The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-15

the Smith Automobile Manufacturing
company which will cost them 1898, 0OO
the machines to be delivered as fast as
they can be completed.
The city council has decided that
they do not want a circus in the city on
grant a. license to the Wallace shows
which are billed for Topeka on that
day.
It may be imposing on the railroad
department to announce that the state
ment comes from an authentic source
that two more hremen are laying off
on account of getting cinders in. their
eyes"
The regular freight train on the
Topeka street railway which is due at
the transfer station at about o'clock
must have met with an accident of
some kind as it did not report on time
today.
The water works department Of. To-
peka sold a little more than $4,000
worth of water last month, which IS
doing pretty well when it is considered
that the breweries and joints are cater
ing to a number of its patrons
The new tangled gloves which reach
to the elbows and have detachable ex-
tremities, somehow remind one who is
not familiar with city sights Of
pair of stockings, whose feet have been
cut off on account of holes in the toes
or heels.
Jack Johnson's Topeka Giants de-
! feated the ball team of the Ninth Color
ed Cavalry at Fort Riley yesterday by
a score Of to 0. From the present
showing, indications point to the fact
that Topeka has two first class ball
teams this season.
The man who drives the sprinkling
cart refuses to work on Sunday, claim
/ ing that as he has reformed and is on
/ the water wagon he should not be COM
! PEELED to fall from grace even though
the dust is just as Objectionable on the
| seventh day of the week as any other.
Not as news but only as a suggestion
! to Governor HOch and Attorney Cen
/ eral COleman: The statement is made
on good authority that the joints are as
open to the public in Topeka as they
Kansas cities that might be enumer-
ated.
on Friday evening the United Span
/ ish War veterans will meet at 5l3 KAN
sas avenue for the purpose Of making
preparations for Memorial day services.
They will unite with the Philippine or
ganization in the observance of the
day. All soldiers of the Spanish war
7 are invited.
A paint wagon broke down at Eighth
avenue and Jackson street this morn
ing and the corner was drowned in
/ paint. 1t was not a case of painting
the town red however, for the paint
was yellow. It might be in order now
to suspend a few high school boys on
suspicion
Gas which has been escaping from
the mains at the corner of Lincoln and
| Huntoon streets for some time and
which was lighted by some of the boys
of the neighborhOOd caused the fire de-
partment to make a run to that portion
of the city last evening to extiaguish
the blaze.
D. o. Crane, superintendent of the
Topeka cemetery, complains of the
depredations of vandals who have been
despoiling the graves in the cemetery
Of the flowers placed on them. A spec
ial effort viii be made to capture the
culprits and punish them to the extent
prescribed by law.
/ Manager Hagen of the Novelty the
ater has made arrangements for a NOV
ing picture the week commencing May
20, portraying the great San Francisco
disaster These films were made at the
time the destruction was going on and
are said to be the only authentic films
made from photographs taken at that
time.
Miss Elsa Abmyer. who was injured
by an attack of bulldog yesterday
morning, says that she was not accom-
panied by her dog that the two dogs
which We're in the melee both belonged
to Henry billiard. THE bulldog inst
ran out and attacked me I guess be-
cause he doesn't like my dog, though
my dog wasn't with me at the time
was bitten in two or three places and
my little finger is dislocateds