The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-15
JAYHAW KER JOTS

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Mr.. Little is running for probate judge
4 over in Wabaunsee county but he doesn t
want that kind OF a.Hote,
/ According to the Smith Center E9loneers
Mr.. Legg. who runs IA livery barn at Gay
! lord, is always referred to BY the modest
/ ladies Of that town as Mr. Limb
No sooner did business get good at the
struck for $40 a ton for mining the coal
and the industry was almost paralyzed.
Bert Walker presents another good rea-
| son in support of Frank Jarrells PROPOSE
ton to abolish the circus concert. The
newspapers get no comps to the con-
cert.
In our church" says Deacon Walker
we notice that when there are lot Of
young fellows present with girls the col
lection IS always sure 10 De pretty
Lebanon is growing so fast that the
( boys have hard work keeping baseball
diamond As fast as they get one into
shape somebody comes aiong. and builds a
residence on it.
At GeIana a certain woman told her
husband thtat she was going TO entertain
the club in a. few days and he made haste
to put away all the umbrellas in the hail
The wife was very much astonished and
/ asked: Do you fear my guests will steal
your umbrellas2" He replied: mo. I'm
afraid they viii recognize them"
AIankato Monitor: The Dana cores
pendent of the Phillipsburg Post is hiding
out IN the cane patch and having his
meals brought to him on the sly. There
is an organization over there called the
w c. T. D., and he wrote that they were
going to give a dance, but the composttor
set It up ". c. T. u. and every disciple
of Frances Willard in the nedghborhood
dropped her houseworlZ, grabbed rolling
pin and started for the correspondent
abode.
'sThe managing editor of this paper
says Roy Tapley in the Lawrence World,
had the pleasure of speaking to the uni
versity class in journalism yesterday It
was not mentioned in this paper before
hand because the office force had a feel
ing that he was going to founder around
! q nd afrfn1 fr.rr@
getting two stories and one joke, leaving
out half he had intended to say, saying
talking 20 minutes too long and making
about & dozen other errors and blunders,
he did about as well as had been ex-
Real romance from the Sabetha
Herald: We have all heard of buried
! treasures, but did you ever know of a
case in which one was found? Well
Joe Prentice Of Hebron, Nebraska for
merry Of Sabetha, some time ago found
a buried treasure. Prentice formerly
operated the hardware store in Sa-
/ betha now owned by Miller & Mishler.
Prentice traded the store to John NJ.
Evans, now a resident of Ohio, and got
among other things a farm near He
bron, Nebraska. People laughed at
Prentice a good deal because of the
farm. That country was not consid-
cred much Of a farming country then.
| When Prentice got hold of the farm
Evans told him the following story:
A party of emfgrants in the early days
were travelling over the country to seek
| their fortunes in the far west. One
night near the present site of Hebron
the party was attacked by Indians. A
man named Wilcox or Wilson was
wounded The Indians were routed.
| The wounded man was taken to Fort
/ Kearney, and his brother was sent for.
When the brother arrived the wound
ed man told him as nearly as possible
where he had buried over $4,000 dur
| ing the night of the Indian attack. The
wounded man died. but the brother
could not unearth the gold. Later the
/ land where the money was supposed
to be buried passed into the hands of
Evans. Evans tried, but could not To-
cate the gold. Prentice paid no at
tention to the story. Some time ago
while he was grading down the road
near his house he uncovered on a
steep incline rusty can such as toma-
toes and apples are put UP in. Open
ing the can Prentice counted out
| $2.136.50 In gold and silver. In addi-
ton to this. the farm that people joked
Prentice so much about is now a very
valuable property.