The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-18

effect today viii force him to take his
wheels to Arizona and start a roulette
parlor.
The Topeka man who won SO cents
worth of cigars Tuesday by putting
10 cents in 4 slot machine is bemOan-
ing the fact that the antf-slot machine
law went into effect just as his rabbits
foot was in working order.
If there are nine judges and clerks at
each of the election booths during the
coming election, as it seems the law re-
quires, and if the city is Obliged to
furnish them three meals a daY at
cost of 80 cents a meal. the cost of feed
ing the judges and clerks viii be $40.
The Atchison Globe says. An Atchi~
son woman, who registered this morn
ing, says she doesn't care who is elect
ed, but she wants to help carry the
school proposition" The same reason
might induce Topeka women to register
Numerous complaints having been
made against closing the registration
Office at the city hail during noon hour
it has been decided by Election Com
missioner Williams to keep the Office
open during that hour until the regis
tration books close on March 81
The wellington News says: Zone Of
the Red men from Italy got bad in
Wellington yesterday and had to be
'trounced.' He didn't like some things
he had to put up with and one of the
other band men cuffed him. He quit
bought ticket for New York and left
town last night"
J. D. Shane of 1910 Locust street was
thrown from his wagon at the corner
of Third street and Kansas avenue
Tuesday afternoon while trying to hold
! in a horse he was driving The horse
broke away from the wagon at the cor
ner of Third street and pulled the old
man from the seat. He was not badly
hurt
A meeting of the Social Settlement
workers has been called for this even
/ ing TO decide upon a building in which
/ to locate its work It is possible that
the settlement headquarters viii be
made in the building at the northwest
corner of Third and Jackson streets,
formerly occupied by the Divine Heal
/ ing institute.
All the public lands in the Topeka
district have been taken up. The last
public ground to be taken up was $50
acres in Elk and Chautauqua counties
in the Flint hills This was entered by
eastern men. The officers of the Topeka
/ land office have now only to look after
the final proofs and viii be enabled to
close the office in a couple of years
The intineray shows that President
/ Roosevelt viii spend Sunday at Sharon
! Springs, Kansas. He may be laboring
under the delusion that he will have a
quiet time out there at the little settle
ment at the springs. He won't Every
/ farmer who owns a wagon and horse
! VIII be IDeEe Win MS Iz1ll1ly II ne mas
to travel 100 miles.
George Skene, proprietor of the To
peza Bridge and iron works. formerly
the Eliza beth Steel Bridge works, has
selected a house in Topeka and has sent
for his family in Elizabeth. III Mr.
Skene is here to suDerintend the con-
T struction of his new steel works near
Fifteenth and Monroe streets. east OF
I the Santa Fe tracks
The Wellington News says: @signor
Eugenio Sorrentino and his big Red
band delighted a large crowd at the
auditorium last night The audience
/ was delighted with such numbers as
| The Good Old Summer Time" The
Honeysuekle and the Bee For He Is
a Jolly Good Fellow" and so forth
given as encOres-"
On Thursday. Friday and Saturday
the suburbanltes who want to register
/ win find the registration books in charge
of a clerk at the following places.
North Topeka Dostofice; Hanley's gro
Gerry, Gordon and Topeka avenue; Pech-
ner's store, BFanner and Fourth. Whit
1 tlesey's store Madison and Second,