The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-05
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60 C sssassS s .l no. I

~-OA@' AZ - AlOW III his oOTu year.
LADIES English welt black kid shoes
Ior "; boys heavy box calf shoes for
Sl5O; girls winter kid shoes for $1.50,
Friday, at The Palace.
Sloan lodge, A. F. & A. NJ. will con-
TOT the second degree upon a number of
candidates at the Masonic temple on
jackson street this evening.
The socialists of Topeka are exercis-
ca over the fact that no reports of the
party vote cast in this city are avail
able, at least not at the present time.
Prison labor is being employed at the
auditorium under the direction of jan
ltor J. r. Weir, the trio are at pres
ent employed in repainting the stairs.
special train will leave Topeka for
Lawrence Saturday at LAS over the
santa Fe and will return after the
Washburn-Kansas university football
game.
The electric signs which have told
OF the merits of the various candidates
nave oeen taken down from their places
across Kansas avenue and Eighth
street.
The returns from the state are not all
IN yet but that has not deferred three
Shawnee county men from announcing
their candidacy for sheriff in two years
from now.
State Democratic headquarters which
has been maintained on the fourth floor
OF the Mulvane building for the past
three months was officially closed this
afternoon
The records of the city board of
health indicate that 81 deaths occurred
In Topeka during the month of Octo-
Der, the white plague" claiming one
NTH or the entire death list.
Bets of two to one that Kansas uni
verslty football team will win from
Washburn Saturday are being made in
this city, plenty of Washburn money
being in evidence at these odds.
There will not be a bank in the
United States open, four months from
| the day Judge Taft is inaugurated
president" is the latest joker's delight.
A new mode of locating the Fourth of
July.
As an argument favoring the change
| of the names of certain streets in To-
peka, the fremen claim that the sim
! ilarity of names causes delays in re-
| spending to alarms received by tele-
phone.
Frank Snyder, who has been the
| political prophet of the city hall for the
] past month, has now ceased to argue
| and draw up forecasts and combina-
| tions of figures. He is setting a side
walk grade for Councilman Jordan on
the North side.
! w. H. L. Pepperell, who has been
! secretary of the state Democratic COM
mittee for the past % years, announces
| anarchist. But he won't do it for he
/ has been on the losing side so long that
it no longer affects him.
Some wag got hold of a big canvas
screen and pasted a half dozen litho-
graph pictures of Taft over it and set
the sign in front of the city hall a Ia
vaudeville theater style. He wrote at
| the bottom of the canvas: THE big
| show, continuous for four years.
Ben Johnson who ran against John
| Wilkerson for the nomination for sher-
iff. and who Loyalty supported him.
| two years, and extends a cordial invf-
| tation to prospective or ambitious can
didates to get in the race, he says 1.-The
| more the merrier."
A meeting of the stockholders of the
| Topeka Canning company was held this
| afternoon at the Commercial club rooms
| when plans were discussed for opening
| the plant early next season. The fac
| tory was not opened this fall on account
of the scarcity of canning fruit caused
| by the early spring floods and the early
frost this fall.
drainage board has decided to spend
| $50 900 this winter for protection from
floods from the Kaw and Soldier creek.
They have already lost five months OF
good weather for this improvement and
| will have to get busy pretty soon If
the spring floods.
Graduates of the Washburn law de-
| partment in at least two cases did no;
| fare we'll during the recent election
| Chauncey Brown, who was a candidate
for county attorney in Finney county
on the Democratic ticket, was defeated
| and Walter Stahl, who was a candidate
for the same Office on the Republican
ticket in Rice county was also defeat
ed.
| G. G. Burton, whose wife's name ap-
peared on the Democratic ticket fol
Superintendent of public instruction
paid an unusual bet on election this
morning when he transferred the title
of a registered Holstein COW valued al
$175 to r. K. Putnam of Oakland
Prior to the election Mr.. Burton wag-
cred the COW against IS that the entire
Republican state ticket in kansas
would not be elected. Mr.. Putnam
claimed the COW this morning and lee
her through the business district of To
peka covered with a blanket lettered
so those who gazed could know the his
tory of the transaction.
The judges and clerks in the four
precincts of the Third ward delayed the
game of getting the election returns
past all excuse or reason yesterday
The fourth precinct reported at noon
but the other three did not get through
until about 4 o'clock yesterday AFTER
noon and the fourth precinct of the
Fourth ward required about twenty
four hours to count the returns. In the
second precinct of the Fifth ward
where the heaviest vote in the city was
polled, the returns were turned over tc
the election commissioner early yester-
day morning. Topeka will have voting
machines at the next election and II
needs them.