The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-03


! session of court before proceeding to
/ his island home in Georgian bay where
he will spend the remainder of the sum-
mer with his family.
| Harry Donmeyer, of Saline county,
was in Topeka Tuesday. He is having
a new four cylinder Smith runabout
built 1t will be ready for delivery IN
a week. 1t is of the same type as LAT
| driven by Terry Stafford.
| Judge James Humphrey, of Junction
| City, says that he will continue to re-
| side in junction City until September 1,
| when he and his wife will move to To-
peka. Judge Humphrey is president OF
| the state tax commission.
College Hill is about the most lone
| some place in the city of Topeka. Fewer
| students than usual are staying over
vacation, and all but half dozen mem
| bers of the faculty are taking outings
| in other parts of the country.
The act of DoBell at Vinewood
| park this week is by far the most
spectacular act which the management
| of the park has secured for the amuse-
| ment of the public. 1t is we'll worth
trip to the park to witness the act.
Swearingen's band has been taken
into the membership of the knights
| and Ladies of Security. This was done
at the regular meeting, of the organ
| ization last night. The band will play
at the weekly meetings of the society.
| The attention of Government Statis
tician T. J. Anderson is called to the fact
/
| deaths exceeded the births about one
third, and in course of time the news
will probably reach President Roosevelt.
| There will be two games be-
| tween the Topeka and Leavenworth
teams of the Western association to-
morrow. The first game will be called
| at 10 o'clock in the morning while the
| second game will be called at $3.50 in
| the afternoon.
| A special letter to the Central Y. NJ.
c. A. last night from Stafford, Kan,
| stated that there was plenty of work
| in Stafford county for all who would
| come to the harvest fields and that
over 100 could find work in the wheat
| fields near Stafford.
| 1t has been suggested that Pie Jor-
| dan who has been gradually wrecking
the city Jail as he makes his numerous
| escapes be sent to the wheat fields with
| a ball and chain attached and it will
| take week or so for him to find his
| way back to the city.
| Arrangements have been made for
free Fourth of July celebration tomor-
| row at Vinewood Park and during the
| evening the management have promised
to burn several hundred dollars worth
| of fireworks in addition to those used by
| DoBell, the free attraction
| Perhaps you think there has been
too much noise all over town today
| This, however, does not come up with
what you will hear tomorrow. The
| noise will commence as soon as the
1 Smau boy S6lS OUT VI D0O Will SOAA
| tinue the greater part of the night.
A large number of Topekans are
planning to go to Emporia tomorrow
| where a large Fourth of July celebra-
ton is to be held. The people of EN-
poria are trying to make this sort
of a home coming event and are max
ing special plans to entertain all the
| visitors in the city.
1t would naturally seem that those
who had charge of the $4,000 fund
| would want to take a vacation for
few weeks Some of them will want to
| look after their own business for. a
| while and the rest will simply try
to be common men again. One thing
is sure no one of them will ever want
| to do any more promoting.
| Picnics and various sorts of celebra-
tons will be held in nearly every con-
ceivable place in the vicinity of Tope-
| ka tomorrow. However, the biggest eel
| ebration will be at Vinewood park
| where several hundred dollars worth
| of fireworks will be fired off. The fire.
| works will be the spectacular kind ana
not the kind that makes the noise.
The wild west part of Robinson's cir
| Gus was outdone Tuesday by the deliv-
cry team belonging to the Star laun-.
| dry. The team made short run from
| Jackson street up to Kansas avenue on
| Fourth and then turning started south.
| Between Fourth and Fifth the runa-
| waJs struck the transfer wagon belong
ing to Mr.. Skinner and upset it, leav-
ing the wagon partly on top of the
horses.
With the arrest of Ransom Pigg
last night for robbery, the three
lbrothers of this family are now under
the jurisdiction of the county authorf-
ties. Robert Pigg is out on bail pend
ing the appeal of his conviction for
violating the prohibitory law and the
| eldest brother, Aaron T., is also on
bail awaiting trial for attempting to
bride some jurors who found Robert
guilty of the crime charged against
| him.
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon spoke in
Birmingham yesterday and last night.
In a letter to Mr.. Geo. Lerrigo of the
~. M. c. A. he said the way things are
going out here in Kansas help him
Il greatly in his work over there. He
saws people in England are twenty
years behind the times IN regard to
the liquor question. Brewers and
liquor dealers are members of the
house of lords and are respected
the English people toward that mat
ter at the present time, is hardly I'M
derstood by some OF them.
There is a season for everything on
| the market. First it is lettuce and
| onions, then it it radishes, then peas,
| then turnips and now ii is beets. The
| different vegetables gradually work up
| to the head of the list and then as
| gradually disappear or take their
| places among the others on the regular
list In a few days everybody will be
selling beans. AS a general thing the
| country gardeners get the start of the
city gardeners and have produce on
the market first This year, on ac-i
count of the late frosts, the town gar
dener has all the vegetable as soon as
his country rival.
Prof. M w. Sterling, the Greek
professor at K. o., and his son Scott
Sterling, passed through Topeka yes
terday on their way to the harvest
field. Scott Sterling has been one year
in Yale university. after having finish
ed his sophomore year at K. U. Prof.