The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-19

tary of the produce dealers association
of Kansas and Oklahoma, which met in |
Kansas City Thursday.
Web Wilder will enter the tennis
tournament to be held on the Dyktng-
ton courts in Kansas City during the
first week in September
The merchants of Topeka will meet
Monday evening to discuss plans for
taking part in the entertainment of the
Twentieth Kansas soldiers.
There is so much building going on
in Topeka now that the loafers have
got tired of standing around and tell
ing how it ought to be done.
Mr.. J. S. Hobson, signal engineer of
the Santa Fe, is in Colorado arranging
interlocking plants at Santa Fe and
Colorado Southern connections.
woman living in Russell, Kansas,
will marry a man who will call her
honey" There is a lot of men in To-
peka who could if they would.
Judge Guthrie says that during his
recent trip out into Jefferson county he
passed between walls of corn nearly
all of the "A miles that he Travelled.
The superintendent of the fair
grounds, Samuel POttenger, makes an
earnest effort to prevent trespassers
from invading the track or grounds.
G. L. Seagraves, travelling agent of
the Santa Fe, is making a tour of the
state in the interest of the official train
to the national G. A. r. encampment-
Captain j. g. Waters pitched morse
shoes last night for the first time in
twenty years, and he proved he had a
good memory as well as an excellent
nerve.
The office plentifully Supplied with
electric fans and the one situated next
to the air shaft in a tall building vie
with each other in popularity these
days.
Next month will be the popular time
for people to go on their vacation.
! Those who have gone so far have just
got the rest in the proper frame OF
mind.
W. S. Morse, who has been trying to
arrange a state checker tournament for
this city, has given up the scheme. He
found the checker players would not
| respond.
Miranda J. Thompson has begun di-
vorce proceedings against her husband,
! SyIvanus z. Thompson. She wants her
maiden name, Miranda J. Robbins, re-
stored to her.
Chief of Police Ramsey has lost his
badge. 1t is not solid gold, but if some
one will find it and return the same, it
will save him the trouble of having
another made.
There is no excuse for smoking a
poor cigar, when the Gath, the best
| five cent cigar ever sold, can be pro-
cured at A. T. Waggoner's, No. 731
Kansas avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. James E. Burgett form
ally adopted Irene Sorren in the pro-
bate court yesterday afternoon. The
child was a baby which has been in the
! Topeka orphans home.
Sheriff Lambertz, of Mitchell coun-
ty, brought another patient to the in
sane asylum Thursday. He has been
making trips of this kind nearly every
week for some time past.
The east entrance to the state house
does not impress visitors favorably. 1t
is too grimy and smoky looking. There
should be an effort made to change the
popular entrance to the north.
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a home not, it will interest you to
examine the Topeka Reality Cos for
sale list in another part of this paper;
that list will help educate you.
The train load Of eggs that will start
east in a short time from Topeka will
be the largest shipment of eggs of
which there is any record. They will
come from different parts of Kansas.
A. J. Whitmore, chief clerk in the Of
fee of the secretary of state, is at his
home in Washington, today, attending
the county convention. He is secretary
of the Republican county committee.
Topeka will be the laughing stock of
the state if the obstructionists are al
lowed to defeat the city hall PROPOSE
ton. Don't neglect to register and
then vote for the best interests Of your
city.
D. w. Boutwell,, who lives four miles
west of Topeka, still has a claim be-
fore the war department for $4,000 for
extra hazardous services performed in
bearing dispatches during the Price
raid.
The remains of c. H. Thompson. who
was killed by a train at Lyman, were
brought to this city to0ay. The fun
eral will be held from the residence of
Mrs. Jennie Rawson, 412 Topeka ave-
nue.
Now that there is a prospect that
golf links will be laid at the fair
grounds, golf vOcabularies will be in
great demand in Topeka. Here is an
opportunity for some enterprising indi-
vidual.
Industrial Commissioner Davis has
written to Leavenworth for informa-
ton concerning it's business interests.
Possibly the Santa Fe means to at
tempt to inject some life into the
town.
The August number of 1.-The Poultry
West" gives Mr.. Charles Steinberger of
North Topeka credit for one of the
largest incubator matches" of the sea-
son. Out of 100 eggs he secured SO
chickens.
Deputy County Clerk Swayze is call
ed upon to do the lettering on the new
army commissions that Governor Stan
ley has just issued. There seem to be
no one at the state house who can do
| lettering.
The Horton Headlight announces
that the Hiawatha fire department has
decided to attend the iremen's tourn-
ament in Topeka. So far there has
been no talk of a firemen's tournament
in this city.
Word has been received at the Santa
Fe offices in this city that the COM
pany depot at Oxford, a small station
near Wellington, was broken into
Thursday night. Nothing was secured
by the burglars.
The Hurd building on Kansas ave-
nue. viii be the first building in To-
/ peka to be furnished with the new
| luminous glass. The glass has the
power of rejecting light into the inter
! ior of a room.
Despite the fact that Attorney Gen
| eral GODDARD says he will make no war
| on the trusts. Governor Stanley is nlan-