The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-29


| City Attorney Spencer's brief in the
| Dwyer nog case is being printed
| Federal court convenes in Leaven-
worth on October II. The docket is
| light.
The straw hat and the open street
car are getting their official retirement
| with this fall rain
The football season is having consid
| cradle trouble in getting a good start
in Topeka.
| DR.. Eva Harding returned this morn
ing from trip to California and yell
lowstone Park.
Robert A. McIlvane. formerly of To-
peka, is now a teacher in the Indian
school at Shoshone, Wyo.
County Commissioner Sterne puts
in more time at the court house than
any other commissioner.
| Election Commissioner T. S. Williams
has returned from his trip TO aolton'
where his father was seriously ILL.,
Charles H. Samson, M. A. Low, r. l.
Lee. Will Bradbury and other Topeka
men are interested in a slate mine IN
Arkansas.
The traffic and operating officials OF
the Santa Fe have concluded their con
ferences here and have nearly all left
the city.
This rain will help the football situa-
ton. 1t has been too hot for football,
and there is a chance now that 1t VIII
cool off.
Some of the best sweet corn of the
wear is Just coming into market. IL
is called Country gentleman and Is
as small as pop corn.
The ways and means committee or
the city council will meet this evening.
Mosquitoes are unusually bad for
this time of the year.
Judge Hazen is having fewer cases
to try this term of the district court
than during any of the terms during
his l , years as judge
The annual meeting of Rochester
Cemetery association will be held at
the cemetery on Saturday, october L,
at o'clock p. m.
"Cider" Smith announced a rain
period about the 18th and 3Oth. Score
one for Captain Isiah Munson Smith,
w. P. (weather prophet.)
Director Jennings kept his promise
He announced that the weather was
too hot to even suit him and that he
would see about a change.
Dick Brown is the only member of
the entire Topeka baseball team who
is still in the city. All the rest have
gone to other places to work.
Street Commissioner Snyder had a
gang of men at work flushing the
streets Wednesday. Today's rain will
finish up the job in good shape.
Since County Clerk Newman has
presided over the hearings of the tax
cases he has been nicknamed ''hiz-
zoner the jedge."
Postmaster John Guthrie has dis
tributed some paper bound booklets
of 40 pages which give Information
about mails, rates of passage and in
structions about mailing generally.
Bankhead, Iola's second baseman
last season. was in Topeka yesterday
: going north. He says he will try out
l with Minneapolis in the American as
ISOLATION next spring.
Mrs. E. B. Smith and children have
come to Topeka from Cherryvale and
will make their home here. Mr. Smith
is employed at the railroad Y. M. c. A
! here.
The steamer and hose company at fire
. department headquarters got out the
old No. 1 steamer yesterday and warm
ed it up. Water was thrown several
hundred feet right into the wind.
]. F. Wolfe of Scranton and c. B.
Hallam of Reading nave returned from
their vacations and will both resume
: their duties as agents of the Santa Fe
railroad on october l.
' Traffic on the Highland Park line is
not deemed sufficient to necessitate
more than one man to act as engineer
. and pilot of the one car running to
the suburb on the hill.
Lieutenant Governor Dave Hanna,
of Hill City, was in Topeka yesterday
, on his way home from the lakes. He
has been sick with typhoid fever, and
y is slowly regaining his strength.
Secretary Samson, of the fair assocf-
ation favors having the Kansas build
ing brought to Topeka and erected on
the state fair grounds to be used as a
p building for women's clubs and for ex-
hibits during the fairs.
Superintendent ]. F. McNally of San
MARCEL, New Mexico, was called away
from the banquet at the Copeland hotel
Tuesday night to go to Atchison where
his father is seriously i'll and not ex-
pected to live.
| Not long ago about fourteenth as
sistant to the second assistant of a
government Office in Washington was
Nj Com fHn n a NJ
to the assistant seemed to think that
L Topeka was unused to such dignitaries.
, 1t was amusing to see him strut like a
: pouter pigeon
) Lincoln Post Circle Ladies of the G.
A. r. will give luncheon at the post
= hall on Saturday night. The enter
tainment is free to the members of
the G. A. r., Sons of Veterans and
: Ladies' societies.
: G.. H. Titus, Otis Hungate, Frank
r Lindsay H. w. Page and A Newman
have been appointed delegates to the
|, National Association of Republican
clubs at Indianapolis next week. The
amendments were made by Captain
i Titus.
Father Hayden of the Church of the
Assumption says it is a mistake to say
, the Real Estate building was bought
t for the Catholic church. 1t was pur-
E chased for the Knights of Columbus, a
e Catholic church society
The fire department was called to the
: Crawford opera house Wednesday
: night. Some one on the fourth floor
\ was burning paper, and the other occu-
D pants of the building smelled the
e smoke. That was all.
Miss Yoder, a missionary from
. India, will speak tonight at the Provi-
dent association rooms, corner OF