The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-05

We had a pleasant call the other day
from Mr.. John Gordon. of Chicago,
whose son James was hanged near here
| last September for horsestealing. The
| father spoke IN highest terms of the en-
terprise of the west.
The whisky of this section is losing
| it's grip. Old Bill Williams froze to
death in lis shack on Wolf creek the
| other night. and he certainly had a full
gallon of it under his hide This de-
ceiving man to his death should be
severely punished. That quantity of
sweating for three days and nights.
Some one who deserves the stake has
stolen The dictionary belonging to this
office, and we are having the hardest
kind of work with all words of three
syllables. If the reader finds score
of mispelled words he may know the
reason for it. We are not even sure
that We have the word dictionary"
right. II may be 'diclztionery."
Mr.. John Lang of Pine Hill. comes
over to the Gulch the other day and
fires six bullets at Mr.. Henry Zeller
and then goes home as proud as a
peacock. No one hurt. of course. Is It
any use to talk to such men as that!
Can anything be said to touch their
Iride?
We were notified last Sunday that our
esteemed contemporary intended TO
shoot Us or sight Armed with willow
switch VIC started out to be shot, but
on encountering our esteemed on Apa-
che avenue he insisted on shaking
ht-nds with us and IalK s,lg,
many narrow escapes we do have. We
rave got over believing that we shall
die with our boots on. Sach hero'c
things are not for US.
at midnight last Saturday night the
| star-spangled heavens looked down
upon an awful scene in this town.
Someone had carelessly thrown the
| lighted stub of a cigar into a saw
| dust spittoon in the Red Dog saloon
| and the place had been C osed up with
| cut the smoke being noticed. At mid
light the devouring flames were dis
covered, and while men. yelled women
| ,rayed and children wept, and it seem
ed as If nothing could save the TOWN.
from an awful calamity, some one or
sense kicked the door in and used
gallon of beer to nip things in the
bud.
Mr.. A. NJ. Shafter, the popular
druggist of the GuIch sent US WORD
the other day that If we entered his
store for the purpose of soliciting an
advertisement he would blow the TOP
of our head off. We at once set out
and entered his store and began TO
talk advertising, and next week he
takes a whole half page in THE Kick
err" It's all in having little way
about you.
The "Deep Valley Tribune" seeks to
paw us a pretty personal compliment
bv calling us the Horace Greeley or
the west. Thanks, Brother Scott, but
Won haven't struck it. If Horace
Greeley were alive today he COULDN'T
earn sis per week as a newspaper man.
We have to smile when we think OF
him running an Arizona weekly
Thus far this winter we have only
had three bIiz7ards, four men frozen to
death, three feet of snow and two mail
carriers eaten by the wolves. 1t was
nredicted that we were to have an
omen winter, and we guess we'll get it.
We feel to pity the people of Florida
who don't known the exhilaration or
using the snow shovel
A reader il Iowa returns us our
printed statement, made some six
weeks ago, TO the effect that 1.-THE
Kicker has a circulation of 100000
copies weekly; and adds that he be-
lieves we lied about it. Lied? Why,
of course we did. We don't intend to
let the New York. Boston and Chi
cago dailies make us look small before
the people of the United States. Look
out for more lying. 1t doesn't fool