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Jgfte WLxtUlix Jpiltj lagle: liwsctaij t$tatmur, rfaTwa: 29. 1901.
M. M. MURDOCK. Editor.
A SUGGESTION TOUCHING KANSAS POLITICS.
A Republican paper in the southeast corner of the
fThird Kansas Congressional District, a paper not par
'tlcularly promient in, the state, nor over influential in
Its own district, in disposing of the present political sit
uation in Kansas, and settling the choice to be made of a
tTnited States senator next January a year, declares that
in the event of the candidacy of a certain Topeka man
.' named, he, the editor, pledges the memhes of the legiala-
ture of his district solidly for said Topeka politician. The
pledge is made with such a show of confidence that the
I editorial has been reproduced in two or three quarters.
' With that kind of talk made good, one thing is certain,
and that is the Third District will not very soon boast a
fnited States Senator. It is such a superserviceable spirit
of truckling to the party magnates of the old allotment
pocket of the northeast quarter of the state which has
'resulted in leaving the state at large without influence or
.'anything else politically. It is not strange that the pol
iticians of the First Congressional District should dom
inate the political affairs of the Second, or in other words,
'that these two districts should be found always combin
i ing and be found pulling together for everything in sight,
j in the way of offices, and of state institutions. Indeed, it
might also be expected that the north end of the Fifth Dis
trict should be found siding in with that old combination,
' a? a rule. There, is a community of interests which in a
sense guarantees such mutual action. Thus combined,
the interests of that corner of tho state have In all time
'successfully dominated the entire situation.
For our part we don't see any sense in conceding both
ft'nited States Senators to Topeka, or for that matter, to
any point in the northeast quarter of the state. That quar
1 tf r always has gobbled everyhting in sight in the way of
political emoluments and interests. And the rustlers and
hustlers up there have been able to do this partly because
r tLeir close corporation, and partly because of the yield
iag spirit of the great body of the state, such as is evinced
l.y this Third District editor alluded to, whose position
is probably inspired by the hope or expectation of some
particular personal pull, rather than by any desire for
the success of the Republican party of the state.
The Third, Sixth and Seventh Congressional pistricts
have had little enough to boast, considering their import
ance, hence the discontent or lack of interest, hence
growth of Populist party.
There is a sensational pull and haul among the polit
ical directors of the old pocket just now which seems to
l.e involving the last elected United States Senator and his
friends. Knives have been out for some time and even
throats have been cut The outside congressional dis
tricts, nor their claims, in all this are being considered
by these conflicting elements along the Kaw river.
Should the Third, Sixth and Seventh Congressional
Itricts simply stand by their own Interests, stand to
pi thc-r and stand pat, in the coming state conventions and
-".Matures, the engineering bosses of the old circum-t-
ribo.l angle, of which Topeka with her multitude of as
j .rant? is the center, would be compelled to go away back
tiTii f.;t down, and be content with but a fair share, and
t 1 Republican party would be thus greatly strengthened
throughout the borders or the commonwealth.
We ?ay that should the live party factors of the three
3 rial congressional districts named but stand together in
ti.v- interest of themselves, and of the Republican party,
ii. stead of remaining pliable tools in the hands of the. old
kct experts, things would be evolved and revolved after
a most encourgaging fashion. Among other things, Kansas
C'ty, Missouri, would cease to be the political mecca where
most of the mandates for the Republican organization of
tt!ie state of Kansas are formulated and promulgated. An
other thing, among forty others, quarrels as to which one
of a half dozen aspirants in each of the old pocket towns
tehouIJ be United States Senator, would cease, or otber-vi;-"
a multitudinous number of such aspirants would bo
J st in their own shuffle.
