The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04
JAYHAWKER JOTS

The Lawrence World tells the whole
life story of couple living in that
town in the following headline: From
Police Court to the Altar"
Senator Bristow wants Buffalo Bill
to make a speech. when he comes to
town on MY Experiences in the Gould
Divorce Case" Oh. Joe! Naughty!
Naughty!-Leavenworth Post.
The Independence Star devoted a col
umn of space one day this week to
five petitions for divorce filed in the
Mont gomery county district court and
intimated that there were more to fol-
low.
The Lawrence Gazette thinks the
reason both parties turned out to well
come Bristow home to Salina was be-
cause the Republicans wanted to see
the man they voted for, and Demo-
Gratis wanted to see the man who voted
for them.
The esteemed Leavenworth Post re-
fers IN tbs editorial column of
recent issue to two dukes. and British
earl. A separate article is devoted TO
each nobleman. The editor of the Post
evidently has copy of Burke's Peer
age on his desk.
They were wondering out at Os-
borne the other day just how 1t hap
pened that a certain lazy man ever
got married. The Village Deacon ex-
planned it. The man was SO lazy that
he could not run away when a GER
tain lovesick girl took after him.
There is nothing like having a good
press agent. Darius Green didn't make
much of n showing compared with Cur
tiss and Bleriot but the story of his
experiment will be repeated long after
Curtis ard the Frenchlnan and the
Wrights are Observation-Disclosures
Mercury.
County Superintendent Nelson of
Norton county, announces that he has
200 applications from foreign teachers
for schools in that county and as there
ing first and second grades to fill all
the shortage, he will not indorse any
more third grade certificates.
A Kansas woman went to a news
paper and wished to advertise for her
husband who had disappeared. When
told that they charged 81 an inch she
went out saying it would break her
up at that rate as her husband was
over six feet observation-disclosures Re-
porter.
The information for criminal libel
fled by County Attorney AL Majors,
against Arthur McNay, editor of the
Galena Weekly Republican, at the in
stance of Postmaster Chas. L. Rains,
is the chief subject of conversation in
Galena, RELOCATING the tariff and the
hot weather to the back ground.
Speaking of kidnapped babies. the lola
Register tells Of a little girl who was
by her father and rescued by
her grandfather and the sheriff after
a battle with the father and his rela-
tons. A Montana newspaper caps the
climax with a tale Of how bear kid
mapped a baby and carried it off into the
A hunter pursued the bear
and was badly clawed up but the baby
without a scratch.
Billy Morgan, of the Hutchinson
News, was over to Excelsior Springs,
Mo-, the other day on a little outing
and there met Jim Cummins, the ex-
guerilla and outlaw. Billy did not take
very strong to Jim. In fact the Hutch |
inson editor got so sore when he thought
about tie appearance and manners of
the ex-outlaw that he relieved his feel |
ings CATER he got home) by writing a
half column editorial about Jim ana
what he did to him in that screed was |
good and plenty.
Alex Drum and son. John Drum. got
to an alteration last Thursday at
their home southeast OF town, and
John bit off his fathers nose. From |
the fact that they were unable to find
the missing portion of the member it |
is supposed that not only did he bite
it off, but that he ate it as well. John |
skipped out. and officers were up Fri |
day looking for him. but he could not
be located. Alex Drum is about the last
of the old type Of Delawares in this part
of the country.-Caney Chronicle.