The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-15

The rural route mail carriers of the
| state were paid by Postmaster Rodgers
yesterday, $95,178.S0 being divided
among 1000 of them.
Ask any Topeka smoker his prefer
ence of cigars. and he will tell you
Burghart's Favorite. Only the best to-
i bacco and workmanship are employed.
The officials at the city hall get a
hungry feeling every time they get a
Whit of the cooking that floats up from
the Midwinter exposition at the Audi
| forum.
The Perryman home. 1919 Fillmore
street, which has been quarantined for
some time on account of chickenpox
has been fumigated and the restrictions
removed
Nearly all trains entering Topeka to-
day have been from one to a dozen
hours late on account of the snow and
wind which have prevailed during the
past "a hours
The whereabouts of Mrs. Mary Shoe
who was last seen near Oswego, Kan
sas, is inquired of Postmaster A K.
Rodgers by Miss Addie Wood of Cor
Wallis Montana.
The East Sixth viaduct matter has
not been finally adjusted. The contract
awaits the signature of General Man
ager Hurley for the Santa Fee who has
been in Chicago.
John D. Brown, representative from
Harper county, introduced the third
two cent fare bill yesterday, though
this does not even indicate that any of
the bills will ever become laws.
G. w. Jones, formerly resident of
Topeka, but now division superitned-
ent for the Rock Island, located at Des
Moines, Iowa, is in the city today re-
newing acquaintance with old friends.
The tickets for the Howe lecture at
the high school Monday evening will
be put on sale at Stansfield's drug
store Friday morning. The price will
be 25 cents including reserved seats
The crowd which attended the OPEN
ing of the Midwinter exposition last
nieht while not as great as the future
crowds will be, more than satisfied the
expectations of those interested in the
affair.
The cold spell of Monday and the ac-
companying skift of snow made a time
ly arrival as far as the Midwinter ex-
position is concerned, for with weather
month "midwinter" would have seemed
a misnomer.
The city has an ordinance which pro-
v1des that snow must be removed from
the sidewalks within twenty-four hours
after it has fallen. If the ordinance is
not observed the street commissioner
can cleap off the walk and tax the cost
up to the property owner.
The ice and sieet which covered the
street car rails this morning was so
thick and obstinate that nearly all of
the cars were behind time and those
with grades to climb did So only after
repeated efforts and the track well
sanded.
The condition of Representative Will
liam Kinnison of Finney county who
has been i'll at his room at the National
hotel with a threatened attack of pneu-
monia is so much improved that his
friends hope that he will be able to at
tend to his duties at the state house by
the latter part of the week.
There have been but three arrests by
the city police during the past week
and the patrol team has no. had enough
exercise to keep it in shape for the rush
which usually follows a virtuous spell.
Two of the arrests were tramps who
were permitted to leave the city and the
other was a simple minded Italian who
was tried for insanity and released.
The State Journal sells on it's mer-
its as newspaper printing all the
news for ten cents per week, delivered,
and continues to lead in local circula-
ton as it has for many years, while
other Topeka dailies sell votes on pi-
amos to be given away to the most
popular" people of Topeka at the
cost of friends and business More
than seven thousand copies of the
State Journal are circulated in Tope-