The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-08

to enable the congregation to attend
the reception to Superintendent David
son at the state house. Mr. Best's sub
Ject will be The Heavenly Library"
At the New Crawford in Topeka Al
9. Fields n1instrels charged prices from
s1-50 down. At the Tabor Grand, in
Denver, the night prices for Fields min
strels are Is 25, so and rs cents and the
the house was crowded in Topeka new
ertheless. The Topeka theater gOers are
used to this.
George Blackman has brought suit in
the district court against J. H. MOrri-
son and Roy Best for $1,000 damages for
alternating the affections OF Mrs. Black
man. Morrison is stepfather of Mrs.
Blackman. She left her husband last
January, SO Mr.. Blackman says, because
she loved Roy She might have loved
Blaekman little but she loved Roy
Best.
The first copies Of the Kansas book to
be distributed at the St. Louis exposi-
ton We're printed in very pale claret
colored ink which looked as if it had
suffered an attack of biliousness. George
w. Martin Of the State Historical So
ciety suggested to the state printer that
nothing is better than black ink and
the rest of the issue will be printed in
black and white
The authorities Of the Kansas Medi-
cal college announce that the Kansas
/ board OF medical examiners have ar
/ ranged for a special medical examina-
/ ton of graduates of the X NJ G. TO
/ be held in Topeka on April II. The
regular examination of the board at
| that time is held at Kansas City, but
\ the special in Topeka is for the ac-
commodation of the Topeka school.
/ DR.. c. F. Nenninger, chairman of the
city board of health, suggests that
/ when the city gets possession of the
1 waterworlzs, the first thing il should do
/ is to plant a lot Of rapidly growing
! trees along the river bank where the
/ food washed out the MAN. This bank
of the river was heavily wooded at one
time, but some idiotic member of the
/ state board of charities cut them all
! down on the asylum water front, and
/ this let the water in
Stations Nos. and 2. of the Topeka
/ post0ffice, established for the special
/ purpose of selling stamps, registering
mail and issuing money orders had a
big run of business last year. No ! is
| in Parkdale- In the year ending on the
/ last day of last month 1892 worth OF
! stamps We're sold. 1,13S money orders
/ issued. and 155 letters registered. Sta
tion NO. is at Crosby Bros. store. AT
that place 81, S92.59 worth of stamps
were disposed of, 3,09f money orders is
| sued and 6S4 pieces of mail registered,
In both these places, the sales were
unusually heavy. No. I was establish
ed in July, 1900, and No. in January,
1901.
I The Atchison Globe says: Doc Mills
coIored, who has been working in St
Joe for six months, is in town en- route
/ to Topeka, where he will join the Sells
/ & Downs circus. Mills has been grad
uated from tent hand to waiter in tbs
cook tent. The distinction is this: any.
body has a right to hit a tent hand
but the Chef is the only man who
has a right 10 hit anybody in the cook
tent on the other hand. an employs
of the cook tent has a right to hit al
I most anybody outside of performers
and managers, provided he can gel
away with it. An employe of a cook