The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-09
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

/ Carnival show.
/ Leavenworth began a series Of three
games with Topeka here today.
The committee on stre=ss and walks
of the council meets this evening at 1880.
The girls baseball game scheduled for
/ Vinewood park this afternoon has been
called OFF.
The Sophomore junior oratoricaI con
/ test at Wash burn college takes place
{ this evening in the college chapel,
The z. NJ. c. A. building fund now
amount to $4,000 When 5000 more is
subscribed the contract will be let.
The returns are all IN from the I. o.
o. F. election now. None of the results
announced last week have been changed.
Mayor W II. DAVIS will leave today
for Arkansas City, Kansas. and Bliss,
Oklahoma He viii head a delegation Of
Elks to the 101 ranch.
A marriage license was issued in
Kansas City, Mo, yesterday to Frank
McA- Paxton, Topeka, e. Anna E
Fox, Kansas City, Mo, 81
Elster Halle, Of Medicine Lodge, kan,
who was enrolled in Washburn last
year, graduated this year from Texas
Christian university, at Waco.
The Little Red Rocks defeated the
Crescent ball team this morning by a
score of 16 to /. Eyer pitched for the
Red Rocks and the Crescents didn't
make hit.
clay center 1lmeSs MISS ESLellG
Riddle, formerly John Walker" of the
Minneapolis Messenger, has quit news
paper work to take a business position
in Bethany college at Topeka
An lola paper says. Rev. J. W. Cor
don, of Topeka, the colored minister
who is to take charge of the colored
Baptist church here, arrived this
morning and is looking for a house to
move his family into.
The cigar makers Of Eagles store
have challenged the State Journal print
ers to q. baseball game. The def reads:
We will play you for chalk, marbles,
cigars or hop tea, as you like" The diff
fculty will be settled.
The Pittsburg Headlight says:
Rector J. Q. Ferrier will leave this
evening, accompanied by his wife, for
Topeka, where he will undergo a
He hopes to return in about ten days.
Two cases of smallpox made their ap-
pearance yesterday afternoon. The city
health department corded the houses.
One house is on the southeast cor
ner of Eighteenth and Kansas avenue
and the other is located at $50 Liberty
street.
The Ottawa Herald says: w. B.
Robey, advertising manager of the
topeka Capital, was here today in con-
ference with the assembly board. Mr..
Robey will go east in a short time to
become the representative of his paper
in Chicago.
a street car on the Quinton Heights
line started for the country club loca-
ton this morning by leaving the track
at the end of the line, and blowing
its way out into the meadow. Traffic
was delayed and the Wrecking crew
was busy for time.
The Salina Journal says: V. NJ. Dad
1sman will go Saturday to Topeka.
where he viii attend the commence
which viii be given next week. His
brother, John Dadisman will graduate
from the college department.
The city attorney has received a letter
from the mayor Of SilVerton, Colorado,
advising him not to grant a franchise
The town of Silverton owns its own
electric light plant and furnishes light
at maximum rate Of 10 cents.
The laying of gas mains by the Ex-
celsior Coke and Gas company in an
ticipation of the entry of natural gas
into the city has ceased temporarily on
account of the difficulty in procuring
pipe for mains. About one and one
half miles Of new mains have been laid.
By all means the city fathers should
pass the ordinance to require a num-
Der to be tackled on the rear of auto
mobiles. Then when a poor mortal is
run down, squeezed, crushed, ruffled,
rumpled and left bruised and bleeding
and swearing in the dust ard dirt, he
can raise his dizzy head and from the
corner of his less bunged eye can read
the number of the machine which did
The Independence Reporter says
Mr.. Kelly, of Kelly & Kelly bond
brokers Of Topeka, was present and
again presented his plan for saving
the city a large sum of money on the
S35, 900 issue of bonds which are
due September I, 1916. Briefly stated,
Mr.. Kelly's proposition amounts to
the same thing as a private individual
paying a debt on the installment plan.
The Emporia Gazette says: The cOun-
ell last night in adjourned session of
the regular Monday night meeting, let
the contract TO pave Union and State
streets, to Haskins & Ramsey, of To-
peka. Their bid on one course brick
paving was $3.50 a square yard. Their
bid on cement coping was A cents
linear foot.
County Clerk Newman now has a
new duty imposed upon him He has
to issue the licenses to hunters, under
the new game law. A target range
and clay pigeon trap will be located in
the back yard of the country court
house and applicants will have a
chance to show whether they are pro-
hcient enough to secure license or not.
It is understood that County Attorney
Hungate will practice up" for three
weeks before he tries.
The Pittsburg Headlight says: Rec
tor Terrier of the Episcopalian church,
who has charge of St. Mary's congre-
cation at Frontenac, as well as the
Pittsburg church, announces that c. J.
Devlin, the coal operator, has pre-
scented st. Mary's congregation with a
house and lot at Frontenac. Work
will commence at once improving the
property and making the house suit
/ able for holding services. A new
building will be erected in the near
future.