The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-02

weather will be unsettled On the 4fh
begins general storm period, light at
first with intervals of fair weather from
the 9Th to 18th and with more storms on
the 18th and 18th"
Two train loads Of the Sixth infantry,
United States army, went through To-
peka last night There were Is carloads,
and they were hauled by the Santa Fe
to Fort Leavenworth. The Santa Fee got
the soldier trains from the Denver &
Rio Grande.
The carriers of star mail routes have
had new duty assigned them. Here
after they will be required to carry and
deliver mail to all those living along the
line of the route, who are willing to
provide a convenient receptacle in
which to place the mail.
The case of the Metropolitan Life In
surance company against Webb McNall,
in which the company asks for a judg-
ment of $1,000 against McNall for fees
paid to the state which 1t claims were
illegal. and which it won in the lower
court, has been continued in the SUI
preme court.
Ed McKeever Is at Leavenworth fight
ing the Frank Hunt habeas corpus case.
Hunt is asking for liberty on the ground
that he was tried and convicted at
special session of the Indian Territory
federal court at the same time a regular
session OF the court was in progress at
another place.
A magazine article in July magazine
tells how an alleged Kansas farmer
goes out in his automobile to superin-
tend his harvesting and Eov another
who came to Kansas five years ago
with only fifty dollars, and that bor
rowed, is now a millionaire. 1t is need
less to say that the article was written
in Wichita. It is in the July Ainslee's.
The Coughlin Hardware company has
novel fireworks sign. A large sign
bearing the word Fireworks and
having hand-beH attached. swings
back and forth in front of the store.
The slanting position of the awning
pole to which the sign is hung by ropes
causes the perpetual motion
A farmer living six miles southeast of
Topeka picked about 1870 quarts OF
deWberTies from two-acre patch yes
Topeka markets today for 1921, The
gentleman says he has another patch o.
four acres which will yield about $500.
This beats raising wheat.
Findlay Ross. Of Wichita. was in To-
peka Tuesday. He says the town is
slow. Governor Stanley is from the
windy city also but he has found Tope-
ka lively enough to suit his tastes.
Perhaps Ross did not have an interview
with Mrs. Nation or Mrs. Blanche Boise
or Mrs. Hedges.
Asurrey belonging to w. F. Roehr
was smashed in a runaway accident
last evening. A team belonging to A.
F.. Rayer and hitcaed to a lun Der
Kansas avenue. Upon reaching the
middle of the block between Sixth ave-
nue. and Seventh street the team swerv-
ed into the curbstone and ran into the
surrey. No one was hurt.
After the horse is stolen lock the door
seems to be the policy of the executive
council. The door in the top of the state
house dome was left open and the rain
of the last two nights damaged the new
IS, 600 worth of decorations. That is the
way the state house has been managed
for quarter of a century. What are
Col. Veale's janitors for? can't they
shut the doors? Must a special closer of
the upper door be appointed?
The following from U. G. Stewart
Shawnee County News published at
Rossville is about as good as Bent Muir
dock could do in referring to polite
ians: Jack the valuable bird dog
owned by j. w Jamison, is dead. Some
lowdown, ornery, white-livered speci-
men of humanity administered poison to
him. Jack was an exceptionally smart
dog and had more sense of honor than
the measly scab who killed him."