The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-27

much colder and the threatening
| weather may interfere.
| The fact that a coal famine exists in
Topeka is not causing half the excite
| ment that the gas failure did last WIN
| ter, for heat is about the last thing
| that the average family is short on at
| the present time.
] Ralph H Faxon, who recently pur-
chased the Garden City Telegram, ar
| rived in Topeka yesterday for the pur-
| pose of meeting Mrs. Faxon who is on
her way from Washington, D. c., to
Hutchinson, the home of her parents.
| Rev. Otis G. Dale, of Minneapolis,
Mimi, who is attending the general as
| sernbly of the Presbyterian church in
| Kansas City, will arrive in Topeka Sat
| urday for two weeks visit with his
| parents who reside at 1880 Buchanan
| street.
| The commencement exercises of
| Washburn college will commence with
the recital at the chapel and the
| banquet of the law school which will
| be given in the rooms of the law
school, both events taking place Fri
| day night.
DR.. Jimmie Stewart who has been
in the shadows when not in the direct
rays of the Topeka spot light for a
/ long time, announces that he has pur-
chased $500 English bulldog: the fin
est bit of flesh ever seen in Topeka in
a dog skin.
John Kennedy, the coIored boy who
was beaten up in the race riot Monday
night is suffering with a fractured
skull. The county attorney has issued
| warrants for John Givens and Henry
and John Myers, who are alleged to
| be Kennedy's assailants.
| II don't see where the assessors
| found the property which they have
placed on the tax rolls of Shawnee
county at $7O,00O.O0O valuation" COM
planned a ne'er-do-weI. this morning,
Il haven't any of it and I am includi
ed in the list of taxpayers"
| Eight families. consisting of thirty
| five people, left the Russian settlement
in North Topeka this morning for the
sugar beet fields at Garden City where
| they will remain during the beet season
which closes the latter part of Septem-
| Der.
The Knsas University ball team
claims the Missouri valley champion
| ship which might be granted did not
| the memory of the recent fourteen in
| ming game between Washburn and the
University, which resulted in defeat for
| the K. U. team, vet linger in the minds
| of Topekans.
Firman Carswell, son of w. C. Cars
well, manager of the Western Union
telegraph office in Topeka has been ap-
| pointed night editor of the Associated
Press office in ST. Louis, a merited
recognition of the worth of the young
man who is not yet % years of age.
| DR.. ]. c. McClintock, owner of the
| building at $50 Kansas avenue, has
| made arrangements to eXpend about
$500 for new and modern front for the
property which is now occupied by G.
M. Knowlton as a drug store. The pro-
perty was for years occupied by THE
only Lee Jones'
After the conclusion of the present
| series of games with Hutchinson, the
| Topeka team will go to Enid to play
Decoration day. Professional games
| are not allowed in Kansas on this
holiday and the Kansas teams of the
| Western association always play out
| side of the state.
| The specifications for the new Mar
| tin-Dennis sewer are being drawn up
| by the city engineer. The only differ
ence over previous specifications is that
the sewer will be concrete and the bids
| will be let on the construction Of the
manholes at so much per foot instead
of each individual manhole.
The latest bit of scandal duplicates
business man who is also an active
church man and a west side woman;
the affair has already reached such a
magnitude that the offending church
man has been obliged to withdraw
from the firm of which he was a mem
Der and the neighborhood is wonder
ing what the next move will be.
The property owners at the intersec-
ton of Norris and Monroe streets in
North Topeka are up in arms because
the Union Pacific is occupying the
streets there without having any fran
chise; the switch that has been built,
it is said. has damaged the property
to a material extent. The judiciary
committee will take up the matter at a
meeting to be held the latter part of
the week.
A Douglass merchant who came to
Topeka on business Monday got pretty
drunk and was arrested by the police
and later fined in police court. When
ne paid his fine he remarked to the
chief Of police: you folks are too
strict here. A man can't come to town
from the country and play the part OF
a cigar store Indian. I am not a
wooden man, Iwant to have a little fun
when come to Topeka. You fellows
ought to get into the foreign mission
field. I'm not grouchy about this, but
think I ought to have been let alone
until I let off the surplus s.eam in my
boilers"