The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-15

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limit. Statehood should have been an
assured fact long ago.
| Mr.. John Hughes called Mr.. David
I Barlow a liar al the postoffice the other
day, and Mr.. Barlow drew his gun and
fired four shots and wounded a China
man in the heel One could comment
on such scenes, but what's the use.
When a man was born to use club
instead of a gun why can't he recog-
nize the fact?
We do not wish it to be understood
that a subscriber cannot stop his copy
of The Kicker whenever it pleases him
| to do so, but at the same time we wish
to make it plain that If he lives any
4 where within hundred miles Of the
Gulch he may expect a personal
call from us to ask Tor a personal ex-
plantations
OF course there is no truth in the
item going around that Jim Hellso
(wllo is ourself) is going to blossom
out as an actor We simply own an
/ opera house and boss the show, and
have no itching for histrionic honors.
We are asked by a subscriber in Yer
mont if the temperature in Arizona Is
sure cure for consumption. We an
/ swer that it is not. The only thing
I include the whole crowd when you
drink your character won't be thought
pure as the driven snow.
BY special invitation we went over
to Lone Jack last Monday night to de-
liver our lecture on Shakespeare and
! His Weaknesses We hadn't been
speaking over five minutes when we
got the idea that we had run Shakes
peare in on the wrong crowd and we
took him and Ourself out of a back
door. dozen or more mounted men
followed US for two miles, but we dis
tanced them.
| Mr.. Henry Yates McKane, a stran-
ger from Utah, arrived in town last
Saturday morning at ten o'clock IN
search of information concerning his
/ brother David, who was last heard OF
in this locality BY the help of our
files, we were enabled to inform Mr..
McKane before noon that his brother
was decently hung and decently bur-
led over on Dog Creek three months
\ ago. David was riding the wrong horse
when Overtaken.
The name of the man who entered
the corridor of the postof7ce last Mon
day afternoon and turned MS gun loose
on the government clock and got
bullet from US through the left Shout
! der Is James Williams. a resident of
Montana. The bullet has been ex~
tracted and he is doing well. His ex-
cuse is that he simply wanted to see
if he could stop the old thing.
The present city marshal, who has
held office only two months, has had
five bullets shot into him during that
time and is getting a bit discouraged.
About the only consolation he has IS
the knowledge that he has shot seven
bullets into other fellers.
During the last five years we have
received an average of fifty letters per
week asking for our photograph. We
wish to say that we have never had
| a negative taken There was no occa-
sion to. Any picture of Napoleon Bon
aparte looks enough like us to be a
/ twin brother, and they can be had at
any stationer's We hope we shall not
/ be charged with egottsn In this mat
ter. Napoleon couldn't help 1t II he
4 looked like US.
The edict has gone forth among the
fashionable four hundred of the
Gulch that private. bottles at parties
and receptions are to be tabooed. You
either drink what the hostess furnishes
or go dry. This prevents any mixing
parsons
some crftter at Santa Re sends US
postal card predic our death by
| hanging within the next three months,
but we shall continue TO take cheer
full view Of life, and get out the largest
and best family weekly on earth until
the little affair comes or.
In last weeks issue we had an item
to the effect that 1Er. Jack Cade, of
this town. gouged his fathers eye out
while living IN Texas q Dozen years
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