The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-28
JAYHAWKER JoTS.

The Solomon meat market Is very
appropriately run by Mr.. Butcher
The Ottawa memorial gate fund has
reached $1,000 and is still marching on
Abilene is gloating over a rubber
| tired carriage. the first the town ever
saw.
A Salina man who was reported dead,
writes the Union denying the report
himself.
Billy Morgan bubbles over with en-
thusiasm in favor of Roosevelt for pres
ident in 1904
Judge Peters credits Buffalo Jones to
Doniphan county. This will cause a
roar from Garden City.
A Kansas girl who wrote an essay
on fashions entitled it, From Fig
Leaves to Shirt Waists
Salina is growing because the cold
storage house there recently shipped
ten car loads of eggs at one time.
1t is said that Herbert Jordan, of
Seneca, is slated for the position of
private secretary to Congressman
Bailey.
1t is now stated that the penitentiary
binding Irvine plant VIII be ready for
business September 1. It is to be hoped
that it will get around to turn out Irvine
in time for next years harvest.
lola has passed an occupation tax
ordinance, and in the future it will
cost $50 year to run a newspaper in
that town. VIII the city council accept
due bills on delinquent subscribers?
Uncle Johnny Corgan. of McPher-
son, who served in the Mexican war.
the Civil war. and all the Indian wars
of his time, has had his pension in
creased from $50 to $50.
The telephone fever has struck the
Sixth district towns hard and within
a few months everybody in that region
will know enough to talk through the
receiver while listening to the trans
mitter.
Miss Jennie Helper and Newton Lord
in southeastern Kansas recently, and
the editor of the local paper nearly got
licked for heading the announcement
''LOrd-Helper.
A pet ground hog which belonged to a
Hiawatha nan has just been killed by
dogs. Hereafter Hiawatha people will
have to fall back onto the goose bone
and the weather bureau for their prog
nosticatiOns.
Hiawatha has raised Arkansas City's
bid for baby to go up in balloon on
the Fourth Arkansas City offers $25
and Hiawatha makes it $50. There is
no bargain sale rush among young
mothers to accept either offer.
Salina is to have a milling BOOM A
large steam mill is to be erected and
negotiations are now being carried on
to reopen the Western Star mills two
water power plants that have been
closed for a number of years on account
of litigation.
The annual debate as to who is the
oldest editor in continuous service in
Kansas has commenced. W. T. Yoe
of the Independence Tribune, had Just
about been awarded the prize. when
W. T. McElroy, of the Humboldt IN
ion. came forward with the claim that
he has been in the harness since 1866.
The Butler county man who comes
forward with an account of q snake 10
feet. inches long, ought to have had
more consideration for the other dis
ciples of Ananias than to spring his
story so early in the season. 1t will be
impossible to equal it this year. espec-
tally in prohibition communities.
FOrty-five Kansas counties have no
poor houses at all, or else they are
empty. This is nearly one-half of the
counties OF the state. At a meeting of
the clerks of the district courts of the
state some time ago it was reported
that 81 counties had no criminal cases
to be tried Could any other state make
such a showing?