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entirely of this land, and none of it was acquired out of the income from his office. Ex-State Senator Meachem, of the Jewell-Mitchell district, was killed last week on a train in Colorado. He was passing from one coach to another and after falling was ground to pieces on the rails. The Kansas City Gazette (Rep.) says that it is general gossip that the Republican national committee "blowed several thousand dollars among the can rushers and joint loafers of this city in the past two years." In giving the number of Populists and Republicans elected from each Congressional district, J. C. Starr, of the Scott City News-Lever classes himself as a Populist notwithstanding the fact that he was elected by Republican votes. An increase of pay for privates in the army was demanded in the last Populist platform and the government is getting ready to ask Congress to make the increase. It is said to be impossible to secure enlistments at the present scale. Jim Fike, who engineered the Hoffer deal, wants to be Railroad Commissioner, Jim has voted and worked for the Republican ticket oftener since 1890 than any other Democrat in the State and ought to be recognized by Stanley. Ex-Chief Justice Horton used to be a Democrat. Ingalls ran twice on a Democrat ticket. Senator Lucien Baker supported the Democrat nominee for Governor in 1890. John Seaton was indorsed by the Democrats for the Legislature once. Frank Nelson has appointed ex-County Superintendent D. W. Little, of Wallace county, as Assistant State Superintendent. A. V. Lindall, of Topeka, will be bond clerk and Miss Rudolph, of Abilene, a niece of J. R. Burton, will be stenographer. A fool Republican paper refers to Grant Gillett, the bankrupt cattleman, as a Populist. As a matter of fact both Gillett and Cross were radical Republicans and did not belong to the party composed of "business failures and incompetents." Topeka papers talk in plain English about the saloons which are running in that city. The whole thing is under the control of Republicans who were making all kinds of noise a few months ago because Leedy's metropolitan police did not enforce the law. The Washington Watchman has been sold to Veatch & Son, the present publishers of the Post-Register, and the two papers will be consolidated. This leaves Washington county without a Populist paper. George Higgins will stay with the paper temporarily. Westmoreland is figuring on securing a railroad from some point on the Union Pacific on the north. Bonds will be voted if possible and the road is to be in operation July 1. It is the only county seat in eastern Kansas which does not have some kind of a railroad. A Santa Fe conductor had $2,000 in the Kirby bank at Abilene. It failed and he got 45 per cent. of it. This he deposited in the First National at Emporia. It has now failed, and he don't know where he is at. He may insist on voting for postal savings banks next time. The second and third battalions of the Twentieth Kansas arrived at Manila December 1. All were well and no deaths occurred on the trip. The first battalion, under command of Lieutenant Colonel Little, is about ten days behind and is now somewhere between Honolulu and Manila. Henry A. Young, son of Senator Henry W. Young, has been appointed as a cadet at West Point by Congressman Ridgely. If he possesses the earnestness and determination which are characteristics of his father he will have no difficulty in accomplishing the work ahead of him in a creditable way.
