The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-15
sNAP SHOTS AT HONE NEWS

freight department. was in Kansas
City yesterday.
B. F. Criswell and E. w. latham of
Topeka were in Kansas City on in
surance business Tuesday.
A new theatre under construction
at Sedalia, Mo, will be included in
the Crawford circuit OF theatres.
Oscar Kihlberg, who formerly ope-
rated Turkish bath house in To-
peka, now owns big bath house at
Excelsior Springs
The Chicago Tribune says: Mr.
Rockefeller does not need any point
ers as to what is the matter with
Kansas, thank you.
There will be no prayer meeting at
the First congregational Presbyterian
church Thursday evening on account
of State Temperance convention at
First Christian church.
The pipe organ dedication is Fri
day night. The most difficult and in
tricate pipe organ literature will be
Eddy, the greatest living American
organist.
The annual interstate oratoricaI con-
test will be held in Kansas in 1906.
The last time that this state had the
| speaking fest, was when Ferry Plat
| delivered his famous grafton THE
/ Grim Chieftain."
The south steps of the state house
1 makes almost as good a toboggan
slide as may be found at any of the
winter resorts for tobogganing sport
in Canada. The boys with sleds have
great sport at the state house as long
as the janitors fail to clean off the
snow.
| A hallelujah note from the Washburn
Review: THE senior play is no longer
a secret. A sophomore is proud pos
SCISSOR of a revised edition of the play
| Some forgetful member of the dignified
| persuasion left a copy in a class room
and the wide awake Soph took posses
/ sion.''
The last issue of the illustrated Sat
urday Magazine of the Evening Mail of
/ New York, contains a group picture
from the third act of The Woman in
the Case" now playing at the. Herald
Square theater. One of the group is
I William Wadsworth of Topeka. Blanch
Walsh is starring in the play.
/ The railway managers and the
| Standard Oil lobbyists say that The
/ Kansas legislature is too busy MAX
i ing laws to hurt the railroads and the
/ "oil interests" to take time to instruct
the state house janitors to comply
with the city ordinances and remove
the snow from the state house side
walks.
On Tuesday afternoon Probate Judge
Hayden postponed the hearing of the
cases of six Topeka druggists, from
whom County Attorney Hungate is at
tempting to take away permits. All
were set for February %. The drug
gists are: G. H. Kohl, c. NJ. Hines,
w. F. Lake. c. F. Young, Henry. Page
and f. l.. Evans.
4 AS has been generally believed
negotiations are pending for the sale
of the plant and good will of the
Excelsior Coke and Gas company to
the Kansas Natural Gas company or
/, an adjunct company recently ineor-
porated by them known as the Home
!, Heat and Light company. A. \.
} Brady, owner to a principal extent of
the stock of the Excelsior Coke and
Gas company, is holding back from a
sale awaiting developments in the
local natural gas situation c. II.
, natural gas business, was in the city
yesterday and gave out a statement
: that he was endeavoring to negotiate
, for a transfer of the plant now in
operation.
} The Republican city central COM
} rnittee has decided that the campaign
will not cost as much as first figured
and as consequence VIII return %
per cent of the entry fees to the can
Z didates who have put up their money
= The only exception to this ruling are
the members of the board of educa-
ton who were assessed 81 each for
? entry fees, they will have to be con-
tent with paying full fare. Candi-
D dates for positions on the city central
| committee will escape scott free and
a return of the entry fee of 81 which
D they have placed up will be refunded.
This is the first instance on record OF
! where the city central committee has
l made a return of the money after its
. having been once placed up.
From the Washburn Review: In a
letter to the college from Lyman p.
s Armstrong, an alumni of the college
!, class of 1886 now living at San Jose,
California, relative to the McVicar en-
e dowment fund Mr. Armstrong has
; very clever little anecdote to tell. He
: was selecting his subject for his senior
8 thesis, and after he had made out what
he thought a very good one he submit
ted it to DR.. McVicar. OF the talk he
then had with the doctor Mr.. Armstrong
0 has the following to say: How the old
: doctor clipped imagination's wings.
Z When I reported to him my graduation
theme English. the Future World
LANGUAGE. he solemnly queried, since
we can hardly tell about the language
we shall use in the future world, why
not n, lie If out The Euture of the