The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-01
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"A little party OF 17s foreigners TOOK
out naturalization papers at Leaven-
worth one day last week.
Noting that the Santa Fe is going %
exploit Kansas corn in Chicago, Bert
Walker reminds the santa Fe not to
forget to tell the people to plant it in
Kansas.
Out of those twenty young people
that Harper sent to college this fall.
Bert Walker thinks at least one ought
to get on a football team, and thus
make Harper famous.
Concordia Blade: Travelling men
are telling q joke on Governor Hoch.
They say he fell asleep on Central
Branch train the other day, and that
Harris ''two-cehts-a-m mile" button
was fastened in the lapel of his coat.
What" demands the Minneapolis
Better way, has become of the old
fashioned woman who threw a stone
she stood and broke the glass in the
window of the house so feet to the
SOU west bysou' of her?"
Musical note IN The Osborne Farmer:
The Minneapolis Better Way insists that
the oratOrio Messiah" was not written
by Hamlin Garland. We don't know
who did really write it, but when We
heard it we thought it sounded a good
deal like Colonel Major Jeltz.
Tainted money item from the Jewell
Republican: A little Jewell City girl
sold some beer bottles and bought pea
nuts with the money. Then her mother
found it out and wouldn't let her eat
a single one of the peanuts that were
bought with the beer bottles. The little
girl feels almost as guilty as a convicted
joint keeper.
Kansas story going the rounds: The
wife of a farmer had a sister come
from Chicago to make a visit. One day
last 20 nd ffsr
guest insisted on doing the work alone
and sent her sister away to rest. When
twenty-seven threshers filed in 10 sup
per that night they found sandwich
tied with RIBBON, one chicken croduette,
one cheese ball the size of marble and
| a Duttonhole bouquet at each plate.
Downs News: During the course of
his speech Aere Monday Governor HOch
mentioned the 40 men who were with
John Brown at Osawatonie, and VIM
Cowden of this city informed him that
| he was one of the 40. The governor
asked Mr.. Cowden to rise to his feet,
and the audience gave him the greates1
ovation of the dRy. Mr.. Cowden t.
lates many interesting incidents of
those stirring days when men gave their
| blood to eonsecrate Kansas soil to the
cause of human liberty.
The Russell Springs Leader tells this:
! The writer unearthed an interesting
relic near his home southwest of town
a few days ago, 1t being a well-pre-
served skeleton of an Indian woman.
/ buried some time in the remote past.
/ The bones were found Immediately be-
meath an old copper kettle. when had
/ been buried bottom side up and from
4 which the earth had been waSAed.
About the skeleton was the remains Of
a buffalo skin, in which the body had
/ doubtless been wrapped. Ercircling the
wrist bone were three bracelets. badly
/ corroded but otherwise in good, condi-
ton They are probably brass. though
some are inclined to believe them gold
There were also number Of finger
rings of copper wire about the finger
bones and buried with the body was
curious oblong stone about ten inches
long and three inches through the mid
| die It Is smooth, as hard as flint an
very heavy and was probably used by
the Indians to pound their corn into
! meal