The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17

/ five months but during that time has
/ accomplished vast amount of good
He is one of the rising officers Of the
army
Rev. A. Wyman viii read a paper be-
fore the Saturday Night club tonight
on THE American Drama"
Sheriff Lucas has been in Office almost
a week and not a person has talked
about imDeaching him.
During the coal famine not person
has suggested that sunfiower stalks
make a good substitute for wood and
/ co.,
Topeka people who attend the St
/ Louis worlds fair viii probably feel
nerfectly at home at Crawford's new
/ theater. the Germania. and Will know
how to act.
Secretary Sheldon of the senate bet
ter lock his collection of vests in his
vest wearing fad, and they dOte on the
colors that harmonic with Sheldon's
complexion.
AT the T. A. A. smoker there will be
some boxing matches Monday night
unless the sanity and religious Do
! lice force suddenly decides that boxing
matches do not go. The police have be
come suddenly devout since the MeFar-
! land philippe.
When We Were Twenty-one" will be
! at the Grand tonight. The name IS
taken from Thackeray's poem In the
/ Good Old Days When We Were Twenty
one" and the play is just as full OF
/ sweetness and comaraderie as the
verses
The Flints, hypnotists, viii close their
/ weeks engagement at the Crawford to-
night. Billy Morgan, Henry Allen, Cy
4 Leland Z. i. JeWett and j. q. Sion
ecker are invited to attend and be
placed under the spell and tell what
! they know about the secret senatorial
! caucuses.
H W. AdcAfee was reelected a mem
I n rr71ff fnln of
National Live Stock association at thu
, recent session in Kansas City. Between
II. A. Heath. McAfee and Coburn
Kansas and Topeka are we'll represented
on all the national live stock and agri-
cultural associations.
The members of the legislature from
TregO ard Grant counties, where they
have no "opry'' houses, might have
liked THE Show Girl but it is hoped
that none Of the members from Ton
ganoxie, Wallula, Tevis or TOwands
visited the show. for the bets are even
that they see better at home on the
Macbeth lamp chimney circuit every
Wee-
The state meeting of Kansas post
masters will be held in the council
I chamber at the city building on Janu-
airy %. If any subsequent meetings ara
held they viii be in the Commercial
club which is to be headquarters for the
visitors until after the Kansas Day ban
quet Tor WhIch most OF them viii re-
main over until January %. Postmaster
John Guthrie expects a large attend
ance at the meeting.
What's the matter with Topeka p" is
the question prompted by the following
from the AtchisOn Globe: tOnly one
town in Kansas gets The Prince of
Pilsen, and that is AtchisOn Isn't this
something to be proud OFF There are
hundred &ersors in the cast. and the
company travels by special train. Il
requires more special scenery and more
people to put on the opera than for The
Of AL III l. A~-4e-4
been the high water mark in Atchison
Manager Brigham keeps his word: He
assured Atchison in September that if
q good house were given The Sultan
of Sulu' it would result in a great ter at.
traction later in the season. The Prince
of Pilsen' IS the attraction"
A short time ago Mrs. Carrie Nation
promised the people of Seabrook,
suburban village, that she would come
out and give them a little talk and a
meeting was set for last Sunday even
ing. The little church was crowded to
the doors but when the time which was
set for the lecture came around the
people began to get uneasy and when
another hour rolled by some one sug-
gested that it would be a good plan to
telephone in and find out what was the
matter. This plan was finally agreed
upon and it was then that they found
out for the first time that Mrs Carrie
Nation had been arrested and was
in jail.
Ills - 1ii0 NA4Adl}A vi NillSAEu GppLSs ttR
ex-Kansan. who disgraced the state by
4, going to Colorado and representing Kansas
in poker game before he had acquired
anything more than very ordinary speed
in drawing. The Denver Post publishes
the following explanatory verses:
Here lies the clay Of Mitchell Coots,
Whose feet Yet occupy his boots;
His soul has gone-we know not where
1t landed, neither do care.
He slipped the joker up his sleeve
With vie intention to deceive,
And when detected tried TO Jerk
His gun, but didn't get his work
In with sufficient swiftnesS, which
Explains the presence here of Mitch.
At Gabriels trump. if he should wake,
He'll mighty likely try to take
The trump with that same joker he
Had sleeved SO surreptitiouslv.
And which we placed upon his bier
When we concealed the body here.