The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-24

this evening.
The first heat with the lawn mower
IS about ready to be pulled off
This week the Commercial Travellers
nave their big show at the Auditorium
About 500 Topeka people went on
an excursion to Leavenworth yester-
day.
General Manager H. q. Nudge of
the santa Fe will be in Topeka tomor-
Revival services win continue this
week at the Wesleyan Methodist
The Atchison Globe is still coming to
the governors office addressed to Gov
ernor Bailey.
David Overmyer will make a speech
az Democratic banquet at Abilene
Wednesday evening.
Barney Oldfield and his big automo-
piles left yesterday for st. Joseph, where
he will exhibit this week.
barney Oldheld, who exhibited here
on Saturday and Sunday, will tour in
private car this summer.
An excursion to Topeka from Kan
sas City yesterday over the Santa Fe
brought about 500 visitors.
At $3.50 p. m Sunday the special cars
to the ball grounds stopped running and
ABOUT 30 people walked to the grounds.
George B. Anderson. formerly of
Topeka, has been appointed sales
manager for the Greeley Printing
company of st. Louis.
It is likely that the Country club will
increase its membership to 225 in order
to let in few more people who de-
sire to be accommodated.
The White Sox and the Pittsburg
Missouri Valley League team are sche-
duled for games at Association park
today, Tuesday and Wednesday.
P. H. Butler. formerly of Silver
T-T-.
years ago as a horse BREEDER, is serious
ly sick at his home in Pittsburg, Pa.
There is to be a New England dinner
at Central Congregational church We'd
nesday- evening. The dinner is free,
and plans are being made to entertain
500 guests.
Van Quett, a contortionist of ex-
ceptional ability, is at the Star Vau-
deville theatre this week. The rest Of
the bill for the week is up to the usual
standard of this theatre.
United States Attorney Dean says
that special master will be appointed
in the Kaw river obstruction cases
about May l. who will at once COM
mence taking testimony.
City Clerk Squires is completing his
| annual report and will turn the same
over to the ways and means committee
of the city council for their perusal
previous to the council meeting.
A special car of Endeavorers will
! leave Topeka over the Rock Island at
1;40 p. m. Friday to attend the
Eighth district convention at Man
haitian Saturday and Sunday.
Barney Oldf1eId visited the Smith
Automobile works in Topeka and said
latter his inspection that the Smiths
come nearer to building the entire
machine than any other company in
the country.
The following building permits were
I ieer1nT q a Darrf6c0r1 81
dwelling house, lots 229-231 West Sixth
street; James H. Devlin, barn. $780, 5I8
Monroe street: John Beelor, addition to
residence. 319 Madison street. $500
Sundays Chicago American contains
a picture of Gordon Cron, formerly of
Topeka, who is studying music at the
Chicago Musical college. Cron has a
very fine bass voice and is making
quite a hit in Chicago in amateur per
/ formances,
The board of education will receive
bids May % for a new heating plant
at Branner school, The board made
a mistake at the former letting and
| awarded the contract for a. cold stor-
age equipment. This time the board
wants heating plant.
Attorney General Coleman has invit-
ed +. DumOnt Smith and W. S F'itz-
patrick, attorneys for the Oil Producers
association, to file briefs in the state oil
| refinery case if they desire to do So
The indications are that the case will
not be heard before June.
NJ A Low has notified the state
board of railroad commissioners that he
is investigating the complaint Of Miller
| & Co. of Smith Center that they are I'M
able to get grain cars, and that II the
company has any ground for complaint,
he will straighten the thing up.
F. G. Mitchell and his mother will
leave in about two weeks for Tolchaeo
Mission Arizona, to work among the
Navajo Indians. They are both mem
bers of the Central Congregational
church, and the church will give them
a farewell reception Thursday night
All the Western Association towns
which played yesterday won their
games. At Wichita the Jobbers defeat
ed the Missouri Valley Leaguers by a
score of to 8. At Sedalia the Bugs
defeated the J. J. Fosters from Kansas
City by a score of 4 to 1. At IeaVen-
worth the Orioles walloped the Kansas
| City. Schmelzers by a score OF ID to 2
Unless the building permits granted
this week are unusually heaVy the
amount of new building done TINS
month will fall considerably behind
that of March. The total amount OF
building for the three weeks of April
aggregates S66,060, S14,910 of which
represents the building permits let
during the past week. For the month
of March new work to the amount OF
! 100000 was contracted for.
| Here is q bit of history. in dis
patch sent out from Topeka: Mrs.
Mary Smith, who is known to the peo-
pie of Ellis as Mother Smith, says
/ that thirty-two years ago today Kan
sas had one of the worst snow storms
land billiards in its history. The rail-
roads were all tied Up in western Kan
sas and stock suffered great loss. A
car of fine horses on their way to Cali
fornia were caught in a drift, and
| cowboys in that vicinity burned ties
/ around the car for forty hours to keep
the horses from freezing to death