The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-08


City Tuesday. Colonel ]. H. Richards
of Fort Scott was also there. Both of
these men are active supporters of
Charles Blood Smith for the position as
federal judge.
Church & Wright, soda manufacture
ers, $500: Miss Wheeler's French class of
girls. SO, and Mrs. w. A. Jordan of AL
buquerque, SIS. are the subscriptions to
the relief fund of the Commercial club
this week.
Twenty-six car leads of rails for the
reconstruction Of the city railway have
arrived, and are being unloaded. Part
were taken to North Topeka to be IN
loaded and the others are being unload
ed on East Tenth street.
A. w. Dana and j. 3. Larimer are
nursing incipient booms for the next
district judgeship in this county. Judge
Hazen will probably not be a candt-
date for denomination and the advance
political gossip has commenced.
A Topeka girl has discovered a new
dry administra ton drink which she calls
/ N. B.-"near beer" It is made of malt
extract, vichy and a dash of oil and it
has the right color and the proper sudsy
1 look.
A petition has been filed before the
board of railroad commissioners to COM
/ pei the Santa Fe and Orient to build
a connecting track at Harper Kan,
so that freight can be transferred from
one line to the other.
The Sons of the King of Grace Cathe-
dral will give a lawn fete on the cam
pus of the College of the Sisters of
Bethany Thursday evening when prizes
| offered by Dean KAYE and DR.. H. W.
Roby will be awarded
! Suit has been filed in district court
/ against Alice v. Clugson, guardian and
/ John Nj. Clugson, minor heir. by T. p.
Edison. The claim is for S59049, bill
for putting a heating plant in the Clug-
son flats at Tenth and Tc1eka avenues.
State Auditor Wells has served notice
on the state employees and officials who
travel at state expense that the state
will no longer pay Pullman fares. If
these employees desire to ride in Pull
mans they must do so at their own ex-
pense.
4 At the Reformed Presbyterian church
Thursday evening Rev J. r. Dill will
/ give one of his lectures on the subject,
The Scriptural View of Christ's King
DOM" Rev Mr. Dill has for many years
! labored in the national reform work
with much success.
/ A steel bridge to be placed across
Wakarusa creek west of Topeka ar
rived today. 1t is LOG feet long and
! II feet high and each side weighed H.
I 57S pounds each, making the weight
cars to carry the bridge.
Postmaster Guthrie is in receipt of an
! inquiry from D. F. Row of Abba, Ia,
about his runaway son, 10 years of age,
/ VINO iStI nome June 70 ana mas not DGGU
heard from since. The boy was traced
as far west as Lang He is probably at
work in the harvest fields.
An application for admission to the
! Soldiers Orphans home has been filed
in probate court by John Shehan, for his
four children. The case was examined
by Judge Hayden and the children rec
I commended for admittance. Shehan says
that he depends on the county for sup
port.
The members of the Sunday school of
! the English Lutheran church will hold
their annual picnic on the farm of Mr..
| H. w. McAfee, three miles west of the
city, Thursday Wagons will be at the
church $50 a. m. and 10 a. m Free
transportation will be given all who at
tend
A force of carpenters are putting in
I a new floor at the Rock Island depot.
/ The old floor was warped so by the
flood that when the water receded it
presented the appearance of one OF
these choppy seas that we read about IL
a newspaper account OF the interna-
tional boat races
The Missionary society of the West
minister Presbyterian church will meet
Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. with Mrs J.
G. Nicely at 1885 Lincoln street. Mrs
Ned Adams, Corea: Miss Josie Silver,
China; Miss Martindale, Alaska,
and Miss Elsie Reynolds, Utah, returned
missionaries, viii be present.
The street railway company is pre-
pairing a set of new rules. One is that
cars will not stop midway of the block
except at a few designated places on
/ Kansas avenue. Another is that the old
rule about entering and leaving cars
from the rear platform Will be enforced
/ except during rush hours In Bae evening
and morning.
The state school fund commissioners
met Tuesday and purchased the follow
/ ing school district bonds, which bear
per cent interest,": District No. II, Mar
/ shall county s., 300: district No. 2, Ellis
county. $500; district No. 10, Chase coun-
ty $500; district No SO, Graham county,
$500; district No. %. Osborne county,
$500; district No. 81, Graham county,
$780,
A Salina paper says: r. r. Simcock,
who was for many years bool1keeper for
Crippen, Lawrence & Company, of this
| city, now in the accounting department
of the Santa Fe at Topeka, on Friday
evening last had two sons, William B.
and Robert w, baptised by Rt. Rev.
Mr.. Griswold, and on Sunday after
noon another son, George G. and
daughter, Jane B., baptised by Rev. w.
r. McKim, of Christ church. Mr. Sim
cock believes in Salina and the little
church on Eighth street and has happy
recollections of the years gone by
Tuesday afternoon about o'clock
woman left her baby in baby car
riage standing on the sidewalk in front
\ of Il furniture store, nOrth OIL lle poSl-
office A gust of wind started the car
rage and the infant was dumped off
the curb under the feet of a horse. A
crowd gathered and watched the child
which was in danger of being tramDled
to death, but no one made move to
rescue it until Judge Reed. from the
window of his office across the street
shouted to them to pick up that baby"
Then a ray of intelligence soaked into
one of the bystanders. and the child was
removed to safety.
The King Snakes Prowess.
The most relentless exterminator of
reptiles is member of the family it
self-the beautiful 1.-the, yellow and