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ft i I TiTnnimTTmMmiTmTmmmTimmTTTTmTnTiT I i i PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION, WICHITA, KANSAS, Vol. 1. JANTJAET, 1900. No. 4 i What the Boys Have Been Saying and Doing Since Last Issue.1 WHAT IS SAID ABOUT YOU.

i -v 4 1 5 1 1 I Bill Bolton denies that he is married. The announcement that he had married a Topeka girl was a fake. Dr. J. D.

Ballard has sold his interest in the Weatherford 0. Chronicle to his partner, G. T. Dulany. J.

W. Dayman has leased his Concordia Blade to go to Cape Nome. Tough trip for an old man. O. L.

Rankin, a former editor of the Strong City Derrick, has recently fallen heir to $90,000, so they say. In spite of the kicking ot the Enterprise the girls of Alma still continue to marry men from out of town. The Joplin Herald under its new management has hoisted the name of William McKinley for president. Several territory dailies gave their force and readers a holiday on Christmas and issued no paper that day. A country correspondent of the Riley Regent, otherwise a paper without a blemish, gets up his stuff in rhyme.

The publishers of the Pittsburg, Kansas, Headlight, it is reported, will soon start a daily paper at Oklahoma City. Pool Grinstead of the Watliena Star is sentenced toeTeven months in jail for libel. He will edit his paper in jail. In most Kansas towns the girl who gets a diamond ring or a piano in her stocking is entitled to newspaper mention. A few days after the railroad to Westmoreland was completed a tramp printer hit the town; the first one ever seen there.

There are still some people supposed to be intelligent, who -write stuff for the newspapers on both sides of the paper. The Huron Herald has arranged to publish a tri-weekly until after the congressional convention in the first district. It is said that Frank Greer, editor of the State Capitol, wants to be a delegate to the national republican convention. W. J.

Krelxbiel of the McPherson Republican, has added a new typesetting machine to the equipments of his printery. The Westmoreland Recorder has absorbed the Westmoreland free silver Banner of Light and Bugle Blast of Freedom. Alva printers have organized a club called Quads and Spaces which meets fortnightly to discuss the printing cause. Frank Shellabarger, the Guthrie correspondent of the Kansas City Journal, spent Christmas with his parents in Kansas City. Carl Yrooman has been appointed press censor by the Kansas Populist state committee, vice Grant Harrington, removed.

Harry Gilstrap, editor of the Chandler News, is keeping up his opposition to statehood for Oklahoma as proposed in the measure introduced in congress by Dennis Flynn. John McBride of the Beloit Times got wrapped up in the coils of the ex press Octopus one day last week, and roars loudly. Circulars, sample papers, letters from parties using the Challenge and all particulars, prices, may be had for the asking. Some of the best letters ever written are those from Frank Greenfield, in Brazil, which appear in the Cleveland, 0. Triangle.

George Rising, commandant of the military school at Salina, resigned to take the position of city editor of the Lawrence World. John J. Ingalls was at one time editor of the Atchison Champion, retiring from the editorial chair 35 years ago, the first of January. There is a newspaper war out in Pawnee county, Kansas, again and a a fine grade of alluvial soil, nicely moistened, is flying. In giving its statistical record for 1899, the Ottawa Herald run in the number of drunks and the number of weddings together.

Dick Lindsay formerly of Topeka, has resigned the managing editorship of the Kansas City Times and will go to the St. Louis Republic. I jt The Caldwell News is not only opposed to admitting Roberts to congress but in favor of excluding all congressmen who are immoral. The Arkansas City Traveler remarks that the man in that town Christmas day who had a champagne taste and a cider income, was sad. At the present time there are published in Oklahoma ten daily and 122 weekly newspapers, eighteen monthlies and one semi-monthly.

The Iantagraph actually puts up a mild roar because there has not been a home talent show in the Sedgwick opera house this year. Thomas B. Ferguson, editor of the Watonga Republican, is openly in the race for the nomination as delegate to Congress to succeed Flynn. The Oklahoma Press association endorsed free homes and the members have pledged themselves to agitate the matter as much as possible. The Stroud Star issued a handsome special holiday edition, full of information about the prosperous town of Stroud, and Lincoln county.

The editor of the Cimarron Jacksonian received as a Christmas present from a friend a pair of new shoes with a bottle of whisky in each shoe. Copies of Frank McMasters Magazine for Oklahoma are getting to be quite valuable. In forty years copies will not be purchasable at any price. Paul Hudson is a sure-enough Kansan. lie prints in his paper down in the City of Mexico comments on the great prosrerity of the old state.

