The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-28
AYHAWKER .JOTS

Jewell county holds the record for
gophers slaughtered recently. Five
thousand scalps have been brought to
the court house in the past three
months.
Farmers in Franklin county are
complaining because the corn grows
SO last at night that it makes a crack
ing, popping noise and they are unable
to sleep. This is reported by the
Wichita Eagle.
Harper is growing so fast that the
present water and light plant will not
meet the demands of the city, and an
election has been called for the pur-
pose of voting bonds to the amount of
$4,000 to increase the capacity of the
plant.
Old story revived, via Atchison: A
travelling man went into a western
Kansas hotel for dinner. The waitress
came to him, and said, Bean soup?''
man, L don't care for anv bean soup"
Dinner is over them responded the
waitress.
An unSuspecting stranger who went
to Great Bend to invest in farm lands
fell into the clutches of two harvest
hands, who made him believe they
were land owners. When he had loan
picious, but the poor harvest hands
had flown.
The Blue Rapids Times admits that
its baseball club was defeated by the
Frankfort club very disgracefully."
But" it insists, "the club was not
beaten in baseball playing. but out
classed in rascality and thievish de-
cisions made by Frankfortss so-caned
gentleman umpire e1r--~ -- ---,,-
When the Atchison Globe says in a
front page keynote" line that a farm
er had no use for a shotgun except to
take shot at hawk or a mad dog.
it challenges the logic and the elo-
all along held that the farmer had use
for a shotgun to take a shot at book
agents and instalment house men.
Early this year a Wilson county
man went to Finney county to look
at 120 acres of wheat he had put out
on land he owned in that section. 1t
looked bad and he decided that he
do so for some reason and last week
he went out there and superintended
the threshing of LOO bushels of wheat
from the field.
A new use for the telephone was
found near Mulvane this week. Two
ladies drove out in the country after
blackberries and were tying the horse
when the animal became frightened
and started for home on the dead run.
The folks ran to the house and tele-
phoned the neighbors to run out and
stop the horse. which they did. The
horse is probably wondering how they
knew he was coming.
Somebody telephoned an item to the
Leavenworth Post and the paper print
ed 1t. 1t was an account of a party
and the list of the guests was given.
1t was ascertained that the story was
a fake and now the Post offers SIS for
information which will Identify the
person who sent the item. The per-
son who will do a trick of this kind
will rock a boat or snap an unlpaded
pistol at companion.
Three hot and tired young men in
Beloit went home last Saturday night
and decided to take a shower bath in
the yard, putting the garden hose into
use 1t was very late and they sup
posed, all the neighbors were asleep,
but when the cold water struck the
men they whooped as they did in the
DAYS when they dived into the swim
ming hole, and the neighbors awoke.
The bright moonlight enabled the en-
tire neighborhood to see the straw
berry marks on the arms Of the young
men as they skipped about, display
ing their sylph-li like forms. When they
realized that they were giving a free
show that wouldn't be allowed within
the city limits, they ducked. Now
they are lodging the ladies whose
SAUNDERS they disturbed.