The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-04
SIXTH DISTRICT NOTES.

D. W Little. Of Wallace county. for
mer assistant state superintendent viii
make splendid congressional timber, in
the opinion of the Oakley Graphic.
Kate Stotts, one of the bright young
newspaper women Of the district, and
an au-round printer, has taken editor
iaI charge Of the Sylvan Grove News
In the interests of Republican har-
rony in Mitchell county" said well
known BeIoit citizen Governor Bailey
viii do well if he viii turn down both
the applicants for regent Of the State
Normal from that county" The ap-
pIicants are s H Dodge, present in
cunbent. and Cy- CASTOR The name
Cy- don't always win. for it Will be
remembered that Cy- Anderson, Of
RawIins county, lost on all his political
propositions in Topeka this winter.
Harvey J. Penney. mayor Of Hays
City. has retired from the Brunswick
hotel, and says he viii devote some
time in fixing UP the odds and ends
of his business with which ne Is be-
hind Penney is vice president of the
Citizens state bank. and IS behind
telephone project. He has been in the
hotel business in Hays City for nearly
twenty years, and in this time he has
accumulated large amount of Ellis
county property and Hays City real
estate. Frank Fields, 4 former Union
Pacific conductor. succeeds Penney in
the hotel property.
W z. Lyon. superintendent OF
schools OF Lincoln county, has taken
editorial control Of the Lincoln Sen
tineI.
George Griffith. editor Of the Hays
City Republican. is holding down q
clerkship in the legislature this winter
G. H Leisering. a Union Pacific ma
chInist in the Ellis shops, viii succeed
F. J. BrattIe as postmaster of Ellis.
RumOrs are rife in the Union Pacific
counties IN the Sixth district that Geo
in the congressional race in 1904 He il
known as a careful and shreWd poll
tician. and if he gets into the race the
fellows VIII know that he is there to
win Heretofore Holland has always
been doing business foI his friends.
now they say his time has come. and
they are urging bin for congress.
Chas- T. Bower proprietor Of the
Cfrier hotel in Norton. is about the only
Z Democrat left IN Norton county Ask
ed why he wasn't in Topeka helping
/ F7ike out for railroad commissioners, he
answered that there was more money
raising alfalfa on the side and getting
$50 ton on the track than there IS
in politics He raised about zoe tons
last year.
Norton county is well taken care OF
politically There IS Elmer z. Ames,
national bank examiner John c. Brown,
chief clerk Of the penitentiary. Spence
+ Border. peniteutiary guard. c. D Jones
speaker pro tenn John r Hamilton,
Judge of the Seventeenth district. T. B
Wray. position IN the office Of secretary
of state and W H Croe0. J. W. Viuing
and + @ Newell, who hold positions IL
+ the legislature in either senate or house
Z Besides Norton Is the home Of state
( Senator E Y. Peterson Of the Fortieth
district
Ed Sprague. late of the Russell Rec
+ ord. has gene 10 washington, where he
has secured q position in the govern
4 nlent printing office.
Cy Anderson has returned to his home
( In RaWIins county from Topeka. where
4 he spent the greater part of the winter
/ working for his friends and paying Their
back for the good they did him in for
rner years Cy Anderson did some hare
Z work in Topeka for Barker. Curtis an5
F1ceh. but it appears his name WASH
so successful as Cy LeIand's-
It is being limited among the Demo.
Gratis and other friends of George Car
ney. superintendent Of schools Of Mitch
ell county that he VIII engage IN jour
nalism after his term Of Office expires