The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-04

w. Y Morgan was down to Kansas
City yesterday.
The government thermometer got up
to So Thursday.
mess Thursday.
The Women's Relief Corps ought to
find plenty to do today
Fourth of July a year ago was not,
red hot. You remember?
If you wish to spend quiet day. go
to the Santa Fee boiler shop
New wheat is now moving to market,
but not in very great quantities
The man or boy who fires a shotgun
all night ought to be banished to Guam.
Mrs. M. A Killian and Mrs Emma
Ellis are visiting in Rossvilie for few
days.
The boy who was blown up or in
tured the day before the Fourth was
unlucky.
Sloan lodge will hold a special COM
munication Saturday night beginning
at $50 o'clock
Walter Frazeur, formerly Topekan
but now of St. Joseph, Mo-, Is In town
for a day or two.
Thomas Vaughn is now the janitor
at the court house and he has promised
to wash the windows
One person says this is the quietest
Fourth on record and the next person
says it Is the nOisiest.
Did you try to talk over a telephone
today? Did you think you were con-
nected with a sham battle?
Wanted: A revolver that will shoot
81 times without being reloaded. Ad-
dress a thoroughbred celebrator.
The Republican Flambeau club last
night authorized that committee be
appointed to raise 5000 for new uni
forms.
Major Harvey and Harry L-arimer
have patched up truce and they now
sleep in the same block. but in separate
houses.
Another effort will be made next win
| ter to have the legislature create the
| office of state fire marshal to prosecute
| incendiaries.
| The barber shops closed at noon. 1t
was not safe to be shaved this morning,
| the BARRIERS jumped SO every time al big
cracker exploded.
! Anyone who wishes to invent yell
| might combine today's noises, booms
| and sizes and the result would be beau
| tiful college jargon.
| Governor and Mrs. Stanley are spend
| ing the Fourth of July in Wichita. where
| the governor will make an address at 4
Chautauqua picnic
There will be several people this ev-
| ening who will learn by sad experience
| that it isn't safe to hold lighted sky
| rocket in ones hand.
The Santa Fe fast mail looked like a
| Icdl lIdlIl last CIV ClllLS. II CcII1Su LII &C
| coaches and baggage car and was
| filled with passengers.
| The dog that stayed in the cellar or
under the woodshed today was not a
thoroughbred American. He must have
| been at least part Spanish.
The Santa Fe Reds are to play a base
ball team picked from the other base
| ball teams in Topeka, on the Wash
| burn grounds this afternoon.
There is little celebration of the
| Fourth of July in the south. There are
| plenty of people in Topeka who wish
| they were in the south today.
The story from a Topeka fishing party
| that they had caught 5000 pounds of
! fish was received last night by tele-
| phone. The wires may have been cross
| ed
A. E. Jones is having trouble today
4 at his home in Oakland. The Democrats
| are picnicking on one side of his place
| and Gage Post of the G. A. r. are on
the other.
E. L. Hills, superintendent of the
| Soldiers Orphans home at Atchison,
has turned $452.52 into the state treas
| ury, the receipts from the sale of artt-
| cles at the home.
Governor Stanley is debating whether
| it is wise to spend time and muscle on
the executive mansion lawn when he
| will have to turn it over to his sue
4 ceSsor next January.
AS F. L. Vandegrift took the train for
| his home in Kansas City he said to a
| friend: Il am going home to spend the
| Fourth I will enjoy the day under the
| house with the dog"
A. A. Hurd is the most enthusiastic
| Fourth of July celebrant in Topeka. He
bought a wagon load of f1recrackers
| and fireworks and began operations at
| o'clock this morning.
| Battery B commenced firing a salute
at midnight. The battery boys must be
| 1,x fxxrr~ obj n
| year to shoot their cannon-Decora-
| ton day and July Fourth.
| Mrs Charles Helm, wife of the in
| structor of the Turnverein, who under
| went successful operation at Christ
| hospital, Saturday, is making Satisfac-
tory improvement and will soon be out.
| Dr. Mclean of the Iowa State uni
| versity, DR.. Mcclure of Michigan uni
versity and Prof. Vincent of the Uni
versity of Chicago have been secured
| as speakers for the next state teachers
association.
w. A. Thompson, formerly deputy
| warden of the penitentiary says that
Ira N. Terrill, the Oklahoma convict
| who argued his own case in the supreme
court few days ago, is a hard worker
but has a bad temper.
Governor Stanley has turned down the
| application for parole for ]. E. Martin,
penitentiary for numbering Claude Tut
tie because he suspected Tuttle of in
| timacy with his wife.
Shawnee county will lose a special
| sure cure brand of justice If L. G. Dis
ney is appointed attorney on the DAVIS
| Indian commission but Shawnee coun-
tvs loss will be the Indians gain They
will learn something they don't know
! about jack pots.
Every man or boy who went up or
down street today holding a revolver
up in the air or at his side and trying
/ to look unconscious of the fact that he
was pulling the trigger as fast as it
would work. thinks he was the king bee
of all the noise makers.
The Republican F1ambeau club last
| night ratified E. E. LARS action in in
| viting Senator Burton to speak Mon
| day night at the Auditorium under the
| auspices of the club. Frank Grimes,
| Tobn Stanton n NJ Philjr,s -T0f1r D1id-