The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-01
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The elephant now goes round,
The band begins to play,
Those little boys near the lions cage
Had better keep away.

Inc city council meets THIS evening
in it's regular monthly meeting.
Mrs. D. L. Carson of 207 Quincy
street is at Keith's hospital recovering
from operation.
"Oh Lord, what next?'' remarked
fan when told that Red" Davis had
been traded to Wichita for McLear.
Messrs. Imri Zumwalt, and Herman
Carkhuff. have moved into the Y. M.
c. A. building for the summer months.
For few brief hours the White Sox
were tail enders in the first division at
ter losing the game to Hutchinson Sat
urday.
A party of prominent Topeka people
are at present discussing the adVisa-
bility of going to the Atlantic coast for
a summer vacation.
The White Sox passed through To-
peka this morning on their way to
Leavenworth but very few of them
had the nerve to get off.
The storm last Saturday night caused
a good many people in the southwest
part of Topeka to recall the storm of
one year ago last Wednesday.
Doc Waddell, Robinson's advance
man, is a unique character in his line,
and by eastern writer's has been char
acterized as a word athlete.
Nearly everybody in town spent yes
terday trying to recall some blizzard of
the last few winters to see if the effect
of frigidity could be produced.
Mr.. Wright, the Topeka pitcher, was
IlSnI IN every SENSE yesterday.
Gus to that time he has always been
referred to as the wrong Mr.. Wright.
Mr.. Harry Heinzman seems to have
Jared much worse than did the juniors
on the pony trip. He has been suf-
fering from a severe cold ever since.
The Punch and Judy whistle as we'll
as the hundred and one other noises
that accompany circus day, made 1t
rather hard to think coherently all day
today.
The Odd Fellows of the city have
| completed arrangements for Fourth
| of July celebration to be held in the
| Wise grove, half a mile west of Te-
| cumseh.
announces that the receipts for lists
| of taxes which have been left in the
| office, are ready and should be called
| for at once
The lawns and parkings in the city
are in better condition now than they
| have been for years and the plentiful
rains of the last few weeks get the
| thanks for this.
| During the month of June just closed
| Probate Judge Hayden issued SO mar
| riage permits, on an average of about
three and one-half for every day that
| the office was open.
| The attention of the management of
| the White Sox is called to the fact that
| Springfield and Leavenworth each have
! man they are willing to trade for
either Olson or Raglan.
| H H. Weyant, pastor Of the Euclid
| Avenue NJ. E. church, preached his fare
we'll sermon yesterday and is prepar-
| ing to leave for San Diego, Cal, at once
where he has accepted a pastorate.
r. S. Amnen, who comes to Topeka
! from Hot Springs, Ark, has taken the
night clerkship at the Hotel Throop
| made vacant by the resignation of w.
! E Tudor, who will leave for Colorado.
City Attorney Dreaming has announc-
| ed that he will leave within the next
few days for the three weeks visit to
| Yellowstone park which will afford a
| breathing spell for some of those under
| fire.
| Robinson's circus was in Topeka all
day yesterday and today, and the small
bows of the town have been having the
best time of their lives. There is moth
ing like a circus to attract the small
| boys
The Topeka Edison company will
make some extensive alterations on
| the interior of their down town office,
Eighth and Kansas avenue. A dis
| play will be made of electrical fix
| lures and contrivances.
A Fourth of July celebration will be
held under the auspices of the Farm
ers' Educational and Cooperative I'm
ion of America Thursday at Forbes
grove north of Kiro station on the
Union Pacific railroad.
According to law which has been
dug up by County Auditor Ralph CAV
|
and public officers will not be allowed
witness fees in cases where they are
called to give testimony
Dan Hammatt won first place on the
Country club match team at the con-
. | test Saturday from Herbert Armstrong
after a closely contested match, the
contestants being tie when the nine
teenth hole was reached
A lot of the local sporting fraterni-
~ overlooked a good chance to pick up
easy money Odds were being given
that Hutchinson would defeat Topeka
for the fourth straight time Money at
| handsome odds went begging.
Fifty dogs were killed last month
: by the dog officers. During the past
! six months $2,S06 has been collect
ed in the way of taxes from dogs in
: the city and of this amount $1'8O3
has been taken in since April 1.
l Street Commissioner Frank Snyder
, wants the mayor to do away with the
city rock pile and have the weeds about
the city cut by the city prisoners when
5 suggests a long spell of light work Tor
the prisoners during the winter months.
Gen. ]. W. F. Hughes. who is the
original agitator of the sane Fourtn'
= introduced the ordinance which limit
ed the size of fire crackers, and is now
| ectinp MAYOR, says he will sure en-
| force the law on fire crackers. Here
, is hoping.
! Mr.. Merrill Mills returned this morn
: ing from New York city where he has
been attending the coilese u PM slcle a
and surgeons of Columbia university
Mr.. Mills graduated from the univer-
: sity last week, receiving the doctors
degree in medicine
There were some fierce storm clouds
in the south last night with all sorts
of sheet and chain lightning in them
hut the storm was so far away thai
the thunder could not be heard, and
the storm never got near enough to be
more than threatening.
for 1f ~ xQ
rice scattered about the platform a.
thn Santa Fe depot. indicate that {