The Advocate and news., 1899-01-18

~
cratic paper.
Ellsworth BARRIERS will do no more
Sunday work.
Rock salt has been struck at Troy at
depth OF 1853 feet
Attorney General GODDARD will retire
from the Collins case.
w. r. Burroughs, OF Marysville, has
mysteriously disappeared.
Judge ]. Herrick will go to Omaha,
where he will write book.
One hundred head Of Gillett cattle we're
recently found near Topeka.
The Hutchinson Commercial Club is
going after an opera house.
The new set Of stations for st. Bene-
diets Church, Atchison, cost $1,000.
A number Of officers OF the Twenty
third Kansas are home on furloughs.
Pat DOlan, of the board of charities, is
seriously Ill at Christ hospital, Topeka
Governor Stanley has 1000 applicants
from which to pick out 800 Office-hOlders
Ex-secretary Of State Bush is acting as
clerk of the senate committee on print
ing.
Judge A. H. Horton seems to be the
leading candidate for Judge Fosters
place
s. II. Dodge has turned over half
interest In the Beloit Gazette to his son,
George.
The annual Oratorical contest of Kan
sas colleges will be held at ottawa Feb
ruary "a.
The school book trust and the stock
yards are getting 1t from the Missouri
legislature.
There is possibility that the present
legislature will pass the Breidenthal
banking bill.
Battery B, Fourth United States artil-
leSy, has returned to Fort Riley from
Savannah, Ga.
The Brown County Farmers Institute
has an excellent program arranged for
January 24-26.
F.. B. Dawes thinks that twenty-five
days is long enough for the legislature
to be in session.
A Galena man lost COW twenty years
ago, but found her again the other day.
She had had nothing to eat In the In
terim and was dead
e. B. Cowgirl, of the Kansas Farmer,
Is q candidate for Democratic member OF
the Court Of Visitation.
The only woman reporting this ses-
sion OF the Legislature Is Miss Louise Du-
ley Of the Cherryvale Union.
There were 300 birds on exhibition at
the frst exhibition of the Delphos Pet
Stock and Poultry Association.
Governor Stanley has shut down on the
reorganization of the X. N. G. until he
can appoint an adjutant general.
Thayer will vote on issuing $4,000 OF
bonds to put in city natural gas plant.
The vote will be taken February IA.
Webb McNall will not resign from
ONCE Immediately as some newspaper
reporter has been trying to make out.
The Miami County Good Roads Asso-
citation is talking Of trying the crude
petroleum treatment on roads near Pa
ola.
Miss Grace McGrew, of Emporia who
was stenographer for the late G. s. Cross,
will be private secretary to Associate
Justice Smith.
Gamblers are protected in Kansas City,
Kans., under license Of $4,000 year.
Topeka whist players went to Kansas
City Saturday for a defeat
The crack Atchison base ball player Is
now working ON farm for $40 month.
His pay is surer but the muscles OF his
mouth have lost their firmness.
4 Mort Albaugh has been appointed re-
ceiver of the Emporia National bank
Two Topekans committed suicide be-
cause OF despondeney, last week.
DR.. w. w. Cochrane, one of the oldest
and best citizens Of Atchison, died Sat
urday. He was, nearly eighty years old
and cameto Kansas forty years ago.
Miss JULIA Fitzgerald, of Kansas City,
has been made stenOgrapher for the