The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-23
SIXTH DISTRICT NOTES.

asSs so Shark ii is R sgending the Sos hell
industry at Sioux City, Ia.
Some of the Sixth district boys say they
be be- the next postmaster t H Of oberlin. And
SO he will If Otis Benton can land him
Frank Lockard. postmaster at Norton,
is the only Sixth district postmaster to
get his picture in Hill P. Wilson's book,
says If it had cost him sS5 to have got his
picture in the book it never would have
The. Stockton News man who is ex-
tremely anxious to be postmaster of his
or Wellington, opponents of Congressman
Feeder That paper speaks OF Mr. White
wellington as a thrifty real estate agent.
It is said the next legislative fight in
Mitchell county will be made on the re-
that A. G. Mead, present Incumbent. viii
run on the former. ticket and ex-state
date for the temperance voters.
Thirteen Sixth district editors are serv-
postmasters. at Hays city and noT1 Kirw VIM
three editors. at Beloit, Burr Oak and
federal appointments. And all good offi-
The former Beloitites who make their
home in Topeka Will show Mead. Young,
Perdue, Dodge and other fellows who go
Mitchell county, all the byways and high
ways there are. Don't go there with the
intention Of getting your names on the
The Smith Center Pioneer man, who was
recently e appointed postmaster of his
Wssllington to Smith county. says of him:
saanb, Is d fss5Ion stagfay man. an aqd re-
man being under obligations to Reeder,
couldn't have said less
1t begins to look as though Congress-
man Reeder is determined not to kick up
any row among his old postmasters by
reappofnted in Philiipsburg There was
some opposition to his reappointment. but
also reappointed postmaster at Kirwin
Because Hays White has several hum
dred head of cattle wintering in some of
visits them the local papers claim he is
Judge Of stock and large and successful
cattle breeder, and II comes in his line of
duty to visit and see how his cattle are
doing.
A well known, Sixth district politician
the papers as a congressional dark horse
in case of a deadlock in the next Repub-
lican congressional convention, says he is
receiving letters from the western part of
the district urging him to announce his
ing and watching the fight going on mer-
rily between Reeder, White and yelling
ton. and may get into it later on
Just the week before quitting GAYLORD
Smith county and the Sixth district. Lew
Headley said in his last issue of the Her
see before leaving the old Sixth district
lin which we have a sort of a proprietary
interest by right of discovery-was the
election of w. H. Haskell to congress. Our
friend and neighbor for years and years,
we know whereof we speak when we say
he would be an honor to the district and
the state In the congress of states; The
Sixth district will do well to bear that in
mind
So far neither. the papers of Smith Cen
ter. the home of Joe Burrow nor those of
Hill City, Dave Hanna's home, have an
nounced the candidacy of either for sec
rotary of state or lieutenant governor 1t
Is expected their booms will be formally
launched in Topeka January % at the Re
publican meeting Neither have the Be
lott newspapers, the home of Judge Ellis, |
said word about his candidacy for re-
The Sixth district crowd |
who will be in Topeka will be large and
orderly. and they will not bring their
sharp knives with them. They will go
there in new suits of clothes and prosper
lty smiling all over them.
DR.. F. H Smith, Democratic member of |
the legislature from Sherman county, |
thinks Wellington will be the hardest one |
ptrants in the Sixth district.