The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-14

school was turned into a grand recep-
ton for him
Charley Scott says that since the NJ.
K. & T. has decided to make 100000
worth of improvements there, all the
girl babies born in Parsons are named
katy
Wichita barber was arrested for
shaving on Sunday, which causes the
Walnut Valley Times to remark that
some BARRIERS ought to be arrested for
shaving on any old day
The city attorney of Fort Scott want
ed to arrest a corporation for tearing
up a street, but he could find no way
in which to do it. Yet the United
States supreme court says q. corpora
ton is citizen.
Down in Allen county there were ties
in three road Overseer districts. The
POpulists won two of them This will
be taken to prove that the Populists
were victorious in the state by some Of
the Populist papers.
one of the best advertisers in Law
renee is man named ODER, and when
the Oberammergau Passion Play came
there the other day people were afraid
to patronize it for fear it was some ad-
vertisinS scheme Of Ober's.
When the war broke out Charles B.
Ealderman, Cloud county boy, was
attending school in Salina. He enlist
ed and did not see his home again till
last week. Now the entire county is
raising money to make him a present
lola sent to Kansas City for detec-
tive TO neIp TOunQ up the plCkDOCkeLS-
The detective visited the men who had
already been caught. expressed the
opinion that they We're a dangerous set
of criminals, and then left town. The
lola people are mad about it.
Emporia Gazette: Emporia needs
more crushed rock and fewer loafers
on her streets. There is a gang of no
account loafers in this town, who
should be made to show a visible means
of support besides their old mothers or
wives who take in washing.
Emporia has another claim to fame
in the literary world beside possessing
Bill White. Mrs. C. r. Stone, of that
town, used to set type alongside of
+ w. D. HOwells in Jefferson, Ohio when
the novelist was only boy. The paper
was owned by Mr.. Howeus' father.
The tallest man in the Twentieth
Kansas was Sergeant Bridgman of
company b He is several inches over
six feet in height and is slim pro-
portionateIy as he is tall. The short
est man was Private Jones of COM
pany G. He is a little over five feet in
height and is about as big around as
he is tall
z. c. Clark, the Hutchinson attor-
ney who was convicted of being an ac-
cessOry after the fact to the murder Of
w. @ Boyd by Harry POstlethwait has
made up his mind to stop fighting the
case, and has asked to be taken to the
penitendary to begin serving his sent
ence as soon as possible.
Score another for the Kansas girl.
author. will come to Kansas in a short
time to make one of her his wife. Her
name is Miss Zuline Taft, and her par
ents live up at the little town of Han
over. Mr.. Garland is to be congratu-
lated on his excellent choice.
Four hogs were introduced as wit
neSSeS in a trial at iHaWatha the other
day-nOt the two-legged variety but the
real fOur-legged kind. The suit was
over their possession, and they were
brought in so that the cOntending par
ties could prove property. It took six
men to handle each one. The largest
nearly got away, which caused a scat
tering in the court.
Suspicious item from the Hutchinson
News: Several weeks ago a north side
girl resigned a good position. For two
or three weeks following two sewing
the house and last week the stoves
make a trip to the back porch to be
BACKED The neighbOrs are no longer
in doubt about the nature of the COM
ing event, but as yet have not learned
the date of the approaching wedding.
An Abilene girl has lost the affections
of two men by a single coincidence, and
both men live in AtchisOn. one of them
had the girls picture in his watch. He
thought the girl was all his own until
he took the watch to a jewel for
pairs one day. Now the jeWeler had
visited Abilene himself, and had 50 sue
cumbed to the charms of the same girl
| that various articles of jeweIry had
gone out of his store addressed to her,
and q lively correspondence had been
maintained. The jeweler demanded an
| explanation of how the young man
| does not hear from either of them. But
/ she is not grieving. She still has sew
eral SteadieS at Junction City and Sa-
| lima to fall back on.