The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-17

been sitting up nights writing the ad-
vance notices. He will spring them
soon.
The river is lower than usual at this
time of the year and the sandbars ap-
pear as frequently as during mid
summer.
The elevator at the federal building
is undergoing repairs and will be out
of commission for about a week. New
frame work will be put in.
L. E. Myers, vice president of the
Topeka Railway company, says that
this city has the finest street car barns
of any city of its size in the world.
There is one inmate of the county
farm and who declines to do 50. He is
valuable helper and is allowed to
remain.
The Topeka high school football team
will go to Kansas City Saturday to
play the manual training high school
there. Topeka ought to win without
much trouble.
1t must have been a member of the
class in advanced journalism who
wrote a criticism of theaterical per-
Torrance in Topeka the day before
the performance was given.
The Ottawa Herald says that the
Daughters of the King of the Episcopal
church of that place are packing a box
of canned fruits and jellies to send to
Christ hospital in this city.
The session of the federal court at
Fort Scott will be resumed again on
Friday. The recess was taken on &C.
count of the illness of Frank l.. Brown,
clerk of the district court.
Things have come to a standstill.
A new automobile has not appeared
on the streets for a week and during
the past Is hours the Crawfords have
not bought a st. Louis theater.
How can anyone expect Topeka po-
licemen to arrest people guilty of fast
driving unless the drivers stop, tie their
horses, and get out and sit down on
the curbstone and wait for the police
man?
The Fort Scott Tribune says: w. T.
Lawless, proprietor of the new hack
line, has moved his family here from
Topeka. This morning he sent his
foreman, Chas. simmons, to Topeka
for another hack.
Charles Bower, the new court re-
porter of the district court was for
merly in the railroading business and
he will therefore be expected to work
both ends of his stenographic pencils
toward the middle.
The Washburn bell rang intermit-
tently half the night following the
victory of the Sons of Ichabod over
the Missouri Tigers. If Washburn de-
feats the Haskell Indians Saturday the
college will have to buy new bell.
A Lawrence paper says: The mem
bers of the Fortnightly club will attend
and Saturday evening they will attend
a dinner given them by Professor Geo.
B. Penny who is a former member of
the club.
The following is from the Atchison
Globe: "An eastern capitalist in the
city today" says the Topeka Journal,
remarked to a Journal reporter who
encountered him, that he was more
favorably impressed with Topeka than
any western city he had SEEN" We
have been tracing him all the way
from Quincy, where he said that he
was more favorably impressed with
that place than any western city he
had seen. He went into captures over
Chillicothe, Mo, declaring that he was
more favorably impressed with that
city than with any western city he had
seen. He was extravaga in his
praise of Kansas City, declaring that
he was more favorably impressed
than with any he had seen. He is now
in Topeka, and his impressions of that
city are as quoted above, He will