The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-24

dramatic company has ordered SO plays
for the winters campaign
A Cowley county man has had two
dogs stolen and he offers s25 reward for
them, which is probably a good deal
more than the dogs are worth.
The Fort Scott board of education has
ordered that every child shall be vac
cinated as a precautiOn against the
smallpox scare down that way.
The Union Pacific will fence in its
right of way in Russell county with
limestone posts, and has asked for bids
for 5000 of them, six feet long and 13
inches wide.
Charley Finch announces that all
America sympathizes with the Beers
If Mr.. Finch would read the newSpa-
pers he might be compelled to revise
his statement
The wellington Journal roasts the
Wichita street fair on account of the
'dOin's" on carnival night. 1.-THE prin-
cipal feature it says, was the dis
graceful conduct"
TT takes three weeks" says the
Wichita Eagle man, as he measures out
another dose of brOmo, for the aver
age KanSan to recover from the ettectS
of a street fair and carnival"
Marshall Williams of Brookville,
heard that he was accused of stealing
q COW by Salina parties, and he walk
ed twenty miles for the purpose Of CIV
ing himself up and facing the charge
Twenty blooded driving horses were
shipped last week by express from
Hutchinson to the City of Mexico. The
express charges were $35 per head.
President Diaz will probably drive a
Kansas team hereafter.
The Hutchinson News sets up the
claim that while Reno county may not
have been the Garden of Eden, it raises
the best apples outside of that historic
spot. This will cause a roar from A lot
of other Kansas counties.
And now it is announced that the
auctioneers of the state will meet at
Hutchinson in December and organize.
Just think what a tumble there will be
if they all insist on recognition by the
chairman at the same time.
The accusation of the Salina council
that the marshal has been bOOdling,
has resulted in that official making the
town the dryest it has ever been in its
history, but some of the knowing ones
claim there are few Oases left in the
desert.
Fort Scott secured Ringlings' circus
the other day on one days notice. The
cause was the smallpox quarantine
against Joplin, where the show was
scheduled to exhibit. Joplin got mad
and said it was only a little snide show
anyway.
A gang of men is at work taking up
the rails of the Missouri Pacific ex-
tension north of Mcpherson, and it is
believed locally that this is a prelim-
mary step toward extending the line
to Marquette, as the track would have
to be relaid.
Brief and pointed item from the
Haskell County Republican: Jim
Jones took the little mules Tuesday
morning as the little red sparkling light
was peeping through the far eastern
horizon, and started for the city of
ingalls, for a load of that Indispensable
article known as coal.
A crowd of Emporia college boys went
down town the other night and gave
vent to their college yell. Among them
were a lot of young preachers. A Sal
walton Army captain on the street took
them for a subject and told how they
We're all going straight to the Bad
Place. which Bill White considers as
a good joke.
During a. recent whisky trial at Erie
a witness of about forty summers con-
fessed that he had bought a. bottle from
the defendant and had drunk it's con-
tents, but declared he didn't know
whether it was beer or not, and the at
torneys couldn't make him tell After
a lot of monkeying business, familiar
to all courts, Judge Stillwell said: You
are a man who seems to be in good
health, possessed OF all your faculties
and of sound mind. I will give you one
minute to tell the jury whether that
was beer or not" And then that wit
ness swOre that it was not beer. And
the jury found the defendant guilty on
the strength of his testimony.