Any of the rural congressional districts of Kansas has
1; t to stand firmly upon its right and resolutely by its
fair demands to be heard and heeded. The Seventh Con
gicssional District is a political empire in itself. It con
tains four or five of the largest and most populous cities
i
oi ihe state, embracing one-fourth of tho state's geograph
i :j1 area and a large per cent of the state's rural popula
te n. Its representative speaks for more people on the
floor of the national congress than any other representa-'
t;e i:i the state, if not in the United States. It is a big
c.-uici, growing rapidly in wealth and in population, and
i; is Republican. And what we say of the possibilities
Jo; results by two or three of these ignored rural congres
Enal districts standing together for their own men and
Sutcrests. is true, in a degree, of the Seventh District stand
ing by itself. Let the Republicans of the "Big Seventh"
n: one. but hold solidly together for the right to be heard,
&-r their equitable share of state and federal offices, and
for c hoice of one of their own number for the United
ft:ite.- Senate, and victory is well nigh, assured. Either
i the rural i ongressional districts enumerated contains
C t as bright just as capable and just as deserving rep-f-tmative
men as does the old Missouri river pocket,
therefore rt is political imbecility to waste the energies
t . sura a com'ation over the rivalries of aspirants of that
: i packed political lodgement who make the state house
.-. the Copeland house bnzzing hives and who can't con
ioi.o that the Republicans of five out of the seven con
!Mjr.al disincts of the state have any political right
to be manipulated eleven months in the year and ccm-
during the twelfth.
The Thiri Congressional District for which the paper
E'i idoJ t.i pre.ines to speak, is In fact closely allied, polit
ivally commercially and materially with The "Big Sev-
Ft.T'c." This community of interests is sef r viJent. Should j
T:. representative Republicans of the east haii of the "Big j
F enth," and of Hie west 1 r.lf of the Third but stand by j
r... h other in t! o state c r ntiocs and the legislatures'
t ' on-e. the r turning rail av fains in bearing them back
r : o -n eacn it asion won. . ' n-sorunt with hurrahs cf
t : . rv.
3.
THE COAL EXPORT QUESTICfv.
TV matt of t ,c possibility of American coal b-Mne ;
e ! to El i: ".rrl"ts. which N.io- tii--; - otf ;
i ' . : r :th so much interest a year ago. Is again exciting !
significant Those who have studied the question upon
this side of the water have some to the conclusion that
while an occasional cargo may be shipped to advantage
when freight rates are temporarily low. as happened
recently with the shipment of several cargoes from Phil
adelphia, no systematic, export can be made without spec
ially designed colliers which could be operated very
cheaply; and even then the northern European ports, on
account of their nearness to the English mines, could not
be reached with profit by the American producers.
There is one market, however, which, lies open to
American enterprise in the direction of coal exports. That
is the market presented by the Mediterranean ports. - The
view of the situation thus outlined has been recently set
forth by the general manager of the North German Lloyd
steamship line, Dr. Wiegand, one of the most far-sighted
and conservative business men In Germany. His view
of the case is that, while England still possesses an ad
vantage in the Mediterranean trade from the fact that
her ships are able to secure return cargoes, this advan
tage may be overcome by American vessels, even though
though they must return from the Mediterranean empty,
by reason of the smaller first cost of American coal. Sum
ming up his views, which were sought as the expression of
an expert to Inform German industrial circles of the exact
facts, he says:
"While American coal will never cut any considerable
figure in North'European markets, it may be accepted with
certainty that the export of such coal to the Mediterra
nean will make very material progress; and the time
will come when, for example, in Genoa and Port Said, the
principal coaling stations of the Mediterranean, American
coal will appear in the sharpest competition with English
coal. The same will occur with, regard to all the har
bors of South American eastern coast, and in Central
America."
The sale of coal abroad, like that of any other prod
uct, is purely a question of quality and price. There is
no doubt as to tho exact quality of American coal, and the
price is purely one of increased and better transportation
facilities. The providing 'of such facilities at a cost that
will return a reasonable profit upon the capital Invested,
and which will yet make .possible competition with freight
rates from English ports, will determine the direction in
which the American coal trade shall go and the volume
it will assume.
t ENGLAND'S MILITARY PROBLEM
A military problem not so much gigantic as irrtatingly
difficult of solution, faces the Britons and the British gov
ernment at the present moment. Despite all that the best
British generals and 200,000 seasoned British troops can
do, a few thousand Boer burghers are keeping the British
empire at bay in South Africa. Ther is practically no
difference of opinion as to the main reason for a state
of things so humiliating to the British pride. It arises
chieflly from tho fact that with all his mighty legions
Lord Kitchener has not at his command men of the type
necessary to chase down General Botha and De Wet and
the leaders of the other Boer commandoes and put them
out of action. In a word there is no section of the Brit
ish army now in South Africa possessed of sufficient mobil
ity to beat the Boers at their own game. It is not a
pleasant confession for any Englishman to make after
two years of Boer warfare, and the military critics who
have discussed it in the public press evidently do so with
supreme distaste. But the fact is so insistent, and lies
so nearly at the bottom of England's embarrassment in
South Africa an embarrassment which may at any mo
ment be deangerously enlarged to open revolt in the Cape
Colony that is cannot be burked if, as seems probable,
the war drags on.
