The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-11
JAYHAwKER JoTs.

Dodge City will build another school
building.
whispering Wind and Babbling
Brook are the names of two Indian
maidens up at White Cloud.
Ralph Faxon has a double running
around loose in Kansas and it is said
that trouble is brewing on account Of it.
Frank James will start the races at
Fort Scott, and gets $40 for three days
work. 1t seems to pay to be an "ex-
bandit" as he is advertised in the race
meet notices.
At a church picnic up in northeastern
Kansas recently six barrels Of lemonade
were made from Is lemons. Missouri
river water and a little sugar were the
other ingredients.
There are 200 more Republicans than
Democrats and Populists in the peni-
tertiary Ewing Herbert says it's be-
cause the Democrats and POpUlists got
away and are still at large.
If crops are not well taken care Of
now the candidates will be responsible
for it. In some counties the candidates
call the farmers from the fields and
hinder them from their work an hour
or more.
A plumbers float in one Fourth of
July parade in Kansas consisted of a
bath tub containing a little black. naked
picaninny. whose nanny was intro
ducing him to soap and water. There 5
originality for you.
A boycott is threatened in Saline. The
evening. and as soon as supper was
over the boys struck back for town
leaving the girls to get home the best
way they could. The girls now intimate
that they can get along without the
pleasure of the boys company.
The Fort Scott board of education is
considering moving the towns high
school into the old Monitor building.
which is owned by E. F. Ware of To-
peka. The high school has been held
heretofore in the old Fort Scott normal
building but the owners want $50 a
month, and the board thinks the rent
too high.
Atchison is a great place to start IRE
ports" man saw a string OF empty
coaches go through there early one
morning recently. and in two or three
hours the report was over town that
Lincoln. Neb., was wiped off the map
by a cyclone and a train load of doc
tors had gone up from Kansas City to
take care of the wounded. The only
string Of empty coaches that were be-
ing taken up to Hiawatha-
Anti-prohibition argument from the
! Wichita Beacon: Arkansas City had a
hot time the Fourth of July. There
were about 5000 visitors in town. Two
men were shot to death on the street,
and the police say that there were no
! less than twenty-five fights. It is as
| serted that fully one-half of the people
on the street during the day were drunk.
Iola's schools are expanding, which is
| the reason why the corner stone has
just been laid for a new SIG 900 school
| building, the third in the town. The
| second one was finished less than year
| ago and now the third is needed.
While the smallpox scare was on up
in the Sixth district recently a darkey
came to KensingtOn and stopping at the
outskirts of town attracted the attention
of citizens by shouting in a loud tone
of voice: Don't come nigh me! Ise
got de smallpox! Jes put somefin' to eat
on de ground and dollar in money on
| de top of it an III git it and go right
away from here" A pile of eatables
as big as the man could lug was soon
placed on the ground by the frightened
| citizens, together with several dollars,
and the black rascal loaded up and pro-
! ceeded thence to other fields of useful