The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-13
SNAP SHOTS ATHoMENEws

/ Hear the birds that seem TO call
! .'Parsifal, Parsifall'
Julia dear can scarcely wait,
Julia's club will soon debate
\ Parsifal and what stern stuff
/ In him made the shedding rough
For the Scheming Kundry who
| Tried to make him wicked, too.
Julia dear is quite adroit
She has rooted into books.
Music lore and classic hooks,
Digging up whate'er she can
On the theme Wagnerian.
So when we shall go today,
And the lecturer shall say
This is so, and this is that.
JuIIa'n know just where we're at,
While III be lost and fam would call
]. L. King leaves this week to make
a trip to Cincinnati.
II. u Nudge. general manager of
the Santa Fe. was in Kansas City yes
terday.
County Clerk Newman has COM
pleted the distribution of school dis
trict taxes.
A. E. Cooper. division passenger agent
of the Rock Island, has returned from
weeks business trip to st. Louis.
Women who play the bucket shops
in Topeka got scared of wheat when
they saw some bundles of grain come
down the river.
The board of education seems to be
resting easy and has not been picked
off by anti-latrine plumbing sharp
shooters for some time.
The First Lutheran church has let
a contract for new pipe organ which
will cost $1,000. The instrument has
SIG pipes and eighteen stops
County Attorney Hungate went to
Fort Scott for a quiet, restful vaca-
ton. Fort Scott has had "a inches
of rain in the last dozen weeks.
Sheriff Lucas left for Des Moines
last night to bring Fred Collins to
Topeka to stand trial on the charge
of setting fire to a house owned by
Charles Hoffman.
The Lady Maccabees will be enter
tanned by Mrs. Slanker at 304 Hancock
street Thursday afternoon, July Ia. She |
Will be assisted by Mrs. Haskins and
Mrs. Geiger.
Work on the First Baptist church at |
Ninth and Jackson streets is progress |
ing rapidly. The joists for the auditor |
ium floor are in place and the decora- |
tive stone wall is finished to the second |
story.
Ottawa Republic: The Kansas City
& Topeka road is the one with which |
Hugh A Holmes proposes to connect |
the Kansas City, Ottawa and Burling- /
ton road, for which he is asking a |
franchise through Ottawa.
DR.. r. S. Plummer of North Topeka |
says he does not advise against boiling |
water in North Topeka. 81 don't
is on the other side of the river" says
DR.. Plummer. but 1 think it is a good |
plan for everybody to boil the water"
The Topeka Automobile club will
not make trip to the st. Louis
Worlds fair for the present because
son no meeting was held last night.
A large number of machines made the
club run about the city last night.
Geo. II. Davis, who has an office in
lesires the State Journal to announce
hat he is not the Geo. II. Davis who
a marriage license yester-
lay; that he has not been married;
hat he intends to remain single in
definitely. and that he has no cigars
o give away.
A large suburban car returning
rom Washburn college on the
twelfth street car line of the city rail-
way ran its wooden "cow-catcher"
TX inches deep into the earth while ;
urning the corner of Twelfth and
ackson street Tuesday. Traffic on
he line was suspended until the cow
atcher could be amputated from the
ar.
Formal notice has been filed with !
he city by J. w. Farnsworth to the
fleet that he will sue the city in case
he proposed plan for benefit dis
riot for widening Smith street is car
led out. This is piece of litigation /
which was brought on the city by I
Swendson's efforts, 4
gainst the advice of the city attorney.
t will now be interesting to see /
whether Mr.. Swendson or the city at i
orney knows more about law.
The directors of the Edison Elec- I
rical Illuminating company at their I
rect cold storage plant to be oper- G
ted by the power which goes to {
waste in summer. The plant will be I
rected either near the company's [
l. r-4,-r .,% y
ONE nearby convenient point. The q
'lans for the storage plant have not /
ct been made up, but Will be shortly, s
nd the work of construction Dushe I
The firm of Emahizer & Spielman q
f 533 Kansas avenue Will shortly !
uild business block fifty feet wide r
n Jackson street directly behind the
dudley bank building at 519 Kansas n
venue. The place where the new Q
will be put up has been d
eased for ten years with the Dudley
on Kansas avenue. A bridge
viii be built across the alley and both a
laces used The firm is now occupy b
1g four floors in its present quarters. t
1t is rumored that Il shake-up will oc- r
ur in the personnel of the Tenth
treet Sluggers, one of the baseball a
Tubs in the Topeka City league. 1t is
Understood that Will Wikidal will be
lade captain and Arthur Hodgins, r
Mr.. Hodgins stated that he o
as on the lookout for some new play
rs, as he intended giving two or pos n
bly three men their release He is .
onsidering a proposition from the base q
all club of Hoyt for a game at that q
lace soon- =
The Modern Woodmen thought that y
hey had located John A. Gordon in = =
illinois the other day. but the man y
HON they found turned out to be "
bout 10 years old. while Gordon If -
G is living is not more than 40 The y
Kissing man disappeared about nine =
ears ago in Topeka and was press Z.
ian on the Topeka State Journal. =
ear before that time Gerdom's father "
commenced paying premiums on his
1n's life in the Modern Woodmen.
lot long ago he brought suit, claim y
LIZ that his son was dead. a