The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-21

Big time at the rink tonight. Ladies
| admitted free
| r. J. Parker general superin tendent
of the Santa Fe at La Junta, Col. is II
| Topeka today. =
E: w. Howe. editor. of the Atchisor
! Globe. will deliver his lecture AROUND
the World" at the high school building
| this evening.
After the first of March the govern
ment will issue one cent stamps in
booklets which will contain "A stamps
and sell for rs cents
George Burghart received two pairs
| OF pouter pigeons Saturday which
were shipped to him from England
nearly three weeks ago.
The executive committee of the Kan
sas Editorial association will hold a
| meeting at the Commercial club rooms
! Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock.
The weather man dished out about as
scrambled a bit of weather Saturday
as 1t was possible to mix in one locality,
and have all of the ingredients show.
! The fire department was called to the
! home of D. B. Kraus, lib Central ave-
| nue. Sunday afternoon on account of a
small blaze caused by a defective hue.
B. F. Martin is in western Kansas
| where he will remain for a few months
as court stenographer for w. H.
| Thompson, judge of the Thirty-second
! district.
An explosion of gas at Cofeyville
sponsible for the drop I'm the pressure
in Topeka which disarranged the sup
per plans of housewives in this city.
Quite a sensation was caused at the
performance at the Novelty yesterday
afternoon by young lady fainting. She
was removed to the outside of the the
! alter where she soon recovered herself.
Postmaster Rogers has been notified
| that there will be an auction of old
| wornout mules, under the auspices of
the United States government, held at
Fort Riley on the 29th of the present
month.
Sheriff Wilkersor- and family are
now occupying the residence portion
of the city jail building which was va
Gated last week by ex-Sheriff A. T.
Lucas and family who have occupied
it for the past four years.
Major A. NJ. Harvey. who for several
brief spells has held the chess cham
seven games at the same time at the
Y. NJ. c. A. rooms saturday evening,
winning all but one of them.
A good many of the. thirsty residents
of Topeka are findiflg a scarcity of
drinking enpo1iums inTopeka. The rea-
son is not known but it is supposed to
be because the jointfsts are somewhat
scared of the new county attorney.
Fifteen Thousands three hundred and
thfty-two patrons paid admission to the
Midwinter EXPOSITION last week or ,S23
less than during. the first week last
year. The falling off in patronage is
er.
The huge painting, "The Capture
of Burns Battery which has hung
in the city court room since it was pre-
scented to the county about ten. years
ago by Mr. G. G. Gage has been loan
ed to the G. G. Gage G. A. r. post and
will be hung in their quarters at 122
East Sixth street.
The basketball team of the Topeka
high school will go to Kansas City next
Friday night where they will play a
game with the Kansas City Central
high school team. The game will be
played in Convention hall and will be
an innovation in the line of basketb ball
as the game will be played on roller
skates.
The Washburn basketball team did
not play in Wichita Saturday. They
were to have played Paramount and
Friends but were called home by Prof
H. /. Woods of the Washburn faculty
who had just decided that one of the
players was ineligible. They played but
two games on the trip winning from the
state normal team at Emporia and los
ing to the Newton Y. NJ. c. A. team by
the close score of 81 to 80.