The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17

Tom Doran of the Committee Of Fif-
teen borrowed a buggy and distributed
the Advertising placards for the Fan
Festival ball game in different portions
Of the city yesterday afternoon
Major Henry StilIweIl. who succeed
ed Major Sully in command of this di-
vision OF the Salvation Army with
headquarters at Kansas City, viii be
entertained by the local army at its
tent tonight on East Sixth street.
Judge Hazen has ordered final pa
pers of citizenship to be issued to the
following persons: David Danielson,
A. Danielson, John p. Danielson, and
0. z, Danielson. The quartette Oon-
sists of father and his three sons
The prisoners at the city jail are
planning and fretting to get out be-
fore the Fail Festival A good many
women will now have to do extra wash
ingS that their husbands and sons may
be paid out in time to see the parade.
A straw vote was taken at an auc-
| ton sale in Ottawa county last week
Seventy votes were cast for Bry-
an and two votes for Mckinley. This
is the difference between votes on rail-
way trains and votes among the farm
ers.
Two Topeka young men will be the
tandem pace makers at the Lawrence
match of three mile heats today be-
tween Archie Woodhef of Ottawa and
r. S. Enslow of Lawrence for 500 a
side. The Topeka men are Dargitz and
R. S. Arid.
The uniforms for the Fall Festival
Zouaves have arrived. They are white
and blue with round cap and baggy
trousers. The members of the COM
pany will give a practice drill in uni
form on Kansas avenue some evening
next week.
The students ofWashburn college viii
present Shakespeare's Hamlet" early
in November. The parts were assign
ed to different students before the close
of the last term, and the students have
been studying their lines during the
summer vacation.
The clerks in the Santa Fe general
offices in this city have formed a COM
bine and will consolidate their orders
for anthracite coal. The consolidated
order will probably amount to $50 tons.
and in this way the coal can be secured
at a greatly reduced price.
A certain Topeka society start
ed to build a float for the Fall Festival
under cover this week. They will fin
ish it elsewhere. They couldn't have
got it out of the place they started it
in. Float builders are meeting that
trouble in many instances.
Many of the merchants along Kansas
avenue will probably want evergreen
letters in the decoration of their stores
for the Fall Festival. This is a chance
for ladies who have leisure time to in
crease their finances by making the
letters and selling them to merchants.
Lawyer Lindsay, of Topeka, who is
out campaigning and a Republican, was
roundIy abused by another RepubH-
been chief of police under Lewellfng.
OF course the out of town man had the
Republican Lindsay mixed UP with
Hank Lindsey.
The educational committee of the 7.
NJ. c. A of which H. ] Larimer is
chairman, is busy now arranging the
course of study and getting ready for
the opening of the night school, Octo-
Der 10. There will be six instructors and
electricity arc mechanic al drawing
will be added 10 the hist this year. over
101 attend.
A number of colored men met last
night to organize a Mckinley club at
First and Madison streets and some
one telephoned to police station that
some colored men were running
arnuck' in the neigh borhood. Sergeant
Donovan and Detective Zeller could
find nothing but political enthusiasm
when they investigated.
J. B. Marshall, of the city electric
light plant, not ]. B. Marshall of the
band-then-was at the fair grounds
this morning and located the L or Is
arc lamps that will be used during the
Reunion. There will be a kick about
it," he says, because we will be COM
PEELED to take the lamps from other
places in town. We haven't lamps
enough"
a Topeka man who donated IS to the
Fail Festival is mad now and says the
Festival is a robbery and a skin game
because he viii have to pay IS more
for q license to sell his wares on the
grounds during the Reunion. A great
many men put up five and ten times
that amount who don't expect to sell a
thing during that week and don't
grumble about it, either.
A woman from near Lawrence drove
to Topeka yesterday and decided to
stay all night. She had her son with
her and drove around to Police Matron
Thorpe's home and demanded shelter
and food for herself, her son and her
horse. OF course Mrs. Thorpe refused
it. ''Well, that's a pretty howdy-do,
I must say" snapped the woman. IF
you ever come down to Lawrence III
see that you are taught how to treat
strangers decently."
Corn Ten Cents a BusheL
Garden City, Sept. 17.-Charles Peck.