The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-09

quarters" Frank Long runs the place.
There will be a foot ball game at
Athletic park Saturday afternoon at 3
o'clock between the Topeka Independ-
ents and the Washburn college elev-
ems.
A placard in a music store window
announces that the cane It accompan-
les was presented to the Worlds fair
by the Gear of Turkey Car of Tur-
key!
DR.. ]. "A. Enander Of Chicago, who
was minister to Sweden during the
Harrison administration, will address
the Swedish voters of Topeka Saturday
night
Topeka hackmen made more money
than anybody during the Fall Festival.
What's the matter with asking the
hackmen to contribute to the fund next
year?
The 6-year-old son of E. Roast, 124
Topeka avenue, fell on a, curb stone
yesterday afternoon and cut severe
cash in his forehead several inches
in length.
Tom Davidson of the Mills store is
the only man in Topeka who took his
camera with him to the Peterton
wreck Sunday. He has some splendid
views of it.
Tom Clements has started west from
Baltimore with his Brigham Hopkins
sample case and wiz begin work at
Denver. This is Toms first commercial
travelling trip.
Eugene Ware OF this city. has ar
ranged to take part in one of James
Whitcomb Rney's entertainments, and
VIII leave for Denver with that gentle
man next week.
According to the Globe. an tntel1-
gent Atchison woman who saw the
flower parades at Topeka and Kansas
City says that the Topeka affair was
the better Of the two.
There is a wildeyed story out that a
man who was caught on the wrong E1de
Of the river with a buggy one night this
week drove the horse and buggy back
over the trolley line bridge
People who regard Topeka. as a great
old town to rob people are requested to
observe that sandwiches are now two
for a nickel here. Or you can get one
sandwich and a cup Of coffee.
Judge w. N. Beezly of Edwards coun-
ty and Republican candidate for the
legislature was in town today He was
in the Kansas City collision of Tues
day and was badly shaken up.
Tt has been discovered, it is said. that
Clint Watson. secretary of the Repub-
Hcan county central committee is a
distant relative of Tom of Georgia. but
neither Of them Will admit it
Mrs Andy Manifold. whose husband
runs the second best band in Kansas
at Beloit, is visiting Mrs. John Mar
shall of North Topeka, whose husband
runs the first best band in Kansas
Col Sam Radges, who attended the
Kansas City flower parade says that
the biggest float in the parade was that
pyramid Of bottled beer 40 feet high.
A horse attached to a wagon loaded
with empty boxes and barrels ran away
on Van Buren, street yesterday ana
made the street look like the Grand
Opera House stage after a terrible ex-
plosion-
The reason of Councilman Burgess
recent ill temper has just leaked out
He was mistaken for Senator Leedy at
Atchison the day of the corn carnival
Nobody knows how Leedy feels about
it,
The good ship The Kansas of Gal
weston" has been presented by Mr. AIc-
Masters to Police Matron Thorpe. 1t
will be torn down Immediately and dis
tributed as needed among the poor in
her charge for wood.
From the number of bills for hack
hire that are coming in to the Commits
tee of Fifteen said a member of it to- !
day, every body in town who had
horse and cart must have put in festi-
val week hauling generals
Col. Sam Radges is the only Topekan !
so far that has been brave enough to
say he liked the Kansas City flower pa
rade better than he did ours, but he
didn't stray into any ladies' floral COM
mittee meeting and say that
ror-or. at aav+nr, worth now that ia
lieutenants are at Fort Riley. armed /
guards are put on all the electric cars
to keep the LeavenwOrth girls from
stealing the motorman. Anything in I
uniform goes at Leavenworth.
The decorations in Kansas City this |
week are described by Topekans as T
simply disgraceful as compared to ours |
of last week There are no roses or /
foliage on the streets and the stream
ers are Of red, yellow and greenl
"A man named G. w. Brewer, who /
lives at Usage City lost a watch ana /
chain while at Topeka's Fall Festival. I
and after thinking over it for week.
notified Chief Gardiner and asked that /
the piekpocket be apprehended.
At their meeting yesterday afternoon |
the ladies' floral committee voted
thanks to the newspapers of Topeka
and their editors and reporters for the
time and space they have given the
committees meetings and notices.
The sidewalk force has commenced
the work of laying brick sidewalk in
Walnut Grove from Seventeenth to
Twentieth street on Van Buren, The
walks for this distance on both sides Of
the street We're condemned and will be
replaced
The Chicago Festival orchestra which
left Chicago some time ago with great
roar of guns was dated for Topeka but
cancelled, has gone to pieces There
were As people in the company and at