What, then, shall England do? Where shall she get
the needed men? Of course, the class of military critic,
who has a remedy up his sleeve for every contingency, will
tell you there is nothing for it but conscription. One
distinguished officer who is at this moment holding a re
sponsible command, puts the case In these outspoken
words: "You animadvert," he writes, "on the bad quality
of recruits and yeomanry that the authorities have been
sending out, and come, with the Times, to the conclusion
that' somebody ought. to be hung for it But do you not
see that the reason Is a much deeper one than the Imaginary-one
tjhat some one has failed in his duty of picking
recruits? Do you not see that the country has come to
the end of its boasted voluntary enlistment, and that the
proper men in the proper number are not to be had?
I have studied the question fairly deeply, so may perhaps
be allowed to express the opinion that if you examined
the recruiting returns for a few years back you would
change your views (as to the impossibility of conscription).
Even in normal times of peace, of the men scraped together
by hook or by crook of the recruiting authorities and I
can assure you that these do not fail in doing their duty),
almost half disappear before they have finished their color
service, through death, desertion and physical incapacity.
And, now, after two years' perpetual war drain to keep
220,000 men in the field, even with the added fillip of
national excitement and patriotism, do you think we can
keep up the supply, which is 50 per cent short in peace
time? You must be very sanguine if you do. I am really
quite pleased at these revelations of incapable yeo
manry and volunteers, for it may have some effect in dis
sipating that monstrous and poisonous Idea, which is grad
ually gaining ground, that we can do without a trained
army, and can rely on an untrained horde of men with
rifles and temporary enthusiasm (but nothing else), who
may but also might not come forward in a moment of
national danger to defend the integrity of our vast empire."
A South Dakota court- may have a conscience In dl-'
voree matters. Freddy Gebbard sued for divorce, charging ;
desertion. Mrs. Gebhard appeared and recriminated deser- j
tion. The Dakota court gave her the divorce and made
Gebhard pay the costs.
t
n .n toreign industrial and commercial circle, j
'" or no doubt that the txport of American coal '
i-... '.. :r. ha: shown a st- aJy :ro :casc ;!.. a.-: j
i.t tutai it, however. toiivrati v c'.y iu-j
Dewey Is going to have quite a time making up his
mind. But when ho once makes It up, that will settle it
And the country might as well prepare to accept the
finding as final.
Two ships last week communicated with each other
by wireless telegraphy wnen 170 miles apart Is wireless
telegraphy, then, something more than a toy?
The anarchists are a slippery set They now claim
that Czolgosz is not an anarchist; that on trial he avoided
saving he was an anarchist
O
A woman in Chicago is trying to raise money for the
erection cf a -monument to Czolgosz. She should be sent
to an insane asylum.
S
If Schley Is "vindicated," he will jump into the pres-
hicntial race forthwith. Dewey's experience will be no !
earning to him.
O
Mr. Dolge. another mas who founded a model village,
this time in New York, has jnst anchored in the bank
ruptcy courts.
&
Mark Kanna and President Roosevelt are traveling
the same road ngw. but it will have a fork is it a little
later on.
Saturday the score of the Wisconsin-Kansas football '
game stooo: Wisconsin. 5w: Kansas, 0. Which is awful.
ti-
Tho resu'.t cf the election in New York will be very
close. Neither side believes thml it can be whipped.
Tv bulletins of the nurses show that the president
was diin? from rh moment that be was shot
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TV'i t'.y v,:"i end Czolgosz, wao was not nvh, and
what there was of him was bad.
Th's i -:ght to ro on BuHer's grave: "He talked too
iioix : .. . it va3 4J years old Uat Sanlay,
A SMART RAT.
"Ole Miss Snyder," said Jim Godsell,
as he settled back in his chair in. front
of the Pewaunee Hotel, "was not much
of a animule trainer, but I recon she
had the funniest thins in the shape of a
rat that vou ever neard onfn your born
life- . C
"Ole Miss Snyder was tfcjeldest darter
of ole Squire Snyder, what used to keep
tavern at Millville, over on. the pike.
