The Advocate and news., 1899-04-12


and his life cut short.
A boy passing an EllinwoOd saloon saw {
drunk man lying in the street in front of i
and yelled in the door, "Say, mister, you
signs fell down" The barkeeper chased
him half block.
The State G. A. r. encampment, the Stat,
convention of the w. r. c., the State iii
vision of the Sons Of Veterans, and the De
partment of Kansas of the Ladies Of th'
G. A. r., will meet in Hutchinson Apri
24.3O.
Governor Stanley has named as the mem
bers of the court of visitation L. S. Crum, Oi
Oswego; j. G. Postlethwaite, of Jewel
City; and w. A. johnson, of Ganett. A
j. Myatt, of Wichita, has been appointed
solicitor.
Judge c. b. Graves, of Emporia, was ap
pointed q Judge of the court of visitation
by Governor Stanley. He at first accepted
but afterwards declined, saying that he
could not afford to break up his regular
law practice.
Mary Turner, of Wichita, whose husband
is a private in the Twentieth Kansas, has
sued for a divorce, alleging that her hus
band deserted her to join the army. 81 don't
want to be the wife of man who may be
killed any minute, anyhow" she says.
The Tapp-Ross contest for the mayoralty
of Wichita resulted in the election of Ross
the Republican candidate, by 1877 majority
Tapp was che fusion candidate on a golden
rule, socialistic platform that attracted con
siderable attention outside of Wichita.
All the Santa Fe records, which are
kept five years for reference and then de,
strOyed will hereafter be stored at Law
renee in the upper story of the depot
Ten tons of records were shipped from the
treasury department at Topeka alone.
The Abilene Democrat says that an Abb
lene girl who is engaged to be married is Sc
cretly taking cooking lessons from her fu
ture mother-in-law, so that when her hus
band refers to the kind that mother used
to make she can refer him to her teacher.
The Topeka Plaindealer, new paper fol
colored people, is one that they have a good
right to be proud of. In general appear
ance and quality of matter its proprietor
Nick Chiles, need not be ashamed to put
it by the side of any other weekly in Kan
sas.
David W. Mulvane, who wants to sup
plant Cy Leland as the Republican boss 81
Kansas, has administered a rebuke to lie
land through the editorial columns of the
Topeka Capital, alleging partisan unfair
ness in the Agricultural College investiga
ton.
Governor Stanley has sent an invitation
to President Mckinley to attend thu
Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress al
WIGHT" the last of next month. The invi
tatiOn is sent in accordance with the con
current resolution adopted by the legisla
ture.
The United Mine Workers of Crawford
and Cherokee counties have elected the fol
lowing district officers w. F. Wright, o
KirkwOod, president; Harry Bousfeld o
Mineral, vice president; Robert Gilmour, o
Scammon, secretary; Hugh Bone, of Chic
Opee, treasurer.
AT most of the elections in cities of tn
JlilIu cluSS Only OHe JlCkeJ was up ~. "
Evans was elected mayor of Herington
Eugene LOrtOn of Mound City; J. B. Sci
lers of Hope C. Hoffman of Enterprise
Geo. w. Jenkins of Wamego, and w. I
Harris of Solomon.
LeavenwOrth and johnson counties viii
build a $4,000 bridge across the Kansa
river between DeSOtO and Lenape. It
main object is to give the potato raisers @
that portion of the Kaw valley the advar
tage of competition in rates between tn
Santa Fe and Union Pacific.
DR.. Neeley was elected mayor of Leav
enworth. The names on the city ticke
showed some curious paradoxes Mr.. RapI
instead of running for place as q police
man, was a candidate for councilman, bu
was defeated by Christ. Mr.. Lawless wa
a candidate for constable. A man name
Przybylowicz was Il candidate for cit
clerk, and every letter got there.
The contract for building the electric lir
between Kansas City and Topeka has bee