The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13

Of many good lawyers seems to be that
the law is good and will accomplish the
purpose for which it was intended
In the event of the failure of the pi-
ennial election law and the holding OF
elections this fall, in consequence, Chas.
Lobdell, chief clerk of the house is not
expected to 60 out after the Thirty
third district judgeship. Charley VIII
hold off his batteries instead and train
them on the lieutenant governorship IL
the state election of 1902.
United States Senator w. A. Harris
spent a day in this city this week and
no one knew it outside Of Populist head
quarters. He has gone back to Wasn-
1ngtOn- The senior senator from Kan
sas comes in in marked contrast to the
junior senator. His political cOloring
gives him no present patronage, hence
there is no spectacle of place-hunters to
greet him and he transacts his business
quietly The blare Of trumpets is ap
poruoned to the Junior senator now ard
their toOtlings are already starting Tor
the expected arrival next week Wait
for the Big BOyi
Dell Valentine, clerk of the supreme
court, reads everything that has the
name Of Ernest Seton-Thompson at
tached- He went to the lecture the other
night when the noted wild animal story
writer was here and this is what he
says. I sat there an hour and twenty
waved his hand gracefully and with
dainty bow backed off into the darkness
and 1t was all over / thought it had
only just begun. But there is one thing
that is too. too much-how LobO, the
ktng-WOlf sprung the traps He told how
LobO led his pack along the buffalo
trail Seton-ThompsOn set his traps
strung out along the track. When Lobo
came along he stopped short Of the
traps. turned short up out Of the beaten
path and trotted along the ridge around
them, his pack following So the hunter
tried setting one on each side of the trail
on the little ridges, as well as in the
path, but they still circled far out and
around That was all right But after
InaL now the wolves scratched gravel
and rocks onto the traps until they
sprung them is going too far. He be-
neVes 1t, though. He honestly does, no
doubt. No one would dare tell him they
didn't believe it. All the same as poll
tics The fellows get hold of a theory
and tell it over and over so often that
they finally believe it themselves and
then nobody dare tell them different
If Topeka should take up Rev. DE-
FisS's lecture bureau scheme. the capital
city would have no hard time to furnish
the musical and literary talent. The
state house and political circle could cas-
lily furnish its quota Governor Stanley
OF any one of his executive council
would highly entertain small towns with
telling how to choose a board Of railroad
commissioners or buy an executive man
sion and State Superintendent Fra nix
Nelson and John Dawson often do bu-
reau-lke lecturing on the side The city's
own political circle Of state celebrities
would furnish David Overmyer, Joe Wa
ters and numerous other platform en-
tertatners
There is a great deal of speculation
rife at present that Kansas will get a
goodiy portion or the overflow from
those emigrants who do not secure an
allotment when the new Kiowa-Coman-
che, country is opened for settlement in
August Tt is already estimated that
there viii be four applicants for every
claim The limit in the two reservations
in 1S473. There are 2-242.32O acres of land
in Kansas now open to homestead entry.
which is a greater total than the new
country Much of it is Of course suita-
Bile only for grazing purposes. State
Auditor Cole is receiving so many appli-
cations for information about untaken
lands that he is sending blanks to each
county clerk requesting complete infoI'-
nation in regard to lands open for ser
tlement, and as to whether they are
adapted to stock-raising or agriculture.