The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-18

men and was to have spoken here but
Mr. Jones wouldn't let him.
Ex-Sergeant Hurley Of the Kansas
City, Kan, police force, who was here
! yesterday, says that at present the
| joints are running openly there and
that the police department collects 500
every sixty days for revenue.
! With the exception of Pennsylvania
avenue in Washington, Kansas avenue
in Topeka is believed to be the widest
street in the United States. John Mac
| Donald had them both measured once
and there is not much difference.
The Equal Suffrage association yes
| terday afternoon voted a sum of money
for float for the Fall Festival and ap-
pointed a committee consisting of Dr.
Eva Harding, Mrs. NJ. A. Cornelius and
! Mrs. M. z. Goodwin to superintend it.
A nicely dressed young woman who
was with the Woodmen here yesterday
! undertook to stop a street car by say
| ing Whoa" to it. It is believed she
was from -, well, we won't say
where; it is too near the Fall Festival.
Weather Observer Jennings is conf
| dent that the weather will be fine dur
ing Fall Festival week. He said: $50
much rain in the early part of the
month is a very good indication that
the latter part of the month will be
| fine"
What, by the way. is the matter with
! having a big railway collision in To-
peka for a Fall Festival attraction?
They are wrecking trains elsewhere as
an attraction and. we should be up to
date. Pit the Rock Island against the
| Santa Fe.
Next Thursday evening the young
people of the First Methodist church
will give a political social Burles-
| que speeches will be made by J. H.
Dennis for the oddities, and Chas.
Adams for the silverites. Jake Bair
will preside.
A few Topeka men have organized a
company to handle the new acetylene
gas. The small tanks contain gas
which has greater candle power than
ordinary coal gas, and volume of over
400. They claim that it is not liable
to explode.
Sergeant Tim Donovan is going to
ate Atchison Corn Carnival. Last year
he attended the Carnival and during a
big fight on the main street of Atchi-
son he forgot himself and dived into
the crowd and grabbed the fellow who
was being licked.
Tt has now been settled that Buffalo
BilPs Big Wild West show will exhibit
in Topeka the latter part of October.
The regular heavy triweekIy rain
rained again this morning and stopped
work on the streets and on the bridge
for a short time.
The bookings at the Grand for Oc-
tober include the Chicago Festival or
chestra on the 9Th, Richard Mansfield
on the 18th, Darkest Russia "Dev-
IFS Auction Girl I Left Behind Ne"
Modern Woodmen," Madame Sans
Gene" and "Trilby.''
Several soldiers from the Leaven-
worth post came over yesterday with
the fort band and every one had a To-
peka girl with him before he had been
in town an hour. The average girl will
freeze to a uniform quicker than she
will to millionaire.
The Stedman club will meet Monday
evening at the office of DIR. H. w. Roby
at $50 Kansas avenue. Poems will be
read by Mrs. c. S. Baker and Mrs.
Sarah Hargreaves and there will be a
paper by l.. H. Cranda1 and a story
by Mrs. Maria McLarty.
J. NJ Knight says if Atchison wants
to be represented in the Fall Festival
Flower parade she has only to send
over four or five of her prettiest girls,
dressed in their best and he will fur
nish them a decorated hack to ride in.
The hack would be labeled.
Atchison Globe: The Topeka Journal
of yesterday made six references to the
Corn Carnival, all of them very neat.
The Journal suggested the Fall Festtv-
tiles at Topeka: Atchison people
should attend in crowds and serenade
The Journal and its new building.
Two buns entered the store of Chas.
Nattsen, 219 Kansas avenue yesterday
afternoon and one of them stole goods
while the other talked to the proprietor.
Nattsen discovered the theft and
grabbed the other, Guy Johnston, and
tore his shirt off. The men escaped.
A prominent business man who said
some weeks ago that he didn't believe
the Fail Festival and Reunion would
amount to anything at all and fatty
refused to donate to it, has changed his
mind and this week presented the Com
mittee of Fifteen with his check for $25.
A California ticket agent of the Rock
Island in a thoughtless moment sold a
passenger a through ticket to Law
renee. AS the Rock Island uses the
Union Pacific tracks between Topeka
and Kansas City, the passenger was
furnished a ticket over the Union Pa
cific.
The Committee of Fifteen has re-
ceived a number of communications
from dramatic readers who desire to
take part in the exercises Festival
week. All such offers have been refus-
ed with thanks. There is no place on
the programme where their services
could be used.
A H Burtis and E. L. Stephenson of
Garden City, A. J. HOisingtOn of Great
Bend and F. D. Coburn of Topeka, Sec
rotary of the state board of agriculture
have been appointed as an irrigation
commission for the state of Kansas
which will act as an auxiliary to the
national irrigation congress.
At its meeting yesterday afternoon at
the Hotel Throop the Equal Suffrage