The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-01
AYHAWKER JOTS

The Ottawa Herald remarks that
William Allen White goes to Europe
with letters of Introduction to every
thing from Westminster abbey to the
Tyrolean Alps"
The marshal in Mcpherson touched
youth who was smoking in the street
and inquired If he was 81 years old.
The youth, with the anti-tobacco law
in mind, stammered that he was. "All
right" said the marshal, 81 want you
to pay your poll tax"
The Santa Fee Monitor has the fol-
lowing interesting advertisement: Fifty
dollars reward will pay the above
reward for evidence that will convict
the party who stole my potatoes; or I
will pay the thief $1.00 per bushel for
enough of them for seed.-A. D.
Woodman.
In calling the attention of Mr..
Roosevelt to big game he is overlook
ing the Meade Globe recites that R.
T. Woman Willed 81 jackrabbits Fri
day with his dogs, and he says it was
not good day for jacks, either. On
Saturday coming to town his dogs
killed three jacks and a coyote.
Mrs. D. w. Snyder is entitled to the
trophy for scientific and effective fish
ing. She and her husband spent an
hour fishing at the old brick yard site
Tuesday evening of last week and in
an unsuspecting moment a monstrous
OdSS SIdUUcQ Aer HOOK ana maze a
run. She hooked him all right but
had to call Mr.. Snyder to help land
him. The two together succeeded in
bringing the big fellow to the shore
without breaking the line and there
was plenty of choice meat in the Sny-
weighed pounds. Inside of it was a
channel catfish six inches long which
had evidently been swallowed a short
time before. If larger bass has ever
been taken out of the streams here we
have not heard of it.-Medicine Lodge
Index.
Forest Warren, city editor of the
Atchison Champion, and William R.
Stotler of the wellington News are
Republican nominees for police judge
in their respective towns. Speaking of
Bill. Stotler's candidacy the yelling
ton News explains: 1.-The mater start
ed in fun but ended up in seriousness.
At the Antlers, recently a man slapped
a woman in the face. In police court
he was fined but SIS, and there was
some indignation. Some of the re-
porters and several others were talk
ing of the incident and Stotler remark
ed, If I were police judge it would
cost man more than SIS to strike a
woman That's a good PLATFORM said
another, and we'll run you on it. In
and generously signed. So the cam
paign cry is, 1T must cost more than
SIS to strike woman
Practically all the streams in Kan
sas were named by Indians, and carry
those names to this day, though in an
Anglicized form. The Neosho, the
largest stream in southeast Kansas,
has its own little story. The Usage In
dams at one time lived in Missouri,
and when they began talking of trad
ing their lands in that state and NOV
ing to southern Kansas, a party was
sent out to look the country over and
make report on it. 1t was in the
summer time and very hot and dry.
Coming over the prairie northeast of
Humbolt they had a long way to
travel without water. when they ar
rived at the river" tells A. T. Dick
erman of Oswego, who is now prepar-
ing such "reminiscences, IAN Indian
rode down to the sloping bank into
the water. But to his surprise the
horse stepped right off into deep wat
err, and the horse and Indian went in
all over. AS the aborigine clamored
back on the bank he mutered, 'Wugh
Neosho.' This in plain English means
water pocket, or water hole, and the
name chung to the stream ever after
ward. News.