The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-02
SIXTH DISTRICT NOTES.

Capitalists from Missouri are figur-
ing on building milling plant in Hill
City.
Friends of Charley Hall, of Russell,
now claim that he will be a candidate
for secretary of state to succeed J. r.
Burrow, in 1905. Hall is for Burrow
for congress two years off. He was
nominated for the legislature in Rus
sell county recently, after one of the
hardest political races he ever had,
and this was highly satisfactory to
BurrOw. Now Hall will deliver Rus
sell county to Burrow if he can get
Judge Anterior to go with him, and
Hall viii become candidate for sec
rotary of state. But Anterior has
given it out that the next big Sixth
district fight will be made against
Burrow for congress. And so the mat
ter stands for the present, with Hall
in the foreground.
Sixth District Notes" paid Mrs.
Geo. P. Griffith, who is editing her
husbands Hays City Republican while
he is absent in st. Louis, a pretty
compliment for standing up so nobly
for the women of her town a few
weeks ago But in a recent issue of
her paper she goes back on them as
follows: I'VE have heard of illusions,
but the queerest illusion is that of a
young men in the town who are going
to marry wish to elope with her"
They are talking up NJ. D. Ross for
the fusion nominee for the legislature
farmer and stock raiser, and if he will
accept the nomination he will run as
fast as the buffaIoes did in that county
when he first located there. r. H. Nc
Bride wants the Republican nominal
ton. His friends believe he is entitled
to it for the reason that he got into
the new machine wagon early and
helped circulate petitions organizing
Hoch clubs.
Dogs are getting numerous in Ora
ham county, according to the returns
of the assessors. In three townships
a gain of over 20 is reported.
There are rumors that Osborne will
soon have her third newspaper. There
are two there already, a machine or
gan and a boss busters paper. It is
said the third one will be Democratic.
The five men who SURVEYED the
original townsite of Smith Center, in
March. 1872, are all living. They are
George Bishop, now residing in Ohio;
George McNeice, who is printing a
paper in Lebanon; T. ]. Burrow.
brother of Secretary of State Burrow,
now living in California; J. H Hill
cashier of the First National bank of
Smith Center, and VIM. Garretson
residence unknown. Each of these
men have killed buffalo on the town
site of Smith Center as late as 1873
Lebanon is one of the best towns
in progression and business transact
on the Rock Island road. The Times
prints two wants which that paper
thinks are necessary for the welfare
OF the place one OF them reads:
''Wanted-An attorney to locate in
the city of Lebanon, a good business
town in the east part of Smith coun-
ty. An attorney that will stand for
law and order at all times is needed
by the city officials, and a man of the
above description can secure a Job by
applying to the mayor, r. G. Lucas. -
The other want advertisement
reads: ''Wanted-A good bushes
man who has brains as well as whis-
kers, to run for mayor at the next city
election in the city of Lebanon a good
business town in the east part of
Smith county; a man that will stand
for law and order at all times without
making an ass of himself, we think is
needed to be elected by the citizens of
expect the support of the Lebanon
Times"
Mrs. Griffith writes in her husbands
paper, the Hays City Republican, about
the leap year girls and boys of her
town, and throws the following bou-
Quet at them: Three months of this
leap year have gone by and we have
yet to hear of any large parties of
bachelors taking to the woods, or de-
handing military escorts between their
homes and their offices. The great ma
jority of girls seem to act about the
same in leap years as they do in years
that do not leap"
John MollisOn, of Smith county SAYS
he is in the Sixth district congressional
race to win. He is after the Populist
nomination in the Colby convention,
and will fight fusion all the time. lie
has no objections to the Democrat
rallying around the Populist banner