The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-29
FIFTH DISTRICT NOTES.

| Some mischievous fellow, no doubt,
| has started a rumor that the Topeka
political boss busters are after the
Belleville Freeman, Populist organ,
| to convert it into an anti-machine pa
per. The rumor comes via Topeka, and
| it is claimed the fellow who is trying
| to work the deal lives in Concordia,
and is a full pledged boss buster.
The new opera house at Clyde will be
| formally opened October 8. 1t will have
a seating capacity for about 500. 1t is
one of the most modern opera houses in
the Fifth district.
Walter E. Rasye, son of A. ]. Basye,
editor and publisher of the Bellevilie
Telescope, has returned from Chicago,
where he had been attending the In
land Printer Technical school, bringing
home with him a diploma. After Sep
TENDER LIST he will be foreman of the
Telescope.
There are rumors floating around the
Sixth district to the effect that ]. f.
Close, now assistant attorney general,
will ask for the nomination OF attorney
general in 1906. Mr. Close is a resident
of Belleville, and four years ago was
beaten for judge of the Twelfth district
by Democrat.
1t begins to look as if Chas. Peck will
have the race for state senator all to
himself in the CIoud-Republic district.
Since John Doyle made that double
somersault from Demo-Populist to Re
publican it appears to have completely
knocked the wind out of the opposi-
D. Y. Wilson; of Reileville, ex-Repub-
lican aspiranf for state auditor, has a
strong pull with the political boss bus
ters. Every time one of them is riding
on a pass on the Rock Island and In
ion Pacific roads through Belleville,
Wilson usually gets a dispatch 30 meet
the boss busters at the depot. And he
is then in clover.
The BefIeviile Telescope is one of the
few Republican papers that did not get
either one of the amendments to print.
1t has been generally supposed the OBJ
ject for which the constitutional amend
ments are printed was to give them
general circulation. Not so with the
Telescope, the official Republican paper
of Republic county and the city OF
Belleville and having more than dou-
bic and treble the circulation of any
paper in Republic county The Tele-
scope is a machine organ
An idea of the good feeling existing
among the business men of Concordia
NAV be gained by an issue made the
past week by Messrs. George Burrougns
and Seward A. Jones of their Daily
Blade and Weekly Blade and Empire.
This is the paper in which George A.
clark. state printer had an interest
and which he sold last March to Mr..
Jones. 1t is a. combination of the three
Oldest newspapers in Cloud county ana
of a bunch of half a dozen others that
from time to time have been started
and been taken in by one or the otner
of the three. The Empire was the coun-
tvs first newspaper and in the issue OF
the past week is printed picture OF
the log hut in which It had its birth IN
1872 1t is different looking from the
building in which is now
printed one of the leading papers in the
Fifth district. The last weeks issue
was without doubt the largest ever is |
sued from a country office in Kansas
and few if any of the city papers nave
eoualled it in size or completeness. the
paper consisted of 48 six-column pages
and was Just six times the size OF the !
regular weekly issued by these energet-
ic hustlers 1t contained over 1000 inch |
es of display advertising, all from Con- |
cordia merchants, in addition 10 It's reg
ular contracts with home and foreign |
All the extra Work was |
done within the ten days preceding the |
issue The reading matter was OF a /
newsy nature, more on the historical
than the boom order, making IT valu-
able as a souvenir without QUESTION
If was the largest undertaking ever be-
GIN in a country Office in Kansas, ana
that it was carried to a successful con-
cIusion speaks well for the gentlemen
who own and publish the paper. as 1t
also speaks highly for the enterpFtsing
and liberal merchants of Concorola.
The old soldiers of Washington coun-
~ will hold their annual reunion this
week. commencing Tuesday, to contin-
ne four days. The invitation commK-
Zee met with unusual luck this year, in
speakers. The Washington
soldiers reunions nave Always
been a success
Tom Dolan fusion candidate for state
treasurer, was a spectator at the re-
cent log rolling picnic in Clay Center
DoIan is a good hand shaker, and no
5oubt will be a vote getter. He has
filed several offices with credit.