The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-28

The sale of seats for the Field min
streis began today
The comedy. Too Many Wives" will
be given at Lincoln Post hall April %.
Trego county gold shale seems to
have been forgotten, by the press agent
at least.
The county commissioners are busy
looking at proposed routes for roads
these days
c. H Pattison has returned from
business trip to New York. He win
hereafter make Topeka his home.
The proposed increase in the price of
shaves viii tend to make business in
razors, homes and strops pick up.
Some people are still planting sweet
peas. They are the people who failed
to plant them a month ago.
Summer has arrived. Roland Medli-
colt appeared on the streets this morn
ing in shirt waist and coatless.
There was a slump in the price of
strawberries yesterday. Good ones
could be bought for 10 cents box.
David Overmyer seems to be getting
ready to perform a miracle. He will
try to raise the old soldier law from the
dead.
The annual concIave of the Kansas
Knights Templar viii be held in Topeka
May u and IS, during the May Musical
Festival.
the little son OF W 1. DIuDls WHO
lives at 1915 Tyler street broke his arm
in two places Monday by falling from
a buggy.
Judge Hazen denied the petition for a
new trial in the Aetna antitrust insur-
ance case and the contest will go to the
supreme court
A. S. Kane went to Meriden today
looking for snipe. He uses neither
sack nor salt but he is supposed to get
them Just the same.
President Theodore Roosevelt will be
in Topeka on Friday evening of this
week He will remain all night and will
leave Saturday morning for Manhattan.
G. w McDiH, secretary of the inter
national committee of the railroad Y.
NJ G. A. is in Topeka and will remain
until after the closing of the convention
here
Prof. D. L. McEachron of Washburn
college has purchased property on BOs-
well avenue between Sixteenth and Sew
enteenth streets and will build cottage
during the summer.
Tonight the moving picture show will
take place at the auditorium. The pro-
ceeds go to the Topeka fire department
for the purchase of gymnastic equip
ment for the fire stations.
Laurel Hoover. who was tried on a
statutory charge in district court yes
terday and escaped on a technicality,
was re-arrested in city court today for
failing to marry the girl in the case.
Section Director Jennings, in charge
de affairs of the weather bureau of
Kansas. now has one Of the most ele-
CANT Office suites in town. Old oak fur
niture, brussels carpets. ingram wall
paper, etc, made the change
A new coat of light green paint is be-
ing put on the walls and ceiling of the
city Jail Office. and the odor thereof was
SO strong that it was necessary to move
the telephones and register into another
room temporarily.
The twenty-third annual banquet OF
the Saturday Night club will be held
on the evening of May 20 The orators
outside of the membership of the club
will be Justice Mason, Conner Davies,
Henry J. Allen and H J Bone.
Frank Leach. of Washburn college,
president of the Interstate Oratorical
/ association will go to Cleveland, Ohio,
this week to preside at the annual in
terstate oratorical contest. He will be
accompanied by Frank Richie, of
Washburn, who is one of the three del
egates who will represent Kansas at
the meeting of the interstate assoeia-
ton.
The announcement that President
Roosevelt Will occupy his private car