The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-07
All the Exhibits Will Be in
Place by Night.
MULHALLS ARE HERE.
Twelve Wild Texas Steers for
Their Use on Hand.
Barkers and Restaurant Men on
Duty.
Condensed Fair Programme.


Kansas Futurity for 2-year-olds. IL en-
tries.
2:19 trot, $500 purse, ID entries.
2:35 pace, $1,000 purse, Is entries.
Kansas Day Derby $500, 6 entries.
Mulhall free exhibition in front of the
grandstand.
All exhibits open.
WEDNESDAY
Three -year-old pace, $500, Z entries.
2:13 pace, $500 purse, 10 entries.
2:30 trot, $1,000 purse, Is entries.
Pinafore at the Auditorium in the ev
ETY..
MulhalI free exhibition in front of
grandstand.
Reunion of the Twentieth Kansas
regiment.
Luncheon General Funston at Coun-
try club.
Reception for General Frederick Fun
ston at state capitol. ats o'clock.
Address of welcome at Copeland ho-
tel for members of Twentieth Kansas
at o'clock, by Captain J. G. Waters.
Display of fireworks at the fair
grounds.
THURSDAY
Merchants 6 furlong race, purse $780,
Three-year-old trot, $500 purse, Is en-
tries.
2:22 trot, $500 purse. IL entries.
2:1S pace, $500 purse, entries.
Commercial club, 3 furlong race,
purse $3.50.
General Funston will witness races
from box in the grandstand.
Sham battle following race pro-
gramme.
Mulhalrs free exhibition in front of
grandstand.
Kansas regiment at Copeland hotel at
o'clock.
Pinafore at the Auditorium in the
evening.
FRIDAY
2:15 trot, $500 purse. entries.
Free-for-all pace, $500, purse, en-
tries.
227 trot, $500 purse, II entries
Two-year-old trot, 5000 purse. en-
tries.
Hurdle, 1 mile, four hurdles. $50
purse.
Mulhalls free exhibitions in front of
the grandstand.
queen Esther at the Auditorium in
the evening by Topeka Oratorio society.
There goes a likely stopper; that
little brown mare
''Gee. look at that Durham COW.
Isn't she beauty"
What this horse needs is the cork
built DIP on his shoe on the inside
Look out for the Mulhall steers;
they're longhorns and mighty vicious
"Hamburgers. Hot hamburgers.
Five apiece. The finest lemonade you
ever or nearQ OF.
All day Sunday and today a babel
of sounds like the above shattered the
years quiet of the Toneka fair grounds
into smithereens. The one busiest
place in Kansas today is this same fair
grounds. Nearly two hundred race
horses are quartered near the track at
the south end and are being exercised
twice a day. Scores of tents dot the
hillsides and more are being added to
the number every hour. Strings of
icI1
which enters the grounds are being
unloaded and horses, cattle. sheep.
hogs, mules, machiner~- supplies and
every thing and creature one could
imagine are being transported from
the bowels of these trains to the spaces
assigned for them on the grounds.
Carpenters, hostlers. caretakers, de-
partment managers, laborerS, meSsen-
barkers are hurrying to and fro, all
with the express object of driving
Secretary Kreipe to the big institution
just west of the city.
AS forecasted weeks ago when the
entry lists began to fill up so rapidly,
the first Kansas state wide fair is
starting out with every indication of
a big success. Only the weather can
hurt the fair now. The state has at
last sat up and is taking notice of the
fact that its first fair is going to be
a winner and that it has been badly
needed for many years. The exhibits
will be as fine this year and as large
as though a dozen years of prestige
and permanent and costly buildings
were behind the movement. The en-
try lists in every class of live stock
and all the departments of farm cul-
ture are full and the space nrsr aiIot-
ted for the various exhibits has been
doubled and Quadrupled many times
by the alert management.
The cattle exhibit is one of the
bright features of the fair. Space was
first allotted for $50 animals. This
200 and today there are pens ready
for ESQ head of contenders for. blue
ribbons and they are neariy all full
this evening. The class of cattle at
Topeka this week is way up at the top
in the records of the entire country
Shorthorns and Herefords predomi-
nate, but there are some Durhams that
beat the world for looks. They are
kings and queens in the bovine em~
pire.
The agricultural tent will be crowd
ed for every foot of available space
with the best offerings of Kansas ana
Nebraska and Missouri farms and or
chards, and this tent is as prg as the
one used by the Ringing Brothers
circus too.
The poultry tent will be crowded
and even the Shetland pony tent is
full. All the exhibits in the tents will
be we'll cared for and tastefuIfy dis
played.
chinery exhibit. Carload after carload
of every kind of modern farm ma
chinery in the world is being unloaded
today and set in place by skilled work
men. The machinery exhib1t extends
from the center of the ground Tor a
quarter of a mile west to the limits
The farmers will find much of interest
and benefit from this display and the