I don't know jest how ole Miss Snyder
was as it hain't considered nice in per
lite sassiety to ask a lady how old she
be, but I reckon that ole Miss Snyder
was 30 er 40 er 50, an' then some.
"Ole Miss Snyder, like every other ole
maid that I ever see, was masterful fond
of cats. She used to hev more cats than
some people hev hay. Gray cats and
black cats, and fat cats and lean cats,
an' ev'ry other kind o' cat that was heerd
on. Yes, sir, she did like cats. Why,
man alive, she would walk ten miles to
get a new kind of cat, and she kept
enough of the beasts around the place to
cat ther ole squire out o house an home.
There was lots er rats an mice aroun'
the tavern an' in the mill that the squire
owned, and he used to want their numer
ous cats what his darter kept to earn
their board an' keep a-huntln the var
mints, bur ole Miss Snyder's cats were
all so sleek an lazy thet they wouldn't
work any more'n a tramp.
"Some of the cats were good mousers
an' did the best they could, but there
was so many varmints aroun' the tav
ern an the mill thet all the rats an
mice thet was. killed by the cats didn't
make no effect on the teetotal number.
Besides the rats thet used to habitate
around Millville wus about the biggest.
meanest varmints you ever seen. W'y,
there wuz a peculiar breed er rats there
thet wuz as big as a terrier dog. Fact.
"Fact is, th' squire tried getting dogs.
but it warn't no use. Them rats had
some sort er secret sasslety like ther
Freemasons er something, and they'd
jest appoint a wrecking committee of
brothers like strikers do, and they would
lay for them dogs and everlastingly eat
them 'up, ears an' all. They wu slyer
than all glt-out, too, an.' you never could
coax 'em into a trap. O, they wuz
tough gang er rodents, now I'm -hero to
tell you.
"Well, the rats kept a gettin' worse
an worse. The ole squire talked about
movin' away, an' he tole his darter she'd
better kill all her cats before the' rats
did it for them. The squire said about all
the cats were good for was to furnish
fresh meats fer the rats.
"Ole Miss Snyder was terribly huralli
ated at the disrespect the rats had fer
her cats, an' sho used to sit aroun an'
try to think up some scheme to get some
thin" thet could lick them rats. Ole
juiss Snyder figured thet nothin' cud lick
one o' them rats 'cept it wuz fully ez big
as strong as the rats themselves, an
wuz able to follor the rats Inter ther
hldin places. Then it bed to have the
enmity of th' rat family in its bosom,
like er cat hez, an' be ready to fight a'
rat on suspicion, jest because of its in
stlnks, like a cat does.
"Now, ole Miss Snyder, she figured out
thet nothin' cud be as big an' strong
an' ez able to follow a rat inter their se
cret meetln' places except a rat Itself,
and nothin' wud hev the everlastln' an'
unfalterin' enmity of th' rat tribe like
a cat wud So Miss Snyder she decided
thet she would have to fine some ani
mule thet wuz both a cat an' a rat.
Which same warn't easy.
"She concluded thet the only thing to
do wuz to git a baby rat of the breed
what wuz makln so much, trouble an'
to hav it raised In a respectable cat
family, an' to hev th ole mother cat im
press Into thet young an' impresshiona
ble rat mind the cat idea of eternal en-;
mity to rats.
"So she set to work an' tried a dozen
times, but the ole cat thet sho trusted
to nuss the baby rat alius eat it fer
breakfast jes' as soon as she cud git a
hole of It. But finally ole Miss Snyder
she got a muzzle made fer a cat and 'she
put it on a mother cat what hed a lot
of kittens. Then she jes put Jittle rag
bundles on th' ole cat's feet, so that
seh cudn't claw up ther baby rat, an'
she fot the infunt rat an put it right
in with ther little kittens, an' nyide th'
ole cat raise it alongside o her other
chil'ern.
