The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-15
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West Sixth avenue road from Wards
creek.
Queen Esther will be given at the
AUDITORIUM tomorrow night according
| to schedule.
Wheat in Shawnee county is ready to
harvest. All the farmers REQUIRE now
| is fair weather.
Manager e. B. Kellam Of the Bell
Telephone company inspected the North
Topeka lines in a motor boat Sunday.
The new National roof garden was
officially opened by the United Com
mercial Travellers Saturday night
A great many big carp are being
are caught with pitchforks when the
waters recede.
| Prof Dan Shaw a pool expect from
Brooklyn, N. Y, is in Topeka and
VIII give an exhibition in Topeka
pool hall tonight.
| i. c.. Lawson of the Industrial
Evangelical MISSION at Philibit. India.
Is In Topeka. He is the guest OF
George Hamaker In North Topeka.
A crowd Of the curious visited North
| Topeka all day Sunday. walking all
over the town and out on the railroad
tracks which had been washed out.
A State Journal reporter. while
chasing after flood news In North To-
peka Saturday rode on street car
a transfer wagon, boat, automobile
and hand car.
C. E. Denton. secretary of state, is
trying to screw his courage up to the
point where he will undertake a trip
from Topeka to Wichita and return in
his automobile.
The furniture and the other fur
nishings of the new National hotel
were installed by the Crosby Brothers
company. The order was one of the
largest to be filled in the state.
The boats which were loaned by the
management of Vinewood park to
rescuers during the flood stages in
North and South Topeka were re-
turned to the park this morning.
Business is extraordinarily dull in
this Office said Frank Flennikin,.
chief office deputy of the United States
marshaPs office. 1--WE haven't had a
writ of any kind for over . week.
Miss Fife Graham of the Topeka
high school will deliver an illustrated
high school auditorium Wednesday at
10 a. m. for the county teachers insti
| tute. No admission is charged.
Dog Catcher Core is devoting his
| spare moments to the execution of
| worthless CANNES where their own
ers have not paid taxes on them,
| though so far no protest has been
made by the Humane society.
| Redmondville, the negro suburb
west of North Topeka, though half
| buried in sand brought in by the cross
| currents from the river, and with
pools of water standing all about is
| still tenanted, very few of the families
| agreeing to move out.
| The city council will meet Wednes-
| day evening Of this week in an adj
| journed session to open bids for the
| construction Of the new Martln-Dennis
| sewer, the bids for which will have to
be filed with the city clerk not later
| than 5 o'clock of the same day.
One of the unusual flood sights each
evening for the past week has been
/ the Rock Island semaphore located at
i the wye just north of Potwin. The
l at this point but the red lights on top
| Of the semaphore which was sur
| rounded by raging current burned
as brightly as though located on dry
land.
i The residents Of the flooded district
lawns are being ruined by sight-seers
who insist on running over them
These people use the sidewalks I'M
til they come to low place where
Il the water or mud has settled and then
use the lawns and in the condition OF
the lawns and parkings at this time
such travel will destroy what is left OF
them.
Bert Green states that a man called
/ up his father, the mayor, at O'Clock
last Saturday morning over the tele-
| phone and declared that the flood
was running into the Union Pacific
| depot and that hundreds of people
were in danger of drowning. Bert
| called police station No. 2 and was
| told by the man on duty that the
water was running over Crane street
These are mild samples of the
exaggerations of the flood.
Santa Fe shopmen who have the
| time now on their hands when they
are only working half of the time and
others, too, should register if they
want to vote at the primary on August
4th," said c. H. Titus, commissioner OF
elections. "Over one-half Of the men
eligible to vote in Topeka are unregis-
tered and this is a presidential election
year at that. The registration books
will close for the primary ten days
previous to August 4th, which is some
time during the latter part of July.