The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-05
LAYHAWKER JoTs

Kansas has one-sixth of all the corn
in America this year.
A Franklin county man got $34 an
acre for his blue grass.
Atchison's Committee of Forty has
landed a furniture factory.
A Wichita man is distinguished be-
cause he is Richard Croker's double.
Abilene is to have a new telephone
exchange. 1t starts in with 125 sub
scribers.
tracer out for Dreyfus. He has not
been heard from since Dewey hove in
sight.
That extremes meet is proven again
by the marriage of Mr.. Head and Miss
Foote down on the southern Kansas
border.
Atchison has thirty-two place which
pay a monthly fine to the police and
about double that number that run for
nothing.
The Kansan claims that Newton is
geared up to 1877 this week and is
scorching along at a great rate during
the street fair.
Billy Morgan is kicking because
Hutchinson is paying out good money
to see other towns street fairs and
hasn't a thing in that line herself
Up to the hour of going to press there
has been no great rush of applicants
for that reward Governor Stanley Of
fered for evidence that would close the
KlOndike.
Dave Leahy accuses G. c. Clemens of
having hoped the POpuliSt party and
landed in the Republican stronghold
Just think of Glenn lining up for Gov
ernOr Stanley!
Ten Franklin county men earned
credit marks from the recording angel
by reshingling the house of a widow
last week and not handing their names
to the newspaper for publication.
Out at Garden City the other day
stranger made inquiries as to where he
could get something wet" and some
practical jokers steered him up against
the leading minister as the only boot
logger in town.
All those Kansas girls who have
pledged themselves not to marry any
one but Twentieth Kansas boys are be
ginning to feel a little shy about the
matter, as the time approaches when
the boys will get home.
Kansas girls who have sweethearts
among the Twentieth Kansas boys had
better follow the example of the Wyom-
ing girls and see that there are no
breath cOntaminating onions in the
"maynew'' for the banquet to be given
the boys.
One of the features of the Battle of
Manila" at the Salina street fair was
a sham battle between the Americans
and Spaniards-fifty men on a side.
One night the Spaniards tried some new
tactics and had the Americans nearly
whipped before they recovered from
their surprise.
Tnvious slam from the Denver Post:
And now comes the story that Kansas
pumpkins are growing so large this
year that derricks will be required for
lifting them onto trucks to haul them
out of the fields. While considering the
wonderful assets of that state her lie
abilities should not be overlooked.
A member of company NJ, Twentieth
Kansas, was nominated for county
clerk by the Republicans of Barton
county, but over in Russell county the
party turned down a member of the
same company for the same office. The
POpuliStS claim that the Barton county
man was given the nomination because
there was no show of electing a Re
publican anyway, while the Russell
man was turned down because a nomi-
nation is equivalent to election in that
county.
An epidemic of crime seems to have
struck southern Kansas. In the past
week eighteen horses have been stolen
down there-ten from Wellington, four
from Winfield, two from Norwich and
two from Hutchinson. A bicycle was
stolen at Winfield: a man is wanted at
Halstead for obtaining money under
false pretenses; the officers at Har-
ward are after a man charged with
criminal assault, while the sheriff of
Newton is anxiously looking for two
prisoners who broke Jail.