The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-21
LAYHA WKER JOTS

It took Beloit three nights at the OPP
era house to settle the question, Was
! She to Blame 2"
Now somebody has started the story
that Kansas farmers have taken to
rubber-tired cultivators.
The Bee thinks it would be good for
sore eyes to see electric street cars
running in the streets of Hutchinson.
Now that Parsons has landed the
million dollar Katy" shops, it is f1irt-
ing with a two million dollar branch
of the Baldwin LOGON olive works.
Three of four weeks ago there was
chronicled in these columns the mar
riage of a man of So to bride of 81
in northern Kansas, it being the
groom's fifth matrimonial venture.
Well, they lived together just five
hours.
The Leavenworth Times tells of an
old man who was being taken to the
penitentiary by a sheriff. Did you
telegraph them 1 was coming" asked
the prisoner. When the sheriff told
him no. he said: Il thought that per-
haps you did and that they would
have a good supper ready for me-
A Rush county man has a scheme to
run his header with a twenty-horse
power engine. with an eight-gang
wheat is cut the ground will also be
plowed for the next crop and there
will be no stubble left to act as a
furnace TO start not winds.
Up at Muscotah two men are hav-
| ing a lawsuit over a COW. The costs
have thus far just equalled the value
Of the COW, but in the meantime she
has become the mother Of a calf, so
there is still a margin to fight over.
The litigants hope that the increase
Will at least keep pace with the costs
of the suit.
That quarrel between Salina and
Mcpherson as to whose doctor it was
that put in a bill of $500 for aiding
the Marquette tornado sufferers has
reached the point where the McPher-
son Republican prints this: eff a
cyclone ever makes shredded biscuit
of me 1 hope I will be carried far
enough away from Salina so that
| to give me first aid
The threshers' lodge out in Pratt
county, which is said to be a trust
has raised the scale of prices for
threshing a half cent a bushel They
explain that labor is now rs to SO
cents day higher than it was five
years ago; that coal costs them So
ton more, and that wheat is worth
| from go to 40 cents busheI more
| than ltw as then. Therefore they
think the raise is justihable.
The chief export business of Maui
Botkin has just been appointed as
United States consul, is rum. Charlie
Finch says that when this was dfscOv-
cred a Lawrence man said: "That set
ties the export business of Maritius
No more rum will be exported after
Theo. Bct6in gets there During his
recent years, however, the once bibu-
lous judge has been total abstainer.
Charlie Finch tells a new story
ABOUT Judge Theodosius Botkin The
Juuse was extremely belligerent and
one day when some officers were max
ing trouble for a client of his at n
brick yard he went out to see about
1t. An officer who was on guard
pulled a gun on him and ordered him
to throw up his hands. Instead Rot
kin picked up a brick and handed it to
the officer on the side of the head
Botkin was arrested and Finch de-
1 1eLlItse MN from the charge of as
sauIting an officer It was a famous
trial Finch says that after the other
lawyers had made their speeches Rot
kin asked the court for Permission IN
auaress the jury in his own behalf,
possibly because he had not the
greatest amount of faith in his counsel
There were several old soldiers on +I7e
jury, and Botzin, who was weII-known
as an OLD soldier, closed with these
words; Gentlemen of the i1irv do
you ask why 1 did not throw IN my
hands at the command of the ofFice,- ,
1 will tell you. A quarter of a cent,51t.
ago heard that command and
! obeyed it, and because I did. I suffered
/ IN Libby and AndersonvfIie for fxz,c |
years. And when I escaped fror3
those hells raised my hands IN CO. y1l5
and swore to Him that only At HE
command would I ever again hold
them M Send me to the penitenfisTJ
If You viii, comrades. but I have never
broken that VOW and so help me COD
never will" The scene was raos+f
intensely dramatic. the jury was as
deeply moved as the audience. ana 81
TOOK but q few minutes for the return
OF verdict of Not guilty" and fIa
jury wanted to make the prosecu+ine-
witness pay the costs.