The Topeka state journal., 1903-05-28

That cost so many dearf
Can they be iaundered into shape
St. Joe Gazette.
The prospect this morning was mat
ural-for rain.
c. B. cass has return from a trip
/ through the east.
Fireman Samuel Ash is the father OF
a son born May p.
cider" Smiths fair weather Wednes-
day was thoroughly appreciated.
The river is the place now for rub
bers; both the kind for necks and feet
J. B. Sanders and H. F. Gillette of
Cottonwood Falls are in Topeka for the
bankers convention.
County Attorney Otis Hungate will go
fishing next week He is fast becoming
a second Isaac Walton.
The street force actually cleaned the
Van Buren street pavement yesterday
and cleaned it thoroughly.
r. T. Herricz, formerly attorney for
the Kansas Mutual Life Insurance COM
pany, was in Kansas City Wednesday.
DR.. Eva Harding has a bed of sweet
peas in her yard which she claims were
the first in bloom in Topeka but she is
mistaken.
D. r. Hite and Galen Nichols have
rented office rooms in the Bryant build
ing, Eleventh and Grand, Kansas City,
Missouri
Marshans band will give the first
evening concert of the season at Gar
field park Friday evening. The evening
concerts were well attended last year
Dudley P. Cook of Kansas City, spe-
cial inspector of the NJ. & K. Telephone
company. is in Topeka for the purpose
of cutting in the new Topeka ex-
change.
1t is to be hoped that the people of
Topeka will patronize the evening con-
certs of MarshalI's band a little better
than they have the baseball games at
Washburn athletic park.
The farmers are bringing hogs to
market. They. ought to when the beef
trust is charging p cents pound for
+ bacon. But after all the beef trust price
has nothing to do with the price paid
the farmers.
Topeka win have to stop filing in
along the banks of the Kansas river.
be testified to by the Inhabitants of
Little Russia and the people living in
Oakland.
The claims and accounts committee
that at that meeting, the claim OF n. X
Goodrich for salary as superintendent
of the city electric light plant VIII be
turned down.
The Bakers union are attempting to
/ boycott the ncn-uniOn bakeries. Small
/ bills have been posted over town re-
| questing the people of Topeka to refuse
/ to buy bread from Vesper, Snyder the
French bakery and Galbraith's.
4 President Norman Plass and Prof
Harry Woods of Washburn will enter
| tain the students of the college next
week at series of telescope parties
The new observatory will be opened, and
fha students will be given a Squint at
the moon through the big 13-inch glass
The senior and junior classes viii take
their turn Monday night the sopno-
nnores Tuesday, freshmen Wednesday
and academy Thursday.
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Kansas Missouri and Illinois passed
| through Topeka yesterday afternoon.
returning from a trip to Tucson. Ariz..
! where they have inspected copper fields
The properties. are owned by the Mis-
souri, Pacific and the party was con
Quoted under the charge of Moulton.
Popenoe & Hosier investment brokers,
! of Kansas City The party has been
out since May IS, and has visited Il
number of promising copper mining
properties both near Tucson and Globe.
Washburn will play a Santa F'e office
picked team Saturday The game viii
be at Washburn athletic field. The
/ Santa F'e offices contain some good play
ers. and the game ought to be an in
! teresting one Robinson and Scott will
form the battery for the Santa F'e team.
Some of the other players on the team
are. A. B. Scott, c. T. Brymer, B.
Hoover. F. J. Mileham, T. B. Boyd, R.
! Robinson, F. Fuller, r. Schnebly, R.
/ Wilson, w. Calvin and Clarence Smith.
river boat, 60 feet long and capable
/ of carrying $50 persons. is to be con-
structed by II. L. Peppmeyer for pump
ing sand from the Kansas river. The
] business of dredging sand is a preca-
riOus one in the early part of the year,
when the material is most needed. To
/ peka is on the verge Of sand faminS
on account of the high water. Mr.
+ Peppmeyer proposes to use his boat as
an excursion vessel for the entertain
ment of townspeople whenever the river
/ is high enough to float it. It is to be
a fatboat which will draw but few
inches of water. and viii be propelled
by a 20 horsepower engine.