The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21
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bargain Friday will receive free very
I fine lace handkerchief.
The Ladies' Music club of Topeka
\ will give an entertainment at the Rail-
road Y. M. c. A. tomorrow night.
During Augustus Bargain Friday Sale
4 Dents, PERKINS,, Towns and Alder's 81. SO
and $500 gloves will be sold for $1.00.
Although the new asphalt pavement
on Kansas avenue has been laid but
a little over a year there are already
II places where water Will stand.
DR.. G. F. johnson of Lakin, who
has done time in the house of repre-
sentatives is in the city today with
two patients from western Kansas.
Alton Parker, the cartoonist who
will furnish the fourth number on the
Lyceum course will be at the auditor
ium Friday evening, November 22nd.
After raining nearly all day yester-
day, the skies commenced to clear up
about o'clock in the afternoon and by
seven o'clock last night stars were to be
seen.
/ Gardiner Lathrop, general attorney
for the Santa Fe, will be the principal
speaker at meeting of the state bar
association to be held here January 80
4 and 81.
E. T. Fairchild, state superinten-
/ dent of public instruction has accept
! ed an invitation to deliver an address
in the University chapel at Lawrence
| Friday morning
| \. MCDOW0lI HAS SOU Ills uOIIlC pIO-
| perty at 1910 Harrison street, and is
making arrangements to move with his
| family to Pomona, Cal where they ex-
pect to make their home.
From the Leavenworth Post: L. M.
| Penwell, undertaken, leader of Mar
| shall's band and Democratic states
man. of Topeka, is in LeaVenworth
for the Shriners' meeting.
| Following a dull day at the state
house the papers of the state are fill
| ed with stories tO the effect that
there will be no special session of the
| legislature in lieu of real news.
L. M. Crawford, manager of the
| Crawford Amusement Syndicate left
yesterday for a western trip of inspec-
ton of the theaters between Topeka
and Ell Paso, in which he is interested.
The railroads had much to contend
with yesterday. In addition to the I'M
usually heavy traffic due to the semi
monthly Homeseekers' rates the tracks
were slippery and made fast running
impossible
Gale R. Jones, who lived in Topeka
for some time while assistant reporter
of the supreme court, has accepted a
position with the interstate commerce
commission with headquarters at Kan
sas City, Mo.
Rev Shockey superintendent of the
state board of missions of the Con- |
gregational United Brethren is in Sa- |
lima where he delivered an address |
last night. He was formerly a pastor
at Mcpherson.
One thousand feet of new hose will |
be purchased by Chief Wilmarth for
the fire department. Topeka gets along |
with less number of feet of hose for |
the size of the department than almost |
any other city in the United States.
E. A. Fredenhagen, president of the |
State Society for the F'riendless, is in |
Kansas City attending the eighth an
nual session of the Kansas Conference |
of Charities and Corrections where he
is on the programme for an address.
The janitors at the state house who
are clothed with all the powers of |
patrolmen are to be uniformed so
that overloaded pedestrians will not
mistake them for hacks or common
plug workmen and refuse to respect
their position.
Edward Saylor and George Strick-
er, two Mcpherson youths who are
accused with having broken into a
box car and robbing it of a case of
beer were brought to the state reform
school yesterday by Sheriff Mansfield
of Marion county.
The financial stringency has had it's
effect locally on the amount of new
building done for this month. At the
present rate of the issuance of build
ing permits November will show the
smallest amount of activity of any
month during the year.
Spencer Arthur Abbott who played
first base with the Topeka team and
son is now working in the ticket audit
ing department of the Santa Fe. Alb
bolt is just handy in clerical work
as he is on the baseball diamond.
The Washburn team is working hard | {
for the game with Oklahoma university
which will be played on Washburn park
a week from today. All the men on
the team are in good condition for this
the final game of the season. Wash Z
burn will probably be in the best shape
Of the season.
A Santa Fe engineer a few days ago ,
made a run on a passenger train from
Emporia to Topeka, distance of sixty ]
one miles, in one hour and twenty min | s
utes. This is thirty-two minutes less +,
than the regular time and the train I
was compelled to make one more stop E
than is customary. {
Clarence Young who is in the tolls
Of the county and city police authori- !,
ties charged with violating the pro- |
hibitory and pure food laws, lays the
blame for all of his troubles on his !
marble house which he has just COM ,
pleted. 1t is probable that few mar ,,
BILE houses will be built in Topeka in !,
the future with this suggestion of .
hoodooism hurled at the only one now
in the city.
Suits were filed yesterday afternoon
by Judge West assistant United States
district attorney against the santa he
and the Rock Island railroads for vio-
lations of the % hour cattle shipping
law. Under act of congress cattle must
be taken out, fed and watered once
every % hours while being shipped to
market The two suits filed contain
two counts each of $500. The suits will
be tried in the United States district .
court.
Major Anderson, secretary of the
Commercial club feels that it is not
he voice of the club that the annual
banquet shall be abandoned, though it
is almost absolutely necessary that it
should he this wear on account of the