The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-06

The Dragon Of Ages has been housed
at the fair grounds The Committee Of
Fifteen has not decided what viii be
done with the mammoth reptile Pre-
serve it and next year it can be sold to
some other city
Just after the moving of the Kansas
avenue bridge was begun Sunday night
a North Topeka milkman drove up
from the south side and wished to
cross. He was told that he was just
two minutes late.
The officers of battery B of this city
viii attend the school of instruction to
be conducted at Fort Riley during the
third week in October. This school is
for the instruction of the officers of the
Kansas National Guards
Chief Wilmarth of the fire depart
ment is to receive a vote Of thanks from
the people of North Topeka for taking
the dremen's parade to North Topeka.
After the new bridge is done all the
parades can go to North Topeka
The Potwin city school was so
crowded that an extra teacher for the
primary grade had to be employed. She
is Miss Allie Gentry of Minneapolis,
who is attending Washburn college.
The school now has an attendance of
$50.
August Rahberg. a married man OF
Auburndale, left home four weeks ago
to look for work and has not been
heard from. He leaves seven small
children and there seems to be no rea-
son for his silence. The police have
been notified.
Bob Fitzsimmons," the bull dog
that F. J. Lynch has had in charge for
SO long and which has considerable To-
cal reputation for nerve having
once tackled Art NIassey's bill NfcKin-
ley" is dead. He was accidentally
poisoned.
People attending the Leavenworth
Apple Carnival viii have to pay more
railroad fare than was at first thought.
1t was expected that a rate of one fare
for the round trip would be secured,
but instead a rate of one and one-third
fare was granted
Police Matron Thorpe says that if
every child that goes to school in To-
peka would give her one penny each
she would be able to supply with shoes
all the children who are now compelled
to stay away from school because of
lack of proper footwear
IF there ar. people in the state''
says the Atchison Globe, who believe
that Topeka is cold and mercenary,
they should have visited the town last
week" They never would have be-
lieved-it anyway, if Topeka hadn't been
so persistently lied about
Just after brilliant flash of light
ming yesterday afternoon smoke was
seen rising from the roof of the Colum-
bian building and someone turned in
an alarm of fire. The smoke came from
the large chimney, it being the first
fire of the season in the steam heater.
Fred Emmert, the farmr boy who was
robbed of all he had, S37. at the Rock
Island freight depot during Festival
week has returned to his home in Phil
lips county, and Adam Harris. who
was jailed for the offense, will be re-
leased. 1t could not be proven that he
did it.
In the guide book issued to Festival
visitors was a paragraph in regard to
the state house which read: Take ele-
vator to the dome for birds-eye view OF
the city Free" AS the elevator only
runs a fourth of the way to the dome
a good many visitors were a little per-
picked.
The colored industrial institute is
busy this week fitting up the E. B. Lun
building on the west side of Kansas
avenue, south OF Eleventh street which
it recently bought 1T is a fine large
building and the institute expects to
get moved in the latter part of next
week.
There is talk among the employees of
the Santa Fe general offices of petit
tioning General Manager Frey to con-
tinue the half holidays on Saturday
through the winter. The winter sched-
ule of working hours. which does away
with the half holidays, goes into effect
October 10.
One of the ladies of the general com
mittee of the Floral parade suggests
that if the Committee of Fifteen have
any funds left over after paying all in
debtedness. it would be a very pretty
idea to present Mrs. N. NIil'iken. chair
man of the general committee, with a
memento of some kind.
14-year-old Parlzdale girl, who
begs on the streets for her mother,
who she says is blind, and who re
Gently forged Mrs. Thorpes name to a
request for money, was given an order
for 10 cents by q man to give to his
wife. The girl raised it to % cents and
included a square meal and some old
clothes
There was a special policeman on
duty in the western part of the city
during Festival week who would shoot
his revolver toward every man who
ran from him often times during the
night he would have to come to the pO-
lice station for a new round of ammu-
milton. He didn't kill anybody, most
fortunately.
At the meeting of the Potwin city
council this evening a petition viii be
presented by G. w Tincher of the
school board to build walk of some
kind on Park avenue from Shawnee
avenue to Stevens street It is pro-
posed that the city, the township and
the school district each pay one-third
of the expense.
Vic Olson, a Santa Fe Iaborer. has
two small children, boys aged respec-
lively 3 and Is months, that he viii put
- nr.rhans, home Olson lives in