The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-13

Hadst thou but needed all these things,
Thou wouldst have saved thy fiddle strings
And caused me not this tear
The Commercial club meets tomor-
row night.
Today is the fourth anniversary of the
murder of ]. S. Collins.
Andy Manifold, of Beloit, is attending
the Knights Templar conclave.
Sloan lodge viii hold a special com
nunication Thursday afternoon and
night.
Judge w. c. Hook is in Topeka today,
presiding over session of the federal
court.
Judge West went to Eureka today to
attend the Greenwood county conven-
ton
state Grain Inspector Northrup says
he believes Kansas win have a fair crop
Of wheat after all
Mr. and Mrs. W o. Rosser have re-
turned from a visit to Mr.. Rosser ;
n other in Carbonate
Mrs. E. Massey left Monday evening
for GAINESVILLE, Ohio, where she will
spend several weeks visiting.
A fine imported Percheron horse be-
longing to E. Junior Bennett died last
night. The animal was valued at $1,000
The tennis players are beginning to
get down to work. The Y M. Z. A
courts are well occupied every evening
wrecked yesterday was Miss Jane Al
DE- ms, of Hui House, Chicago, who was
slightly injured.
One of the greatest mysteries OF the
modern college or university is how the
members CT the baseball teams find
time to go to school.
John Bright, who has been lecturing
for the Odd Fellows lodge in Oklahoma.
has returned to his home in Topeka
on account of sickness
IL
letic association Kids and the Oakland
boys the other day, the East siders
won by a score of II to SO.
Next Sunday the Messiah will be
sung at Lindsborg, Kan, by the stu
dents of Bethany college. Excursions
will be run from Topeka.
The Santa Fe yards are filed with
private cars of the division superintend--
ents who are hsre attending the time
card meeting of the Santa F'e.
Dr. A M Callahan has returned
from ElDorado where he has been visit
ing for some time with his daughter in
hopes of improving his health
Russell Barber, the newly elected
member of the school board from the
First ward, attended the meeting of the
board last night as a spectator.
e f. Roudebush. who VIII succeed
G. 3. Daily as a member of the school
board from the Sixth ward, attended
the meeting of the board last night.
The street railway has commenced
work on relaying its track along the
Vest side of Central park. A force Ct
twenty men was put to work this morn
ing.
The new Washburn observatory Is the
Mecca for many sightseers. The walls
of the building are now completed near
~ up to the tops of the first story Win
dows.
Prof. F. w. Blackmar brought some
of his pupils in sociology up from the
col
them through the hospital for the in
sane.
It has been decided to incorporate the
Kansas Association Of Charities and
Corrections The directors decided upon
this step at a meeting yesterday after
noon.
Dr. D. M. Fisk win lecture tonight at
the First Congregational church on the
subject Pioneer Kansas and the
Schools she Founded" Admission will
be free.
The G. A. R. memorial committee
would like to have all drummers.
whether they have drums or not, also
all buglers, to report at Lincoln Post,
11S East Sixth avenue
James Kay will not be tried for the
murder of his wife until the September
term of the district court. The case was
postponed by Judge Hazen at the re-
quest of Kay's attorneys.
E. B. Stotts' old home Is at Garden
City, but he is in danger of mob vio-
lence if he goes there because he says
Garden City is full of smallpox, which
is known there as Cuban itch"
Several Presbyterian ministers from
the west who stopped in Topeka over
Sunday on their way to the general
church assembly at New York city, re-
sumed their trip Monday afternoon.
The police department ought to APP
point a special officer to stop the sling
shot nuisance. It has now struck the
town with the usual spring feTVOr, and
the price Of window glass is going up.
The knights Templar parade today
reminded people that four years ago J.
S. Collins led the parade I'D Kansas
avenue. Three days later he was rnur-
dered. The parade then was on May
10.
While Warden Jewett was over from
Lansing recently he locked himself in
the bath room of the governors Office
and then the lock stuck. He was a
prisoner for some time before his re-
lease was effected.
The fire insurance adjusters have set
tied their losses in the Seymour COM
mission house fire by the payment of
So, 536. This loss is considerably less
than was at first estimated It was
thought that the damage was probably
$15,0 600.
Judge J. c. Postlethwaite, of Jewell
City, who is attending the knights
Templar meeting, says he has plowed
up 40 acres of his wheat and has lis
ted it to corn. He thought this better
than to take the chances of getting q
poor wheat crop
State Labor Commissioner Lee John
son is back from Coffeyville, where he
succeeded in effeeting between the Cot