The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-20

license No. 100 yesterday and that
! number is now suspended from the
rear axle of about the ''reddest" thing
in the automo bile line to be seen on
] the city streets.
The report of Secretary Barnes of
the State horticultural society to the
| effect that nearly all of the fruit in the
state was killed by the recent freezes
is about one week too late to be con-
sidered as news.
There are only eight weeks of school
remaining at Washburn and the negIi-
gent pupils of that institution have al
ready begun the examining process by
which they hope to advance into an
other class next fail
Among the many calls for baseball
scores which are received over the
telephone every day so per cent are
asking for the results of the Louisville
games, all of which shows the popu-
larity of Dick Cooley in Topeka.
What is believed to be the first
match game of cricket ever played in
the city took place in the quarter
stretch at the fair grounds this after
noon and a game is scheduled for next
Saturday afternoon between the same
teams.
Along with the funeral announce
n1ents incident to the recent cold spell
with it's several freezes is that of the
gooseberry but the mourners at its
the statement of one of the famous pie
builders of the city
A letter received in Topeka from
A. H Hagen, formerly manager of the
Novelty theater, indicates that he is
the advance man for the Hagenback
animal show, and that he will be in
Topeka in about three weeks. He is
now in San Francisco.
An ordinance fofnthe city council
changing the name of Warren street
to I1r1x cfrela
register of deeds yesterday Warren
street, which is really a continuation
of Mulvane street, comprised two
blocks between Fifteenth and Seven
tenth streets. 81
Forty Woodmen of the World will
leave this evening at 5 o'clock for
Lawrence, Kan, where the members
of that order will have a big celebra-
ton. embracing an initiation of large
class of sixty candidates for degree,
and a banquet on large scale at
which several hundred will be seated.
James Stanley Twyford, who was
until about a year ago assistant city
attorney, and who is now practicfng
law in Oklahoma City has announced
himself as a candidate for the Re-
publican nomination to the office of
county attorney of Oklahoma county
o. T., in which Oklahoma City is the
county seat.
A. J. Hoffman, county commissioner
of Wyandotte county, was a visitor in
this city yesterday. Wyandotte coun-
ty is to have a new court house and
Mr. Hoffman made an inspection of
the court house here to get some
pointers. as the Shawnee county court
house is considered a model of it's
kind in the west.
The game tomorrow will be the last
one in Topeka for several days as the
team Tuesday will leave for a tour of
the Kansas State league where they
will play several games. The game
tomorrow viii be between the Regu-
lars and the "Yannagans'' and the
teams will be divided so that a good
game Will result.
If the young lady who wrote a let
ter to bill" and Henry on Missouri
& Kansas Telephone company station
cry, their names having evidently been
secured from q matrimonial paper,
and then lost the letter on Jackson
street viii address s'BilP' in care of the
Topeka State Journal she can securel
her tender epistIe.
The paving on Clay street between
Tenth and Thirteenth streets which
has been in course of construction for
several months is now rapidly nearing
completion and in a few days the end
will have been reached. The street
railway has a double track along this
street which greatly facilitates their
traffic on the Wash burn and Quinton
lines.
1t is reported that Colonel Sam
Radges, who is as largely interested in
various crops as any other man in
Shawnee county. has carefully inspect
ed the conditions since the late frosts. |
He has found that the cottonwood, |
jimpson and sunffowers are as yet I'M |
injured while all the other fruit is |
damaged with the possible exception |
of the paw paw.
Just before the close of the session |
of the northeast Kansas branch of the |
Woman's Foreign Missionary society |
of the United Brethren church yester- |
day the following officers were elected: |
President Mrs. Hattie E. Fees Robin |
son; first vice president. Mrs. Laura
Meredith Lecompton; second vice
president Mrs. Alice NJ. Scott Nc
Louth; secretary. Mrs. t. d. Critics. |
Hoiton; treasurer, Mrs. E. NJ Miller.
Hoiton. =
WOMAN SCIENTIST A SUICIDE.