The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-05
JAYHAWKER JoTs.

The Salina Union, a Populist paper,
has expanded.
Lyons has Joined the street fair class.
Dates, October u and 10.
Mr.. Boyle, of Atchfson, is called Job
because he has 50 many little Boyles.
The commissioners of Jewell county
will put in fourteen new steel bridges
in that county this fall.
To help along his profession, one of
Hiawatha's % doctors drove a hack
during the fair UP there.
The parents of Congressman w. J.
Bailey celebrated their golden wedding
last week up at Baileyville-
Down in the Galena mining districts
all of the zinc mines closed down for
the Baxter Springs reunion.
St John has sensible city council
1t has ordered 500 elm trees to be
planted about the streets next spring.
The annual three-cOrnered scrap is
on between Jewell, Smith and Republic
counties as to which is the best corn
county.
The Concordia Kansan has purchased
a new press and turned its old one,
which it had outgrown, over to the
Jewell Republican.
Annie Carlson, Of the Scandal Jour
nal, observes: 1T is no wonder that
children cry for the moon when lots Of
grown people want the earth
The latest reports from the corn
country state that ballOOniStS are being
hired to make ascents to see if the hot
winds have kept the ears from filling"
Bent Murdoch refers to the Hutchin-
son conference as a fight between the
"clabber-faced barnacles and the pie
faced kids Bent has a. strong hold on
metaphor
A Butler county man has kept tab on
a stalk of corn ever since it first ap-
peaTed and he claims it has made an
average growth of two inches a day. 1t
is now 1872 feet high.
A Baptist convention is in session out
at Hutchinson. This is the wrong time
of year for a Baptist convention at
Hutchinson. The Arkansas river has
water in it in the spring.
Wellington has passed an occupation
tax but some of the councilmen them
selves have not paid up. The mayor has
ordered the city attorney to bring suits
at the rate of five per day against all
delinquents beginning with the coun-
cilmen.
The Republican organs of Kansas I'M
animously agree that Mr.. Burton
skinned" Mr.. Bryan in his Missouri
speech, and with the same unanimity
the POpulist and Democratic organs
agree that he fell down in the attempt
and there you are!
There comes a time" remarks the
Liberal News, when a newspaper needs
money" The News must be construct
ed differently from most papers. With
a majority of Kansas editors the time
is not coming, but arrived a good while
ago and keeps sticking closer than a
brother.
Those French generals might as well
quit fighting Dreyfus. The country
newspaper correspondents OF Kansas
have taken up his cause. I'VE hope to
see Capt. Dreyfus acquitted and some
/ of his enemies made to travel over
! some OF the road ne has passed in the
| past few years." says Nix in the
| Jewell Republican.
The POpulists up in Clay county took
| a mean advantage of the Republicans
! the other day. The Republicans nomi-
l mated a one-legged Swede for register
1 of deeds. Then instead of nominating
] a man that was handicapped in the
| same way to sprint against him, the
/ POpulists nominated a Swede with two
| good legs but only one arm.
| In Noble Prentis' new history of
! Kansas appears this statement at the
/ close of a description of the famous
| legislative war of 1898: No other capt.
I tai city on earth could have passed
| through such a scene of conflict with
! out serious loss of life. and, it is also
| likely, great destruction of property.
The absence of the saloon is the chief
] exclamation