The Yellow Dog from Topeka, Kansas • 3

FIRES LEFT A TRAIL OF RUIN Farmers in Western Counties Have Suffered Heavy Damage-Several Towns Were Threatened. Prairie fires near Scott City, Utica, Modoc and Colby, which raged the other day, left a trail of ruin behind them and Western Kansas counties are taking stock of their loss. All the fires, according to reports reaching Topeka, have been extinguished after hard fighting. It is estimated that the loss in one fire was between $40,000 and $50,000. Reports from Scott City tell of the destruction of outbuildings.

In Modoc the fire destroyed the Countryman farm buildings, the livery barn and two residences. The fire fighters were taken to the fire in automobiles. In a severe fire near Goodland, many fields were burned over and stacked grain was destroyed. Goodland was threatened, but heroic measures saved the town. The shopmen of the Rock Island Railway were dismissed to help fight the flames.

In most cases the tire was stopped when back fires were lighted. Farmers used wet gunny sacks in beating out the flames. Mary of them were slightly burned, but no fatalities have been reported. Unconfirmed reports are that in several cases valuable live stock was burned. Another prairie fire swept across Sheridan County the other night, burning over hundreds acres of wheat, according to reports reaching Salina.

Near Salina, nine horses and several thousand bushels of wheat were burned on farms belonging to James Tobin and Michael Kebel. Country Would Choose Quickly. The Progressives deserve all the aid the Democrats can give them in urging Roosevelt upon the Republican party. In this delicate situation of all our foreign relations, giving Mr. Roosevelt the presidency would be very much like giving a boy a knife; something would get whittled.

Persons who recall 1912-and. vast numbers do -and have heard Mr. Roosevelt's continuous and indecent attacks upon the man who defeated him, will not be long in making choice between the president and the ex-president. Following Instructions. The phone bell tintinnabulated.

"Is this the office of the Daily Squawk?" asked the voice. "Yes? Well then I want you to put in my husband's death notice, 'Gone to rest' in an appropriate place." And next morning it read: "Gone to rest in an appropriate place." Under the head of Something New Under the Sun we recently mentioned a woman who sued her husband for divorce without asking alimony. Now there is Something Newer Under the Sun. An Omaha woman has been ordered by the court to pay her "'hasbeen" alimony. She will have to earn the money keeping a rooming house.

Isn't keeping a rooming house punishment enough without having to turn one's earnings over to a worthless man? Maybe the dirigible which has been reported to have broken away in Florida has been Germinated. Hats in the Ring The following is the list of candidates who have announced for county, state, and national offices for the primaries. If your name belongs here and we have missed it phone 3204. For Congress Dr. Eva Harding Dan Anthony Governor Arthur Capper W.

S. Lansdon Lieut. Governor W. Y. Morgan Sec.

of State J. T. Botkin State Auditor Frank Organ F. W. Knapp D.

B. Dyer Attorney General S. M. Brewster State Printer W. R.

Smith Judge of Supreme Court Judge West Judge Porter Supt. of Insurance Carey J. Wilson L. M. Penwell Phone 192 508-10 Quincy St.

Topeka, Kas. Supt. of Public Instruction W. D. Ross Lizzie E.

Wooster State Treasurer Walter Payne Wiley W. Cook Matt Weightman Chas. Evans State Senate Mrs. Theodore Saxon County Supt. Wm.

Vanorsdol W. D. Wallace Sheriff James E. (Jim) Wilson H. G.

Shore Hugh Larimer G. W. Betts Geo. B. Prost H.

C. Ericsson R. W. Eaton H. A.

Hodgins W. T. Dawson County Attorney Robt. Garver W. P.

Montgomery Probate Judge Raiph R. Gaw D. H. Brannan Judge of the Court of Topeka Rad Mi. Lee Clerk of the District Court Mrs.

Mary E. Chapin W. E. Harris County Commissioners F. E.

Nipps A. A. Rodgers Dr. Geo. Pritchard J.

K. Duncan Ed Buckman Harry Wright J. W. Troutman Henry McAfee County Clerk Kent Raub Henry Monroe J. M.

Wright Marshall of Court of Topeka Frank Leech Fred Stonestreet A. M. Allison Hall Williams Clerk of Court of Topeka Douglas A. Graham County Assessor S. H.

Haynes Frank Bowen County Surveyor J. A. Campbell, Jr. Register of Deeds Ralph Squires County Treasurer Pat Campbell.