The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-15
JAYHAwKER JoTs.
Fort Scott is talking street fair.


Lyndon has a bald headed band.
The Union Pacific threatens to give
St: Marys new depot before long
1t is a great wonder that the eastern
papers haven't referred to that Porto.
Rico storm as a kansas cyclone"
Logan will have a harvest home
celebration on August "a and rs, which
will be participated in by the people OF
five counties
w. H Thompson Of Pratt recently
purchased 1900 acres Of land at one
time, the largest real estate transac-
ton on record in Pratt county.
Col Carpenter, of the Council Grove
Republican, is the only editor in Kan
sas who has a horseless carriage, and
he says he is going to get horse Tor
his before long.
Will White vouches for the story
that a Lyon county farmer recently
sold a load of watermelOns, the small
est OF which weighed Sc pounds and the
largest 5915 pounds.
Kansas City wants to see how 1t
would feel to win a baseball game once
more. so the Blues are going out to
Abilene Thursday to play against
picked up nine.
A southern Kansas girl is named
Ina Daisy Cook, but the fact that q
summers have passed over her head
without her being led to the hymeneal
altar leads one to believe that she isn't,
either.
The old Golden Gate, which was
Leavenworth's principal hotel in the
early days, is being torn down. 1t was
at one time headquarters for all the
freighters starting across the plains
and it has seen some lively times.
The Kansas papers are giving wide
! publicity to the statement of St Joe
paper that Cyrus Leland is dangerously
i'll at Troy, and meanwhile Mr.. Leland
sits in his office and smiles as he reads
Every brick plant in the state is be
hind with its orders.
Hiawatha has a public 'swimmin'
| hole and the PROPRIETOR has desig-
mated one evening as ladies' night, an
| other as business mems night, and so
! on. What is really needed is lean
mems night so that the fellows with
I spindle shanks can go in without being
| called skinny"
| Denver Post: A Kansas man treated
I 90 women to ice cream the other day.
( If such a thing should occur in Colo
I RADIO we would know the man aspired
| to some office, but back there where the
| nearest a woman can come to voting
is to patiently submit to her husbands
J breath on election day, the liberal fell
/ lows motive is a cOnundrum-
Gaylord Herald: Jim Otis of Banner
| township has Joined the Pop party. Jim
| always contests his township with
( Webb McNan and formerly it was his
! habit to do up Mr.. Nc. When webb
/ Joined the Pop party Jim had nobody
1 to fight and after year of lonesome
| ness he goes over to the Pop party and
! everybody thinks it is to get his fingers
| in Webb's scalp lock.
| A Kansas editor calls attention to the
| fact that there is great deal of talk
about the Republican and Democratic
national conventions but none about
| the Populist, ana he wants to know
| why it is He has evidently forgotten
! that Wharton Barker has been sprint
/ ing along as the Populist candidate for
I president for over a year, and is now
| so far in advance of the other parties
| that he is clear out Of sight.
This is the time of year when the
| country editor IS in his glory. The old
| subscriber brings in a prize water
| melon and leaves it at the newspaper
! Office every time he comes to town: it
/ is laid on the imposing stone. the entire
| force gathers round, and with a dex-
| terity begOtten only by practice the
| office devil "carves'' it with a column
| rule in such a way as to give himself
the heart, and everybody falls to-