The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-20
SNAPSHOTS THOMENEws.

Is the kind of man to stand the battles
He's got the proper mettle, and you car
not keep him down,
For he's the sort that's needed at the
| front.
The fellow who can whistle is the fellow
With a note of cheer to vanquish plod-
His soul is filled with music, and no evil
In his active brain to foster grim de-
spair.
The fellow who can whistle-he is built
And he cheers his toiling fellow men
along;
There is no room for pessimists, but give
who can whistle when the world is GO
ing wrong.
N. H. Loomis and General Wilder
Metcalf were in Kansas City Tuesday.
Willie Sells, of the Sells-Downs
circus. is in the city for a few days.
r. G. Merrick, the Santa Fe freight
department man, was in Kansas City
Tuesday.
Governor Bailey was in Kansas City
Tuesday on his way home from In
dependence.
Mayor Bergundthal is planning to
attend the st. Louis exposition a little
later in the summer.
A picked nine from the City League
and the Saints are playing on Wash
burn field this afternoon.
The board of education will receive
bids at the meeting August 1 for sup
plying the schools with coal.
Arthur e. Ireland, the strike leader,
| has gone to Arkansas City on business
| connected with the machinists trou-
bles.
The hearing of the grocers rate
| case which has been pending before
the board of railroad commissioners
| has been postponed.
Fire Marshal Wilmarth has exam
ined a number of horses recently, but
has found none satisfactory for serv-
ice on the fire steamer.
Waldo Calvin, who went to Buffalo
| to get the body of his brother. who
| lost his life in a hotel fire. is expected
| to arrive with the body late this week.
Charley Foster was observed yes
terday to walk four times around the
block bounded by Seventh, Eighth,
| Kansas avenue and Quincy. There
must be something doing.
The chances are that Charley Hol-
| liday gives away more cigars than
anybody else in town. The peculiar
| part of it is that he did just the same
way before he went Into politics.
The manufacturers committee of the
| Commercial club will begin visiting
| sites about Topeka tonight with a view
| of selecting a place for the building of
| new industries which wish to locate in
| Topeka.
Tuesday afternoon the Tenth Street
S1uggers defeated the Pension office
baseball nine on Washburn field by
a score of % to 0. The pension Office
| nine must be almost as bad as the
state house.
Sheriff McMasters of Kingston, Mo-,
came to Topeka Tuesday and took
charge of Isaiah Bell, who will be
| tried in Missouri for murder. Under
| Sheriff Belts arrested Bell, on a farm
north of town.
City Health officers Coddington and
Hill have filed their applications for
a chunk of that government land
which is being given away. Both are
old soldiers and do not have to go to
the land Office in person to register.
In the city court Tuesday the case
against Policeman James for assault
ing Sylvan Kline was called. Kline
was not present and Judge McCabe
announced that the case was malicious
prosecution, dismissed it and taxed the
SIS costs on Kline.
Mike Thompson, king of the gam
blers, and Wood Fowler, lieutenant
general of the fraternity, will visit the
st. Louis exposition. If there are any
chuck a luck men or Mexican monte
dealers in or about st. Louis they had
better close up. -
Wilder s. Metcalf, who was in Kan
sas City yesterday, is quoted in the
newspapers as saying that the large
office may lead to the creation of a
new district and the division of the
Topeka Office.
A great many people are driving out
to the new association baseball park
at the corner of Fifteenth street and
the Vinewood car track. The frame
work of the grand stand has been put
up and the new park begins to take on
grounds.
Mrs. James Rowley has flower bed
in her back yard which excites the adj
miration of all who see it. The flow
ers are small. pale and delicate and
the foliage graceful. When her
friends ask her what it is she tells
them it is called fagopyrum esculen
tun and they are greatly impressed
until she explains that it is common
buckWheat.
Frank Fleming filed suit in the dis
trict court Tuesday afternoon against
the Missouri e Kansas Telephone
company for $4,000 damages. He
complains that he was employed by
top of the show train between Guthrie
and saltwater and low telephone
wire hung across the track. knocked
him off the train and injured him.
Just as quickly as the Topeka Base /
ball Association leaves Washburn park. |
work will be commenced to arrange the |
field for football purposes this fall. The
slight elevation on the east side will be |
graded down about four inches and the |
gridiron moved over from it's former 10
cation, at least 20 feet. The erection !
of the grandstand for the baseball !
games made this necessary.
The Commercial club committee to !
arrange for the celebration of Topeka /
day at the st. Louis Worlds fair was
appointed on Tuesday and is as follows: |
George NJ. Noble, ]. c. Holland and E. |
II. Crosby The committee to look af-
ter the Democratic and Populist state |
conventions to be held in Topeka next |
months were also selected. The names
follow: James Chapelle, L. NJ. Penwell
and w. c. Stranahan.