The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-15

night.
How like a wave our progress onward
s'To stars. thro' difficulties we are led.
We gaily chant the Tee Trusts mournful
And daily by the Octopus are bled-
Each week a nice cOupOn-bOOk we buy
The Cctopusters wink the other eye
On Kansas avenue its hot and stiI.
The busy lawyers loaf in doorWays cool; ;
me soea Iountalls LII Iun sacsttselsss I'll Ill,
OF all the placid Kansas Avenue Clan
Joe Waters is the only Busy Man.
John switzer ia in Galena on legal
business.
Peaches are coming into market in
large quantities.
T F. Doran claims the champion
vineyard in Topeka
The prairie chicken season is here but
where are the chickens2
F. P. Long. a farmer of Usage coun-
ty, is in the city today.
The New York Journal of Sunday de-
voted a page to the Benders-
Silas Porter, or Kansas City, was in
Topeka on business yesterday.
John Waters is expected home today
from his farm in Oklahoma
James F. Going has been appointed
a substitute letter carrier here.
The T. A. A. ball team plays Manhat-
tan this afternoon and tomorrow
Mosquitoes are making their appear
ance and making themselves felt.
The Modocs expect to attend the G.
A r. encampment at Cleveland
Excelsior Springs is becoming the
favorite resort for Topeka people.
Sam Radges is waiting for hot wealth
er as an excuse to go to Colorado.
Sheriff St Claire Guthrie Of Wash
ington county was in Topeka yester-
day.
The semi-annual Scottish Rite reunion
in Topeka this fall will be November 26
to %
Frank Brown is notified to appear at
Lawton September 4 and choose his
claim
The county commissioners yesterday
cancelled over $4,000 worth Of war
rants
What is to be done with the Sixth
avenue pavement IL an important
question
The next term of the Kansas Medical
college viii be for Is weeks beginning
Theo. Lescher. who has completed his
studies in Paris, is now working in
New York.
W. c. Campbell stopped in Topeka
Wednesday on his way from Phoenix to
New York.
one Topeka woman has so spring
neighbors, either.
Hadn't the police department better
take a few lessons from Merchants Po-
Hceman Hoplzins2
]. Q. Waters is going to miss the
Clyde water melon carnival this year
for the first time.
Slot machine owners complain that
the people who used to buck the tiger
are becoming wary.
The Medics football team of the medi-
cal college will be a factor in football
this coming season
George Rudy, a farmer Of Jeffer-
son county. was a caller at the Topeka
postofice Wednesday,
MarshalI's band and the Kansas
Knights TemDlar will leave for Louis
vile a week from Saturday.
Reed AfcCarter of the fire department
has the reputation of being one OF the
best dog trainers in the west
Tracy Brown, Of Laavenworth, was
brought to the Topeka reformatory BY
Sherin Esverhardy, Wednesday.
Ernest Agnew. late of the Twentieth
Kansas. has been assigned as heuten-
ant to the Twenty-sixth infantry.
Daniel Craig, late OF the Twentieth
Kansas, has been assigned to the For
ty-eighth battery coast artillery.
Did anyone say anything about the
city council forcing the city railway to
put guards on open street cars7
The new paper and furnishings of the
Ell1s' club room lobby has made it one
of the handsomest places in town.
George Lugton, the motorneer of the
elevator at the federal building, is sick
at his home in North Topeka today.
Howell Jones, who has been appoint
ed land agent for the SantasF e will not
move his family away from Topeka.
The ATodocs will sing and Marshall's
band will play tomorrow night at the
John Marshall benefit at Garfield park.
Ben Kerfoot. another Kansan to be
appointed to a commission win be a
lieutenant in the Fffty-seventh battery.
When coming across the state house
park stop for a rest on the new iron
seats placed there by the federated
clubs.
Miss Villa Rodgers and Miss May
Dallas went to Usage City to visit Miss
Florence Miller, the daughter of W. ".
Miller.
The attention of the board of health
is called to a slop barrel in the alley
between the State Journal and Capital
offices.
Thomas Brewer Peacock who was
once called the poet laureate of Kan
sas is now hustling insurance in kan
sas City.
Galen Nichols is expected home from
New York in few days. He has been
taking dispositions in the So trust in
surance cases.
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