The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-28
JAYHAWKER JOTS

The Wellington News is giving away
scissors as premium. But you bet
the News will hold out one pair for it's
own use, says the Salina Journal
Great Bend is the latest town to join
the Radiator baseball league. The Ra-
dfator league is one that always goes
out of business with the approach of
warm weather.-Kansas City Star.
The new mayor of Leavenworth has
ordered the wooden signs pulled
down, and the Wichita Beacon notes
this as one of the first fruits of remov-
ing wooden heads from the council.
Governor Hoch has had six private
secretaries during the four years he
has been in Topeka, which is almost
enough, says Charley Blakesley, to
warrant them in holding annual en-
campments.
An Oskaloosa paper reports that a
man with team and wagon and over
a hundred head of sheep went through
that town one day last week on a trip
to Oklahoma from Iowa, $50 miles
north of Oskaloosa. The sheep are
reported to have been in fine condi-
tion.
This paper was in error last week
in saying that the Presbyterian was
the only church in Larned having it's
doors opening outward in compliance
with the laws governing public
buildings. We are glad to say that
the Methodist church also has COM
piled with this wise provision for the
safety of the publtc.-Larned Chrono-
scope.
An echo of the wild and woolly
west as detailed by the Larned
Chronoscope: Old timers were remind
ed of the cowbody days last Sunday
noon when a man riding a broncho
and wearing broad trimmed hat and
gauntlets, booted and spurred and
with big Colts revolver strapped in
his saddle holster, rode up Broadway
at smart gait. He left his horse at
one of the livery stables and later was
seen on the street, his heavy spurs
clanking at every step. We did not
hear the strangers name or where he
hailed from.
A smooth gang of swindlers have
been taking in all kinds of easy money
around kirwin lately and if one may
believe the reports that have come in
Miles Perkins living three miles east,
John Coles, living ten miles southeast
VIII Hutson, living up in Granite
township, and a Mr.. Fisher, living
north of Athol, are said to be num-
bered with the victims. 1t is the same
old plan of getting the easy marks
signature to paper which turns up
in the hands of the innocent pur-
chaser in the form of a note which
must be paid. The sugar on the pill
this time was a fire extinguisher. The
well-to-do farmer was to be the "lo-
cal supply man" who was to handle
the goods for the Company and was
to receive good pay for his trouble.
The paper signed was said to be a
contract between the company and
the farmer in which the said farmer
agreed to do his part in turning over
the company's share of the big money
that was to come into his hands and of
which he was to get a part Well. the
signed paper turned out to be a note
for $144.00 and it is said that some
of the victims have paid their notes or
at least compromised for sums of
about $125.00. 1t is not necessary to
point moral. The goods sold are
probably worth the money. The whole
trouble will be for the man who foots
the bills to be able to realize what a
valuable thing is a big, smooth, patch
of bright blue sky.-Kirwin Argus.