The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-21
KANSAS AND KANSANS

| name officer of that place for $4,000
| damages on account of humiliation and
| expense incurred by his arrest on COM
plant of the officer for cruelty to ami
mails.
| Because a cat supposed to have been
afflicted with rabies bit three people in
| Stafford a war has been declared
| against the members of the feline TRIBE
which has almost exterminated the cat
population of Stafford.
The county clerk of Allen county has
found that the corporations of that
county paid $4,000 more taxes this year
than they did last, while the farmers
paid about $4,000 less than they did
last year.
The Leavenworth papers want to
know if the commissioners of that
county can charge for services at six
teen meetings in October when only
eleven meetings were held that month.
The chief of the fire department at
Garden City has asked the council for
an automobile for the chemical ap-
paratus and seems to have chance of
getting away with the request.
The Methodist church of Arkansas
City raised a trunk full of money this
week by putting on the play, Fun on
the Podunk Limited"
1t is announced on good authority
that Great Bend is to new and mod
ern opera house.
large number of quail they have killed
this week but very few dead birds have
been seen by the people of that city.
Emporia sports will hold a coursing
meet Thanksgiving day. Eleven dogs
will race for a cup.
Work has commenced at ottawa on
the addition to the waterworks plant
Residents of Kansas City, Kan, are
complaining of muddy water in the
mains and very low pressure.
Martha Rabbett of Cunningham. who
died yesterday, was probably the
heaviest woman in the central west.
She weighed 450 pounds.
Parsons granted an electric railway
franchise to an Ohio syndicate the 9TH
er night and work was commenced sur
veying the line through the streets of
the city twelve hours after the fran
chise was passed.
Clarence Hazlett of Wellington had
his automobile and shotgun stolen from
his barn the other night. He found the
machine by the side of the road four
miles distant from Wellington the next
morning. The thief had disappeared.
When the Leavenworth city jailer
marshaled his family for breakfast the
other morning he found two empty
seats. Two prisoners had escaped dur
ing the night by climbing over the
stockade in the prison yard.
The Commercial club of Wellington
has offered $112 in prizes to the winners
in the boys corn contest soon to be
held there.
OTTAWA has the best arrangements
for the state G. A. r. encampment that
I ever saw so far in advance. Your work
is virtually done now Thus spoke
Charles Harris of Topeka, adjutant
general of the G. A. R. in Kansas, on
the occasion of his visit to Ottawa this
week
At the Montgomery county high
school this week there was debate in
which the subject was the advantages
for the city of Independence The side
opposed to the plan won the debate
Independence will vote on the PROPOSE
ton next month.
Judge MCNEIL of the Cherokee dis
trict court has given it out straight
for the benefit of the jointistS in par
ticular that any person found in con-
tempt of his court hereafter will find
himself in boiling hot water.
The Kansas City and Southwestern
Railway company has accepted the
franchise granted it by the city of OF
tawa and filed its bond in the sum of
$500 with the city clerk.
Both Holton and Onaga are suffer-
ing from a mild epidemic of the small
pox.
j. G. Brookfns, farmer living five
miles south of Wichita. was struck by
a Rock Island passenger train three
miles south of that city last night. He
was picked up in an unconscious condi-
tion and taken to Peck, where medical
attention was called, but died an hour
later from conclusion of the brain. He
was Al years of age and partially deaf.
The Lecompton high school basket
ball five defeated the high school team
from Perry yesterday afternoon by the
score of % to L This was the second of
a series of games being played between
the two schools. The first two have
gone to Lecompton.
The Sunfiower Glass plant at Corey |
Vile will reopen Jan. 1. This plant
was burned down a year ago.
Neodesh9 will macadamize one of the |
roads leading into that town. This i'm |
provement is made with a view to |
stimulate trade.