The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-04
.AYHAWKER JOTS

The Hutchinson Gazette has elected
Mr.. Bryan president already and is
now discussing the second term pro-
position for him.
The Wichita newspapers have dis
carded the Alphonse and CASTOR pol
icy for the time being, and are now al
most quarreling.
One Of the reporters on the Winfield
Tribune was sent out to investigate a
straw vote and reported that it showed
the way the hot air blows.
A W. Jones is startling Pratt with
the big loads of grain he hauls to mar
ket. He brought in one Of kaffir corn
few days ago that contained 113 BUSH
els.
Marshal Frederickson, of PASSED. near
lola, will be tried for the murder Of
a negro whom he shot the other night,
while trying to take away the mans
gun.
Pierceville that they suck the mail bags
under. One of the bags was run over
the other day and $500 in school bonds
were muti1ated.
Coffeyville has given up the enforce
ment of the Sunday closing law. This
Is nothing for that town. Coffeyville
gave up the enforcement of other laws,
Including the prohibition one. some
time ago.
RUDE Spicer a constable at Norton,
was fined s25 for hitting a man with q
chuck of coal. The judge is reported
to have held that 1t was a crime to
waste good fuel when ammunition for
firearms is cheaper.
A Newton man is trying to create
excitement in social circles by teaching
a Shetland pony to perform on roller
skates. It Is impossible to predict what
may happen when the consumers oftwo
per cent, Of which there are few in
the town, see the pony performing.
The doctors Of Neodesha are doing
lower jaw, which Says down to his shirt
front. He jumped from a moving
freight train and landed on a whistling
post His jaw was broken and his
countenance all knocked sideways.
The minister who bade farewell to
his church at Coffeyville the other Sun
day roasted the gossips and tight wads
of the congregation in keen-edged
words. and praised the towns daily
newspapers for their many good deeds.
OF such Is the kingdom of heaven.
Harvey county girls have failed to
make much of a success so far of their
leap year opportunities, judging by the
bate judges Office. The number of
licenses issued so far this month does
not exceed the average for January.
At Coffeyville an exuberant glass
blower made a f1ippant remark to a
colored lady. She hauled off and swat
ted him right merrily and then she
kicked him around the block. 1t seems
a shame that she was arrested and
fined several dollars by the eminent
j1rist of the police court
According to Perry Hayes they had
a. real old-fashioned hog killing time
the other day at his mothers farm
near Atchison. Six porkers were killed
and he says that they averaged 900
pounds each in weight. The largest
weighed 657 pounds. They expect to
get 100 gallons of lard out of them.
A young man has been arrested at
Chanute for kissing a pretty country
girl and Mr. Grigsby, the county at
torney, has been criticised by the old
maids for taking action in such a
trivial matter. They also declare that
there will be day of reckoning for
him when women are granted suffrage.
Mr. Grigsby should take few draughts
from the maginary fountain of youth.
The jury, II made up of old maids, will
clear the young man.