Show edito no one who knew hansbrough Hansbro when he was in san francisco twelve years ago ever dreamed he would fetch up in alk united states senate hansbrough Hansbro billel the telegraph editors desk on the chronicle for many months and he was a rattling good editor of news besides being an expert on head writing at that time the newspapers here got only a light telegraphic service because the overland wires were in poor condition and the rates extremely heavy probably words a was an average report under these conditions it was necessary to add any descriptive matter that would supplement a dispatch and also to make an attractive head hansbrough was an artist in this kind ot work once when alexander n made a wholesale sweep of a lot of nihilisms nihilists lists shooting several and exiling the remainder to siberia headed the rather lurid report of russian imperial cruelty as czar work at a desk however proved too monotonous for hansbrough and finally in 1879 he conceived the idea of taking an educated chinese to the east on a lecture trip hansbrough hired hull the most accomplished newspaper fakir on the coast who made denis kearney famous by writing his sand lot speeches to prepare the lecture and it was a very entertaining one the east bite as hansbrough expected and the lecture outfit went to pieces somewhere between chicago and new york then hansbrough went to iowa and started a paper when the dakota boom started he saw his opportunity and now he is reaping the fruits of it he may not know as much about law or parliamentary procedure as many other senators but there are few in that body who have more general in formation than hansbrough fit louis globe democrat |