The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-02


Coneyvllle Kansas, on April 27.
The long delayed hearing of testimony
in the dollar gas case was resumed to
day.
The registration at the University of
Kansas has reached 1880, $50 men, 40
women
Charles S. Gleed is home from New
York where he has been for several
months
J. ". O'Neil. receiver of the water
company, has returned from d trip
through Missouri
There will be a meeting of the Wo-
mans Municipal league at Lincoln Post
hall at .. m. Friday.
The family of John Kleinhans is
ouarantined away from home as their
little daughter has scarlet fever
Dave Harum's cigar bill must be
and gives away three at every perform
ance.
The ladies of the U. c. T. club will
meet at 2:30 Friday afternoon at the
y. c. T. hall The meeting will be an
important one.
There is a pert young clerk in a To-
peka Office who is a living image of the
"Chet Timson" in the ". H. Crane
Harum" show
Plans are being made by the Repub-
ncan city central committee for d meet
Ing Monday night in Tennesseetown-
The meeting vii be at Jordan's hall.
The second half of the second term
will begin at the University of Kansas
April T. Many teachers who have
finished their teaching year will enroll
There is one question agitating the
mind of the public which w. H. Crane
should set at rest. Does he use real
champagne in the last act, or is it only
soda water?
At 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon there
will be q mass meeting of Topeka col.
ored people at the Industrial institute
In South Topeka to discuss industrial
and social questions.
A = NJ. c. A boy wearing a bicycle
suit and red golf stockings was seen on
the streets today The harbingers of
beautiful spring are getting more pro-
miscuOus every day.
It IS Rev. c. W. Lane and Mrs Fan
ME Burns. and not Rev. Mr.. Snelson,
at Lane chapel next Monday evening
Mr.. Snelson viii ohiciate at the we'd
dIn=."
Prof George Washington Jackson
viii take his band to Lawrence Friday
where he viii give a band concert in
the evening. The house was sold out
the day the seat sale opened for the
concert.
At their convention Wednesday after
noon the Woodmen of Shawnee county
elected the following delegates to the
state conventions: w. E Pagan, c. D
WEIGH c. c. Mcpherson and F. ".
Harrison.
Friday night there will be q meeting
of the Second Ward Republican club,
at which some of the speakers will be
A. W. Dana, a. T. Lucas. A Newman,
A. NJ Philips and others. The meeting
viii be a big one.
Topeka has been entertaining an
angel unawares. The Ninewood road
seems to have been the lever which
pried the Topeka City railway out of
the rut and started it to moving along
with the procession.
About the only way the Democrats
are willing to bet on the coming mayor
election is that Bergundthal will not
get over 1,500 majority. H. w Page,
chairman Of the Republican committee,
says Bergundthal viii get 800 or more.
Henry 1serman, aged Sc, the father
of DR.. J. c. Iserman, who lives at 40i
Polk street. was a neighbor of the
Roosevelt family back in New York Is
years ago. He was present at the mar
riage of Roosevelts father and knew
Teddy" as q little boy.
Judge Hazen has taken under advise
ment the arguments in the motion
made by the attorneys for Mrs Irene
F'risbie for new trial in the damage
suit for the alienation of her husbands
affections instituted by Mrs. Byron
Client. Mrs. Client received a judg-
ment for $4,000
Archie Fuller. a Topeka boy and
graduate of the High school of the
class of 81. is playing a minor role in
the production of tDu Barry by
Mrs. Leslie Carter. The Chicago pa
pers have been giving him very COM
plimentary notices.
William B. Stillman, formerly of
Kansas, but now Of the department of
agriculture at Washington. D. c., has
been appointed as chief of the exhibit
of the agricultural department at the
st. Louis fair and he IS now If ST.
Louis to begin his duties
Judge Hazen yesterday granted a d.
vorce to Katherine P Sears from Louis
S. Sears on the ground of non-support
name of Phillips was restored. MI
Sears was chief clerk in the Office of
VIM. Higgins when he was secretary OF
state.
Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler the pianist.
who was heard in Topeka last season,
will give recital at Newton next
Monday night. Madame Zeisler is
favorite with music lovers in Chicago
and New York and Paris. but she was
not appreciated when she was heard
/ in Topeka
JH Van Orsdale of Elk county who
! fought the battles of the Vinewood
Park railroad when the prospects were
anything is in Topeka. He says his
version of the Topeka city railway re-
/ organization is different from that
given out by Mr. Baker but refused to
say what it is.
Clara L Taylor one of the Eliza
/ Chrisman heirs. has filed suit against
Fred PerneH for the possession of the
Topeka Cash Dry Goods building. She
also asks S5.400 damages with interest
from 1900 Pernell was Mrs. Chrisman's
coachman and was given the building
at her death.
At the annual meeting of the First
Presbyterian church Monday night it
was learned that the church was en-
tirely out of debt All the bills incur
red during the year have been paid and
a balance is left in the treasury. John
z. Moon, George H. Whitcomb, Albert
Watkins, C. F. Worley and T. e.
/ Bacon were reelected trustees for an
other year
The Marcastie Oil Gas & Mineral
company, which is drilling for oil near
Wamego. has sold 5000 shares Of its