The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-11


It's gentle spring-a fog comes out
And forms grow white and dim;
Ere long We II cease to walk about
And have to learn to swim.
Washington Star.
The theaters will be dark tonight
How many times were you asked to-
day Have you voted2"
The government thermometer ranged
between So and 43 Tuesday.
This is the day that has been talked
about necessarily for six weeks or so.
Unless you can become very much ex-
cited today you are not patriotic citi-
zen.
Rev. John d. Knox is a first cousin
OF Philander Knox. attorney general Of
the United States.
The rumor that the Sells & Downs
band wagon would be used to haul
voters today was denied.
The rumor that Cy Leland is taking a
hand in todays primary is false He
looked at his hand and stayed out.
County Attorney Galen Nichols made
his weekly visit to Kansas City Tues
day night on the eve Of the primaries.
J. p. Widner says that the report
that he turned Melvin Wheeler, the
deserter, from the United States navy
over to the police is not true.
In order to be sure that you can cast
your ballot today it viii be well for you
to take your receipts for laundry and
house rent to the polls with you.
Monday for wealth. Tuesday for
health, Wednesdays the best day of
ALL can be quoted by the candidates up
to the time the votes are counted.
Every sort of an available vehicle ex-
cept a hearse was in use at the polls
today. The hearse. hguratively speak
ing, will be in demand after the count.
Judge Hazen now has the Aetna Life
Insurance company case under advise
ment The Aetna. and 50 other com
panies are charged with violating the
anti-t trust law.
Gen. Hugh Cameron. the Kansas
Hermit, has returned from his pilgrim
age to Washington. He accidentally
I burned his eye with carbOlc acid and
is suffering from the result.
The Kansas City Star says: What
ever liquid may be used in christening
the battle ship Kansas. let not any drug
store liquor be used. 1t would eat
hole through the armOr plate.''
Mrs. D. o. Coe and Mrs. H. A Tice
Will speak at the meeting of the Topeka
/ Primary Sunday School Teachers union
Saturday afternoon at the Central CON
gregati0nal church.
Charles K Holiday says: This is tho
cleanest local political fight that l ever
witnessed. No mud has been slung at
all and the only dispute has been about
laundry. What could be cleaner? p
This is a great day for the drug
stores. or some of them. The joints are
closed. 1t is strange that the joint
element demand that the liquor empor-
iums close on the day they want their
cohorts to be sober and vote right.
The Western School Journal. edited by
! John Macdonald the only thoroughbred
] ScOtchman in the business in Kansas,
says: As to the defeat OF woman suf-
frage in the Kansas legislature, our
views and belief are expressed in the
/ language of two eminent men, President
Roosevelt and Robert Burns: The wave
/ will recede but the tide viii advance
It's comm yet, for a that.
Atchison Globe: In case the Atchison
( Street railway is sold, it means lines to
Leavenworth Topeka and St Joe. and
7 a loop line to Eiawatha and Horton,
and back by way of Highland and Donl-
phan. It means an immense power plant,
using ten or twelve tons of coal daily,
near the Barry brick yard, and it means
a belt line. If these improvements are
made. the discovery of coal will be en-
titled to the credit
The four liquor cases dismissed by
Judge Hazen Tuesday for want of pros
ecution We're some of the famous in
junction cases brought two years ago
! against the jOintists. These cases were
talked over and thoroughly threshed out
last fall in the campaign for the cleo
ton of county attorney l. A StebbinS,
who brought the suits. stated to Judge
Hazen yesterday that the lack of prose-
cution was the fault Of Assistant Attor-
ney General A. L. Redden.
A marriage license was ISSUED Tues
day to Lawson B. Whiteker and Daisy
S. Wilcox of Topeka. Whiteker was
the Twentieth Kansas man who was
shot through the lungs and reported
dead in the Philippines. Even the
members of the company thought he
had been killed. He wasn't but it took
him six months to convince everyone
in the Philippines and at home that he
was alive. He still has the bullet that
ploughed its way through his body 1t
lodged in his cartridge belt.
The Western School Journal says:
Many Topeka teachers viii remember
Miss Mary Sabin, who was about twelve
years ago the efficient and popular prin-
cipal of Branner school, Topeka. She
is now Mrs. Rose, and lives in Chicago.
Her husband. Mr. Donald Rose. is as
sistant to the second vice president of
the Illinois Central railroad, a position
of great responsibility, for It is from
that office the entire system is opera ted.
Mr.. Rose served as clerk in both the
Rock Island and Santa Fe offices, To-
peka He is a railroad man by nature
and training. and his promotion has
been rapid. Industry, perseverance,
courtesy, and. last but not least, ca
pacity, are the keys with which he has
opened the doors to success