The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-16


gIaring Innovation
Bernice Howard (B1rs Jossey), who
played in the Topeka sumner theater,
has been engaged as leading soubrette
IN the Holden Comedy company, at the
BlJou theater, Chicago
f. A. Healy who 20 years ago was
assistant chief clerk IN the Santa Fe
freight department, is now auditor Of
the Atlanta & West Point railroad. He
i q brother Of W. J. Healy.
]. N. Young, OF Leavenworth, man
ager of the Missouri Valley Bridge
company. was here yesterday to confer
with the county commissioners regard
ing the new Kaw river bridges.
Secretary of State George Clark will
call upon the Democratic state COM
mlttee 70 furnish its party with an off,
ciaI emblem, to be put on the ballots
Tor township election this fall.
J. W. GIeed told a Kansas City news
paper yesterday that the effect of the
drouth IN Kansas is passing rapidly
away. and that the damage done is
much less than is generally supposed
The experiments which c. C. Sholes,
superintendent of Santa FNe telegraph,
and j. M Jones, his chief clerk, have
been making for telephonoine over tel
egraph wires, have resulted favorably.
The officials at brigade headquarters
are working on the programme for the
officers school of the National Guard,
TO be held here next month. The pro-
Kansas City STAR Topeka started a
movement to compel its street railway
company to pave eighteen inches out
side its tracks, Whereupon Clifford G.
Bakers weight fell or twenty-nine
pounds.
Albert r. Reid, the artist and must
clan, is in the act of .'springing'' a new
musical production on the public. If it
Is as great success as some of his
former productions. the public viii not
complain.
Leavenworth Chronicle: George E.
Lerrigo, general secretary of the Tope-
ka Y. NJ. G. A, is in Leavenworth vis-
ting Secretary Moore of the Leaven-
worth association Mr.. Lerrigo as ac-
companied by his wife.
Secretary Coburn has given the first
premium for a picture of Kansas wheat
fields to J. A Ward, of Salina- The
picture was taken on one of the best
farms in Saline county, and will be
used for advertising purposes.
A large and enthusiastic crowd gath
cred in front of Longs restaurant
Thursday night at 10 O'clock to watch
two or three rat terrier dogs dispose of
a cage OF rats, captured in a nearby al
ley.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. "A. Healy arrived to-
day from Atlanta, Georgia, to attend
Mrs. S. S. Prouty, who is lying at the
point of death at her home, S15 Topeka
avenue. Another daughter, Mrs. Isaac
Seymoure Of Minneapolis, MINI, is also
here
State Labor Commissioner Johnson's
trip to Kansas City this week resulted
in the settlement Of both machinists
strikes there. The Riverside workers
are all reinstated, get increase in pay
and Will get a nlne-hour day beginning
November /.
Trolley rides are becoming popular
here. The decorated car used exclusive
~ for parties has been in service every
hlsht TOT nearly Two weeks ana on ssN-
eral evenings, two and even three other
cars have been pressed into use for
this purpose.
McLeoud Bros. of Marietta. Kas.,
who have patents on an automatic
scale, are looking for a location for a
tomato scale. and are endeavoring to
interest Topeka capital in building a
plant here worth $4,000
AS a result of the efforts of Council
man Weber the sidewalks to the APP
proaches to the south end of the Kaw
river bridge have been relaid and put
in fine condition. They run diagonally
across from the sidewalk on the sides
of the street to the bridge.
Major Tom Anderson will not push
the Roosevelt club to any great extent
until after he returns from the Knights
Templar conclave at Louisville. To-
peka win have the distinction Of start
ing the organization of the second
Roosevelt club in the United States,
however.
The Salvation Army had planned for
a picnic for the poor children of the
city. to be given on Wednesday. Au-
gust 81 The picnic will be at Oakland
and the Topeka city railway viii fur
nish free transportation for the chill
dren. The butchers and grocers are
being asked to donate food.
Elva Cunningham, the 17-year-ol
daughter Of f. B. Cunningham, was
taken to the pest house Thursday after
noon with case Of smallpox. Miss
brought the disease with
her from El Reno, where she has been
recently. Topeka'6 boast that 1t was
free from smallpox was short lived.
The leaking gas from main at Sixth
and Western avenues last night became
ignited from a lantern and burned
hercely for a time. An interested
crowd of spectat tors watched the blaze.
The gas was leaking in a ditch dug for
the main, and a great pile of dirt had
to be dumped in over the leak to stop
the flow.
Bethany college, Topeka and Baker
Baldwin, are in a contro-
versy as to which is the older institu-
ton. Baker has made the claim that |
it was the Oldest educational institu- /
was first located at Tecumseh and af- /
terWard moved to Topeka, thinks it has /
a right to the hOnors-
A Topeka photographer who made a |
large picture Oh cOrnneld winch at /
tracted a great deal of attention, has /
met with a sad accident The plate |
from which the picture was made was /
accidentally broken. And the pho /
tographer had just received an order /
for fifty copies of the picture from a /
New York art store.
The Kansas City NEEDLES football /
team will play Washburn. Emporia and
Ottawa The manager of the Medics /
was unable to get a game with K. u. |
On account of the decision of the state
of Kansas, Missouri and
Nebraska to not play with the Medics
difficulty is being expe-
rienced by the Medics in securing a de-
sirable Thanksgiving game.
Postmaster Guthrie has received the