The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-27

heavier than at any time in the past /
ten years.
It is less than three weeks until the
Republican state convention will meet |
in Topeka
J. H. Hamilton is in town calling on
the railroads in the interest of a Chi
cago firm.
Three of a Kind" which was booked
for the Crawford theater April 80, has
cancelled
Thursday afternoon the police destroy
ed the liquor stored in the basement of
the city Jail.
Rev. F. Seamen, of the Oakland NJ. E.
church, conducted services at the Santa
Fe shops Thursday.
Pension day comes week after next,
and the old soldiers are looking anx-
iously forward to it
DR.. D. NJ. Fisk, pastor of the First
Congregational church, will lecture at
Independence tonight.
A meeting will be held at the old
court house Tuesday night to form a
National Guard company.
]. W. Bell is suffering from injuries
received by a vicious horse, which
struck him with its fore feet.
The portico over the sidewalk in front
of the Kansas avenue entrance of the
National hotel is now being built.
No more poll tax will be collected I'M
| til Judge Hazen has heard the applica-
| ton for a temporary injunction.
The ice cream wagons have appeared.
/ Fred Pernell has sold out his plumb
ing business and will go to Paris.
The work of taking down the big rock
from the cornice of the federal building
| attracts a great deal Of attention.
Col. E. c. Little will deliver an ad-
| dress at the dinner of the Knife and
| Fork club in Kansas City tonight.
| T. T. Taylor, chief clerk of the railway
mail service, with headquarters at Kan
sas City, was in Topeka yesterday
A. H. Moff1t, general Southwestern
! Passenger association agent of the Rock
| Island, was in Topeka Thursday.
An alley is to be opened by the city
/ running north from Fairchild street be-
| tween Madison and Jefferson streets
A w. Hopkins of the police force may
| become merchants policeman the first
of May. He is considering the change.
Judge Hook will go to Kansas City
next week to hold federal court for
Judge Phillips, who is suffering from
i'll health.
Donald, the four-year- old son of D. E.
Griswold, of 1901 East Eighth avenue,
fell Thursday evening and broke his leg
above the knee.
cert at Arion hall tonight. The Column
bian phonagraph and German band will
be on programme.
LIE Moyne Moffet, travelling passenger
agent of the Rock Island, with head
: | quarters in Kansas City, was a Topeka
visitor Thursday.
President Herrick, of Washburn, will
deliver the address before the gradu-
ating class of the Usage City high
school next Tuesday.
The city council has ordered the paw
ing of Harrison street from Eleventh
south to Huntoon. The paving will be
, thirty-five feet wide.
Mrs. J. B. Calvert of 1865 Van Buren,
, street was slightly injured last evening
, by her horse turning suddenly and
: hrn n he from q
. Rossville is becoming prominent as g
Hereford cattle locality. John Cutter
Junction City cattleman, purchased
48 Hereford cows there this week
. The committee selected to carry or
the work of building a monument to the
= memory of c. K. Holiday will meet to
night at the Commercial club rooms.
! There will be a big game of whist a
= the rooms of the Topeka Whist cluf
Saturday night. 1t will be played unde1
the new Howell system of scoring.
The K. U. ball team, defeated by thu
Washburn College team yesterday, i:
in st. Marys today. The tour Of the
| club includes a game with the Chicago
. University team.
The city council has referred the pro-
test of r. G. Cummings and Mrs L
NJ. Penwell against holding the stree
fair in front OF their residences to the
e Commercial club.
Straw hats have made their appear
: ance. The first man to wear a stray
5, hat on Kansas avenue this season wa
= Chief Justice Doster
t Topeka theatergoers will have the op
: portunity of enjoying at least two conf
2, operas next season. Frank Daniels ant
n Francis Wilson are already booked 70
e the Crawford theater.
c A free literary entertainment will b
. given the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. tonight
Mr. and Mrs. Will Hoeck are tn
y parents of a son. Mr.. Hoeck is a SAINT
g Fe shop employee.
Il Topeka will not get De Wolff Hoppe
# and his opera company this season a
= was thought possible some time ago. In
: stead of following a northern route, tn
i company returned east.
Unity club meets tonight with tn
following programme: Select reading
Miss Ellen Parkhurst: piano solo, Mis-
Fay Smith; address on Robert Loui
II Stevenson by Prof. James Black.
P. C. Chamberlain received a Telegram
n Thursday night stating that HERNIA
= Stanton, aged years, son. of o. T
r. Stanton of Kansas City, had disappear
- ed. The STATIONS formerly lived in Tc
p peka.
5. George M. Munger. the Populist car
al didate for governor, owns one of til
o largest apple orchards in the state NJ
le Munger is in Topeka today and says tt
Al indications for a full apple crop WEI
h never better.
ID Lawrence Journal: Ed Little wi
D. speak at banquet in Kansas City tc
morrow night. We shall then find OF
whether his wife has yet succeeded i
Mt getting that vinegar and Quinine tast
s out of his mouth
The work at the federal building an
on the auditorium takes so much of tt
time of the professional loafers ths
they did not have time to stand ar0un
and boss the job of raising the big iro
pillars for the National hotel veranda.
F. H. Niles, who has been employs
10 by G. W. Smith, superintendent of ms
III chinery of the Santa Fe Pacific at A
buquerque, has resigned to becou
stenographer to W. E. Hodges, gener
- purchasing agent of the Santa Fe wit
n headquarters in Chicago.
The street commissioner has been il