The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-03

Thanksgiving will be three weeks from
Thursday.
County Treasurer F. C. Bowen began
receiving taxes yesterday.
THE Beauty Doctor" will have a
large audience at the New Crawford
theater tomorrow night.
This is the fifth day of rain. 1t was
Solder Smith who forecasted decided
change in the weather.
Thomas Cooneys request for a new
trial of his suit against A. Hylt for
SIS. 600 damages was denied by Judge Ha-
zen.
Some of the street crossings which
the city railway put in over its eXcaVa-
tions are in terrible condition and
should be repaired.
There was a good demand for tickets
for Louis James and Frederick Warde In
Alexander the Great" when they went
on sale this morning.
A called meeting of the Woman's
Home Missionary society of the First
M E. church will be held in the lecture
room Wednesday at p. m.
Rev. Charles NJ Sheldon. who has
been kept at home by sprained ankle
which he received in leaving a car. is
now able to be around, though he still
limDs
Mrs f. w. Swearingen, of Topeka,
who has been sick with typhoid fever
in ST Joe for six weeks. is considerably
improved and is now able to sit up
short time
A Lawrence paper says K. q. made
mistake in playing football game with
Washburn, because the Topeka univer-
sfty is not in its class. There is abund-
ant evidence that some sort of mistake
was made.
Only two members of this years
Washburn football team will graduate
and leave school at the end of this
year They are Anderson and Delay,
the two quarterbackS- Plenty of good
material is in sight to fill this vacancy.
The police arrested a young negro
woman in North Topeka last night, who
was so drunk that her name is still
Susan Doe on the police register. Acting
Jailer Asher put on his waterproof coat
when he carried her to cell in the
WomanS ward
The bad weather has delayed the
work of completing the new track on
West Twelfth street. but 1t is expected
to finish it this week. The street rail-
way company has resumed work on
West Tenth street where a part of the
double track has not been rebuilt.
Miss Maud Lands, who is a grad
uate Of the Illinois training school and
for two years has been connected
with the Soarritt hospital at Kansas
City, arrived TODAY to assume her new
position of superintendent of the Stor-
mont hospital. Miss Lands is a grad
uate of the Kansas university.
Lawrence World: 1t is hardly worth
the trilling. Our football team went
up against the spindling shanks from
Washburn on Saturday and much to
the SURPRISE and chagrin of the pub
lie; went down in defeat. There is
only one explanation of this: we did
not know they were loaded.
The funniest thing ever printed
about football game appeared in the
Lawrence Gazette. 1t argued that K.
u should not play with academies"
and minor Schools" because the re-
suit of Saturdays game with Wash
burn showed that such schools always
resorted to smuggling to win the game"
For the purpose of raising money to
furnish their new building the Railroad
Y. M. G. a. will ask the Topeka Choral
union for the proceeds OF all the tick
cts that can be sold for the Messiah
oratorio by members of the associa-
ton. 1t is believed s., 900 worth of
tickets can be sold among the railroad
men.
Sam Bosley the Indian interpreter
VINO was formerly a regular boarder al
the city Jail, has returned after an alb
Sence dating from July Z, when he es-
capped from the shovel brigade IN North
Topeka. He was arrested at z O'Clock
THIS morning by Sergeant Darby. Sam
has sneaked into town several times
since his escape, but would go back to
Mayetta the same night and elude ar
rest Last night he got full of fire.
water and missed his train. There are
As days of the old fine awaiting MIN.
Mexican Herald: DR.. J. r. Fay, of
Chanute, Kan, formerly of Topeka, left
last night over the Central for the
states He has been in Mexico for about
week looking for something in the
plantation line that would interest him
self and party of capitalists whom he
represents. DR. Fay had intended to
make a number of side trips along the
same line but on account of quarantine
regulations which prevail in the districts
that he wished to visit he has seen fit to
return to the states without having
made the trips.
The police have received a commune
cation from Lock Haven, Pa, request
ing them to assist in the search for
Mrs. Name G. Mulhern. who left her
home in that city August II, and has
not been heard from since. When she
left home she was accompanied by her
three children, two boys. aged 3 and 5,
and a girl aged II. She purchased
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