The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-27
SIXTH DISTRICT NOTES.

pion. says of ex-State Senator and
want-to-be State Senator Lockard:
driving cattle through the streets of
Norton. and it called to mind the glo-
rious hitherto when no bucking bronco
was ever busy enough to disturb the
seat of the SENATOR
F. S. Hazelton, of Norton. will not
object to feeding Sixth district fellows
who visit the st. Louis exposition next
year with ginger bread, milk and
pumpkin Pie, providing he can get the
proper concession from the powers
| that be.
The Republican papers of Mitchell
county are not altogether in harmony
! ABOUT the senatorial fight in the Mitch
ell-JeWell district. It was thought it
was Mitchell countys turn, but the
Glen Elder Independent thinks not.
That paper says: Our choice for state
senator is Hays B. White. of Jewell
county. the ablest representative the
district has had in the senate for many
years."
The farmers daughters of Osborne
county are not afraid to work on the
farm. During the harvest, when hands
We're scarce. the Wonderlich girls
helped their father in the grain field,
and besides paying them good wages.
he presented them with elegant pocket
weight.
All good Sixth district fellows get
positions when they leave the state.
Lew Headley, who printed a paper in
Gaylord when the Indians and buffalo
roamed over the prairies where Smith
county now is. located in Ponca. okla.
where he is printing a daily paper. The
Ponca people appreciate his worth, and
elected him member of the council.
Hoxie schools turned out to visit the
new Sheridan county Jail. Just what
this was for, and what was accon1D-
tshed, the teachers didn't explain.
1t is almost impossible to down a good
Sixth district man. Frank P. Hill has
t., fr-@
years. He served three years as COM
missioner: he served the county as
county clerk; he was deputy register of
deeds under three administrations: he
was deputy county clerk for four years.
he is now serving the county as pro-
bate judge. Some fellows in the dis
trict are continually bobbing up for
something and get nothing. Not SO
Smith is about the only county in the
Sixth district having a Democratic
county committee. And the few faith
full Democrats on that committee have
been called together at Smith Center,
| November z.
In Reloit when man loses a sum of
money. and it is found by a woman,
she returns it. but refuses to allow her
name to be known in the matter of
finding it. A case of this kind hap
pened there last week, and the lady
who found it refused to divulge her
name
The Solomon valley branch of the
Union Pacific has again changed time.
The change is doubtless made SO the
train can reach Beloit on time. The
people of that place say the passengel
train hasn't arrived there on time but
two or three times since the great floods
in May.
There is talk of organizing an old SOL
diers reunion association in north CEN
trail Kansas. similar to the Northwest
Kansas Veterans association 1t has
been many years since the old veterans
@f 3r1 ", 1An1I ar46 nrtN
ties have held reunion Soldiers re-
unions are held annually in Jewell
Smith, Phillips and Rocks counties. The
last campfire held in Beloit several years
ago was a success Over 1000 old SOL
diers and their Families together with
many others partook of the hospitality
| of Beioit G.. A. R. post and kindred
organize lions, and ate baked beans ana
drank coffee
DR. A B. Peters of Jewell county Is
mentioned for national Republican dele
, gate. The doctor has been in the Re-
publican harness for many years-for
. the other fellows. His friends now say
that if the troublesome state senatorship
fight was out of the woods satisfactory
to his friends. DR.. Peters would make
! a hard chase for delegate It begins to
look like Hays B. White might succeed
himself. His friends claim that he is
serving his first term and having made
satisfactory representative for both
Mitchell and Jewell counties, he is fair
ly entitled to represent the district for a
second term. There is any amount OF
politics on the quiet among the political
leaders In the two counties, but when
an outsider steps up they change their
/ conversation, and talk about alfalfa,
2 wheat and corn. There is any amount
4 of machine politics going on in mitchell
Y county as well as Jewell. only the ma
9 chine in these counties is on the side
2 of those who are against the machine
D the loudeSt
' The proprietor of the Bon Ton billiard
| oT10t in
j windows draped in mourning. Reason:
Because a ferret chewed a leg off one OF
s his pet owls. and the bird died
: Judge Dick Picker of the Fifteenth
$ district recently completed a term OF
e court in Mitchell county. AS is usually
the case, one or more of the prisoners
were sentenced to the penitentlarS.
: Those who know Picker the best say
' there isn't a more tender hearted Judge
: in Kansas. One of the prisoners SEN
e fenced was young man named Sturf1i.
e who appealed to Judge Picker to make
0 his sentence light as possible. as 1t
l was his first trouble and promised the
$ judge it would be the last one. Judge
0 Picker wrote a personal letter to War
den Jewett, stating the circumstances,
\ and hoping that the authorities would
e treat him as leniently as possible But
when Sheriff Eresch delivered him at
t the penitentiary the prisoner was greet
D ed with, Hello. Bert: we knew you
3 couldn't keep away from here We
S were looking for you back again any ola
O day" Sturm was released from a two
: wears term at Lansing last June, and
had served three years in Hutchinson
reformatory previous to that
Machine and anti-machine newspa-
pers in Phillipsburg are clashing, and
libel suits are limited.
The Smith Center Messenger Is of the
J opinion that since Billy Nelson quit the
Z Pioneer that paper has had all sorts of
trouble, and intinlates that there is q
change contemplated. it being the pur-
chase of the plant by a stock company
2 1t doesn't do for the Colby real estate
!. fellows to scrap" unless they want to
i pay fines. One of them claims ne was
: personally damaged by another to the
7 extent of $5.255. and all on account OF