The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-15
JAYHAWKER Jors.

The registration at the state univers-
ity has already passed the 500 mark
Prof Dyche, of the state university,
is out in California catching birds for
his museum
Golf has broken out in the state uni
versity, and a chair in Scotch dialect
will soon be established.
Out at Hutchinson trolley rides on
the horse cars are becoming fashiOna-
bic among the Four Hundred.
During the past ten years Ewing
Herbert says he has donated 81 900 for
the good Of the Republican party.
The BeIoit high school has already
organized a football team and has chal-
lenged any other high school in the
state.
"A combination of capital to control
prices should beget a combination of
voters to control capital" is the way
Governor Eskridge looks at it.
When Will White works off that anti
trust speech of his up at Chicago, it
will be a wonder if he doesn't work in
an ad for the EmpOria street fair.
The Leavenworth council refused to
grant w. F. Winner franchise for his
power house in that city, and now he
threatens to take it to Lawrence.
John Padgett, of company NJ of the
Twentieth, a son of Col. J. H Padgett,
of the Salina Herald, writes home to
his parents that he intends to remain in
Manila and work on newspaper.
Fred Collier and E ". Tatman have
owned the Joplin Herald just two
weeks and they have already started n
movement for Greater Joplin
That's the way men from Kansas do
things.
The Wichita Beacon pronounces E.
F. Brown Moses BrOwn-the Du
Patty de Clam of fusion politics in KaI,-
sas, and it casts its eyes around mys-
teriOusly and wonders who the Ester
hay is.
A Kansas City firm will feed $4,000
head of sheep at Solomon this winter.
There are enough cattle and sheep fed
in that vicinity each winter to make
the local price of corn two and three
cents higher than the market price
Governor Eskridge was something of
a monopolist himself forty years ago.
He was county clerk. register of deeds,
clerk of the United States court, clerk
of the district court, deputy postmas-
ter and notary public, all at one and
I the same time
Abilene is rejoicing at the prospect
of a war between Emporia and Salina
over their respective street fairs and
the Reflector says: THE Emporia Ga
zette refers to Salinas dirty midway
and says EmpOria could have got 81, 600
license If it would allow the outfit in
! town. Naughty, naughty Salina."
The waterworks out at Greensburg
Kiowa county, which originally cost
$37 900, have just been sold to Alva, Ok
lahOma, for $1,000. They We're put in
during the boom days in the short
grass country, when Greensburg expect
ed to be a great metropolis. By the
time the WaterWOrkS were finished the
boom collapsed, and nearly everybody
/ left Greensburg- There We're not
enough people left to run the water
works, but when it was shut down it
was well taken care of, and now the
Oklahoma people get q good second
I hand system cheap for cash, but they
Will have TO replant it.
A Junction City loan agent ran uD
against an eye-opener last week. An
acres over in the edge of Dickinson on
a $1,000 loan There have been several
men wanting prices on it. When Nj
/ Pierce wrote for a price the owner re-
fused to price it, and in explanation