The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-16
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Marshall's band will give their first
evening band concert in City park to-
night.
Captain A. NJ. Robinson of the central
\ hre station who has been sick for the
past week is improving.
| H. ]. Bone, United States district at
torney, Will leave Tuesday for Denver
to be absent for several weeks trying
mining fraud cases.
| The East Sixth street viaduct is COM
Pleted at last with the exception of the
moor and the safety rails and will be
ready for traffic some day.
A saleslady in one of the local dry
goods stores lost prospective customer
last week when she suggested to a young
| matron that she would require a STOUT
suit
The Stadium Trio which made it's first
| appearance at Vinewood park last night
Weres we'll received by the spectators
and the act is we'll worth the trip to
the park.
Just at the present time Shawnee
county is in good shape as far as pin
money is concerned, having something
over $242,6OO on deposit in the banks
| of the city.
The following reports of births were
| made today: Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. God
frey, Twenty-second street, girl; Mr.
and Mrs. J. S. Robertson 1701 Kansas
avenue, boy.
Although the weather was threaten
ing last night a large crowd attended
the kfltieS' concert at Garfield Park,
which was very popular among those
who attended.
For the first time this season the
Wichita ball team has lost three
straight games and there is possibili--
that it will be four.
Since the rain last Saturday night
and Monday morning boating at Vine
wood Park is better than ever before
as the water is much higher and one
can row further up stream.
The Stadium trio at Vinewood Park
is the attraction offered to the public
this week and all who witness their
act pronounce it one of the best
trapeze acts ever seen in the city. -
The price of bacon has nothing
whatever to do with the divorce suit
filed in the district court by w. E.
Bacon, who wants the bonds which
bind him to Stella Bacon severed.
The indications are that the meet.
ing of the National Negro Business
league which will be held in this city
on the 18th of August will be the most
successful one of the kind ever held.
The deal has been closed by which
Red Davis will go to Leavenworth and
for the first time in the history of the
White Sox they will be minus Red
though there are several marked
blends.
The effects of the heavy rains north
and west of the city are to be seen this
morning at the river and at Soldier
creek, both streams having risen con-
siderably and are carrying floating drift
of all kinds.
A st. Louis paper devoted a page to
the story of the operation on Emmett
Dalton in this city. with illustra tions
and showed DR.. John Outland, the sur
geon, TO be a bewhiskered individual of
diminutive size.
Ed Mcdonald. who was formerly a
member of the joint fraternity in To-
peka,a which is now out of existence,
was picked up at Junction City by
Deputy United States Marshal Need,
charged with bootlegging.
A farewell reception will be rendered
Dr. and Mrs. James White of Arkansas
City tomorrow evening at the Presby-
terian church in that city prior to their
departure for Topeka where they Will
make their home in the future.
The grocers and butchers of the city
are making extensive plans for hav-
which will be held at V;newood
Thursday. All the stores and meat
markets will be closed on that date.
Thomas Adams. a Topeka carpenter
employed on the university gym
nasium at Lawrence, removed a valu-
it lying on a window sill and now he
is minues a timepiece and suspicious
of all humanity.
A special meeting of the Grocers
and Butchers association of the city
is called for, this evening at the Com
mercial GLIB rooms when the details
for the bia picnic to be held at Vine
wood park on the 18th of the present
month will be discussed.
The action Of Soldier creek yester-
day when the water raised almost to
the top Of the banks served to remind
the visitors at the chautauqua at Gar
field Park Of the North Topeka flood
of three years ago and furnished a
topic for the majority of the conversa-
lions of the day.
man, will have a. car of fancy alberta
night, which will be offered for sale by
peaches are extra choice and will be
advantage of.
What inning is this - asked a fan,
as he stepped up to group of kindred
spirits on Kansas avenue. This is the
fourth was the reply. well, let's play
that last one over again and see if the
umpire won't change his decision on the
play at home plate" and it was played
over and the umpire found to be in the
wrong.
A Bridge Suit Settled.
Concordia, Kan, July 16-The suit