The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-27

III LII gold and gear,
Nor jewels fine,
| Nor lands, nor kline,
Nor treasure-heaps of anything.
Let but little hut be mine
| The cricket sing,
OF one glad woman's eyes to make,
| For my poor sake,
| Just the Wee cot-the cricket's chirr-
Love, and the smiling face of her.
| }. W. Riley C'Afterwhiles. ,
| Late peaches promise to be very
abundant.
r. H. Cav becomes county auditor
next Monday.
The walls of the court house are
being pointed.
| F. ]. Lynch left today for Gallatin.
Mo-, on legal business.
| w. o. Neville of the Rock Island
was in Kansas City yesterday.
The Saints did not play today. 1t
was an open date in the schedule.
The Democrats are doing heap of
scheming nowadays about their news
paper business.
The Pipe Organ association met this
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock in the Com
mercial club rooms.
Truck gardeners say that the hail
storm of last week damaged up small
garden products badly.
Director Jennings, of the weather
bureau, has hunted up his palm leaf
fan. Look out for sizzards.
The first new switch of the new
yards of the Union Pacific in North
Topeka has been completed.
"A Woman's Wit" played at Vine
wood by the Lorrain Buchanan COM
pany, is clever little farce.
Steinberg's orchestra will be at the
Swift & Holiday Drug Co.'S fountain
Saturday evening from s to II.
c. w. Jones. superintendent of the
Rock Island at Topeka, was i'll yes
terday. He was unable to be at his
desk.
County Attorney Hungate is going
to Ohio this week on business and will
stop at the st. Louis exposition on the
way.
The co1ored people of Topeka have
organized a business league and will
try to get the negro conventions in
this city.
County Commissioner Harrison work
ed in the field last week putting up
alfalfa hay. Hes thought the weather
very warm.
The Junior League of the Walnut
Grove NJ E. church will have a called
business meeting tonight at the church
at o'clock.
In lieu of horses to draw the new
fire steamer, the fire department boys
have placed a saw-horse in each of the
vacant stalls.
Josephine Buterfsh has filed suit in
John Buterfish. She evidently does
not think she made good catch.
Thomas S. Cooke, of Fredonia, N. Y,
son Of F. E. Cooke, formerly of Topeka,
Colo, Thursday to be a guest of Paul
Mulvane.
l. Gilberg says the reason G. C.
Clemens would not join the Socialist
party is because he had to sign up
card and give his name in full, age,
occupation, etc.
A pan of meat frying on the stove i'll
the rooms occupied by s. S. Anthony
and family at ZIG Kansas avenue
caught fire at $3.50 last night and set
tinguished with very trif1ing loss.
Some of the sports here in town
don't like the idea of an enforced trip
to Oskaloosa to testify to liquor sales
seen at the two prize-fghts held
on recent Sundays in Jefferson
county.
AL Rankin of the Santa Fe returned
yesterday from trip over the western |
lines of the Santa Fe. He declared |
the Santa Fee Railroad company did |
not know there was a strike in exist
ence on the road. The trains are run
ming closer to schedule time and in /
better shape than before the strike, he
says.
President Plass of Washburn college
has stated that it would cost any base
ball club So rental to use WaShburn
field for an afternoon. The Topeka
association has leased the park for
the season and feels that it has a right |
to sub-let it. But President Plass now
views the situation as if the associa-
ton has no more right to the park.
Isn't it about time for somebody to
order the Auditorium cleaned out? 1t
has not been cleaned since the. last
batch of flood sufferers left, and is in a |
horrible state of filth. 1t smells bad,
and will no doubt have to be scrubbed
all over. This means work for several
lays, and the Democratic state conven-
ion is only seven days in the future.
People living east of the Santa Fe
Ind Union Pacific tracks on Gordon
street have filed with the city clerk a
protest against the bad drainage in
nat part of town. They claim that by
building a new sidetrack, the Union
Pacific has shut off their drainage, and
hat the water is standing two or three
eet deep in places around their homes.