The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-19
sNAPsA0Ts a H0ME NEWs.
ID ISIS AGENsD DER Law.

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(und uf you leaf your gun SLIDING
aroundt id iss liaple to go OUT ind shOOd
resided fer shedding mitoudt a permits
sions-) Hans Zupp-
DR.. A. s. Embree is very i'll at his
Judge Dana has the carriers case
under Amusement.
And still there was water in the
Kansas avenue lakes this morning.
Palace Clothing Co. wants an ex-
perienced bundle wrapper at once.
George R. Peck is in Topeka to at
tend the Devlin creditors meetings,
which began today.
SEVEN years ago day before yester-
day Topeka had one of the biggest
snowstOrlns in its history.
The odds on the Washburn- Ottawa
game for Saturday are something like
10 to i and scarce at that.
The Harrison school football team
defeated Polk school Wednesday af-
teFnoon by a score of to 0.
State Labor Commissioner w. A. L
johnson is in southern Kansas visit
ing the factories in the gas belt.
Senator Long has accepted an invi-
tatien to sneak at a Republican ban
ouet in Newton on November 10.
The tank for the Uncle Sam oil re-
hnery has been received and will be
erected at Ninth and Adams streets.
The civil service examinations an
nounced some time ago for Topeka
are now being held in the federal
building.
According to the latest ruling of the
city council the chickens may crOv- IN
the auditorium but there Will be no
ealve bawling
B, F. Pankey, who has bought the
Albert Parker homestead on West
Eighth avenue. will move into his new
home November /.
ExvSheriff Porter S. Cook has sold
his farm twenty miles north of To-
peka and will move to the city as soon
as he can find house.
About $3.50 worth of old military
equipment has been sold up to the
present time at the auction sale in the
basement of the state house
Yesterday was an exceptional daE in
the office Of the clerk of the district
court Not a single divorce suit was
filed Is the country getting better?
There is one consolation to the drug
store man; While the winter cuts into
the sales at the soda water counter, it
helps business in another department.
Weather Director Jennings says that
indications do not count for anything
at all. and that the first snow of the
season is not due for more than a
month.
Duck hunters are commencing to
com plain that the flights of ducks are
so high that they can not be reached.
Ducks can still be purchased from the
farmer boys,
Some one should pull the Eugene Y.
Debs banners down from the tele-
phone poles. Debs has filled his date
in this city and no one remembers
what he said
The Sheldon League will give a kim
deFgarten shower Friday evening, DC
teber 20. o'clock. at their kindeFgar-
ten at King and Lincoln streets, Ten
nessee town.
Distance does not always lend en-
chantment. There is a. crying demand
on the part of the depositors of the
First National bank to meet Mr.. D A5lin
face to Sace.
Wednesday was a busy day in the dis
trict court Two jury cases were tried
and more than half dozen minor cases
disposed of and Judge Dana was pin
ing for something TO do. but the docket
was clear.
There is no use to worry about the
price of natural gas. From the present
indications natural gas win not reach
Topeka during the lifetime of the pres
ent generation.
T. L. Diesem. the alfalfa authority of
Kansas, spent few hours in Topeka
yesterday. He has recovered from the
injuries he received in the Santa Fe
wreck a month ago
A big sign is being painted on the
front of the Parkhurst-Davis building.
Mayor Davis expects to hide behind it
and avoid interviews in reference tcr
the police department.
NJ. Snattinger has complained to the
court Of Topeka that one Herman
Klauer is running a joint in q building
that he owns at 526 Kansas avenue and
that he wants him ousted.
The contract for the erection of the
new Santa Fe store house at yelling
ton was awarded to NJ. A. Blanchard
of this city who has done eonsidera Bile
construction work for this company.
The Commercial club meets on Fri
day night. The exposition for 1911
and the celebration of Topeka s
birthday on December 3 by a banquet
are the two big things on the pro-
gramme for consideration.
Congressman Charles Curtis returned
from Washington Wednesday after
noon, where he went to see what he
could find out about the First Nation
al bank affairs. He says he expects
report viii be made soon by the gov
eminent.
The Topeka Athletic association will
hold its first entertainment of the win
ter season next Wednesday evening.
The programme will include several
bouts between local celebrities and Il
battle royal between half dozen
young boys
Fire was discovered at about nine
O'Clock last night in the planning mill of
NJ A Blanchard at 421 East Fourth
street. The fire had not gain d much
Roadway and the prompt arrival of the
FIRE department reduced the damage to
the minimum.
The board of directors of the water
works announce that there win be no
advance in the water rates which Will
go into effect November ]. There is
some consolation in this announcement,
/ especially to the man who is given to
I hard drinking.
w. L. Taylor. president of the Taylor
I Grain and Elevator company, has been
taken home from the hospital where
/ he has been for the past two weeks re-
/ covering from an operation for appen-
/ dicitis He viii be confined to his
I ], I'm. ten DAYS