The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-22

test of the Santa Fe fire box No use
talking. the morning paper is getting
the news
Judge Hendricks Of Dalhart. Tex,
has purchased the four lots at the
southeast corner of Tenth avenue and
Tyler street at a cost of $4,000. He
will erect either a flat or a number of
dwellings here.
No births were reported to the city
board of health today. This is the
first day in many moons that such a
the city authorities are expecting big
returns next week.
Following a boycott or the part of
the citizens of the city the price of
Kaw Valley potatoes have dropped to
a lower figure than before. The peo-
in the same manner.
Topeka gained per cent in the
bank clearings for the week which
ended today. Only about half of the
cities in the United States made a gain
of any kind in this weeks time. Bust
ness doesn't seem to improve readily.
A large number of changes among
the Washburn college instructors are
scheduled for this year. Some of the
professors are leaving the college for
larger institutions and in other cases
the college has shifted its department
heads.
A city forester wouldn't have much
new work to do this year. On account
of the dry weather the trees have
been growing very little. They are US
ing all their sap to keep alive. It has
been almost impossible to keep new
trees.
w. F. Buck, uperintendent of Mo-
tive power of the AtehIson. Topeka &
Santa Fe is in the city. superintendent
SC in onnfarnnna with local n
tive power officials on regular matters
pertaining to the management of the
Topeka shops.
The great white way contract will
be awarded by the city commissioners
the first of next week. Trouble over
the bids has delayed the matter again.
II the bids are ever let the men who
have been working for the improve
ment will give a sigh of relief.
Secretary Cook of tho state fair says
that the evening entertainments which
will be held in Topeka this fall will
be the greatest in the history OF state
fairs west of the Mississippi river. The
concerts, operas and spectacular ef-
fects promise to be magnificent
Some Of the telephone girls in To-
peka have formed a habit of telling
patron that a certain line SIS busy
when in truth this line Is out of order
or has been removed. This causes a
waste of time and censure to the
telephone companies. II is a poor
policy.
The express wagons in the city have
been working overtime today. Every
Saturday these wagons are loaded
down with the Sunday bottled liquid
Topeka households. And In other
households it brings war and disturb
ance.
E. B. stotts city commissioner,
spends most of his time in the small
pox district. Every night when he
and throws them in a large barrel to
be fumigated. Then he bathes in
chemicals. What other city official
earns his salary in this manner?
Mayor Billiard said this afternoon
that he had no direct information that
the drug stores and cigar stores in
Topeka were selling cigarettes and
cigarette papers, but he had heard re-
ports of this nature. If the mayor is
able to obtain information proving the
reports he will prosecute the offenders.
While the passengers craned their
necks and hung their heads out Of the
windows of a Washburn car the
other morning, the motorman stopped
/ his car, walked down along the side
and bending over picked up some
thing shiny from the pavement. "Oh,
rats" he said, Il thought it was a
twenty dollar gold pieCe"
Now that the cool weather has de-
serted the city the contractors who
have been making a business of build
ing sleeping porches say that orders
are coming in thick and fast again.
All of the new homes are equipped
with the outdoor sleeping porches
and many of the owners of old houses
are having an addition built on.
II a life insurance man begins to
work you into a corner and pull out
books lined with figures just ask him
what he thinks of the new catcher, or
the new fielders or the new second
basemen- Back viii go that little
lbook-and out will come the greatest
line of baseball talk you have heard
this season. Everyone forgets bust
ness when the team wins a ball game
According to J. S. BayIess, a num-
Der Of farmers living near Topeka
would like to know If the city scales
lare correct and if so whether they are
ottlclal. Bayless brought two hogs
to town Friday. He had heard rumors
OF short weight at a local packing
mouse. He weighed the hogs at the
city scales, first making certain that
the scales balanced perfectly. Then
'he sold them to Wolff Packing com