The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-30
Monday is Labor Day.


Col. Fred Close is one of the best one
arm shots in the United States.
The marble floor N. T. Rigby has had
put in his new store cost $3.50.
The Iaundries are busy just now wash
ing the Oxford boys duck trousers.
A West Fifth street garden is full of
hop vines and the vines are full of hops.
There are over 200 entries for the Kan
sas City bicycle races today and tomOr-
row.
The T. A A and Auburn base ball
teams will play at Athletic park on Labor
Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A WAGNER have re-
turned from a visit among Michigan
lakes
Hunters say that there are very few
prairie chickens in the country around
Topeka.
The Modocs give a concert at Garfield
park tonight This will be nicer than
minstrelsy.
John Haisch sometimes uses his buggy
for an emergency police call. 1t gets
there quickly.
H. Reisner, the candy man, has night
blooming cereus, which he thinks will
bloom tonight.
A ''scorcher" with a bicycle face out
riding last night remarked that ''his was
the pace that kills"
Clarence Coldren of Topeka is now
playing with the TriIby company in Gar
rick theater, Boston.
The deep water conference to be held
in Topeka October 1, will not necessarily
be prohibition convention.
Colonel Fred Close outshot every body
at live birds at the West Side Gun clubs
grounds yesterday afternoon.
United States District Attorney Perry
is preparing the docket for tho October
term of court at. Leavenworth.
A Topeka man whose wife is sick has
found out that ne only required a little
practice to be an excellent cook.
A North Topeka man suggests for
city flag ga design representing citizens
cOuchant with the police rampant"
Harry Pence, law student with Right
mire 6 Schenck, will attend the Ann
Arbor, Michigan, law university this
winter
The shooting last night attracted an
immense crowd at the Crawford fats.
The medicine show was in progress
near by.
The City Real Estate 6 Trust company
display very small branch of an apple
tree containing twenty we'll developed
apples.
A man by the name of Polenski an
nounces that he would have done just
like Officer Gaines in shooting Albert
Cruger.
The hands of the big clock on the
Rock Island depot building have been
stopped at twenty minutes past seven for
three days.
Governor Morrill,. John J. ingalls, and
Judge j. B. Johnson are to speak at an
old settlers reunion at NortonvIl!e, Sep
TENDER II.
The Colored Mems Independent league
has adopted resolutions endorsing MIR.
Edward Stephens movement to help the
colored race.
Henry Watterson who was to have lee
tured in Topeka this evening left St.
Louis for his home at Louisville, We'd
nesday night
''Say. mister" asked a little negro boy
as he gazed at picture of Henry Wat
tsrson in a Kansas avenue window, sis
that George r Peck"
Before George R Peck went back to
Chicago he went out to look at his
horses, which are kept in the pastures of
GuiItord Dudley and J. A Clark.
Lieutenant Governor James A. Trout
man has been engaged to make speeches
in the local campaigns of dozen coun-
ties in the latter part of October.
The Pickaninny MINISTRIES which per-
form September 2 say they are going to
have none but original jokes. 1t is to
be hoped they will all be clean ones.
The Salvation Army has abandoned
their tent meetings on East Sixth street,
and now holds forth in a hall on East
Seventh. 1t had big crowd last night.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. R Jones of Ali Clay
street will leave soon for a trip to Salt
Lake City. Mr.. Jones is in poor health
and thinks the visit will prove benefit
Tom Wilkerson, of the sheritf's office,
took some Imminent internally by mistake
the other evening. He thought he was
going to die. Guess he was too wicked
to die.
The minstrel troupe parade of last
evening marched no further north than
''Fourt street." They had received a tip
of de gangs" antipathy to white
trousers.
Grand Army headquarters at the state
house are practically deserted Com
mander Harris aud AdjutAnt Harrison of
the G. A. R, are at Baxter Springs and
from there will go to Ottawa.
The North side Cumberland Presby-
terians have broken ground for the
the foundation OF their new church 1t
will be coy building, located on Jack
son street, just north of the river
J. @ A. Peyton says John Coyne's big
cabbage isn't in it. He had one on exhi-
bition at W. S. Kale's store which was
raised on his truck farm near the reform
school which weighs 2714 pounds
Some boys tried to climb into the bal
cony of the Bijou theater last night dur
ing the Kirk and Hedge minstrel per-
Torrance. A drop window became
| loosened and crashed to the pavement be-
low.
A horseman, who is also enthusiastic
over Topeka, wants the county to build
macadam roads and make other improve
ments at the fair grounds with the jail
labor. He thinks the city would then
for