The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-30
JAYHAWKER JOTS.

There is a community known as
DEVILS Bend up in Cloud county.
A boy tramp, only Il years old, was
run over by a train at Bronson the
other day.
Kansas is certainly clothed in pur-
pie and fine linen this year. Even the
corn is wearing silk.
The Winfield Gun club has applied
the reward for evidence idea to Vto-
IatOrs of the game laws
Lawrence is going into ecstasies over
the report that Colonel Metcalf may be
made a brigadier general.
So many different crowds want to
receive" Company H at Lawrence,
that they will take three days at it.
It is said Atchison wants an automo-
bile factory, which will make the ma
chimes at $3.50 per auto. This auto go.
Mark Hanna. has a double at Fort
Scott The resem blance is SO striking
that the Fort Scott mans friends call
him Mark.
The Chanute Tribune denies the re-
port that Aguinaldo will participate in
the reception to General Funston and
the Twentieth.
Winfield has a "Kaffee Klatsche' club
but it is composed of women, and judg-
ing from the bill of fare it does not
meet in Turner hall
Independence and NeOdesha each
catches a lot of '-possumS'' the other
club helps eat them
Charlie Finch calls attention to one
thing Grant Ginett will gain by having
the smallpox: His creditors won
bother him while it lasts.
GaIena still keeps her spyglass glued
to her eye and pointed towards Joplin,
to watch for the first approach of any
thing that looks like smallpox.
The country papers are calling atten-
ton to the fact that the recent rain
saved the wheat. The wheat has start
ed in at being saved early in the sea-
son this year
The lola Register admits that Chey
enne county is the highest place in the
state, but denies that the lowest in Wyan-
dotte county. 1t says the lowest is
Leavenworth's Klondike.
A Douglas county family has come
forward with a claim for a round on
the ladder of fame; They once lived on
the farm adjoining the place where Sir
Thomas Upton was reared
The Abilene jail is likely to become
a popular resort with the side-door
sleeper fraternity this winter. One
prisoner gained eight pounds while
boarding there foI three weeks.
THE real genius" says the editor of
the Wellington Journal, as the Sanctum
door closes behind a female solicitor,
lis the man who can stand off a club
woman with a subscription paper, and
not offend her"
Charley Scott, who used to go to the
State university himself, prints this:
Lawrence wants a new court house,
but if the town expects to put a roof
over all the counting done there an
auditorium viii be needed.
A Fort Scott boy accidentally dis
charged a 44-calibre revolver through
his mothers china closet, also smash
ing a clock on the mantel and breaking
out a window pane. That was the first
intimation the boys father mad that
there was a weapon about the premises.
He instituted a search and found the
boy possessed the following arsenal:
One A Colts loaded revolver, one shot
gun, minus a lock. one pair of shotgun
barrels. one rifle barrel one broken
pistol and one bOwie-knife. At one
secondhand store five pistols, two shot
guns and a dagger were Identified by
the lad as formerly belonging to him.
At another secondhand store was
found one pistol, two target rifles, and
one small cannon, and stin at another
secondhand place he had traded for
one army musket and a % pistol. The
boys father does not object to him go
ing armed while the fever lasts: in fact
he admits once having the gun fever
himself when a boy and knows how it
goes However, he wants his son to
get over it as quickly as possible as it