Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10
KANSAS TOPICS.

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KANSAS TOPICS.
In the regular session the anti-cigarette
bill was stolen from Glenn Fairchild's COM
mittee. 1t was reirtroduced at the special
session and again was stolen from Glenn
Fairchild's committee. But Fairchild is a
emotions. He gives no sign of feeling like
a man who had been robbed.
State Senator l.. P. King was first elect
ed as a Republican. but, while still hold
ing the state senatorship at the hands of
that party. he turned to be a Populist.
When ~reprimanded for this most discredit-
able act of political treachery. he replied
that he had changed because the politics
of his district had changed, and that he
felt it to be is duty to represent the ma
jority sentiment of his constituency. Sem
ator King is now reminded by the Arkan-
sas City Traveller that the sentiment of his
district has turned back to the Republican
party by a large majority and calls upon
him to ramain consistent by voting with
the Republicans in the senate. But King
will not do it. As a matter of fact, the Re-
publicans, who. are a little choice of their
company, don't want him to.
"If all the gold and silver were dumped
into the sea. is there any man who be-
lieves that there would no longer be any
money!" demands the Independence Star.
OF course not, brother. Every man knows
that wampum would still be left, and it is
surprising to hear such a question from a
wampum journal.
According TO the Hardesty Herald, a new
dude fresh from the East presented him.
self with much Formally before one of
those b%ewitching little South Canadian girls
at a dance recently and said: May 1 lave
the pleasure of your company in the next
waltz" To which the girl responded: Cert,
pard; 1 guess I've got you gait"
go
Now that Armour Rose. the $1,000 heifer
has been drawn by ticket number 556o7,
while our ticket is $685." says Charley
Scott in his lola Register, I'VE wish to &C
VII 1-SOlo uSoiiisl Lax AAuh
method. It is a lottery, pure and simple
and it is a robbery of the poor people
Down with Spanish customs n Methods
Times have certainly improved in WITCH.
tia. for there is not that indefatigable per.
sistency in getting away from the tow-
which has marked the passing of former
years. For example, there were fourteen
suicides in 1897 as against only five In 1925
I. B. Wilcox. the new Populist member OF
the legislature from Atchison county
thinks that the regular session should pas:
no laws at all, but leave the statute books
as the beginning of the session found them
Mr.. Wilcox may expect to be gratified ir
one direction at least, for there is ~scarcel.
a possibility of the adoption of any law.
bearing the name of the Atchison count,
statesman.
In the crop Of a duck dressed at TIT
house of w. 2. Dockhorn, of Oskaloosa
was found a good-sized lump of gold. Blu
the Independent allayed any mining eX
element which might have been expected
to follow by relating that the nugge
proved to be the crown of an artificial
| tooth.
Recently Mr.. W. A. Mobley, Of Paola
sent his two sons to visit with Hon. job,
Sheridan. in New Mexico. in hope that tn,
climate there would benefit their .pulmon
airy troubles On the way the boys stoppe'
at a hotel in Pecos and were assigned t
a room that had been occupied by a maj
with the smallpox. Shortly after arriving
in Roswell. both of the boys were take
with this disease and both died.
George Means. a Paola boy with the col
ored regiment in Cuba, explains a fe'
things as follows: when we want t
Santiago. and take from $50 to 500 to hav
a time on. and We have it. 1t may seer
TRANCE to you people how 1t Is that W
can handle that kind of money. You Sc
We loan our money to each other at bi
rates Of interest. and some of the boys ar
sharp shots with the dice"
Major Theo Sternberg, of Ellsworth, VIII
is paymaster in the army in the Philip
pines. has this to say in prophecy Of a
evolution which may be expected to TAX
place among the Manila fair sex: Il sa'
a native woman. whose scanty skirt barrel
came to the knee. wearing garters. N
stockings. no shoes-only carriers. No
that woman was on the road to civilize
lrass Gba will have To p.ear stockings
order to dress up to those garters: an
then shoes will have to come to protect til
stockings. and there you are. I notice ths
American skirts and shirt waists are wor
more and more"
Captain Boltwood. of the Ottawa con
pany. in the Twentieth Kansas. writes a
interesting letter from Manila, in whic
he thus describes his first dinner in
Spanish restaurant: at was run by
Spaniard and had native walters. We S;
down: the waiter set on three bottles
claret wine. a glass of water for each ar
a wineglass for each. He then set a pi
of eight plates in front of each of US, d.
noting the number of courses; a knit
fork and spoon for each. A marble tabl
had the bill of fare written in pencil c
it. First a large. hard baked biscuit; the
soup, then chicken. then stew, then bee
steak. and so on. ending with fruit ar
very fine assorted cake. The food is new
placed on your plates. but the dish is S
beside you. and when you have helpt
yourself it is removed, and finally a vel
.,,,Il our of very fine coffee is given yo