The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-10


two weeks stay in Mexico.
Gardeners use too much paris-green in
their garden patches to kill grub worms
that in preparing vegetables it is neces-
sary to wash them thoroughly.
The contract has been let for the con-
struction of the Floral Queens float 1t
will be similar in design to the Lady
Slipper float at the Los Angeles fiesta.
1t is reported that Harry Bone is so
confident of being appointed deputy Uni
ted States attorney by I. E. Lambert that
he is now making arrangements to move
to Topeka.
The bridge contractors say that the new
Kansas avenue bridge will be completed
near enough by Fall Festival time to al
low of people crossing it on foot but nat
with teams.
d. A. Clements of the Clements Cloth
ing Co., left today for Chicago and New
York to make a personal selection in buy
ing fall goods for the company, of which
he is manager.
William Mosier has sued his wife, Net
tie Mosier, for divorce. He says they
were married in 1894 and she abandoned
him a month ago. The usual poverty affi-
davit is filed with the case.
Dr.. Brownfield, the nations healer"
has been discovered. He is running a ball
game at Minneapolis and distinguished
himself one day last week by throwing a
drunken man over the fence.
One of the pretty foliage beds in the
city is located at the residence of NJ. A.
Low, Thirteenth am Fillmore streets. A
dark red star is bordered with yellow foil
age, forming complete wheel.
People living on East Fifth street are
wondering whether the space where the
| old street car tracks were will ever be
repaired. This is the next thing for the
council to get after. Asphalt ought to be
| put in.
| Dave Leahy, correspondent of the Kan
| sas City Times, has moved his family
| from Wichita to Topeka. He owns three
| houses in Wichita and says he will be
| well pleased if he can rent all of them
| for enough to pay for one house in To-
| peka.
Superintendent Gaines of the bridge
| construction, says that the mail wagons
| will have to cease racing across the old
| Kansas avenue bridge. The old struc-
| ture is pretty feeble and the bridge con-
| tractors don't want it to fall before their
| bridge is built.
Clinton ]. Evans of this city is new
| supporter of the theory of single tax from
| the platform. Following ]. R. Herman $
| speech at Sixth and Kansas avenue last
night Mr.. Evans made lengthy talk up
1 on the subject and endorsed it to the full
est possible extent.
G. H. Edgerton, the postal clerk injured
| in the Santa Fe collision yesterday morn
| ing, has returned to his home in Ottawa.
| A free entertainment for the purpose of
| working up interest in the A. P. A. was
| given under the auspices of that order
| at Lincoln Post hall last night.
| A Topeka woman who leaves soon for
| the east on an extended tour is working
| industriously each evening in riding tan
| dem, qualifying herself for rides Chi
| Cages boulevards and through the parks
of New York, Philadelphia, Buffalo and
Boston.
The funniest thing about Colorado is
that 1T has place. called Manhattan
| Beach. There isn't anything in the ma
| ture of a beach within 1000 miles of
| Colorado. New Jersey might as well call
| one of her sand tumuli Pixies Peak. Orig
| inality in naming is not an American
| characteristic.
Police Matron Thorpe says of punish
ment of children: There are parents in
| this town about cruel as they can be.
| If they were to be given one blow by any
| one such as they administer their little
| children, they would have the inf1ictor
| thrust into Jail. There are ways of cor
recting children without assaulting their
| little bodies"
The Topeka tennis team. which went to
| Emporia yesterday afternoon to take
| part in the state tennis tournament, en-
tertained the entire town last night with
| vocal and instrumental music from the
parlors of the Hotel Whitley. Dana Nc
| Vicar the baritone of the team, received
| seven encores on his song, ooh, Don't
Know; You're Not So Warm
The man killed by train at Garrett a
| few days ago turns out to be T. E. Fire
| stone, who used to live at Auburn, this
| county. He was a well-to-do bachelor
| farmer and suddenly went insane year
| ago. He was sent to the asylum but soon
/ escaped and was never recaptured. 1t is
| supposed that he has been wandering
| over the country ever since as his friends
and relatives have never heard from him.
! The body was identified by Porter Cook,
| who was his guardian.
TWO BAD WRECKS.