The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15

| causes him great suffering, and he is
not able to be out of the house.
Plans for the Kansas City, Lawrence
and Topeka electric line are going right
ahead Tbs promoters Of the line are
trying to condemn a portion of the
Union Pacific right of way near Kansas
City in the Kaw valley. The case is
The old North and South railway
are trying to work Emporia business
men for 100000 If the road is built it
will pass near Topeka.
Mrs. Nation gets out at noon tomor-
row, when she will have served eleven
and BALI days in the custody of the
police matron. After she gets out she
ought to write a book entitled ''Jailors
have met; or, life behind the bars
An effort is being made at Washburn
to stop the long standing gang and
anti-gang" fight in the student polti-
cal circles. If the Washburn people quit
fighting among themselves they viii
make better showing in intercollegiate
athletics.
City Engineer McCabe expects to have
his annual report completed within
few days. This report will contain a
great deal of information about city i'm
prCvements and the cost thereof, and il
may be published by the order of the
council
Unity church Tuesday night by the Sons
and Daughters of Kansas, has been
postponed on account of Mrs. John d.
8artholomew's art lecture at the First
Methodist church that night, until
Wednesday night.
Mayor Parker has decided to put some
of City Physician Judd's sanitary force
at work Instead of hiring extra men
to guard the lone smallpox case in town.
he has set two OF the regular sanitary
men at the job. They will work day and
night, in two twelve-hour shifts.
The New Years attraction at the
Crawford will be Mrs. jack with Miss
Alice Fischer, who originated the title
role in New York this season, as the
star. This is the great comedy success
OF the present season in New York.
Miss Fischer was not known before.
Henry F. Burt, the former Washburn
student whose work in the Chicago
commons was SO highly spoken of by
DIR. Graham Taylor while in Topeka d
short time ago, is contributing a series
of articles to the Washburn Review adj
vocating the establishment of a Chill
dren's church"
The hornets nest was stirred. E NJ
Scott of Syracuse writes to the State
Journal that there are others besides
Miss Kackley of Graham county. Mrs.
Fanny r. Starkey was elected for the
fourth term as register of deeds of
Hamilton county and Miss Annie VIII
liams was elected register of deeds OF
Stanton county at the last election.
1t is said at the city hall that the plea
a new brick pavement to be laid in place
of the wornout stone pavement would
have more weight if it were not for the
fact that East Sixth people insisted on
having limestone pavement after City
Engineer Kingman told them that it was
no good and would last but few years.
A number of Scandinavians held a
meeting at the National hotel Saturday
evening for the purpose of forming an
organization to aid the famine-stricken
people of northern Sweden. At the
meeting each Swedish organization i'll
town was represented by a committee of
three to confer with Rev. NyCuist. who
was elected president Of the meetina
and John Lungstrum, secretary. The
meeting was the preliminary of Swed-
ish mass meeting to be held next Thurs
day at the Swedish Baptist church. a
permanent subscription list will be
started at this mass meeting.
The Atchison Globe says: Those de-
luded souls who think Carrie Nation Is
in the nuisance business because of the
good she 2ccomplishes, should come in
from the depths. They are getting be-
yond the life line, and there will soon
be no hope for them. Mrs. Nation adj
nits that she is in it for the money;
she says she has realized SIS, 900 from her
lectures, and that she never strikes a
town where she cannot dispose of souv-
enir hatchets Her manager is J. E.
Furlong of Rochester, N. Y, who for
number of seasons was the manager of
Paderewski; a great joke on Pader>
eWski. "
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