The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

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I gatherers.
Frederick K Dorrance. a former
I Washburn student, now railroad rep
! resentative Of the New York Betting
and Packing company, with head
+ quarters in st. Louis, was in Topeka
/ Saturday.
1t viii take the diphtheria fumigating
I brigade about week to rid the audi
/ forum of all the little germs. microbes
and bad smelling odors after the chick
/ ems have gone back to rOosting on the
trees on the farm.
A man must needs be as strong
armed as Samson to go through the
passenger department of the Santa Fe
/ without coming out with d lame wrist
or two, so many and vigorous are the
1 handshakers there
A number of the land fraud cases will
/ be called up in the federal court this
week for motions to quash and demur-
rers. The r. Dumont Smith bribery case
/ viii be tried in Kansas City the latter
/ part of this month.
/ Mrs. Grace Gridley WHm, the wife of
/ Professor Win Of Washburn college,
4 Will give a piano recital at WaShburn
chapel on Friday night Mrs. Wilm
/ viii be assisted by Mrs. Edward Sheru-
/ bel, who will sing.
1t is not true that there are a half
| dozen pair of pigeons nesting in the
/ pipes in the organ at the Auditorium.
/ There is but one lone bird roosting in
and about the instrument. And he or /
she defies being caught.
The position of vice president of
the Central National bank is still va
can't though it will be filled in the
near future. c. S. Downing was form
erly the vice president, but resigned
to go to Kansas City.
Fat Clark, who formerly played
| guard on the famous Washburn foot
ball team, is now living in Argentine
and is brakeman on one Of the Santa
! Fe passenger trains running between
! Argentine and Newton.
IF the Leavenworth editor who refer
red to the chicken show as q hen party
4 had heard the gobblng ana growing
4 that took place at the auditorium he
/ probably wouldn't have referred to the
show in that unfeeling manner.
There We're ffty-three Sundays in
/ the year just past, an occurrence
/ that viii not happen again, it is said,
in 10 years. Five months of the year,
January, April, July. October and De-
cember, had five Sundays each.
| One of the enterprising dispensers
/ of joint refreshments boosted last
/ week that his tom and Jerry was
+ of the thoroughbred class, as all of
/ the eggs used in the mixture came
I from the coops of the prize winning
/ hens at the chicken show.
Work on getting the Midwinter fair
/ ready will commence at the Auditorium
tomorrow. From tomorrow morning
/ until the close of the Show, r. S. Brig
! ham, secretary and general manager,
will maintain an Office in the southwest
ante-room of the Auditorium.
/ Roger Savage, the 8-year-o1d son of
+ F. S. Savage. who was operated on for
I appendicitis at Christ hospital a week
! ago. has recovered from the shock of
/ the operation and is progressing nicely.
/ He will be able to leave the hospital in
/ a week or ten days.
/ Trackmen of the street railway
company were kept busy spreading
sand on the grade on West Sixth ave-
nue. between Jackson and Kansas
I avenue. The drilling rain and cold
/ made the tracks so slippery that it
/ interfered with the running schedule.
The state offices seem to run so
| smoothly under the direction of the
assistants that it is a wonder that the
t people of the state do not demand
that the Offices be run by these en-
! plOyes and not elect state officials
/ at all.
Boots" Henderson, a negro who
I assaulted a white man in North To-
/ peka about a year ago, came in and
/ gave himself up to Sheriff Lucas last
night Lucas held a warrant for Hen
/ derson, charging him with assault and
1 battery.
William Yost, formerly resident
! in northern Shawnee county, died in
/ Usage county Saturday morning. The
/ remains will be brought to this county
Monday noon and the funeral will be
! o'clock from the Prairie Home
| church.
The rev board of directors elected by
1 the Commercial club on Friday night
/ viii meet on Monday morning at II
| O'Clock to elect the officers for the club
for the ensuing year. c. K. Holiday
| viii be reelected president, T. J. An
derson will of course be again chosen
/ as secretary.
Several of the dogs in town who
have been whipped properly by Hap
DIV HOoligan," the Novelty theater
mascot have located his home and
/ parade up and down in front of it in
threes and tours, waiting for Happy
to come out and then they gang" him
when he does.
An Atchison man married a rich
widow and his neighbors threatened to
have him arrested for being party to
a s'get rich quick scheme" He claims
that the constitutional provision which
says that a person shall not twice be
put in jeopardy of life or limb for the
same offense, exempts him from further
punishment.
William Waters, who was recently
arrested on a charge of chicken steal
ing burglary, and few other things,
was picked up last night by Officer
Hendricks for carrying dangerous
weapon. Waters had pair OF
s'knucks" Waters was out on bond,
as the result of the other charges,
when rearrested-
The slippery condition Of the tracks
kent the recording angel busy during
the past few days blotting out swear
words of motOrneers who couldn't stop
their street cars just where they want
ed to. The recording angel can not
| be expected to do the same thing, now
ever. for the patron who raved be-
cause he had to wander around in the
muddy streets IS a result
Ike Shkar, the Russian Jew who
was arrested at ia Kansas avenue
I for Violating the cifU link ordinance
was fined SIS in police court last
night. He entered a plea of guilty to
the charge of buying junk from
minors. Shkar is accused of being a
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