The Topeka state journal., 1899-11-23
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The Chanute Tribune warns its sub
scribers that it has a big surprise in
store for them.
A boy soprano" is touring Southern
Kansas.
Ed. Greer must be making money. He
is not printing any politics in his paper
now.
Chester Longs private secretary is
writing letters to Seventh district pa
pers.
There is a golf club at Hutchinson.
but Billy Morgan has not learned the
game.
Kansas politicians evidently believe
in trusts. The latest is a, combination
of bosses to down the other bosses
wouldn't it be fun to see a man like
Charley Finch governor? Every profess
sional politician in the state would be
out of a. job.
Kansas has some of the brightest wO-
men editors in the country, but they al
lowed ingalls, to slander their sex with
out talking back.
A man in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
has given Bethany college at Linds-
borg a half section of land, and it is not
in the sand hills either.
The editor of the Horton Leader has
taken his life in his hands by boldly
asserting that the father Of a Powhat-
tan rival was arrested for being drunk.
a Greenwood county man files a claim
to fame because he raised fifty bushels
of onions, each one of which averaged
u inches in circumference and a pound
in weight.
Newton gets enjoyment by pondering
over the times when things took a
backward turn and nearly all her
banks closed their doors. Newton is on
the upgrade now.
In a quarrel in the Winfield city
council over a shooting gallery the
shooting gallery advocates won. Win
field does not propose to allow her peO-
pie to forget how to fire a rifle.
The Salina Union announces that
hereafter cards of thanks and ''reso-
lutiOns of coincidence" will he charged
for at advertising rates. The Union
man has nerve and he is right.
Up at Salina the council has refused
to give the A. D. T. a franchise to de-
liver notes and parcels. This is a di-
rect slap at the young women and men
who will have to continue to leave their
love miSsives in unsuspectiug tin cans.
Walnut Valley Times: The people are
bound to kick A man who was in the
! Times office today said he raised 5000
bushels of corn on 100 acres. He was
glad that he had raised a good crop, but
said with a sigh that it was awful hard
on the land
Salina has evidently outgrOwn the
Uncle Tom age, as the following from
the Republican-JOur indicates
THE Uncle Tom show that appeared at
the opera house last night was the
bummiest affair that has been in Salina
Tor good many years II was a rake
from start to finish
Charley Finch thinks that Chester
! Long will queer himself in the Seventh
| district if he persists in his deteTmina-
| tfon to work for the Nicaragua canal,
I because it is the idea of the Seventh
! district that the inter-Oceanic canal
! should follow up the Arkansas river to
| its source and then cut across the
! country to the Pacific. Any attempt
I to destroy this plan will meet with de-
/ feat at the hands Of the Seventh dis
/ trict voters.
! Historic item by Ewing Herbert: The
/ old Highly hotel burned at Troy Tues
| day morning. was originally the first
! court house in the county. It was in
/ early days a One-stOry frame structure
| situated on the block north of the pub
! lie square. In this building Abraham
! Lincoln was welcomed by the people of
| northeastern Kansas in 1859 and there
/ he made a characteristic speech. Also
| where he entertained his admirers with
! his feet resting on the judicial bench
/ Jim Lane, John Brown, Judge Petit
| Judge lie COmpte and many others
celebrated in the early history Of Kan
/ sas, were visitors at this historic old
/ court house, a small, unpretentious
| building, which was transformed into
| a hotel by the late Charles Highly, who
/ was known the county over as a mOst
hospitable landlord.