"Well, sir, the little ra he jest .grew
an' grew. Ole Miss Snyder, she sent all
the other ole ats away so as they
wouldn't fergetT themselves an' eat up
th' little rat. Th' ole mother cat got
used ter the little rat after awhile an'
treated it jest like she did her uther chll
durn, an' so ole Miss Snyder took the
mother cat's muzzle off an' she uster
clean th' little rat up an' nose him
aroun jest fer all th' world like he was
a kitten. An tho little rat he played
aroun' with the kittens ez cute as cud
be. An' after he got weaned he wud
scamper up when ole Miss Snyder wud
call 'Kitty, kitty, kitty,' an wud drink
milk out uv a saucer jest like ha wuz a
sure enough cat
"Well, he.dld.grow amazin', an though
the ole lady cat used ter look at him
kinder suspicious once in a while, she
never, made any attempt to harm him, an'
purty soon the rat he got so big thet his
stepmother, er his adopted mother, er
whatever you wud call th' ole cat,
couldn't hev done nothin to him ef she
hed tried. Well, when all the kittens
wuz big enough and the rat wuz bigger
'n any of 'em, th' ole mother cat took
'em out to glv 'em their pree-llmlnerry
lesson on tho art of a-catchln' rats an
mice.
"The olo cat an the klttons, which
were all good-sized cats themselves, by
thet time went down Into the storeroom
of the tavern where the rats wuz mon
strous bsd. Th rats were havin a line
time thet afternoon oatin a lot of bread
an' stuff thet the ole squtre hed tried to
hide away from 'em. When the ole
lady .cat an' her family caraa Jumpin'
in the rats were sorter mad at beln'
disturbed at their dinner, an they Jeat
lit Into ole Missus Cat and the little
ntses an th-y wuz everlastlnly maulin'
the life out n th' wholo family when snd
donly there wuz a commotion.
' Th" rat which th' ole cat hed raised
hed boen loafin' aroun" the door and
didn t pit in at the beginnln' of th mix
up. But all of a sudden he heard his
mother a howlin and all o Ws brothers
an' slaters as he surposed, a yowliff an'
a yellln' bloody murder Jn the cat lng
widge. which this yer rat talked jest as
fluently as you an me do United States.
An' then all the lessons he hed received
from his step ma. they Voice to him an
he saw a lot o' the varnnats thet he had
N'en Instructed ter kilt on suspicion.
Well, sir. the first tiling them rats knew
here wuz another rat jest a-goln' fer
'em hammer an tongs. Ha bit an' be
clawed an" he f aught Two big rats with
whUkers like Kroger her on an' teeth like
a bear trap hed the ole lady cat down
an' wre je?t about ter nntsh her when :
th" ole lady's adopted sot jumped In aa' j
be knocked them two rats gsiey west.
"The rats were so dtxraftmnded thet j
they guv up tryin' any more, ait' they J
l camperd away, as fast as tltey cud to
th r' hokJ. but lo an' behold, this strange
varmint thet looked like thctnselves an'
thot actM like a cat foHored 'em right J
:r. an run em aown ore oj one, an jest
natcheraily killed every .
"Well. sur. when, thet adopted rat son
came back th' ole cat raotber wuz so
tickir-d she Jest purred orer him and
..-.ed him "ll up with her tongue an' I
made an' awful I J-- An ole Miss Soy- j
an' th-? squire got a quart of Jersey
cream an' tctr him a& Uu huy family
made an awful fuss over him. in' tbea
the squire hhed a man to git out the
da.l rats and, sir. there wm forty-eight
"-ro.
Th rat fc wux th' who! 1kw an'
i rich: ag carol- on work of
But thers s a raHn' pasts' te si) cnt
t 's tht s cbar&ktcJistic of an brutes
. . h-nuins, too, in' thet sessetUae er (
:'. r t r . out I". ir r--sl nature, w-:. :
! u-.K.n'w'-.rt fy-- to tferm-'-. -
" . r . z r:".n:ri b"e ;-at r .ri,
, . - . . r:sh? r.' h awi-i--l .
ii. .. is., i hv i rr. uif ic s- ,
:::vetisrirJn - He UtUi-rrd fcls nose until
hi iMTJonwl right itrtr a Wj trap tht.
;. - , ; cm hia an' killed . tr. :
:h- ; ir was ba:ti w 'th h- t
trie ra ' :tuv 2d tr.x ad-; r
. v.; his .t ixiuir. 4 I ..x .
B. '
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.
Blackwell has the gas. She should tie
a rope around, it and hold it.
