The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-03
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On al SHUTS A u HUM n n y " %
NEXT WEEK AT THEATERs.
Noyelty-Capt. Himman, life saver
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Grand-shipp''s Indoor Circus.
The ever important question-what
was your gas bin this last month.
DR.. E NJ. Brockett has purchased q
light automobile of the runabout
variety.
Duck shooting is said to be extra
fine in the corn fields and the ponds
about Silver Lake.
The state oratorical contest among
the colleges of the state will be held IN
Ottawa on March 9.
Rev. H. F. Jones viii preach his first
sermon to his congregation at Unity
church Sunday morning.
A baby girl was born at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. n. W. Ginger OF 14A5
West Tenth street Friday.
There viii be a meeting of the
Shawnee County Medical society at
the National hotel Monday evening.
DR.. H. H. Keith was called to Ross
vile this morning on professional BUSH
ness and will not return until late to-
da=.
February has been referred to as a
dry month yet the precipitation for the
month was "A of an inch above the aV-
erage.
R6IeTrinB 10 lEnIDlnS CAldAtStSs
what do you think of the variety of
weather experienced by Topeka yes
terday2
The registration books at the election
commissioners Office will close ten days
before the election. The registration is
picking up.
All trains from the west are from
one to a dozen hours late on account
of the heavy storm in Colorado and
western Kansas.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. K. Muth, formerly
of Topeka, have returned from Illinois
and Indiana and win make their per
manent home aka again.
The Santa Fe shops and yards ad-
joining are being equipped with the lat
est thing in fire alarm boxes to take
place of the old styles ones now IN
use.
The question Of the cold storage
of chickens. which is being agitated
Just at this time. must be an extremely
chilly one to the chicken tribe at
least
Miss Nellie Donegan, who claims the
title of champion Il dy skater OF the
world, viii be at the rink this evening
for the benefit of the charity fund of
the Orphans home
The cor3ition of DR.. J. P. Lewis,
who has been seriously i'll at his nome
o. Harrison street for week, is much
improved and it is hoped that an oper-
alton viii not be necessarq.
All the visions of spring have flown,
and for about the second time this
season TOpekans are reminded that
we are in a zone where sunshine and
midsummer temperatures are not
perpetual
Judge A. W Dana will deliver an
address on The Indeterminate Sen
tence Law before the Saturday Night
club which meets this evening at the
Office of Ferry & Doran in the Column
bian building
If you go to the rink tonight you
viii be pleased with the performance
of Miss Donegan, the worlds champion
skater It is the best attraction To-
peIa has ever had for the money. Ad-
mission 10 cents
Just about the average number of
walls of distress reached the shops Of
the plumbers over the telephone lines
this morning, as the heat began to thaw
out the frozen water pipes ana foun-
tains began to play.
The silver cup offered by the man
agement of the high school athletic
association to the class selling the
greatest number of tickets to the an
nual tournament which was held last
night was awarded to the junior class
of OF.
At the athletic exhibition given by
the high school at the auditorium last
night the junior class used the large
flag which was swung between the
dome of the state house and the
steeple of the Presbyterian church last
April as a decoration
The claims and accounts committee
of the city council in session yesterday /
afternoon allowed the final estimate OF
Johnson and Carlson, contractors who
erected the No fire station. The es- !
innate called for S1,09S. The committee
meeting was uneVentful
The board of county commissioners
have ordered that Cyrus Haygood the |
negro who so murderously assaulted |
Mr. and Mrs. CoOns and D L. Brewer
last week be taken to Bedwells pri- |
dent of Kansas and for that reason /
cannot be placed in the state insutu- /
ton.
There has been but about one de
gree difference in the temperatures OF /
the month of February for the last /
three years and yet this winter is be- |
ing constantly referred to as the warm /
est for years. The maximum ternpera- !
ture for the month of February, 1904, /
was So while the temperature was one /
degree lower this year.
There was no performance of Par
sifal'' at the Grand last night Sew /
eraI reasons were given why the date |
was Cancelled. In the first place, the +
advance sale of seats was poor; in the /
second place. the night was stormy. /
For the third reason the claim is /
made that the aggregation did not |
reach the city in time
AS an Indication that the busy sea- |
son for the hen is near at hand ". A. |
Castro brought a hen egg to the State /
Journal office this morning which in /
the opinion of eggnog experts is some /
thing out of the ordinary. The egg
which measures seven by eight inches |
was brought TO the city by Mrs. James
MCGEE who lives on a farm near
Watson.
A farmers wife who lives near a
town in this county re-
Gently received a draft for $4,000 for |
the sale of a piece of property in the /
east She started for Topeka to de- !
post tire money in a bank. and after /
purchasing her ticket found that she
had just two cents left, and as a re-
suit was compelled to walk two miles |
to the residence of her son.