The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-22
SIXTH DISTRICT NOTES.

member of the penltentiary board w H
Haskell; Judge of the Fifteenth judicial
district, r. NJ. Picker; regent Of the
Agricultural college, Captain J. 5 Nc
Dowell; member Of the state board of
health DR.. L. A. Golden; penitentiary
guard Lee Starbuck and A F. Cornell
is holding down desks in the office Of
the secretary of state. If Smith county
wants anything more don't be bashful,
but ask for it.
Friends of ex-County Attorney. r. H
Mcbride of Jewell county think they
hear the congressional bee humming in
the air for their man. No chance this
time, Bob Reeder will be renominated
and elected easier than ever before.
Dr. A. B. Peters of AIankato, who the
Topeka papers claim gave out the in
formation that Jewell county was go
ing to secure one of the irrigation wells,
is going 10 see that the county secures
one if he has to sink it himself.
Judge Dick Picker of the Fifteenth
judicial district has only commenced
serving his second term. The district is
composed Of four counties, Jewell,
first term he tried seven murder cases,
four in Smith county, two in Osborne
and one in Jewell. The eighth murder
case is to come up in Jewell county in
the July term There has been but one
conviction of murder in the second de-
gree. that of Huff of Osborne county.
Two other cases resulted in acquittal,
and four have been convicted of different
degrees of manslaughter. 1t is said
that Judge Picker has tried double the
number of murder cases in his one term
than have even been tried in the district
combined.
The Logan Republican which is print
ed in Congressman Reeder's town, says:
1T looks as though this part of Kansas
had outgroWn the name of the short
grass country. We have timothy grass
growing wild along the roads from two
to four feet high with heads seven
inches long"
1t is seldom one hears of anyone dying
in the Sixth district that section being
unusually free from epidemics of any
kind barring politics or affairs Of the
kind which have lately occurred out in
Cheyenne county. But all the same,
Dye & Son of Logan have sold this sea-
! ers, which tends to prove that the coun-
! try round about is unusually healthy
and prosperous, and filed to overlooking
with wheat and other small grains.
No one has ever accused Major John
/ Conway of publishing yellow journal,
/ but be that as it may his Norton
Champion has been printed on paper
tinctured With .yeflosvish color. all on
account of the bad train service MS
town has had Since the big food
/ Notwithstanding the boss busters
4 have been after the political scalp of
John Royce, postmaster at Phillipsbure,
he continues to hand out mail publish
his Dispatch every week is giving
away q 800 buggy and $500 piano to
! MS SuDSCl1DelS, ana IS having erected
TOOfny addition TO his pleasant house
special stock train was run over
4 the Rock Island from Philipsburg one
day last week filled with cattle belong
j ing 10 Mayor l. A. Champlin, l. G. Me
1 l)Owell and Frank A. Dixon, buyers and
! feeders of PhilliDsburg. While they
didn't tip the high cattle Notch they
viii go at it again and send out another
train load GOon-
The report that the Dykes were GO
ing to leave Lebanon was only started
1t appears, to injure their practice. h
! had no weight. Dr. John B. Dykes. late
candidate for congress in the three
eornered congressional fight two years
ago, paid SO. 600 cash for 43 acres of land
adjoining Lebanon, and will erect d
residence modern in every respect
which will be second to none in Smith
county, that Of Secretary of State Bur
row surprising it
/ 1t appears that J. S Turner lost ont
IN his Hcxie postoffice reappointment
and G T. Dallam viii be appointed
About the only charges one has ever
heard against Turner is that he attend
ed strictly to the duties of the Office
and let the other fellows U-rangIe ana
jangle over political problems. In ofhe1.
i words, Turner wouldn't put up politir1i
pins to quarrel over He is a Christian h
gentleman.
Mankato is going to have an old
fashioned rousing Fourth of july. The
speaker of the day will be A. J. Free
porn, the rising young orator of Wash
lngton county All sorts of amusements
Will be on hand and The visitors viii he
gloriously entertained.
Henry Williams is one of the goahead
farmers Of Smith county He farms
ll60 acres of ground. and he makes the
mare go. whether hot winds occasional
" pinch him or floods wash out some Of
MS crops. He has on an average 500
head of cattle all the time besides $50
acres of good alfalfa and 240 acres of
the best wheat. He says Smith county
will raise more and better wheat this
year than ever before in the history Of
the county.
Colby is going to entertain July 4.
Preparations are completed for having
good time. Senator Buschow. Bob
McGonigal and ". T. Ward are a com
mittee to secure speakers and they Will
fill the bill to perfection. Everybody
viii go to Colby to celebrate
J. r. Connolly, who used to farm
land in Thomas county, and after got
into politics, and later publisher and
editor Of the Colby Free Press, says
of the crop prospects in Thomas coun-
ty: We drove out into the country
for dozen miles. There is whole lot
of fine wheat that viii make good
crop sure, while a like amount will need
a few more showers to make it mature
right Thomas county is on the eve
of a substantial advance that will re-
semble an old fashioned boom. The
fellow that stakes his hopes on the fu-
ture of this country viii not be disap-
pointed.
1t has been given out that present
State Senator Hays B. White. of the
JEWELL Mitchell district, will ask for a
second term With this il view it is
also said that A G. Dfea G. present mem
Der of the LEGISLATURE from Mitchell
county will stand a good show of be-
ing selected 4 delegate to the next Re
publican national convention. It will
be remembered that neither White OF
Mead got in the political band wagon
last winter.
Students Lost Their Trunks.
Bay St Louis Miss. June 22-St
Stanislaus college was totally destroyed
by fire today. The flames spread so rap
idly that the students generally lost