Mr. Ilyndman. a caadidate at Hobart,
wa3 defeated by G majority.
William Divers, who was elected mayor
cf Anadarko, used to live at Enid.
Tho total vote at Hobart whs about 109
more than anybody had calculated upon.
The Cordeli Herald-Chief and Seymonr
Price are in a row over publication no
tices. The Republicans think a. county vote
In the now country will tell a different
story.
The Guthrie Leader . says, positively:
"It will oe single etatehood or no state
hood." The hunters bring word in that quail
are more plentiful than ever; chickens
scarce.
Enid has a cab, according to the Enid
Eagle, that has a finish finer than a
hearse."
Senator Hpvens Is still in New York
City, but not sufficiently recovered to
como home.
Green B Lawson. of Guthrie, has sued
his wife for divorce. They have been
married since 1S66.
To the surprise of everybody, the Re
publicans made a better showing in Law
ton than in Hobart.
Occasionally a newspaper in Oklahoma
still says of its town that "it Is not
booming, It Is Just growing."
United States Senattr Robert Gamble,
of South Dakota, writes W. M. Smith, of
Lawtqn, that he will vote for statehood
for Oklahoma.
Ula W., a pacing mare at the Hen
nessey races, stumbled and turned a com
plete soramersault, throwing her driver,
W. T. Huff, thirty feet.
The new gas well near Lawton Is only
275 feet dsep. Tho Lawton people claim j
that the pressure of gas Is so great that I
It interferes with the work of the drill.
The Hobart News says of the election
in that city where but two Republicans j
were elected, and those members of the ;
school board: "It is painful very pain- i
ful." j
In describing the actions of Colgosz, '
the Enid Wave's special correspondent I
says that Czolgesz goes to bed promptly
at 5 o'clock and snores like a Frisco ',
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Toaay,9a.m. j
Another lot of Velvet Carpet samples made
up in true Rug style; ends oil cloth bound; size
27x45 inches. Were you to buy them from the
piece they would cost you $1.25 to $1.75 each, with
out the binding. As there are only 120 in the lot
we must limit each customer to two. See windo w
display.
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Iaternatiwal Association of Newspapers and Authors,
locomotive.
In a quarrel at Anadarko Pete Heffner !
assaulted Verde V. Hardcastle with a re-
volver and beat him up badly. The sur- I
rounding crowd threatened to lynch
Heffner, but wer dissuaded by cool- i
headed citizens. I
Horace Speed says that he will prose- '
cute any- white man who bailies a colored '
man into leaving his claim In Kiowa land
under the conspiracy statute, and will see
that white men who form themselves in
to organizations to force negroes to leave '
the country will lose their claims.
A country correspondent In the Alva 1
Pioneer said that such and such a Sunday j
school would give a dance to raise ,
money to buy S-inday school books. Tbe
superintendent of the Sunday school In- .'
dlgnantly denies this as follows: "As
to raising funds to purchase our litera
ture there is no method that I would
more willingly renounce and spurn with '
contempt than that of a dance."
Kingfisher Free Press: Senator Pitch
fork Tillman, of South Carolina, spent
last Tuesday afternoon In Kingfisher, en
route to Guthrie, where he delivered a
lecture that evening. Ills presence in
town was not generally known. About
2 p. m., George Lang, W. W. Noffsinger. f
deputy district clerk; E. G. Spillman and
M. J. Kane .took a look for him with a
carriage. They finally found him solitary
and alone, sitting on a salt barrel on the
depot platform. Mr. Lang, who never
saw the senator, but had an accurate de- '
scrlption of him, was the first to discover
him. "Are you Senator Tillman, of
South Carolina?" said George. Straight
ening himself up and shooting his one
eye straight Into Lang's face, the sena
tor replied: "That Is my name, sah."
The senator was then invited to take a
seat in the carriage and be shown over
tho town. He was greatly pleased with
Oklahoma, and the boys enjoyed his so
ciety very much. i
. ALONG THE KANSAS NILE. !
, The railroad men say that only half the
wheat crop of 1501 In Kansas, has been '
moved.
Governor Riddle says that TSmmett Dal
ton's application for pardon was 1 landed
in thirty-nine years too soon.
Sam Peters is stirring up the Kansas
delegation in Washington to have a bat- ,
tleshtp named after Kansas.
