The Topeka state journal., 1903-05-18

Ntnen every little dog with sense
Is niled with anguish and suspense
10 know a certain thing
From tip to tip Of tail and nose,
And even do his tracks
Interrogation points disclose
To know if anybody knows
II some ones paid his tax!
George NJ Langdon is home from his
sawmill in Arkansas on visit
Mr. and Mrs. John 7. Morrisey are
the parents of a son. born Sunday.
Judge Hazen set aside today in the
district court for the hearing Of mo-
tions.
The court house is about as dingy as
the tomb of Ramesis might be over in
Egypt.
Washburn had better play K. U. he
fore it gets past the streak of baseball
luck which il ran into last week.
Friday evening of this week the
Gamma Sigma Literary society of
Washburn college will hold its annual
debate.
Memorial Sunday exercises will be
held in the Auditorium on sunday, May
"a Rev. W. J. Mitchell of Clifton viii
preach the sermon.
The annual banquet of the Saturday
Night club has been postponed from
Wednesday evening of this week to
Monday evening. May 25.
Among the other selections played by
Marshalls band al the Sunday concert
was The Lobsters' Promenade" The
question is, did any promenade?
Arthur S. Kane. the local theatrical
manager, expects to spend his vacation
in the jungles of Wisconsin and will
devote his leisure time to writing plays.
Fanny. Bessie Pressey. Donny. John
ny and Molly compose two-thirds of the
Washburn baseball team. The other
three men still are known by their pro-
per names.
1t is likely that Mayor Bergundthai
will appoint Joseph GriIey and ]. c.
Sinner as the councilmen on the board
of health The appointments viii be
made tonight.
It was easy to get in to he general
council meetings of the F'raternal A i'd
last week The reporters all knew the
pass word, Mutual Help ana the dooc
keepers never asked questions
There is another patent food being
distributed around town. Two more
separate and distinct brands, Just out,
are waiting to be introduced as soon as
these samples have been eaten.
Washburn seems to be playing what
used to be called baseball at the base
ball park when Dunn was coaching
around first base during the days he
played here with Dick Cooley's team.
The council meeting this evening does
not promise to be of much interest The
city railway franchise and the city
Waterworks negotiations are both in
such shape that they can not be brought
before the meeting.
Tuesday evening the Associated Char
tiles VIII hold its first annual meeting
at the First Baptist church DR.. Me
Farland viii deliver the annual address.
and the annual reports of the officers of
the association VIII be read.
A Topeka man found the following
collection of samples on his front porch
Saturday afternoon: Five pound sack
of flour. box of a new breakfast food,
sample of blood purifier. receipt book,
chunk of yeast and numerous hand
bills.
There were seventeen cars on the
Woodmen's excursion train to Kansas
City Sunday and each car was packed
Crook Wright was the official butcher,
who looked after the welfare of the
tourists. He served lemonade. popcorn
and peanuts.
Next Thursday evening the Twenty
third Regimental band will give r cake
walk at the Auditorium. Topeka has
spent a winter without a cake walk and
the matter came near being overlooked
Following the cake walk there VIII be
a grand ball.
An ice cream social was given Satur-
day night for a high school class. One
young lady was escorted to the ice
by a different young man. She would
be a money making patron for a church
ice cream festival.
The men employed on the street force
at 8 O'Clock. This is the first evidence
of a change in the management of the
street force. It has been customary for
the men to leave the city yards at s
o'clock and 90 to work half an hour or
SO later
Nick Chiles is president of a mining
company chartered by the secretary of
state The company owns mineral lands
in the Creek nation. John NJ Wright is
secretary and DR. o. A. TAYLOR IS treas
urer. Stock in the company is sold
only to negroes, and all the stockholders
and officers are colored men.
A base knave succeeded in swindling
a lot of people in Rosedale, kas., out
of money by pretending that he was
Col Major Fred L. Jeltz, of the Topeka
State Ledger. He finally ran up against
a man who knew the colonel. and who
reported his fraudulent intentions to the
police. The man has not been seen
since.
The Parsons Sun of Saturday con-
tains the following: Judge Patterson
came down from Topeka yesterday ana
closed a deal with Gum & Co. for me
purchase of a half section of land three
miles east of Altamont. He returned
this morning to his home in Topeka and
will in the course of a few weeks I owe
from there to his new place.
Two colored baseball teams will play
on the Washburn field Thursday after
noon for the "championsheep'' of Kan
sas and Missouri. One team will be the
other will be the Topeka Unions. The
two teams played in Kansas City re-
Gently and the Unions were defeated by
the score of to 2 The game will be
called Thursday at $3.50 o'clock and it
will be worth seeing.
WASHBURN TOOK ANOTHER