The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-17

Dull.
We don't know the exact temperature
of the other place. but if it can beat
Arizona on a hot day We'll take off our
hat to it.
There will be no fall boom in Give
adam Gulch this year, but six more sa-
looms will be quietly run UP and fin
ished off to accommodate the increas-
ing business.
Old Jim Hewson. who has just re
turned from New Mexico. witnessed
three lynchings While he was gone. and
he says they were all bungles COM
pared to our artistic ways
Our last issue contained a selection
of seventeen murders compiled from
various sources. and yet Colonel Nor
ton has ordered us to stop his CODY on
the ground that the Kicker has become
too Sunday schoolish. The colonel is
nice man. and we'd like to keen him
--es4a-allr- list hui he mustn't eXnec1 too
run in a few balloon and railroad ae-
cidents for the beneSt of other read
ers.
If the party who threw a rock through
our bedroom window in the Dostotfice
the other night viii call and repeat the
performance. we will reouite him as he
/ deserves. It happened that we were
] rev SttOllQS SLOW III SSLlllAS Jul u OC0
that night
We took a little trip among the shy
ster lawyers the other day and arrang-
ed that they dismiss libel suits against
US to the amount of $4,000 Some OF
them We're a little reluctant at first,
bur after a look down the muzzle of
gun they came down and made the best
of it. Suits aggregating S7,000,000 have
been instituted against US during the
Z Ia CT pip6f industry has
prevented a single one of them from
coming to trial.
The city treasurer of Lone Jack has
fed the country. and his books show
that he is a defaulter to the amount of
Sl.52. This looks like q small sum, but
it was all the public money the town
. had and the treasurer was in a hurry
to reach a locality where they put ice
in mint juleps.
In going home drunk the other night
Capt. CahOon fell over a mule lying
down in the street and thought he was
attacked by a highwayman- The cap
tain pulled his guns and fired twelve
shots at random. but the only damage
done was a bullet in his left foot We
have often advised him to do his shoot
ing with a crOWbar
The vigilance committee over at Lone
Jack seems TO need an instructor. 1t
mas nulS one man three inherent times,
and yet he is walking around today in
good health and declaring that he has
come to town to stay.
Old Joe Wheeler claims to have seen
a silver tipped bear near Sailor creek
last Sunday. If he is telling the truth.
then he struck something at last he
couldn't ask to buy him a drink of
whisky or lend him a quarter.
Some one has sent us by mail XII
kluX nOtice-skull crOssbones and all
warning us to get out of Arizona with
in thirty days or take the consequences.
We don't propose to leave this balmy
country for many years to come, and
Wen bet 10 to l that we add that
! chaps carcass to the thirteen others
sleeping so quietly in our private edi
torIal graveyard. We are no buzzsaw,
but the man who monkeys with US has
got to be chain lightning to keep his
health.
We beg pardon of our readers for
neglectlnc to say a word last week
that our circulation is now three times
as great as all other newspapers In
the known world put together and that
our advertising has gone up from two
INES to 1000 columns. This proves that
real merit and genius are always lib
orally rewarded
We understand that certain parties in
TINS town have written the postmaster
NA-'e pay HCfASt I e. VIC ~
but we play it as editor and not as
postmaster. and would like to sit down
IN game with the p. NJ. G. himself, if
he's inclined that way.
If any one is curious to know why
J. b. Williams left town last Sunday
night with lis legs working like piston
rods and his hair on the curl.slxe can
explain that as secretary of the vfgi-
lance committee we had given him
warning to skip or bangle. He decided
70 SKIP and has probably reached JTta
by this time J. r. was little too stiff
as braggart and deadbeat
In accordance with a careless habit
we nave somehow acquired we spat on
Major Johnson's boots as we stood talk