The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-31
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Even dead leaves are becoming a
trifie scarce on the trees these days
The Modern Woodmen jubilee at the
Auditorium last night was a pronounced
success.
c. e. Denton, secretary of state, has
peen IN wichita and Attica looking
after his banks.
The Seventh cavalry broke camp this
morning and continued their march to
Fort 1eavenworth.
Building permits issued by the fire
marshal for the month ending today
amount to but IS less than 100000.
Roy Crawford, manager of the
Grand and the Majestic. returned to-
day from a business trip to St. Louis.
Already the merchants on Kansas
avenue have begun to decorate their
windows with the colors of Washburn
and K. U.
There's so much steam on at the
county court house that most of the
offices resemble the hot rooms of
Turkish bath.
DR.. J. P. Raster, chief surgeon of
the Santa Fe railroad company, is
confined to his home with an attack
of typhoid fever.
are tastefully decorated with Wash
burn blue and the crimson and blue of
Kansas university.
According to the statement of County
Clerk Zimmerman just filed, 50 out of
every $45 collected as taxes in the city
will be turned over to the school board
George F. Clarke, manager of the
Olympic theater, is at Sedalia, Mo-,
where he is negotiating for an inter-
est in vaudeville house there.
w. M. Allison has accepted the posi-
ton of night clerk at the Throop Ho-
tel made vacant by the resignation of
r. S. Ammen, who will leave for San
Jose, Cal
The annual meeting of the Western
Wooden Mill company is called for
Monday, November 4th, for the pur-
pose of electing officers for the en-
suing year.
Mrs. Marie Killalae, the stenog-
rapher of the probate court, has re-
turned to her duties after an illness
which kept her at home for more
than a week.
Fifty extra policemen have been
sworn in for service tonight to keep
the young American of Topeka from
depredat1onS and pranks usually coin
cident with Halloween.
The florists stores in the city are well
ticipation of a large demand for the
big flowers for the football game Sat
urday between Washburn and K. U.
Chief of Police Eaton has sworn in
fifty extra policemen whose duty it
will be to see that the city is left on
youths of the city tonight.
It was the festival of corn night
last night and the streets were filled
with gangs of youngsters who tossed
enough corn at their friends windows
to feed a stable full of horses for a
year.
Charles w. Barnes, superintendent
of insurance, is seriously i'll at his
home in Usage City, where he went
Tuesday for visit with his family
and has been compelled to remain
since.
When the clouds broke yesterday
afternoon, the weather became real
balmy and a good many folks thought
that another spell of summer was COM
ing, a second Indian summer. as it
were.
There is nothing of significance in
the hoodoo number "23," but the fact
remains that it was Rock Island train
of this number that went in the ditch
last night near Caldwell injuring seven
passengers.
A big enthusiastic meeting was held
at Washburn this morning during
chapel time. Judging from the en-
thusiasm displayed the Washburn
people evidently think it is all over but
the shouting.
Charles w. Bower has filed a bill
with the city of $46.29 for sewer taxes
paid on the Sixth ward sewer which
Bower claims was not constructed so
that he received any benefit from its
construction.
The stamp sales at the Topeka post
office for the month just closed exceed
those of September last year by 3d.
3SO. e. the gain for the quarter being
Sc. 97454 over the corresponding quar-
ter last year.
From their actions at the theaters
during the past couple of days it Is
quite evident that it does not take