The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-30
IAYHAWKER JoTs.

Salina will employ thirty-six extra
police during her street fair.
Ness City is trying the reward-for-
evidence plan Of closing the joints.
Jetmore can not afford a street fair
but it will have a ten days camp meet
ing.
lola denies that it is going to be jeal-
Gus of Chanute, even if Chanute does
claim the best gas wells.
The summer of 1899 will be famous in
winds failed to connect with the corn
crop.
The Allen county fair will begin the
same day that Fred Funston starts for
home. 1t ought to be postponed for
him.
An Uncle Toms Cabin show has al
ready started the season in Kansas and
little Eva is dying successfully every
night.
The Hutchinson News suggests that
the best thing that could happen in the
French army would be a lot of funerals
among the general officers.
The latest corn story from northern
Kansas is that the corn is so high the
wind is shut off from the windmills,
and the farmers have to pump water
by hand for their stock
Major Hood has 10000 cattle in pas
ture and they have advanced a cent
a pound in price during the last month.
Governor Stanley would probably like
to trade places with him now.
Salina is trying to draw a crowd for
its street fair by advertising a midway
with all kinds of naughty things and
says that the manager is bound by a
contract to show all that he adver-
tises."
Prof. Bartholomew, of Rocks county,
has been engaged to do some work for
the ''Uredinae Americana ct IcOnes.'
If you want to know what that is ask
some one who knows or look it up for
yourself.
women Instead of using pigeons to
shoot at, the club will use ostriches,
. and each member will have all the
feathers from each bird she shoots on
the wing or anywhere else.
A circus sneaked into lola Saturday
without the Register knowing anything
about it, and Charley Scott openly ad-
mitS it. The outfit consisted of ten
wagons, two bears, thirty horses and
mules, six goats and dogs, and a band
of seven pieces that played one tune all
the time and was the Whole parade in
itself.
Lawrence World: We have heard of
people being three in a bed thick,
but the news Of the wreck near Kansas
City Saturday told that Cy Leland,
Billy Edwards, and Nat Barnes were
all three sitting in one seat when the
accident happened That's thickness
for you, and at the same time it is sug-
/ gestive that after all the train may
1 have just tipped over.
How these two items from the Mime
/ apolis Messenger and the Beloit Ca
zette viii make old Sol Miller roar
that is, if the Gazette and Messenger
circulate where Sol is. Governor Rid
4 die says; 1T may be treason, but if it
/ is, make the most of it. The Troy Chief
under Jack Schan's management is a
better paper than it ever was during
Sol AIiller's time 1t is now one of the
best country papers in the state" And
/ then Dodge adds this comment in the
Gazette: 1T is all right to say it now
/ but if any one had intimated that the
/ Chief was not a great county paper
I while Sol Miller was alive, he would
/ surely have been branded as traitor.
/ Yet there were hundreds of papers all
! over the country which excelled ii ev-
| cry week in the year in all that goes TO
1 make a country newspaper. The Chief
was good place to find vulgarity and
! abuse of somebody or something. And
J all western Kansas came in for a full
share of the latter, without sense or
reason in his bestoWment."