The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-06
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SaI1na has a poultry association Win
So members.
The Red Men have organized u new
tribes in Kansas in the past year.
The mortgage releases in sedgwiclz
county this year will aggregate over
million dollars.
A Populist candidate in Lyon county
forgot to register and now the other
fellows are poking fun at him
The Burlington Jeffersonian faithful
ly calls peoples attention to the fact
when prayer meeting night rolls around.
Charley Lobden has applied for di-
vorce from his wife in the Lane county
district court, and Mrs. Lobdeu is re-
sisting it.
If the fusionists do not nominate
Bryan next year, the Wichita Eagle
suggests that their candidate may be
Senator Harris.
Emporia comes forward with another
claim on fame because a boy who used
to go to school down there has just had
a rib broken in a football game at
Princeton.
Abilene Democrat: Five hundred and
fifty mules were recently shipped from
Fort Riley to San Francisco in 80 cars.
But there is plenty of contrariness left
yet in the state.
lola Register: In years to come Kan
sas matrons will trot their infants on
their knees and say: Yes, baby, first
met and loved your papa during the
Topeka reception"
A man who used to live in Emporia is
a nephew of Cecil Rhodes, and he has
gone to the Transvaal to join his uncle,
which gives EmpOria a claim to glory
in the South African war.
An Abilene man almost had a stroke
of paralysis not long ago because
former employe, now living in the east
sent him dollar to pay for corn which
the employee had stolen for him years
ago.
Out in Ellinwood the Republican and
Democratic candidates for township
trustee formed a combination and are
furnished the horse and the other the
cart.
The Mcpherson Republican says that
a physician OF that place recently sent
out statements of a lot of accounts that
We're long past due. One of them was
returned by the postmaster labeled,
Died; left no address,"
The creamery at Woodbine was burn
burglars secured most of the surplus
cash in the town. The people are be-
ginning to think that GiIlett' hoodOoed"
the town when he left.
viii White claims that Emporia girls
stood at a distance and simply looked
at the soldier boys when they came
through that town, while in towns far
Their west the girls attacked them with
scissors to secure buttons.
Felt Snyder. a Wichita rag picker
who was at one time worth $4,000, ac-
cidentally set fire to his Shanty while
he was drunk last week. When the
flames were extinguished his charred
body was found in the ruins.
One of the literary societies at the
state normal has a. gaveI made from a
piece of the Flagstaff of Admiral
MOntOjOS flagship, the Maria Christina.
The gaVel was brought from Manila by
Lieut.. left, of the Twentieth Kansas, a
former normal student.
In order to secure $1,000 donation
for the Kansas Wesleyan university
the citizens of Salina will have to raise
900. a half dozen business men got
together the other day and put up 49,
500 of the amount in a few minutes,
w w. Watson alone giving $1,000.
Those are the kind of men that build
UP town.
Matrimonial story from the Arkansas
City Traveller: Up at Winfield not long
ago an old man about so married a girl
not quite 20. While the ceremony was
being performed the young man who
OBLIGATED at the organ was playing
some of that soft and gentle music and
suddenly wandered into the strains of
December and May" The wedding
was delayed a few moments while the
explanations were made.
George RasdelI, a Leavenworth coun-
ty man has lust returned from spend
ing five years in South Africa He
thinks the TransVaal war will last for
years before the Beers are defeated,
because they are of a disposition which
will not give in. He says Pretoria, the
capital of the Transvaal. is so strongly
fortified that it would take an army of
100000 men to capture it, and that the
Beers have planted cannon every place
there is room for one, and have am
munitiOn and supplies enough to last
for years.
William Speer, youngest son of John
Speer, the pioneer Kansan, died at his
home in Wichita last week. At the time
of the Quantren raid on Lawrence Will
liam Speer was only 9 years old, yet he
shot the only raider who was killed
publisher of the Lawrence Tribune, and
was roundly hated by the guerrillas
and they murdered two of his sons. The
Speer home was southeast of Lawrence
and the boy William had secured an old
musket and was hurrying towards the
town as the raiders were leaving it,.
One of the ruffians who had tarried be-
hind the rest of the band for some ne
fariOuS purpose, was riding to oVertake
by a band of Delaware Indians. As the
raider approached the boy the Indians
called to him to shoot. The boy blazed
away with his rusty musket and the
ruffian tumbled in the dust. He proved
to be the man who earlier in the day
killed the boys oldest brother John
Speer, Jr., as was shown by articles in
his possession which he had taken from
the murdered man. Col Marsh Murdoch
of the Wichita Eagle, roomed with John
Speer Jr, the night preceding the raid
and the two were coming down MaSSa-
chusetts street when the raiders began
to shoot at them.