The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-19

tonight.
Around the world with Ed Howe at
the high school Monday night,
The front wall of the old state
printing plant is being torn down to-
day.
Hugh Cameron. the. Kansas hermit;
is in Topeka He is greatly pleased
over the victory of Mr.. Curtis
Mr.. A. H. Hagen who has been su-
perintending the construction of the
new theater will leave for Denver to-
morrow.
1t isn't too late to get ticket for
the Howe lecture Monday nlght;
There are still some good ones LETT at
Stansfleld's.
The thermometer reached fifty
eight degrees last night at 10 o'clock.
This together with the rain Is respon-
sible for the disappearance OF the
! snow.
The Saturday Night club. at it's reg,
! ular meeting tonight, will be treateo
/. to a discourse by Mr.. John MacDon-
I aid on the subject, Democracy IN
Europe"
Perhaps the disturbance at Jamaica
has affected the weather of the entire
globe. Nothing else could account for
the chinook which visited Topeka, IN
the guise of summer thunder Storm
last night
The heavy rains of last evening
washed away the snow more quickly
than the sun would have been able TO-
People who were hurting anthemas at
the rain last night were giving thanks
this morning.
{ The electrical sign which Crane &
Co. have placed in front of their place
of business on East Eighth street is
very handsome one and is much ad-
mired by the crowd at the Midwinter
who pass this place.
]. ]. O'Rourke and c.. F. Morrow,
owners of the Throop hotel here, have
secured a ten year lease on the lone
hotel at Guthrie, Oklahoma. The hotel
is a new s125.0GO structure. O'Rourke
Will move to Guthrie
The fourth O. the series of lectures by
the ashburn faculty will be given
at McVicar chapel Tuesday evening at
O'Clock. The subject will be "Faunal
and Floral Interdependence." There will
also be musical numbers.
Charles Webb will have charge of
the shoe department of the new Pax
ton & Paxton store. which is to open
up in the store rooms at the corner of
Sixth and Quincy street that have
been vacated by the Jones company.
a first class ,yeptrilQquist could find
: pl easant employment at the Audi
~taFillssa=--s44tl---rtt- tf1---saH1Te time do a
favor to hundreds of rear-seat tiers. His
duties would consist of sitting in the
throng and shouting in the ear of wO-
men in front: Take off that hat"
49, Mrs. Kate Parkel of Birmingham,
Alabama. was fined 500 by. Judge Pol
lock in the federal court at Kansas
City, Kansas. yesterday for making a
fal-o pension affidavit. Mrs Parkel
was indicted by a grand jury in Topeka.
Warren NJ. Crosby intends to build
cut his Jackson street annex flush with
Jackson street. This will call for the
construction of another three story
building with a frontage of rs feet. The
1ro to-, 80 - 4,74o 5al o1 i-
occupied by two brick residences.
a A. H. Harvey will play single
handed against all contestants at chess
this evening at the Y. II. c. A. build
Ing. The chess tournament of January
II resulted as follows: Wayland Chap
man defeated Ed Tiemann, 20; Charlie:
Wierenge lost to Reitze. 22-O; Gressel
lost. to W. o. Tiemann, 81.
Dutch Persch, the baseball play
er formerly of Topeka and later o
Spring feId, is in Topeka visiting hi
many friends among the baseball fra
ternity. He dropped in yesterday from
Amarillo. Texas, where he has beer
getting into shape for next season
working on a ranch. He is now on hi
way to his home in Leavenworth.
A country cousin, who was slated t.
spend the night with a city relative
called up on the phone at 1870 las
night, when the rain was falling IL
torrents, and remarked: Il though
1 ndd pelter ten you that would no
be down tonight" Realizing tina
you were neither a fish nor a steam
boat" replied the drowsy household
'er. II had taken that for granted, am
gone to bed
The street railway company brough
good deal of unfavorable common
upon themselves yesterday afternoo
by drawing large freight cars aIon
the principal streets in town. Yester
day afternoon as the crowds wer
leaving the Midwinter n largo 1fx-
stock car bearing the name of tin