The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-29
JAYHAWKER Jors.

Wichita preachers have started a
crusade against Sunday band concerts.
This is the time of year when harvest
hands are in great demand out in CEN
trail Kansas
An Oklahoma town has been named
Funston. There is already a settlement
in Allen county by that name.
Whenever a Kansas ball club ticks
the club in the town next to it, it
claims the championship of the state.
Billy Deford, who is now located at
st. Joe, is going to turn loose lot of
oratory at Burlington on the Fourth.
A state university professor is going
out into western Kansas to experiment
in grating death into the grasshopper.
Out in Wichita county, Frank Grimes
county, the Populist county central
committee has issued a call "to reor-
ganiZe the party"
Highland Station in Doniphan county
claims distinction because it is estima-
ted that 100 people gather at the joint
there each Sunday.
The Wichita man who tried to COM
nit suicide by taking a mixture of soap
and sapolio, is now accused of doing it
as an advertisement dodge
1t cost an ottawa girl 25 to steal
a 24-cent hustle. Old newspapers would
have answered the purpose just as we'll
and would have been much cheaper.
Wichita women are worked up to a
high pitch of curiosity. The men have
a club which they call THE Knights of
Del Gynero," and they refuse to tell
their wives what the name signifies.
Junction City is wrestling with the
question of location for a new court
house. If a good one cannot be found
there, Topeka will have a few auditor
ium sites left over which might be pro-
cured.
Ex-Governor Humphrey has fused
with Boyle, Bush and BOtkin in declar-
ing q certain patent medicine a good
thing, and is having his picture printed
in the newspapers in consequence
What would eastern people think of a
town completely fenced in with barb
wire-not to keep cattle in the town,
but to keep them from getting in. The
town of Coolidge, out in the cattle cOun-
try, is situated that way.
The Methodists of Hiawatha ran an
excursion to LeavenwOrth to see the
penitentiary. Ewing Herbert says that
if he has to go to the penitentiary at all
in company with the sheriff.
Saline county Republicans are talking
of nominating Clyde Wilson, who is
now shooting Filipinos as a member of
company NJ, Twentieth Kansas, for
sheriff this fall. Clydes brother was
killed at Manila about two months ago.
There is a movement on foot in Kan
sas to do away with the old-fashiOned
Fourth OF July exercises. It's a bad
idea No matter if no one does listen
to them "a Fourth of July without the
Declaration of Independence and an
"Oration' would be no Fourth of July
at all.
An unregenerate sinner at Abilene
put a pewter medal resembling a silver
dollar into a collection basket. The
pastors countenance lighted with joy
when he first saw it, but it fell again
when he discovered that it was an ad-
Vertisement for a Kentucky whisky
house.
Salina claims to be the educational
center of Kansas. 1t has college, a
normal school, a military school, a bus
mess college, a private school for boys
Philips-a school of oratory, a school of
telegraphy, a Catholic seminary, and a
conservatory of music. each separate
| from the other, and all in their own
l buildings except two