The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-20
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Emporia plays baseball in Topeka
| Thursday.
| Detective Jas. Kesson has assumed his
new duties.
| General Superintendent Nudge of the
| Santa Fe is in Chicago.
The Topeka Turn Verin will give a
! concert tomorrow evening.
| Horse races will be given at the fair
grounds on Friday, July 80
Governor Leedy addressed the Reform
Press association in Emporia last night.
| Chewing gum can now be bought all the
way from one to four packages for five
| cents.
D. o. McCray's new residence at Four
teenth and Topeka avenue, is nearing
completion.
Mr.. Ed Pugh of the Reel furnishing
store, will leave this week for Denver on
three weeks vacation.
Mr. Victor spahnberg, of the engineer.
ing department of the Santa Fe is spend
ing few days in Chicago.
Topeka Chapter, No. 5, Royal Arch Ma
sons, will confer the Mark Master degree
this evening on J. E. Larimer.
The Topeka baseball team will go to
Downs, July q to play exhibition game
with Atchison for a purse of $50.
The new main track of the Santa Fe, ex-
tending from Fourth street to the starch
factory, will be completed this week.
The American Volunteers have 200 posts
in the United States with 700 officers VINO
devote their entire time to the work
The second of the extra dancing parties
for the benefit of the Floral fund will be
given at the wooden mill tomorrow night.
Governor Leedy has appointed John
Tucker, of Johnson county to be sheriff
of Stanton county, vice ]. H. Taylor, re-
signed.
The Sons of the American Revolution
will meet in regular quarterly session to-
morrow in the rooms of the state his
torical society.
Mr.. Harry Purdon, Santa Fe engineer
at La Plata, Mo-. is visiting his brother,
G. D. Purdon, assistant principal engineer
of the Santa Fe of this city.
The latest moterman of the Topeka
railway has a run the Washburn col
lege line, while the most corpulent con-
ductor is on the Garfield Park line.
Two of the prettiest dances in "Cinder-
ella" are the tambourine dance and the
ribbon dance. The young ladies who take
part in these dances were drilled by Mrs.
H. w. Daily.
Said Chief Steele in regard to the pro-
OCSNiASo " OS lIlSO III TIE supreme curt
to GUST him from office: ct am not wor-
rying over it a bit. If they put me out
1 can make living. I don't care what
they do
On account of the production of "Cin-
derella" today, Weathermaker Jennings
took extra precautions last night that it
shouldn't rain. He hung his rubber coat
on the clothes line and left his umbrella
on the front porch.
The tone" of this years carnival is to
be distinctly elevated if all plans are car
ried out. No powder blowing or striking
of people with inflated intestine skins is
to be permitted and peddlers selling them
on the street will be arrested
Whitehead, Hoag and Company of Ne
wark, N. J., will get the contract for fur
nishing the Topeka carnival buttons. They
are the largest button manufacturer in
the United States. and furnished the
! High Roller buttons last year.
]. N Bradshaw. who was one of the
proprietors of a joint on East Fourth
street. yesterday pleaded guilty in police
court to selling liquor and was fined 500.
Will this give him license to continue
in the business for two months?
w. ]. Healy, chief clerk in the office
of auditor of freight receipts of the Santa
Fe, has returned from Spring Lake Mich.
where he accompanied his family: Mrs.
Healy and the children will remain at
Spring Lake during the remainder of the
summer.
The following persons have been COM
missioned notaries by Governor Leedy:
Bertha E. Mulvey. Ellis; Bessie Myers,
Lawrence: ]. T. Silver. Minneapolis; W.
NJ. Orsbourn, WellsvilIe; Alexander Walk
err Alexander; Geo. w. Martindale, En-
poria; Ross H. Broohead, Lawrence; Mel
vim S. Howard, Dana.
Mr.. H. V. Hinckley of this city, has
been granted a patent for apparatus
for determining the speed of flow of I'M
foreground water in the various sands and
gravels and with various rates of fall per
mile. This patent is the result of several
years of study and experimentation
the movement of the ''underf1ow."
The telephone cable at the southwest
corner of Eighth and Kansas avenue is
being repaired. At this point some of the
wires inside it became grounded"
| Measurements were made from the ter
| mini of the cable with electrical instru-
ments and the exact location of the
| ground" found. when the cable was op-
| ened and repaired