The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-11

She was the dearest kitten, all scamper
Not one of all my other pets could make
me laugh like her.
she's good and true,
For she meets me when come from
school with a loving little NEW:
And when she's round We never see a
teenchy mouse or rat,
And b'lieve 1 love her better cause
Jennie Pendleton Ewing in Youths
Companion.
st. Valentines day comes on Sun
day.
Justice w. r. Smith of the supreme
court was in Kansas City Wednesday.
The offices at the city hall will be
closed Friday afternoon on account of
Lincoln's birthday.
Mr.. Edward Wilder, who has been
confined to his bed with an attack Of
grip, is able to be up.
A Topeka man wants to know why
Otto-kar Malek does not call himself
Ottomobile and be done with it.
j. F. Emery, formerly in the hotel
business at Overlook. has purchased
the Sixth Avenue hotel of w. A Has
kins.
There will be a meeting of the To-
peka Republican city central commit
tee at the old court house next Monday
night.
H. L. Alkire of this city has returned
the meeting of the Medical association
on "Wednesday.
Judge McCabe of the city court raised
the bond required of Policeman Small,
who assaulted John Bowen, from $500 to
81, 900. Small furnished it.
The new city railway bridge is now
completed more than half way across
the river. The work of stringing the
trolley wire will begin very soon.
Frank Grimes announced today that
he intends to take his dolls and his
doll rags and move to 831 Kansas ave-
nue.. He has sold his shirt factory.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. H Lain are the
parents of q 9-pound boy, born Sunday.
Mrs. Lain was formerly Miss Anna
Gruber and is well known in Topeka
The First District Kansas Medical
society meets at AtchiSon this after
noon and tonight. Several Topeka ply
sicians will attend In the last four
teen months 400 new members have
Joined the society.
Rev. Edward Adams will tell about
his seven years experiences in Corea as
a missionary at the meeting at the First
Congregational church tonight. The
subject of the meeting will be "Condi-
lions in Japan and Corea."
That trainload of paint which passed
/ through Topeka Wednesday did not
seem to produce the ANTICIPATED tu-
multi There was not even a band at
the depot to welcome it. A trainload
of coal might have been more season
able.
w. J. Black went to Kansas City yes
terday and a morning paper there an
nounced the fact and explained that he
was ticket agent of the Santa Fe and
that his headquarters are in Topeka,
| just as If everyone in Missouri didn't
know that.
On the Highland Park limited, where
one man combines the duties of motor
neer and conductor. it is the custom
| to stop the car right in the middle
of the high viaduct and collect fares.
| The conductOr-motorneer has a einch
on the situation there.
/ Ottaker Malek plays tonight in Kan
sas City at a maximum price of 81.
He plays in Topeka February %, in the
Auditorium, at a maximum rate of SO
cents. The difference is that he will
make as much in Topeka at so cents as
he will in Kansas City at 81.
! All the members of the school board
whose terms expire this year, will ask
for reelection. They are C. c. Nichol-
ward; E Wilder, Third ward; J. D,
Norton, Fourth ward; T. E. Keith, Fifth
ward; E E Roudebush, Sixth ward.
All the freight depots in Topeka will
| close at noon on Friday, February u
| and will not be open in the afternoon
for the reception of freight. This is on
account of Lincoln's birthday, and was
agreed upon by the agents association
! of which +. E. N1pDS, of the Missouri
| Pacific, is president.
While attempting to board a car or
his way to the train near his home on
] West Tenth street Tuesday night
Frank E. Grote was thrown to the
ground and his right leg was broken
| above the knee. Mr.. Grote's injuries
| are such that he is likely to be confin-
| ed to his home for two or three months
If the instructions of DR.. G. ]. Null
vane, the physician who attended
Moung Myra, the Burmese juggler who
died at Christ hospital, had been fol-
lowed he might not have died. DE-.
Mulvane instructed the nurses at the
hospital to restrain him with canvas
restraint but they did not follow his
instructions and tied him loosely with
common sheets.
J. A. Ramsey, county truancy officer
is working up a Ramsey family reunion
at the st. Louis Worlds fair. The Ram
sey family has the descendants of those
who "came over with William the Con-
querer" beaten to a pulp, as George AIDE
would say. The Ramseys go back tc
the Rameses or Pharaohs of Egypt in
the days long before Ed Titles dogs
barked at the pyramids.
An amputation operation was per
! formed upon the leg of J. Y. Porter OF
1929 Polk street at Christ hospital yes
terday, the right limb being removed
| above the knee in an effort to prevent
the further encroachments of a serious
case of gangrene blood poisoning from
which he is suffering. One of the toes
was removed not long ago but the OPP
Grafton did not have the desired effect
| Mr.. Porter is very low and it is feared
| he may not survive.
1t is astonishingly hard to secure a
visit of a celebrity to Topeka. President
Roosevelt has announced that he will
not be able to attend the Semi-Centen-
NAL celebration here and now General
| Miles has notified the Grand Army
committee that he can not help in the
Lincoln Day celebration here. Topeka
will now have to pin all its faith upon
Secretary of War William H. Taft. who
is suggested as a substitute for the
president
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