The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-16
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Observation-Disclosures.
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Crawford-Stock Company.
The rink will be open next Friday
night. Good music
Sheriff Lucas will take a squad of
prisoners to the state penitentiary in a
/ few days.
s. S. OFT. cashier of the Central Ma
tional, is in Washington, D. c., in con-
neetion with affairs concerning the
bank.
The IN. c. A. tennis club is having
a round robin tournament at their
David August has Joined the ranks
of the plutocrats and now rides about
in Rambler automobile purchased
this week.
A large number of visitors are ex-
pected in town next Sunday as the
Santa Fe will run an excursion here
from Atchison.
By winning their game yesterday
from Joplin, Topeka is again within
one notch of the coveted first place in
the Western Association.
Major Anderson, secretary of the To-
peka Commercial club. delivered an ad-
dress before the commercial body OF
Council Grove last evening.
Webb City opened a series of four
games at Association Park with To-
.peka this afternoon. Springfield will
put its neck in the moose next.
It is mighty hard to convince a base
ball fan, especially while Topeka is
winning that it is much better to have
a soaking rain than a baseball game
From the present indications it APP
pears that Dick Cooley will be COM
PEELED to release Womble If he wishes
to head the batting list Of the Cooley
crows.
The annual commencement Of the
state hospital training school for nurses
was held Tuesday evening when five
members graduated and were given
their diplomas
S. A Mccoy. assistant engineer for
tie Santa F'e, who is working on the
Belin cutoff, is spending a couple OF
weeks with his family who reside a
1855 Lane street.
n J. Holurn, former proprietor of
the Chesterfield hotel, accompanied by
Mrs Holurn, will leave today on an
extended trip through Iowa, Minnesota
and North Dakota.
The moving pictures Of the White
Sox will be taken at Association Fa ark
on next Sunday afternoon before the
game The high winds have prevented
taking them before.
Downs long home run netted him
enough cash yesterday from the enthus-
iastic fans to place him In good stand
ing with his boarding house keeper for
a week or so to come.
city Attorney Dreaming seems to be
losing faith in his own ability and an
nounces that ne may not be able to stop
the circus performance which is sched-
uled for Decoration day
A number of the joints in town have
found tubs inadequate to cool the peer
needed by the thirsty during these
warm days and have had the temer1ty
to put in large sized ice boxes
The state intercollegiate field meet
between the principal colleges of the
state VIII take place at the fair grounds
next week This is the first meet OF
this size to take place in the state.
Notwithstanding the fact that rain
fell a considera BILE portion of yesterday
some one inserted the plug Just at the
right time and the ball game in the
afternoon was not interfered with in
the least
The city treasury was enriched Sill
Yesterday paid over by the gas COM
pany for excavation permits Every
hermit costs 81, and several thousand
have been taken out already this
spring.
oscar Wolf stopped one of the hottest
fouls of the season at the ball park
Yesterday afternoon when a hot one off
Of the bat of Zearfoss struck him on
the wish bone.' It might have killed
a bigger man.
Occupying the caudal position in the
Western Association as 1t does, Wichita
is now in position TO reflect on the
sl11rs that it threw at the Topeka ag-
gregation last season and consider the
retributive Justice proposition.
Il hear considerable complaint about
the Street Car company hauling freight
on Kansas avenue" said a man who
was driving on the rocky road last
night, but I confess that can't IN
derstand why: it's not fit for anything
else"
The attention of the civic pride COM
rnittee is called to the gang OF work.
men who are attempting to straighten
the Shunganunga in South Topeka and
who cut down a cottonwood tree yes
terday which measured four feet in
thickness.
The golf players of the Topeka Coun-
try club are preparing for a prelirn-
mary tournament next Saturday on
their grounds south of the city The
scores made will be used for basis of
classification for future championship
tournaments.
Two bright tweIve-year-old youths
who were taken of of the blind bag
gage at the Santa Fe depot last night
protested against being sent back to
their home in Lawrence on the ground
that they want to know what is going
on in the world
The park commissioners have decided
to fill the lakes in Central Park as soon
as the necessary arrangements can be
made and the unsightly creations which
have been dry since their construction
will add to the beauty Of the park and
its surroundings.
On the theory that they had located a
dry town the prohibition convention is
being held at Lyons today instead of
Topeka. There is nothing like keeping
the delegates to any convention away
from temptation, at least until the
platform is written
Professor W. A. McKeever, Instructor
f7f nh at IA eric
college. visited with his brothers in this
city for few hours yesterday on his
way home from Columbus where he de-
lfvered a lecture before the high school
the preceding evening
The ball game between the South To-
naxa nd az the foic