The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-04

Probate Judge Pagan IS confined TO
his home by sickness.
one week from today the May Mu-
steal Festival will BEGIN
Roosevelt has gone. but there is the
Sells orepaugh circus yet to live for
The Independent Telephone company
now mas 1900 subscribers in Topeka.
Rev. and Mrs Charles NJ. Sheldon
leave today for California, to be gone a
month
p II. coodreau. editor of the Cotton
wood Falls Courant. was a business Wis
! itcr to Topeka today.
director Jennings really feels positive
that there VIII be no more snow storms
between now and July 4.
The writer has a blister in the palm
/ of his right hand. Did you ever pull
tacks at house cleaning tIme2
I'd to noon today no other person who
was recognized by President Roosevelt,
while he was in Topeka, has appeared
0. H. banner has commenced the con
struction of $4,000 residence on Gay
between Fourteenth and Fifteenth
! streets.
Sheriff Lucas returned from Denver
this morning with John Thompson, who
is wanted for burglarizing the Spivey
residence.
The ambulance may be needed at
Washburn college today The freshmen
and sophomores came together for some
athletic contests.
In the first of a series of games to be
played between Auburn and Wakarusa
ball teams Auburn won with a score of
to 4 last Saturday.
The county clerks force has been
busy since 5 o'clock this morning exc
cutting pension vouchers. Five clerks
have been busy all day.
Harry Bone, the governors private
secretary, is at Ashland, Clark county,
today where he delivers the address to
the graduating class of the high school.
During the month of April the rural
mail carriers out of Topeka handled So
/ 1874 pieces of mail and Cancelled stamps
to the value of $96-72. There are s1A
rural routes
There is not much change in the sit
uatiOn of the local timers strike. Ne
gotiations for settlement are in progress
and a compromise will probably be
agreed upon.
The Jury in the district court rem
dered a verdict Saturday in favor of +.
/ H Coney in his replevin suit against
ex-Sheriff Cook over a stock Of goods
seized BY Cook.
A free social is to be given Tuesday
evening by the women of the Central
/ CONGREGATIONAL church at the home Of
Mrs II. c. Bowman. at 1924 College
avenue.
Kansas City has a May musical fes--
Friday of this week. The attractions
are much the same as those offered by
Topeka the week following.
County Clerk Newman has received
/ from Mayor Bergundthal and from the
several township trustees the list of
names from which the Shawnee county
/ jurors will be drawn in 1901
! The delegates who have been attend
4 ing the Y NJ G. A. convention ars
about as fine an appearing lot of men as
/ is often seen. They are the pick OF the
railroad yards of the country.
Ne r1irlrnocIrafs the rnlipi0lIS work
ers and the hotel men rejoiced over last
weeks gathering OF people in Topeka
with about an equal degree or entnC-
siasm. All of them got something
Bale Waggener, of Atchison. has Of
fered an annual gold medal for the col
ored boy attending the Topeka Indus
trial institute who shall win a decla-
nation contest to be held once each
yeas
The Knights of Columbia viii meet in
Topeka Tuesday for their annual state
convention. The meeting will be held
in K. P. hall at Sixth and Quincy
streets. Forty-four delegates are ex-
! pected-
F. W Emerson. formerly of Topeka,
/ has just concluded a three days tenn
/ perance crusade at Kansas City, Kan.
He went from there to Potter, Kan,
and will be lecturing in Kansas for the
next eight weeks
The Mutual Fire Insurance assOcia-
ton of the United States will hold a
four days convention in Chattanooga,
Tenn, this week. The Kansas members
will make a desperate effort to bring the
convention here in 1904.
The freight department baseball team
beat the passenger department of the
Santa Fe offices by score of 81 to on
+ the Lowman Hill grounds Saturday at
ternoOn. c.. Finke, who pitched for the
freight department famed" % men.
Sheriff Lucas has built red anu
rr-i,i al 10 I9iI lawn
and has sown a hatful of blue grass and
white clover seed. Besides that he
/ whitewashed the tree trunks, had the
Jail painted and cleaned until it is Z
most inviting looking place
The pension bureau has made a rule
/ that pensioners in sending in their
! vouchers must give their street address
and not general delivery, as heretofore
So many have had their checks sent TO
the general delivery that for a day or
so the Dostoffice has been almost
swam9ed.
Express Driver Peter Horde is IL
trouble. The charge is selling whisky te
Indians, and he was arrested by federal
/ authorities. Horde lived at 213 East
Fourth street. He it is claimed. has
been a bootlegger- He is now in the
/ county jail under bond Of $500 which he
cannot furnish.
Emporia lodge No IS, ons of the Ma
sonic organizations of the town, will
have charge of the laying of the corner
stone of the new government building
on the afternoon of May y. Grand
Master Bestor G. Brown of Topeka will
conduct the ceremony
Ben Jordon. who for years has been
the proprietor of notorious dive in
North Topeka is under arrest in the
county Jail under an Indictment of the
federal grand jury on the charge of
selling liquor to Indians. His bond is
$1,000 which he is unable to furnish.
Jordon viii probably be tried at Salina.
L. S. Pension Agent Wilder S. Met
calf has made an order that no pension
checks shall be mailed hereafter except
to pensioners who have furnished the
office with their street address. This is
to save the returning of a lot of enve1-
opes improperly directed. The order IS
going to make trouble for awhile. Per-
sons having no street address must
SWAN to thair Statement