The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-13

his home when not in Topeka.
The trailers which are used in
handling the Vinewood traffic during
the summer months have been equip
ped with waterproof curtains, so that
these cars will be as dry as the big
ones in case of sudden showers.
A number Of POUNDS ms" who failed
to leave their names contributed s130 to
the city treasury yesterday and are
perfectly willing that the matter
a house which was recently raided by
the police.
Something in the nature of hard
luck still continues to pursue the To-
peka team. After outhitting the
Webb City team yesterday by over two
to one the team could score but once
and went down to their second defeat
of the present series.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Independent Telephone
company held Tuesday. w. P. Hemp
hill, B. T. Pankey, A. A. Goddard, H.
L. Gary and Theodore Garvey were
selected to succeed themselves as di-
rectors of the company.
The Lowman Hill and West Tenth
avenue cars were run over the West
o'clock and o'clock while the tracks
on West Tenth were being moved into
position for the double track system
which is about complete.
The fact that Ezra Meeker bought
pair of shoes for one of his oxen
from Quincy street blacksmith yes
terday is an item Of some worth, in
asmuch as it is the first pair of shoes
of this kind that the smithy has sold
in the past quarter Of a century.
There must be at least twelve
million frogs in the ponds along the
said one conductor last night, ''for
the croaking is almost deafening just
after the moon comes up, and the
noise lasts until after the last car
| makes its return trip
The following nurses will graduate
| from Christ hospital May 25: Misses
Norma McEachron, Anna Henry, Zaida
Freese, Irene Henry, Laura Dahlman,
Myra Myers. Graduating exercises
will be held that night at Grace ca
thedral. The young women have
served three years course in the hos
pital training school for nurses.
The practice Of distributing free
packages of patent medicines on door
steps over the city is dangerous. Some
East side children found some of these
and opened them. They found some
cathartic tablets inside that looked like
candy and were eating them when dis
covered by their fond but anxious par
ents.
| Arthur A. Burnett, who was arrested
| in Topeka last night on charge of be-
| ing drunk, objected to such treatment
| On the grounds that he was a printer,
| a knight of Pythias and lastly and
| most important of all, because he was
| from Hutchinson. These weighty rea-
sons were not sufficient, however, to
/ impress the police department very
| much.
| A. p Tone Wilson, jr., who will be
| remembered in Topeka as the man who
had SO much trouble with the federal
authorities on account of his question
| able raj estate and collection office
methods, is now in trouble with the
| authorities in Kansas City. He aban-
doned law practice after moving to
Kansas City and opened a saloon and
| he is under arrest charged with violat-
ing the ordinance prohibiting keeping
| open after 1 o'clock.
| One man who has a fertile fmagina-
| ton thought the colors that are being
! displayed on Kansas avenue were for
the dentists who are meeting here
from all over the state. This is the
way he thought the colors which are
displayed for the Eastern Star in ses-
! sion here were fixed up-the red fol
| the blood that you spill when you
lose tooth, the white for the way you
look, the yellow for the new gold
tooth, the blue for the way you fee
and the green for the monev that you
pay to the dentist.