The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-06
.JAYHA WKER JOTS

Twenty-Five years ago he was called
Father Baker" by the Kansas papers
the same as now; at least John Gill
more's Wilson County Citizen so re-
ferred to him.
Charlie BIakesley notes that the
plan to have United States senators
nominated by the people is espoused
by number of statesmen who always
oppose such an arrangement when it
is presented in the legislature.
The alleged practical joker who
sends false reports to the newspapers
crediting a birth to some couple
where none is expected, got in his
work on the Conway Springs Star re-
Gently, and now the Star will not pub
fish a birth item unless it is accom-
panied by an affidavit from the moth
er. An individual who will perpetrate
that sort of a joke needs to be severe
ly punished
A barn on the farm of A J. Collins.
in Franklin county, that is somewhere
near fifty years old, is being torn down
to make room for new one. At least
it is supposed it is fifty years old, for
the oldest inhabitants, who settled
there in 1860. say it was weather beat
en- when they first saw it. It was built
of native lumber cut on the ground.
Some of the timbers are eight by ten
inches and forty-four feet long, heWR
out of walnut logs.
Here is a death notice from the
MARION RECORD which IS Respectfully
referred to the school of journalism
at Lawrence: We have not the data
at this writing to enable us in writing
an accurate account of his life, but
know that he has lived, for at least
thirty years, on his farm near Elk.
He was a widower and had no nearer
relative than a brother, who lives in
New York state. His death was a
tragic one. He was riding in a buggy
Sunday afternoon, when the horse be-
ing MI Grapes out against a tree,
breaking his neck and crushing all
the ribs in one side of his body.
Jewell Republican,: c. C. Wheeler
of Athens township showed US his
crushed hand Yesterday He was NOV
ing house for Isaac Nees and got
down under it to oil the rollers. The
horses started and the big roller
rolled onto his hand and stopped. You
just try to imagine what kind of kick
if somebody had stopped "a roller
weighing a &ouDIe of tons on your
hand, and you viii have Charles ac-
tons and imDrOmptu remarks sized up
about right, providing you are as good
a hand at emphasizing your converse
to back the house, and it seemed hor-
rible to go ahead, but anything seem ed
better than to be pinned fast to the
ground so after brief consultation of
on over the crushed hand. It will
take something a little swifter than
Ike Nees' mules hitched to a house to
catch Wheeler another time.
Conner Davies is convinced that the
governor of Kansas earns his salary
on Sunday as we'll as on other days.
Governor Hoch spent last Sunday in
ConcOrdia and here is the account
Conner gives of it: TT is said that
Governor Hoch believes the Sabbath
day should be day of rest. His
theory must have received a rude
shock yesterday. He was the guest of
Mayor Bloom Saturday night. He at
tended the Methodist Sunday school at
10 O'Clock, went to the Presbyterian
church at II to hear Rev. E. 0. Saw
hill preach, took dinner with Senator
and Mrs Peck. afterwards went riding
to see the town, called on ex-Mayo1
Wheeler. president of the Cloud
County Bible society, who is confined
to his home by severe attack of
rheumatism. called on his friend, w.
W. caldwell, and at the home of Judge
Sturges, went to the home of the edi-
tor of the Kansan for tea, listened to
an appeal for pardon from q mother
and wife in the meantime and in the
evening lectured at the Methodist
church to one of the largest congrega-
lions ever in the church. It looks 70
us that the job of governor keeps a
man about as busy as the editor of a
4 little dinly daily country newspaper