The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-13
AYHAWKER JOTS

| Usually the editor will take the
blame to himself for shortcomings in
| the Advocate, but this time he will lay
| it distinctly to the force. The boys
cidentally they earnt it. That's all,
no further pologies.-Quinter Adj
vocate.
On the good theory that hitching
posts belong on side streets, a Nc
Pherson merchant, with his place of
business on the main street of the
town, attacked a hitching post in
front of his store the other day with
an axe and demolished it. He's now
something of a hero in the eyes of
his fellow merchants.
If the Kansas City Star had been a
little more explicit in mentioning
names the following paragraph would
have been more interesting: There
are enough people in Kansas who can
write to make the new Kansas maya
zine a success. And there is also
enough people who think they can
write to make it miserable failure"
DR.. Kirkpatrick, of La Harpe, has
brought suit against the Missouri Pa
c1f1c railway company to recover $50
for the loss of a COW. He declares
careless to the extent Of letting a To-
connective and cars run against and
into the COW, thereby killing said
cow" Such might be expected where
a COW.
The Hugoton Hermes announces
that Uncle Dick Brollier, Demo-
crat, has filed a contest against John
S. Stout, whom the canvassers de-
clared elected representative of the
One Hundreth and Twenty-f1fth rep
resentative district. The usual alIega-
lions to secure a recount are in
corporated in the petition and in
addition a specific charge of bribery
Il
no spring chicken, comments Charlie
Blakesly.
youth living near Downs who
was left at home to care for things
while the old folks were in town
amused himself by soaking a cat in
The cat didn't appreciate the joke,
but ran into some tall grass. and
there was shortly a blaze that
aroused the neighborhood. The cat
died and the Downs News is of the
opinion that the young man will find
some other form of amusement the
next time he is left at home alone.
''In behalf of the Hon. Web Foote
of Finney county," says the Cimarron
Jacksonian, 1--WE wish to state that
Judge Gristlebone does not hold the
edge over him when it comes to party
loyalty, much as the Judge is to be
commended on that score Hon.
Foote was instrumental in sending a
Eh0puDIlcdn TO the legislature from MS
own county, while. for some reason or
other, the Republican candidates in
several neighboring counties fell by
the wayside. The judges vigilance
must have relaxed in spots.''
A fellow living in Girard, has la
bored long and labored hard, to build
an airship that would soar from Kan
sas clear to Portsmouth, Ore. The
stranger in the village feels, when
looking at the airshfp's wheels, and
rods and pins and brazen hanks, and
springs and curlecues and cranks, that
it's the triumph of the age, and should
be sung on poets page. But when,
with people standing by, the builder
tries to make it fly, it merely snorts
and gurgles round, and plows a fur
row in the ground. And many gents
who brags so hard are like the air
ship at Girard; they look as though
they ought to win at any time they
started in but when it comes to saving
wood they gurgle round and are no
good.-Walt Mason.