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

tail stool in front of the telephone in
the Commercial club rooms, for use
when he is talking through the tele-
phone. He has no copyright on the
plan.
Secretary Coburn has been invited to
attend the August meeting of the Com
mercial club next Wednesday evening,
at which the subject Of a semi-centen-
NAL exposition will be taken up, and he
has been asked to give his views on the
! subject.
A bad piece of business was the
stretching Of a wire between the iron
posts at the north and south entrance
to the state house grounds yesterday.
Many people riding bicycles struck the
wire last night and received severe
falls.
E. B. Martin. who was arrested We'd
| nesday in the northwest part of the
state by Deputy United States Marshal
Prescott, for sending improper matter
through the mails, was brought to To-
peka last evening and released under
$500 bond.
The Kaw has done more rising and
falling this year than it has before for
a long time, owing to the continued
rains. One week it is up and the next
week it is down Just now it is going
down and the sand bars are becoming
prominent.
If bicyclists would put forth their
energies toward the building of a. little
narrow cinder path along the sides of
some of the principal unpaved streets,
/ it would prove far more satisfactory to
! the people at large. This is what is
i done in most cities.
The next public meeting of the Social
! Reform union will be held August 81,
at which the subject of direct legisla-
ton win be taken up. Mrs. Diggs will
+ present the arguments in favor of the
measure and George 3. Harrison will
present those against it.
J. C. Wood has been appointed guar
dian of Rose kennedy, the old creole
woman who was declared insane a few
/ days go. She will receive about 5000
! back pension and is too weak minded
] to care for herself. The appointment
was made on the application of P. H.
/ Coney.
| A crowd of piraticaI young men at
/ tempted to wreck the cruiser Topeka
| while it was being removed to the lower
! floor of the state house. The state
house employees defended the boat with
! hand-Spikes and clubs, saving the day
/ and winning a victory over the insur-
! gents.
Frank Sheldon, now living in Kansas
| City, won the championship in tennis
| singles at the tournament here last
/ year. He is to enter again this year.
! A letter received from one of the pros
| pective out OF town players IN the
I tournament states that Sheldon will be
/ protested if he enters.
Frank Hoffman has sued William
| Thompson, Nellie Thompson and Eliza
! beth Mckee, the heirs Of Joseph Leten-
! DIRE, to quiet the title TO a quarter sec
! ton of land which he owns. He pur-
| chased the land during Letendre's life
/ time, but it is claimed that there is
some irregularity in the transaction
When vehicles returning from Gar
field park are blocked at the Union Pa
| cif1c crossing in North Topeka a. mad
! rush always results as soon as the train
/ passes. In the rush Thursday night
! several accidents were narrowly avert
I ed. One bicyclist was struck by a
/ buggy and thrown to one side, but was
| not seriously hurt.
Major Anderson made some liniment
for his lame foot after recipe given
him by a friend the other night, and
after he put the liniment on he spent
three hours in trying to get it off. He
used every known remedy to keep the
stuff from blistering him. Before he
tries any more neW-fangled liniments
he will experiment with them on the
person recommending them.
It is said that some of the property
owners on Tyler street who object to
the paving of the street between Elev-
enth and Twelfth are thinking of bring
ing an action in the district court to
test the validity of the law passed by
the last legislature giving the city
council the right to pave one block,
when there is paving on each side of
it, whether a majority of the residents
agree to it or not. 1t is about time for
the injunction factory to again begin
work