The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-05

Several Topeka people saw the game
between Topeka and the Kansas City
Blues yesterday.
The ]. r. S. cigars are made of the
very best leaf and by the most skilled
men, always the same.
The interstate commerce commission
will not hold their hearing in Topeka
next Monday as was expected.
The cold weather which fell upon To-
peka last night and today is RESPONSE
BILE for large number of colds.
Manager Wells of the Novelty the
alter offers a Dutch comedian speciality
this week which is really funny.
The st. Paul team will play here to-
morrow and Sunday. The game will be
called at $3.50 tomorrow and Sunday.
The final decision of the national COM
mission tomorrow is awaited with much
interest on the part of the fans in To-
peka.
The price of apples seems to have de-
clined materially since the adjournment
of the legislature and are quoted as
low as 81 per bushel
The quality of tobacco used in Burg
hart's Favorite cigars is the same used
in many cigars that sell for ten cents,
and yet this popular cigar costs but a
nickel
E. E. Roudebush has disposed of his
real estate business at 107 West Seventh
street, and in the future it will be con-
Quoted at the same number by Crib
& Allen.
A force of men is at work taking up
the old rails on Quincy street which were
laid for the old Vinewood company be-
fore they merged with the present street
railway system.
Charles w. Kohl has purchased the
E. T. Sims drug stock at the corner
of Tenth and Kansas avenues, and has
opened a store under the name of the
Rex Pharmacy.
The city council will meet tonight for
the last time before the new members
are sworn in and several of the present
members retired to be known in the
future as ex-city fathers.
A large crowd attended the Topeka
sight seeing excursion yesterday after
noon and the trip was a pronounced
success. Other trips of similar nature
are to be planned for the near future
The Melan arch bridge appears to
need attention as large cracks have ap-
peared in several places, and the city
council will probably be called on TO
make an investigation at once and re-
port to the council.
The North Topeka Civic Improve
ment club will hold meeting at No.
1 fire station this evening for the pur-
pose of discussing plans for the beauti-
fication of that portion of the city
which lies north of the Kaw.
Broken bottles scattered along the
cutters of the pavement and their whole
but empty companions secreted in stair
ways are mute reminders of the extreme
drouth which is prevalent in Topeka
and which seems to be getting worse
all the time.
The opinion which has prevailed for
some time that there will be killing
frost is gaining, especially as there has
been a decided drop in temperature
during the past "a hours. and stories of
a ruined fruit crop are being arranged
as time copy.
The personnel of the city council Will
be materially changed by the addition
of five new members this evening when
Councilmen Nipps, Griley Sinner,
Swendson and DR.. Ryder will retire and
Howard, Kutz, Stanley, Lannan and
Van Ness will be installed.
One North Topeka firm has sold
over 1900 pounds of Kentucky blue
grass seed this spring, and it is esti-
been planted in that section of the
city since the civic improvement club
has been agitating the proposition.
L. E. Fraser, the Democratic nominee
for city councilman from the Fourth
ward who was defeated by but "a votes,
has decided that he will not contest as
he at first contemplated, though he feels
course might change the face of the
returns.
Clerk of the district court r. l.
Thomas, was long on gold last night,
as he had in his possession twenty $40
gold pieces and ten $40 pieces of the
same metal left with him by Henry
Steele as security for the appearance
of Frank Thomas, a colored jointist
from North Topeka.
There is a possibility that Topeka
will have a woman city physician for
the next two years in the person of DR..