The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-06

non is secretary of the Kansas Day
club, and is clerk to Justice Henry F.
Mason.
DR.. Campbell, the city milk in
spector. inspected five herds of dairy
cows in this vicinity this week and
The fifth herd had several cases of
tuberculosis.
The case of a Topeka newspaper re-
porter, who was ''scooped' on an item
of news which called for scareheads, is
only one of the after effects of election
where the man in question supported
the wrong ticket.
Lawrence Journal: Football en-
thusiasts from Washburn have sent
down $50 to be bet 1 to 2 on Wash
burn, but no one here will take the
money. This afternoon no one had
consented TO take the bet.
The fourth precinct of the Fourth
ward was the last precinct in Shawnee
county to send in the election returns.
The heavy vote and the unusual num-
Der of scratched tickets was respon-
sible for the thirty hour delay.
Whitaker Brothers have planned to
erect a stable at the corner of Gordon
street and Kansas avenue at cost OF
$1,000. The structure will be so by 26
feet and built of cement blocks with
height of one and one-half stories.
I. NJ. Orner of Oakland. who was de-
feated for the nomination for sheriff
by John Wilkerson, announces that he
will be a candidate before the primar-
les two years from now regardless of
the number of entries in the race.
The special committee appointed to
rename a number of Topeka streets,
will meet Saturday evening and COM
plete their work, with a view of sub
uniting their report to the city coun-
Gil at the Monday evening meeting.
Mime Emma Calve, the grand opera
star who recently appeared in Topeka
in concert, is reported to be seriously
i'll at Pittsburg, Pa, where she was
billed to open the season for the Pitts
burg orchestra.
A force from the street department
is at work repairing the pavement on
Eighth avenue, east of Quincy street,
where it has bumped" on account of
defective work in laying the brick on
a thin bed of sand.
Political note from Secretary A. B.
Poole, of the Commercial club: Nov
that the election is over, and the con-
servative party has won, 1 think that
this city may look for many new fac
tories and wholesale concerns to locate
here" 49,
J. E. Glendenning. an old soldier
living at 445 Green street in the Sec
ond ward, is planning to be candi-
date for marshal of the city court next
spring. He has lived in Topeka 20
years, and formerly worked at the
Santa Fe shops.
Hine Bredel, who is said to have run
down Roy Sutton, a Postal Telegraph
messenger boy election night with an
automobile, was arrested Thursday and
will have a hearing before Judge Urmy
of the police court on a charge OF ex-
ceeding the speed limit.
The weather man has promised a
good brand of weather for the football
game tomorrow. and the indications
point to a large crowd from Topeka
who will witness the battle for the
state championship on McCook field al
Lawrence tomorrow afternoon.
B. F. Pankey, who has been on his
ranch in New Mexico for severa
months returned to his home in To
peka for the purpose of voting only
| to find that he had moved from onF
| ward to another and neglected to reg
| lister and was not entitled to a pal
The pension department officials in
the federal building are busy this
| week sending out the quarterly pay
ments to the old soldiers: About
| loo. 600 letters will be mailed by the
local department this week. These
| letters are sealed by machine at the
rate Of 10000 per day.
| The announcement that the strong
/ right arm of Carrie Nation is no Longer
able to WELD the destructive hatchet
| is not heralded with as much reJolclns
among the local booze fraternity, as
| similar announcement would haV'
| caused eight years ago. There Is M
| longer a "booZe fraternity.
The Independent Telephone compan
has published another directory whic
| is being distributed about the city a
| this time, and is said to be the larg
| est directory ever published in Tope
| ka. 1t contains information concern
| ing 5000 Independent telephones whic
are located in Shawnee county
So little attention was paid to tn
vote on the proposed amendments tina
even the newly elected representative
and senators are unable to even max
1 a guess as to whether they were los
or carried and that in the face of tn
fact that one of them increased tn
nav of members of the legislature
$500 for the session
John Rodgers, city engineer, ha
gone to Chicago to inspect a ne'
style of material for city paving.
is something on the order of macadar
asphaltam. In the case where a cit
turns exclusively to brick paving
considering no other kind. the brio
men of the state show a tendency t
get together and hoist the price c
| brick a few notches.