Kansas and Oklahoma papers are recording more marriages these days, it seems, than have ever before occurred in so short a time as the holidays. The Arkansas City Traveler is giving space to explanations of a fight that occurred there the other day between two of her most prominent citizens. The Cherry vale Daily Clarion has been sold by Harvey Scurlock to Bailey Bostwick, of the Morehead Searchlight. The two papers will be consolidated. The Chanute Tribune notifies its patrons that hereafter advertising rates will be increased 33 per cent over the old schedule.

Wiseman that. Ilam, turkey and 'possum will suffer this week, but after the holidays how the chitterlings will disappear! remarks the colored mans paper at Topeka. Earl D. Knox has sold the Waverly Gazette to A. J.

Rose, of Eskridge, who took possession at once. Mr. Knox has made no announcement of his future plans. In proportion to the size of the town in which it was printed, the Christmas issue of the Huron Herald was the largest Kansas paper issued for that week. The Monitor says that General Rice will probably deliver the address of welcome when the newspaper men of Kansas assemble at Fort Scott this month.

is said that the contractors who are supplying the Kansas state printing office with material are losing Hi cents on every pound of paper furnished. Up at Leavenworth Dan Anthony calls Dr. Neely a combination of whiskers and gall, and Neely speaks of Dan as Anthony and his long-leg-gedkid. The amount of newspaper mail car ried by the government during the last fiscal year was 15,924,270 pounds greater than it had been during the year preceding. Elmer Mahaffey who has been connected with the Pawnee Times-Demo-crat, has married Miss E.

E. Connelley, a quarter-blood Indian of the Sac and Fox tribe. Major Leslie G. Niblack, of the Guthrie Daily Leader, received two presents from the employes of that office on Christmas; a smoking jacket and a silk umbrella. Federal office holders were not excluded from going as delegates to the national editorial association.

Jake Admire and F. T. Cook of Cloud Chief were selected. We are willing, says a Rooks county paper, to take on subscription account, chickens, pork, corn, wheat, alfalfa, prairie hay, wood and anything else we can eat. A Cimarron man left for Pratt a few days ago.

The Jacksonian, in noting his removal winds up with this touching exclamation: Goodbye, three dollars, goodbye! The Perry Enterprise-Times notes that it is a noticeable fact that a greater per cent of Oklahoma people own their own homes than any people in the United States. Abilenes Commercial club is talking of getting up a reception for the editors of the county. It is. believed that the scheme will bring forth a raft of advertising for the town. The Daily Press is a new venture at Chickasha.

A Masonic magazine has been started at Eufaula, I. T. The Hutchinson Gazette has a cartoonist on its staff. The Edmond Republican conducts a G. A.

R. department. The Onaga Herald issued a very creditable holiday edition. The Salina Daily Republican-Journal has a press report now. The Arapahoe Ree runs a cut of Dennis Flynn in every issue.

Andy Richards gives it out that he is in Washington simply for fun. The Daily Spoon is the latest journalistic venture at Blackwell. It is said that Frank Greer is negotiating for the Muskogee Phoenix. The El Reno Democrat insists that crime is on the increase in Oklahoma. The Eldorado Republican is still booming Fred Funston for governor in 1900.

The Kansas Agricultural college has 54 students enrolled in its printing class. Dave Leahy says that Kansas has too many good newspapers to need a magazine. Arthur Capper denies the report that he is going to start an afternson paper. R. Q.

Blakeney has sold the Oklahoma City Oklahoman to a joint stock company. Messrs. Alkire Bumbarger have bought the Wagoner Record of M. Phillippe. Frank Prouty has been elected chief taster of the Guthrie Anti-Saloon League.

J. M. Cober has commenced the publication of a new paper at Sabetha, the Commercial. Jere Johnson uses extracts from Ella Wheeler Wilcoxs poems as editorial paragraphs. S.

II. Dodge, editor of the Beloit Gazette, is one of the regents of the state normal school. S. G. Pottle, county clerk of Butler county, will go on the road for the Mail and Breeze.

W. J. Granger, of the Centralia, Kansas, Journal, visited Kansas City during the holidays. Trade with the man who advertises, says the Great Bend Tribune, and good advice it is. A Kansas paper which runs beer ads kicks because other sheets run patent medicine advertising.

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