The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-27

/ week AFTER spending a FacaIlOn Win us
family in New Mexico
| The Topeka Athletic association is cons
sidering the matter of moving into the
store room recently vacated by the To-
| peka Wholesale Grocery Co.
| W. S. Eberle, of the Trust Company of
| America, is at the head of movement
| for the organization of signal corps to
| be attached to the K. N. G.
| Roy Putnam, formerly with the bridge
and building department of the Santa Fe,
| will leave next week for st. Louis to take
| position in the state grain inspection
/ office.
| The Scottish Rite Masons hold their
| semi-annual reunion in Topeka, Novem-
| Der 9, 10, IL and Il and will confer all the
| degrees from the fourth to the thirty
second.
G. H. Harris has been appointed justice
| of the peace for Deer Creek township,
| Allen county, to fill the vacancy caused
| by the removal of B. K. Montgomery
| from the county.
Secretary Adams of the State Histori-
| cal society says that Kansas was spelled
Kanzas until the passage of the Kansas
Nebraska bill, when for some reason the
| spelling now in was used.
| A clock that was taken to a jeweIer
Festival week of last year was returned
| to the owner this week with message
| saying that the jeweler was busy that
he could not find time to work on it.
At the south bank of the river directly
| in front of the south abutment of the old
bridge strong spring has been pouring
forth water and washing away the fills
which have been made at this point
Every organization that puts a float in
| the night parades of Festival week should
see to it that it is provided with plenty of
| colored fire. 1t won't do to depend on
| the street illumination to light it up.
There will be a meeting at Zane's hall
| tomorrow night for the purpose of dis
| cussing plans for the Improvement of
NChesney Square" All citizens interested
| in the park are requested to be present.
The county commissioners will make a
| final decision about the retaining wall
around the court house next Tuesday.
| The wall should be built at once and it
should be in keeping with the building.
Secretary F. D. Coburn of the state
| board of agriculture delivered an address
| yesterday before the old settlers reunion
| at Yates Center, which was attended by
| the farmers of four or five adjoining
| counties.
| Yesterday Peter GruhaIge, a Mormon
| elder his way from Tennessee to Utah,
/ was taken off Santa Fe train and taken
! in Knights ambulance to the Salvation
| ARMY nOSpild1. ne WAS very III Will ~
| phoid fever.
| The Crawford Opera House is being
| renovated and repaired preparatory to the
| opening of the season with the engage
| ment of the Dan A. Stuart veriscope ex-
| hibition of the t-Fitzsimmons fight
| during Festival week.
| 1t costs just 81 to disobey Police Judge
| Atchison's subpoenas. Sam Merritt, the
| old man from North Topeka, who was ar
| rested the charge of contempt of
| court, fined 81 yesterday for failing
| to appear in a liquor trial
| All the local undertakers complain of
poor business and say that they attribute
| the cause to the fact that the people are
| waiting for the Fall Festival. 1t will be
| just the same after the Festival for the
people will want to wait for the one in
| 1898.
| Gazing upon crowd of newspaper re-
| porters sitting in the jury box at EN-
| poria yesterday listening to the argus
ment in the injunction case, old farm
| er exclaimed: by gosh, we won't get
! anything from that jury. They amt "a
| farmer or stockman among EN-"
| Patrolman Frank Sommers has been
| suspended from the police force pending
| an investigation by the police board.
| Wednesday evening at the grocers' picnic
| he and ex-Policeman B. F. Kidney had a
| quarrel and fight. Chief Steele heard of
! it and took Sommers off duty. Sommers
was in full uniform.
| A Burlingame young man who recently
| made a visit to the Topeka insane asylum
| got into the old horse car at the end of
| the asylum trolley line, which is used as
| a waiting room, thinking that it was an
| electric car He sat for twenty-five min
utes before he discovered his mistake.
! The first society of Spiritualists gave a
| social last night. There was large at
| tendance. The entertainment consisted
| of songs and recitations followed by a
| short address by ]. C. Mobius, the single
| tax advocate. Ice cream and dancing
| then occupied an extended interval, the
| evening closing with cake walk, Miss
| Inez Matheny and VIII Goodwin secur-
| ing the prizes.
A hydraulic sand dredge is at work east
| of the old bridge and near the south bank
| of the river pumping water and sand
| through long troughs to point south of
| the new abutment of the bridge. This was
a place where the river was deepest. By
| this work the sand has been deposited in
| the water until an island has been formed
and it will serve as a base on which the
ssfll'' from the south bank to the south
abutment of the new bridge will be made.
A Colorado Summer
Differs from summers elsewhere. The
altitude of Colorado is one to three
The Rocky Mountains of Colordo are
~, q 0pidcent To be ont of doors in this