The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-07
IAYHAWKER JoTs

The Brown county bar docket is the
largest that it has been in years.
The registration at Fort Scott this
year was exactly what it was two years
ago.
John Meyers, a Jewell county corn
husker, claims that he can bring in $50
bushels a day.
Half of the Kansas weekly papers
this week reprinted Joe Waters poem,
They're Coming Home"
Walter Darlington the Concordia cat
tie feeder. recently marketed 81 head of
steers, which averaged LABS pounds, at
S6.15.
Ex-Attorney General Boyle came
back into Kansas long enough to make
a Populist speech at Fort Scott last
night
Kearney county-away out in the
shortest part of the short grass country
will have a fine fruit exhibit at the
Paris exposition.
Ten car loads of steel rails We're dis
tributed along the north branch of the
Central Branch last week to take the
place of the old iron ones
Up in Osborne county one school dis
trict has built barn at the school
house, so that those pupils who drive to
school can put up their horses.
The Eagle claims that LeandrO Cam
panari, who is coming to America from
Milan, Italy, with an orchestra of 40
pieces, used to be a Wichita boy.
Funston and the Twentieth Kansas
are responsible for the large stock of
original poetry which is piled up in
every newspaper Office in the state.
Ewing Herbert has unearthed a case
of attempted bribery up in Brown
county. One man offered another a
basket of turnips if he would support
his candidate.
The Downs Times man springs this
joke and is still at large: Many man
who knows nothing about the tariff
would get on a tariff he could stand the
bartender off.
The printed instructions of the Jewell
City Telephone company prohibit
swearing over the telephone. Thus are
the liberties of mankind abridged by
soulless corporations.
A lot of office-seekers wish they
would come as near being struck by
political lightning as the Osborne cOun-
ty man did by the real thing; His bed
was set on fire by a thunderbolt.
1t has been currently reported that
the Transvaal war has put up the price
of diamonds. but a whole lot of Kan
sas papers go ahead advertising them
for a dollar apiece, just the same.
Ex-Attorney General Dawes has not
missed closing the campaign the night
before election in Clay county in many
years. He went out from Leavenworth
and made speech there last night.
A Hiawatha man has laid in a wagon
load of potatoes to give to the needy
this winter. and the recording angel
has given him a, long credit mark and
ordered an extra polish put on his
crown.
A belligerent Hartland mother at
tempted to whip a school teacher for
furnishing her boy. A state warrant
was issued for her arrest, but before
it could be served she fed across the
state line into Colorado.
An Abilene man tried to walk across
| the street with his foot asleep, and
/ found trouble in maintaining his equi-
| librium. The town gossip saw him and
| reported his strange movements to his
wife. The same evening business kept
! him out late and he has not been able
| to convince his wife since that there
| wasn't something wrong with him.
/ Conner Davies missed the opportunity
! of a lifetime the other day because he
| was married In speaking OF Helen
/ GOulds recent visit to COncOrdia, he
| said: THE Kansan would like very
J much to see Miss Gould get married
| and settle down happily in COncOrdia-
! We are sure she would enjoy life in this
| city to its fullest degree. We are hav-
| ing a good time here; we can not see
/ any good reason why she might not
| the article she laughed and said: IF
! that fellow was not married, might be
| tempted to take him, wooden leg and
| ALL"
Wherever a Kansas man strayS you
can depend on his cOrraling a good, fat
| office for himself if there is one in
| sight. A Kansas man takes to office
holding like a duck does to water. Al
| bert r. Greene, who now holds fed
/ eral position which takes him all over
| the United States, and who is some
| thing of an Office-hOlder himself, in a
| recent letter to Governor Riddle, says
along this line: THE office-hOlding ca
! pacity of the Kansas man is not only
| illustrated at home. but in other state as
| well. While he WanderS he may, as In
| gals saws still yearn for home, but he
| does not let his anguish deter him from
| holding a good job if it is in sight. In
| Nebraska I found a register of a land
| Office who used to teach school in
! Granville; another who used to prac-
tice in Oberlin; at Broken Bow a former
/ legislator of Kansas who is preparing a
! history of the SunftOWer state and in
cidentaIly holding onto revenue Of
| fee, at another point register who
| served in a, Kansas regiment in the civil
war and calls our state home in an
| other office a register and in another a
| receiver who We're old Kansas men and
seemed to think more of it than they
did of Nebraska, although they had
/ been away for fifteen years. On the
| Pacific coast it is the same. There are
Kansas men holding government posi-
tons at Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia,
| Occur d'Alene and San Francisco. Two
| or three of the best positions in Utah
are held by Kansas men, and Arizona
and New Mexico have a Kansas col
Ony which takes good care of the land
offices and other positions. The re-
| markable thing about it is, that true
/ to ingalls, and PrentiS' staten emit
I they are all Kansas men still They
/ are referred to in the papers and when
introduced socially, as Kansas men
| and intrOducer and introduced seem tC
think it is the highest honor, position
which no true Kansan will for a mo-
ment dispute
BURIES WRONG MAN.
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