The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-06

was state auditor of Kansas a few
years ago, is now assistant auditor of
Oklahoma
The people who followed their usual
custom of DOMINIC light clothing on the
first of May are regretting their haste
these chilly mornings
The statement that James Harr was
arrested for selling liquor at III East
Sixth street was a mistake 1t was his
son Erne who was arrested
It was the Bankers Mutual Insurance
company of Des Mofnes, and not the
Bankers Life, with which Superintend-
ent Church was having trouble.
Elm trees are beginning to be the
popular shade trees in Topeka A row
of large elnns on Harrison street causes
many property owners to be envfous-
Bishop Vincent will preach the bacca-
laureate sermon to the graduating class
of the Topeka high school at the First
Methodist church Sunday morning
The Boston Globe has Joined in BOOM
ing Gen. Funston for vice president on
the ticket with Governor Roosevelt
''Hurrah for Ted and Fred" says the
Globe
Ex-Secretary of State W. C Edwards
has returned from a trip south and east
and says that Gen. Funston's praises
are being sung even more than those Of
Roosevelt
The postofice vault which was locked
by accident on Thursday was opened
L
never be locked again-it was wrecked
in getting the door open
The territory of Oklahoma owes the
state of Kansas about $50. 900 for the
care of prisoners in the Kansas peniten-
tiary. The prisoners are cared for at
the rate of 35 cents a day
Rev. Joseph F. Flint of Harvey, III,
will lecture on Living and Dying Ma
lions, or the Effects of Social Vice Upon
Nations and Individuals at the 7. NJ.
C A rooms Sunday afternoon
\ team hftched to bakery wagon ran
away on West Sixth street yesterday
evening and scattered bread along the
pavement for some distance. No dam
age resulted. except to the bread.
NeIs Mcconnell. whose term of office
has made an excellent record during
his term of service There are few
owners of CANNES who escaped his eagle
eye
The city jail has been scrubbed and
fumigated- It needed it. It's like cook
ing cabbage in a house. The only way
to thoroughly fumigate the house after
wards is to burn it down and bury the
ashes.
Seven printers. who were locked out
of the Woody printing establishment at
Kansas City because OF trouble over
wages last Monday, have secured posi-
lions with the Geo. w Crane company
in this city.
1nArIeS a = HaTT1S, OF Dan God
Gey's British Guards band, has written
General FunstOn's March," which will
be played for the first time by the God
frey band at the Kansas City conyen-
ton hall on May 30
A man who paid the water company
$50 for the privilege Of using water on
his lawn two months said: Il suppose
things will go on this way until the
council gets move on itself and the
city gets the water plant
Kansas is getting a great deal of first
class advertising out Of the interview
with John w Breidenthal which VIII
liam E Curtis printed in the Chicago
Record a few days ago It il being re-
printed and commented on all over the
United States.
Some of the country papers are hop
ing that the Twentieth Kansas will get
home before the nominating conven-
tons next fall so that the soldier boys
may be run for the county offices. 1t
looks as though Twentieth Kansas