The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-25
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of his grandfather, Colonel A. H. Piety.
E. A. Fredenhagen, secretary of the
Kansas Society for the F'riendless, has
just returned from a six weeks vaca-
ton spent in the northwest.
The first football game of the season
will be played between the Washburn
and high school teams at Washburn
park next Saturday afternoon.
Leon wey. % years of age. resident
of Lawrence, and May Suplee, To-
peka resident, % years OF age, secured
a marriage license in Kansas City
Thursday.
The dairymen Of Shawnee county will
hold a meeting at the Commercial club
rooms Saturday afternoon when an at
tempt will be made to complete coun-
ty organization.
Sidney A. Foster, secretary of the
Royal Mutual Union Life Insurance
company of Des Moines, Iowa, is in
Topeka. for the purpose of opening
state headquarters.
Sheriff John Wilkerson is in posses
sion of $50 subpoenas which are to be
served on witnesses who are to testlfy
during the trial of the state cases in
the district court this week and next
Twenty-six thousand Autographs of
William Jennings Bryan have been dis
tributed in Kansas during the past
week by the state Democratic commit
tee from headquarters in the Mulvane
building.
The speaking date of General ]. B.
Weaver. of Iowa, who was to have spo-
ken in Topeka, has been changed TO
EmpOria on account OF train eonnec-
ton and he will speak in that city this
evening instead of in Topeka as or
iginally planned. ..s st
Another officer has left the Topeka
police force though no charges nave
| been preferred against him. Charles
Carson who has been a member OF the
| force most of the time since the PARK
er administration, surrendered his star
yesterday to Mayor Green.
Fred Perkins, an orphan from Kan
sas, who has had rapid career OF
petty crime for a youngster, was
| brought to the state reform school
| by Van B. Prather, judge of the 1uV-
emile court in Kansas City, Kan.
A Bryan club was organized in Oak
| land last night with a membership OF
| 81, the third organization or Its klno
in Topeka. DR., W. I. Taylor was eject
ed president and Joseph Bailey secre-
tary. Preceding the meeting loren
light parade was held, headed by the
Oakland band.
Clifford Covell and Roy Kelley of
Muscatine, Iowa, were the guests
Thursday and Friday of Herbert j.
Covell, 513 West Tenth street. This is
their first trip to Kansas and today
they saw their first alfalfa. They are
enroute to Marion county with view
to purchasing farms.
One of the finest home grown melons
| that has found its way to the Topeka
market this summer was sold to a To-
peka merchant Thursday by David
| Neiswerder. a farmer living near Sill
yer Lake. Mr.. NeiSwender is past
master in the art of melon production
He never fails to bring the finest OF
the season tosTopeka.
| ST am a stenographer at Democratic
| state headquarters - said an applicant
to a Topeka boarding house keeper,
| when applying for room Il Will in
| vestigate that" said the proprietor,
''and If what you tell me is true you
| shall have the room for week free OF
| charge The stenographer has chang
| ed his boarding place and has a re-
ceipt for the first weeks rent which
| was presented to him free of charge.
He thinks there is some honor in being
a Democrat.
| One place in Topeka which should be
| a veritable hivef of industry judging
! from the different kinds of business
which are carried on within. is sma ala
building on East Fifth street near the
Santa Fe depot, which is only about
| twenty feet square. But in this little
building the proprietor conducts no.
| tel, short order lunch counter, sells real
| estate and cigars, write insurance, both
runs an employment agency. Beat this
| if you can.
Randolph Boyd of the Mexican res
| taurant on East Sixth avenue, retains
an interesting souvenir of the Santa
Fe 1t is a Santa Fe check made pay
able to him which was issued by the
receivers of the road in 1894, signed by
]. NJ. Moore, paymaster. for Is cents for
| one hours labor in July, 1894 with
hospital fees of 25 cents to be deduct
ed Mr.. Boyd retains this ancient
check and frequently spends nights
figuring what he owes the Santa Fe
with interest added.
Mayor Green has received commupi-
cation this morning, this one from the
city of Philadelphia in the form of
handsomely engraved invitation to at
tend the 225th anniversary of the
founding of the government of Phila-
delphia, the celebration to take place
Oct 4-1O. As his honor only recently
returned from Pennsylvania, where he
spent his vacation, he Will be unable
to attend, but he is looking for some
one to represent the city on the oc-
casion of this celebration of the birth
the Quaker city by the descendants of
William Penn, ct al.
Mayor Green received a letter today
from Lieut.. Brown of Battery A. Sixth
artillery, recently stationed at the fair
grounds in this city over Sunday, in
which the officer states that horse
| from the battery is still missing. This
horse wandered away while the bait
tery was at the fairgrounds and the.
notice were notified at the time of its
disappearance, but have been unable
to locate the animal. The lieutenant
sent the following description of the
horse: Fifteen years old, weight 1850
pounds, bay color. Is hands high.
small scar on forehead, brand HET
on left hip white stocking on left
hind leg, right ear broken. Some one
| evidently has this horse that strayed
away from camp here two weeks ago
and they had better report at once to
the police.