The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-17
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.


No more baseball in Topeka for two
weeks.
The Innes concerts in the evening
at Vinewood begin at o'clock.
County Attorney Hungate will go to
Fort Scott Wednesday to be gone two
week
Judge Dana will begin the summer
vacation of the district court some
| time this week.
According to the returns of the as
SCISSORS, there are 3.254 goats in Kan
sas. No wonder this is a great lodge.
state.
Attorney General coleman.s ONCE
was closed all day Saturday out of re-
spect to the late assistant attorney
general, J. r. Close.
The Y. M. c. A. tennis players are
| now playing off a round robin tourna-
ment, in which the scheme is simply
| to have every team play every other
team entered.
| E. B. Schermerhorn and Sherman
Elliott of the board of control are on
the road this week making the invoice
| of all property at four or five of the
state charitable institutions.
| D. c. Morris, who is working on the
| examination of the state treasurers
| Office, now has only one assistant in the
work in addition to Miss Emma Viets
of State Accountant Gafford's Office.
| Fritz Durein is reported to be MAX
1 ing d SUN nunL 10 Q0l6TInlne II Sner1IT
Lucas is guilty of swiping his famous
old game chicken to use as a Sunday
attraction at his chicken fighting pit
south of town.
1t was reported to Sheriff Lucas
Sunday that a man with a corkscrew
| was seen going toward VineWood park.
Lucas took the first car for the park
| only to discover that the corkscrev
was being used on ginger ale bottles.
Judge Dana. of the district court, is
called "pars.' short for "parson'' be-
cause of his ministerial dignity He is
referring to the lawyers who ractice
before him as Brother Larimer," and
brother so-and-so.
| Frank J. Ryan, a Leavenworth man
who is candidate for secretary of state,
is out in the eastern part of the state
| making speeches in which he agrees, if
| elected, to take a bath in the secretary
of states bath tub on his Inauguration
day. This bath tub is said to have
been used only once since it was in
stalled.
| Now is the very best time of year to
make collection of chigger bites. The
writer has SO. all secured one evening.
Some "enterprising"' Topeka newspaper
| ought to offer a piano for the person
| bringing in the largest and most pic
| turesque collection of bites-30 votes
at ten cents per vote with each CHG
ger bite.
In the big oflcial history of the
Louisiana Purchase exposition, which
! is issued by the fair managemen
there is full page picture of the de-
crepit old Topeka street car which was
used in the transportation building to
| show how patient the people of Topeka
were before the rebuilding of the
| street car line.
The Lawrence Gazette says: To-
peka is in a great fit of pouts with
Lawrence. She has it in for this town
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and Bailey's circus has posted Topeka
| thoroughly with their show bills
labeled Lawrence, Kansas" Topeka
people will have to come to Lawrence
to see a real sure enough good circus.
! When Center Fielder Abbott of the
White Sox hit a home run Sunday at
the park and was showered with sill
yer from the grandstand and bleach
ers, the following were a few of the
[yells that greeted him: Nov you'll
have enough to buy new folding
bed ''That gets you "a washstand,"
There's a rocking chair and wash
ing machine ON the ground right now. .
Explanatory of these remarks it might
/ be mentioned that Abbott is to be
married tonight.
The street car company fell down
pretty badly in it's attempt to handle
the crowd back, to town from the
baseball park Sunday afternoon. All
the cars which were at the gates
pie who had been on the grounds.
AS a consequence great many walked
back to town, while others had to con-
tent themselves by waiting until
empty cars could be sent back out for
them. The trouble was due partially
to the fact that the game was only five
innings long and was over before spe-
cial cars could be sent to the park.
The Modocs are practicing up some
new army songs which they plan to
! sing at the national encampment of
the G.. A. R. in Denver in September.
Some Lawrence young, man read
Robert w. Chambers story EN- Pas
SAINT in the Saturday Evening Post of
a few weeks ago and then told this
story to Charley Finch, of the Law
renee Gazette, and Finch who is easy
took the bait: lone of the Lawrence
boys who came back from Topeka
yesterday tells story on Carl Olson
of the Olson Brothers who are playing
at Vinewood park this week. Carl
was going out to the park for a per-
Torrance and while busy talking with
one of his friends, he noticed that his
shoe string was united. He reached
down and carelessly tied it. When he
started to get off at the park he
noticed that he had tied the Shoe
string to the shoe string of a young
lady who sat beside him. Carl rode
on to the end of the car line and tn en-
i united the string, apologizing to the
lady. The boys are having the cigars
on Carl