The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-27
sN4P sAORs AT HOVE NEWS

The farmers were about to use mod
ern corn binders L the rain had not
come.
Mr.. and Mrs. 4 smith are visiting
relatives in Linn county for few
days.
Baseball games postponed On ac-
count of rain?" How does that sound
to your
for the annual tournament at Leaven-
worth
william. MartzndaIe. the ex-banker
OF Enporia, called on friends in To-
peka yesterday.
Frank Brown. clerk Of the United
States district court has returned to
Excelsior Springs
Fish Commissioner George Wiley. Of
Kansas, was the last man to register
at booth No. 1 at FL Reno.
The Rock Island and pension Office
ball teams are scheduled to play at
Lowman Hill this afternoon.
Theodore Lescher, who has been
studying architecture in Paris for sew
era1 years, is expected home soon
This sort OF weather makes people
willing to forgive and forget almost
any sort OF past onenses: even the ice
trust
8 c Thompson. proprietor Of the To-
pela crematOry. went to Des Moines.
Iowa, yesterday, to be gone several
weeks.
George Goodrich, the fireman who
was overcome by smoke at the Demo-
cratic F1ambeau club fire yesterday IS
able to be at work again today
A building permit was issued yester-
day to the Western Wooden mill to
erect a 75x175 foot building at Madison
and Laurent streets, North Topeka
Anderson Bros, OF Excelsior, sold ten
head Of yearling calves last week for
S12-5 q head. and Mr. F1ohrschutz sold
=
The state treasurer announces that
no warrants viii be stamped this year
unpaid for want OF funds. The
treasury has q balance OF 1,e30, 4S3.11-
DoIph. Thomas. aged e. and Miss
Knott. aged 50, were married at Silver
Lake last week Mr.. Thomas is the
Oldest son of the late Chet Thomas
J. c. 1LohIer, assistant secretary Of
the state board Of agriculture, is build
ing q handsome residence on Fillmore
street, between Twelfth and Huntoon-
A man who claimed to have been rob
bed at the Santa Fe depot, gave his
name as J. H Miller from Iowa
He said he was relieved of SEQ in gold
George Ffndlay slipped down to
Kansas City yesterday and met Sen
s. R. Peters viii be pension commits
sloner.
Representative J. B. Sims Of Mission
Center, who lost 35 head of cattle from
eating scr ghuu, thinks he will save the
rest Of the herd Of 81 which broke into
the field.
A ball game IS scheduled to take
afternoon The contesdng teams are
the Topeka Athletic association and
Granville.
The golf links have been deserted
during the three weeks Of hot weather
The admirers OF the sport may now
chase the festive ball again. as the hot
spell has been broken
The alley IN the rear OF the state
Journal Office is IN a dangerous condi-
ton owing TO the fact that it has never
been properly reiaid since excavations
were made for steam pipes.
4 room on Kansas avenue which used
to be occupied by a gambling house is
being redtted for a dentist From
pulling legs to pulling teeth is not so
very much Of a change, either.
George S. Irwin who was associated
with Frank A. Root in the publication
Of the North Topeka Times IN the 70s
is now president of the Press Publish
ing company OF Mesa, Arizona
c. A Hitchcock. superintendent OF
the Topeka reform school during the
Lewelling Populist Administered is
camping at FL Reno with a deIega ton
Of twenty men from GaIena, Kas.
The second paper car OF the Ring
ling circus has passed through town,
leaving behind It some of the most
handsome bill boards ever shown in the
city Many Of the big bills are really
artistic. and none Of them are over
done- Ike most circus advertising.
A horse belonging to Bert Parks ran
away from Fourth and Kansas ave
nues Friday afternoon Il ran west Of
Fourth avenue and collided with a tree
at the corner of Van Buren,. The car
riage was smashed but no one was
hurt
Councilman Griley and Mayor
Hughes were called to the Santa Fe
shop lands yesterday to stop the work
men from cutting down the shade trees
which Inconvenience them when they
We're moving away the houses from the
land which the city has purchased.
On the city map. Burnett's mound.
southwest of town IS called knox
mound Fortunately this attempt to
pervert the historic significance OF the
original name is Of no avail for every
bOdys calls the mound the name it got
from its original owner. old Abra ham
Burnett, chief Of the Pottawatomies-
Charles A. Taylor, assistant fnsur-
anee commissioner Of Kansas during
Governor dwellings, term, is at FL
Reno with the homeseekers. He and
Chase Johnson, bond clerk in the Kan
sas state auditors Office under Van B.
Prather, are now in the real estate
business at Oklahoma City. They may
start a branch Office at Lawton.
The board Of railroad CON HissiOners
has decided that the Santa Fe can not
be compelled to give a better train
service to Caney. Kas- The Santa ITe
operates over the Missouri Pacific
tracks. and the board holds that for
that reason the road can not be COM
PEELED TO give better service
Complaint has been made 10 Mayor
Hughes that Official weights are be-
Ing given by private hay scales in va
rious parts of the city. The laws pro-
moi r~Fs- f4ffx
check books are not legal. City check
books can be obtained by owners Of
private scales
Quo warranto proceedings have been
instituted IN the supreme court by
Frank ChaIlfs, county attorney OF Pot