The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-18

whaih our. hands an heats are free.
Mandy Lou,
Whaih de sands Is shinin' white,
Whaih de rivah glistens bright.
In dat dreamland of delight.
Mandy Lou.
Come away to dreamin' town.
Mandy Lou, Mandy Lou
Whaih de fruit is bendin- down
Des fe' you.
Smooth yo' brow OF iovin' brown.
An my love will be its crown;
Come away to dreamin' town,
Mandy Lou.
Paul Laurence Dunbar. IN Century.
The jury began work today in the
district court.
The old court house will be the Re-
publican headquarters during the COM
ing campaign
Matt Weightman left Saturday for
Las Vegas, n. NJ, to join Mrs. Weight
man and their children.
Workmen are now busy making the
interior of the Auditorium ready for
the Midwinter exposition.
The Cosmopolitan club will meet
Thursday night at Guys hall at 429
Kansas avenue at 1880 o'clock.
Robert Wright, telegraph editor of the
Lincoln Star, formerly a Topeka news
paper man, spent Sunday in Topeka.
w. C. Fairchild has announced that
he will withdraw from the race for a
representativeship in the city district.
The Republican city central commit
tee will have a meeting at the old
court house at 1880 O'Clock this even
ing.
There was a special meeting of the
streets and walks committee of the city
council this afternoon to decide what
shall be done about repairs on the Fiji
tenth street bridge.
In case c. H Kutz receives the nom
nation for county superintendent of
instruction there will probably be two
members of the school board to elect
from the Fifth ward.
The attaches of the department of JUS
tice at the federal building have gone
to Kansas City to attend the session of
court which was interrupted last week
by the illness of Judge j. c. Pollock
The Throop hotel management will
present to the next council meeting a
protest against the use of West Fourth
street as hay market. The city will be
obliged to hustle around and find a hay
market.
Burton HILL who has resigned his
position with the State Printing house,
will take a position with the government
printing Office at Washington, d. c. Mr.
| Hill has been with the State Printing
/ house for seven years
]. ]. Corbett, P L. G., is doing a
monologue turn at the Orpheum In
Kansas City this week. He did the
/ SdIIG STUNT DSLOlS the niSIiIOCIS VI Lie
/ Topeka club when he was entertained
| by them a few years ago.
The annual meeting of the Kansas
Master Plumbers association is to be
held commencing January 26 at 1870 p
m. and continuing throughout JanuarJ
/ 81. The meetings will be held at the
/ Sons Of Hermann hall in this city.
/ The only snow storm of this winter
of any severity, that on January l, was
the hardest to combat by the street
railway of any in several years but
superintendent Patten sent all the cars
through, barely mixing up his schedule
The red hot Republican campaign be-
gan this morning at Z o'clock and II
will last until midnight February u
1 and then the gubernatorial presidential
| campaign will begin. There will be {
continuous performance in the politica
| arena from now until November.
John P Fritts, a Topeka newspaper
man, will go to New York within few
days where he, with w. E. Clark an6
E. F. Ingraham, will start magazine
/ called Civic Pride. W. E. Clark was
! CITY editor of the Capital about sever
years ago. and has since then been con
nected with the New York World.
A committee composed of o. Swanson
c. H. Roof and John Bains has called {
meeting of East Eighth street resident:
for this evening at Roofs store, to dis
cusS the East Eighth street bridge mat
/ ter, and also to decide whether the PEG.
pie in their part of town want to peti
ton for an extension of the pavement.
Manager Frank Leach of the Wash
| burn Athletic association made a pro-
position to the members of the girls
basket bali team that a game be ar
ranged in the Auditorium. The girls
however, rejected the idea. They de-
cIined to be placed in the same class
with the indoor circus and the chicken
show.
A Kansas City paper says: H. B. Kel
ly, a capitalist of Topeka, who latel,
has interested himself in the oil field:
is negotiating for the purchase of on.
of the Chanute papers. 1t is said tina
if he is unable to buy he will start al
afternoon daily. a well known Kansa.
newspaper man is said to be associated
with Mr.. Kelly in the deal.
Mr.. Eli McCollum, father of Chief Of
Police z. A. McCollun, has taken VI
his residence in Topeka. He came here
from his former home in Bucklin, Mo.
and purchased the property at 112t
Harrison street. Mr.. McCollum is ad
vanced in years, and wished to be neal
his sons, one of whom resides in Osagt
City.