Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-03
KANSAS TOPICS.

KANSAS TOPICS.
When an Atchison man wants to express
the miserable nature of his self-conscious-
ness he says he feels like a borrowed dog.
Kaw-so-qua, grandmother of Mrs. Joe
Wamego. of jackson county, is dead at the
age of 9S. She was best known as Grand
ma Battese.
An Atchison paper relates that a girl
over there, who ten years ago used to
dream of a Montmorency de Lancy, is now
very contentedly preparing her wedding
clothes for a man named Nick White
heifer.
with the Philippines this government
purchased several million man-eating po-
lygamists." shouts the corporation-eating
Manhattan Republic, which is livins with
half a dozen political ~handmaidens with
out having been married at all.
A literary society in Cove county has de-
cided in the affirmative on the question,
Resolved, That the death of Caesar bene-
flied his country Which is the first bit
VI tSStAAhohy UNIV ~ iShl
in support of Jerry Simpsons claim that if
Caesar were alive to-day he would be a
Populist.
A good looking woman, says the Fort
Scott Monitor, visited nearly all the stores
yesterday and gave warning that the day
of judgment was near at hand, and that
the owns last day was rapidly approach
ing. And from the manner in which Fort
Scott voted on county attorney it need not
be surprising if there be those who with
hold their sympathy.
Kansas has not put her border days so
far behind her after all. There is now liv-
ing in Delphos, Ottawa county, a woman
who was taken in an Indian raid and kept
in captivity for more than two years. Her
name is Mrs. Morgan, and she was taken
from her husbands farm, near the present
site of Solomon City.
Speaking Of Indians, the Arkansas City
Traveller relates that Alex Wauhoo, the old
est member of the Kaw tribe. died recently
at the advanced age of 50. He was placed
in his grave along with all of his weapons
N"N oAN hhSA az beSl Wis was
killed and placed upon the mound. Over
the grave and horse was erected a big
wall tent.
The boys of the present day are not
treated right" declares the editor of the
Atchison Globe. Thirty years ago mink
skins were worth s.. Now they are worth
only so cents. The writer of this. as a
boy, set a thousand traps for mink. but
never caught one. We still hate the Lin
thecum boys. who lived in the same neigh.
borhood, because we always believed that
while We caught mink every night worth
s. each, the Linthecum boys stole them
out of our traps"
Senator Householder's bill for the reg
ulation of affairs at the insane asylums is
a good one, but it lacks minuteness and
attention to DETAIL" said a Populist sem
ator to Topics yesterday. Which criticism
is rue-too true-for there is not a word
IN 1t about the best way of playing pussy
wants-a-corner. or how the chairman of
the board should tie the matron's fasci-
nator.
George has long been a high
iy respected citizen of Great Bend. and
now holds the position of city clerk. For
some weeks an insurance office in the town
has been missing money from its safe. and
the sheriff was set to watch in hope of
catching the burglar. On Christmas night
the officer caught .Cummack on his knees
before the open safe, and he is now in
Jail. awaiting trial. though the people of
the town can scarcely believe the prisoners
own confession that he has long been a
criminal.
The kilograms recently recounted the sui
eide of Miss Bessie Lawton, at Chicago.
Ill health having induced the young woman
to take her own life, and the tragedy has
brought out in the Columbus Courier n
very curious story. Miss Lawton was born
in Girard. At her birth the mother died,
and a friend standing at the bedside looked
down at the newborn infant and said:
What a desolate child,' The family at
once gave the babe the name of Desc
late" and. thong. it was modified to Des-
sic. it is the name she bore through all
her life.
When Mr.. and Mrs. W. F. Swift. of
Ottawa. looked out of their bed chamber
window the other morning they discovered
the form of a man rolled in a blanket rest
Ing on the front porch. Mr.. Swift started
to investigate when a hand protruded from
the blanket and a sleepy voice said. Hello.
father" 1t was young Charles Swift. The
eldest son of the family, who had come
home on a furlough from the Second cav
airy. Arriving at midnight he had decided
not to waken the folks and so curled I'D on
the porch. though the temperature was
way below freezing. 1t is dollars to dough-
nuts that before the army made Il man Of
this young fellow he would have refused
to climb into a feather bed until his mother
had warmed the sheets.
Mr.. Poverline. an aged man. died at Nc
Louth the other day after having been bit
ten by n mad dog that in turn had been
bitten by. a mad skunk. The affair recalls
the fear the early settlers of Western Kan
sas had of skunks. Up to the early '7os
death from skunk bite was very common
on the western borders. and the settlers
feared these animals far more than they
did the rattlesnakes. In 1868, Just out of
Fort Hays. three soldiers We're bitten by & |
skunk as they slept III their tent and all
of them died. AS late as 1879 the young
son of ]. O'Neil. a sheepman living near
Ellis. was bitten as he came down 10 build
the breakfast fire by a skunk that had