The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-14

Somebody fought a valiant fight;
Somebody lived to shield the right
Was that somebody you?
United States Attorney Dean is in
Leavenworth today
This morning the last of the hnal
examinations at Washburn were held.
H U Nudge, general manager of
the Santa Fe, was in Kansas CITY
Monday.
The schucter & Hollar grocery at
Seventeenth and Buchanan has been
sold to a new firm.
The Topeka city. teachers examina--
ton will be held Wednesday and
Thursday at Harrison school
The courts of the Topeka Tennis
association have been cleared off, and
are now in use every evening
The headquarters of the Topeka
board of education have been moved
to Harrison school temporarily.
Elmer Strickrott. a former Washburn
ball player, is now pitching for the Mil
waukee American association team
Fred Priest, the third baseman for
the Elks' ball team, was formerly
member of the State Normal football
team.
Next week Sam Hindman will sell
Freeman Sardou's large early cherries
at S1.1O per crate. Better place your
order now.
The date for the Vinewood picnic of
the Commercial club has not yet been
set. 1t will come off within the next
two or three weeks.
A meeting of the southwestern coal
operators is being held at Kansas City
today. c. J. DevIin went from To-
peka to attend the meeting.
Charley Holiday vows he is glad
the EmpOria Elks won the ball game.
He says it ought to be arranged that
the visiting team should always win.
After the EIks' ball game Monday af-
ternOOn, Nit White was asked if he
would break off athletic relations with
the Topeka herd. mot on your life"
said Nit.
Nit White brought his wife and
all his family to Topeka. The chill
dren said they ''just loved to see papa
play ball" and they were Immediately
put on the list.
The county officials were well repre-
sented in the Elks doin's Monday by
the sheriff, the county attorney, the
coroner, the probate judge and the
judge of the district court
Frederick McGregor, Jim Under
race horses, went to Kansas City
Monday in charge of o. D. Hart to
enter in the races there.
L. R. Roose has started a new gro
Gerry store in a brick building erected
for him at Fifteenth and Lane streets.
His brother will continue to operate
the store on West Sixth avenue.
The Y. NJ. c. A. is meeting with good
success A subscription campaign has
only been carried on four days and
more than one-fourtn of the entire
$4,000 is already subscribed.
The big crowd in the grandstand at
the ball park yesterday evidenced
stronger than at any time before that
a reporters box is needed. This is re-
specially dedicated to the Topeka as
sociation.
The Topeka City Railway company
did good job in handling the big
crowd at the Elks ball game Monday
afternoon. Every body was accOmmO-
dated. Frequent expressions of salts
faction on that score were heard
The board of equalization is edg-
ing toward the system of holding the
session in three reliefs, allowing one
member of the board to be on duty
at a time while the other two rest.
The ordeal is becoming strenuous.
The Sun Fire Insurance company,
which lost in the suit brought by the
Western Wooden Mills for insurance on
wool damaged by spontaneous combus-
ton during the flood of 1903, has asked
for a new trial.
County Attorney Hungate refused
to wear his new dres suit at the Elks
reception last night not because he
did not know it was the correct thing
to do, but for fear his constituents
might think he is proud.
Warning: The newspaper men of To-
peka and the State House gang will
.
morrow afternoon. If any policeman
dares to come within gunshot of the
diamond there may be a vacancy on
/ the force.
Blasting has been going on in the
vicinity of the street car barns, and
as result at least one porch roof
three blocks away has suffered. A
rock as big as an ostrich egg went
through the tin and imbedded itself
! in the wood.
In the district court Monday the
4 jury awarded a verdict of $5,615
against o. d. Skinner in a suit
/ brought against Mr.. Skinner in which
the mortgage on the Skinner property
/ on the north bank of the Kansas
river on Kansas avenue figured.
1t has been decided to charge no
admission fee to see the state house
newspaper ball game. There were 50
many different charities clamoring
for q share of the vast income which
the game promised that it could not
| be decided which should get the cash.
! Consequently it was decided to elimi-
nate the income
Monday morning in the district
court Judge Hazen announced that
! there would be no session of the
| court Monday afternoon. 1T seems
| that something will be going on this
afternoon and most of the lawyers
seem to desire to attend" said Judge
Hazen. There was no court. and even
Bailiff Coyne went to the ball game to
1 root for the Topeka Elks. He is
/ charged with sitting in the bleachers
and every time a Topeka man made
/ a brilliant play of shouting, Hear
/ yes. hear yesl thecOurtisnoowoopen .
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