The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-06

again that the public schools of the
city viii open for the fall term on
Tuesday, September H.
Fred Fuller and L. c. Keys of the
Santa Fe offices have returned from a
ten days trip to Colorado They were
two of party of 100 persons who start
ed to climb Pixies Peak.
The man who believed that natural
gas had no odor can become disabused
by walking on the east side of Kansas
avenue where the gas company is put
ting in main connections
W. w. Harvey, who was until a few
months ago Topeka attorney but who
is now in partnership with Harry Bone
at Ashland. has been nominated by the
Clark county Republicans as their
candidate for county attorney.
The two troops of United States cav
airy which has been camping at the
fair grounds en- route from Osawato-
ME to Fort Riley broke. camp this
morning and started on their way.
Though the season for straw hats is
over and it is not considered good form
to wear one any longer the fact does
not seem to worry great many men
who persist in hanging on and wearing
theirs.
With all the extra number of laborers
who have been imported into Topeka
this summer and kept employed there
ought not to be any difficulty in getting
help to clear off the snow from the side
walks this winter.
Because there is a Crawford repre-
sentative at Atchison whenever
theatrical attraction of some magni-
tude holds forth at that town the ru-
NOR is going around that L. NJ. CraW-
ford intends to open rival house
Two hundred and thirty-five entries
have been made for the sixteen races
to be run off at the fair grounds next
week This is by far the largest num-
Der of entries that have ever been
made for a race meet in Kansas and
some rare sport is promised.
Charles Samson writes from Lincoln,
Neb, that he started three of his
/ horses in the races at the Nebraska
state fair and won three monies. This
makes fourteen times that his little
/ black horses have started and they
have never been behind the money.
The new Salvation army headquar-
ters at No. 119 West Fifth street will
| be opened on Saturday evening with q
musical festival led by Ensign Thorpe
1 Of Hutchinson. Mr.. Thorpe plays
nearly every musical instrument and
gets a tune out of a set of whisky
bottles.
Fourteen horses are carded for the
/ Derby the running classic of the Kan
sas turf, which will be the feature Of
/ Tuesday. the opening day, of the big
grounds, and Verdotte, the winner Of
/ the race last year, IS one OF the
/ starters.
Fifteen tented shows and number
/ of free attractions under the manage
ment of the -Brainerd Car
nival company, ought to furnish plenty
/ of entertainment for the crowds which
will attend the races at the fair
/ grounds next week. These shows will
! give performances afternoons and
evenings as we'll
When there is nothing else to do the
employees in the Office of the clerk of
the United States district court
spend their time getting &C
quainted with the new law passed by
congress governing the taking out of
naturalization papers. The law is
voluminous and contains a penalty for
every infraction.
A steam engine is used to pull a plow
through the pavement on Kansas ave
nue. to loosen it so it may be removed
preliminary to the spreading of the new
asphalt If this had happened five years
ago the newspaper correspondents
would have had the eastern papers full
of sensational stories about the strange
doings on Kansas avenue"
when the new asphalt. pavement is
down on Kansas avenue the autOmo-
bile fellows Will be going so fast on
i the street that it won't be safe for a
man to walk across the street.
+ said one man yesterday While watching
+ the operations of a chauffeur who
seemed oblivious to the fact that there
were some dangerous holes on Kansas
avenue