The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24
JAYHA WKER JOTS

Mr. Bonebrake of Hill City lived up
to his name by breaking his leg in two
places the other day.
Lincoln county comes forward this
year with a population of 1O,262, an
increase of 1875 over last year.
Governor Folk will tell the veterans
at Dodge City a few things when he
speaks at their reunion on August 3.
Complaints about the web worm in
the corn are coming in from several
Kansas counties. Why not pass some
resolutions denouncing the web
worm2
John Dougherty. the depot master
at Atchison, has lived in one house
continuously since February 1, 1858.
Is there another man in the state with
such a record2
A Minneapolis man was the pro-
prietor of a Hjackrabbit club" but he
couldn't run fast enough when the
officers got after him. and it cost him
a hundred dollars and trimmings.
The Troy Chief points to the elope-
ment of a Winfield butcher and the
wife of a section boss as additional
evidence that there is a combine be-
tween the beef trust and the railroads.
The Gazette tells of an Emporia
man who said ne would not give up
smoking until the undertaken takes
him in charge. Of I were to express
my opinion" said a cynical neighbor,
you'll begin to smoke, good and big,
about that time"
Twenty-one Greeks who have been
working for the Santa Fe at Usage
City prepared to leave town the other
day, but the city marshal sWooped
down on them and compelled each one
to contribute his poll tax to the city
treasury before moving on.
Father Beck, of the Holton Re
corder, pleads guilty to having traded
dollar for four spring chickens the
other day, but when he got them out
where he could see them his aversion
to infanticide prevented their sacrifice
and they are still in the land of the
living.
The Globe announces that the
Pabst Brewing company is repairing
its old warehouse at Atchison and that
the DOniphan Vineyards Wine COM
pany will represent the Pabst people
there in the future. Wouldn't suspect
that is in Kansas, would you? This
item is respectfully referred to Cover
nor Hoch.
A framed copy of the first issue of
the Kanzas News, established June 6,
1857, by the late Senator Preston B.
Plumb, was sold by the agent of the
owner of the defunt Emporia Repub-
| lican to W. A. White of the Emporia
| Gazette for so cents Tuesday. So far
as is known, this is the only copy in
existance. In those DAYS Kansas was
spelled with a ~"
D. Austin, a farmer near BeIleville.
has been confined to his bed for sew
eral months and consequently his farm
work did not get on very we'll One
day recently a lot of his neighbors
came in and disked his corn They
/ had sixty-four horses and sixteen discs
going and got over 100 acres in half
a day. That's neighborliness for YOU.
EIDorado Republican: 1.-The back
windows of the Republican office were
washed and ironed this week. for the
first time in twenty-three years. When
Bill Allen White was office devil.
seventeen years ago, he started in
with a hickory scrub broom ana a
bucket of soft soap to clean up things.
on the promise that he should have q
quarter extra, but he fell down before
he got through with the first window.
office has been in perpetual gloom - =