The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-27

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for the Rock Island. was here visiting
| E. w. Thompson Wednesday.
Judge Hook will go to Wichita to-
morrow to resume the hearing of the
$4,000 damage suit. of Forsee vs.. the
Observation-Disclosures Coal company.
Ell. Smiley, secretary of the Kansas
| Grain Dealers association, in an inter-
| view yesterday announced that Kansas
was to have but half wheat crop.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Rash. of Salina,
| are in Topeka. Mr.. Rashs conduct
/ does not belle his name; he is riding
! the goat at the Scottish Rite reunion.
Nels Mcconnell has laid down the
broom and taken up his star He is
! putting in a few days collecting dog
/ tax, while business at the Auditorium is
| slack.
| Atchison Globe: Miss Blanche Boies,
! who lately attempted to publicly horse
/ whip the mayor of Topeka, says she is
anxious to avoid notoriety. o, the coy
| young thing.
1 being celebrated by the Scottish Rite
( Masons who are holding the eighteenth
annual reunion of the valley of Topeka
/ at Masonic temple.
| Mr.. ]. w Berry, the Jewell City con-
| tractor will be in town Saturday, on
business pertaining to the contract for
/ the library building at the state normal
| school which he holds.
/
mann Uterman's big dogs have been
| suffering for want of food while their
| master has been in quarantine. They
| claim that the guards have fed the
| dogs.
Martin Seward is the only Topeka
! sportsman entered in the Great Aneri-
| can handicap that is to be held at Kan
sas City the week of March 81 to April
| s. although number OF members of the
! local gun club will attend.
DR.. ]. K. Gamble, a Coffeyville dem
fist who fell dead Monday afternoon
while riding uptown from the Missouri
Pacific depot, was a dentist in Topeka
20 years ago. He was 55 years old and
has a wife and two children.
Now is the time to beware of the
Kansas gold shale fields. Heretofore
they have been harmless to the gen.
eral public. Now. however, the stock
of ''shale companies is being put on
the market, and hooks are out for suck
erS.
DR.. o. F. Lewis. of Crawford county.
was in Topeka yesterday and an
nounced that George E. Cole will win
in the race for governor. Perhaps he
will, but the reason the doctor was so
certain of it is that Cole is from Craw-
ford county.
Martin McAndrews, of Topeka, says
that the fact that man giving the
same nan e has been arrested at Tuscon,
Arizona, has caused few people to
think he was the man arrested. Mr..
McAndrews says he is still out of Jail
his life.
The State Journal Office boy has failed
to meet the office boy of the Daily Capt.
tai to arrange the preliminaries of the
proposed baseball game Either the Of
flee boy of our esteemed cOntempOr
ary'' is quarantined with the mumps or
the Daily Capital force does not wish to
play ball. Which?
A meeting for the negroes of the Sec
ond ward, in the interests of George
E.lllOtt'S candidacy council.
was held last night at 303 East First
street. Speeches were made by J. H.
Guy. W. F. Schoch, F. p Lindsey, John
Dawson, H. NJ. Philips, Ed Halves, A.
K. Rodgers and Mr.. Elliott himself.
Bishop Millspaugh will hold confirma-
ton services tomorrow, Good Friday,
evening at st. Sinon's Episcopal church.
corner of Seventh street and Western
avenue. From twelve noon to three p.
m. there will be services at the Good
Shepherd church in North Topeka, con-
sisting of the reading of the Seven
Sayings of the Cross.
One of the councilmen was standing
in the hall of the city building yester-
day when the grain men were holding
their secret session in the council cham
Der. A loud burst of applause from the
assembly room attracted the council
mans attention. THAT demonstration
means" he said to a friend, that the
price of flour has been pushed up five
cents
The BARRIERS of a Topeka shop are go
ing TO adopt ShlrtWaS1StS for the sum-
mer and the rules will be that three
different shirts of three different colors
be worn each week. They shall be
changed, under supervision of the head
barber. on Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays. That's quite aesthetic as well
as antiseptic. The best thing about the
plan is that it will assure the customers
that the BARRIERS will positively wear
clean linen.
Major T. j. Anderson, of the Com
mercial club, has nearly all the ma
terial compiled for the folders to be
gotten out by the Topeka Commercial
club to use in advertising the city.
handsome illuminated cover page has
been designed and the folder will in
clude the prettiest views in and about
the city, together with views of the
largest buildings The folder will be
for distribution at conventions in en-
deavoring to secure conventions to