The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-15
JAYHAWKER JoTs.

Down at Galena the fire bells rings
when the stars begin to shoot.
The University of Colorado wants to
debate with the University of Kansas,
and has issued a challenge.
Wellington is Dragging becaus a wo-
man who used to live in that town is
now a travelling magnetic healer.
One Of the relics of the old border
ruffiian days, an old log school house
rear Atchison, is being torn down.
The gamblers at Fort Scott have been
ordered to quit. but they have been
allowed to keep all their paraphernalia.
An employee of a Fort Scott saloon
stole 5000 from the money till-one
days receipts-and left for Missouri.
When the Santa Fe whistle blows at
Ottawa it is a signal for people to get
up and see the stars shooting at one
another.
A violent discussion is going on all
over the state this week as to who had
the greater victory, the Republicans or
Populsts.
The auditorium at Wellington en-
plOys girl ushers. It is claimed that
their work is more satisfactory than
that of boys.
An Ottawa boy who was attending
school a SaHna had his leg broken in
two places in a football game and had
toabe brought home on a, stretcher-
Wichita Eagle: The people of Kansas
Up to date are meeting the onslaught
of the coal dealer CALAMITY, armed with
nothing but corn and cObs and an 1tal-
ian climate.
The order compelling the women and
children to leave Ladysmith causes Pop
Eckert to remark: This leaves old
man Smith and the chickens without
adequate protection.
People who imagine Kansas has lost
its interest in the Philippines are mis-
taken. Nearly every paper in the state
is still printing letters from Kansas
boys at the seat of war.
The Kansan says that there are two
lodge meetings every night in the
month at Newton. Notwithstanding
this the Knights of the Twisted Serpent
will try to gain a fOOthold there.
The poetic soul of Vic Murdoch breaks
forth in this: The prettiest thing Kan
which late in the fall, wind SinuOuSIy
over the yellow hills in the pink dawn
Judge Alden ran his divorce mill at
Kansas City, Kansas, for the last time
granted separation to % unhappy
couples. All of the cases went by de-
fault.
Down at Mcpherson one of the Popu-
list election judges worked hard at the
polls all day, and while he was count
ing the votes afterwards he happened
to think that he had forgotten to vote
himself.
1T is said that this weeks meteoric
shower will wind UP the affairs of this
earth. Now is a good time to settle
that subscription account" is the ad-
vice which the Newton Kansan gives its
delinquents.
The convent in course of erection at
Mt. st. Scholastica, Atchison, will be
200X190 feet and four stories high. It
is said that it will be the largest build
ing in the state aside from public in
stitutiOns.
The Ottawa Herald believes the world
is growing better. A man who had
taken the paper for a month wouldn't
ma h11f a rafubhOr had haa0
borrowing it every day came around
and squared the debt.
Company K, late of the Twentieth
Kansas. put en- it's fighting clothes
down at ottawa this week and played
at being on the firing line just to ac-
commodate a photographer who want
ed to take some pictures of real war"
In commenting on Bent Murdocl's
desire for a jac1rabbit sausage factory,
Charley Scott moves to amend by sub
shutting cOttOutails, and he advances
the argument that cotton mill could
then be run in connection with the fac
tory.
There is war between the police and
pawn brokers of Wichita over a pro-
posed ordinance to compel the three
ball men to keep a register Of the goods
signed to assist in the capture of
thieves, and the pawnbrokers do not
like it,
Charley Finch: "An Atchfson vvo-
man fell heiress to a big fortune a short
time ago, and since that no AtchisOn
paper is ready to go to press unless
her name appears somewhere A panic
was created in the Globe Office the other
day when it was discovered that an IS
sue had gone to press without the
name of the woman appearing The
presses were stopped at once and the
error that came SO near being fatal
was corrected. The inserted item read:
Mrs. Happiness now buys her milk
of Mrs. Creamjar instead Of getting it
of Mrs. Waterman %
Lawrence World: Two men became
active in religious thought. Both were
supposed to be Investigators. Both
We're preachers Here, however, the
similarity stopped. The more one
thought the farther he got away from
the essentials of religion. lie even went