The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-21
JAYHAwKER Jors.

Parsons is troubled with too many
cocaine fends.
1t costs a hack driver $3.50 to crowd
over the dead line at Emporia-
A dollar and trimmings is what II
costs to slap a colored boy at Salina
To secure a drink at LIE Roy it is
necessary to be bitten by rattlesnake
Politics and a four-legged chicken are
the reigning attractions at Pleasanton.
For the first time save one. in four
teen years. the Chautauqua county JAN
Is empty.
A Sedan sailor boy has returned from
a seven years cruise under Uncle Sam
in the South Sea islands.
An Ottawa baker has a tract Of oats
that runs eighty bushels to the acre
Now. if thai were only wheat
The youngsters of Lindsborg have or
ganized a tent show where they give a
fairly good performance for q nickel
Columbus peaches measure eight
inches in circumference-that Is. those
that are brought to the Advocate or
fee.
The fame Of Editor Knaus of Nc
Pherson county is extending. He has
had newly discovered bug named at
ter him.
The war between Oberlin and the Bur-
ington railway is only equalled by that
of the carnival fight between Welllng-
ton and Wichita.
nesses, of Baxter Springs sunfiower, is
sixteen inches across and forty-six inch
es in circumference.
An eight-year-old Columbus bog who
has had his arm broken three times
within the past year is hoping that the
third time is a charm.
A Herington woman very mOdestly
asks $4,000 damages of her physician
because he pronounced a dislocation OF
the arm case of rheun atism.
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bish cans on the streets of Winfield for
waste paper naturally object to their
being filled with dead rats and cats.
That man that filled out the thousand
blank gueSSeS on the Topeka money jar
contest must have felt that he earned
the fifty cents his successful number
won
The old saying about Friday being
unlucky doesn't go at Assaria, where a
house, full of people, was shattered by
lightning on that day and not q soul
injured.
An Atchison. man was recently com
PEELED to give up a trip because his
trunk, a suit case and three valfses had
been borrowed by the neiGhbors. says
the Globe.
Ice cream sodas are not so popular
at Independence since over 100 people
were ptonaine poisoned Saturday night.
A similar happening took place there
fifteen years ago.
Free trolley parties for children and
the loaning of his 81, 900 imported bird
dog to chicken hunters are a few OF
Bailie Waggener's specialties in his
Atchison county legislative campaign.
The Emporia council has passed an
ordinance prohibiting the sale of less
than a gallon of hop-tea at one time.
They have evidently been mfsjudging
the capacity of 1.-The boys heretofore.
Through a knot hole entrance in the
siding of a Mankato home sixty days
ago a swarm of bees located. This
week after a lively skirmish fifteen
pounds of honey were taken from the
hive.
A well known about town Emporia
dude was beaten up severely by an an
cry mother with a club and in addition
she says she will send him to the peni-
tertiary. He didn't treat the daugh-
ter right.
There dwells in Franklin county a
boy of 19 who is a grandfather. He
married widow of 40 summers, whose
son has Just became a papa. 1t seems
rather queer to become a grandfather
before one is a father.
Congressman Long is to be congratu-
lated. Editor Howe Of the Atchison
Globe listened clear through his ad-
dress at Leavenworth Tuesday. Mr.
Howe says this is the first time he ever
did such thing in his life