The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-21

impatient. too. OF contradiction
The dominating sort of mind
That works the best without restriction.
The neighbors say that Harold gets
His own sweet way more than he ought
That when he yells and screams and frets
a slippers what he should be brought
That measures mild he never heeds:
For drastic ones you'll find them stick
In short they say what Harold needs
Is just good old fashioned licking.
Boston Globe.
The pop corn crop is reported short.
Watch for Samson and the state fair
auto.
The large japanese sunfowers are
blooming.
Union barber shops will be open to
$50 this evening.
No new automobiles has been received
in Topeka since Saturday.
The West Sixth avenue cars are again
running on schedule time.
A Santa Fe engineer drives the small
est team of ponies in Topeka
Roy Richie, assistant state treas
urer, has gone to New Mexico on his
vacation
No business man has been arrested at
the instance of the city authorities for
several days.
The examinations for county teachers
and Tuesday.
W. c. Townsend. of Hutchinson.
wants to be appointed adjutant of the
state soldiers home at Dodge City.
A new compilation of the state school
laws will be issued soon, under the di-
rection Of the state superintendent's
Office.
Dick Cooley. the Topeka baseball
player with Boston, made three safe
hits and stole two bases in game
Tuesday.
Tom walker and Joseph Mehickteno
of Brown county have been arrested by
the federal authorities charged with
selling liquor to the Indians.
The ice cream social to have been
held on the lawn of the First Presbyter-
ian church last evening has been post
poned until Friday night of next week.
Tomorrow all the reserve stock of
Tom Murray's Chicago fine shoe stock
which consisted of Florsheim' s IS and s6
shoes will be sold at $2s5 at The Palace
Clothing Co.
John Switzer. who is now a promi-
nent Topeka lawyer, was formerly an
engineer. He run threshing machine
engine two years, and cut the wood for
fuel. too
The examinations for state teachers
certificates will be given next week at
Topeka, Manhattan. Emporia, Law
renee and Pittsburg. They will last the
entire week
The annual attempt to make the coun-
ties that are delinquent in their state
taxes pay UP is about to be made. The
against them.
A double track is to be constructed
to the fair grounds by the Topeka Rail-
way as soon as its main track on KAN
sas avenue is completed. 1t is to be
ready for the state fair.
In the girls walking race at the gro
GERS ard butchers picnic the winner
Of the third prize was Miss Nirda
Croker of 406 East Tenth avenue The
prize was sack Of -four
George E Cole. Kansas manager for
the Illinois Life Insurance company. IS
checking up the securities in the state
treasury which passed to his company
from the old Kansas Mutual
A few Topeka people dug out their
bits of green shamrock that they wear
on St Patrick's day and wore them
Thursday to show that they favored Sir
Thomas Lipton's yacht Shamrock in the
first race
County Clerk Newman displayed his
nautical education by asking which
boat was ahead on the back stretch in
the yacht race Thursday and wanted
to know if either could be set back for
running.
At the session of the United Presby-
terrain Synod which closed here last
night. l. c. Rankin of Guthrie was
elected moderator and d. NJ. Steele of
Lyndon, secretary. The next meeting
of the synod will take place in Emporia.
A cantata, Queen Esther is to be
put on at the Crawford opera house
on September 10 by the congregation of
the st. Johns A. NJ f. church. Kew r
c. Snelson is managing it The pro-
ceeds will be devoted toward clearing
the church debt.
Charles James. of Crawford county,
who has been sentenced to the Deni-
Tertiary for murder in the second de-
gree for killing Allen Williamson, has
appealed his case to the supreme court.
Both he and his victim were joint
keepers at Cherokee
John Coyne. who used to be a sailor
in the United States navy and before
that was a resident of Ireland, must
have been in a quandary over his loyalty
in the yacht race. But Coyne always
favors American Institutions. one of
his boys is now in the United States
navy.
The Topeka Railway company is pill
ing ties on West Sixth avenue where it
is to build a new double track The
piles Of ties interfere with the traffic
of those who need to use the street.
but the people can put up with it if
/ thew know they are to have a real rail-
way out West Sixth avenue
A street car jumped the track on
Kansas avenue near Fourth street
Thursday. The paving had been taken
up and the excavation made around the
track preparatory 10 laying the new
rails There was a good sized ditch for
the car to go into and it went. 1t took
some time to get it on the track again
The Kansas National Guard will be
equipped with Krag-Jorgensen rifles
before the fall maneuvers. AdJutani
I General Kelsey has received notice
from the war department that 1,1Ot
rifles have already been ordered shipped
from the federal arsenal at Rock Is
land. Ill
Dean. Anna and Rush Bartlett and
I Allie Pattfngill and Jonathan Thorn
as have been made defendants in fore
closure suit for $4,000 filed in the
United States circuit court by the
/ Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
/ company. The mortgage was on q
5000 acre ranch in Pottawatomie coun-
ty.
A meeting Of the cattle men of tbs