The Advocate and news., 1899-04-12
AROIT Chetopa Advance: Fifty
TSwcSS dollars ton was offered for
NINNSAOs (alena zinc ore last week |


This breaks the worlds record.
Pratt Union: Attica business men talk
of moving the town a quarter of mile dis
tant to avoid paying bonds. 1t would be a
cheap way of settlement
Chanute Blade: We have heard a good
deal in the past Of embalmed beef. Next
week, here in Chanute, we will probably
have a goodIy supply of embalmed candi-
dates.
Philadelphia Call One volunteer regi-
ment, the Twentieth Kansas, made a charge
in the battle of last Saturday which, ac-
cOrding to the press accounts, equaled any
thing that took place at Santiago, not eX-
cepting the famous charge up San Juan
hill.
George w. Martin in the Kansas City
Gazette There is some disposition to roar
because at the Democratic banquet at To-
peka wine was used in the State House
We remember the good old prohibition
days when a Republican State Ollice-holder
in the State House pulled bottle of beer
from his water cooler.
LeavenwOrth Times: More room in the
bOluAOAb ulA uARNiJ AhN
home at LeavenwOrth is in the finest and
most salubrious of situations. 1t is said
the board of managers makes the PROPOSE
ton to attempt to double its capacity.
That will be a wise measure. The board
should push it along.
Newton Kansan: The old Kansan who
has seen herds of buffalo on the plains of
Kansas will hear with regret that this dis
tinctively American animal is now almost
extinct. At the beginning of the winter
there were only l4O left in the United
States Nearly half of these died during
the severe winter, and in very short time,
unless something is done to preserve the
species, none will remain.
Lawrence World: Lawrence has already
suffered keenly on account of one trust,
and now the report comes that another of
our important industries is being forced
into trust. Lawrence has been known far
and wide as a manufacturing town, and yet
one after another of our industries are
must act. The story that is being told in
Lawrence is being repeated in every town
in the country where there are small plants
Chetopa Advance: A mortgage of $2,0O0,
600 was placed on record in Allen County a
few days ago on the property of the Ian
yOn Zinc Coal Company, of lola, by the
Colonial Trust Company, of New York
City. The credit of the Lanyons must be
gilt-edged in order to secure such loan as
this. AS money transaction this is a
record-breaker in Kansas. It required
twenty $50 revenue stamps to make it
legal. lola is certainly in the financial
swim.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: The friends of
Colonel Funston of the Twentieth Kansas
think he should be made brigadier gen
eral for his gallant conduct. The friends
of Colonel Funston appear to be right. The
dashing Kansan who swan the river at the
head of forlorn hope of twenty men and
captured eighty of the enemy certainly is
right in line for prompt promotion Be
sides this, Colonel Funston was the first
man to enter MalolOs. There can be no mis-
take about rewarding him.
Lawrence Jeffersonian- Gazette: To the
people who know Fred Funston intimately,
the talk about dragging him into Kansas
politics as a candidate for governor or Con-
gresham is large joke. Colonel Funston
has neither the inclination nor the training
for politics, and such d career would be
most distasteful to him. The gallant little
soldier of fortune who has fought the ele-
ments from the Arctic Ocean to the Equa-
tor, and savages from Cuba to the Philip
pines, has probably never voted at a gen
eral election more than half dozen times
in his life
Kansas City journal: Rev. Charles NJ
Sheldon, of Topeka, must be conceded the
first place among Kansas writers, by virtue
of his novel, 'In His Steps," Judging by
sales and wide circulation. While several
of his other books have sold well, this one
leads by far, and the total is in the hun
dreds of thousands. The book is a decided
purpose novel;" the object being to rec
Ommend the application of Christ's exam
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