The Advocate and news., 1899-01-25

sOclatiOn.
The HillmOn case is hanging around
Topeka again.
Grant Glllett is again said to be coming
back from Mexico.
Topeka has 10 more joints than
Wichita can boast.
Measles recently caused a smallpox
scare in Arkansas City.
Larned hunters killed 72O jack rab-
bits one day last week.
It Is said that A. u. Mckenzie, Of Kan
sas City, Is to be grain inspector.
The Twentieth regular infantry has
left Fort LeaVenwOrth for Manila.
Labor Commissioner Johnson settled
the miners strike at Leavenworth.
Judge Foster has drawn $4,000 dur
Ing his service on the federal bench.
d. X. Grimes, brother Of Frank
Grimes, Is assistant engineer at the State
house.
The wire and steel trust paid J. D.
BowersOck $112,5OO for the Lawrence
barb wire mill.
Clay Center, Parsons, Columbus, We'll
lngton and Junction City are all after
the new asylum.
Lewis Martin, of Rossville, was killed
by Union Pacific train while returning
home from Topeka.
Postmaster Lanstrum, of Pratt, was
found dead in bed Friday morning from
an overdose Of morphine.
Senator Campbell claims that his res
olutlon to resubmit prohibition has
enough votes to carry in the senate.
Miss Emma Kelly, daughter Of H. B.
Kelly, who went to KlOndike, Is lee
curing In Kansas on her experiences In
that country
Jim MOrphy Is more popular as sec
retary Of the senate than he was as a
plain Populist without the frills, and
that Is saying a good deal.
Two hundred and fifty members Of the
Sixth regular cavalry have been dis
charged from Fort LeavenwOrth under
the war enlistment clause.
Phil Kelly, Of White Cloud, has been
named by Governor Stanley as director
Of the Hutchinson refOrmatOry to sue
Ceed ]. j. Miller, Of Topeka.
Judge G. G.. Foster once owned part
interest In the Kansas City Journal. His
partner was shot on the street, and the
future Judge moved to AtchisOn.
The Newton Bar Association has been
organized with G. =. Branine, president,
Charles BucheT, vice president, and w.
s. Allen, secretary and treasurer
Kansas towns are warned that Mis-
souri, town which attempted to initiate
the Kansas City convention hall lottery
scheme was held up by the United States
authorities
The Live Stock Sanitary Commission
has authorized the establishment Of
cattle dipping station at Elgin. One
hundred thousand cattle pass through
Elgin every year
The Kansas City Times tries to make
out the reason that third insane asylum
Is wanted in Kansas is because prohibi-
ton makes rank whisky and poor whis-
ky drives people insane.
Walter N Allen declares that the pub
llCatlOn Of government crop reports in
jures the farmers. He says that 1t en-
ables the spectators to ascertain just
where to buy the cheapest
Governor Stanley has appointed NJ. G.
Campbell OF Wichita, and f, H. Cham
lain, Of Sedan, members OF the Live
Stock Sanitary Commission, to succeed
Taylor Riddle and John Dryden.
Jack Haines, Topeka ticket broker,
shot and killed Charles Watson, bar
keeper In Colwell's saloon at Kansas
City. Watson worked at the union de-
pot at one time and knew a great many
Kansans.
Cuba is no place for any one but SOL
diers and capitalists, according to let
ter written home by members Of the
Twenty-third Kansas. They particu-
larly warn colored people to stay away
from Cuba.
Lieutenant Bettes, Company e,
Twenty-third Kansas, who is home at
Wichita On thirty baVq' furlOuph