The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-20
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that it prints an editorial on the sub
ject.
The government thermometer ranged
between Al and so Wednesday,
After January 1 you can register
again, this time for the city election.
The work of repairing the asphalt
pavement on West Tenth avenue has
been finished.
Mrs William Sampson. who for six
weeks has been down with typhoid fe-
Yer, is cOnyaleScent-
Mrs. F. w Hutchinson. wife of a
leading merchant of Marysville, was in
Topeka Wednesday.
Miss Lydia Culp, who underwent an
operation a few days ago at Stormont
hospital, is recovering
It's a good thing senatorial candidates
do not have to file sworn statements of
their campaign expenses.
Woodmen of the World will hold an
election of officers at their lodge hall
one week from Monday night.
Carl Lawson has been county jaiier
for five years. a longer period than any
one else has served in the place.
Mrs c. Pinkerton of North Topeka
was operated upon this morning at
Stormont hospital for appendicitis.
Senator Sponable and Representative
elect Spear, of Johnson county. came up
to see Governor Stanley Wednesday.
Jess Weatherly. who was recently
arrested for stealing an overcoat was
bound over from the city court yester-
day.
One hardware company keeps three
men busy from o'clock in the morning
until II o'clock at night setting up
stoves.
Rev. Gustaf Nyquist, pastor of the
Swedish Baptist church, has an attack
of typhoid fever. He is at his residence,
400 Tyler street.
coat is still in soak. comes down town
these frosty mornings whistling In the
Good Old Summer Time
N. Hanson. an employee of the Santa
Fc planning mill, is in the company hos
pital for treatment He was operated
upon Wednesday for appendicitis.
The new metal stairways in the state
house do not look as near eom9ietion
as they did month ago. The contrac-
tors had to do considerable work over.
J. NJ. Woodley of Elmont has come to
Topeka for medical treatment for 81
week or more He is stopping at the
home of his brother, George Woodley,
on West Sixth avenue.
John Chambers, formerly day clerk at
the Throop, but recently proprietor of
the Hotel Atkinson. at Clinton. Mo, has
sold out his business in Missouri, and
was in Topeka Wednesday.
John Martin has donated some valu-
able old campaign pictures to the state
historical society. Some of them 10
back to the campaign when Franklin
Pierce was elected president.
Leroy and Samuel Watts, who came
out from F'indlay, Ohio, two weeks ago
and since then have been in the vicinity
Of Overlook, were in the city Wednes-
day night on their return home.
George Gartner. a boy who shot him
self accidentally in the hand a short
time ago, has been released from Christ
hospital, where he has been treated, and
has gone to his home west of town.
If you want to do somebody a good
turn send a bundle of clothing to Police
Matron ThorD for distribution among
the poor. You needn't be particular
about its being too much worn, either
A Topeka woman who has just gone
for a visit to Rockford, ILL.,, has never
before been east of Kansas City. She
was born in Pottawatomie county and
has spent all her life in that county and
Shawnee.
The cases against thirteen jointists
druggists and others for keeping SLOT
machines were continued to November
81 All the parties arrested appeared In
police court at 4 o'clock and gave $10(
bond each.
The heavy passenger traffic which will
come into topeka about the time the
legislature will convene will not neces-
sarily mean that the cash receipts OF
the passenger departments will be I'M
duly swelled.
The police received a telegram this
morning from Eugene Farnham. oil
Carlton, Mo, requesting the force tC
locate one Peter Myers, a tailor. and tell
him that his brother died suddenly in
Carlton yesterday.
railroad man-one who has any
thing to do with the running of trains
is required to have a watch that will
not vary 80 seconds In a week If it
varies more than that it is condemned
and he must get another.
The big buffalo which has been in the
state agricultural museum since pre-
historic times has been moved into the
same room as the bird collection. That
and the other animals have been turned
over to the care of the Academy of Sci
ence.
Owing to the recent act of the federal
government which places a ban upon
stage money" the management has
even supplied the company with real
treasury notes to use m The Vinegar
Buyer" at the New Crawford Monday
night.
An inscription I read in a dressing
room in the old Baldwin Theater. San
Francisco" says Albert Maher of THE
Princess Chic" Opera company, lis very
true in many cases in the theatrical
profession. 1t reads: 'Aping the rich
keeps actors poor.
The same cola osable canvas train
with bona fide sparks issuing from the
smokestack was used in Just Struck
Town last night. For many years
Jules Walters has been ushered onto
the stage in the first act by means of
just such a train
The alleged "petrifed snake" which
laid around the state house basement
for a generation or more has finally
been given away TO a man who will ex-
hibit it at the st. Louis Worlds fair
1t is really a petrified plant.
A Topeka railroad man has $10G
watch which he carries all the time ex-
cept when he expects the assessor. Then
he gets out some $3.50 junk works which
he wears in his vest while he carries
the other watch in his hio-pocket.
There is a good deal in a name after
all-especially a Christian name. You
don't think of Charles Blood Smith. or