The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-09

be paving much attention to the small
pOx cases near Rochester cemetery. but
if the disease should become epidemic
they would all be telling what ought to
have been done in the beginning to pre-
vent its spreading.
Major Anderson says he saw corn
stalks while he was at the Wathena
assembly last Sunday that were 1917
feet high. He says there was a ten
foot fence beside the grounds and a
corn field, and the corn stood up nearly
twice as high as the fence.
Sam RadgeS owns the rifle that kill
ed the first man at the opening of Ok
lahoma a few years ago. He obtained
it from the United States marshal who
got possession of it Immediately after
the killing. Mr.. RadgeS keeps it hang
ing on his wall among his other relics.
A trolley wire broke at Seventh street
and Kansas avenue Tuesday evening
about o'clock, but the plant was saved
from shutting down by the smallest
conductor on the line. He tied his reg
lister strap around the live wire and
held it off the pavement until the re-
pairers arrived.
Kansas City Journal: u. P. Upde-
graft, one of the best known horsemen
in the west, was here yesterday from
his home in Topeka. He left last
start the races. Mr.. Updegraff said
that there We're no less than 400 trotters
and PAGERS at 1Iedrick.
A Topeka Sunday school teacher a
snort time ago was teacn1nS the lesson
about the Babylonian king who was
weighed in the balance and found
wanting" Does anyone know what
scales are?'' asked the teacher. Il do
piped one little shaver in a shrill voice.
They are what comes on fshes.'
It is said that the friends of Will Mes
bit, an Atchison young man who was
sent to the insane asylum here a few
weeks ago, have practically given up all
hope of his recovery He Will talk "a
tiOnally for a few minutes and then be-
come violent or dazed. Mr.. Nesbit
stood high IN social circlea in Atchison
before he lost his mind.
During these hot days the teamsters
hauling rock, brick and other heavy
material ought to arrange to do their
hauling early in the morning or in the
evening, and not make the horses do SO
much hard work during the hottest part
Tuesday, as if they were almost ex-
hausted from having to work in the hot
sun.
The nerve of Kansas City is simply
appalling. 1t has asked the Topeka
Commercial club to help make a big
thing of the Kansas City street fair.
A letter has just been received by Sec
rotary Anderson stating that if any of
the officers of the club happen in Kan
sas City, the officers of the street fair
would be glad to talk with them about
exhibiting.
Rev.J d. Countermine and Mrs. Coun-
ternine expect TO go on a European and
Asiatic tour next year. leaving Topeka
in February. They will go with a par
ty of eastern friends, and will visit
Egypt, the Holy Land, and other points
which interest them in the far east, and
on their return will stop at the Paris
exposition. They expect to be gone
about six months.
A new building to cost about IS, 500
will soon be erected near the Santa Fe
tracks just south of Fifth street for
the use of the Wells Fargo Express
company. The building will be modern
in every respect and will contain sew
eraI office rooms in addition to the ware
house. The building will be one story
high, 40 by 60 feet in dimensions and
will probably be built on the site of the
present building now being occupied by
the company.
Deputy Probate Judge Garrard was
surprised when he went home a few
days ago to find that the paint had been
taken off his porch in spots. On exam