The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-09
The amount involved is about

City The amount involved is about
$500.
None of the hucksters have paid the
500 license assessed against them by
the council. 1t has been reduced to that
figure from $35. The hucksters want
greater reduction.
! Senator Chas. E. Branine has sent
| Governor Bailey his check for $4920 TO
! be added to the flood fund. This is the
amount received by Senator Branine as
mileage and per diem.
Members of the police force will wear
| blue serge suits, during the summer.
Buttons from regular uniforms will be
transferred to the ordinary serge bust
ness suits.
President and Mrs. Norman PIass en-
tertained the Fortnightly club Wednes>
day at the Wash burn observatory. The
evening was spent in looking at Venus.
Saturn and the moon through the new
| telescope.
to attend the international convention
of the Y. NJ. c. A. at Denver. He will
deliver lecture upon the work of the
Society for the Friendless.
The Topeka Business college baseball
team was defeated by the Emporia Nor
ed there, the score resulting 10 to 7. The
r. b. C. defeated the Normal in
previous game.
For many years it has been customary
I Tor painters TO catalogue Ine1f pOTtfdllS
at exhibitions as Portrait of Lady.
or Portrait of Mrs. b." new fad is
to label them like school boys draw
ing This Is A Girl
J. B. Hoyt. of Sylvan Grove. Kas.,
sent to Secretary Coburn, of the De-
partment of Agriculture, a large bum
die OF English blue grass. raised on
the Union Pacific right of way. The
grass is 4 feet inches tall.
The State Historical society is hope
full of securing valuable collection of
letters written by Kansas men during
the early territorial days pertaining to
historical events, left among the papers
of the late Col Richard J. Hinton.
Mrs. David Brockway of Williams
| town, Mass, has sent a draft for $50 to
/ Mrs S. r. Remington of this city for
the relief fund. Mrs. Remington turned
the money over to the u. and l. club.
There is hot fight on for the job
of deputy grain inspector in Topeka. n
delegation of Topeka millers called on
Governor Bailey Wednesday and urged
/ the appointment of Thomas Cross, the
| present incumbent.
The supreme court has granted the
| application for the advancement of the
! waterworks bonds suit brought to test
the legality of the recent bond election
/ in Topeka. The case has been set for
trial at the October term of court.
The reports received at the state audi
J tors Office show that the oil inspection
receipts at Leavenworth are $50 a month
and at Kansas City, Kan, $65 a month,
| and Kansas City, Kan, is three times
as large as LeavenWorth. There is
something mysterious about this.
Prizes in the flower growing contest
which has been opened fOr-the boys in
! the organization called the Sons of the
King, will be awarded tonight on the
Bethany college campus where dis
play will be made. For sweet peas the
4 prizes will be SO and 81 and for nastur-
iums 81 and 81.
The officials of the Illinois Life Insur-
ance company state that about 300 policy
mitted their policies to lapse during the
receivership are paying up their back
policies. The premium receipts of the
Illinois Life from Kansas Mutual poll
cies has been about 1000 daily for the
last ten days, so the officials state.
A letter has been received from a man
in Prescott, Ariz., asking the state de-
partment of agriculture to recommend
to the writer of the letter some Kansas
horse breeders who would be likely to
officer of the United States army. Some
ish nag, and he knows where to come
to find it,
d. D. Baxter of Kinsley, Edwards
county, has applied to the department of
agriculture for 100 copies of the last BIZ
/ ennial report Unfortunately the supply
is exhausted The last legislature APP
10 its own use, to be distributed by the