The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-28

The Topeka baseball team arrived
at home this morning a o'clock.
The grocers and butchers consumed
over 100 gallons of ice cream at their
picnic.
vinewood looked like a real metro
politan park last night. 1t was
crowded.
The rain last night cooled off the at
mosphere for a While today and made
life more enjoyable.
Manager Matthews five cent rate was
as popular at Vinewood last night as
that of the city railway.
J. H. Skinner, who has fruit farm
north of Topeka, will have about 5000
bushels of peaches this year.
County Attorney Albert Hoskinson
of Garden City is in Topeka today on
his way to his old home in Missouri for
a visit
F. Babcock is exhibiting an liberia
peach to his friends that is eleven and
three-fourths inches in circumference
1t was raised in Arkansas.
An exceptionally large crowd took
advantage of the five cent fare made by
the street railway company yesterday
and last night and attended Vinewood
park.
Leavenworth comes to Topeka today
for three games with the White Sox.
With their badly crippled team the Con-
victs ought to be easy picking for the
Cooley bunch.
The Topeka gun club held the regu-
lar monthly shoot Friday afternoon,
the winning score being made by Lew
Ehrhardt. who made a score of 50 out
of a possible 60.
The team Of horses which Chief Will
marth of the fire department is trying
to purchase for the hose wagon at the
new Fifth ward fire station has not
yet been obtained.
and then lose the game was the cruel
event the fates had in store for the
| Cooleycrows yesterday but then they
got two out of the three.
By winning from Leavenworth yes
terday while the Cooleycrows lost Jop-
lin has strengthened its standing at
the head of the list and is now twenty
one points to the good.
Sergeant Ed Vols, who superin-
tended the emptying of a number of
barrels of beer and whisky into the
sewer at the police station last night,
Is writing a song entitled You may
destroy the Booze but the odor still re-
mains
A dollar excursion will be run to
Topeka Sunday from Atchison so that
the fans of that city may be able to see
the ball game between the Cooley
crows and Leayenworth and have
something to talk about for the next
few weeks.
A large crowd attended Vinewood last
night owing to the five cent fare rate.
This rate viii soon become so popular
that the company will not be able TO
make expenses on any other day and
will eventually see the feasibility OF
making this the regular rate.
Two or three excursions will be run
to Topeka Sunday from various por-
lions of the state and Indications are
that the crowd which will see the ball
game between Ieavenworth and To-
peka will be a record breaker If the
weather conditions are favorable.
AS a health resort Topeka can take
a set with the best. But one case of
contagious disease exists and but two
have been reported this month. Thus
far the total number has been not
much above eighty while for the same
time last year the number was over
800.
The chain of lakes in Minnesota and
other states of the north have a serf-
Gus rival in. the ever increasing size
and number of the holes in the Kansas
avenue pavement which were filed
with the rain this morning. The paw
| ing company which was to begin work
repaving this week has not given any
intimation when the plant will arrive.
Sam Radges has not secured anyone
yet to cut the required letters on his
massive boulder which he has placed
in position for a tombstone on his lot
/ in the Topeka cemetery. The boulder
is so hard that all have given up. 1.-THE
last letter got sugg ested that a brass
/ plate be fixed on 1t. But I'll import
men with pneumatic drills before do
/ anything like that" said the colonel
with great scorn.