The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-10
AYHAWKER JOTS

Bent Murdoch is angry because Bert
Walker told of talking with an "oId'
| man who had passed the age of sixty.
The roller skating craze at Cha
mute has reached the stage where the
city council will now prohibit skat-
ing on the sidewalks.
Obituary notice: The baby elk,
which was born a few days ago in the
herd in Wichita's park, is dead. Con-
dolences are extended.
lola is oomforted because the death
rate is on the decrease there. That is
all of lola is comforted with the pos
sible exception of the undertakers.
Salina folks need not get excited
over the capture of two white pos
sums" near Culver. They have not
much novelty for public display mas
much as all possums are white.
A Chanute man advertises that he
has for sale large quantity of "rich
black dirt" Instead of putting it up
in neat cartons and selling it as
Health Coffee, he offers to deliver 1t
by the wagon load.
Neodesha is to revel in a much need
ed public improvement. The city
council has passed an ordinance per-
uniting the merhants to place hitch
ing posts or rings every six feet along
the main business streets.
After witnessing the fun Topeka is
having with its sewer graft Eldorado
is trying to work up similar case
there and man who helped dig the
ditch has been arrested on the charge
Of passing bogus checks.
Coffeyvillians are stirred up right
eously over the quantity of their fire.
men. 1t does not seem that two men
at two stations is enough to protect
And besides Parsons has all of ten
firemen.
An Abilene man bought a farm near
| that place last winter and sold it re-
Gently at profit of $4,000. He is
not the Abilene man who made a for
tune in the Klondike country-he
made his by staying at home and talk
ing prosperity.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sherman Chance are
entitled to the notoriety the Wichita
papers are giving them. They are the
parents of a three weeks old daughter
who tips the scales at one and one
quarter pounds The babe weighed
fifteen ounces when born
In their eagerness to see that all
Sunday laborers in vineyards other
than those of the Lord get the same
kind of a deal. the people of Arkan-
sas City, or some of them at least,
propose to prohibit the practice of
holding funerals on Sunday.
Many of the young men in the west
ern part of the state are devoting their
time to hunting coyotes. 1t is sug-
gested by the Emporia Gazette that
some of the farmers may be raising
coyotes Tor the bounty which the
county pays for wolf scalps.
"It strikes me-" observed a Law
renee man whose first youngster is
now nearly months old. "that alto
gether too much credit for continuous
and long distance walking is being
given to this old codger Weston, and
altogether too little to the fathers of
colicky infants"
a deal has been consummated where
by the Coffeyville Record goes into a
new management and A. S. Koonce
of Cherryvale will be editor-in-chief.
The new management, it is under
stood is headed by w. P. Brown and
associated with him are a number of
other prominent Democrats of Corey
vile. Tt is proposed to make the pa
per a straightout Democratic sheet
There is so much of the sensational
constantly happening at lola that the
people have taken to morphine and
cocaine in order to forget their trou-
bles. A physician of that town says
that many inha bitants are addicted to
the use of the drugs. and the number
is constantly increasing and he be-
lieves that there should be a special
session of the legislature in order that
it may be made felony to sell such
compounds to others than doctors.
A thief visited the farm of old lady
Ronpetz in Rovoh1 township. near
Colby. one night last week and stole
a fat hog 1t was the only one she
possessed and she had been keeping
it to supply the winters meat This
thief sure had a mean disposition
woman of her lone hogi The Colby
paper calls the chap the Lowest,
meanest, despicable, depraved hound
on earth" This will probably hurt
the thiers feelings more than would a
year in jail.