The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21

knowledge of shoeing. S. A. Hayes
| 511 Jackson.
letic exhibition at the Auditorium Tues
day evening in which about 100 of the
members will participate.
No matter your surroundings, you
will enjoy yourself by smoking a Burg
harris Favorite five cent straight cigar.
All good dealers sell them.
There are 48 criminal cases set for
trial for the April term of the dis
trict, Is of them being against viola
| tors of the prohibitory law
w. E. King, formerly assistant city
engineer, will leave shortly for Ogden,
Utah, where he has accepted a posi-
ton with an engineering firm
The city council of Sulphur, I. T.,
has granted a franchise for a street car
line to eastern parties who are repre-
scented in Topeka by A. F. Williams
| A carload of lumber for use in build
| ing the canning factory near the Sar-
| dou bridge is on the ground and work
on the factory will commence at once
! After consulting with chief engineer
| of the Santa Fe the city has decided
| to paint the Sixth avenue viaduct with
red mineral paint instead of graphite
| or carbon.
Buffalo Jones ought to be a strong
attraction COR some lyceum bureau.
He can give the kind of personal
| experience lecture which ought to be
very popular.
| William jackson, one of the state
house janitcrs reappointed for another
year. is from Columbus, not Weir
| City, as stated, and Dan Hickman is
from Hill City and not Topeka.
Governor Hoch and State Bank
| Commissioner John Q. Royce have
| been invited to address the meeting of
Group III of the Kansas State Bank
ers' association to be held in lola
The warm weather has had a benef1-
! cial effect on the trees and shrubbery
a caused
buds to appear and in very short time
all the trees will be bearing leaves
Four new cases of measles were
quarantined yesterday afternoon: J.
avenue; Frank Sanderson. 315 Ger
man avenue; Rudy Nash, $40 st. John
street.
According to an agreement reached
between the railroads of the state and
the railroad commissioners. the two
cent mileage books provided for by the
recent legislature will be placed on
sale May 1.
There are 46 divorce suits on the
January docket of the district court.
though one-third of them were settled
out of court by the interested parties
withdrawing them before they reached
the trial point.
The dog tax collector will make his
rounds after the first of next month.
All the owners of dogs who have not
paid up tax will stand a chance of
having their dogs taken up and placed
in the dog pound
The annual debate between Washburn
and Baker will occur a week from to-
morrow at Baldwin. Arrangements are
being made to take 200 Washburn stud
ents to Baldwin on that date In a spec
ial train.
There are SO mail carriers in Topeka
who will be benefited by the increase
in nav made by the recent session or
congress, and in some instances the IN
crease will amount to 25 per cent of
the salary which they have been rece1V-
ing: n,aa
ure to be derived from anticipation or
the reduction in gas bills incident TO
the return Of warm weather. If could
only forget the refrigerator PROPOSE
ton" remarked a Topeka avenue resi-
dent.
One of the most beautiful spots in
Topeka at the present time is WASH
burn campus The grounds have been
kept in good condition all winter and
the warm weather is bringing out all
the features of the vegetation on the
campus.
around the capitol building hunting
for desks for use by newly: selected |
employees The fact that the legisla-
ture made no appropriation for new |
furniture for the rest of the fiscal year |
makes it impossible to buy new furni- |
tUre.
A street railway work train hauling
a load of stone out Sixth avenue about
o'clock this morning aroused nearly
every Santa Fe shop employe along the
line with the haunting fear that they /
had oversight and missed the first car |
and would be late in getting to their |
work.
The ways AMI means committee of
the city council meets this evening at
the city hall The reconstruction of
the city electric light plant Will come
Ior-a ton 1t iG n n IA
however that this like other matters
will be deferred until the next council
comes in. ~ s~77,%
Color blindness must prevail extern
sively in this city for after all of the
witnesses of the automobile accident
on East Eighth avenue have testified
that the machine was big red one
that ran the boy down the police have
come to the conclusion that 1t was not
red at all, but blue.
Albert B. Stafford and Miss Frances
Shields of Topeka were married by
Probate Judge Simmer of jackson
county Wednesday and asked that the
matter be kept a secret. though there
is nothing to indicate that his Judge
ship heard the request. as the news
reached Topeka by telegraph
What is a poor man going to do
asked the city salesman of the street
car conductor as he eame4down town
this morning. Easter is. not more
than six inches away with its demand
comes a story about the shortage in
Easter lilies and other flowers and an
advance in price.
There will be a meeting of the state
food inspectors in Topeka next week.
The state chemists and a mum Der of
grocery jobbers and manufacturers
will meet with them and talk over the
work to be done. The inspectors will
come proficient in their duties before
starting out on the road.