The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-13

James N. Orr. of Mitchell county, is
here today looking for a location.
The people who have taken down
their hard coal stoves are shivering to-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. E. Gault are the
parents Of an Easter boy, born last
night.
The wind and rain has been rather
destructive to the Sells & Downs cir
Gus posters
Who ever heard of an Easter. or
more than one or two anyway, when 1t
didn't rain2
T. Buttolph Jennings said Easter
would be fair. He'll probably make
the same statement about July Fourth,
in advance.
Lost-A small chamois skin bag con-
tanning jewelry. Reward of fifty dollars
win be paid for return to the State
Journal Office.
Neodesha Register: y. J. O'Rourk of
Topeka arrived here yesterday. He left
for Chanute today to visit his brother.
Dan ORourk.'
Last Wednesday Cider Smith an
nounced that there would be rain on
Easter. The government disagreed with
him to the last.
w. h Davis and Samuel T. Howe
have gone to Fairplay, Colorado, on
business for the Kansas and Colorado
Gold Placer company
The Woodward Stock company is
playing The Ensign" in Kansas City
this week and Will H. Wadsworth OF
Topeka is cast for Arthur Watson
The work of rebuilding the city rail-
way Will begin as soon as the new rails
and new material can be purchased. l..
E. Myers will do the work of rebuilding.
Frank Munsey, messenger boy at the
State Journal, won prize OF $40 sum
day for selling the largest number of
the Easter edition of the St Louis
Globe Democrat.
There must be an overproduetion in
the palm reading business The price
used to be % cents. Now it has gone
down to 10. The next thing will be a
trust in the palm reading profession
Walter Lux returned today to Kansas
City to resume his study at a dental
college. Mr.. Lux has been in Topeka
for three weeks assisting his brother,
who hurt his hand while opening bot
tie of chemicals.
That Joint known as The Palms" has
moved out, but into the building next
door has moved a professional palnist.
and has filed the front window with
pictures of palms. So the change is
not as abrupt as it might be-
Five new cars for the Vinewood road
Will arrive in Topeka this week. They
are 45-footers, with double trucks If
they are not too heavy for the tracks
they VIII be Immediately put into ser
vice on the city railway lines.
f. S. Stevens who was arrested on
the complaint Of Otto Miller for dis
turbing the peace. was released and the
case dismissed. Stevens owns the prop
erty where Miller lives and went one
day to repair it. Miller objected and
had Stevens arrested.
The Sells Downs circus is doing some
effective advertising in Topeka. 1t has
secured permission to post its adver-
Using on all of the telephone poles on
the east side of Kansas avenue, and the
long line of circus announcements down
the street is very effective.
The Washburn college baseball team
IS probably the greatest aggregation of
weak batters ever gathered into one
place. The management of the team
should hire a professional pitcher to
train the team in this deplorably weak
department of the game.
Harmon Wilson of the Capital sell
dom leaves Topeka but an invitation to
ill his old place in Andy Manifold
band took him to Beloit by the fastest
train Mr.. Wilson plays the saxa-
phone and one Of his Beioit admirers
said of his playing: He can just
make one OF them things talk"