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ALONG THE KANSAS NILE. Kansas has 187 rural mail routes. Missouri has only eighty-one. Harry Richter, lieutenant governor, says that public life doesn't pay. So far Crazy Carrie hasn't done a thing that anyone expected her to do. A Boston paper points out that Kansas has been unsettled ever since it was settled. The coming report of the state labor commissioner will contain the milling statistics of Kansas. Topeka this spring is to vote $70,000 bonds to buy grounds for the addition to the Santa Fe shops. There is talk of making a Populist the third member of the railroad commission, instead of a Democrat. Ex-Lieutenant Governor Harvey would not take the Democratic nomination for judge of the city court at Topeka. Senator Baker will resume the practice of law in Leavenworth, his son, E. B. Baker, being associated with him. The horrible charge is made against both candidates for mayor in Atchison that they can tell beer from cold tea. R. E. Eckert, a man who was taking orders in Bourbon county for a Louisville liquor house, has been arrested and sent to jail. The business men of Arkansas City have put up for mayor Frank J. Hess, the present mayor, who believes in a liberal policy. The Order of Select Friends, with headquarters at Fort Scott, a Kansas Insurance order, has quit business. The death rate was too high. The Farmers' State Bank of Arkansas City, in which there has been a run, has received $90,000 in currency and the depositors are quieting down. Henry Thurber, formerly private secretary to President Cleveland, is behind a projected railroad from Hutchinson to the coal fields of the Indian territory. The Democrats of Kansas have already begun to urge the re-election of Senator Harris. F. Dumont Smith, of Kinsley, has decided to break into the senatorial contest of 1902. Crazy Carrie will probably end up in Topeka by socking an ax into a pulpit or two. When it comes to hating, Carrie, when stirred up, can hate a preacher worse than anybody else in the world. Jim Orr has been nominated by the Democrats of Atchison for mayor against Donald, the Republican candidate. The fight is expected to be lively, as It is as complicated as the second hour in a game of champion chess. A grape-vine from Washington says that President McKinley recently said to Senator Burton: "Are there any more men in Kansas like Bristow? I want as many men like him connected with my administration as I can get." This was the parting shot Crazy Carrie gave the Home Defenders: "Oh, I know a pack of traitors when I see 'em. Where's my hat? F'll leave. The Lord will look after you hypocrites. The devil is laughing in his sleeve right now The Lord's work don't need any help from you." Mrs. H. C. Fleisher, a guest at a hotel in Arkansas City, recently by mistake took too much morphine. She was saved, but continued very fill and finally in a fit of vomiting threw up a small cork, which had evidently come from a two ounce bottle. She doesn't know when she swallowed it. "Jesse Powell, an old soldier. living In the southeast part of town," says the Emporia Gazette, "once threw William McKinley down when they were boys. Mr. Powell is now about 70 years old. When about 17, he worked on the farm of the father of the president. He did all kinds of hard work by the side of young BIL When = boy, Mr. McKinley was as good a worker as I ever knew, Mr. Powell said this morning. Think of seeing our president cutting weeds, pitchthe hay, plowing corn. chopping wood and doing such labor as the fathers of this country have all done, more or leas. Willie McKinley had a sister, Mins Hattie, and every Sunday Hattle and Jesse Powell went to church together. also to parties and taffy pulla Some people do not know that McKloley was relsed on & farm: but be was His father owned & good farm just actoss the river from Vanceburg, K. Hattle and Juste and Willie called each other W their given names, and were the best of friends. On Sundays. sometimes Jesse and William
