The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-28
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Two alarms inside Of three minutes
made It a busy place around IRE head
quarters yesterday
Tomorrow Alfred Benjamin So, $40
and SIS suits at sI2-5o (blzcks ex-
cepted) The Palace
The police court has taken a vaca
ton, as far as liquor cases are con-
earned until August 3
The city engineer says that the root
OF the patrol barn at police headquar-
tiers can be repaired for s291-6s-
Rev AxeI Anderson. formerly of To-
peka. has taken charge of a Lutheran
church at Missoula, Montana
Secretary George E Lerrigo OF the
Y. NJ c A, will leave this evening or
a vacation trip TO WinOna Lake. Ind
CITY Clerk Jackson of Fort Scott
has asked City Clerk Scufres for Z
copy OF the city's watsrworks ordi-
nance
That summer resort weather is be-
ginning to wear off again though the
evenings still remain cool and comfor-
table
Ii. Pfttfjohn, receiver of the Dodge
City land Office. spent a few hours in
the city on political business yesterday
afternoon
Hart. Sehenner & Max and Alfred
! Benjamin & Co. $22. $40 and SIS
business and outing suits tomorrow
$fz-50 The Palace.
Charles 6 Eagle has a new team OF
carriage horses-bright bays and a very
handsome team They are colts and ars
| being city broke.
The only marriage license issued by
the probate court yesterday was to E,
r kyIer and Sarah J. Jones, both
claiming Topeka as a residence
J. c. Scott, former representative OF
Scott county, was in town a. few hours
Thursday turning out big stories OF
the prosperity of western kansas.
A neighborhood row in which a cur
dog Bingo plays the leading role was
aired IN Judge McCabe's court Thurs
day. The judge has the case under ad-
visement-
well known Topeka financial ex-
pert has it figured out that the de-
positors in the defunct First National
bank viii receive about 35 cents on
the Dollar.
Most OF the Union Pacific trains be-
tween Kansas City and Topeka have
been delayed the past few days on &C
count of soft track caused by the
heavy rains
W J. Diclie of the Jensen Manufac-
turing company will leave Monday for
Of the company along the coast and in
the western states He viii be absent
six weeks
The Topeka Negro Business Mems
league is making an effort to secure
the national meeting of the club for
Topeka next year. Governor Hoch,
Mayor Davis and the Commercial club
has been asked to cooperate.
What has become of the kite flying
boy? A few years ago there wasn't a
telephone post IN town or a telegraph
wire but what had it's full quota OF
wrecked kites hanging dangling down.
You very seldom see one now
The fact that the Commercial club has
$3.50 of its funds tied up in the First
National bank failure has hampered
somewhat the plans for the trade train
which it is expected will be sent out in
September. The train will not be given
W
J. W Kraemer was granted an order
by the court yesterday preventing
Carlos W Jones and wife from remov-
ing certain household goods from the
state until a certain note given by
Jones and endorsed by kraemer is
paid
Labor Day this year falls OF Septem-
Der 4th- The local Ia Dor unions are
planning the usual celebration of a pa
rade and picnic. Committees from the
various members OF the Trade and La
range for the details
H. P Dillon who recently bought 4
rev automobile has exhausted the
novelty of motoring already and sa Us
riding about town in touring car is
no better sport than riding on merry
go-round- the distances are 50 short
We were out for an hour the other
day" he says, and went all over Shaw
nee county.
An effort viii be made to bring the
next convention Of the National Negro
Business Mems league TO Topeka. It
eOnvenes this year IN New York FIT
teen members of the league in Topeka
Will leave soon for New York in an
endeavoF to secure the 1906 meeting for
Topeka John NJ Wright is on the pro-
gramme for a paper upon "F'raternal
and Industrial Insurance"
The question Of leasing the fair
grounds by the city for park purposes
is again being agitated. The county
commissioners are thinking seriously of
cutting il up into lots and dispoSing of
it when the lease Of the fair association
expires. The lease has seven years yet
to run. The plan IS for the city to
lease the grounds after the association
turns back the place TO the county COM
Hissioners, with an agreement to pur-
chase within thirty years
To 90 down East Fourth street you
would think that the middle Of the
street and the car tracks were never
| used Grass from three to four inches
{ tail has taken root between the erevices
/ IN the paving and lines the whole length
/ Of the center Of the street and cal
{ tracks from Quincy street to the SAINTS
/ F-e depot The effect is hardly an in
/ vitiug one. It looks as if the town had
/ gone to sleep and was not doiHe
I enough business to keep the grass worI
/ Of the streets.
SAW HIM BREAK THE SEAL