The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-12

Samuel Lakin was in Kansas City
Tuesday.
H. A Heath went to Denver Tuesday
on business trip.
Panama and straw hats were a little
bit out of place this morning.
Frank Bacon has been taken to
hospital suffering from typhoid fever
Mrs. James Howe of 1717 Buchanan
street left Tuesday for visit in Ohio.
J. n. Fike, formerly a member of the
board of railroad commissioners, is in
town.
w. L. O'Brien left for Denver Tues
day He is a delegate to the B. L. Z.
convention.
watermelons are getting more plen-
tiful- The price now ranges from 10
cents apiece up.
People who have made arrangements
to go to Colorado feel as if they were
being buncoed.
Councilman Neil will leave for San
Francisco today with the G. A. r. re-
union excursionists.
Mrs. Buzzell, the dressmal1er. is max
ing tailor made suits this month for Sc
at III West Tenth street.
Can any one remember the. exact
number of times Kansas avenue has
been torn up as it is now?
If this weather keeps on the Zabud
Council watermelon feast had better be
The Second Ward Republican club has
been called together for special meet
ing this evening at 1903 East First street.
The Daily Legal News prints the list
of supreme court judges daily minus the
name of Justice Henry Mason. Has
Judge Mason been naughty?
The city is again decorated with the
atrical Autographs. until some street cor
ners look like booths for the display of
the printers art in three colors.
The large electric sign over the en-
trance to the Crawford theater will be
set to read An Orphans Prayer" and
will be lighted Sunday night
L Z. Myers, vice president and gen.
eral manager of the city railway. spends
most of his time personally supervising
the work of rebuilding the city lines.
There was small fire Tuesday in an
unoccupied one-story dwelling at 124
Quincy street. The damage was about
$50. The building is owned by the Sells
estate.
A. LARSON of Los Angeles is in To-
peka on business. He is in the audi
tors office of the Santa Fe at that
place. Mr.. LARSON was formerly at
Topeka.
Draper T. Schoonover. who graduated
from Washburn college and is now an
instructor in Latin in the Morgan Park
high school at Chicago, is spending a
few days in Topeka.
Probate Judge Musser, of Salina, has
ordered Sheriff Swendberg to go to the
penitentiary at LeaVenwOrth and get
Oscar Peterson and take him to the in
sane asylum at Topeka.
Marshal Wintrode, of the city court,
keeps supply of the latest magazines
on file in his office at the court house.
Needless to say his office is quite popu-
lar with the court house people.
The new form of procedure adopted
asylum in having attendants arrested
who beat and bruise patients, was put
in use after the two firemen at the in
stitution beat ,andAchokedr Biddle.
You should ask to see at the Hall
Stationery company. the new cards and
third copyrighted directions for play
ing e. S. E. (Gavitt's Stock Exchange).
just out, greatly improved and more in
teresting
The work on rebuilding the Kansas
avenue street car lines has been ex-
tended south as far as Eighth street on
one track. The foundation for the pave
ment between the rails is made of sand,
cinders and concrete.
The formula used for the manufacture
of hop tea in the Missouri and Michigan
breweries will have to be revised to
suit the Topeka trade. Recent analyses
of some of the stuff sold here under
that name show more than the permits
sible two per cent of alcohol.
Two cars, only, are now running on
the Washburn car line. They give thir-
ty minute service where there used to
be twenty and the patrons of the line
find difficulty in adjusting themselves
| to it, The cars leave the Vashburn
terminus at fifteen minutes of and aft
er the hour.
Herman Uterman, the versatile fenc-
ing master. liquor agent and restaura-