The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-29


I've a dam-site yet left"
Which language occasioned abhorrence.
Senator J. R. Burton left Sunday for
the east
A good place to spend a vacation is
in the harvest field.
The Native Sons and Daughters of
Kansas are to have day" at the St.
Louis exposition.
Bailiff John Coyne Of the district court
has already sold his entire potato crop
for delivery in August.
The Ninewood line has been ballasted
from the city limits to the park and is
as smooth as any railroad.
The Topeka Business college baseball
team defeated the asylum team Satur-
day afternoon by score of to s.
"Cider" Smith has announced that
there VIII be no rain on July 4. Go
ahead and buy punk and crackers.
The Santa F'e ticket auditing depart
ment baseball team defeated the Oak
land Blues Saturday afternoon by a
score to 8.
The steel viaduct of the vinewood
company over the Santa F'e and Mis-
souri, Pacific tracks is nearing cOmple~
ton. It is 125 feet long.
The Santa F'e Reds defeated the Y.
NJ. c. A baseball team in the most ex-
citing eleven inning game of the season
Saturday The score was , to l.
Next Saturday is the day that the
family dog crawls under the porch, and
the next day you have to clean rcd
paper and Wads out of the grass.
Senator Chester /. Long has gone to
Oyster Bay for a consultation with
President Roosevelt concerning the APP
pointment of Judge Hooks successor.
Supt. Kelley Of the Vinewood COM
pany has completed the walks in the
park but mosteeof tho other imDrovs-
will have wait until a
JULY 4.
w c. Ralston of Topeka has been
elected by the alumni association Of
Park college to serve as its representa-
tive uDon the board Of trustees of the
college
Burton H. Pugh is lucky. He has 1876
acres of potatoes in the Kansas river
bottom which were not touched by the
high water and Will yield a record
breaking crop.
There is one silver tongued orator.
in Topeka Who positively refuses to en-
ter into competition with fire crackers
at Fourth of July celebrations, SO he
declines all invitations.
Owing to the floods. it is probable that
the watermelon crop in Kansas viii be
short this year. Most of the melons
are raised in the bottom lands where
the floods were worst.
The Nine Bees and the Unions. the
two colored baseball teams, Will cross
bats" as George AIDE would say, next
Thursday afternoon if the Washburn
diamond is out Of water.
T. 3. Gerow, state agent of the free
employment bureau, has received from
Ottawa request for 200 harvest hands
at once. The wages are from s. to $2.5
for men. and $3.50 to $3.50 for teams.
Otis Hungate viii crate at Oskaloos-
July T. and A. W Dana and G. j..
Welch viii speak at Wakarusa- There
is no political campaign under way,
and their efforts are purely patriotic.
l. G. Carpenter. state engineer of
Colorado, is working in the vicinity of
Wichita taking levels Of the Arkansas
the evidence to be submitted in the
Kansas Colorado water suit.
Paul Gilmore, who was seen in To-
peka last season in THE Tyranny O.
Tears viii play next season in The
Mummy and the Bummingblrd. B0tn
Of these plays have been successfully
given in England by the English actor.
Sir Charles Wyndham-
Fishing is good in the streams about
Topeka A great many fish of good size
We're left by the flood in the creeks over
the state and. for the time being, the
disciples of Walton are able % make
showing for the time spent over hook
and line
The emergency board of health, hav-
ing finished the work for which 1t was
created Will pIoBdDly Ql0Ddub At tS-
nights meeting. North Topeka has been
gotten into as good a sanitary condition
as could be expected and can be taken
care of by the regularly instituted
health authorities
The usual number of new inventions
for the celebration of the Glorious
Fourth have been turned out this sea
son and are already being experimental
with by the small boy. The police de-
pa4trnsnt Will have to bring out and
polish up the city ordinance in regard
to premature celebration.
Startling if true-A new rail was un-
loaded on Kansas avenue between Sew
enth and Eighth streets this morning
close to the city railway track 1t was
rurnored that the rail would replace
streak of rust but this report could not
be verified as the board of directors of
the road will not meet for several
months.
City Attorney Spencer is looking over
a proposed ordinance 10 create a board
of plumbers examiners under the new
plumbers law F. 2. Edison drew up
the ordinance which is favored by the
plumbing establishments of Topeka. 1t
viii require every plumber to be exam
med and viii require every piece of