The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-24

The fall run of fish are beginning to
bite fairly we'll in Soldier creek
The enrolment at Washburn has
climbed upward until it now reaches 800.
Yesterdays crowd at the ball game
was the largest Of the season over
tairty-five hundred were present.
There were a couple of thousand ex-
eursionists in the city yesterday, the
majority of them coming from Kansas
City and Chanute.
The committee of two hundred
which looks after the enforcement OF
the prohibitory law in Topeka was re-
organized yesterday
Judge Dana has three divorce suits
under adyisement in which decisions
may be handed down some time the
latter part of the week
After making one arrest in connection
with the enforcement of the wide tire or
dinance, the police will rest on tnelr
laurels for a few months.
night excursion trains emptied their
passengers in Topeka yesterday, tnLSS
each on the Santa Fe and ROCK 1sidHu
and two over the Union Pacific.
Next wednesday is the last day of
grace for unnaturaIized citizens under
the old law and the rush at the once
of the clerk of the district court con-
tinues.
Judge Pollock, of the United States
district court. returned from Cape
Cirardeau Saturday and left Sunday for
Wichita where the court Will open TINS
moIninG-
The Rock Island ran three ex-
elIrsions to Topeka Sunday for the Dall
game. one each from the north, soutn
and east, and brought 1850 people 70
the city.
1t is reported that the management
At yfnewood made $4,000 more than
they have made at any previous season:
This is probably due to the nve cent
| fare which has been granted once
week.
The following reports of births are
made bv the board of health: Mr. ana
/ Mrs ARA Clark, boy, Twelfth and ray
/ lor streets; Mr. and Mrs. Roy ~ ausol;
| bov. BIG East Saywell street; MI ana
| Mrs. Harry Dunn. girl, 1922 East sixth
avenue.
DR.. W. c. Evans, pastor of the First
Methodist church. who has resigned
from his pastOrate to engage IN the
work of presiding elder at Oakland;
/ cal. returned Sunday morning and
preached at the First Methodist church
/ In the evening.
Joe Morgan is walking with limp
and carving a cane as a result OF q
fall sustained while attempting to
a1ight from street car at the ball
park. He has decided that he will not
| attend any more ball games-that IS
not this season.
There were so many people at the
sunday ball game that the peanut and
+ uopcorn boys made so much money by
! the end of the sixth inning that they
abandoned their work and watched
4 the remainder of the game from seats
in the grand stand.
A smokers lounging room is being
/ fixed up in the rear of George Burg
/ hart's cigar store at Eighth and Kan
sas avenues. The space was formerly
occupied by his cigar factory which has
now moved in a building between Tenth
/ and Eleventh streets on Kansas avenue.
with vinewood park closed for the
/ season and no more ball games for an
other season it is more than likely that
time viii hang heavily on the heads of
/ the fans of the city as well as those
who were given to spending two or
more evenings out of each week at the
park.
Run, run. rum shouted the crowd to
a novice at baseball who had knocked
the first ball pitched out of the lot and
was standing idly at the home plate.
run, run the crowd continued to
shout and he finally replied. That's all
right, boys, If I've lot the ball. I'll pay
for it."
Nearly the entire block on Kansas
avenue between Sixth and Seventh
streets was resurfaced with asphalt yes
terday. a large gang of men being. a t
work from early morning until five
/ O'Clock IN the afternoon, and they fur
nished a lot Of diversion for the Sunday
strollers.
o. D. Reams of Butler. Mo, has a
ferret for sale for IS. He says that he
understands that Topeka is infested
with rats and that it would be only a
question OF few days until Topeka
would be free Of them for the ferTet's
capacity IS given at 40 a day Anyone
who wants to 20 into the ferret b17sf-