The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-17
JAYHAWKER JoTs.

The Wichita Eagle is "agin" bicyc-
les.
The jointists get off easy at Troy.
The monthly assessment is only $40.
VIII White runs a half column of
Boys News" each day in the Emporia
Gazette.
Bin White claims that the Kansas
City base ball team was afraid to
come to EmpOry-'
The Wichita Eagle has already con-
victed Johnson Jordan of completely in
the Mcfarland murders.
Judge Peters refers to ''the old sour
visage on the Ottawa Herald" Who
is his old sOur-visa geship?
Out of 1O6 applicants for teachers GER
tifcates in Franklin county, only "a
passed at the recent examination.
The Catholic church at Solomon has
a new bell weighing 10 900 pounds, and
it hangs nearly 100 feet above the
ground
A Union Pacific land agent at Ellis
claims to have sold 20 sections in the
Ellis county gold fields to an English
syndicate.
An oldest inhabitant'' at Junction
City says that all years ending with
'9'' are good corn years. He claims to
have watched the rule since 1853.
AS soon as Chancellor Snow gets a
chance to diagnose the kisser bug it
will probably be discovered that it be-
longs to the same family as the hUsk-
ing bee.
Last year a Kansas man named his
baby Dewey This year he had oc-
casion to use another name, and of
course it was Funston. The next one
he has in mind is Jeffries.
A serial story headed, County Com
missiOners' Proceedings" IS having
run in the Kansas papers this week. 1t
will soon be time for that other serial
so popular with publishers entitled, De
linquent Tax List"
A doubIe-column black head in the
Champion says "AtchisOn IS Forging
Atchison would better not get caught
at it-a lot of people are living at Ian
sing just because they got caught do
ing that same thing.
Henry Allen says an old maid in OF
tawa is so afraid of Kisser bugs that
she sleeps with her head buried in her
pillow. That may be what she says,
but the first bug that happens her way
will find out different
Vic Murdock: The story that Cy Le-
land trembled like a hunk of jelly in a
J thunder storm when he heard that Joe
Hudson was to get back on the To-
peka Capital. is too beautiful to be lost
A 1eWeler should set it in a ring and
present it to Leland.
The Whiting Journal gets mad at
Ewing Herbert because he poked a lit
( tie jujstifiable fun at it, and it threat
ents to tell something on him 1t
insinuates in q mean way that Herbert
did not give the pipe organ to the Con-
/ gregatiOnal church at Hiawatha, as
| people suppose he did.
While most of the state of Kansas is
/ kicking because it is under water, the
1 southern part of Sheridan county is
complaining of the same old drouth 1t
4 has known in other years. One ranch
man there has 5000 head Of cattle, and
/ it keeps three gasoline engines and
1 several windmills pumping water all
/ the time for them.
| The Kinsley Mercury tells of a farm
er who settled in Edwards county in
/ 1885 with $500 and a lot of grit. He took
/ a homestead, bought a yoke of oxen
! and a breaking pillow. Now he has $50
( acres partly fenced 800 acres under cul-
! tivation, % acres of forest trees. a four
! acre orchard, good buildings, a granarv
that viii hold 5000 bushels of grain, a
| lot of stock, and last but not least, q
| Kansas girl for a wife.