The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-01
IN SIXTH DISTRICT
Captain Mitchell, of Mitchell,
Won't Stay Down.
Friends and Enemies Say He'll
Rise Agein.
TROUBLE IN RAWLINS.
Cy Anderson Faces a Square
Dealers Ticket.
Cawker City May Yet Be Re-
named WacOnda.
'ROUBLE IN RAWLINs.

mistaken. he Is like Cy Lelanus q
hard fellow to keep down. and he is
fighter. toe, whom all will admit Lee
land is Capt Mitchell has been chair
man OF the Mitchell county Republican
central committee for years He loves
politics. and he has The time and means /
to devote to it. The late Senator In I
gals said Of Capt. Mitchell: HE is one /
of the shrewaest and most active
politicians I ever saw. If he is your |
friend YOU will know it, and he will I
sink or swim in his untiring efforts TO
land his man" The Beloit Call, |
Democratic paper printed in the nome |
Town Of Capt. Mitchell, says CT him; |
He is the most persistent and grimiy
resolutc politician that we nave ever
come across, and as such must COM
nand a certain amount OF Arbitration
even from his political opponents.
Capt Mitchell viii not be FOUND sulK-
ing in This campaign. he viii be WORKING
1o- ths entire ticket Keep Il watch Of
him. and see him come 10 the front
Sheridan county recently held the
most successful lair in the history OF
the county. In The midst OF this great
feature A. L. McCallum declined the
Republican nomination for representa-
tive. Few politicians in this state would
have done this. ,s
Mr. and Mrs. A. NJ. King have retired
from the ownership OF the Plainvlile
Gazette after a period OF 0 years Wheh
tnev have been sole owners ana pIo7
prietors. A. L. Harter will take posses
sion OF the paper the Isl OF Octo l =
Nj. King will devote his entire uine 70
real estate business ,o+..
The Mitchell county Medical society
has decided to build a $4,000 hospital
in Reloit stock to this amount s%Al pc
sold for 800 a share
one of the bright women or the
Sixth district is Grace l. snyder OF
Csa11lxer CITY who writes the news
TENS from her town to the Beloit can.
Here is one of them: When we redo
Of the conduct of women VINO nsuIe
prominently in the social Ire OF FIX
celsior Springs and topeka, we are
right glad we are residing in little ola
CswIxer CITY, where social leaders doll
get drunk, and where poiygalny Is NOT
Now that A. c. Mead. Of Mitchell
county, and Col. @ D. Jones. OF norton s..
county. are both out of the race 1oe
sneaker Of the legislature by reason4oI
losing out for nomination, there IS
favorable talk for DR.. A. B. jones' OF
Trego county, who won out for q tnlra
term nomination for the legisiatule'
The. retirement of W. G. Peroue
from the secretaryship of the Mltcneil
! county Republican committee viii
| douhtless pIease "Chan." There was
! gor,e work to do. for which he was
poorIy paid, so far as the salary OF the
| office was concerned. In 1910 another
census will be taken, the supervisors
pre- appointed nearly a year IN advance.
| the sixth district will get one OF them,
and it will not be any one else unless
I Perdue says he won't have 1t. Ihen,
again. "Chan's" friends are going 10
! land him in the office of secretary OF
~ nj
state, some day. II by some turn ~ %
other enough Republicans keep away
from the polls and Democrat Is
elected. 1t doesn't mean but one term
then Perdue's friends will rally from
one end of the state to the other and
suDDort him for secretary OF state.
Henry Stone will raise over zO,OOt
bushels of corn this year of his BOT
acres in Smith county
The Cawker City Record is quite
sure that a woman will be elected su-
neYintendent of schools in Mitchell
county this fall, for the reason tina
both the Republican and Democratic
conventions have nominated WomeT
for the Office. Better not be too Ger
tain as the Socialists and Temperance
parties are yet to nominate.
Graham county Is getting to tn
2 front in the growth Of trees. A. Val
Norman planted a black locust tree
year ago last spring which now meas
l ures II Il feet high and Y meme
around the trunk
The Herald, published in Luray
: Russell county, thus says OF count
and state politics, lone does not nea
l. notifies mentioned, unless perhaps in
4 iokin9 way, once in a fortnight Gu
n neopIe are too busy caring for thi
: seasons crops. and preparing again [
4 mt out a monster wheat crop. to pa
| any attention to such matters.
Great is the Sixth district. It is leac
ing all other districts in more way
than one. The Sixth district has gatr
ed more in population; 1t mas four car
didates for congress, Democrat, Repu1
i, lican. Populist and Socialist, and 1t ma
9 get two more If they hurry up. temper
ance and square deal people. II
sixth district is all right. If they {
have four live candidates for congress
L with prospects of two more After a
a the farmers are thinking. tending to II
- ! boliufffui crops this year, and dor
Is get the time to. hurrah for polite
le candidates. There has never been
e wear where so much land has been so
" 10 actual settlers in the confines
The % counties n the Sixth distrie
"a And every town reports bulldiE
: boom. 1.,.-- =,
n writes many entertaining and interes
le ing items for the Beloit Call, insis
3. that Waconda is much more euphor
as Gus and appropriate name for TOW
re then fhe. coarse. meaningless wor
II Cawker City. It was Mrs. Synder w
y suggested the changing OF the name
C,awker city to Waconda, and as T
= sl1lt If led to some discussion. A qua
=. ter of a century ago or more Wacon
] ! was q town, situated on the Solom
river. a mile or so from the present toy
/ OF Cawker City. The building of t
railroad through that section left t
original town out IN the cold and Ca
ker City started up, the majority OF {
people moving to the new town. 7
| townsite Of Waconda IS now far
Mrs. Snyder says, That when the Pc
I pie left there and moved up to this I
4 named Cawlxer City and left the lit
1 | valley Of Waconda to be farmed,
wish they had brought the name W
them"
The fruit growers OF Rawlins coun
are confident that good peaches can
grown there as anywhere, and that
soil is adapted TO the growing of fru
III THE editor Of the Atwood Square Dt