The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-02


Santa Fe Engineer S. Grimes of En-
poria is sick in the Santa Fe hospital at
Topeka.
E. R. Moses. one of the prominent
merchants OF Great Bend, was in the
city yesterday.
Commencing November q. the Elk
/ lodge will give one week of vaudeville
at the Auditorium.
Senator and Mrs. +. Dumont Smith,
who have been in Topeka for several
days, left last night for kinsley.
Washburn VIII meet the Paramount
college team Saturday for the regular
weekly game Of football at Washburn
park.
Harry Trovillo returned Wednesday
from Florence where he Instituted the
Florence State bank, an institution
with $4,000 capital stock.
A good many people are now paying
their 1905 taxes. It is expected that
business will be good for some time at
the county treasurer's office
Ed Jones, a Santa Fe engineer who
has been living at topeka, has moved
his family to Emporia. and is running
switch engine in the Emporia yards.
Some plain drunk, whose dates were
mixed, mistOok last night for Hal
loWeen, and broke window at Sec
ond and Tyler streets III an attempt to
be humorous.
The announcement is again made
that the pipe line is here or nearly
so. In the light of former announce
ments this latest one sounds like the
story -Of pipe dream.
Miss Jessie Dean, librarian at Wash
burn college, viii leave for Leaven-
worth today to attend the annual meet
ing Of the librarians Of Kansas which
Will meet in that city Friday.
At the time of c. ]. Devlin's death
he ranked as the tenth heaviest insured
man in the United States. At one time
he was rated in the third place but per-
mitted number of policies to elapse.
A woman called up the state Jour
nal office this morning and wanted to
get some job printing done. The way
some people look at it. a printing Of
fee is a printing office. for a that, and
a that.
Having nothing else to do, the police
department is cleaning house. TruS-
ties, armed with brooms, mops and
the floors. windows and walls of the
police station.
f. c. Little of Abilene and ]. x
Codding, attorney for the State Tenn
with Attorney General Coleman on
Wednesday afternoon regarding the
liquor situation in Dickinson county.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men are electing the delegates to repre-
sent them al the annual grievance meet
lAl6 WHICH VIII take pace WITH JnG SANTA
Fe officials in Topeka within a short
time.
Those hating. Iimping. tired looking
individuals that you are meeting from
time to time on the big broad walk on
Kansas avenue are not suffering from
any serious ailment. They are just
trying to get back to their old form
as roller skaters.
The walls of the third story of the
state printing plant are now going up.
The contra ctors have until November
Is to finish their job. plus such time as
may be added by the state architect on
account of bad weather.
The primary Sunday School Teachers
union will meet Friday at 3 O'Clock in
the Y. W. c. A. parlors. Mrs Sloo win
give the exposition of the lesson and
Miss Sweet the primary lesson. All
Sunday school workers are invited.
State Printer T. A McNeal is not
satisfied with the progress which the
bricklayerS are making on the new
state printing plant He says that q
bricklayer lays 400 bricks day and
gets $3.50 for his work. or about a
cent and a quarter for each brick.
About two million blackbirds, which
have been making their home all sum-
mer in the Bethany campus, held a
convention few days ago, and after
discussing the matter thoroughly, de-
cided to move south. They left in a
bunch. and have not been seen since.
One of the drawing features at the
Novelty theater is the first number on
/ the programme, which consists of three
piano selections by Professor Sam Ro-
I senberg. The selections furnished are
varied so that the lovers of good music
have at least one selection of my
/ kind of music.
4 A plat for new addition to the city
was fled with the register of deeds
/ yesterday. The strip of land which is
/ to be taken into the city is rectangu-
! lar in shape and contains about ten
acres W. L. Hole and wife are the
/ owners of the land which will be
/ known as Coler & Co.'S addition.
J \ new style of bricks, having
round corners and width of , Z
4 City Brick company in laying the
sample of brick pavement at Sixth and
/ Kansas avenue. The brick viii be
/ given an asphalt filler. and the estf-
mated cost viii be about $1.25 per
square yard.
The German comedy duo. 'Hayter
and Janet at the Star theater this
week are attracting more attention
than the usual dutch dancers in
their turn Their work is clever and of
the first rank. The little theater is
having an extra good week on account
of the excelIency of the programme
provided by Manager Morice.
Reports to state superintendent
Dayhoff show that the officers last
year handled more than IS. 600 truant
cases. This many children We're
rounded up and put into school There
is more difficulty along this line in the
eastern part of the state than in the
western In fact there is scarcely any
work for the truaney officers in the
/ western counties.
I. NJ Frisbie, an old soldier, created
a disturbance at the johnson hotel,
14IS Kansas avenue Wednesday after
moon, by announcing that he was GO
ling to die and then falling over from
the effects of an overdose of a drug.
Physicians were called, and the old
man was restored to his right mind.
T7l.isbie is addicted to the use of drugs