The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-22

check will be held by the district clerk
pending the decision of the case.
Warwick and Wiley. proprietors of
the Coca Cola Bottling works. re-
ceived five carloads of bottles last
week which is the largest purchase of
the kind ever made by a Kansas insti-
tuition.
George Ehret. who has been in the
employ of the Missouri Pacific railway
in Atchison has resigned and with his
will accept a position in the Santa
F'e offices.
There will be no more White Sox
games in Topeka until the opening of
the season on May 2. In the meantime
Washburn and the other amateur teams
of Topeka will bid for the patronage of
the fans.
Prosperity Problem for the Rail-
roads will be discussed by E. l..
Copeland, treasurer of the Santa Fe,
at meeting of the Missouri bankers
in Kansas City on the 22d and 23d of
next month.
Independent telephone workmen
are busy in the western portion of the
city splicing cables which will be put
into service as soon as the central Of
flee is moved to the new building on
Jackson street.
F. o. Morns, president of the North
Topeka Civic club, is anxious that the
statement shall be made that the or
SanlZdI1On IS IN no way all1eQ TO the
Commercial club but that it is an in
dependent body.
The mass meeting called by the
Democrats Saturday afternoon to
nominate a congressional candidate
proved to be a ttwhizzer'' and Dan An
thony will be compelled to make the
race without a pacemaker.
At the meeting of the city council
this evening an attempt will be made
to straighten out the paving muddle in
which the council has become involved
on account of the unusual demand
made for paving this year.
Colonel James Chappell, who runs
the Copeland hotel as a business ven
ture and farm on the side, claims that
though he harvested $4,000 worth of
peaches last season that there will not
be peach in his orchard this year.
The board of county commissioners
has called special election May 21 in
Dover and Mission townships for the
purpose of voting $4,000 bonds in the
former and $4,000 in the latter for
the proposed Topeka & Southwestern
railroad.
Ralph Clark, the White Sox south
paw find from Garden City, will prob
ably be given the honor of pitching the |
opening game of the season at Ath- I
1etic park on the second of next month |
when the Topeka bunch will meet the |
team.
Time in the past has hung heavily on
the hands of those who by force of
have been inmates of |
the county Jail and out of the kindness
of his heart Sheriff Wilkerson has pro-
vided several loads of niggerhead rocks
which the prisoners will crack.
S. E. Cave, who won the title of the
Prairie Dog Statesman as member
of the legislature and after added to
it by a term as sergeant at arms in
the house of representatives has re-
signed from office. He was postmas-
ter at Folsom in Haskell county.
Woods and wales in the vicinity of
the city were thronged yesterday with
parties in search of the wild violets.
Lots of them were found but they did
not compare in size with those usually
found in these parts. This Is another
crime that the cold weother will have
to answer for.
Topeka cricket players held their
first match game at the fair grounds
Saturday afternoon. the team hea led
~ W. T. Newman defeating one cap
aimed by R. Shakeshaft by score OF
So to 80. Another game Will be held
1t the same place Saturday afternoon
o which the public is invited.
A strenuous effort is being made by
The faculty of Washburn college to To-
cate the culprit who is responsible for
the breaking of the bell at Washburn.
After a football game last year some
3ne took the clapper off the bell and
lsed it to ring out the tidings of victory
10 enthusiastically that the bell cracked.
It sounds more like a tin pan now. The
'aculty would like to fasten the respon-
;ibility upon some one so that they
would be relieved of a responsibility of
getting a new one at the cost of two
hundred and fifty dollars.
Many Odd Fellows Going.