The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-04


Don F. Willis, office deputy in the
United States marsha1's Office, has
moved his family to 1131 Tyler street.
He has been residing on Taylor street.
When it is not muddy travel is very
heavy out on West Fifth street. People
prefer Fifth to Sixth avenue, because
the paving blocks on Sixth are so rough
Mr.. B. Huxtable,a Rock Island brake
man OF Pratt, Kan, is at the Stormont
hospital IN this city, seriously III. He
will probably have to undergo an Oper-
alton.
There were a great many crickets
around the electric lights last night. In
some places the sidewalks underneath
were almost completely covered with
them.
Alfred Caufman, a well known colored
man of Lawrence, is in the city max
ing arrangements for a big colored jul
bilee in connection with the G.. A. r.
reunion.
The Democratic city central commit
tee will meet at the flambeau hall to-
night at 30 Kansas avenue. Business
of Importance will come up for cons1d-
Grafton
A Topeka man who has had expert
ence says that large heads do not al
ways indicate an abundance Of brains:
the man may have been out the night
before.
Wathena Chautauqua to sing tOmor-
row. The rest of them will go Sunday,
accompanied by a large number OF To-
peka people.
Ex-Mayor T. W. Harrison and
Speaker-tO-be Henderson are Old-time
personal friends. Congressman Hender-
son recently sent his latest photograph
to Col. Harrison.
The man who carefully shuts the door
when he enters your Office now is the
same one who will leave it wide open
next winter when the thermometer is
down to zero.
Sheriff Cook left last night for Beloit
where he took three girls to be placed
in the girls industrial school The girls
were Pearl Shay, Nellie May Smith and
Mary A. Smith.
Major Anderson's daughter who is on
the stage, May Anderson Trestrail, is
theater in Toronto. She is with a
stock company.
The painting of the fisherman which
hangs in the Commercial club rooms
attracts considerable attention. It is
one of the best pictures ever painted
by a Topeka artist.
There is a little girl on the west side
who goes home as fast as her little feet
will carry her whenever she hears a
church bell ring. She has an idea that
every bell is a curfew.
Bank Commissioner BreidenthaI has
gone down to Chanute on business con-
nected with his office. He will also
speak at the Allen county Populist con-
Vention while he ds away.
There has not been nearly as much
dust on the unpaved streets this year
as is usual during the summer. There
has been too much rain to allow the
streets to become dusty.
These are the kind Of evenings that
people sit out under their vines and fig
trees, if they have any, far into the
night, rather than go to bed and try to
sleep without succeeding.
The visitors who are coming to To-
peka for the tennis tournament next
week desire to carry all Of the prizes
out of town. This will be resisted with
vigor by the Topeka players.
Salina has put up a. guarantee fund
of IS, 900 for Pains Battle of Manila for
her street fair. Topeka paid $500 for an
attraction with the same name last
fall and it was dear at that price.
One of the elm trees on the east side
of the court house grounds is dying. It
is supposed that too much dirt was
taken away from the roots of the tree
when the grounds were fixed up.
81 think I will take a month off" re-
marked a Topeka man today as he
glanced at his calendar and saw July
still staring him in the face. And reach
ing up he took it off at one"fel sWoop."
Two Topeka young women went driv-
ing over the river one day this week
and got lost in a corn field. They were
following a supposed road which term
mated in walls of corn and a wire fence.
The man who has to work out of
doors during InlS KIM OF weather en-
vieS those who can sit inside, while the
fellows inside wish they could get out
and go fishing. People are never salts
fed.
A Topeka man claims to have discov-
cred that the average length of the
natural life of a fly is thirty days, not
counting those which come to an I'M
timely end by falling into the gravy
dish.
Fltweed Pomeroy. who is at the head
of the Direct Legislation League of the
United States, and who planned the re-
cent Buffalo conference of reformers,
will deliver an address in Topeka some
time this fall
There is an Emancipation celebration
at Lake View today. participated in
principally by Lawrence cOlOred people,
although few from Topeka are in at
tendance. The Dispatch band will fur
nish the music.
It is harder than usual to keep the al
leys clean this year because it has been
so wet that there has been a greater
tendency than usual to decay. The al
leys should be kept as clean as possible
on that account.
County Surveyor Rogers, who has
just returned from the Indian Terri
tory, says the Greek Indians are en-
thusiastic in their praise of Congress-
man Curtis on account of his work in
congress in their behalf.
It is almost invariably the case that
people returning from band concerts at
Garfield park find train blocking
Kansas avenue at the Union Pacific de-
pot. Thursday night the crowd was
kept waiting fifteen minutes.
Billy Morgan is mean enough to inti-
mate that Topeka's increase in popula-
ton is due to the fact that the census
was taken on March l while the legisla-
ture was in session and while the city
was overrun with Officeseekers.
These are dog days, the season of the
year when dogs are supposed to be more
liable to go mad than at any other time
However, &. dog is just as liable to go
mad at any other time as a human be-
ing is to go insane.
Nearly every street fair and corn car