The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-25
HYHAWKER JOTS

1t cost a colored man living at Sa-
lima a $25 fine to knock out two OF his
wife's teeth. He could have saved
$2450 by having them taken out by
dentist.
Great anger has been stirred up in
the breasts of the farmers of Atkinson
county because the assessors reports
show that real estate in that county
is valued at less than 1t is in Doniphan
county.
The Hutchinson News had thought
the other day to the effect that the
valley of the Kaw measures up IN COM
parison with the valley Of the Nile In
more ways than one. Presumably IN
fertility and Goodness.
Mort McCauley, who lives near Hol-
ton, is a better man than his father In
one respect. He caught a fifteen ana
one-haf pound carp the other morn
ing while the elder McCauley had to
be content with gathering in one which
weighed only twelve pounds.
The housekeeper at the Soldiers
Orphans home at Atchison put up thir-
teen hundred cans OF cherries. In adj
dition to this, enough cherries were
sold to credit the states account $53.I5.
The superintendent estimates that the
Home will have twenty wagon loads
OF peaches.
Information comes by the way of the
Hutchinson NEWS 10 Tic ChCCI thN~
the commission form of government Is
working so we'll in Leavenworth that
the police department now gets the pa
troll wagon to any place In the city
limits an hour before the call for 1t Is
sent in.
Just to show that he is becoming an
expert autoist, an FL Dorado man took
a party of friends in his machine ano
after tearing around the race track 10
h. r.rnoaadad
the fence surrounding the track. No
one was hurt and the machine is as
good as new.
Frank Henselman, a farmer near
Garden City, was bitten by rattle.
snake, and although he received
prompt treatment, he suffered greatly
and his life was in danger for hours.
The medicine finally overcame the
venom and he will recover, but his esti-
mate Of snakes battles description.
1.-The river will raise" said the Sa-
lima journal, probably geographically
speaking. but Lawrence editor could
not help from mildly inquiring: Raise
what?" An answer to this question
could be readily given but 1t consists
of a word of four letters which Is not
permissible in polite society.
William Miller. who lives near Law
renee. has a copy of the first newspa-
per ever published in Lawrence. The
"Kansas Free State" was published in
a little house in the 500 block on Ken
lucky street 1.-THE editors and pro-
prietors of the paper were Joseph
Miller and r. G. Elliott. At the top
of the paper beneath the name it says:
Lawrence, January 8, 1856"
This Is told in a recentNssue of the
Smith County Pioneer: A curious
freak of the tornado took place on the
Tucker farm Mr.. Tucker who was
lying in bed with a broken leg could
not run to a place of safety when the
storm was seen coming. His wife
gathered the three little children and
they all piled on the bed with MT.
Tucker, the wife saying that If all We're
killed they would all die together. Az
ter the storm Mrs. Tucker found her
self about 80 yards away. two little
girls down in the bed Of the creek, the
little boy sitting on pile of straw. all
unhurt. Looking toward the house
Mrs. Tucker saw all of it swept away
except the floor. But the bed still
stood where it did before the storm
and her husband was still lying upon
| It, without scratch.