The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-17
JAYHXWKER JOTS

On the grounds of Bethany college at
Lindsborg there is daisy field Of three
acres.
Decatur county has a population of
10,773 and sufficient bank deposits to
give every person in the county $S1.45
Speaking of fast work, an Abilene
man stole SO, was arrested, tried, con-
victed and locked up in Jail, all between
meals.
Eggs fell to nine cents at Salina the
other day, according to a paper there,
but that isn't as bad as having them
fall on the, sidewalk.
Clarence Young. a young man liv-
ing at Scott City, while pitching a
game of baseball last week, broke his
right arm in four places between the
elbow and shoulder. Now will some
body start movement for a safe and
sane way of playing ball?
Miss Anna Roberts, who was raised"
in Emporia and is now back there on
a visit, was until recently, private Sec
rotary to O'Brien, United States am
Copenhagen at the time of the death
of King Christian, and at ehat time
saw most of the crowned heads of
Europe, who had come to attend their
father-in-laws funeral On her return
to America, Miss Roberts was offered
a place with the secretary of state but
declined.
Leavenworth Times: 1t is perhaps not
generally known that no horse taken
from the United States to the Philip
pines can ever be brought back There
is an equine malady known as surra,
communicated by the bite of an infect
ed fly, which attacks the horse in that
country. The agricultural department
has had hard work and has spent lot
of money in it's efforts to stamp out the
surra, which made it's appearance
among some of the horses in the Pa
cific coast states.
Neodesha Sun: Not so very long ago
a Neodesha business man was solicited
by one of the local ministers for funds
for the church. remarking as he did so
that he was collecting for the Lord. The
business man wrote out check for IS
payable to The Lord" He wondered
how the minister would get the money
on the check, but If he thought the
minister would fail he was doomed to
disappointment for the check turned up
in the regular waST with the following
endorsement on the back The Lord,
by Rev. His Agent"
A curious relic of the aboriginal past
was plowed up Wednesday by H. H.
Fox on his farm on Badger creek five
or six miles southeast of Winfield, re-
lates the Winfield Courier. 1t is red
stone pipe of unmistakable Indian
workmanship, said by the old timers
who have examined 1t to be a genuine
peace pipe. 1t is beautifully shaped and
polished, as turned out by the Indian
craftsmen of the red stone region in
Minnesota, and is marked with tribal
or clan emblems in the cruder work
manship of the plains people. An ex-
part in American authropology would
be able to tell at a glance what tribes
marking 1t was. We can only guess
that it was Usage, Kaw or Kickapoo.
The place in which it was found is on or
near the old Kickapoo hunting trail 1t
has been there not less than thirty-five
years, no telling how much longer. The
red stone of which the peace pipes were
made, is found only in one locality, and
from it were supplied pipes to all the
North American Indians, from Algon-
Quin to Yuma and from Seminole to
Chilcat. The Indians believed the stone
was the flesh and blood, petrified of the
tribes who persisted in the Great Flood.