The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-03
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.
The trouble will begin tonight.

he lIOuDl6 Will DGBln tonight.
The pavements received a good
washing yesterday.
The city council meets in regular
session this evening.
Sedalia's ball team must be the Off
ciaI rainmakers this year.
The heavy rain started boom in
weeds in the south end of Central
park.
Marshalrs band will celebrate at Gar
field park tomorrow as they did in olden
times.
Tomorrow is the day. The indications
are that it will be rainless. Can't be
much rain left in stock.
A beer wagon ran over a dog and
killed him late Saturday night. 1t
may be responsible for other deaths.
DR.. Norman PIass, president of
Washburn college, is in the east on
business connected with the instltu-
ton.
William Cullen Bryant, the porter
poet at the Blower house, has resigned
after five years service. He says he
will go to Denver to live.
The Highland Park Thistle, on the
City railway, came in this morning on
west and the high waters of Sheepshead
Bay.
The movement among a certain
number of local sports to buy the
White Sox is not entirely buried yet.
1t took another pretty stiff lease on life
on Saturday.
F. c. Bogart, of Houston. Tex,
writes that he is looking for w. N.
Bishop, who lived in Texas in 1866.
FTe says he has something that will
be of great advantage to him.
McKeever and Barnes of the Part
granted a franchise by the city coun-
ell to erect waste paper boxes along
the business streets have installed the
metal boxes on Kansas avenue.
w. c. Ralston, deputy city attorney,
has returned from attendance upon
the graduation exercises at Park col
lege near Kansas City, Mo. Ralston is
a member of the board of trustees of
the institution and also a former
graduate.
The double-header scheduled for
Tuesday, July 4. has been split. One
game vii lbe played at 10 o'clock in
the morning, and the other at 8
o'clock in the afternoon. Wichita will
be the opponent, and the games ought
to be exceptionally good.
The caterpiller worms which have
been so prevalent in Topeka the past
year and are destroying a great many
of the elm and mulberry trees. Any
one who can guarantee a sure death
for the worms will make a fortune.
The LeavenWorth Times says: Miss
Mary Rouse. who has been i'll at the
home of J. T. Rouse for the past two
weeks, was taken to Stormont hospital,
Topeka, Thursday night, accompanied
by her father, John Rouse, and Drs.
MCGEE and Goddard, to undergo an op-
Grafton there yesterday.
E. C. Quigley, director of athletics
at St. Mary's college, has contracted
to manage and coach the Kingman
baseball team in the Kansas State
league. Saturday was his second day
at the new position and Kingman initf-
ated it with a. 20-inning contest against
Minneapolis, in which Kingman finally
won out by a score of to 4.
The Chanute Tribune says: A Tope-
ka man who was in the city yesterday
says that a plant is being constructed
in the capital city for the purpose of
manufacturing gas from oil, and that it
will be ready for operation in a short
time. The company expects to ship the
oil in from the southern Kansas field.
1t will not lay a pipe line at first. but
will ship by rail in tank cars A large
quantity will be used.