The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-20

bers of the present legislature and
meeting for this purpose was held in
the capitol building this morning.
The electrical lighting effect to be
employed at the auditorium during
the Midwinter exposition was tested
last night and strangers who witness
ed the display received the impression
that the big show was opening a day
early.
John NJ. Wright, deputy county
treasurer, who has been seriously i'll
at his home on Western avenue for
several weeks. is able 70 be about
though he will not attempt to resume
his duties at the court house for
week or SO.
The special car belonging to the FL
deity Immigration company OF Kansas
City, Mo, which was set out in the
Santa FEE yards several days ago on ac-
count of an attachment, was released
Saturday night and was taken east
| ward.
The changes made by the new Santa
Fe time card took effect at midnight
last night but inasm0cn as the time
of the arrival and departure of To-
| peka trains was not disturbed, the
| item is of little interest to residents
! Of this city.
With three vaudeville shows on East
| Eighth avenue and the Midwinter just
around the corner there certainly should
be plenty of amusement in that locality
| during the coming two weeks Four
| vaudeville shows within a circumfeT-
| ence of one block.
| Brotherhood of Nome. Alaska. was in
| Topeka Saturday afternoon on their
way to GlaScO, Kan, where they
played last night. They claim to have
a good team and have a good record
to back up their claims.
passed the three score and ten mark,
was operated on Saturday at Christ
| hospital for hernia and though the
operation was a severe one, he rallied
rapidly and the indications are that
his recovery will be rapid.
| Some of these candidates for office
| who have already spent money on their
| campaigns rather wish now that they
| hadn't because the party primaries are
| apt to be delayed several months and
| the campaign work will have to be
done all over again at that time.
A meeting of the Capital City
Democratic club will be held at the
| avenue this evening to which the
Democratic members of the Legislature
| have been invited as we'll as all others
interested in the Bryan for presi-
| dent" movement.
| In all the seven years of the Midwin-
| Ter exposition, IIllS Is TIE llISl ycdI III
which the opening day was really d
| pleasant one. The Midw1nter has al
ways heretofore been synonymous with
cold wave. There seems to be a
| chance however that it will prove an
| exception this year.
| The seventh annual Midwinter ex-
position opened up in the Auditorium
| this afternoon at 1:30. Mr.. Brigham,
| the manager, says that the exposition
| this winter will be better than ever
| and all that is needed to confirm his
statement is a casual look into the par
quet of the auditorium.
! 1t may or may not have been on
| account of the antipass law which
| is now in effect, but 1t was a notice
able fact that number of politicians
who returned to their homes Satur-
day evening during last winters ses-
sion and returned the following Mon
day spent yesterday in Topeka.
| The big elevator in the Santa Fe
office building dropped several feet
during the noon hour Saturday. Moth
ing serious however happened as the
elevator was stopped by the safety
| brakes AS it was it took thirty min
utes for the twelve inmates to be re-
leased from the position in which they
were caught between the first and sec
ond floors.