The Topeka state journal., 1903-05-18
SIXTH DISTRICT NOTES.

What could be made a more attractive
site ard pleasure resort in Colby would
be the Improvement of the vacant
ground lying between the Opelt hotel
ers this piece of ground Of several acres,
and the only resort made of it now is
the thousands Of frogs which make The
night hideOuS to the people of Colby.
The Rock Island company and town
people with a little expense could utilize
it for park and make it desirable
resort.
The derrick is built and the ma
chinery is being put in position at Jen~
nings to commence drilling for oil III
the next few weeks the people Will know
whether it is gas. salt. coal or oil un-
derlying the town.
1t is said Norton is going to have an
other telephone line. to reach out every
where and take in most everybody. The
line was projected by Major Conway
editor and publisher of the Norton
Champion.
The free city delivery viii be inaugu-
rated in Beloit, commencing September
l. Postmaster Perdue is in receipt Of
the following from the postmaster gen.
erals office. The postmaster general
has this day, May 6. issued an order
establishing city free delivery service Al
your office on September J. 1903. with
Two letter carriers. one substitute car
rier. and fifteen street letter boxes
Belolt mas bon ton billiard Darlor
Its front windows are an attraction
4 hey are lilleQ Win specimens, nanV OF
them rare curiosities. consisting of fire
arms both old and new, rifles. knives
and swords. and money of all descrip-
tons
John B. Rea, the Democratic warrior
or Mankato, who was beaten for the
legislature by Republican in Jewell
county, is said to be in trimming for
congress- in the Sixth district in 1904
The length of the bar docket of the
Rawlins county May term keeps up its
average, there being four criminal and
81 civil cases to be disposed of. and onlv
one week to hold court Someone has
said there is more court litigation in
Rawlins county than in any other court
in the Sixth district.
Tally again for the Sixth district in
winning another office. State Senator
Hays B. White. Of Jewell county. has
been elected president of the new party
recently organized in Topeka. The
Sixth district fellows can stand all the
offices they can get.
The Mankato Advocate raises a Wig
orous complaint against putting in an
irrigation we'll in Jewell county. be-
cause that county is not in the arid belt
and such well would be of damage to
the county.
There must be some Democrats after
all in Smith county for the Smith Cen
ter Messenger of last week came out
enlarged and a new dress. and in ev-
cry respect a great improvement over
the old paper. In some parts of the
sixth district 1t was Del1eNed russell
Harrison. late Democratic candidate
for railroad commissioner, was the only
Democrat left in Smith county.
Outside of Beloit it is generally be-
lieVed either Captain W. H Mitchell,
ex- Senator 7. D. Young. and present
member of the legislature from Mitch
ell county A. G. Mead. who all reside
in Beloit. that either one of them would
make a splendid delegate to send to the
national Republican convention. The
three names have been suggested to
select one from.
Major John Conway. of the Champion,
asks the query: why don't the people
who are dissatisfied with Norton move
to heaven" Now, nobody is dissatis-
fed with that live. progressive town.
and all her people are so good that
none Of them wants to set the example
of getting dissatisfied in order to move
away from there.
one of the best land circulars in the
Sixth district is the one recently issued
bv Lieutenant Governor D J. Hanna.
who conducts large business in his
Hill City home. Speaking of the railroad
conveuiences to reach Graham county.
the circular says: The Union Pacific
railway. whose glistening rails stretch
in an unbroken line from the swirling
Missouri to the harbors of the Pacific,