The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-18
kYHAWKER JOTS

T. w. Canter. who lives five miles
southeast Of Horton. is II years old
but works his farm himself. He has
also done his own housework since
his wife died three years ago.
Ralph Reider, living north Of De-
troit, had the misfortune the other
day to get his right arm caught in a
corn shelter. It was, lacerated so
severely that it had to be amputated.
The states prison coal mines made
a record last week-that will be hard
to beat. On one day 1900 Of the
| mine cars We're loaded and hoisted.
This means that 500 tons of coal were
dug that day besides the usual run of
slate. tiE
There's lot of gnashing of teeth
among the influential at Pittsburg.
The street railway company which
also has an electric line to Joplin, Mo-,
has cut out passes, as it thinks it
would be liable to prosecution under
the new state anti-pass law.
A wagon load Of Missouri river fish
from Rulo were sold in Hiawatha on
Thursday and Friday of last week.
The fish were caught in seines by
fishermen who make it a business.
They caught 1,800 POUNDS in one net
and 1000 pounds were caught in a
day.
William Berg & Son, undertakers at
of which they have records sho wing
that 1t is two hundred years old If
the clock has run continuously during
all these years and licked at the rate
of once a second it has licked more
than six billion times.
The Lakin paper rightly says that
the smart crowd which ran down an
antelope with their auto two weeks
ago should be arrested and compelled
to pay tine. 1t seems that about a
month ago there were eleven antelope
in the vicinity Of Lakin and now there
are only five. Some game warden
ought to find plenty of work in that
locality.
Mrs. Gertie Jacobs Dimmitt of Rice
county says she finds on looking over
her poultry account for the year 1907
that she has sold 6,545 eggs, or 545 n
dozen at an average of 20 cents per
| dozen, amounting to $109.10. She also
raised 500 chickens which she sold at
an average of 35 cents each. amount
ing to $175-making a total of sales
of poultry and eggs, $2S4.10.
Why rub 1t into the old codgers I?
| asks the ElDorado Republican. One
of them, it is said. came down town
the other morning with two vests on.
He thought he had on a coat Then
the other old codgers told him he was
absentminded, and this same old cod
ger when he went to milk last even
ing got out the milk bucket, the
crooks and the strainer. and he milk
| ed the COW IN the strainer. Absent
| minded, don't you know. But then he
| says the other old dodgers don't know
half the time whether they are coming
| down town or going home.
| Doc Travis is up from Downs this
week visiting with relatives and
friends. Doc is a great musician and
! though rather old still persists in
| showing the boys a few fancy tunes
| every time he comes to town.-Gay-
| lord Sentinel. Doc Travis old "
! How dare you utter such an untruth
| It Is true that Doc has roamed up and
| down the Solomon valley for the past
| IFS years, but no one ever thinks of
calling him "old." Why, Doc expects
to ride to Denver on the Central
Branch. and a man must be very
that-Downs Times
Several Atchison blacks. says the
Atchison Globe, are feeling pretty blue
over the streak of yellow they dis
covered in the man, Green, who came
here several days ago, and announced
that he would start paper for COL
ored people. called THE Echo''
Green collected money from a number
| of colored people, which was to help
get his paper started He left Tues
| day night for Kansas City where ne
said his paper was being printed and
| promised TO return this morning. But
no Green showed up. The facts are
| that the Atchison colored people are
lucky in getting rid of Green as easy
| as they did He would have caused
them trouble had he remained.