The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-07

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king Dodo," which was in Topeka
Monday night, is in Parsons tonight.
| Mr.. and Mrs. C. H Smith are the
parents of son. born Wednesday night.
| A Topeka man who took photographs
of the Rock Island wreck was threat
ened with arrest.
| Only two women have registered SO
far. The total registration of men has
reached nearly $50.
During the last six months the state
| school fund has received STAT, 554.73 from
| the sale of school lands.
| Adjutant General Kelsey is chairman
of the Republican county central COM
| mittee of Atchison county.
This evening the annual business
meeting of the First Lutheran church
will be held at the church.
D. E. vanderheyden has asked for a
| divorce from Martha Vanderheyden on
/ the ground Of abandonment
Judge c. E. Foote. formerly a silver
| Republican, but now a bond broker.
declares for Hanna for president.
| Superintendent Collins, of the Myers
Construction company, which is re-
building the city railway, has returned
from a trip to Iowa
Not politician was hurt in the Rock
Island wreck though there were many
on the train. The reason is that poll
ticians ride in Pullmans.
The people who are driving piles for
the new street car bridge are progress
ing rather slowly. They have driven
only a few piles so far.
United States Marshal W. H. Mackey
was one of those who went through the
Willard wreck uninjured. Mr. Mackey
was returning to his home in Junction
City when the accident occurred.
Governor Bailey has paid F. D. VIII
] son, Of Great Bend, $50 reward offered
! by the state for the capture Of H c.
Dowell, who broke Jail in Barton county
a Few weeks ago. Barton county also
paid Wilson 500 reward.
| Harvey G. Parsons, the State Journal
Rock Island wreck, got out OF town
again Wednesday night for his Okla
hona.> trip, and so far as known, has
had no further adventures.
Cold weather seems to have no ter
rors for the street car people. The
work of rebuilding the West Eighth
avenue track seems to be going right
ahead in spite of the frozen sand and
| ice-cOvered pavement
| The decision of the attorney gen
erals department that the law on the
statute book raising the clerk hire fol
registers of deeds in certain counties
| is invalid knocks that office in Shawnee
county out of $1,000 clerk hire.
The heads of the various public labor
! bureaus of Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri
and Iowa held meeting in kansas
/ City yesterday and formed an organi.
cation. the chief object of which will be
| to handle the harvest hand problem in
the big wheat states.
Dog tax tag No. for 1904 was issued
to Grace Griffith, of 900 Madison street
The new law requires that people come
to the office of the city clerk and pay
| their dog tax. If they do not do this
prior to March 1, the amount of the tax
| is doubled.
The townships along the right of way
! of the proposed Topeka, Frankfort &
Northwestern railroad are circulating
petitions which will be presented to the
boards of county commissioners asking
| for special elections to vote subsidy
bonds for the enterprise.
A South Carolina man has written tc
! the Kansas department of agriculture
stitute for whisky out of watermelon
| juice, and he wants Secretary Coburr
/ to help him exploit And Mr.. Coburn
| is president Of the Kansas State Tenn
perance union. too
The Topeka League Baseball associa-
| ton will have a meeting some time dur
| ing the next week or two to complete
| its organization and arrange for raising
the rest of the bonus for it's entrance
| IN the Missouri Valley league. Gus
Alberts is being talked of for manager
of the club.
On account of the recent changes in
/ the money order department at the post
| office the former clerks have moved uI
so that their arrangement nows is:
William Tinker, superintendent; Miss
Carrie Sheffield, money order clerk;
Robert Caldwell, clerk in the money or
der division