The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-17

| ed III Highland Park last night.
| The State Street Giants were the vic
| tors in a ball game yesterday afternoon
with the Clay school team by a score
/ of II to s.
! The senior class of Topeka high
school will present the play, 1.-The Riv-
ais, at the high school auditorium next
Friday night.
Arthur Griggs, a former Topeka ball
player and star on the K. U. football
team, is now playing with the San An
tonic club as utility man.
A Hindoo mystery act which is par
ticularly mystifying and cleverly ex-
ecuted, is presented at the Majestic
this week by Prof. w. Deldas.
DR.. M. r. Mitchell. who was recent
| ly appointed city physician by Mayor
| William Green. will not take charge
of the office until the first of May.
The capital of the Oakland Wooden
mills has been increased to $4,000 and
many substantial improvements are
| booked for construction in the near
| future.
1t is not thought that dandelion day
met with very much success yesterday,
| at least there are not many slain dan
| delions seen on the walks or lawns of
| the city.
The baseball team of the State
street school defeated the ball team of
the Quincy street school in a closely
contested game yesterday afternoon
| by score of 1 5 to IA.
Reports from the railroad offices in
| the city indicate that the snow which
visited this city yesterday was general
and extended from Chicago to the east
| ern portion of Colorado
| It's no wonder that big crowds are
| turning out for the U. c. T. benefit
this week at the Novelty, for the show
is one of the best that has been pre-
scented there this season.
A building permit was issued yester-
day to. Mrs. Mary d. Holiday for the
erection of three dwellings on lots 210,
212, PA and PIG East Eight avenue
at cost of $1,000 each.
Rev. George Lyon, superintendent of
the work of the Kansas Missionary So
ciety, left today for Augusta where he
will attend the Fourth district conven-
ton of the Christian church.
Half a dozen members of the last leg
islature were in the city yesterday
though all of them claim that they are
here on private business and did not
know of the presence of the others.
The business of this term of the fed
eral court will probably be concluded
Thursday, though the next term in
this district will not open until the
first Monday in May at Fort Scott.
Drawing their conclusion from the
rusting down for lack of paint of the
East Sixth street viaduct. the city
council voted to have the bridges
across the Shunganunga reprinted.
Representative Paul Rich of Hamil-
ton county, who was in the city yes
terday, says that the dryness in west
ern Kansas is nothing when compared
with the apparent dryness of Topeka.
Mayor William Green has received
but two anonymous letters thus far.
Ex-MayOr Davis received a numerous
lot of communications of this sort,
some of them of a threatening nature.
Four births were recorded at the
office of the sanitary board yesterday
which exactly balances the number of
deaths recorded in the obituary coll
umns of the Topeka papers for that
day.
Washburn college and the Haskell
Indians will play tomorrow afternoon
at Washburn park. Rusty Riegle will
pitch for Washburn and Walter Boles
will play with the collegians. 1t GER
tainly ought to be a good game.
The attention of County Attorney
John Schenck is called to the report
that Gus Aiberts will be in the city
this week with his ball team and a
duplicate notice mailed to Herman
Crow would not be out of place.
r. MaunseH who has been seriously
i'll most of the winter has so far recov-
cred as to be able to be about and hopes
to be well enough to leave for Colorado
within a week or so in the hopes that
the change will be of benefit to his
health.
Gus Alberts, the former manager of
the Topeka Saints, now the White Sox,
will bring the bartlesville team which
he now manages. to Topeka Friday af-
ternoon where they will play the Tope-
ka Western Association champions at
Association park.
"It seems like a useless expenditure
of energy on the part of the weather
man. remarked a farmer yesterday
as he started for home, t'to send an
other frost as all of the fruit is killed
too dead to revive"
Have you ever noticed that a good
many cigars will be popular for a few
months and then die? This is not so
with Burghart's Favorite straight five
cent cigar. 1t grows more popular every
day and dealers say it is the best SELL
ing cigar they handle.
The new catalogues of Washburn col
lega sre being sent through the mails.
Each succeeding year the catalogues
are getting larger and larger. The half
tone cuts nave all been eliminated and
there is nothing but reading matter
between the dark green covers.
The Sheldon Congress of Mothers will
hold their regular parents meeting Fri
day night at the kindergarten in Ten
nesseetown when J. Mordicai Allen, To-
peka's colored poet, will recite number
of his poems and there Will be special
music for the occasion.
There is this to be said for the
weather department at any rate" said
a shivering individual yesterday. 1T
has never claimed that this snow
through which this world has just
passed, or its tail, either"
Dog days are here now" remarked
J. w. F. Hughes yesterday afternoon
as a large specimen of the mastiff breed
crowded him off of the sidewalk, but
they will soon be a thing of the past if
nv vote will pass the ordinance intro
duced at the last meeting of the city
council by Charlie Holiday"
Because of unfavorable weather
conditions the school children were
not, turned loose fpn the dandelions
yesterday afternoon. They were given