The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-18
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There wasn't much rain Monday but
the Topeka lawns are showing signs of
life as a result
Dr.. w W. Yates is mourning the loss
OF ms automobile-it was destroyed by
fire Saturday evening.
The first balloon league in the coun-
try has been organized-St. Louis, To-
peka and Kansas City.
William A Dickinson, travelling store
| keeper or the Santa Fe. has gone 10
| California on company business.
One of the baby deer at Gage park
not healthy. o. W. Bronson is tanning
its skin.
Chief Justice Johnston is still I'M
/ decided about his vacation-he hasn't
had the returns from his Ottawa coun-
! ty wheat crop.
Now that it has really started to rain
the ola weather prophet will tell you
that it is a safe bet that it will con-
| tinue until the people will cry enough
! Two-thirds of the people met on the
streets refer to the Stubs Dawson con-
| troversy and every one of them ex-
I claims, Cant you do something TO
stop it?"
When you awoke this morning did
you see your breath? This is nearly
the first time in July that Topeka eeo-
pie have been able to witness sight
of this kind.
JdChs clarence scout famous AuOh-
key, is dead. He was beaten to death
by an unknown person after he had es-
capped from his cage. The monkey had
more intellect than some men.
]. viii Kelley, president of the Com
mercial club, is an expert pinockle
player. Kelley is of Irish descent and
it is supposed that no one but a Ger
man can become an adept at pinoc-
kle.
J. w. MCGUIRE, son of Policeman Nc
CURE, was arrested in Topeka the other
day by the sheriff from st. Johns
county. Mcguire was wanted by the
officers of that county on charge OF
forgery.
George Ffndlay was one of the early
supporters of Webb Wilder who died
this week at Hiawatha. 1t was MI
Findlay who handled Mr.. Wilder's cam
paign which got for him the nomination
of state auditor.
The balloon Topeka H. is equipped
with new rope ladder and rope go
ing around the gas bag. In case the
gas valve is clogged the pilot or aide
may climb up around the top Of the
balloon and repair it.
If the smallpox scare on the East
side is as bad as the citizens over there
insist and if the city officials are as
negligent as they charge, the matter
should be investigated by citizens from
other parts of the city.
Capt. H E. Honey, we'll known ST.
Louis balloon man. who was IN To-
peka last evening, says that there IS
no doubt about st. Louis entering a
balloon in the proposed Kansas City
St Louis-Topeka race to start mere
about August 1.
The Rock Island has oeen I.oiihed
that the debris under the new extern
sion to their bridge over the kaw
must be removed at once. Who tod
the drainage board that the river was
going t. laise? Who said we were So
ing % have foods?
There are so many Italians and Rus
slams that come to Kansas every year
that DR.. Crumbine. secretary of the
state board of health. is making spec
| ial pains to keep. out cholera. Ihe
cholera scare in New York has arous-
ed the board of health.
l. l.. Dyche, state fish warden, has
lust completed his second bulletin on
fish. In it he answers the thousand or
more questions which have been asked
him. There is one, however. which he
has not solved to his own satisfaction
WHY is it called "cat" fish? ANY
one who can tell "why is a cat fish,?
please tell Mr.. Dyche-
The new meter ordinance just passed
by the city commissioners requiring all
water users to be on the meter rates
Commissioner Miller says will do away
with the shameless waste of water OF
this summer. He asserts that while
other people in the city were praying
for water. fiat rate users were allow
ing their hydrants to run wide open,
but even If they did this in an effort
to save their lawns it was no more
than they paid for.