The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-18
JAYHAWKER Tora

The Milk White Flag i waving at
Winfield
Several Kansas towns are holding
Booze Investigations. In these cases the
hazing follows.
The rush OF the mob. styled public
sentiment, at Leavenworth, caused a
quick side-stepping Of officials
The sweetest songs are yet unsung, -
declared a Larned musical critic after
hearing THE Hottest Coon in Dixie
Like carrying Goals to Newcastle is
the proposed measure Of Senator Tapp
to buy sunfi0wer seed to replenish the
fields Of southern Kansas.
Mort Smith OF the Downs Times has
enlisted for the war. After wrestling
for years with delinquent subscribers he
feels competent to clash with the Fill
Pine.
wellington has coal hole 1000 feet
deep, signed, sealed and ready to de-
liver to the highest bidder. The coal,
or the prospect rather, goes with the
hole.
The most disguised man In Kansas
was the Abilene fellow who stole a suit
Of underclothes the day prior to the
warm wave and in addition was given
a SO fine.
Butler county commissioners have
stirred up a lively newspaper war by
awarding the county printing to the
Douglas Tribune and away from the
county seat.
A Wyandotte couple swore falsely
to their age in order to secure mar
riage license. The parents excused them
on the grounds that they were in love
and enchanted
Word has reached Newton that FIVE
charming young ladies from other cities
viii soon be visiting guests Now there
is furious polishing up of silverware
preparatory to a series of pink teas.
Cherokee county farmers are leaving
long trails OF upturned black loan be-
hind as they merrily drive their plows
spring is lowering over southeast kan
sas-
Grandpa Eb White is the pioneer set
tier of Osborne county. He has lived
there so long. that even the quails have
grown familiar with his kindly ways
and each evening chant '.Eb White,
Eb White
A Wichita CKan.) veracious news cor
respondent affirms that a scared negro
turned white in that town the other
day A man who can solemnly assert
the truth of such a story as that has
a great future before him-unless he re-
fOrms--Chicago News.
A recent balmy day Is responsible for
this bon mot from w. "A. White: Spring
has cOne-the front dore yards are be-
ing cleaned, the hens are singing, the
girls are wearing bunch of violets on
their coats and six mover wagons went
west on Sixth avenue today"
Ottawa has a town scandal. A TWEEN
ty-hve cent collection was taken up
after diligent labor to help defray a
funeral expense and now the story
circulates that there was a rake off"
Hereafter expenditures of this nature
should be certified to by voucher.
"A Crawford county wiseacre worries
over the presence of a cat in the house
for fear the animals fur contains small
pOx germs And yet at the beginning
of the last century man had never heard
of the germ theory or worried over
bacilli and bacteria and they lived just
as long.
Hiram Hitchcock, returned prospector
from Cape Nome. is the idol of the boys
and girls of Zyba, Sumner county.
Crowds follow him to view four or Eve
nugget stickpins, a watchcharm OF SIS
pennyweights, a scarf pin Of $50 value
and big band ring. In his pockets he
carries one nugget valued at $40, an
other at $50 and one hundred valued at
from 81 to IS.