The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-29
NORTH SIDE NEWS.
]. j. King Has Large Buffalo
Skull.
Wound by w. e. Jones Over Forty
Years Ago.
ALSO OTHER CUR1Os.
Sea Shells of Many Shapes and
Hues.
intermediate Banquet Big Sue
cess-Over 100 Attended.

The donation Of the buffalo by
Joshua Hill of Pontiac, Mich, to the
city of Topeka, calls attention to the
fact that ]. ]. King of 1926 North
Jackson street, a lawyer and real es-
tate man, has at his home a large buff
falo skull. 1t was found over forty
years ago by W. E. Jones, East North
Sardou avenue, an old settler. The
skull had been washed up out of the
Kansas river near Topeka. It is part
ly petrified and is thought to be at
least a hundred years old. Part of the
horns have been broken off, but when
intact must have measured over three
feet from tip to tip. At the time of
the discovery, according to Mr.. Jones'
1t was the largest buffalo skull he had
ever seen. He had seen a great many
of them too, as he came to Kansas in
the early days when the beasts "roam-
ed over the plains" as Cooper would
say. At that time Mr.. Jones was a
landscape gardener and worked for
the late c. K. Holiday, ST., one of the
founders of Topeka.
Mr.. King also has pair of buffalo
horns picked up on the Big Horn bat
tlefield in Wyoming, where Custer was
surrounded and massacred with his
force in the latter '70s. An Indian
found them, gave them to the lawyers
father, J. H. King, who presented
them to his son.
Besides he has a collection of curl
os, including many rare and beautiful
seashells. Some of these he gathered
himself. Others were bought or sent
to him. Among them are specimens
of what are called Scotch bonnets,
which would delight the eyes of John
Macdonald as the shell has a likeness
to the hat peculiar to his native coun-
try. other shells, as thin and fragile
political promises, resemble the
Saratoga chips which the small towner
always orders when he eats at a city
restaurant.
Others. in shape as well as in dafnti-
ness and artisticness, resemble the
fan which the youth presents to his
first girl at Christmas time. One
shell, known as 1.-THE bleeding tooth, -
has a formation which looks like an
infants tooth at tooth cutting time.
(This will interest Claude Sherburne.
The beautiful gold-mouthed and
silver mouthed conch shells must be
mentioned.
In addition to the shells in the curio
collection are barnacles taken from
the hull of the battleship Oregon-the
red paint of the hull still shows on the
under side of the barnacle.
Specimens of sea-doIlars also add
interest to the collection.
over a hundred were present at the
banquet given by the intermediate de-
partment of the North side Baptist
church at the church last night. The
occasion was to celebrate the close OF
the contest between the BOOSTERS
and the Gangs" for new members
The winning side was to have banquet
ed the other, but as both broke even
both sides bore the expense. three
course supper was served. Duane Ell
more acted as POSTMASTER. Miss Jen
nette Emmert, Miss Hazel Kincaid
Paul Van Ness, Rev w. 1. Cole, pastor
of the church. and Chester Thomas
responded to the toasts. The gather
ing was a success and heartily en-
joyed.