The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-25

has had a number of notices displayed
at various points about the Auditorium
apprizing Midwinter visitors that they
may register at this time If they choose.
Whenever there is one fire there
will be two Others is the saying in
| the country towns. In Topeka when
there is one big fire there is bound to
| be two others. It's now time for one
more.
Mayor Green has received word that
Albert James Boyd, a Topeka boy who
enlisted in the navy some time ago
has left his station without leave and
is looked upon by the government as
a deserter.
Wash, Saturday, where he will become
superintendent of the wholesale estab-
lishment of B. F. Reed & Co., one of
the largest institutions of its kind in
the Northwest
Col. James Chappelle was in Topeka
Sunday and inspected the Copeland
ruins. He tried In vain to recover his
automatic shotgun and the rest of his
arsenal which was in the private office
or the hotel during the fire.
W. T. Vernon, registrar of the United
States treasury, will deliver an address
at the Lincoln Day celebration to be
held in Topeka next month in comment
Grafton of the one hundredth anniver-
sary of the birth of President Lincoln.
The management of the Oakland band
complains about the lack of hberality
on the part of residents of that section
of the city and threatens to go hence
and perhaps become allied with an in
surance order which offers inducements.
The vesper services at washburn
college Sunday afternoon were well
attended and the college chapel was
crowded. Dean Frank T. Lee of the
biblical department of the college was
the main speaker at the services Sun
day.
The Spanish war veterans will give
a big supper and a program at their
quarters, 119 West Sixth Tuesday |
evening. There are a number of vet
Grams in the senate and the house of
representatives and they will be the
guests of the local organization
The Topeka bodies of the Scottish
Rite will give degrees from the ninth
to the thirteenth at the Masonic tenn
pie this evening, commencing at 7
O'Clock. Tomorrow night the four
teenth degree will be given completing
the special session of the bodies.
Governor Walter Roscoe Stuo os
will travel over the hot sands of the
burning deserts and become a Shrin-
er of the Abdallah Temple Wednes-
day night, January 81. He will be ac-
companied by about so other novices
who will go through the same hard
ships.
w. R. Stubs has experienced many
griefs since his brief sojourn in Topeka
but those in position to know say that
those of the past are nothing when COM
pared with those of Wednesday even
ing when he is to become a Shriner
under the directions of the mobiles of
Abdallah temple.
a $12 O00,0 600 item was filed with Reg
lister of Deeds Hodgins, Saturday being
mortgage given by Kansas City &
Kansas Southern Railway company to
the Carnegie Trust company. The pro-
posed railroad is electric line which
will connect the Kaw valley towns as
far west as Topeka with Kansas City
The police have received a descrip-
ton of Governor W. J. Bai1ey's watch
which was stolen from his home in
Atchison Friday night and for the re-
covery of which a reward Of $50 is Of
fered. The timepiece was given to him
by his military staff and is highly
priced by the ex-governor for that rea-
son.
Frederick, the year old son of Mr..
and Mrs. F. J. MacKie of 14O6 Har-
rison street, was severely injured Sun
day while returning from Sunday
school With some playmates he was
walking on the retaining wa1l on Har-
rison, between Eleventh and Twelfth
streets, when he fell cutting a cash