The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-06

when he was knocked down by an en-
CINE in the union depot at Kansas City.
Councilmen Howe and Griley and City
Engineer McCabe made trip of in
spection into the unplatted territory
south of Norton and Heery additions
Friday. This territory will be brought
into the city.
Judging from the number of tele-
phone calls received at the State Jour
nal office early this morning, there
was almost as much interest in To-
peka concerning the fire in Kansas
City as in the latter town itself.
The annual meeting of the bee keep
ers of the state viii be held in this city
Wednesday and Thursday of next
week. About one hundred delegates
from various sections of the state have
signifed their intention of being pres
ent.
The Y. NJ. c. A. colored department
will be addressed by Rev. J. NJ. Brown,
presiding elder of the c. NJ. E. church,
Sunday. January Z, 406 Kansas avenue.
Professor Brock of the Western Tuske-
gee jubilee chorus will sing solo. The
services begin at 3 o'clock.
Captain Daniel F. Wyatt, bailiff of
the United States district court is very
i'll at his home, 209 East Seventh
street. suffering from an acute attack
of indigestion. It was thought for
time that there was no chance for his
recovery, but later reports indicate a
decided improvement.
Invitation letters have been sent to
all the members of the new Oratorio
society TO begin rehearsals for the
May festival in Security hall next
Wednesday evening. Applications for
membership may be sent to the presi-
dent Mr.. NJ. c. Holman or the con
ductor, Mr.. G.. B. Penny. Mr.. Beach
of the Chicago Symphony orchestra
viii meet with the chorus next
Wednesday.
Twenty days of grace is the allowance
Which the wateTwoTks department will
grant hereafter to delinquent customers
to pay up and become square. Previous
to this the bills were allowed to run and
the water was not turned off. This is
now changed and the water will be
turned off on all customers who have
not settled UP their bills by the Goth of
January The action is ore taken on
the instruction of the board of trustees.
Judge Dana took a day off from his
duties at the court house Thursday and
spent the time in Wading through the
snow in the country in search of rab-
bits. He returned after dark with
seven rabbits and a glowing report as
to the cunning of the rabbits which
he saw but failed to bring home. From
his report of the sport one would gather
that most of the rabbits captured were
chased into stone fences and dragged
out alive
The Kansas College of Music begins
work again on Monday. The in
creased enrolment already approaches
the full capacity Of the college for this
year-100 students-and no effort will
be made to go above that number
New classes in harmony will be or
ganized, and weekly art lectures in
preparation for the summer session of
the school in Europe. Another new
grand piano will arrive from New
York next week.
A Topeka merchant who imports
fancy goods from Germany is the victim
of a joke which he unconsciousIy played
on himself. He ordered a large number
Of stems designed to be appropriate for
the Elks. When he asked to have an
elk head placed on the stein he didn't
know that the Rocky mountain Elk
embIematfc of the lodge. is not the real
elk but the wapiti and consequently
he now has a large stock of stems with
reindeer heads in relief on their sides
instead of the Elk as intended. The
reindeer is the real elk.
The annual memorial services of To-
peka post No. II and Topeka corps No.
"a viii be held tomorrow at 2 o'clock
at their hall. 216 West Sixth avenue.