The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-13

streets aV all the principal cities of
Chinee, Europe, Liverpool, London,
| South America and the countries av
Bolivia, Venezuela, Guinea, Brazil, the
quay, Chilli, Peru, Ecuador and the
cities av Pearl of the Antilles. Oh
know the harbor of Santiago where
tCommodors Schley and Sampson sent
the domed Spaniards down to per-
ditions as well as Oh know my own
| back yard. AS mate of one of the
finest vessels ever afloat in her day,
Owe seen the salutes they gave to the
flags av all nations, the powing and
scraping before the crowned heads av
Europe. Aye, until this morning t
seemed to me, y'r Honir, Ord seen
every salute that could be given under
any flag, in any country, or by any
man, woman or child, white, black,
yellow or heather Chinee; but OF say
to y'r Hon'r under all the flags that
ever fIoated from the masthead av
any vessel that ever swan the sea, Oh
never received such a salute from any
creature on two legs as that lady. sit
ting there, defendant in this case,
gave me this morning when proposed
| to her to settle this case"
While the Sixth district hasn't so
many people on the states pay roll as
| some other congressional districts, it
has furnished a number OF the most
efficient One of them is Miss Wayne
Conroy, of Beloit, special assistant in
the state auditors office. She came
| into the department three years ago
as chief clerk and was later promoted
| to her present position.
The friends of R. NJ. Picker, of
| Smith Center, late judge of the Fiji
| teenth district, will be pleased to know
| that he is regaining his health, having
spent several months at a noted nos
pital in Rochester, MINI. He has re-
Gently returned home and friends
from his town say he Is improving and
| looking very much better. At the
time of his resignation on account of
| i'll health Judge Picker was the old
est district judge in the state in point
| of service. He settled in Smith county
in the pioneer times, and soon entered
into the practice of law. and, was sue
cessful from the start. He was elected
Judge of the Fifteenth district In 1895,
serving as such until 1920 when he re-
signed on account of falling health.
He was a great favorite of outdoor
| life, and no doubt will spend much
of his retirement with the rod and
line, along the banks or the solomon
river and other streams The many
friends of Dick Picker will be glad
to learn that he steadily is improving.
Northwest Kansas IuIulSlSQ many
amusing political incidents, and espe-
cially SO when the saloons were wide
open. A soldier reunion was being
held on the North Solomon river, near
Edmond. Farmer A. w. Smith, candi-
date for governor, and Harry Pestana,
candidate for congress in the Sixth
district, were on the bills for addresses
One was to speak in the afternoon
the other at night. There wasn't
bridge across the river where the re-
union camp was, but if one kept watch
they could step on the stones and
safely land on the opposite side. Smith
had made his talk, and returning to
the hotel he made misstep and
tumbled into the water, wetting his
clothes from head to foot The op
position used this in the campaign
against him by reporting that he was
drunk. and some of the papers printed
it This was a campaign lie as the
writer of these notes will swear to-
Pestana spoke at night. The next
forenoon he was billed to speak in
Hill City. He left word with the land
| lord to call him for the early train,
as he wanted to drive from Kirwin.
which was one-half the distance to
Hill City il was from Edmond. The
landlord was too drunk to wake him
for the train and the Hill City meeting
was abandoned. This is not a cam
paign lie as your itemizer well knows
W. E. Mahin, of Osborne. was a To-
peka visitor and attended business
l before the stJTreme court He il one