The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-30


met Friday and audited the January
| bills.
Madge M. Page has fled suit for d.
vorce from Clark S. Page in the dis
| trict court.
The Friends" will hold religious ser
vices a 212 North Kansas avenue at IL
a. m. Sunday.
A Kansas City paper labeled a pic
ture of the principal speaker at the
Kansas Day banquet Young Lafay-
ette.'
Judge Hazen granted a divorce Fri
! day to Susie Hudelson from Robert P.
Hudelson on the ground of abandon
ment.
The federal authorities have released
Jane Brown, colored woman who
was taken into custody on charge of
passing counterfeit money.
A meeting of the Topeka Baseball
association has been called for 5 p. m.
Monday at the rooms of the Topeka
Commercial club. All persons interest
ed in baseball are urged to attend.
T. S. Williams, election commissioner,
came home from the hospital Thursday,
where he underwent an operation for
the removal of a tumor. The operation
was successful, but it left Mr.. Williams
very weak.
Mr.. Schlieter of the firm of Schlicter
& Hollar says that w. t. Horn has not
been clerking at his store for some
months. Horn is the man whose little
girl died of what is supposed to have
been diphtheria.
The NIidwinter exposition will con-
tinue for another week. Manager r. S.
Brigham has secured for the coming
week a list Of amusement features en-
tirely different from those which ap
peared this week.
There was a slight fire at the resi-
dence Of Clad Hamilton, 1874 Greenwood
avenue, Potwin, Thursday afternoon. 1t
xxra cd NV hoo cd fr1T.1 %
pipe, but the damage was trifiing, and
the fire was out before the department
arrived.
George Lockhart, the celebrated ele-
plant trainer who was in Topeka with
his trained elephants in the Ringing
circus when it was here in 1902, was
killed in England by an elephant
crushing him while the animals were
being unloaded from car.
A court house loafer dropped pint
bottle of whisky on the marble floor of
the corridor. 1t broke. That is the bot
tie broke, not the floor. The smell in the
court house during the rest of the day
resembled that of bonded warehouse
or a distillery No arrests were made.
Charles Blakesley says in the Kan
SaS City Star: General Miles will be
in Topeka February 12-Lincoln day
and in anticipation of the visit Briga-
der General J. w. F. Hughes. K. N. G.,
has force of tailors, jewelers. and dec
orators at work getting his uniform in
readiness
On Monday evening. February g. ].
w. Geiger and J. w. Kaiser, state man
ayers of the Woodmen of the World for
Iowa and Kansas, respectively, and
Mrs. Emma B. Manchester, sovereign
commander of the Ladies' Circle, the
auxiliary order, will appear before the
Topeka lodge The gathering will be
an important one.
Sheriff Henderson ofGreenwood coun-
visited Topeka yesterday with a party
of rabid Hoch men from Eureka. Those
in the party were George Tucker, Geo.
Wood and Omar Bell of the Eureka
Herald; John Redmond, L. S. ClOgStOn
and F. S. Jackson. They all deny that
the fact that they are IEoch men has
any connection with their being in
charge of the sheriff.
Revival services are being held at the
Oakland Brethren church by the Rev.
James M. Neff of Missouri The sub
ject for tonight will be why does not
everyone belong to the same church?''
Services will be held at the usual hours
Sunday. Sabbath school at 10 a. M;
preaching at IL, subject, Jacobs Lad
DER" preaching in the evening, subject.
1.-The design of the book of Revelation"
This reference to Miss Spooner. who
used to be a favorite with Topeka
audiences, sounds like comment from
Vim. Allen White: 1.-The New York re-
porters and critics refer to Cecil Spoon
er as a young girl For the land
sakes! She was that twenty years ago
on the kerosene circuits of Kansas. |
when men who are now grandfathers |
used to try to make stage door mashes |
on her"
The building committee of the city |
council met last night, and agreed to |
report to the council favorably on the |
proposition to fresco the walls of the |
council chamber. 1t will cost about |
$125 to do the work. and some of the |
members of the council will oppose the |
plan, on the ground that the city can't |
afford to put on dog" The city's first |
contract new ones.
A person who has considerable faith |
in the ability of the press to right the |
wrongs of the public has sent the fol- |
lowing open communication to the |
State Journal: tWill the dog catcher |
tween Ninth and Tenth streets, as there |
are no less than from four to ten dogs
there all the time, and most of them |
with no collars on? He can call at 80
if he wishes. There is a time when |
patience ceases to be a virtue and the
people in this block think that time is
just now"
The New York World has been active
in investigating the Iroquois ownership. |
1t has made the discovery that the |
cred in July, 1902 in New Jersey The !
capital stock authorized is 100000, but
only $1,000 was paid in originally, and
according to- the Mnual report of the
company for 1903 on file at Trenton,
the amount actually issued and out
standing is still but $1,000! The direct
ors of the company are w. ]. Davis,
Harry J. Powers. Marc Klaw, A. L
ErIanger; the treasurer, Powers. and
norman and Louis B. Daley. The
president is Davis: the vice president,
Granger; the treasurer. Powers. and
the secretary. K1aw. Louis B. Daley
is a formerly of TOpeka Young man
who is employed by New Jersey trust
company.
After the regular meeting Thursday
night, Topeka council knights of
Columbus. gave a progressive card
party. Miss Louise Stenger won the
ladias, ti1.st rl.iza dn-,a ted I