The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-11

placed an order yesterday for COM
plete new outfit throughout.
The committee which was appointed
some time ago to select site for the
new Turner hall Will meet next Friday
evening.
The April meeting of the
Kansas Authors and Book Lovers
club VIII be held in the Darlors at the
National hotel this evening.
The Washburn college baseball
team started on a weeks tour Monday
and Will visit the nearby towns in the
northern portion of the state.
There is but one murder trial set for
the April term, that of Oliver Smith
who killed Thomas Bair in a North
Topeka joint three weeks ago.
Arrangements are being made by
the members of the Shawnee County
Bar association for a banquet which
will be held some time this spring.
This is harvest season for the mil
liners and their stores are crowded
from early morning until late a night
with customers for Easter creations.
Gadski played to five hundred peo-
pie in Denver at five dollars a seat
and then came to Topeka and played
to about the same number at one dol
lar a seat.
Six courts are now busily engaged
in transacting the business in their
departments today, and yet there are
a number at large who seem to have
been overlooked
With spring here and natural gas
as we'll, the coal strike which has
been declared does not cause any par
ticular amount of worry to the aver
age citizen Of Topeka.
The Y NJ. c. A. membership con-
test closes next Friday evening at 10
o'clock The contest so far has re-
suited in the mem bership being in
creased something over two hundred.
One of the principal features of the
regular monthly meeting of the Com
mercial club next Friday evening will
be an address by John E. Frost who
has just returned from a trip to Japan.
There are a number of strangers in
the city this week who are not here
from choice, they are here in answer
to subpoenas issued by the federal
grand jury and it is a case of come or
be sent for.
The street railway company has
placed one of the large Vinewood
cars on the line to the ball park for
the accommodation of the fans who
go out each afternoon to watch the
Cooleycrows practice.
The state chess championship will be
decided at meeting at the State
Journal Office tonight between Major A.
NJ. Harvey of Topeka, and H. D.
Thompson of Junction City. Each has
two games to his credit.
The condition Of ex-State Auditor
George E. Cole, who slipped on the ice
covered steps as he was leaving his Of
fee three weeks ago. is much better
than had been expected. He will pro-
baby be able to be at his office in two
weeks.
W. 1. Miller Lumber company, 213
East Sixth, have about one and a half
million of clear FIVE to two red cedar
shingles, on which they are making ex-
tremely low prices for a few days only,
in order to make room for more that
are coming.
The rite of confirmation will be ad-
ninistered in st. Simon's Episcopal
church, Western avenue and Seventh
street, on Sunday afternoon next
(Easter day) at 4:30 o'clock by the
Rt. Rev. F r. Millspaugh, D. D.,
bishop of Kansas
If you have not paid your personal
tax and see the sheriff approaching,
the best thing you can do is to dis
appear, as he is probably armed with
an alias tax warrant which permits
| him to relieve the unfortunate victim
: of about everything but the clothing
which is being worn.
Thursday and Saturday of this week
the two big baseball leagues, the
J American and the National, open their
/ cham pionship seasons. The State
Journal VIII bulletin each evening on
/ games played each day until the sea-
4 son is closed in October.
With the opening of spring the
/ prospects are that the janitors about
/ the state house will be compelled to
/ do considerable more work than dur
/ Ing the winter months They are now