The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-09

mere was once young artist named
On whose EFFORTS the public looked gIol-
mondely.
He exclaimed in despair,
If my art did not pay me so bolmon-
dely."
S. B. Carter. a flour manufacturer of
! Wellington. is in Topeka on business.
The ways and means committee Of the
city council will meet Thursday night. 4
Tomorrow bring $3.50 and buy pair
| of $3.50 or 81 Washburn or W.L.Douglassl
shoes-don't forget it-at The Palace.
Claus E. Thomson and Mary c. War
ner. both of Topeka, secured mar
riage license in Kansas City Tuesday.
The men who sell oranges by the
peck insist on putting in the tissue pa
per wrapping of every orange. That
helps.
An entertainment was given last
night in the odd Fellows hall on West
Sixth street by the Retail Clerks as
ISOLATION of Topeka
Israel Shaffer will file a suit for $685.
| 600 damages against the Rock Island
railway for the death of his son who
was run over by the cars a few days
ago.
The dust is so bad today that the
street car men have to stop and sweep
out the switches and turnouts before
| they can safely run their cars over
them.
Dr. L Y. Grubbs. DR.. G. A. MCGUIRE,
/ DIR. W. H. Fighter and DR.. w. +.
Seholle are talked of as probable"
Democratic candidates for the nomina-
ton of county coroner.
The demand for help on Kansas
farms and for house servants seems
/ never to diminish. Eight ten appli-
cations for help are on file in the office
of the free employment agency.
There is an epidemic of dry cisterns
| in Topeka. With the waterworks in
it's present condition, the fire engine
! going away to be rebuilt, the cisternS
empty, Topeka will be dry indeed.
The third well on the property con-
trolled by the Syndicate Oil and Gas
company of Chanute, whose members
are mostly Topeka men, has been shot
and proves to be the best of the lot.
According to the personal items in
the Washburn Review, an unusual
number of the students are Ill of grip.
A number of cases of measles have
been reported among the college peo-
pie.
Councilman Samuel T. Howe is a
delegate to the state convention at
Wichita Mr.. Howe used to live
! ''neighbor' to Ed Hoch in Marion, and
wanted a chance to vote for his nomi-
nation.
The entertainment committee of the
! Commercial club received $475 as it's
proportion of the earnings of the in
door circus. The total attendance at
the circus for the week was more than
400.
Charles S. Barnes, son of w. H.
Barnes, is running the compressor en-
CINE for the st. John tunnel on Pixies
Peak. Mr.. Barnes has slept on the
peak all winter, he writes, with the
windows of his room open.
F. w. Swearingen and Dr.. L. L.
Goodwin are going to Chanute today on
business. They are making the trip in
Swearingen's automobile They left
Topeka at a. m. today and expected
to reach Chanute about o'clock this
afternoon
Next Friday eve. the Democrats will
organize a jefferson club at the Odd
Fellows hall on West Sixth street. The
/ club will meet once a month and have
speeches. Once a year it will have
big banquet with national speakers
here.
Rev. NJ. senne, who for a: year past
dren's Friend society of the Evangelical
Lutheran church, has received a call
from the Lutheran church at Lincoln
vile and Will &C there to preach. He
has resigned his other office.
Friday afternoon the streets and
walks committee Of the city council will
meet to consider the application of the
Edison company fol franchise to build
Independent waterworks for themselves,
and also the application of the Santa F'e
for the vacation of certain streets in the
Second ward.
| Mrs. ]. H. Goodwin of Chicago is Wis
iting Dr. and Mrs. L. L. Goodwin of
this city Mrs. Goodwin has just re-
turned from Fort Worth, Texas, where
she was called by the death of her
daughter, Mrs. Droll, formerly Miss
Grace Henry. Mr.. and Mrs. Droll had
been married less than a. month
The state house has been deserted by
! the officials and clerks who have gone
to the Wichita convention. The court
house is running short handed as Pro-
bate Judge Hayden, Sheriff Lucas, City
/ Assessor Philips and County Clerk
Newman are among those who "also
went to Wichita
Just before leaving for Wi hita
County Clerk Newman announced that
! it was state auditor and not secretary
of state that he is aspiring to. AS soon
as Seth Wells, the present state audit
or, heard that Newman had gone to
Wichita he left for the convention on
the first train to head off any scheme
of Newman's to defeat him for renom-
| ination.
Andrew Cook and Jerry White, two
colored men whose claims for damages
against the city were rejected by the
city council Monday night, have each
commenced suit for $1,000 damages
D0ETH GOOnSS