The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-19

to dispose of, and he is here to size
up the town and see if We are all
right. Mr.. Macferran says that an
investment company sizes up town
the same as an individual"
Secretary Samson says no horse
races will be allowed at the fair
grounds track on Sunday but that
horsemen are welcome to use the track
any other days.
Patent feathers, plain feathers,
bluchers, buttons. balls, dress shoes.
business shoes, IS shoes, Sc shoes, F1orS-
helms samples, will all sell for $2.95 at
The Palace tomorrow
bud" Porter, a negro arrested at
Baldwin, Kansas, on the charge OF
selling liquor without a government
license, has a preliminary hearing
Thursday before Commissioner Will
liams.
The Hutchinson News says: "A dele
cation of Topeka society men went to
Wichita to get ideas on country CLUB.
The Wichita idea would be pulled by
the police in Topeka
Those eastern papers that think
Gen. Funston could swim the Chicago
river even though he couldn't swim
at all, should come west and get &C
quainted with the regenerated Chicago
river.-Chicago News.
The official board of the First Meth
odist church has as yet heard nothing
from Bishop Hamilton, of San Fran
cisco, with reference to the appoint
ment of DR.. Havighurst to the pas
torate of the Topeka church.
The Emporia Republican says; Two
men were stranded here yesterday
while riding bicycles from Topeka to
Eureka. Tney rode from Topeka here
in about twelve hours and We're stop
ped on account of the rain.
Street Commissioner Snyder on
Thursday finished cutting the grade
for the sidewalk on the east side of
Harrison street between Huntington
and Douthitt avenues. A cut of five
feet was necessary. The city bears
the expense.
Fred Freeman made a run of 300 at
billiards at the Elks' club Thursday.
Freeman was in Pueblo one summer a
few years ago. The first day he was
there he ran a string of 100 at billiards
and it was from the first shot made in
the game. The man Freeman was play
ing with didn't even get shot 60
the long. which Freeman won. Free
man couldn't get another man in Pu-
eblo to play with him that summer.
Otis Hungate. Jesse Elliott and
Herman Grow went to Lake View on
Thursday and caught twenty-five
bass. One of them was of the six
pound variety at which Bent Murdoch
has been casting frequent and ma
liciouS remarks So when the Topeka
fishermen returned home at night
they went to the Copeland hotel and
routed the sage of the Walnut from
his supper and showed him what they
had caught. He made due admis-
sions.
The Lawrence Gazette says: "a To-
peka man was down today and filed a
lot of leases for oil lands out in the
western part of the county. The COM
pany is the SunfIower,' and is not con-
nected with the Kaw valley company
that is at work on the stone place
The country about Big Springs seems
to be favorite place for prospectors,
and they have good reason for their
theories, for if there is something
worth going down after anywhere in
this part of the country, it is under
the Big Springs neighborhood-'
The st. Louis Globe Democrat says:
1.-THE grocers and butchers of the state
of Kansas, confident of the proves
of the Sunf7ower state, have offered
a prize of SIS for the biggest liar,
competition open to the United States.