The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-28
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Nels Mcconnell is laying siege to the
dogs in North Topeka.
The annual class night Of the z. W. G..
A. viii occur this evening.
#. c. Dreaming will deliver the Memoir
ial day address at Silver Lake.
MarshalFs band viii give an open air
The pavement is being repaired on Jack
son street. between Fifth and Seventh
The letters painted on the Edison smoke
stack are barely dlst1ngulshable now
The street railway IS operating one
open car which has been painted yellow
NJ A Miller. the father of J. c. He'd
erer, is sick at his home. $50 Jefferson
The Washburn team will play the Has
kell Indians at the Washburn grounds
The invitations to the high school grad
uation exercises at the Auditorium to-
morrow night are engraved.
TIE work q grading CodIlegeh ays 44 for
now lined with plies Of brick.
Pool Grinstead's paper. the Wathena
Republican was sold today to satisfy Cy
Leland's 81 coo libel Judgment
c. A. Blakeslev- says that John Marshall
who is a candidate for register of deeds
lis running to beat the band"
At the next meeting of the. city council
Monday night the report of the appraisers
on twenty-nine blocks of pavement viii be
heard
J. w Thurston has been appointed ad-
ministrator of the estate of Kate Oxen
si'so5 The estate is valued at about
The local strawberry season. is opening
this week A great many berries are still
kansas
It is said that Howell Jones viii take the
work Of political mixing for the Santa
a. Hurd.
City Attorney Charles F. Spencer APP
pointed s. 8 Urmy as his deputy Monday,
as 1t was reported last week in the State
Journal he would do
O-P. Updegran has returned from Mem
he has been acting as judge Of the horse
shows of those cities.
The. sweet. girl graduates and q. few
boys in black from the high school will
receive their sheepskins at the Audito-
rum tomorrow night.
The entertainment Committee of the
Commercial club will meet with the pro-
motors of the state fair at the CONNER
eial club rooms Wednesday night,
The Rev p IA. Fisk lectured last night
At the First GSongregati-2Spal church on
Mrs. Nation will debate with Carl
Browne Wednesday night at Pleasant
Thursday night at Paoia She will re-
ers
In the annual contest between the two
the assembly hall last night the Judges of
contest decided in favor of the Phiioma-
theans-
The Washington School Hornets stung
the Monroe school team yesterday so
badly in nine innings that the followers
of the Monroe doctrine lost the ball game
by score of to 4.
Mayor Hughes is thinking of appointing
a dog tax collector for every ward IN the
moving their DOGS, from one ward to an
other to avafd raying dog tax.
DIR. H. b. Hogeboom is candidate to
succeed himself as county coroner Dr.
Hogeboom has served one term in q sat
isfacIory manner. His name will be on
the Republican primary ticket Saturday.
The first person to graduate from the
newly established course Of elocution at
Washburn college will be Miss Sadie Me-
AuIey Her graduating recital will occur
chapel.
The Salvation Army and the Volunteers
OF Kansas avenue and Sixth avenue early
peilers had a good crowd of listeners.
officer Hall who is under bond to APP
triet court to stand trial for killing Geo
mans club, is on duty as patroiman in
the west part of town.
z. T. Burton. Senator Rurton's brother
from Montana. will take the latter place
and make the Memorial day speech at
said TO have long suit on. speech making
characteristic of the family.
Mrs. Ida Eclzert Lawrence. who read a
poem at the launching of the battleship
Ohio at San Francisco on May IS arrived
home. She will return to Toledo on Fri
day. Denver papers called her ~ohio's
From the Kansas CITY Star; Sergeant
Tim Donovan. the oldest officer on the
roveiya police force has been removed by
Chief Stahl after IA years of faithful SER
vice. Chief Stahl has been off the farm
almost year now and feels competent
to run the police department alone
Col. Fred Close of Ellis county. leader
in the gold mining enterprise Of the
ness. He says the .'fiy-up-the-ereek' col
lege professors and experts that discredit
the Kansas shale gold fields Will be shown
a thing or two before the company gets
through with its work
Col. Ed G.. Little Of Abilene has a story
in the June number of 'EsverybndYss Mag
azineff entitled "A Son of the Border
II is founded uaon the exploits Of J. d.
HickOk. better known in the early days
as wild BILL the city marshal of Abb
Iene- In those DAYS Abilene was a bad
town. Today 1t is not Then it was the
rendezvous of bad men. Today it is the
home of several politicians.
The jury in the district court brought
in a verdict Monday afternoon in the suit
brought against Frank Metzler for $4,000
damages by William Bryan. in favor of
Aetzler- Bryan was arrested on the
charge Of stealing diamonds from Metzier
and was discharged in the city court a t
his preliminary hearing. He brought suit |
on the grounds that his health and repu-
tation had been injured Evidence was |
presented to the jury to show that his
charac ter was bad and that it had not
been injured
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