The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-13
IAYHAWKER LOTS.

Inc last SOD mouse IN the V1clDlUY OF
Glen Elder has been torn down.
The juvenile court has been in oper-
alton in Hutchinson for several weeks,
but thus far Billy Morgan has escaped.
Downs will celebrate it's birthday
this year with a baseball tournament
extending over three days. That's
dragging a birthday out some.
Mrs. E. E. Forter. sister of Con-
gresham Calderhead. will make the
Memorial day address at Beattie. 1t
will be one of the best addresses in
the state on that day.
Society note from the Jewell Repub-
lican: If horses had anything to say
in the matter, George MeClung would
/ have to find girl nearer home than
BeIoit is.
Even the coyotes are backing up the
administration on the anti-race suicide
idea. A Mitchell county man IN
earthed litter of ten coyote cubs the
other day.
Jerry Simpson has an idea that the
| Populist party forgot to put its prin-
eiples in the safe before it went to
sleep, and now the Republican party
has broken in and swiped them.
Father Beck suggests that some
town ought to secure John @. Royce
and W. R. Stubs for a joint debate
1 on the Fourth. There would be sure
enough fireworks in such an event.
A Concordia, boy at Purdue univer-
4 sity, Indiana, scores by making a
broad jump of 81 feet Which leads
/ Del Valentine to ask why anyone
wants to jump so far for when it is
! SO much easier to walk.
A man dropped a bottle of beer on
| the sidewalk in Chanute the other
/ day, and he was promptly fined five
| dollars and costs for his carelessness.
waste without a protest, but wasteful-
ness in some other lines will not be
tolerated for moment.
The Junction City postoffice sells
about $55 5000 worth of postal money
/ orders during a year. TWo-thirdS of
this amount goes to big mail order
| houses, and the Junction City mer-
/ chants do not like it. The Republic
points out that the mail order houses
get this trade solely by advertising.
Dick Thomas is assured of the Reno
county delegation for clerk of the dis
4 tFict court Of Shawnee county. At least
| the Hutchinson News hands him this:
/ 'R. L. Thomas may be a candidate
/ for clerk Of the district court in Shaw
/ nee county next year. There is not a
4 better fellow in Topeka than Dick
/ Thomas
The Ell Dorado Republican prints an
! acknowledgment on the part of the
editor, of the receipt of a big mess of
i Walnut river fish from an admiring
friend. 1t has been commonly sup
posed over the state that Bent Muir
deck had a copyright on catching all
the fish in the Walnut and that they
would not bite for anybody but him.
/ Irving has q barber who is up-to-
date in the use of slang if in nothing
else. He advertises this way: eff you
want your soup-strainers pruned, we
will block them out in any PATTERN
lip ticker, fantails, billy goat OF
lpeacherinos- Hair cuts of all kinds
from wooley willies to ring-around-
rosy. Ears washed without extra
Icharge"
The Salina Union tells this pitiful
incident of the Marquette storm: zone
OF the most distressing incidents of the
storms fury. occurred just as dawn
was breaking. The body OF a child
was found pinned to a wrecked
building by piece of scantIing
? driven through her breast pinning her
to the wreck Death must have been
almost instantaneous and the sight
uunerved the bravest of the rescuers. q