The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-14

". z. SaDD, chairman Of the Demo
cratic state central committee, arrived
in The city Thursday and is doing some
active work in keeping alive the or
ganization.
It is not generally known that Coun-
tv Commissioner Sterne came near be-
ing chief of police of Topeka some %
wears ago. He declined to endanger
life, limb or reputation.
The city treasury was enriched Thurs
day by the receipt of 10000 in payment
for the bonds issued to pay for building
the extension to the Melan bridge, and
five creek bridges In the city.
The Morland Adance says: Sheriff
Ashcroft returned Saturday from To-
peka where he went in charge OF Aus
team Smith. colored, Who was judged
insane IN the probate court last month
An eight-coach excursion will be run
to Topeka from Kansas City on Sun
dav. Nav Z. over the Rock Island The
excursion viii be run under tht aus
pices Of the Woodmen Of the World.
The carpenters and contractors say
that they are figuring on the cost or
many new houses and that the pros
poets are that the busy season Tor the
builders will be continued indefinitely.
Saturday is the last day to send in
names for the Topeka baseball team.
Whoever guesses the winning n will
receive a eason pass to the games to
be played in Topeka this summer.
The trials of r. F. Hodgins and Vim
cent Kaczynski, charged by ex-Chief
of Police Frank Stahl with harboring
and concealing liquors in their cold
storage plant, are set in the district
court for next Wednesday,.
Down on Euclid avenue the workmen
on the sewer q encountered at a
depth of u feet a ledge of tremendously
hard fin rock. It is very slow work
getting through this rock, which IS Of
h1r1fqF ora color and reGfSTS GV6TV-
thing except dynamite.
When Sheriff Lucas ends his second
term as sheriff he intends to move to
his farm eight miles north of North
Topeka. In doing this he will follow
the precedent established by other re-
tired officers of the law, viz. Robert
Kepley, Porter Cook and Frank Stahl.
The city council is considering a
resolution to change the names of a
few streets in the southwest corner OF
town. While it is about it, why not
have a general reconstruction OF street
existing tangles ?
At a baby show held at Marquett
the little daughter of Senate and Mrs.
Hughes. of Mcpherson county, was
awarded the first prize. senator
Hughes was an Indian fighter and
buffalo hunter, as a sid line to farm
ing. in Kansas 80 years ago and is
well known in Topeka.
The firm of Hanley & Ritchie, which
has the contract for building the sixth
ward sewer, viii not begin work until
the city has the sewer bonds sold and
the money in sight. The contractors do
not want to have to wait a long time for
the city to get the money for them as
the contractors on the Fifth ward sewer
were obliged to dc.
When Judge McCabe, of the city
court, took the oath of Office for his
second farm before County Clerk New
man, he held up his right hand to be
sworn and signed the oath of Office
with his left hand. He could as easily
have reversed the order of the hands If
it had been necessary. He writes with
either his right or left hand.
With Governor Hoch the dignitary
at the ceremonies of laying the corner
stone of the Christian church at Six
tenth and Clay, n the same COVER
nor being booked to conduct a Sunday
class, after his own ideas, at
the Methodist church at Seventeenth
and Lane streets, the southwest part
of town must be getting pretty well
used to governors.
The legislature appropriated $500 to
be used in buying books for h library
of the state p~enitentiary, at Lansing.
Chaplain McBrain and n of the
professors from the State university,
at Lawrence, have gone to Chicago to
select the books. Query: If the legis-
lature had appropriated $1,000 would
it nave required four men to junket
to Chicago to pick. the books?
Brigadier General Hughes, in com
man of the Kansas national guard,
adjutant general of the state, city
councilman, secretary of the State
Poultry association, etc, etc, is only
rivaled as a job holder by Albert New
man, who is county clerk, treasurer Of
the First congressional district COM
mittee, county purchasing agent, Ven
cradle Preceptor of Knight of Royal
Axe in the Scottish Rite, etc, etc.
The United States immediate eli
mate and crop report says; Kansas
Wheat in fine condition and growing
rapidly; oats generally up, good stand
and growing we'll; corr planting prog
ressing. corn coming up in south;
large acreage of potatoes planted: ap-
plums blooming; Strawberries bloom
ing in south; alfalfa, clover, and tame
grass growing finely; wild a start
ing we'll
J. G.. Bloom, principal assistant engi-
0eer OF the ROCK ISland has returned
from a trip to central Kansas where he
has been investigating the gumbo
trenches in preparation for the ballast
ing of the ines. General Superintend-
ent J. o. Crockett and c.. W. Jones, di-
vision superintendent, who accompanied
him, went on to Logan, New Mexico. to
inspect the new steel bridge which is
being erected V e the Canadian river at
that point.
The members of the local a~ssocia-
ton known as the Green Mountain
Boys" viii give an evenings entertain
ment at the rooms of the Y. w. c. A.
on Wednesday,. April 20. The Green
Mountain Boys compose the mem
bership of the Vermont association of
Topeka and they intend to import
fresh maple sugar and syrup from
their native state for this occasion. c.
S Gleed is president of the local as
sociatio, z. w. Thompson is secretary
and H. c. Bowman is treasurer.
The Hays City Republican says:
"A. A. Rodgers, G. B. Reed. w. NJ.
Green and G. w. Bell Of Topeka were
in Hays last Sunday n drove over
the experiment farm. They did not
know the state owned such a fine BODY
of land and that it was maintaining