The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16

was received today that on account OF
| the absence of number of players from
| town. it would be impossible for the To-
peka Golf club to come to Lawrence to
| play return game with the Dread Golf
| club tomorrow as had been planned.
e. Dickinson. general manager and E.
| Buckingham, superintendent of trans
| portation of the Union Pacific whose
| headquarters are at Omaha were in
| Topeka Friday and made a visit of
| inspection of the Santa Fe shops and
| offices here.
| "At Valley Forge" drew a very small
! The play was good, and in. the hands of
| competent people, but the fact that the
company played for so cents at indie
| pendence and then charged rs cents for
| the same seats in Topeka was enough
| to keep people away.
| A postal card received at the State
| Journal office this morning, contained
| the following: Sheriff Cook this morn
| ing took ten head of blooded cattle out
| to his farm in Jackson county. State
Journal Ca la Chicago Tribune): Didn't
| the cattle take Sheriff Cook? Sub
Scriber: No; the cattle were dehorned. .
In runaway Friday the team of DR..
L. H. Mum left his home at Third and
Topeka avenue and followed the same
go to Christ hospital. The team dashed
up to the gate at the hospital and
stopped, not having done any damage
to the buggy nor losing any of it's con-
tents.
The Manhattan Republic of this week
says: The Wise Member company
which played here Tuesday night was
by big odds the best show so far this
season. Miss Laura Evans, who played
the part of Alice Gordon, is a Topeka
girl" The company will play here
January 3. Miss Laura Evans is Sis
ter of Miss May Evans, the whistler
Charles Guyon, the Indian who was
arrested at Lawrence for raising the
value of postoffice money order from
So to $40, had a preliminary hearing be-
fore United States Commissioner r. T.
Hayden and was bound over for hear
ing before the grand jury. His bond
was placed at $500. He is still in Gus
tody.
Too many parents like to brag about
how good their 12-year-o1d sons are
while at that very time the boys are
gathering in gangs on the streets and
acquiring the art of smoking and act
ing tough. The mothers ought to make
their apron strings a little longer, says
the confirmed bachelor who watches
things.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jonas Cullen of Column
biana, Ohio, are here visiting their
niece, Mrs. Edward King of 220 Klein
street. They are accompanied by their
two sons, Louis and John, and are on
their way to California where they will
spend the winter They arrived Friday
and will proceed on the trip Sunday
The Rochester Cemetery association
has asked the county commissioner to
improve the potters' field there. The
officers of the association complain to
the commissioners that the county
burying plot has not been we'll kept
and that $3.50 should be expended in
improving it at once and $50 a year
set apart for keeping the plot in good
condition.
Mary Katherine Wyatt, the little In
dian girl adopted by Miss Linn Wyatt
several years ago, was run over by
wagon and quite badly hurt last Thurs
day afternoon. The little girls collar
bone was fractured but she managed to
walk to the Wyatt home at 209 East
Seventh street. The man who ran over
the little girl whipped up his horses and
the girl he had run over
The Iowa college debating society, of
Grinnell, Iowa, yesterday submitted to
Washburn college the question for the
coming intercollegiate debate. Wash
burn has the privilege of selecting
whichever side it wants. The question
to be debated is: Resolved, That all
executive duties in American cities
should be invested in the mayor, and
that his appointments should not re-
quire confirmation. Washburn will
send four men to Grinnell. The two
Washburn literary societies will hold
a preliminary debate for the selection
of the speakers for the Washburn repre-
te,ff