The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-12
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Emmett Rowley has disappeared.
Look in the medical college.
New registration books are being pre-
pared to be opened on Jan. l.
The Associated Charities will try to
begin work the first of the year.
There is one constable in Topeka who
has sign advertising his business.
1t would be good plan to have a gym
nasium for the use of the fremen.
Judge 5. W. Vandivert is still in town
looking alter his senatorial boom.
The state board of charities will COM
plete its work of awarding contracts to-
morrow.
Mrs. c. B. Sampson, who has been SO
riously ill for the past two weeks, is i'm
proving.
The Chicago Tribune had special cor
respondent here to attend the sale of the
Santa Fe.
If the facts about the grave robbing
can't be secured any other way, try
grand jury.
The contract for paving Eleventh
street will be let at the next meeting of
the council.
The police matron says she has more
applications for homeless children than
she can satisfy.
Charles Bigelow of the labor commits
sioner's office is the highest up II Ason in
the state house.
Sergeant Tim Donovan is one of the
dandies of tho force when it comes to
pitching horse shoes.
There are several societies in the coun-
try which help to support Topeka's poor
by their contributions.
Col VIM. Tweeddale will make the
preliminary survey for the new bridge
for the Melsn COMPANY.
Mrs. J. w. Farnsworth, whose arm was
broken, has recovered sufficiently to be
able to leave her room.
There are two factions among the To-
peka doctors, the medical college pro-
fessors and the 'antis"
Patrol Driver Bundy says his team can
outrun any fire wagon team in town.
a race might be arranged for festival
week.
County Clerk McCabe says that he
answers about twenty letters day
from people inquiring about the bridge
bonds.
City Engineer Barnes has not yet COM
menced the survey to determine how
much wire is needed for the electric light
extensions.
At meeting of the Topeka Philo-
sophical society last night J. w. Beede
read a paper on the "Sratigraphy of
Shawnee county"
Where is the man with the injunction
who will now try to head off the con
struction of the new bridge? 1t is time
for him to appear.
a Topeka doctor, whose business last
month amounted to several hundred dol
lars, collected within So of the amount
that went on his books.
The Schonfield boy, who has been in
Christ hospital for the past two weeks
with fractured leg, has been taken to
his home in the country.
The members of the state board of
public works are now at Osawatomie
looking after the construction of the new
$4,000 asylum building
The county commissioners have not
yet selected a superintendent for the
new bridge. One is not necessary until
the work is commenced
Johu B. Jones, the co!ored politician.
says that there is nothing for him to do
in Topeka now and he has gone to Jeffer-
son county to visit his father.
The patrol driver says he can stand it
without swinging harness for the horses
if the other people can. He thinks there
ought to be this improvement, though.
There are two Luther Stovers in Tope-
ka Just now. One is a clerk in an in
surance office and the other is son of
the assistant secretary of state.
Several of the visiting Santa Fe Of
ficials went to calvin Joslin" last night
AS Receiver Walker remarked sit was
good for the house that was present"
1t is said that ]. L. Rristow, private
secretary to Governor Morrill,, who re-
Gently engaged in the newspaper bust
ness at Ottawa, will start a daily Janu-
airy l.
1t was O. D. Hollis of the Topeka
Paper company and not E. F. HOLES of
the Santa Fe general freight office who
secured Miss Kate Macarthur for his
bride.
County Attorney Harry Stafford has re-
ceived word from Chicago of the death
of his sister, Mrs Jennie Burch The re-
mains will probably be brought here for
burial
A coach, containing thirty military
prisoners on their way from Dallas, Tex,
to the prison at Leavenworth, was at
tached to Santa Fe train No. yesterday
afternoon.
Tom Botkin, of the secretary of states
Office says 'the loud-mouthed colored
man who lines people up at the Grand
ought to be suppressed" He ought to
drive cattle.
W. w. Phelps, who used to be private
secretary to the late J. c. Wilson, is hold
ing a similar position with Receiver
Walker of the Santa Fe, and is here with
him in that capacity.
There are more bidders here attend
ing the letting of contracts for the state
charitable institutions than have attend
ed similar lettings for several years, and
the bidding is closer.
Mrs A. F. Poole has secured about
fifty signatures on her petition for the
pardon of her husband, the chicken thief.
She is canvassing all the business and
professional men in the city.
Department Commander Harris of the