The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26
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DR.. Otto Kiene of Christ hospital
| went to Clay Center Tuesday to assist
in a surgical operation.
Wheat harvest will begin in Shaw
nee county next week. 1t is two or
three weeks later than usual.
The long expected wintry day has ar
rived. 1t was quite cold enough this
morning for overcoats and furs-
A building permit was issued yester-
day to E. Houser for the erection of
$1,000 residence at 1035 Clay street.
Marshalrs band has been engaged for
a concert at the Country club which
will commence at o'clock Friday even
| ing.
Indians from the Kickapoo reserva-
ton were in the city yesterday and
managed to get rid of some of their al
| lowance.
Daily news item brought down to
| date: pie Jordan escaped from the
city rock pile last night by running
| through the stable''
Umpire Eckman seems to have de-
veloped the talking habit and argues
the righteousness of his decisions with
the fans in the grand stand.
The city engineer made trip of lin
spection over the proposed site of sub
way TO drain the waters of Biddle creek
into the Shunganunga creek.
Work of excavating for the founda-
lions for the Novelty theatre. to be
built at the corner of Quincy street and
East Eighth avenue, has been started.
Pie Jordan again broke out of the
city Jail yesterday afternoon. This is
getting to be a daily occurrence but
he always gets caught and taken
back.
An epidemic of large sized bugs in
Tested the city last night and were
very prominent around electric lights.
At vinewood Park the bugs were
especially fierce.
The county commissioners received
and cancelled $4,000 in bonds yester-
day afternoon. They are of the Rock
Island issue of 1887 and were paid sew
eral months ago.
ed Crawford opera house building has
been torn out and the work of placing
new front in the building will COM
mence Immediately.
There was at least one feature of
yesterdays ball game that suited the
patrons. that was the weather, though
after the first inning it was positively
chilly in the grandstand.
The Sunday school superintendent
and pastors Of the Topeka churches are
to meet at Gemmel hall in the Y. NJ. C.
A. building this evening to discuss Sun
day school work in Topeka
Harry ]. Bone, United States district
attorney, left for Denver, Colo, today
to prepare for the prosecution of the
mining fraud cases which are set for
trial on the 29th of next month
There is not very much talk on the
part of politicians about taking vaca-
tions away in cooling summer resorts
the anti-pass law has effectually quiz
eted any gossip of this kind.
Mamma, what makes the people hol- |
Ter and laugh and act that way?" ask |
ed a visiting 6-year-old as she watch |
ed the ball game yesterday, ARE they |
trying to see how silly they can be?"
Once more the announcement is made |
that Topeka's milk supply is to be in |
spected and it is thought that the notice |
given will be ample for the supply to be |
in good shape for the threatened exam |
nation.
When a pitcher by the name of /
Wright gets touched up for six hits in /
the first inning of a ball game one may |
be pardoned for calling attention to the /
we'll known fact that there is nothing in
a name.
The headquarters of the Kansas
State Temperance union were moved
yesterday from the old location in the
Shawnee Fire building at Eighth and
Jackson to the GODDARD building at S22
Kansas avenue.
"At last the Teddy bear craze has
struck its proper plane" remarked a
man who is not interested in the bears
or the Teddy idea, land they can be
bought at the racket stores by the
dozen at less than ten cents each"
The Auditorium was subjected to a
strenuous housekeeping yesterday and
presents a much better appearance to-
day than it has for several years. This
is the most thorough cleaning which
the big room has ever received
The Auburndale Junior baseball |
team defeated the Y M. c. A. yester-
day by a score of 10 to o. The bat
teries for the Y. NJ. c. A. were Wolf
and Sears, while Bolton and Jones
worked fore the Auburndale lads.
A booster with a voice like a fog
horn, which he scatters broadcast
through megaphone, disturbs the
peace of Kansas avenue each evening,
ballyhooing for the Air Dome and |
announcing that rain checks are given.
eff the city council wants to do the
right thing by the dogs" remarked an
of the canine tribe. "they will
at least rescind their muzzle order for
the Fourth of July so that the dogs
will have bluffing chance to escape"
Attorney General jackson has ruled
that condition powders are on the free
list and can be peddled without Ii
cense which suggests the thought that
a vender might do mighty fine bust
ness with Leavenworth's team of ball
players.
Sloan lodge No. 225, A F. and A.
NJ, will confer the Sublime degree of
Master Mason at a special communica-
ton to be held Thursday evening be-
ments will be served at the conclusion
of work
The crowd at the ball games yes
terday afternoon was the largest week
day crowd of the season and in the
neighborhood of twenty-five hundred
people attended the ball game. This
is more than most towns in the league
have on Sunday.
From appearances it is safe to conjec-
ture that the average age of the auto
mobile chauffeurs in this city is about
fifteen years. There are a number Of
boys and girls considerably younger
who scoot around with big automobiles