The Topeka state journal., 1903-05-06

At the end OF tramping time
Theodore H. Boice in Pittsburg Chron-
icle.
How about that comic opera that Al
bert Reid was going to writer
Unity Chapter Rose Croix Of the
Scottish Rite, will elect officers Friday
night.
The Topeka Orphans home cared for
3S children during the quarter ending
April l.
County Attorney Nichols win try
eleven liquor cases in the district court
the week of May Is.
The plain drunk market has come url~
der the shadow of the bear. Only two
were on the docket this morning.
A new rule is in effect at the city jail.
No csss but the chief. sergeants and
jailers are allowed behind the desk
There will be a meeting of the Leper
Auxiliary association at the home OF
Prof. Mcneil. 1401 Clay street, Friday
evening
Norman Ramsey will be home from
West Point military academy about
June 1 to spend a furlough of three
months.
The southwest end of town is having
an epidemic of cottages. Most of them
are pretty ones though and are better
than no houses at all.
This season has not been one to en-
courage picnics out in the woods. Think
how hungry the chiggers win be when
the picnic season does open.
Pearl Payne cOlored. has caused tn
arrest Of her spouse in the city court for
non-support. She says that Berry
whose other name is Benjamin Payne.
fails to provide for her and the chill
dren.
A special train will be run out of To-
peka east after the concert given by
Madame Nordica on Wednesday even
ing, May 13, for the accommodation of
the people who attend from Lecompton,
Lawrence, Baldwin and Ottawa.
Topeka horses will have to be put in
the primary class OF .'city broke
steeds now that the new street cars
seen a real metropolitan street car, and
the sight almost throws them into
spasms.
The report that no physician was
called for Miss Gertrude Palmer who
died Saturday of appendicitis was a
mistake Though the family are Chris
tian Scientists both physicians and sur
geons were called in. She was sick
three weeks.
Every time the Washburn students
indulge in some new prank, President
Plass is reported to be very indig-
nant." These reports are probably in
correct. People who understand college
students know that is doesn't help mat
ters to get indignant
A state rally of the .-Gideons'' Chris
tan Commercial Travelers) has been
called to meet in Topeka. May 9 and
10. The meeting is called by State Supt.
A. B. Pomeroy- The ''Gideons" were
organized in 1899, and is composed Of
travelling men who profess Christianity
The business manager of Nine. 1Ade-
lima Patti has written Major t. J. An
derson offering to bring the great diva
here for a guarantee of SO, 500. This
would call for seats at from 81 to 81.
Everybody who IS anxious to spend
l71- ,71-
aye"
George Neil. councilman from the
Third ward says: People might as well
make UP their minds that the dog tax
will be raised The matter will not be
postponed any longer than our next
meeting. If any one wants to pay their
dog tax at the old rate. they will have
to hurry"
NJ. c. Pennekamp, who runs the Kan
sas Telegraph, has undertaken to prove
that the school bond election was won
by unfair means Mr. Pennekamp
should have commenced sooner. The
matter is now so old that even the peo-
pie who voted against the bonds don't
care much now.
P. H. Forbes, who has been trying to
hold his grip on the job of license col
lector, has wilted. and has turned over
the books of his office to his successor,
H. Ward Page. Forbes agreed to quit
on May Is, but Page -<ent right ahead
with the WORK OF the ONCE aIJef May 1,
and there was nothing for Forbes to do
but retire as gracefully as possible.
The jury in the district court brought
in a verdict Tuesday in the suit of Ed
Thompson against the city allowing
Thompson damages to the amount of
81. Thompson was badly shaken up,
While riding a bicycle down Quincy
street in the dark. by running into a
agon left in the street in front of a
wagon shop. This was the second trial
of the case.
Officer Wns. Hutton. who was recently
replaced on the force after d layon
dating from the days of Stahi. seems to
be following the same system when
made him so unpopular with the lower
crust during his former reign. Last
night he made seven arrests in an hour.
four of them colOred street walkers. i
class of people whom Hutton seems to
cordially dislike. Mary Waters, Clara
Lloyd, Mary Floyd and Nettie Nelson
are the names given by the dark dam
sells, who entered a plea of not guilty
this morning.
The city ordinances require that when
horses are hitched to weight that the
weight shall weigh less than 20 pounds
That is nothing short of farcical. Tues
day afternoon a horse, tied to weight,
ran away and the weight no more both
cred him than If it had been pill pox.
Now and then a horse runs away, a