The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-22

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| trying to go through the iron posts at
! the south entrance of the state house.
His efforts resulted disastrously.
A o. Rosser, the druggist at Tenth
and Topeka avenues, last evening took
in a silver dollar coined in 1872, and
now he is wondering what it is worth.
| It is said that an 1904 dollar is worth
| $1,000.
It would appear that one of the use
| less tasks nowadays would be to try
to sell heating furnaces and brag on
how much heat they will make, yet
| agents already have furnaces on the
market.
Arkansas City Traveller: The trouble
| the family club at Topeka is hav-
I ing to find a name is a very small mat
ter as compared with the time it will
have when it begins to hunt around
for a cook.
Willie Coe, son of Jud Coe of the San
ia Fe shops, is again able to be out
after being dragged short distance by
his runaway pony. He has sold the
get a bicycle.
Several horses have been taken from
barns in the vicinity of Twelfth street
and Topeka avenue and driven during
the early hours of the morning recent
". Owners are now keeping close
watch on their stables.
A Topeka young man recently went
to party and the lady of the house
sent for their hired man and ordered
him to clean the young mans dusty
shoes This was a lesson which the
guest will not soon forget.
One feature and a good one, which
characterizes the many new houses
which have been erected in Topeka this
year, is that a large per cent of the
builders had their own money to use
and did not have to borrow.
This is the time of year when any
one who raises an extra large vegeta-
BILE, brings it to the newspaper office
for a notice and claims to have raised
the biggest one on record. This sort of
rivalry is a yearly occurrence.
Advertising car No. 1, of the Sells
and Forepaugh show, has been in the
Santa Fe shops for the past few days
for repairs. 1t was turned out last
night and will be Immediately put on
the road advertising the show.
The low lots just north of the Stevens
industrial school in South Topeka are
to be filed in in the near future, in
accordance with the resolution intro
duced by Councilman Roundtree at the
council meeting last week.
When Syl Dixon's flour train went
through Topeka it was said that the
band which it carried was an Okla
hOma band. 1t has leaked out now
that the band was from Winfield, and
was simply disguised as from Okla
homa.
A ten-mile horse race by two Topeka
young ladies, a chariot race and ma
neuvers by a troop of horsemen in imi-
viii be among the features provided for
the entertainment of the old soldiers
at the state reunion here.
The Flambeau club is fighting the
confirmation of George Matthews as a
member of the school board to succeed
Ira o. Howe. It is claimed Matthews
is a POpulist which would naturally
incapacitate him from performing any
public service, so it is argued.
George Sharitt, clerk of the United
nfr RI al
away during the hot months for va
cation, but he has come to the conclu-
sion that he will be just as comfortable
at home as anywhere else, so he will
take his outing at home this year.
A Topeka man let his wife make her
first visit home recently since their
marriage. He was under the impress
sion that she would be so hOmeSick Cor
him that she would come back inside of
a week, but she fooled him by staying
a month and wanted to stay longer.
The docket of the court of appeals
for the November term will have on
it three old liquor cases, those of Nick
Chiles, Albert Johnson and ''Shep"
Lyle. Nick Chiles' case has been on
the docket ever since the June 1898
term. Are the officers afraid to try
Nick?
Buffalo" Jones walked into the State
Journal office today with the scalp of a
monstrous musk OK which he killed
north of the Arctic Circle. Still some
of the reviewers of his book doubt
whether he was ever in the far north.
He will have the scalp mounted by
Prof Dyche.
There is a family living on the east
side of the city, which turns all the
wash water just out of the back door
on a little hill which slopes to the well.
They are always paying doctor bills,
but don't seem to know that they are
being continually sick from drinking
that well water.
A policeman was called to the Shun-
ganunga not long ago to arrest half a
dozen boys for being in swimming
When he arrived there and found the
boys were half a dozen girls, he made
tracks for the police station and an
nounced that he would resign before he
would arrest them.
Mr. Wilson L. Gordon, of 229 Van Bur-
en- street, is given more space in the
Topeka directory than any other To-
pela man. Opposite his name is the
following: Animated encyclopaedia of
mundane and moondane philosophy,
champion high five player, oracle of the
st. Auanias club, etc"
RObley e. Heller, a former Topeka
man, has written a drama dealing with
Christ and His time which has been
titled "Zebedee." Mr.. Heller is we'll
known here, and at one time served
as clerk of the district court. He is
now living with his parents in Abing-
don, Ill
At the meeting of the G. A. r. com
mittee of arrangements Monday night
several North Topeka old soldiers at
tempted to convince the members of
the committee that the location of the
state reunion should be changed from
the fair grounds to Garfield park. The
committee decided, however, to make
no change.
Capt. A M. Fuller of the Rock Island
passenger department is one of the