The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-25
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S1Xtn O1Sfr1ct Notes.
The Jewell county COAL oil and gas
months ago, has been reorganiZed,
and the company now mean business,
and promise to go after the stuff. John
B. Rea is president James Idvingood
secretary, and D. J. Hill, treasurer. AS
reorganized the new corporation is
known as the Mankato Coal, Oil and
Gas company The corporation have
about 10000 acres leased.
/ improvements are under way in Ellis
amounting to about SIS, 600. This dom t
/ include any railroad work.
/ Among the articles deposited in the
corner stone of the new Methodist
church in Ellis was a Union Pacific
time card. What account would this
be in the next world the donor didn't
say.
Judge James H. Reeder, of Hays
City, has plenty of friends who would
like to see him represent the Sixth dis
trict in congress. He has made an adj
nirable judge. Since his election to the
bench he has been offered the general
lattOrneyShip of a Colorado road. He
has been in Kansas so long that he
wouldn't give up the state now for any
other place unless the streets were
paved with gold and diamonds.
Four bright Beloit boys will gradu-
ate from the Kansas City dental col
elge this year. Ole Lutz, Fred Finni-
gan, Duane Carney and Lloyd Rowley
are the successful young men.
Major John Conway couldn't be per-
suaded to trade his Norton Champion
for a farm. He gave the following
reasons: list, we do not know how to
run a farm; End, no farm is wise
enough to run U.s."
A lively newspaper row is on in the
heretofore religious and temperance
town of Osborne. And all on account
of the political boss busters getting
hold of an organ of their own. For
years the two papers in that town
have exhibited a friendly spirit toward
one another; now they are hurting big
words at each other. Don't quarrel,
boys, there may be enough political
gratis for all of you.
Osborne county will be represented
at the ST. Louis exposition W. F.
Cochran, of Osborne, will exhibit his
GROW cultivator and riding pillow, which
he is the inventor and has patent for
The Socialists of Decatur county de-
cided to call a mass convention IN
Oberlfn June 2 for the purpose of
nominating a county ticket, W. D.
Street, late speaker of the Populist
legislature, is one Of the central com
mitteemen.
The Kirwin Kansan favors the peo-
ple in Phillips county nominating the
officers rather than the politicians.
That paper is an organ of the boss
busters, of whom many of them reside
in that county, and most OF them Wa ,.l
office One of them lives in Kirwin,
and he has been a standing candidate
for many years.
Colby isn't contented with hogging
about all the political conventions put
tine town is after the religious ones
as we'll Last week the Presbyterlans
of the Osborne Presbytery met there,
and in June the Northwest Kansas
Holiness association will meet there in
its tenth annual camp meeting. The
dates have been fixed for the 10th to
26th of June. Rev. 3. Carradlne, OF
st. Louis, Rev. Isaac F. Hodge OF Ava
Oklahoma, and others will be present
The new dress which the Logan Re-
v7.1lican has treated its subscribers
to is convincing proof that 1t is max
ing money the readers are paying for
the paper, and the business men ap-
preciate it.
p. Y. Wilcox, of Hill City, has been
appointed assistant custodian of the
Modern Woodmen of America. head
quarters in St. Louis during the ex,
position A building has been erected
by this order on the grounds.
Edmond, a Norton county town, is
going to have a State bank.
The Colby G.. A. R. post has adopted
son. of Rexford, Thomas county, for
medical director of the department of
Kansas The resolution goes on to
say: 1.-The time has arrived when
Northwest Kansas ought to receive
some consideration in the selection of
department officers at the coming en-
Work has been suspended for the
time on the new opera mouse III 10 Lo-
gan on account of wet weather. Wet
weather through out the Sixth district
means abundant crops and rushing
business.
The Prohibitionists of the Sixth dis
trict will nominate a candidate to beat
Congressman Reeder with at Plain
Vile. Rocks county, Tuesday April
26 The Socialists, Democrats and
Populists conventions are yet to be
heard from
The great political parties of Graham
county are more favorable to the wo-
men than they are in any other county
in the sixth district. So far as the
stakes have been set the Republicans
will nominate two for county officers,
while the Democrats and Popul1sts- viii
.asee them with two on their ticket.
In a Tom Thumb entertainment CIV
en- in Hill City recently. the reporter
of a local paper, in describing the
scene wherein one of the company took
the part of a minister, says: He acte1
the mart of the minister to a queens
taste, and performed the marriage
cemetery without miss or skip.
It is claimed that the wheat and oats
in Graham county never had a better
color than at present, thanks to the
recent rains. Both are making q. Won
derfuI growth. Wheat raisers in that
county say the prospects for bumper
crop are fully as good ifnot better than
the crop of 1903
Sons of Herman President Dead.
Austin, Tex, April 23.=Julian
Schultz, editor of the Texas Vorwerts,
died today. He was the national
It is so easy to take Piso's Cure for a