The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-26
Topeka viii Be Scene Of an Old
Fashioned Show.
Big Funds for Live Stock and
Agricultural Prizes.
CHANCE FOR EVERY ONE
Worlds Fair Commission Adds
$4,000 to Premiums.
Excellent Programme Of Races
Is Also Assured.

Not until within the past week or two
has any appreciable result been realized
from the efforts to secure subscrfp-
tons for the Kansas State Fair prem
ium guarantee fund which the Com
mercial club has undertaken to secure
Topeka merchants have been slow to
advance money and the committee do
ing the work found their subscription
raising discouraging. The trouble ap--
pears to have been caused by an ig-
noranee of the purpose for which the
money was to be used but the attitude
is now changing and in the last ten
days a thousand dollars has been
pledged.
There win be state fair, the date,
September IA to 10 having been chosen.
and the business men of Topeka and
the farmers of the county will have
ready a sum of $4,000 as their guaran-
tee of faith in the success of the thing
Five thousand of this viii be spent in
premiums for agricultural and horticuI-
tural products of Kansas, to secure
displays of which special work will be
done during the summer. The other
FIVE thousand dollars will be held in re-
serve, a guarantee to the live stock ex-
hibitors that the premiums offered in
their department viii be paid.
Added to the amount set aside for
premiums in the fruit and farming de-
partment viii be the sum of 81, 600 to be
given by the Kansas commission to the
! St. Louis Worlds fair. All the prize
winning exhibits in this department
viii become the property of the Kansas
Fair commission at the close of the
I Topeka fair and the best of all the ex-
hibits in this department viii become
/ the property of the Kansas fair COM
mission to the St. Louis Worlds fair
All the prize winning exhibits in this
department viii become the property OF
the Kansas fair commission at the close
of the Topeka fair and the best Of all
the exhibits viii be utilized in the
Kansas exhibit at St Louis. The mem
bers of the Worlds fair commission are
very anxious to secure complete dis
play of oeT.hard and farm products and
with this purpose are lending every en-
coura cement to the new departments
which the Kansas Exposition company
will open this fall. A conference be-
tween the members of the commission
/ and c. H. Samson and H. A. Heath of
I the State Fair company was held re-
Gently and this appropriation has been
definitely resolved upon
The racing meet and the exhibit of
blooded stock, the two successful fea-
lures of last years fair. are in charge
of Mr. Samson and Mr.. Heath, respec-
lively Mr. Heath has not begun his
: WOrk very dCuN6iy DcCd0Sc IL - to1
early but Mr.. Samson is daily sending
out information, prize and stake lists
to horsemen whose curiosity is denoted
by the flood of inquiries returned from
advertisements displayed in several OF
the leading western hOrSemen'S s jour
nails. 1t is impossible to tell anything
about the probable entries for the rae
ing meet. The entries for stake races
close on June and during the three OF
four days gust previous to that the en-
tries will pour in. Entrance to tbs
purses and Derby stake will not be
I closed until September ). but the fan
management viii be able to form an es-
innate of its business on the race track
during the early part of the summer
The stakes and purse hung up by the
Kansas state fair equal those of any OF
the middle west states and are larger
than those of any other racing event ir
! Kansas.
Following is the list of stakes an6
purses offered by the State Fair com