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a* cratic paper. Ellsworth barbers will do no more Sunday work. Rock salt has been struck at Troy at a depth of 168 feet. Attorney General Godard will retire from the Collins case. W. R. Burroughs, of Marysville, has mysteriously disappeared. Judge J. Herrick will go to Omaha, where he will write a book. One hundred head of Gillett cattle were recently found near Topeka. The Hutchinson Commercial Club is going after an opera house. The new set of stations for St. Benediet's Church, Atchison, cost $1,000. A number of officers of the Twentythird Kansas are home on furloughs. Pat Dolan, of the board of charities, is seriously ill at Christ hospital, Topeka. Governor Stanley has 2,000 applicants from which to pick out 600 office-holders. Ex-Secretary of State Bush is acting as clerk of the senate committee on printing. Judge A. H. Horton seems to be the leading candidate for Judge Foster's place. S.H. Dodge has turned over a half interest in the Beloit Gazette to his son, George. The annual oratorical contest of Kansas colleges will be held at Ottawa February 24. The school book trust and the stock yards are getting it from the Missouri legislature. There is a possibility that the present legislature will pass the Breidenthal banking bill. Battery B, Fourth United States artillery, has returned to Fort Riley from Sayannah, Ga. The Brown County Farmers' Institute has an excellent program arranged for January 24-26. F.B. Dawes thinks that twenty-five days is long enough for the legislature to be in session. A Galena man lost a cow twenty years ago, but found her again the other day. She had had nothing to eat in the interim and was dead. E. B. Cowgill, of the Kansas Farmer, is a candidate for Democratic member of the Court of Visitation. The only woman reporting this session of the legislature is Miss Louise Duley, of the Cherryvale Union. There were 300 birds on exhibition at the first exhibition of the Delphos Pet Stock and Poultry Association. Governor Stanley has shut down on the reorganization of the K. N. G. until he can appoint an adjutant general. Thayer will vote on issuing $3,000 of bonds to put in a city natural gas plant. The vote will be taken February 14. Webb McNall will not resign from office immediately as some newspaper reporter has been trying to make out. The Miami County Good Roads Association is talking of trying the crude petroleum treatment on roads near Paola. Miss Grace McGrew, of Emporia, who was stenographer for the late C. S. Cross, will be private secretary to Associate Justice Smith. Gamblers are protected in Kansas City, Kans., under a license of $5,000 a year. Topeka whist players went to Kansas City Saturday for a defeat. The crack Atchison base ball player is now working on a farm for $10 a month. His pay is surer, but the muscles of his mouth have lost their firmness. Mort Albaugh has been appointed receiver of the Emporia National bank. Two Topekans committed suicide because of despondency, last week. Dr. W. W. Cochrane, one of the oldest and best citizens of Atchison, died Saturday. He was nearly eighty years old and cameto Kansas forty years ago. Miss Jula Fitzgerald, of Kansas City, has been made stenographer for the minority of the house Miss Fitzgorold
