The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-04
SIXTH DISTRICT NOTES.

Park AIitten of the Oakley Graphic
itches for any old office. When he
thought he was power in the machine
wagon he was particular what he was
good for. but since he lined up for the
boss busters any old thing is good
enough for him.
Topeka's cider" Smith is getting his
name in the Sixth district papers Hear
the Hill City Republican: THE Repub-
lican herewith extends the right hand
Of fellowship to Cider Smith of To-
peka for sending US these copious down
pours, for only last week the aforesaid
| Cider predicted a deluge for western
Kansas the last week in March.
| elders name should be placed on every
roll of honor in the short grass regions,
followed by the words, Thou art
brick"
On a Rock Island train recently there
was q family returning from Norton
county to their old home in Jackson
county. He had resided out there for p
years. Asked why he was leaving so
good county as Norton, he said, That
he had made a failure of it for % years"
How So" another passenger asked him.
You see I have resided there for p
years, and my crops have partially fail
ed all those years, and have been a
failure myself which makes the %
years.
The Randall News finds only Sc names
on the subscription book who haven't
J paid a cent for the paper for a year
( This ought to be easy for the editor, for
he has been printing his paper only a
year When he gets old in the harness
he will find plenty of bad accounts Of
/ several years standing.
! A State bank is the latest acquisition
/ to the business Of Norcatur. H o.
| Douglas is president, o. l. Benton vice
/ president and H. H. Benton cashier.
/ Charley Emmons of the Hill City
Reveille appears to be the favorite in
the race for the nomination for state
| senator in the Thirty-ninth district in
| opposition to Charles Buschow.
] T0H1 n hos al 4aF-.
/ care of since he moved from Smith Cen
/ ter to Phillipsburg that he will give a
free pass and a weeks board to a few
who want to go to St. Louis this sum
mer.
The Hill City Republican says Of the
/ late rains in Graham county: We'd
nesday night and all day Thursday rain
/ fell in torrents, as a result of which the
horse neigheth, the mule brayeth, the
sheep baweth and the Zimmerman ha-
/ haeth.
one of the janitors at the state
house is Daniel Hickman. a colored
man. He came from Hill City. lie
has been a resident of Graham county
1 since 1878, coming from Kentucky.
The first colored residents of that
| county came in 1877. and principally
! located and started the town of Nico-
/ demus. Mr.. Hickman thinks that III
/ the years Of 1879 and 1880 there was
! the greatest number Of colored people
! living in Graham county. about ESQ.
/ He organized the first church in Ora
/ ham county at Nicodemus, in 1873. IN
/ 1885 Deniel Hickman was elected COM
missioner of Graham county, and
| served seven years, and for three years
was chairman of the board. From
/ 1881 to 1888 he was coroner of the coun-
/ ty. Mr. Hickman IS a preacher as well,
4 belonging to the Baptists. Since ne
/ became janitOr at the state house he
| usually fills the coIored Baptist pulpit
4 in Topeka and Perry, Jefferson county.
I Other colored people living in Graham
I county have filed county and state
offices as follows Lewis Welton, coun-
I ty commissioner; z. P. McCabe, cosIn-
/ ty clerk and state auditor; John Haw-
/ kins, clerk of court; ]. Z. Porter, clerk
\ Of court; William Savers has filed the
offices Of clerk of court and county at
/ torney. and Geo. W. Jones has served
/ as county attorney.
Oberlin Eye: Oberlin at one time
held within its linits-and. strange as