The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-07
SIXTH DISTRICT NOTES.

SIXTH DISTRICT NOTES.
| 1t isn't any wonder that many of
the friends of j. r. Burrow are claim
| ing that he will be candidate to sue
| coed w. A. Reeder as congressman IN
| the Sixth district. He is president or
director of no less than eight national
and state banks located in the counties
of Smith, Decatur, Sherman, Phillips
and Osborne. He is president of ma
tional banks in Smith Center and
Lebanon. and director in the Farmers
dent of state banks in Agra, Athol and
Ports. These banks are operated in
dependentIy of one another Burrow
| has worked himself up from the bot
tom round of the ladder, so to speak,
/ from running a livery stable to banker
and secretary of state, and now would
| like to go to congress. 1t is too bad
that he has such a cloudy record as a
state official.
The Union Pacific hauled 81 cars of
| wheat out of Ellis in the month of
July. For the same month in 1904
| it hauled 13 car loads.
A man named Rumberg filled his
hide full of Ellis whisky a few days
ago. It made him feel so good that
he wanted to fight everybody, so he
was arrested and fined five dollars and
costs. His name sounds familiar to all
old whiskyites.
Rev. C. L. Rarick. pastor of the
| Cawker City Methodist church, has
been a preacher for more than rs
years in the northwest Kansas con-
| ference. He has been doing good
work, having served nine different
charges, built six parsonages and five
| churches, and has married over 200
couples.
The special edition of the Cawker
| City Ledger was a handsome souvenir
and worth preserving. 1t was printed
in magazine form. of "a pages, and
TteY 1rI1A
have contained some historical data
as many of her citizens could have
furnished it.
The grain buyers of Plainville are
| loyal to their town. They sign and pub
| lish a statement that they won't buy
any grain during the two days jubilee
Plainville is going to have August 16
! and II.
| Gaylord is soon to lose the HaskeIs
They are moving to Lansing w. H
Haskell assumes the waTdensllip of the
| penitentiary September 1. The Haskell
family has resided in Gaylord for near
| ly thirty years. Mrs. Haskell has been
mayor of the town., her administration
| being a most creditable one. She is a
| lady possessed of fine omplishments
and she will be valuable helprneet and
mistress at the prison. They will be
| missed in Gaylord as few are, and ev-
erybody in the town will be glad when
! they return.
| The people of Hoxie have this year
| incorporated in their annual baseball
| tournament and fall festival program
August "a, e5 and %, a list of liberal
prizes for live stock and agricultural
exhibits and hope to make this a per-
| manent feature, making the prizes
larger and the exhibit better each year
There are rumors that Judge Otis L.
Atherton, of Russell county, will return
to his old Pennsylvania home to remain
permanently. Since his residence in
Russell county he has held the Office of
! hot Ind .I,,-.r
ture, state treasurer and receiver of the
government land office at Wa-Keeney
Mr.. and Mrs. Atherton have number
of relatives living in Wellsboro and
Tioga counties, Pa, their old home be-
sides a host of friends Mr. Atherton
was member of the 1S7th regiment of
Pennsylvania volunteers, and was in
the same company with ex-governor
William A. Stone and the writer of
these notes" He lost an eye in battle
on the 18th of June, 1864, in front of Pc
! tersburg, Va. 1t is said he can clear
up about $4,000 which he has made
since his residence in Russell county
! ]. W. Morphy, editor and publisher of
the Russell Reformer for the last two
years, has only used the word politics
once in his paper in that time. That
was when a newspaper fellow was In
Russell talking up the superiority of his
paper over other journals. The Reform
er claimed the tramp newspaper fellow
was in Russell talking politics Morphy
prints q clean, neWSy sheet, and 0eVOteS
the entire space of the Reformer to To-
/ cal news and home advertising
A Sixth district Republican editor, Iiv-
| ing close to the Smith county line, was
heard to make remark something like
this: 1.-THE next congressman from the
Sixth district will be either ]. R. Bur
row or w. H. Haskell" The former is
the present secretary of state, while
the latter will be warden from and after
September 1.
A number of the Sixth district post
masters, and more especially those who
come under the presidential list are be-
ginning to sniff around to see if they
can find any way out whereby they can
be reappointed for third time Several
of them will not object to a third term.
Some of them CHANGED to meet recently,
and the matter came up, when one of
them said, and by the way he wasn't
a postmaster, that he didn't see why a
! postmaster should consider his term of
office at an end as long as the congress-
| man who made the appointment was a
candidate for denomination and election
himself.
The special edition of the Beloit Ca
| zette was credit to that office, as it
was valuable for Beloit and Mitchell
| county. 1t was handsomely Illustrated
4 and the reading matter was of such a
nature that it will be of lasting benefit
| to the town and county where the Ga
Zette has so long been printed.
The Plainville Touring mill and ele-
vator company have decided to burn
| crude oil instead of coal for their plant,
and are preparing to make the change
at once.
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