The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-01

to the English language and in a lee
ture before the students of the State
| university at Lawrence Saturday, said:
L challenge Carnegie or any one else
to find ten slang words that have been
incorporated into the English language
in the last hundred years.
BY way of an April fool joke the
laundries of the city have sent out
notices that in the future it will be
necessary to pay cash before the Iaun-
dry of their patrons will be returned
Louis Fraser, candidate for coun-
Gilman in the Fourth ward is a grocer.
His place of business is at Sixth and
jackson avenues and he is making his
campaign on a law and order plat
form.
The federal court opens up next
week Monday for term of two weeks
The grand jury has been called but the
indictments which it is expected to re-
turn are none of them of a sensational
character
Mayor w. H. Davis will make long
western trip this spring looking after
several mining properties in which he
is interested. He expects to go to
Butte. Montana, Idaho, Colorado and
California.
After diligent search Weather OBJ
server Jennings announces that as far
as he has been able to learn the sud
den drop in the mercury has not af-
fected the prospects for bumper
fruit crop.
The millinery stock of Miss Jessie
Tutcher, who died suddenly last week,
has been purchased by c. H. Morrison
who will move his entire stock of
goods to the room formerly occupied
by Miss Tutcher.
General Manager J. E. Hurley of the
Santa Fe is one of the committee of
general managers of the 40 railroads in
volved in the controversy with their
train men and has spent most of his
time for the past month in Chicago
The council meets this evening for
the last time in a regular session. The
councilmen whose terms expire and
who are not up for reelection will
cease to be members of the council
after the election, Tuesday April 2.
One or more persons have been ad-
judged insane every week for the past
ten months, according to the records
of the probate court. which show that
during the thirty-eight weeks just past
forty-one persons have been adjudged
insane.
That there will be more or less
scratching going on in Topeka election |
day and for several days to come for |
that matter is attested by the report of |
the city sanitary department showing |
that there are 81 cases of measles in |
the city
A Topeka man who became accus- |
toned to the warm weather and who |
since its disappearance has been shiv- |
CAAAt6 very pCICSplIDlN came OUT TINS /
morning with a white fedora in the |
hopes of coaxing out a raise in tenn
perature.
School in district No. So. two and |
one-half miles west of Topeka has
been closed by an order from Dr. |
Nicoll, county health officer, on ac- /
count of a case of smallpox discovered /
In a colored family, the children being |
pupils at the school.
Word has been received from Leslie |
NJ. Shaw, formerly secretary of the |
treasury that it will be impossible for
him to attend the meeting of the Kan
sas Bankers association to be held in
Topeka during the latter part of May
as he had contemplated
The last regular meeting of the
present council will be held this even
ng. Friday evening they will canvass
he election returns and several of the
members will retire and their places
will be taken by members whose
names can not be given until after the |
7otes are counted Tuesday evening.