The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-01
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'When business man misses the
waste basket now, he suspects the
stenographer OF collecting the frame
work of new spring hat.
one of the signs of spring may be
seen hanging to the coat tail of the un-
is Kick Me-
Belated slogan suggestion: "AIl Peo-
PIC RIVAL In Love For Our Own LOCAL.
~. This sentence is foolish, so are
the words formed of the first letters.
The new fire escapes which have been
demonstrated, are guaranteed to carry
q heaVy load. This Will make it handy
Tor stranded theatrical troupes to make
a getaway without leaving their bag
gage.
An effort was made bv certain fac
lions at Washburn to do away with col
lege baseball this season. The tactics
employed seem to have produced good
results.
The new insurance ordinance has
been killed outright. This puts a rock
on the report which slated Chief Will
marth as a head of the fire department
ana another man is fire chief.
The Knights of King Arthur is the
name Of baseball team in Topeka.
The way they are playing the game
would make the old POSTMASTER of the
formidable sit up in his mythical
grave.
The management of the Washburn
Dramatic club is in a frenzy. The cos
tunes ordered from a Kansas City
firm failed to arrive and nothing can
be done without them. But they are
expected on the plug
The total amount of fines collected
In police court for the month of March
was $2,473.90 The salary roll was ST.
1O7.50. The police department seems to
be able to declare pretty good divi-
dends for one month.
he To- MI at
st. Marys tomorrow. Heretofore the
locals have played their first game
against the Catholics and have general
ly lost the contest. This season it won't
be the first game and the Catholics are
doomed to defeat.
Washburn lost their third game with
the Kansas wesleyan at Salina thu
score being 3 to 2. The score has grad
ually dwindled down to an even break
and it is expected that the local col
lege will win at Lindsborg today or
some other day.
A post card from Oakland, Cali
fornia, from Chief Eaton, who went
out with a navy deSerter for the train
ing ship Pensacola March %, expecting
to have a neat little vacation, states
that he only reached Oakland Monday
afternoon on account of some break in
his transportation.
The brick masons. stone masons and
mortar mixers are on general strike
today. Several little jobs and two big
ones are discontinued. The maSonS
claim they cannot live on what they
are getting. If a brick mason cannot
live on So a day it looks as though
there were going to be number or
deaths in Topeka among men in other
classes of work.
The Topeka team returns from Kan
sas City tonight. Even If his team
didn't win both games, Mr.. Cooley will
have some satisfaction from the know
ledge that he put the ball over the right
field fence, and thereby convinced the
Kansas City sport writer's that he Is
still a pretty good hitter.
The Washburn faculty is opposing the
performance of the Washburn Dramatic
club at the Grand tonight. The dra-
matte club employed outside talent for
the coaching, hence the opposition OF
the faculty. This should afford all the
students an opportunity of showing
their great love for the faculty by buy
ing tickets for the show.
The acme of fire escape devices
seems to have been reached in that
demonstrated at the National hotel
yesterday. 1t is the Davy Automatic
and all that is necessary for victim
to do is to get into the body loop and
jump out of the window and ride grad
ually to the street without the least
exertion or presence of mind needed.
Anyone missing the Washburn play
tonight will make the mistake of the
present dramatic season-not so much
because of the talent but because the
play itself is such a success in New
York that they can't stop 1t and it
may never get to Topeka at all-still
one must not mention the real name
for fear of the big stick.
A foreigner, presumably an Italian,
was arrested last night by Detective
Hopkins while attempting to stuff an
old overcoat through the iron grating in
front of the State Savings bank. When
the bundle was examined, it was found
to contain four sticks of dynamite, with
a short fuse attached. The foreigner,
who gives his name as Loot Lirpa of
Paterson, N. J., seems to be laboring
under the insane delusion that he was
commissioned by Governor Stubs to
wreck all the banks in the state. A
clue to the mans identity may be Sc
cured by spelling his name backward.
The luckiest man is the one who has
a stock neck cover in his collection
of glad rags when he has boil on his
neck,