The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-18


And this song they loudly sing;
IF you haven't got the money
While turkey hash is quoted
At eighteen cents p pound
walnuts are senihEsor st bushel.
Frank Thomas wash Kansas City
Mrs. E. f. Carpenter Is visiting in
RoSsville.
The city court is to have an Independ-
ont phone.
Now washburn, won't you please
come home
The unpaid personal taxes for 1901
amount to $2,SS6.4I "a ta
Judge Ha=en viii hear Weight divorce
eases next week.
Judge Hazen. is expected to decide the
Bible case Monday.
H B. Leonard, of Lawrence, was in
the city Monday night. ~
Ed Burrough of Granville is one of
the best shots in the state.
The government thermometer ranged
between % and so Monday.
A. L. Wilmoth. of Concordias was a
Topeka visitor Monday evening.
D. Palenske. of Alma was registered
Ut the Fifth avenue Monday night.
A new front has been placed in the
Merchants National bank building.
W. L. Keer has bought two lots in
AIEndIQ On V an IpuISH SLICCls
Mr.. and Mrs. John McManus are the
parents of a daughter, born Monday
Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Lonergan of North
Topeka are the parents of a baby girl
Anna johnson has asked the district
court to divorce her from Chris John
son.
Jules Walters new play Just Struck
Town" will be at the Crawford Wednes-
aay.
The dates of the Kansas Exposition
company for 1908 are from September
20 y.
Judge Pagan has sentenced Harry
Mahana, an incorTigible, to the Reform
school.
Dana McVicar who is in a New York
law office, contemplates returning to
Topeka.
William Samson. who has been SER
iously sick with typhoid fever. is able
60 be at work.
The police department has again re-
fapsed into the normal state, and there
is Eothin dom.
The first Uncle Tom" show of the
season will be at the Crawford Friday
matinee and night.
The Santa Fe train which runs be-
tween Atchison and Leavenworth is
called the "Pollywog."
The county commissioners will inspect
the brick plant bridge this week before
formally accepting it.
1t cost j. B. Marshall an assessment
of 1925 and d printing bill of $13.09 to be
elected register of deeds
The Lawrence golfers consider Rev.
"A. Wyman, of Topeka. the best golf
player in the CAPITAL city.
From Lawrence to Wamego on the
Kansas river there used TO be only three
bridges. Now there are ten.
People living near Rossville can pay
their taxes at the State bank in Ross
vile and save trip to Topeka.
One Topeka firm which makes chattel
loans has made as many loans this year
as the firm made from 1893 to 1901.
There are rs chattel mortgages on
cash registers on record in the office
of Register of Deeds Frank Stevens.
''Pincess Chic" which PLAYS at the
Grand Saturday, opens a weeks en-
gagement at Denver Sunday afternoon.
John MacVicar, of Topeka, is going to
spend Thanksgiving in Des Moines. He
was the mayor of the Iowa city for four
years.
Don't tell a plumber that the faucet
in your kitchen leaks for he will laugh
at you. The trade name for faucets is
"bibs.''
When lot numbers are given, topeka
avenue is the dividing line between the
lots numbering east and those number
Ing west
1t is the popular belief that Tom Me
Neal has been guilty of posing for
Albert Reid's cartoons of ex-Candidate
Craddocl-.
Carrie B. Kelsey has asked the dis
trict court to divorce her from w. w.
Kelsey. She charges her husband with
being a heavy drinker.
Maybe the melodrama seen at the
Crawford last night is failure. but ii
Is not because the principals do not use
a sufficient number of guns.
A. T. Lucas has filed a statement that
II cost him $342 to be elected sheriff. OF
the total 5000 was the assess levied
by the central committee.
The property owners in the vicinity of
the sugar mill intend to ask the legis-
lature for a bridge across the Kansas
river in their neighborhood
The government records give the dis
fance between Topeka and Washington,
ID. c., as 1904 miles. 1t seems farther
than that to some politicians.
The government telegraph rate for l.
600 miles is 20 cents. That ought to be
proof that the Kansas Is cent rate
made by the legislature is just
TOO Rich to Marry" will be the at
traction at the Crawford opera house
Thanksgiving matinee and night. Mid
night in Chinatown" will be at the
Grand
E P. Hull, who was elected road over
seer in district No. got of easily. He
filed a statement that the expenses at
tending his election amounted to $1.15
for printing. s
Congressman Charles Curtis requested
the county commissioners 10 designate
the Shawnee State bank of North To
peka as a county depository. The re-
quest was granted.
If the Burlingame road is paved foi
two miles. as proposed, it will make