. A
| saving of nearly $1,000 year in interest
is not SO bad.
Two lola women are making fancy
sunfiOwers to be presented to the boys
of the Twentieth Kansas on their re-
turn from Manila. They intend to make
one for every soldier.
The fact that New York is suffering
from a drOuth while Kansas has an
abundance of rain causes one to doubt
the Biblical saying that the rain faIIeth
on the just and the unjust alike.
Bill Hoffer Of the Lincoln Sentinel,
who ran for congress on the Democratic
ticket last fall, has been accused of
wanting the fusion nomination for sec
rotary of state, but he denies it.
A CoffeyvilIe breaches preached from
the text, Let US watch and be sober"
Some congregations might get mad if
their minister limited that they ever did
any other way than the latter part of
the text.
Just think of this: The mayor of Ell
Dorado publishes a card of thanks,
thanking all because they behaved
themselves on the Fourth as 1t was
their duty to do, instead Of getting
drunk and raising cain.
Mrs. Krebs, the Junction City woman
who was sent to the penitentiary for
numbering anOtherwOman a few months
ago, is said to be much better both in
strength and spirits than she was when
she first took up her residence at Ian
sing.
GaIena has a Girls Bachelor club
which has resolved to marry none but
Twentieth Kansas soldiers. If all the
Kansas girls who have made this reso-
luton stay by it, there will be a lot
of old maids or bigamists in Kansas in
ten years from now.
Henry Allen says editorially that the
Fourth at Ottawa was a failure because
there were no old-fashiOned exercises,
with the Declaration of Independence
and an "oration.'' There wasn't even a
flag in the hall where exercises were
supposed to be held.
John A. Reynolds and Ed WEIGH have
purchased the Wichita Register, Ger
aid Voll1s paper, and will hereafter
issue it as a Republican weekly, be-
ginning today Reynolds is an old time
Newton newspaper man and WEIGH is
a son of Represeltativ WEIGH of Har-
vey county.
Kansas City will have to raise $4,000
to secure the national Democratic con-
ventiOn The people of Kansas may
expect to receive some proposition from
Kansas City in the near future whereby
the amount Will be assessed to the var
ioUs Kansas towns. That is the way
the Sni Hill town does business.
The Denver Pest poet, who evidently
knows a thing or two about Kansas
girls, takes his pen in hand and writes
the following:
We have heard the cheering story that
our soldiers in their glory yer the
oceans waves will soon be coming
back back, back
And our pretty, patient sheroes wait to
greet the gallant heroes in enthus-
astic manner with a smack
smack smack
One of the first bills that was rushed
through the legislature last winter was
one ena bling Lincoln county to erect a
new court house in the place of the one
that had Just burned down. It was
stated that the building had to be erect
ed Immediately to make place to keep
the county records, and the bill could
not wait its turn, but had to be rushed
through the first thing. The county has
no court house yet and there is no pros
pect of one for some time to come.