The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-18
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The last time the Barnum & Bailey
show exhibited in Topeka was in 1914
r. H. Crittenden left Sunday for Den
yer where he will take up his work with
the Moffit road.
Twenty-Five members of the last To-
peka high school graduating class have
entered as freshmen at Washburn.
]. c. Payne & Co. have been granted
building permit for the construction
of a new front at 715 Kansas avenue.
The condition of Carl w. Nau, who
has been i'll at Christ's hospital during
the last two or three days, is greatly
improved.
fine new equipment of wagons and
harness which they are using in their
city work.
Major T. J. Anderson. secretary of
the Commercial club. is in Rexford,
Thomas county, today attending local
reunion of the G. A r.
The supreme court justices Will
meet in Topeka Friday to begin their
fall work. They will hand down a
list of opinions on Oct. o.
1t is expected that the Topeka high
school will have an exceptionally strong
football team this year. The new ma
terial is showing up very strong.
The washburn college authorities
have constructed a very fine cement
sidewalk, six feet wide, from the main
entrance of the college grounds to the
Carnegie library.
J. R. Burton took charge yesterday
of the Salina Union as editor. L. c.
Housel and J. H. Yetter. both of To-
peka, run the business and circulation
end of the paper.
Today is "Yom Kippur" and all Jews
of the faith are supposed to be in the
midst of a fast which commenced at
shutdown last night and lasts until the
same hour this evening.
Mrs Emma Westcott, formerly of
Topeka, has been elected first reader
of the Christian Science society of Abb
lene. She succeeds Mrs. Nieper whose
term expired last June.
Buffalo Jones was in the city for a
few hours yesterday on his way to
Garden City from Kansas City where
he disposed of two mountain lions
which he recently captured.
Judging from the number of fiat
and box cars hauled about the prin-
cipal streets of the city by the street
railway company business is picking
up in the freight department.
James H. Burnham. owner of the
Throop hotel. was in the city Yesterday
comforting with his local manager,
John r. Chambers, about contem-
plated improvements at the Throop
hotel.
The dirt roads leading into the city
and those in Oakland are covered with
A rain which would settle the clouds of
dust which settle over everything would
be greatly appreciated.
The Barnum & Bailey shows which
will exhibit in Topeka on the I'd OF
October will give no street parade
which means that the newspaper Of
fees will have an immense amount of
explaining to do the day of the per-
fDrmances.
bill Curtis has many admira BILE
1t .oIl lez h 10
morning, but 1 think that he should
be suppressed If he does not cease I'M
loading bewhiskered stories on unsus-
pecting acquaintance and claiming
them as new and original
The Smith Baking company which
yesterday afternoon applied for a tenn
porary restraining order against the
chief of police and police judge of Kan
sas City, Kansas, in the United States
circuit court had their application re-
fused by Judge ]. c. Pollock.
ST notice." remarked an old poker
player, that Governor Hoch says that
he is going to stand pat on the two
cent fare proposition which indicates
to me the possibility that at some time
in the past the governor was CONVEX
SAINT with other language than that
used in the Sunday schools of the
country"
The Independent Telephone company
wants unmarried girls between the
ages of 16 and 20 years TO learn TO DC
"centrals." The shortage is not caused
by any trouble with the operators, Sec
rotary Hemphill says, but is the result
of the enormous growth of the indie
pendent company and of the fact that
a number of girls have just quit Work
to go to school,
Two suits were filed in the United
States district court against the Santa
Fe for alleged violations OF the twenty
eight hour law, which provides that
cattle in being shipped must be unload
ed for feeding and water at least every
twenty-eight hours. The shipments
originated at Marietta, 1. T., and Shaw
nee, o. T., and the penalties sought
amount to $1,000
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