The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-09

pointers so that the same scheme can
be worked against the newly organized
brass band at lola.
The Republicans of Saline county
turned down a Twentieth Kansas boy
for Sheriff in their convention. The
people turned down their candidate at
the polls by 500 majority.
Frank NIcGrath, who was president of
the Farmers Alliance in its most pros
porous days, and one of the founders
of the Populist party, but who had
wandered back to the Repu blican fold.
to become its candidate for sheriff in
Mitchell county, was defeated.
The truthful editor of the Colby TTi-
bune, after making a statement that
the thermometer went down to 20 de-
grees at 6 o'clock in the morning re-
Gently. qualities it with, "Of course,
this information is only hearsay, as we
We're not in condition to verify it at
that hour"
A boomerang roast by the Waverly
Gazette: Waverly business man asks
US to roast" people for going out of
town to trade, and to please him they
roasted. The business man for whom
We do this favor does not advertise and
uses rubber stamp stationery.
A Burlington man established a pre-
cedent the other day by losing a mem
orandum book containing fifteen dol
lars, and Immediately afterward a wO-
man lost a purse with eight dollars,
man had twenty-dollar bill slip out
her pocketbOOk with five dollars in it.
It is now certain that General Fun
ston would like to get into that Trans
vaal scrap. Charley Scott, who
knows, says that While Funston turned
down an offer Of $4,000 a year to act
as Manila correspondent for a New
York paper, he is not quite sure what
might have happened if the paper had
asked him to go to South Africa
Down at Ottawa the other night Cap
tain BOltwOod raped on a lodge door
for admission. After he had whispered
his name through the wicket, the in
ner guard announced, Captain Bolt
wood without the password Nobody
could remember when the captain join
ed the order, but everything is open at
Ottawa to a Twentieth Kansas man,
so the presiding officer ordered him adj
mitted. The captain advanced to the
altar and gave some sort of a grand
high hailing sign that nobody under
stood. Then he looked about him
there were ladies present. Say he de-
manded of another man in a tragic
whisper, What are all these women
here for? What lodge is this anyway"
This is the knights and Ladies Of the
Twisted Serpent" was the reply. "Oh,"
said the captain, Il thought it was the
a. o. U. w" and BOltwood bolted.
The EmpOria Gazette prints the fol-
lowing. and Ed. Howe himself repro
duces it: Miss Frances L. GarSide as
sistant editor of the AtchisCn Globe, is
in sanitarium at Hot Springs, Ark,
SUFFERING with congestion Of the liver.
Miss Gars1de IS by long odds the clev
crest newspaper woman in Kansas and
has done practical work on the Globe
for fourteen years. For several years
she kept the books, wrote paragr phs,
editorials, edited the telegraph, and
was general manager in the absence Of
the editor. She now has a girl assist
ant who keeps the books and acts as
cashier. but she is still managing edi-
tor telegra oh editor. miscellany edi-
tor and writes something OF everything
thai goes in the paper. from paid To-
Gals to editorials and para r2phs When
the old man is away, there Is no appeal
from her decisions. The people around
the Globe office have grown up under
her and esteem her very highly. She
of che paragraphs quoted from the At
Gibson Globe by others papers are writ
ten by Miss Garside.