The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

Iy the general passenger and ticket
agents of the Rock Island.
A lease on the sand bar owned by
the city at the Harrison street water
works station has been granted to
Fitzgibbons & Lardner. The lease is
granted for 500 a year and the city
viii get all the sand it wants from the
/ dip at ten cents a cubic yard.
The first man to pay his assessment
after the central committee had met
and said what it should be was Rome
COlVin, who is a candidate for sheriff.
The second man up with his assessment
was Richard Thomas who wants to be
the next clerk of the district court.
n. H. LOomis R. W. Blair and Henry
Scandrett, members Of the Union Pacific
| law firm in Topeka, will on Monday
night attend the banql ct to be given
at Omaha in honor of w r. Kelly,
/ general solicitor of the road who viii
retire from his position on February /.
There are not a half dozen blocks
/ in any town in the country. with the
/ possible exception of New York and
i Chicago, which blaze so at night with
| electric light signs, as do these right
here along Kansas avenue" remarked
| a travelling man, who was in the city
1 the other night
If some member of the city council
wants to pose as a benefactor of his
race he should introduce an ordinance
making it a penal offense to blow q
/
days, and an hour OF so later on Sun
! days he would be on a fair way to re-
alize his ambition.
The Kansas Authors club viii hold
its January meeting next Wednesday
| evening at the residence of Mrs Henry
Hull, 216 West Eighth avenue. A pro-
gramme of original literature inter
spersed with music has been prepared
i for the occasion, to which all friends CT
l the club will be welcome.
fol
man of January S: THE Rev. H. B.
| Brown, a colored student in the do
/ cese of Kansas, has completed his ex-
aminatiOnS and will soon be ordained
to the priesthood. after which he VIII
| take charge of St SimOn's, Topeka,
| with fifty communicates.
e. L. Hayden. the owner of the Webb
| City team in the Western association.
/ has not yet sold Billy Whites release
4 to Topeka although White himself has
asked for a contract and wants to sign
| up at once. Grow thinks that Hayden
/ viii sell his interest in the crack Short
stop, however. I think Hayden is out
| Of town." says Crow, or we would
have already heard from him.
"One of the many remarkable
mer the other day, is the fact that
you are never approached on the
streets by a meudicant. I have been
coming here eff and on for years and
!
stopped me on the streets and asked
for money"
Two men were barring their arms in a
! Topeka gymnasium last night and
showing the muscles of their biceps.
| One had a lot of hairs on his arm and
he said to the other. whose arm was
free from hirsute appendages: You
got an arm like a baby instead OF like a
man. To this the other replied. That's
! all right. but I guess the hairs on your
! arm indicate that you are still closer
I to the monkeys than I am"
Mrs. Thorpe. police matron, was
/ leading a mission Sunday school class
/ whose members are made up of the
/ children in the poorer quarters of the
/ city She asked for volunteers from
those who knew any of the ten com
! mandments. One little fellow who
lives down close to the Rock Island
tracks eagerly raised his hand s'WeIl,
what is it2' asked Mrs. Thorpe. II
know one. Thou shalt not bum said
( he with greatest of self assurance.