The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-25

forth in all its glory. The gold shaIe
millionaires will now be billionaires. The
reason: Duke K. Bashford says he has
just returned from Vienna and he fur
Their says that he has discovered pro-
cess by which fuel can be made of the
shale in western Kansas. Fuel that will
warm people at the rate of one cent per
hour.
This need not be questioned. For has
not Duke K. Bashford said that it is
so? Just why he had to go to Vienna
to make the discovery is not thoroughly
understood by the common run of I'M
scientific people. Neither is it known
whether Professor Bashford went to
Vienna by the way of Tecumseh or
TonganOxie, but he says he was there.
He may have gone overland via the
DeWindt route. But no matter how he
went or how he returned. He says he
was there If you don't believe it you
may look at the G. Oliver IseIin yacht
ing cap he is wearing. Latest style,
would pass in a pinch for a chaeffeur's
cap II the owner happened to have an
automobile instead of yacht.
But back to the fuel back to the
mines. This fuel will heat people for
one cent per hour. How many people
has not been stated nor has it been an
nounced whether the people should be
In an opera house or a small kitchen
The main part is the one cent. This
rate is intended to break up the Baer-
Deity partnership and use up the shale
in TregO county.
Bashfords, coming as it does when the
great anthracite coal strike has just
been declared off. proves but one thing,
viz; That President John Mitchell of
Il the United Mine Workers in some way
/ got an inkling of the discovery and was
ready to call off the strike. Bashford
is great scientist. He has discovered
several ways of using Trego county
shale besides making fuel, one of them
being sugar. He may yet discover how
to make hair oil. soft soap, f1axseed.
cotton batting, sheep dip, sponge cake,
car wheels, celluloid collars, starch, ham
sandwiches and a few other important
necessities can also be made from Trego
shale. Professor Bashford is said to be
waiting for strike among the per-
fumery makers and then he intends to
invent a process for extracting Jockey
4 Club, American Beauty and Crushed
Violet perfume from Trego shale.
The First Congregational church needs
a press agent. The pastor of that flock
has not been heard from either the
ape antecedent, the art interior of joints
nor the numerous other topics which
have brought his fellow pastors into the
lime light
This will be the last time until the city
| election next spring that the colored poll
ticians can smoke poor cigars and ride in
l=other peoples carriages.
By the way, what part is "Coonskin"
| Travis playing in this campaign?
Recently SO members of the Pennington
| family held a reunion in Atchison- What
the public would like to know is whether
Piggy Pennington from Boyville was
| there.
Ellen NJ. Stone lectured at Lindsborg on
her captivity the same day that the Beth
any college eleven and the Haskell Indian
football teams struggled the gridiron.
That's pretty severe opposition for Ellen
to overcome.
The strangest combination on record is
a toilet supply company which has its
quarters over a hide and tallow store
The aromas must get badly mixed with
the rough and powders.
What the Independent Prohibitionists
ought to do is to write a campaign pamph-
let entitled what Tiger Bill Campbell
of Wichita, would do if he came to To
peka.'
Quite fight was started on Stebbins on
the ground that he could not join lodge
because he would not profess implicit faith
in the Almighty without an explanation.
Galen Nichols is safe on this score. He
has passed the inner portals OF the ElkS'
lodge and is a full fedged member. He
must have answered all the questions cor
rectly.-
FATTY" Clark studied music at Wash
burn to be eligible for football and to con-
tinue in the game he took up special
course in anatomy and chiropody at the
medical college. He will soon graduate
and there seems to be little chance of his
continuing to play football unless Wash
burn adds a theological seminary
Has anyone's skull been crushed by that
dead fall in Mike Thompson's joint lately ?
A postal card mailed in Topeka on Sat
| 1,r-da an add To a W
does not live a mile from the postoffice,
was delivered the next Wednesday It is
noticeable that Republican campaign
literature has gotten mouldy in the post
office lately
The county officials have been treated
to cigars made at the poor farm by in
mate And still the commissioners wonder
why such a large cabbage crop is grown
there.
The worse thing that can happen to a
boy in his teens is to have his chums nick
name him Buck" They always try 20
live up the aestheticism of the name.
The strangest part of the political situa-
ton is that the jointists now say that ].
w. F. Hughes is the best fellow and the
incest mayor that Topeka has had for
years.
Dick CooIey's appearance in Topeka re-
wives the following story: While Cooley
was playing with Pittsburg in 1900 his bat
ting average was pretty low At that
time Cooley did not belong to the Good
Templars One night about 80 O'Clock
, he could not be found. The manager of
| the team began TO search for him He
was informed that Cooley had just head
ed for a German restaurant with two
companions of the gentler sex What"
exclaimed the manager. going TO Ger
man village at 1880 O'Clock at night when
, his batting average is down to 200" 1t
was generally understood that Cooley S
batting average was about seven nights
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