The Topeka state journal., 1908-01-16
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will give concert at the college chap
el tomorrow evening.
This section of Kansas is enjoying it's
first real touch of winter weather today
though the mercury is a number of de-
grees removed from the zero point.
The extra session which convened
today furnishes a harvest for the rest
aurants and hotels of the season and
that In the middle of an off season.
One of the questions of paramount
importance to the assembled represen-
tatives which has not been investigated
is the condition of the Cy Leland cold
storage apple crop.
ers such as en1iven the scene on Wall
street in New York but they have the
curb stone politicians which serve the
same sort OF purpose
The extra session Of the legislature
which convened today will permit a
number Of political lights who were
supposed to be in total eclipse, to shine
for a few brief days.
Il wonder" remarked a politician,
as he watched the milling Of the crowd
of his fellows in the Copeland lobby,
''if any such a thing as wireless poll
tics will ever be invented
The Washburn college basketball
team and the team from Nebraska
university meet tonight at the New
Music hall. Those who attend the
game can skate afterwards.
The regular meeting of Sloan lodge
No. 22o A. f. & A. M. will be held at
the Masonic temple on Jackson street
tonight, when the first degree will be
conferred upon several candidates.
Topeka is filled with politicians of all
stripes and kinds today on account of
the opening of the special session Of the
legislature and the meeting of the
Democratic state central committee. \
in
with it, to the small boy at any rate
a suggestion of river skating, but all
the visions were dispelled this morning
by rise in temperature and the warm
sunlight.
One Topeka man who was shivering
with the cold moves to amend to re-
name the town of Medicine Hat where
Topeka's cold waves all hail from "Bad
Medicine Hat" All in favor say aye.
1t is carried.
Attorney r. w Hoskinson is in To-
peka today attending a meeting of the
Democratic state central committee
| and denying rumors of his approaching
| marriage which have been freely cir
| culated of late.
The new theological school at
Washburn college will open January
| %. DR.. F. T. Lee the new dean is in
| Topeka now acquainting himself with
his new surroundings before the
school is esta blished.
| W. T. H1ndman, VINO owns one of the
| finest specimens of a King Charles
| spaniel in the west, has offered two sill
yer cups to be given to the owners of
dogs of this breed at the meeting of
the Topeka Kennel club.
| There is one thing that can be said
| in favor of the special session of the
! legislature if the statements of the
members prove to be true" said an
| anti-special session advocate. They
claim that it will be short
| The special session of the legisla-
ture commences this afternoon at 4
| o'clock. All the representatives, how
| ever, will not be here until tomorrow
and there will be several who in all
| probability will not be there.
| The fact that a S. bounty was paid
| for the scalp of grey wolf killed in
| Shawnee county few days ago, will
| probably call for an expert in the office
of county clerk whose duty it will be
| to distinguish between coyote and wolf
| scalps.
A Topeka man is advertising for the
| front wheel which he lost from baby
| carriage and the curious are wonder
the baby was injured and why the
propeller of the carriage did not pick
| up the wheel when 1T came off.
| One of the best bills Of the season
in Topeka is the one at the Novelty
| this week. Everything a this new and
popular playhouse is strictly up-to-
| date and no one can go there with
| out feeling that everything possible
has been done to add to his comfort.
| The steamship lines are threatening
| to make a rate of $40 to Europe from
| New York city on account of a rate
| war in which they are now engaged,
| but with the antipass law in effect
this announcement is not calculated to
be of a great deal of interest to citi-
Zens Of this state.
Hha onL II CT 1oS
| night as per previous announcement
| but it was not as bad as it was ex-
pected to be. The wind went down
and today although the thermometer
| is lowering closer to the zero mark
than any previous time this season the
| cold is not very noticeable.
L. G.. Treleaven, manager of the
| local gas company says there will be
no trouble with the gas during the
| present cold weather. The pumps at
| stalled are running and will do much
| to alleviate the shortcomings in the
supply on previous occasions.
J. r. Skidmore. a Santa F'e conduc-
| tor at Ration, n. NJ, is in Topeka at
| tending the meeting of the grievance
committee of the Order of Railway
Conductors. Mr.. Skidmore was left
tackle on the old Lindsborg team in
1902, the year the Terrible Swedes''
trimmed Washburn by score of
| IL to O..
The boys who got skates for Christ
| man have had no chance to use them
| this winter. In the first place there
| has not been cold enough weather to
| furnish good ice and then top of it
| large number of the ponds have dried
UP and no rain or snow has come to
| furnish moisture to fill them up with
| the necessary wetnesS.
| S. s. Graybill and C. w. Oswold of
| Hutchinson are in the city at the head
| of a bunch of boosters who want the
! state Democratic convention to go to
| Hutchinson this year Topeka and
| Wichita also have delegations which
| will present the claims of their respec-
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