The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-23
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The Winfield Courier says: Now that
petroleum has been discovered in Ala
bama the Standard Oil will proceed TO
break I'D the solid south.
The Winfield Courier: 1t is pointed
out that Uncle Gassaway Davis has
again triumphed- It was charged dur
ing his campaign that he could not live
to see the inauguration day.
The Abilene Reflector: The Standard
says Kansas must spend $20,O00,000 to
get into the oil business. What is there
to hinder the state using a few millions
Of watered stock as the Standard has
done?
The Lawrence Gazette: What did we
tell your" triumphantly excIaims the
Atchison Globe. and then adds, Stubs
is a candidate for the United States
senate" Well as there is no senator
to elect, hasn't he right to be?
The Ottawa Herald: The Kansas
City Journal has an extended editorial
this morning discussing Where Gar
field Failed" This is the first intima-
ton to the public that Garfield dfdn't
fail all over.
Evidently the editor of the Winfield
Courier never stood alongside of Presi-
dent Roosevelt for the Courier remarks:
Despite the fact that President Roose-
Welt lacks one inch of being six feet in
height he can not be blamed for feel
ing much taller just at this time
The Lawrence Journal: The agricul-
tural department at Washington now
has little faith in the extinction of the
cotton boil weevil by the Guatemalan
ant; the cotton growers have never at
any time had any confidence in that
plan. There is still a chance for DR..
Snow.
The Hutchinson News: Who ever
supposed the time would come when the
legislature of the state of Missouri
would elect a man United States SEN
ator whom the legislature of Kansas
fnh9 ONLY the
magic name of Roosevelt could have
made this possible.
The lola Register: While our good
friend John Q. Royce is waiting for that
commission as bank examiner. it ought
to please him to be reminded in the
Capital that March is, 1885, Governor
Martin appointed him a notary public
I was a corporal wanst," said Null
vaney. II was rejuced aftherwards,
but 1 was a corporal wanst."
In the Hutchinson Bee column headed
Idle Thoughts of Boy: I have been
asked If I would not just as soon fill
this column up with patent medicine
ads. The subscribers say it would
make much better reading. The real
reason 1 do not stop writing this truck
is that 1 would then have time to sweep
out the office and I do not like to sweep.
And then the office floor would look so
unusually bare that I should be shocked.
The Leavenworth Times says: 1t is
y
are families who look suspiciously upon
the questions asked by the assessor in
taking the census, and the assessor has
difficulty in getting the correct figures.
There is a value to every town, town
ship and county in having their real
population made a matter of record.
and the officer who takes the census
should be aided rather than hindered
in his work.
Ellinwood Leader: The postmaster
in Wathena sarcastically advises that
persons wishing their letters to go
through the mail In a hurry should al
ways write In Haste on the lower
left hand corner Of the envelope. Then
everybody connected with the service
will jump around lively. The mail sack
containing it is delivered to the route
clerk on the run. The route clerk rush
es ahead and notifies the engineer to
pull the throttle wide open and the
rural carrier whips his horse into
swift gallop. all in order that the en-
structfons may be obeyed.