The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28
In SIXTH DISTRICT
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Prosperity Echoes Are Heard
on All Sides.
Sylvan Grove Needs a Live Com
mercial Club.
CHANGES AT HILL CITY
New Business and General De-
velOpment Order of Day.
Palco Wants FIGURING Will and
VIII Pay for 1t.
AT HILL CITY

s. D. Brumbaugh, who recently re-
tired from the office of sheriff of Lin
icoln county, claims that in locating
criminals more than three-fourth OF
them were detected by aid of women
laccompIices or getting them mixed up
in the case He claims the weakness
of men and the influence women have
over criminals. brought many of them
to justice during his four years in Of
flee. Mr.. Brum baugh will live in YES
per, where he is engaged in the stock
and grain business. He has a herd of
so mules and $50 head of cattle.
The .'Stringtown'' correspondent of
the Palco Enterprise, and by the way,
it is said she is about the best looking
woman in her neighborhood, asks this
question: why are some people like
| a lot of hogs?" and then she answers
her question as follows: Because IL
! YOU hurt the feelings of one OF them
| the whole relationship is hurt, and
will begin to suueaI and snarl." Those
must be bad people, some OF them,
| ''Stringtown" has to come in contact
with.
Simpson, a Mitchell county town,
has the required number of people at
tached to a petition for incorporation.
VIM. Duden of Downs, the veteran
railroad engineer predicted that jan
uary would be an open month. 50 Iar
his prediction has come true. If the
last week in the month justifies his
prediction then the Downs Times is
going to put him up against all others
as a reliable weather prophet.
The business in the Downs postof-
fee for 1906 was a record breaker.
Money orders representing $27,491.47
were issued, not including the inter-
national money orders. Stamp sales
amounted to $4,1O0. The only bad
feature about the increase OF bust
t. he 20 of
that the mail order houses got at
least Is per cent of the money order
The Lebanon prospect hole has
reached a depth of 1905 feet with no
oil gas or coal in sight yet.
A company is to be organized in
Saint Francis for the manufacture of
brick. 1t is claimed they have the
best clay.
Sylvan Grove needs, says the News IS
a commercial club. that will go after
things, among which are a Touring
plant and a cold storage house. That
paper goes on to say that there is an
less than ESQ, 900 dozens of eggs at 10
cents a dozen. The News says there
are dozens of reasons why the town
should have a live commercial club.
The Formosa State bank has been
changed to a national bank, and the
capital increased to $4,000.
During the four years he held the
office of probate judge of Jewell coun-
ty. G. w. MCGEE issued GIG marriage
licenses and married 204 couples. ~
Union Pacific engine No. S72, badly
disfgured in the round house fire in
Oakley. was known among the west
end Union Pacific boys as the man
killer 1t is said this engine has
crippled and killed more people than
any dozen engines on the system.
There is great business commotion
in Hill City 1t is claimed the Reveille
will consolidate with the New Era;
the a. E. Kerns Lumber company
have sold their yard to Kansas City
people; rupor is that ex-Lieutenant
Governor D. J. Hanna will become
resident OF Garden City; the prospects
are that another large mercantile