J. G. Johnson, of Pea body, believes that
the Democrats and Populists will get to- ;
gether on one ticket next year. i
At Topeka it is considered settled that .
J. R. Burton and M. A. Low will be be
hind the Curtis senatorial boom. ,
Tho University officials should call that .
football team home. It Is nlavlnr like '
a team of hospital convalescents. j Ej
Davo Mulvano called on the president i
Salurtiav and trot the imnresslon that ' Q
itooseveit wiu appoint ieiana pension i
agent.
Some one has pulled out the fact In
Kansas, to throw at tho Democrats,
that Booker Washington once dined with
Queen Victoria.
The Kansas City Journal says that
Governor Stanley announces his readi
ness to accept an Invitation to become a
candidate for the United States senate.
Senator Burton hasn't been !n office
a year, but he has already increased the
number of federal offices filled by Kan-
sans, two, a bank examiner and a con
sul general.
Abijah Falrchilds. of Barrton. who Is
on tbe island of Samar, says tbe natives
there dig a pit in tbe road set it full of
sharp sticks, and then cover the bole
with material which lets the Americans
down on the points.
A delegation of boss-busters called on
Burton at Topeka Saturday arw with
General Hudson as spokesman asked him
to fight Leland. and expressed dissatis
faction over tbe selection of Lit crum
for United States marshal
B. G. Giger. of Independence, is work-
ins: on an organisation of farmers who
shall agree, generally over Ksnss. not .
to plant wheat In ISt; this to diminish '
the supply and raise the price. The 1
weather is a trifle coo! tor pipe dreams. .
At Atchison the reporters, like those In '
New York, tell what the women pUin- .
tiffs look like. In aa alienating tbe sX-
fertions rase tbe Atcbteoa Globe say '
of the plait tiff: "She Is , but look '
and acts older. She Is not pretty, but
would t considered good-looking If it !
were not fer the faet that her fare has !
tbe expression of one aVotit to break Into j
tears.
El Evrad Rp' It's too awfal
bad. tut tkea it can't .be helped, and
all we can do !s to offer them our sympa
thy. A lot of farmer are groaning J
around beranse they have t r it their ;
alfalfa tbe fourth t'aw. It s awfuL Thy s)
took of? it- third top and tn-. jzat tbwy
wer" dr-r.. -t the t.y rats and mutt
tits-t r-m- v -. .. tvr.-lTipimd v:hr oo .-rf
bay, as4 U gut to be CTt. and Is b-'nr $
cut. and is turning oT from ll'i ; f: n
acre, clear profit.
Atchison Globe: An Atch'sfin trx-, c.r,
gnt an S-.rai 11-dfd i'r !
Advar.?" f H:s W-i'-r&livr. W -.
one Costs: ;!n.- r.V 1 Wzz: K -.-! : - -
ins ?:rht-t Ait'-:, n. i .'. . : .
Ciiticlzeu Hub. ne Hcujtht tbe Van th
Best Cigar ir ;b cur ird askd Him '.i
be ccuiin t Th.r. 't S,ni" M.re l-.xi-greraf
'e Thiie He a-e;ti V:.
fch" Cz.:.r'.z H-tp s ,d si M 't'
a n;e v. :--..J--r .- ::
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a. assn r-orstei to Srrme WesJpH, tit
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) "Tekia" Robert Barr
) "Simon Dale" Anthony Hope.
) "A Puritan's Wife" Max Pemberton
) "A Fair Barbarian Francis Hodgson Barnett.
) "I, Thou and the Other One" Amelia E. Barr
"American Wives and English Husbands" Atherton
"Boriaventure" Geo. W. Cable
) "The Splendid Spur" A. T. Qulller-Couch
) "Face to Face" Robert Grant
) "The Rudder Grangers Abroad" Frank R. Stockton
"The Herb Moon" John Oliver Hobbes
"The Heart of Toll" Octave Thanet
"Free Joe" Joel Chandler Harris
"Talcs of Our Coast" S. R. Crockett
"Sevenoaks" J. G. Holland
"Within the Capes" Howard Pyle.
"A House in Bloomsburn" Mrs. OHphanL
"The Uncalled" Paul Lawrence Dunbar.
"Across the Chasm" Julia Magruder.
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