The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-02
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| The county treasurer of Allen coun-
ty is Sickly. That's his name-M F
Sickly.
J. L. Brady asserts that girls neve,
chase man. but perhaps he is speak
ing only from personal experiences.
Ottawa has two skating Kinks in
operation now and it expects to be
able to glide through the winter pref
ty easily, whether there is a panic or
not.
Will Huff has launched the Beloit
Daily Times, as he promised to do
when he went to Beloit, and he is
making a newsy paper of it. This is
Beloit's second daily.
y suit for $50 against the Arkansas
City school board has four attorneys,
conclude mighty principle is in
Volved- But perhaps il is the superin-
tendent instead of the principal
A restaurant in Wichita displays the
sign Beacon and Eggs. This -
says Charlie Blakesley, who was
something of a student of ORTHODOXY
in the days of his youth, lis an mex
cusable error. The Eagle may have
eggs, but the Beacon hasn't"
How Stubs does it. as told by the
Holton Signal: w. r. Stubbs, candi-
date for United States senator, was at
Wednesday of last week. He heard
that Scudder's sale was in progress, SO
he went out, and made himself at
home. He took dinner with the ladies
who were feeding the crowd, shook
hands with everybody, laughed at the
auctioneer's jokes, and was generally
a good fellow. He enQuired about the
views of those present regarding pub
lie questions, and gave a few of his
own.
Speaking of the way the short grass
country is filling up with new corners
these days, the Liberal News says:
1T worries the oldtimer a little if he
doesn't know everybody on the streets
these days. For ten minutes the other
day we stood with an Oldtimer on a
corner and as the crowds passed and
repassed we were kept busy telling who
this and that person was, and many of
them we could not tell. Only a few
years ago the oldtimer knew everyone,
and when he came to town he was busy
shaking hands and swapping lies with
the people. When he comes now he
attends to the errands that brought
him to town and then gets out on the
street and views the passing crowds
with a look of disappointment. Not
one in fifty does he know"
Historical note by Bent Murdoch:
Our dear old grandmothers who So
licited and obtained the job-and an
appropriation-to mark the Santa Fe
Trail through the state, are up against
a snag. John c. Smiley, of Denver.
Colorado, says the Santa Fe Trail got
llSelI over Oh through lHe AThdISdS
river at Cimarron crossing which is
east of Bent's Old Fort while these
Ancient Colonial Danes have marked
the Trail for many miles west of this
crossing, on the north side of the
river In the meantime the Santa Fe
Trail crossed the Arkansas river at
Cimarron crossing in 1860. We hap
pened to be there about the 4th of
July that year and were sitting on the
banks of the river fishing while seeing
it go across-that is we saw the Santa
Fe wagon trains crossing the river
there. The Mexican drivers hitched
twelve yoke of bulls to each wagon
and the way the wagon bosses and
subbosses and drivers ripped and tore
and swore in Spanish. Greaser and
United States beat the Dutch. They
made such a riot in the water that the
fish wouldn't bite and we had to move
on. And by the way, while this ques- |
ton is up for hot discussion we beg
leave to ask If Fort Lyon was estab- |
Iisned before the civil war? 1t is |
highly important that some old codger |
who thinks he knows, buck up with |
some first aid to the wounded and help |
the old girls out of the hole.