The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-21

John E. Frost is IN Chicago for the
week on business.
John f. Switzer is confined to his bed
with a severe case of grip.
Mr.. and Mrs ]. H. Booth of BAT Elm
wood avenue are the parents of a son,
born Sunday.
This is the first day of spring. The
aristocratic key.
Howell Jones, jr., left today for Cedar
Point, Chase county. where he is in
terested in some cattle.
Ed P. Harris who has just completed
80 years service as a Kansas printer
says that he may be willing to quit at
the close of the second so years.
This is the last week to register for
the city election. The registration
books close March %, ten days prior
to the election.
This is the date of the vernal equi-
nox according to the almanacs and the
day of the ''venaP' equinox according
to Col. Maj Fred Jeltz.
Al Wilson is coming here ina Prince
of Tatters" after all. Only he plays
Topeka at 81 and Kansas City at 10, 20
and so cents.
Councilman Swendson came down
town this morning with a map under
his arm. The map was about nine feet
long 1t must contain the plans of his
Miss Emma Kelly, daughter of H. T.
Kelly, is interested in the promotion
of Chanute oil wells. She visited the
Chanute field last week with a party
of capitalists.
1t is said by man who thinks he
knows that there are only two men in
Topeka who wear tan shoes; one is
Jake House, and the other is Bill Smut
of Riverside addition.
The Samaritans of America have
been organized at Chanute by ]. 3.
Amos of Topeka, national president,
and Harry H. Adams, general manager
with a membership of 81.
The president of the American Coal
& Railway company in New York has
written to County Clerk Newman ask
ing him to lease land for him to pros
pect on for oil and gas.
Nine. Schumann-Heink will sing in
Topeka next Thursday. Not many peo-
pie know that Schumann- Heink is in
Nordica's class, but she is nevertheless
and many musical people think she is
Nordica'S superior
1t is said that the Washburn college
authorities have made inquiries at all
the plumbing establishments in town
in an effort to find out which one OF
them furnished a man to do the steam
fitting necessary to attach the big
steam whistle to the steam pipe of the
heating plant, as was done by some
7OI the students one n1S0t last Week.
The county commissioners will prob
ably allow the upper floor of the old
court house to be used in the future for
public meetings free of charge. The
county has not made a cent in rent out
of the building for several years. The
commissioners will probably rent the
lower floor and provide quarters for the
militia companies, and then grant the
use of the big court room free for
meetings
People in the vicinity of Washburn
are thinking of petitioning the athletic
management of the school to not al
low the baseball park to be opened
during the coming summer for any
body who wants to use it. The people
don't object to the college teams and
the professional teams but they seem
to think the Tennesseetown games
draw rather undesirable class of pat
ronage.
A bobtailed Topeka street car, one
of the type used for so many years,
will be exhibited at the st. Louis ex-
position this summer. The car is No.
80 of the Topeka street car company
rolling stock series. It is the first car
built by the Laclede Car company in
St. Louis. That company will borrow it
to place alongside of one of its modern
cars to show the great changes and i'm
provements made since No. 29 was built.
This Topeka car was originally horse
car, and it bobbed and swayed and
bumped along behind mules and horses
in Topeka years ago.