The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-16
JAYHAWKER JOTS

No wonder Frank farrell is sur
prised He's heard of an evangelist
who makes only $1,000 a year.
A hint from the Kansas City Journal:
None of the new laws passed by the
Kansas legislature prevents a man
from cleaning up his back yard and
allev.
Ralph Tennal has reached the point
where he admits that the female child
does not seem to be generally so af-
flicted with the "smarty'' period as the
male child.
The society editor of the Sabetha
Herald is out with an advertisement
for substitutes for the expressions
conventional black and sterling
character"
The charge of the Parsons Sun that
Governor Stubs is an 'imperiator'
has created the general impression
that one of the hot shots of politics
has been fired.
A Topeka paper prints an earnest
communication from a man headed,
90 God Save the King in Topeka" Billy
Morgan moves to amend to God save
anybody in Topeka.
There is to be music or something
like it in the air around Atchison this
summer. A project is we'll under way
for the organization there of a band
of thirty-five or forty pieces.
Dan Anthony, relates the Hutchin-
son News, and Victor Murdoch are
making dreadful faces at each other
over their respective records in con-
gress. And then it asks: why quar-
rel so over trifles ?"
Score another one for Kansas: Mrs.
Elizabeth Sears, a Kansas woman, was
the writer who exposed the Maybray
gang of fake footracers. She wrote the
story for the Omaha World-Herald and
it resulted in the capture of the gang
in Arkansas.
mi
mile of railroad, and by counting the
clicks person can ascertain the speed
of a train. On the Central Branch,
counting short rails and all, a train
speed of 20 miles an hour.-Downs News.
Somebody must have been disturb
ing the serenity of the editor of the
Holton Signal for he remarks that if
the place which is paved with good in
tentions is not populated with people
who deliberately destroy the peace
and happiness of others, it ought to
be.
Fourteen years ago, an Atchison
man gave J. L. Wade a note for $3.50.
The man wasn't getting along very
we'll, and Mr.. Wade never asked him
for the money. Yesterday the man
met Mr.. Wade on the street, and paid
the note, and part of the interest. The
accumulated interest amounted to
$164.-Atchison Globe.
According to the Hays Free Press
the Rush county farmers have got the
auto craze. 1t says: Rush county
farmers are buying lots of small autos
for running to town often and quickly,
to take their cream. butter, eggs or
produce and get their groceries. One
agent in Rush county took orders for
over 81, 900 worth of machines during
January, every order from a farmer"
The Alma Enterprise recently pub
a from 6 nj
that town, in which he says: eff my
memory serves me right it took but
dozen employees to run the state of
Kansas in 1872. l was a candidate for
sergeant-at-arms and came within one
vote of getting there, and was finally
elected doorkeeper. My duties were
the usual duties of doorkeeper and in
addition I had to keep up the fire in
two wood stoves. after going to the bot
toms to get some farmer to haul wood
and hire a colored man to cut it, also
to light up the senate chamber using
tallow candlesticks hung around on the
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