The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-16

to the penitentiary, and the crap games
are becoming scarce
lola is almost as proud OF the fact
that an express company is going to
she is of her new cement factory.
An enormous furniture car which
passed through Parsons the other day,
was labeled, Poor little furniture car,
I don't you cry; you'll be an elevator
bye and bye"
The Winfield Courier says that fish
are being caught by the thousands
down there with nets in violation of
the state law. Perhaps public opinion"
has something to do with it.
1t is said that the Abilene wreck in
which one man was scalded to death
and another is still suffering untold
, agOnies, is directly traceable to the
liquor sold by Junction City joints.
Fort Scott has her eye on a window
glass factory, but the factory wants a
bonus of $4,000 About the time the
town pays the bonus some trust will
come along and force it to close.
Dick Blue resides at Columbus. but
his law office was at Xinita, across IN
the Indian Territory. The word was
is used because his office, including his
( law library, was burned a few days ago
Lieutenant J. F. Bell, who is men
toned in the late dispatches from Ma
Mia for his bravery, is we'll known IN
central Kansas. When General For
sythe was in command at Fort Riley,
Bell was his adjutant.
To show that he has been earning his
I wages Joe BristOW calls attention in
his annual report to the fact that out
of 1864 postmasters appointed during
the past year, 1888 We're fOurth-claSS
/ postmasters whom he appointed.
Homer Wells, one of the Twentieth
boys, in speaking at a Great Bend re-
! ceptiOn, said he had to tear himself
away from his sweetheart when he
went away. And" says Billy Morgan,
/ seven girls in the audience bIushed-'
! The people in Labette and Montgom-
! cry counties down along the state line,
are said to be badly frightened by
. report that an African lion is at large
; in the edge of the Indian territory. 1t
: is supposed to have escaped iron some
menagerle.
( The Arkansas City Traveller tells of
4 COwley county young lady who applied
for appointment as postmistress, and
the day the appointment came, she also
+ received proposal for marriage. She
+ accepted the latter and returned the
/ former to Joe BriStOw.
A Fort Scott officer went down to
| Yale, a mining camp near Pittsburg, to
! capture a criminal, and when he got
J back his hair was turning white, and
I he gave it as his solemn opinion that
( Yale is the toughest place on earth
This from a Fort Scott man, remem-
| Der!
The Hereford men make the boast
| that in five years from now so per cent
I of the cattle sold in the Kansas City
stock yards will have white faces
{ that the first large batch of white faces
/ at the Kansas City yards were seen the
| morning after Grant Gillet hunked.
! Up at Glen Elder a justice of the
peace had to be elected to fill aVacancy,
/ but everybody forgot to vote for anyone
/ for the place except one man. He voted
! for the Methodist preacher, and the
preacher is therefore elected. This IS
/ probably the first instance where a
man was ever elected to an Office by a
/ single vote.
The new Plymouth Congregational
| church at Wichita will be an institu-
( a library and reading room, a Kitchen
and a banquet hall, a kindergarten, and
a nursery where the young ladies Of the
church take care of babies While the
+ mothers attend the church services. A
gymnasium and baths are to be added
to the church's equipment.
FL Dorado claims a heroine in the
person of Miss Jessie Vandever. The
other night a large lamp was tipped
over in her home flooding the plano
and rugs with oil. She picked up the
Then while the men were rushing
around without accomplishing any
thing, she cOOlly got a bucket of water
and put out the fire.
The Knights of Pythias of Abilene
gave Lieutenant Colonel Little ban
quet the other night. On the menu
cards at the beginning of each course,
except the first, was given the name of
some battle in which Colonel Little
was engaged. There We're seven courses,
and the battles given were Ma1OlOs,
/ CalOocan, Bag Bag, San Fernando,
| Calumpit and BacOlor.