The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27

The court house was warm Tuesday.
The heating plant was kept up to fever
heat
Ida Buckley has asked Judge Hazen
to grant her divorce from c. Buck
le-.
If you want to practice voting you
may go to the polls Friday and vote
for Congressman Charles Curtis.
The U and club girls make the pas
sage of a young man at the Midwinter
fair rather perilous to say the least
On account of the meeting of the
State Bar association in Topeka Judge
Hazen adjourned the district court IN
til Friday.
The jury in the district court failed
to agree in the suit of the Standard
Manufacturing company against Ben
son & Benson.
Jesse Lyle, a 14-year-old boy who has
lived at the Soldiers Orphans home at
Atchison, has been indentured by M. O.
Frost of Topeka.
William Core, the sanitary policeman,
is shy book of Knights of Tabor re-
ce1pts, which are of a lot of Importance
10 him, as he is secretary of the order.
The book was lost out of his pocket.
II, A. Heath of the Kansas Farmer
VIII speak at Urbana, Ill, this evening
before the Illinois Live Stock Breeders
association. His subject is About
Promoting the Interests of Breeders of
Fine Stock"
There is a shortage of coal at the in
sane asylum here in Topeka, and a rush
order has been sent to the penitentiary.
me prison officials will set 400 men at
| work today digging out the supply, and
II VIII be shipped as fast as cars can
be supplied
/ F. w. Freeman of Topeka, president
OF the Federal Betterment company -
4 a Cherryvale oil concern, has been at
4 Cherryvale inspecting the work of the
company. The pumps are now taking
out a large quantity of oil every day.
4 Washburn's game next Friday night
| at I w. c. a. against the copper-col-
/ ored maidens from Haskell will likely
be an exciting contest and if Haskell
! girls have the courage and skill of their
/ braves, the Washburn college bell will
! forget its habit of ringing after every
/ struggle.
This evening the Democratic city cen
traI committee Will hold a meeting for
the purpose of selecting the date for the
ward caucuses which will select candi-
1 dates for the spring election. The Dem
ocrats will probably have a candidate
/ for councilman in the First Second and
Fourth wards.
Prof. o. B. Towne, of Washburn col
! lege, has been made associate editor
| of new journal of eIocution, 1.-The
Platform and Pulpit that has sprung
/ into existence at Lincoln, Neb. The
other editors are leaders in oratory and
dramatic art in the west. Prof. Towne
has also been informed that his lee
ture on The Voice as an Agent of Elk
preston" will appear in the February
| number of the official organ of the Ma
tiona1 Association of Elocution Teach
ers. This is the lecture that Prof.
Towne delivered before the association
members at their annual meeting in
Denver last fall.
Manager VIII S. Plank, of the K u.
girls basketball team, has written to
| Manager Leach of the Washburn team
insisting on playing the match game
! between the two schools with marked
and weIl-defined boundary lines. Wash
burn is demurring on the ground that
| the lines cause innumerable fouls
against the team unaccustomed to this
style of play. The probable outcome
of the controversy will be that the first
game of the series, to be played al
| Lawrence, will be played with lines but
the return game at the Y. W. c. A. in
| Topeka will come under the old style
| of rules.