The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-10

| anticipation of the rush which always
taxes place during the holiday sea-
| son.
Pat Walsh, who has had supervis-
ION over the baggage effects of the
passengers on the Santa Fe railroad
since the spring of 1872 is in Hot
Springs attending a national meeting
| or the Baggage association agents.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Missouri p cific passenger train which
was taken off yesterday does not do
a very large business, it will be quite
a blow to the travelling men who make
the territory touched by this road.
General Manager J. E. Hurley of the
Santa Fe, left yesterday for New York
and Boston where he will spend two
weeks. In the meantime his friends
can enter the Santa Fe office building
and emerge with arms and hands in
tact.
The city council will meet as usual
in a special session on the gard of
December in order that the Deem
Der pay rolls of the city's employees
may be passed and that they may be
able to secure money for Christmas
shopping. ~
G. M. Knowlton who has a drug
store near Fourth street on Kansas
avenue, is strengthening up his store
He had a monkey for three days and
what he did to the stock of goods will
be rem rendered by the proprietor for
some time.
eff we had had another week of
training believe we could have beat
en- Washburn,' were the confident
words spoken by one of the Old Stars
as he walked stifhy down the street
yesterday. He confessed to feeling a
little "sore.''
Surprise and pleasure item combin-
ed: Though the mercury dropped sew
eral degrees below the freezing point
last night the pressure in the gas
mains failed to follow and the thaw-
ing-out process was not necessity
this morning.
The exodus of we'll known citizens
which may be expected about the 10th
of the month need not alarm the adj
vocates of a Greater Topeka" as a
majority of the :well knowns" will
return after the grand jury has finish
ed it's laborS.
The football hero is now a thing of
the past. The basketball hero will be
in the 1imelights now for several moons.
1t is not likely that Washburn will
have any kind of a basketball team
already made plans to that end.
Chick" Morton, of the Rock Island
passenger department, is spending his
surplus energy in boosting mo 40
which he claims is the finest thing in
the passenger service in this part of
the country for Kansas City traffic.
P. S. The officials are also spending
considerable money in advertising the
train.
A Topeka critic complains about E.
w. Howe, who is to lecture at the
under the auspices of the
U. c. T. Thursday evening. He claims
to be able to prove that Howe at one
time sang tenor and at another time
was a member of brass band,
though all of this happened when he
was a youth.
Mrs. Frank s. Thomas and her son
Chester are both confined to the
house as a result of accidents with
which they met yesterday. The little
while Mrs. Thomas, was tripping
across lots last evening about dusk |
she stumbled over a wire, fell on her
face and injured her nose, painfully If |
not seriously. |
On Christmas day Captain Joseph |
Waters, or rather Captain Joe." will |
have rounded out fifty years at the |
practice of law. 'And I never did |
anything else either he concluded as |
he related his term Of years of ser
vice. ct was admitted to the bar in
Springfield, Ohio on 1.-The 25th day of
1857" He was twenty
years old at the time.
James Stewart the plucky little
football player who starred at quar-
terback in last Saturdays game, was
evidently used up to a greater degree
than was first thought. Yesterday af-
ternoon the wind started down KAN
sas avenue with his hat and after a
chase OF three-quarters of block
Jimmy's wind gave out. A little dog,
however, came to his rescue and the
nat was soon restored to its owner.
The laugh seems to be on a certain
Young man who is employed In the
Santa Fe offices. This young man has
4 particular fondness for chorus girls
% which his father strenuously OBJ
ects Last Sunday his parents were
,ut of town and did not intend to re-
urn until today The sequel to the
story can be easily imagined when
he young mans father returned only
o find his favorite scion entertaining
hree pretty chorus girls in his own
home.
lola Murder Case Continued.