The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-16

The Yankee, Yankee. Yankeei
And a two-legged sort of bankt
If you deal with him and don't get left,
Your lucky stars you'll thank;
This Yankee, Yankee, Yankee
Irrepressible Yank
We underbid the foreign trade
Wherever we may roam;
Our largest profits always made
On what we sell at home.
In foreign lands we've left behind
The German and the Scotch;
Each zulu warrior now can wind
His Waterbury watch.
In Toxic and Borneo,
And where Euphrates winds,
The natives munich each day for lunch
Our hfty-seven kinds:
In Egypt now the Arab chief
Sees r armed with cans ne Of Po1tted 6eef'
An auto car from Kokomo.
From George AIDES Opera, The Sho-
It was so windy Friday that the
street sweepers We're unable to do any
work.
John F. Philips, judge of the federal
court at Kansas City, was in Topeka
Friday.
Omar Mehl states that he will not
return to Washburn next fall to play
football.
Joseph W. Folk, the Democratic can
didate for governor of Missouri, was in
Kansas City Friday.
John Guthrie. Arthur Camper and
William Macferran will be trustees of
the Otto Battles fund.
Warren Gill the old Washburn ath-
! lete is again. pitching for Cedar Rapids
in the Three-I league this year.
The Atchison Globe says Topeka
parties are interested in new lumber
yard to be started at Arlington.
The Topeka Missouri Valley league
team is playing at st. Joseph with the
Western Leaguers of that town this
afternoon.
Mr.. Elmer Hill will sing a solo at the
First Christian church Sunday morn
ing and Mr.. David Bowie will sing at
the evening service.
The federal grand jury will complete
it's findings next Monday No returns
in the way of indictments will be
made until that time.
Rev. o. S. Morrow and Mrs. Morrow
have returned from Lawrence where
they attended the Presbytery of the
United Presbyterian church.
The Rev. Mary E. Andrews, minister
of the First Universalist church of
Kansas City, will occupy the pulpit of
Unity church tomorrow morning.
The Topeka lodges of the Tribe of
Ben Hur' will give an excursion to
Kansas City Sunday, May ! and not
next Sunday as has been stated.
Street Commissioner Frank Snyder
has a gang of men at work today re-
pairing the bad sidewalk at the north
nue..
Sousa's band has been playing an
engagement at the Metropolitan opera
house, New York, and at nearly ev-
cry concert has played selection from
tParsifal.
There is a demand for house girls
this spring, as is usual at this time of
year. The free employment agency
has numerous calls for assistance, and
can not fill the places.
The hearing of Frank and George
Smith. charged with stabbing Joseph
Hess in Oakland two weeks ago, was
continued in the city court Friday af-
ternoon. Hess is still in a hospital.
The inspectors who have been MAX
ing their regular examination of the
Topeka postoffice finished yesterday
and report everything very satisfac-
tory.
West Tenth avenue people are kick
/ ing because the new green street cars
are not run on that line. They are
envious of Washburn and Quinton
Heights.
/ J. J. German and L. c. Biscoe hold
4 the record. They made a recent hunt
! ing trip to the Rossville neighborhood
and brought back % ducks and IS
j jack sniDe-
/ The cold weather is seriously inter
! fering with the practice of the high
I school track athletes who are prepur-
ing for the Kansas City interscholastic
meet on May Z.
/ Tomorrow afternoon the Topeka Mis-
souri, Valley Leaguers and Ed Green's
semi professionals play at Atehison. A
number of the Topeka fans will go to
| Ed Howe's town to see the game.
| Judge Guthrie stated this morning
/ that he thought the contributions to
| the fund to aid Otto Battles would ag-
/ gregate at least $500 This is to be
used to give him a business education.
Elmer Sheldon, night operator for
4 the Santa F'e at Edgerton, Kan, has
! been promoted to the position of oper-
ator at Clare. Mr.. Sheldon is well
known in Topeka, having formerly
been employed at the local freight
I house.
A. F. Faust filed suit in the district
court Friday afternoon against the
Santa Fe for $4,000 damages He
with trunks was dumped on him while
1 he was on the depot platform at Val
/ ley Falls.
Among the arrivals at Kansas City
! hotels listed in this mornings Kansas
! City papers were E. B. Akers and wife
1 of Topeka Mr. and Mrs Alxers are
/ keeping the itinerary of their wedding
tour a secret, but now it is known that
I they got as far as Kansas City, any
1 way.
The 10-20-50 company playing at
the Crawford includes in its repertoire
/ Count Tolstoy's Resurrection" That
may seem strange but stock compan-
I les of the one-two-three order tackle
/ anything. A Dozen of them in the
east are playing dramatizations Of
/ "Parsifal'
4 The Emooria Gazette says "At
Il least a dozen people will go from here
/ to Topeka Saturday night to hear the
1 company which Will sing selections
/ A------
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