The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-05
IN SIXTH DISTRICT
Frank LOckard Nay Get Peniten-
tiary Clerkship.
One Of the Old Time Politicians
OF Norton.
THINGS ARE MOVTNn
THINGS ARE MOVING.
Thomas and RaWlins Counties to
Have New Court Houses.
Otis L. AthertOn May Get Into
Treasurer Race.

county, Is 10 succeed J. Q. Brown as
chief clerk at the penitentiary The
selection will be a good one Lockard
has become financially embarrassed in
helping his friends. He served in the
state senate and it cost him more than
his salary amounted to; he was a mem
Der of the state board of charities for a
few months, and he was sergeant-at-
arms of the senate last winter. He
wrote the only complete history of Nor
ton county, but scarcely made enough
out OF it to pay the printer. All the
Sixth district will rejoice to see him ap-
pointed
Mrs. L. A. King. editor of the Plain
vile Gazette, is rustler in everything
she undertakes. During the past year
she supplied over 5000 business caIen-
OARS to Plainville merchants and neigh
boring towns. Besides, she distributed
over 5000 fans during the summer sea-
son. She is also the vice president of
the Women's State Press association.
She has made splendid paper of the
Gazette, nor is she afraid of dipping
her fingers in printers ink. Her paper
is siK-cOlumn QuartO, all printed at
home, and nearly every week contains
a newsy supplement. Mr.. and Mrs
King are now lat home in their
handsome new house, recently COM
pleted
There are all sorts of rumors why E.
S. Knight resigned his desk in the Of
flee of secretary OF state and returned
/ to Goodland. One report is that since
/ he has been holding down his job he has
/ let the running OF sherman county poll
tics slip from his grasp, as was the case in
/ the congressional and senatorial dele
gates conventions IN that county TWO
/ years ago. Another rumor issthat some
/ body else wants to take Sherman cOun-
! ty out of the Reeder column, and knight
will be a splendid fellow to use to help
! do this job. Now that BurroW appears
/ to be out of the congressional race and
! Charley Hull, of Phillips county, is La
/ Bile to get into it, there will be all sorts
4 of fun in Sherman county trying to pull
/ it out OF the Reedef column. Knight was
/ living in Sherman county when it took
/ heroes to live there, in the trOublOus
times when Eustis, Sherman Center,
! 1tasca. VoltaiIe, Candy, and other towns
/ all wanted to be the county seat at the
same time.
James Jones, editor of the Lucas SEN
! tinel, an old friend of Judge Otls l.
1 Atherton. speaking Of the state treas
| ury muddle," says; There is a demand
for honest and true men to fill the Of
! fees. Il would be an act of Justice,
| wisdom and sound politics to elect Otis
4 L. AthertOn state treasurer. Anterior
! served ore term as state treasurer. He
was renominated the entire Republic
/ can ticket being defeated that year by
/ the POpuliStS. D. H. HefiebOWer won
| out in the race for state treasurer, and
in letter to Mr.. Anterior. which was
| made public. he was eulogistic and COM
| plimentary of Mr.. Anterior, and the
! manner he conducted the office. NO
scandal was ever charged up to the Of
! flee of state treasurer while Mr.. Ather-
ton was in Office. In view of the few
/ lines quoted from the Lucas (Russell
! county,. Sentinel can it be that Otis L.
Atherton and his friends are contem-
| plating bringing him out as candidate
! for state treasurer?
G. r. Slason writes an article for the
/ Plainville Gazette, in which he says he
| is informed on good authority that dur
/ ing the year 1905 citizens of Plainville
and surrounding country bought, paid
for and took from the express office IN
| that town 1, 563 packages Of whisky at
| a cost of probably $5.47O- It looks as
! if it took lots of liquor to quench the
thirst of the PlainviIleites-
There is lots of fun in sight in Hill
! City That town is going to have
! third paper, politically Republican II
/ d CLAW a former newspaper man, who
| gave Hill City the best paper the town
! ever had, will be the new editor and
publisher. 1t looks if there was
| going to be the liveliest and most bit
ter political fight Graham county ever
had fought out there this year. In the
language of one of her papers: 1t
/ seems to be Hill City against the world
for newspaper excitement Inere are
i only six other county seat towns in the
each. Smith Center, Phillipsburg, Nor
ton. Oberlin. Atwood and BelOit, and at
times there is great amount OF halr
pulling.
such a big business that the office can
Il afford to employ a stenographer. Be
sides enough new printing material has
4 been ordered and an enlargement OF
II the paper will be made a once.
There are more than seven hundred
farmer telephones in Graham county
i'm operation Besides Hill City has no
less than dozen toll lines.
The board of trade of Lincoln is
figuring on getting capital interested
in building fine modern hotel. There
is something new going on all the time
in Lincoln. No BOOM no pyrOtechnlcs
but steady growth and improvements
all the time. Then the Lincoln peo-
ple do things. New projects and i'm
provements are wrought out every
dav Abel & Bower have started work
on a new business block with seventy
/ feet frontage on Fourth street; A. M
5 Nimmons is preparing to erect new
office building on the avenue with
> thirty feet frontage. and Bob CraW-
ford has bought the VIM Smith eighty
acres adjoining town and Will fit up q
fine horse and mule show farm. he
owns one of the finest ranches. all fine
land only two miles out from Lincoln
The mayor of Natoma is pastor OF
the Presbyterian church His name Is
James WEIGH. Natoma is such z
r nice moral town that the mayor anc
people are in perfect harmony
/ New court houses viii be erected
: this year in Atwood. county seat Of
Rawlins county, and Colby, county
2 seat Of Thomas county. Rawlins ana
: Thomas counties have enjoyed un
usual prosperity for several years boti
/ in settlement and development. ane
8 Colby and Atwood had a CREATE
= building boom the last year than II
the past half dozen years comolned
t Nowhere in the north half of Kansas
2 has prosperity been more marked
2 and rapid than in these towns anC
? counties. Their newspapers contain
7 pages of advertising matter and ther
news items tell of the thrift town ant
! country has met WITH