The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-17

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dianapohs will play.
About 1000 people will be in camp
today, according to the estimate by
those who are in charge of the chau-
tauqua being held at Garfield park by
the German Evangelical church.
John Ostrand of the sheriff's Office
has issued a challenge on behalf of the
employees in the court house who want
to meet any similar aggregation Of ball
players in the city for the champion
ship of their class.
At two o'clock yesterday the Their
mometer at the police station, which
is in the shade at that hour of the day,
registered 101 and 1t was really hotter
than that If the members of the police
force are to be believed.
The new Swedish hall at First and
Van Buren, streets will be opened with
a ball Saturday night. Several promi-
nent men have accepted invitation to
be present and make addresses Mar
shalPs band will furnish music.
just because today is Friday and
because. the actors and actoreens Of the
company are superstitous the COM
pany which was to have opened at
Vinewood park have postponed the
date until Sunday afternoon.
Ex-Chief of Police Doc Goodwin is
in Kansas City today, that is, he start
ed for there at flve o'clock this morn
ing and is there providing he has not
met with some accident which so fire.
quently happens to an automobile.
Three Of the new cars which the
Street Railway company has ordered
have arrived and viii be in service in
day or two. They are the same kind
of ears as are now in use on the Wash
burn line. The other car IS expected
in day or two
Senator S. NJ. Porter of Caney, Kan.
W. R. Stubs of Lawrence and NJ A.
Low of Topeka were in Kansas City
looking over the local gas situation
there. All three Of the gentlemen are
interested in securing franchise to
furnish gas to Kansas City.
Two of the new cars ordered by the
street car company last spring have
arrived and will be placed in service
within the next few days. One OF them
will be placed on the North Topeka
line to take the place Of the cars now
in service in that portion of the city.
Today is good day for the crowds to
go to Vinewood. There will be some
relief for the oppressive heat which is
destined to make life miserable today.
Another inducement to go to this popu-
I lar park is the five cent fare which
only pays the railways company once
week.
Between five and six thousand peo-
pie attended the concert by Marshall's
band at the City park last night and a
majority of those who did not attend
to walk to and from the park, as no
I effort was made by the street car COM
pany to accommodate the crowd.
A woman stood on the corner of Sixth
and Kansas avenues last evening turn
/ ing a handOrgan A man slightly under
! the influence Of liquor stood on the same
corner waiting for a car. Here, lady,
he said. take this dollar and put that
/ handorgan away. That noise crates on
my ear" The woman took the dollar
I q n 2 r7d rad m
A man sat in a Kansas avenue. office
with an electric fan playing upon him
| yesterday and looked out of the window
at the men working in the trenches in
| the streets for the gas company. ut
makes me pretty well satisfied with nv
4 lot in life" he said, 'eyen If I don't
| got a very big salary, when see how
! those men work to earn their $3.50 per -
The federal building is assuming its
/ former appearance of activity. G. F.
Sharitt, clerk Of the United States cir
cult court. and family returned yester-
/ day from Block Island, R. L, where
I they have been spending the summer,
/ and Saturday Morton Albaugh, clerk
of the United States district court viii
return from his vacation spent at
Georgian bay.
Additional parts of the machinery of
the asphalt paving plant were unload
J ed yesterday at the site of the plant at
! Ninth and Adams. The plant is Drac-
( tically all on the grounds now and will
be set up. The asphalt has NOT vet
I arrived from New York It is not prob
able that the paving company can
CONNIE work here before the latter
part of next week. The contract must
be completed by October Is. This viii
give less than two months in which to
complete the contract.
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