The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-18


are working on the Daily Oklahoman
at Oklahoma City
The twanty-fourth annual banquet Of
the Saturday Night club will be held
this year May IT.
/ So intensely dry has it been in To
peka for some time that the rain OF
last night will be appreciated.
Fishing in Soldier creek is reported
to be better this spring than it has
been for a number of years back.
A light rain fell during the early
| hours of this morning and it was al
most cold enough to warrant a snow
storm.
The White Sox squad will divide into
| a team of regulars and Yannigans for
| a series of two games Saturday and
! Sunday.
The jurymen in the United States
court were released Wednesday after
| noon and most of them have returned
\ to their homes.
Dirt is being hauled from Calhoun
! Bluffs to the Santa Fe yards to complete
a fill and level established by the COM
pany's engineers.
The senior class of Topeka high
! school will present the play. THE
/ Rivals" at the high school auditorium
| tomorrow night.
An entertainment was given last
night at st. John A. NJ. E. church by
the st. John Jubilee Singers, a local
aggregation of colored people.
n. A. Hypes. president of the Hypes
Barber Supply company of Topeka. is
| in western Kansas this week offering
stock in his company for sale.
The White Sox have a game of ball
scheduled for Saturday with the Midg-
cts a local team which showed excel
lent form last season and even better
this year.
c. w. Greenwood, at 1901 Western
avenue, is quarantined for measles.
Seven cases were released from quar-
antine yesterday by the city sanitary
department.
charles Lindsey. formerly of Topeka
but now of Denver, stopped in Topeka
en- route to New York. He is now
manager of an advertising agency at
$500 a year.
D. J. Hanna of Hill City, capitalist,
banker and also a former lieutenant
governor of the state, was in the city
yesterday. but in some way escaped be-
ing interviewed.
1t may have been just a coincidence,
but the advance agent for Gentry's cir
Gus was in Topeka all day yesterday
as well as the preceding one, and to-
day it is raining.
Just a few more than half of the eligi-
BILE voters of the city cast their ballots
at the last election and those who did
not must register again before they are
entitled to vote.
Arrangements are being made by East
Side Baptists for a revival which will
be opened in a tent in the vicinity of
Seward avenue as soon as their plans
can be completed
Dandelion plants seemed about as
plentiful around town this morning as
though there had never been issued
an official proclamation pronouncing
their death sentence.
The following births have been re-
ported by the board Of health: Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed Ash, SIG East Third street.
boy; Mr.. and Mrs. George Fftzgibbon,
7O5 West Second street.
The annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Topeka Wooden Mill Manu-
featuring company for the purpose of
electing officers will be held at the mill
office Monday, April p, at 2:30.
Special rates which are being made
large amount of travel that the Santa
Fe was compelled to run one of it's
trains in four sections Wednesday.
The weather still continues bad for
baseball. The rain last night left the
Washburn diamond in a wet condition
and the Haskell game to have been
played this afternoon was called off.
Ralph Waldo Hoskinson, a legal
l;gal light from Garden City who parts
his name in the middle, spent a part
of yesterday in Topeka on his way
home from a trip to his birthplace in
Missouri.
Reports from the farmers in the vicin-
ity of Topeka indicate that the straw
berry crop has not been as badly injured
as has been supposed and that there is
a chance that the late varieties have
not been badly damaged.
L. NJ. Penwell will leave the first of
next week for Oklahoma City where
he will deliver an address before the
Oklahoma and Indian Territory Fun
eral Directors association of which he
was formerly president.
Three special elections are scheduled
for between this time and the next reg
ular spring election. The first is to be held
on the 23rd of next month when a sue
cessor to Charles Curtis as congressman
from the First district will be chosen.
An eastern sewer machine manufac-
turing company is threatening to bring
suit against the city for using a ma
chine that infringes on their patent.
The machine was invented by local
men and was purchased by the city.
The first crazy person arrested in ten |
days was taken in custody yesterday |
by officers from the sheriff's force in the |
person of Frank Henderson of North |
Topeka. The average number of crazy |
people arrested has averaged about |
three week.
Perhaps 100 girl babies have been |
born in Topeka since the newspapers |
began to dish UP Evelyn Nesbit Thaw |
as a daily news item" said a Topeka |
doctor, but as far as 1 have learned |
the fond parents have side-stepped the |
name Evelyn"
There was a little brush between the |
Arkansas and Texas strawberries on |
the local market yesterday with the re- |
suit that the price dropped to twelve |
and one-half cents box. This field has |
ben controlled so far this season by the |
Texas berry growers.
Just at the present time the force of |
Sheriff WilkerSon is busy trying to |
locate some one who will admit that |
he is the local agent for the Schlitz |
company so that they may |
serve one of Attorney General Jack |
sons injunctions on him.
Ten extra trains will be run through
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