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

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Clarence H. Matson has an article in
the last issue of Golfers Weekly on the
harvest hand question in Kansas en-
titled, lone Hundred Million Bushels of
Wheat
Judge Joseph A. Gill. of the United
States court at Vinita, 1. T., was in To-
peka Monday calling on Kansas polite
ians with whom he is acquainted. He
formerly lived at Colby, Kan.
Secretary Coburn announces that the
dates of the fair to be held by the
Frankfort Fair association, Marshall
county, have been changed from Sep
TENDER IA to September Sill
Word has been received that FIT. Riley
has been chosen for the army maneuv-
ers this fall. There was some talk of
changing the meeting place to FIT. Sill.
o. T., and the Yellowstone park re-
serve.
The state board of charities has asked
the people of Kansas City, Kan, and
Argentine to send a committee to To-
peka to explain in some detail the con-
dition of things there as left by the
flood.
President Plass, of Washburn college,
has extended an invitation to the peo-
pie of the city to come out and look
AT the moon through the new lClCSIOpC.
Venus and Mars are also on display
this week.
Announcements are out for the fif-
| teenth annual session of the Beatrice,
/ Nebraska, Chautauqua- The programme
for the Chautauqua includes the names
of Mrs. Bess Gearhart morrison ana
Sam P. Jones.
A number of Atchison society young
men came to Topeka last week and
hired out as harvest hands at the free
employment agency. The Globe says
/ they left their Panama hats and open
work Isle hose at home
All of the tents lent by the Adjutant
General for the use of the flood sur
ferers are still gone and can not be 10
Gated. A request for three was re-
ceived yesterday but that number couio
not be scraped uo-
The Kansas Worlds fair commission
ers have drawn all the pay which is
coming to them for the current year
meeting. but are limited to seventy-tive
meetings a year. The seventy-five meet
ings have been held.
State Oil Inspector Kelley has APP
pointed the following deputies: F. c.
Raney, Fort Scott; A. C. Housey, Wich-
Weldy, Galena; l. L. Diesem, Car
City. All but Raney served under S. ..
! Spencer.
Many trees in the Washburn campus
are dying. Whether it is due to insects
or some other cause has not been de-
termined. Some think that lightning is
the cause The trees which are dying
are all elms, some of them having been
there for % years.
The supreme court has appointed the
following board provided for by act of
the legislature to attend to the exami-
nation of candidates for admission to
the bar: c. F. Hutchings, Kansas City,
Kan: Judge Thompson. Minneapolis; F.
H Buchanan Winfield; L. H. Perkins,
Lawrence; Judge Mcfarland, Topeka.
| 1t is claimed that D. D. Finney. who
has been holding the position of guard
at the state house. has been drawing a
salary as guard for two months while
he was on leave of absence at Manhat-
tan working as town marshal, and get
ting another salary there Finney sent
| in his resignation as guard yesterday.
Adiutant General S. 4. Kelsey has de-
| cided that the Kansas National Guard
/ shall 90 to the fall maneuvers armed
with the old Springfield rifles instead of
the Heterogeneous. The refusal of
the war department to equip the entire