The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-13
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Dancing tonight at vinewood.

The establishment of a Topeka
Cash" store on East Sixth avenue is
| a reminder of o. F. Sawyer who first
made this name famous in Topeka.
The work of grading on the site of
| the new Catholic hospital on Sixth and
Garfield streets was begun yesterday.
Engineer Parkhurst is in charge of the
| lob.
Peaches Of the homegrown variety
are plentiful on the Topeka market at
| a dollar bushel. which indicates that
the late killing frost was wrongly
| named.
| w. c. Ralston. assistant city attor-
ney. will be a candidate for city at
torney next spring. Mr.. Ralston has
been assistant city attorney for the
| last seven years.
The annual conference Of the coun-
| ty superintendents of the state will
be held in Topeka, Tuesday and
Wednesday at the office of E. T. Fair
child. state superintendent
| vaudeville feature of considerable
merit is scheduled for Saturday after
| noon when an attempt will be made
| to select a chairman for the Republic
| can county central committee.
DIR. ]. l. Alkire Is in Garden City this
week where he was called by DR.. J. w.
| Stilson. Washburn college graduate.
who is a practicing physician in the
sugar beet metropolis of the state.
! inmate of the Topeka insane asylum
on two occasions. committed suicide
| Wednesday at Usage City by throwing
| herself in front of a moving Santa Fe
| train.
William Jennings Bryan, the Demo-
cratic nominee for the presidency. will
| speak in Topeka August 81, which will
| be two weeks from today. This is to
| be made big event by the local DEM
ocrats.
r. L. Bagby. who spent a week in
| Topeka last month. returned from
Warsaw, Mo-, Wednesday, where he
visited with his parents, bringing his
| family with him. They will locate in
| Topeka.
A company has been formed to build
| new six story business block at the
| southwest corner of Fifth and Kansas
avenue. Another building of large pro-
portions, it is rumored, will be built
on the southeast corner of this inter-
| section.
N H. LOOMS. general attorney for
| the Union Pacific. will return to To-
peka next week to be here the entire
| week. He is called to act on num-
| Der Of Devlin bankruptcy matters
| which will be presented to him as
| special master.
The Topeka ball team will leave Ok
| lahoma City tonight for Enid where
| the locals will open series of three
games tomorrow, concluding with the
| Sunday game. Monday will be an Off
date and the team will open a long
home series Tuesday.
The city attorney will be called to
| Salt Lake City, Utah, to take some
dispositions in connection with the
| sewer fraud cases pending against
| Hanley and Richie who were the con-
| tractors. Hanley, one of the partners,
is now living in Salt Lake.
Judge John C. Pollock will come
home from Georgian Bay. Canada,
where he is spending the summer
session of the United States courts in
| order to pass up on matters In con-
nection with the Western Life Insur-
ance company
The vacant lots at the southeast cor
ner of Sixth and Monroe streets have
| been leased by group OF santa Fe
employees, who are now fitting 1t up for
| a tennis court. This plot was leased by
| the Y. NJ. C. A. few months ago for
| the same purpose but for some reason
the plan fell through.
j. H. Maxwell who secured the con-
tract for the new Martin-Dennis
sewer has the work on the outlet
which will divert the food water
down the Shunganunga, well along
| and excavations commenced on the
lateral on Western avenue. Work Will
also be started soon on the part OF
the sewer across the fair grounds.
The man in charge of the job Of
hauling the dirt from an excavation in
the ten hundred block on Kansas ave
nue. has succeeded in Rttering this
principal thoroughfare with loose earth
from Tenth south clear to the end of
Kansas avenue. Permission to haul
dirt on Kansas avenue should be &C
companied by a bond to clean the
street afterwards.
The state board of canvassers will
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| of the recent primary election. Their
| finding will decide whether it is to be
McNeaI or Austin for state printer
and whether the Democratic nominee
for governor is Botkin or Ryan:
| though there is little doubt in either
| case.
The Blanchard Construction COM
| pany has commenced the construction
| of a brick and stone addition to their
planning mill on North Monroe street,
| the cost of which will be $4,000. A
permit for the remodeling of the front
| Of the building occupied by the new
department of the Felix Clothing COM
pany has been let, the amount be-
| ing $1,000.
| Because James Bear of Highland
Park preferred his hip pocket to a
bank as a safety deposit vault, he is
| trying to locate a pocketbook contain
ing $40 which he lost Saturday He
| brought a load of fruit to the city and
after making deposit IN MS pocket
| book placed 1t in his hip pocket and
| turned the combination which was
safety pin. In some mysterious way
| the money left the safety deposit
vault though the combination was
not tempered with as close examina-
| ton showed.
Chief Eaton has received a communi-
| cation from Kansas City agency that
makes a speciality of recovering and
| looking up claims in which they ask
| for information of the whereabouts Of
e. c. Cox, who formerly lived at this
| place Cox will be remembered as the
man who stole an automobile last fall
| and on account of the muddy roads had