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

Up flower beds IN his grassy lawn,
Where all his neighbors' dogs and hens
VIII hold their frolies later on
Now in and out the open wells
The festive 'skeeter wings his flight;
And every pail of water tells
OF s-wigglers' Matched out in the night
LAZARUS.
w H Wilson. Jr.. of Childress, Tex.
is visiting in Topeka.
The rain last night was unexpected.
but nevertheless welcome
The Vinewood company has 1900 cubic
yards of crushed stone at their ouarries-
The fruit men viii quarrel about the
the question.
There VIII be a meeting of the Sons
of the King at Grace cathedral We'd
nesday, May 6.
Dr.. l. A. Ryder has returned from
Chicago where he has taken a post
graduate course.
The sale of seats for Henrietta Cros-
man IN The Sword of the King" win
open Wednesday morning.
A petition has been presented to the
counil asking for a new bridge across
Shunganunga creek on East Eighth
street
The new city railway company will
Feights to prepare ballast for the street
railway.
President Norman Plass of Washburn
preached the baccalaureate sermon be-
fore the Usage City High school last
Sunday.
A special train will be required to
bring in the Salina delegation for the
grand council meeting of the U. c. 7.
on Friday.
The Ladies Aid society of the First
Congregational church will meet
Wednesday at 2:30 p. N. with Mrs John
Sargent at Z25 Clay street
Roy Johnson says the report that the
Santa Fe passenger department base
ball team played a game last Saturday
is a mistake. 1t was the TRANSPORTATION
department.
A Topeka man who is "all run down
says he viii live for the next thirty days
on diet OF twelve raw eggs and d gal
lon Of milk day. He thinks he viii
gain flesh on it.
S. NJ. Hall. the policeman who killed
George Head while arresting him, has
filed communication to the mayor
and council asking for appointment as
jailer at the city prison.
Ira Hicks. who had charge of the mu-
sic during the Williams revival meet
ings, viii sing several solos at the wo-
mems Bible class meeting at the First
Presbyterian church tonight.
Emporia Gazette: John Madden has
five cases in the state supreme court on
the June docket and win not be able to
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Colorado before the first Of July.
A building permit was issued yester-
day for the Shawnee State Savings
bank in North Topeka The excavation
for the building is completed. 1t is to
be three story structure costing S15,-
George r. Peck. formerly of Topeka
and now general counsel of the Chi
cago. Milwaukee. & St. Paul Railroad
eompany,at Chicago. is a grandfather TO
the daughter born to his daughter, Mrs.
Earring.
An Illustrated lecture will be given
this evening Tuesday ons Pacific coast
+ scenes, including mountains. rivers. for
ests and fruits by Rev. ]. T. McKitrick,
/ at the Second u. p. church. corner Polk
and Huntoon streets Admission is free.
F. P. Bacon is carrying around a bad
/ " bruised nose and face. His injuries
resulted from a tumble from his BIZ
cycle into an excavation in South To-
1 pel1a while going home from the presI-
4 dents meeting in the Auditorium Fri
day evening.
Mrs. Nation is one of the directors of
/ the Associated Charities of Kansas City,
Kas., which has just been incorpora TED.
+ The board of directors is made up Of
Carrie A Nation, Clay E Coburn. Will
/ lard Merriam, Y. J. Lane and Myron A.
! Waterman.
superintendent L L. Dayhoff is send
/ ing out letters to teachers over the
I state urging large attendance from
Kansas at the National Educational as
sociation at Boston, July $40 The Kan
sas people will probably 60 by way of
! Niagara Falls, Toronto. Montreal and
Quebec.
United States District Attorney J. S.
Dean has gone to St Paul to be present
during the hearing of several habeas
corpus cases brought by Oklahoma
/ prisoners in the Leavenworth peniten-
tIary- Mr.. Dean viii probably go to his
home in Marion before returning to To
peka-
The claims and accounts committee
/ has decided to enforce that provision of
the law which says that members of
the city council shall not sell goods 10
the city The city mas bought its hard
ware of G. V. Wolf and its groceries of
4 w. F. Weber. since those gentlemen
have been in the council
Election Commissioner T. S Will
liams has appointed the following mem
bers of the board of election supervis-
ors for 1903: First ward, S. r. Kutz;
Second ward. J. F. Snyder Third ward,
c. V. Wolf; Fourth ward, L. NJ Nellis;
Fifth ward. j. c. Sinner Sixth ward.
S. A Swendson. This list will be con-
frmed by the council this evening.
A draft for $23.S5 purchased at a Chi
cago bank, has been received by State
Auditor Wells, in a corner of which was
written, Put it in the conscience fund
If everybody who has ever stolen any
thing from the state should become
conscience stricken to this extent, the
conscience fund would run the state for
a year or two without a tax levy
The Atchison Globe says: In the
game of baseball at Forest park yester-
day. between two colored clubs, the Mel
sons, Kansas City, Kan, and the I'm
ions from Topeka Topeka won by a
score of II to 8. The game was fairly
good until the sixth inning. The attend
ance was large, a crowd of colored peo-
pie from Kansas City having accom-
panied the Nelson's
City Engineer NcCabe has made VI
his estimate on the cost of macadam-
izing West Sixth avenue from Norris
avenue to the Hartsock property, &c
connect the pavement with the West
Sixth macadam road. He figures that
it will cost 81, 1851 for the stretch OF
1900 feet. Of which the grading viii