The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-24
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The kaw river is higher than it has
been for a year.
The Commercial club has not yet
found new quarters.
The Highland Park baseball team
plays at EmpOria today.
Only a month more of school days yet
remain to the restless scholars.
The police viii lead the Decoration day
parade The squad is being drilled by
Sergeant Jenkins.
Senator Hessin of Manhattan came
to Topeka today. He will attend the
Wichita convention.
What Washburn needs worse than
anything else is a professor of batting
for its baseball team.
The. German department of the High
school gave aGerman play at the school
building Friday afternoon
J. L Bristow. fourth assistant post
master general left Topeka this morn
ing for his hone in Ottawa.
E. B. Cowgirl editor of the Kansas
Farmer, is building a $4,000 residence on
Clay street, facing Central park
E. D. McKeever, assistant U. S. at
torney, has returned from business
trip in the western part of the state.
Ex-Governor S. J. Crawford has re-
turned from Washington. He is home
IN time for the Republican state conyen-
ton.
The executive committee of the State
Exposition company is taking subscrip
lions of stock among the merchants of
the city.
A Topeka man has returned from Hill
City, where he says Blind Boone played
to an audience of 800 people. Who says
the west is not prosperous?
H S. Moulton has been allowed
judgment in the district court against
the defunct Masonic Mutual Life IN
suranee company for $3.50.
The Shawnee county W. c. T. U. in
sri 4
terday afternoon. A number of in
structive papers were read.
The rainy weather of this week has
been responsible for only fair attend
ance at the circus that is in Topeka this
week, as well as at the theater.
Street Commissioner Griggs will
build small corrugated iron lean to
back of the city hall for the white wings
to put their street carts into over night.
The baseball season at Washburn
college IS nearly over Only one more
game yet remains on the schedule. It is
June 4.
Favorable reports were secured in
the streets and walks committee yester-
day on the following pavement petit
tons; Clay from Sixth to Tenth; Mad
ison, from Sixth to Eighth
The Kansas Long Distanee Telephone
company has asked the county commits
siOnerS for a franchise to run lines
across Shawnee county. The city coun-
ell turned the company down.
City Engineer McCabe will use large
quantity Of dirt excavated from the
East Fourth street pavement to fill up
the historic Fiddle creek which ira
verses the Second ward. and carries off
Storm water.
The building formerly occupied by the
Coughlin- Martin, Hardware company,
next the Central National bank build
ing, is being torn down to make room
for the new f1ve-stOry Office block that
is to be built by c. J. Devlin.
Babu Bheem Roy. of India. will speak
in Unity church Sunday morning at Il
o'clock on Our Debt to India" Mr.
Roy has spoken most aceeptably in
Kansas City, Cleveland and other cities.
He is a member of DIR. Edward Everett
HaIe's church in Boston.
Rev. p. Mclean Coleman, pastor of
the Reformed Presbyterian church at
the corner of Tenth and Clay streets, is
a delegate to the synod of that church
which will meet at Syracuse, N. Y. May
%. He viii attend the synod and be alb
sent from Topeka about a month.
The following is from a Kansas city
paper: Charles Caldwell of Topeka, Kan.
is out with a challenge to meet Ed
Courtney in a limited round bout Cald-
We'll says that he will meet Courtney at
lat pounds and he is willing to bet $50
that he can beat the colOred boxer.
At a meeting of the con mittee on
streets and walks Friday afternoon, it
was decided to resurrect the old anti
paving resolution, which has been
pigeonholed for some time. The reso-
luton provides that no more paving pc
titions shall be considered this year.
There will be a Memorial day service
at the Euclid Avenue Methodist church
Sunday morning, the sermon being
preached at IL o'clock by the pastor
J. M. Jackson. All old soldiers are re-
quested to meet at the home of G. T.
Mattingly III Lincoln street, at 10: 30
and march to the church in a body.
Mr.. Isaac S. Dement,, the fastest short
hand writer in the world. and the au-
thor of Dement'S Pitmanic system. says
of the Standard School of Shorthand $
new method of teaching his system: 1
most certainly do approve of it; it goes
almost without saying that a pupil who
has received such instruction must be 3
shorthand success" This method is a
saving of two months time.
Capital Council No of the Knights
and Ladies of Security will give an ex-
cursion to Kansas City next Wednes-
day, on the Santa Fe railroad. The
fare for the round trip will be one dol
lar. Anyone may go. The excursion is
not confined to members of the order.
The train leaves Topeka Wednesday
morning at 7:15. Returning the train
will leave Kansas City some time after
supper time.
Another man who is said to be look
ing with longing eyes toward the Re
publican nomination for mayor is Coun-
Gilman s. A. Swendson of the Sixth
ward. This completes the list Every
ward in the city has a candidate for
mayor sitting in the council. They are
as follows: First ward, Bergundthal;
Second ward, Griley, provided the Dem
ocrats make an independent nomina-
tom; Third ward, Wolf; Fourth ward,
Weber; Fifth ward, Howe; Sixth ward,
SWendSon.