The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-11

Frank Stahl, candidate for sheriff. and
o. K. Swayze were the speakers. The
meeting was we'll attended.
The degree of Most Excellent Master
will be conferred by Topeka chapter
No. at Masonic temple, on a class of
candidates, Monday evening next, Octo-
Der 10.
Policeman Lee Jones is testifying be
fore the United States grand jury III
some liquor cases. This is the only Lee
Jones in the police business, and he lives
in Lawrence.
Three Lawrence negroes charged with
selling liquor to the Indians were hauled
up for a preliminary examination Fri
day afternoon and bound over to the
grand jury They offered no defense.
Rev. Gustav Niquist, who attended the
recent worlds Y. NJ. c. A. conference
at Christiana, Norway, win give a re-
port of that gathering at the mems
meeting at o'clock Sunday afternoon.
asked the district court to divorce him
from his young wife who he married in
1899. He says she drinks and makes life
burden for him.
A. H. Merrill, who has conducted a
drug store on West Sixth avenue for
many years, will leave for Los Angeles,
Cal, with his family next week, where
they will make their home.
Election Commissioner Sherm Will
Jams has located all the voting places
exception. This one is in the first pre-
cinct of the First ward.
The Washburn foot ball players win
have a chance this afternoon to deter
mine whether the hard luck stories sent
out about the K. u. foot ball teams
condition were true or not.
Friday afternoons football game be-
tween the Whttesox and the Tennessee
town elevens resulted in a shut-out
game-10 to 0 in favor of the Whitesox.
and Girton.
Washburn boys must be a little bit
slow. Eleven of them attended the i'm
promptu dancing contrary to college
rules, last Wednesday night, and the
girls say that of the eleven. only three
could dance.
A team of Topeka bowlers composed
of A. B. Kirkpatrick, H. d. Wolfe J. D.
Gossett, Charles Wentworth and E. w.
Eswart went to Lawrence today to at
tend the Washburn-K. u. football game
this afternoon and bowl the Lawrence
team tonight.
The Scott county bond case has been
finally dismissed in the supreme court.
A settlement was reached several
months ago and one of the conditions
was that the case should be dismissed.
This is the final step.
The fat, roly poly center rush of the
Kansas City Central High school foot
ball team of 1901 is not playing this
year. Therefore the game this after
noon between that team and the one
from the Topeka High school will lose
half of its JOY.
ents went to Lawrence on the morning
and afternoon trains to attend the K.
U.-Washburn football game. This is the
biggest out of town game Washburn
has scheduled for this year.
Thursday evening the Independent
Ran1rhli0an central Cnn1f11fff6a
will hold another mass meeting at the
Auditorium. and it is expected tnat
some stereopticon pictures made from
snap shots taken in Topeka Joints will
be thrown on the screen.
The Reynolds case, brought to compel
the Topeka board of education to admit
negro children to the Lowman Hill
school, has been continued until the De-
cember term in the supreme court and
will then be submitted on briefs.
| The attempt which some Kansas COL
lege football men have made to disqual-
! fly Omar Mehl. the Washburn halfbaclS
on the ground that he played baseball
for pay on semi-Drofessional team.
has failed. Referee Harrington, of Mis-
souri, refused to entertain the charges
OF the nineteen girls and eleven boys
who participated in the forbidden hop
at Washburn college Wednesday night.
not one will be allowed to go to Law
renee today for the football game be-
tween Washburn and K U. T-is is
part of the punishment meted out to the
| offenders.
/ In His Steps,. the story-sermon
by Rev. Charles M. Sheldon. was pre-
scented to a Leavenwortr audience Fri
day night Miss Marie Garvey, a local
elocutionist, reading the story, w. J. P.
Marshall showing the principal scenes
and events described in the book Miss
Louise Hesse sang the hymns men
toned in the production
/ Members of the typographical union
OF Topeka deny that they refused to
work on the copy" for the annual re-
port of the 7. O. o. F. grand lodge
which had been taken to the Office of the
Farmers Advocate. They say that the