The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-20

Who's been heard oft before.
Hes going to keep IN fashion,
The staid old city fathers
With ideas to impress.
He's going TO have his inning,
AS everyone shall see.
With that old time selection,
On, Woodman, spare that tree
The government Thermometer got up
to 90 Thursday and down to So.
The new song Goodbye Booze" is
having quite a. run in Topeka
Fort Wayne is planning to institute
city ownership of the electric light
plant
This is one Of those days in June
which is called rare. Some might say 1t
was raw.
l. H Perkins, Of Lawrence, was in
Topeka yesterday to meet with the tax
commission.
Mines from the Democratic Flambeau
club and the city 7. M. c. A. will play
baseball Sunday.
The Increase in the valuation of the
taxable property in Shawnee county Tor
1902 over 1901 was 1917 7S7.
The Republican B1ambeau club of To-
peka will make an effort to have the
Republican state campaign open in To-
pelSa.
The noisiest street car in the city is
No. 81. President Cliff Baker viii not
allow it to be run on West Sixth avenue
past his house.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. r. Kettle have re-
turned to Topeka from Lawrence. Their
little daughter was hurt few days ago
In an accident.
Fred and August Klinge of Topeka
viii sail from New York Thursday Tor
Bremen, Germany, where they VIII
spend the next three months.
G. P. Cordelet, one of the councilmen
at Fort Wayne, Ind, has written to
City Clerk Squires asking for informa-
ton about the city electric light plant.
If President Roosevelt comes to To-
peka next fall, Topeka will show him
crowd that has not been edualled since
the day of the Twentieth Kansas recep-
ton.
Fred Wellhouse. the apple king, says
that unless something unlocked for nap
pens to the apple crop within short
time Kansas viii have big crop OF
apples.
The Topeka Business college baseball
team viii play the insane, asylum team
at Washburn park Saturday afternoon
and when that is over will play the Il
A A. team
Bestor G. Brown Of Topeka was in
Beloit this week at the installation OF
John Q. Postlethwaite as grand general
issimo Of the grand cOmmandery of the
Masonic order.
Hiram S. Gable. the new general
superintendent of the western district
of the Rock Island system, has repted
the residence Of Colonel A. s. Johnson
and is now living there.
The Banking Trust company. John W.
Credentials new company, has pur-
chased an Office building in Kansas
City Kan, for $4,000 in which 1t will
maintain its headquarters.
Ellen NJ. Stone Is to lecture in Ottawa.
A Topeka man says that if she stops
at the most popular hotel in the city
she viii be painfully reminded of the
diet the brigands served her.
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the Topeka Scottish society tomorrow
afternoon at the Washburn college
grounds has been postponed until some
future date on account Of the wet con-
dition Of the grounds
A number of politicians were talking
about the bad habit of wearing dia-
monds at the Copeland yesterday. Here
comes Charley Biddle," said F. Dumont
Smith. He wears diamond that looks
like 25 cents worth OF ice
Governor Stanley has little patience
with district judges who sentence con-
| Wet to prison for number of years and
in a short time ask that the sentence be
cut down. He says judges ought to
know what they are doing.
Here is a notice which has been go
! ing the rounds of the papers and which
/ Mrs. Nation win hasten to deny: Mrs
! Carrie Nation has offered her services to
/ the Festival association of Milwaukee,
for a turn at the fall festivities
fll 1AE6IlQ5 recently LEtEANc4 d C1id.l-
/ lenge to play ping pong. 1t is said he
! was so insulted that he wanted to fight
\ a duel with the challenger Mcbride
has played tennis since the game was
ferried across the Missouri river.
Street Commissioner Griggs has laid
a cinder walk around the north and
east sides Of the Auditorium. 1t will
| be a great convenience to people who
! have occasion to enter or leave the
Auditorium by the side or rear en-
frances.
J. B. Adams and his party Of sur
veyors, who have been running line
for an electric railway between Topeka
! and Kansas City by way of Lawrence
returned to Lawrence Thursday even
| ing Their operations were interrupted
BY the rains, ana it will probably be
some time before they get back here tC
I complete the survey.
Since Mayor Parker assumed office on
( January TO- the city has received $685.. sc
1 for rents Of the Auditorium. During
| the ten months that Mayor Hughes was
in Office he collected $500. The state
| ment n ade by q morning paper that
Mayor Parker had collected nothing for
/ Auditorium rents since he assumed Of
| fee is obviously untrue.
Ed Howe, Of the Atchison Globe has
invited John Marshall to eat dinner will
| him Saturday while the Topeka band is
| in Atchison IF Marshall accepts he
/ viii not be able to lead the band fol
l three days because Howe has the repu
tation Of being a high liver and Mar.
shall's recent political campaign wa.
handicapped because he had the govt
William Kimball, a boy who was sen
to the Industrial school for boys for be
/ ing implicated in a robbery in CLOUD
| county, proved too incorrigible for th'
school and has been returned to Con
cordias where he viii probably be sen
fenced to the penitentiary, as he is i
years old. He threatens to kill Superin
tendent Charles, and the judge anC
sheriff who imprisoned him.
The eastern newspapers continue to
print fakes about the Kansas gold
shale fields. Here is one from a Boston
publication under a Topeka date line
Then western Kansas was the bed Of
a sea. as klarks's teeth and petrifled
fish are daily taken out by workmen al
the mill owned by the Pioneer Gold
Shale company of Topeka This coma
pany has large quantities. Of bullion 81