The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-08
JAYHAWKER JOTs.

Mcpherson county has built seven
new school houses this year.
Salina is figuring on landing another
wholesale grocery establishment.
The Salina Republican has added an
other column to it's size The news
paper business in Kansas is looking up
If Aguina1do accepts J. r. Burton 5
nomination for the vice presidency, and
if he can keep, up his running record,
he will run so far ahead of his ticket
that the rest of the candidates Will
lose sight of him.
1t was a Kansas boy of course-Guy
Mabie of FL Dorado-who got the
highest grades of any of the scores of
applicants examined for Miss Helen
Gould's four year scholarship in the
University of New York.
Charley Scott says it is generally
understood that all the joint doors in
lola have been nailed shut, but in or
der to clinch the nails the law and or
der league will offer a standing reward
for the conviction of jointists-
]. L. Brady says that Lawrence is to
have another nail mill TO take the
place Of tho one shut down by the trust
a few months ago. Lawrence is too
good a town, he says, Ito allow lit
tie thing like trust to embarrass her
long"
George Martin has no use for labor
unions and he went so far Monday as
to roast Labor Day, and now the labor
unions of Kansas City, Kansas, are
threatening to ask Governor Stanley to
sas reception committee.
Governor Roosevelt has been Invited
to attend the next banquet of the KAN
sas Day club, and of course General
Funston viii be there. 1t may be that
the boom for the Republican national
ticket for 1904 viii be launched in To-
peka on January 20 next.
The Lawrence World ranks Emperor
William alongside of John Wanamaker
and calls them the two best adver-
tisers in the world" Most newspapers
would prefer to have John for patron
The trouble with William is that he too
often gets top Of-cOlumn-n ext-to ead-
ing-matter without paying regular
rates for it.
Opinion handed down by Charley
Finch: A girl at Newton has Just been
elected Carnival Queen" and the pa
pers refer to her as a regal beauty"
Here is probably ANOTHER good girl
spoiled. There is nothing that will
turn a girls head so quick as to elect
her queen of something and then call
her a regal beauty.
General Hugh Cameron, the Kansas
hermit, was arrested in Lawrence
Wednesday. He owned a house in town
that he wanted to move, and when he
got it on to the street he left it where
he pleased, regardless of protests. A
warrant was sworn out charging him
with Obstructing the streets. An officer
went out to Camp Ben Harrison and
read the warrant to MIN, and he said
he would appear in police court at the
proper time.
Vic Murdoch tells this story: A
neatly dressed man recently stepped
into the office of Puck, New York, and
asked Tor certain artist, saying: L
admire his sketches SO much.f' He was
introduced to the young man, invited
him to take dinner with him and as the
meal progressed, the artist asked
What of my work caught your eve
particularly?@ Your sketches Of the
Kansas farmer with the chin whisBers
and the one gallus'' Then. Won Iilxa
'em % well, they're UNIQUE And tbot
reminds me of my errand. We farmers
out in Kansas made up a little purse.
and picking a typical Kansas farmer
your humble servant, sent him here tx
ask you where you got your idea of a
Kansas farmer. We have always Won
dered.''