The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-29
AYHAWYER JOTS

Who says the Missouri Pacific is not
making improvements? The Burr
| Oak branch has new engine.
| Emporia is now boasting of tur-
nip raised by Charles Jacobs living
near that burg, which weighs all OF
| five pounds.
Abilene is quite stuck up because j.
P. Case of that city was elected presi-
dent of the Transmississippi Congress
at Muskogee last week.
A football game for charity was
played in Sterling last week, and it is
added that the gate receipts were not
sufficient to meet the hospital bills
Ray Mil1man. editor of the Liberal
News, knows a tramp printer who has
been boarding money for years. The
PRINTER worked for Mr.. Millman until
he showed his roll and then was fired.
Either Mrs. Belle Howard, of En-
poria, is careless or she does not need
the money. She had cashed only re-
$14 which was issued at Granada, Col,
81 years ago.
Chalk Beeson remarks that Dodge
City is mot what 1t used to be-" He
might have added, says the, Kansas
City Star that Dodge City never was
what some of its alleged historians
have said it was.
A foot and mouth disease has brok-
en- out among the cattle north of Gar
den City, and government inspectors
are telling the people that it is not the
regular foot and mouth disease. 1t Is
having the same effect, however.
The first mistletoe seen in Cherry
vale this year was brought in the 9TH
er day by G. B. Palmer of this city.
Mr.. Palmer says it grows In large
quantities in Montgomery county es-
pecially along the marshy bottoms or
the Verdigris river.
''It isn't worth while to be a white
man." a citizen of Council Grove is
quoted as saying. Negroes are al
ways happier than the whites, and the
Indians have more money, getting II
free from the government. I am go
ing to be an Indian next time"
Sterling feels honored with being able
to refer to Lindon Mcconnell and
Charles Rutledge. youths of tender
years, as town boys The lads were
hunting by moonlight recently and
shot an eagle which measured seven
feet and one inch from tip to tip.
A western woman with a knack for
figures has discovered that she walks
over seven miles a day while perform
ing her ordinary household duties.
We would like to see her estimate OF
the miles covered while trying to
match a bit of ribbon.-Haddam Clip
per.
Under head, Missouri Pacific
improvements" Morton AIbaugh, in
his paper, the Kinkman Leader
Courier, gets sarcastical as follows;
1.-THE section men on the Missouri
Pacific at this noint put in two new
ties between Kingman and Penalosa,
last week"
Sterling Bulletin: Six hundred hunt
ers' licenses have been issued SO far
this season by The county clerk. This
means $500 paid by Rice county sports
for the privilege of shooting 500 worth
of game This is not counting the in
vestment in gUns and ;.i;.r,unition. If
these hunters were equally DISTRIBUTED
over the { rinty there woGl' b" aloGt
one to a scc-i N.
over in Salina the jointists made an
agreement with the county authorities
to surrender their stocks of liquors in
going out of business with the under
standing that the beer should be de-
stroyed by beins. emptied from the
bottles and the bottles and cases re-
turned to the owners. Sheriff George
Meyer is now confronted with the task
of pulling corks from 200 cases of beer,
or 1880 bottles. He doesn't like the job.