The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-06
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS.


There will be a has ket ball contest at
the 7. M. c. A Friday night.
Miss Kate Adams has collected $50 for
the western Kansas sufferers
Five new directors of the Y. n. c. A
are to be elected Friday night
A specially company is holding the
boards at the Bijou this week
City Attorney Hungate will go to Fort
Scott tomorrow to attend court.
A man who slept at the city prison last
night had new Bible in his pocket
S. s. Clover has been appointed COM
missioner of deeds at Vinita, Oklahoma.
Those who were at Hamilton hall last
night felt as if they were in a refrigera-
tor.
There will be meeting of the Repub-
lican 1ambeau club at the court mouse
tonight
Rev. J. B. Thomas will speak at the
noon meeting at the Santa Fe shops to-
morrow.
John R. Mulvane has given $50 for
the destitute settlers of the western part
of the state.
Joseph Flanner, formerly of Topeka
man, is now on the editorial staff of the
Sporting News
The Grand opera house orchestra has
learned to play couple of new tunes.
Encore, encore.
Al be Curtis, colored, petty larceny, has
served his 26. days and been released
from the county Jail
Five hundred delinquent tax warrants
have been placed in the hands of the
sheriff for collection.
! The district court has given Mrs. B.
Thomson divorce from her husband on
the grounds of cruelty
Judge 2 T. Hazen of the district court
and his stenographer. R. II. Cav. visited
the legislature yesterday.
Rev. B. L. Smith will speak at a mis-
sionary meeting at the North Topeka
Christian church tonight
There are said to be six coIored men
who want to be elected justices of the
peace at the spring election.
J. Lewis Malone, a pool and billiard
expert, will give an exhibition at the
Athletic club tomorrow night
Since the Republicans got hold of the
police station the spelling on the docket
book is little better, but-not much.
L. c. Bailey, of Topeka, was on the
| Santa Fe train which was held up near
Hutchinson, but the robbers missed him.
| A West Sixth street man recently sold
horse for $3.50 He was too poor TO
keep the horse and needed the $3.50
more.
J. G. Waters and Frank Herald are at
torneys for Warden Dick Chase before
the penitentiary investigating commit
tee.
The probate court has refused to issue
druggist permit to sell liquor to NJ.
Tules. who has store on lower Kansas
avenue.
Warden Chase has had about sixty
witnesses subpoenaed in his behalf be-
fore the penitentiary investigating com
mittee.
The people who were complaining
three weeks ago because there was no
winter are now complaining because it
has come.
Rev. BENZ. l. Smith of the First Chris
tian church will address the missionary
meeting at the North Christian church
this evening.
Three and one half million dollars are
being paid out through the Topeka .. s.
| pension office at the payment which is
now in progress.
Representative Blair of WaKeeney
went home last night to see about the
disastrous fire which visited his town
yesterday morning.
Assistant City Attorney Hungate reads
a chapter of the bible every day. Per
haps it softens his heart toward the poor
devils in police court
DR.. Louis Klopsch, of the New York
| Christian Herald, gave $1,000 towards a
relief fund for the western Kansas suf-
ferers while he was in Topeka.
A North Topeka woman has in the
last six months furnished wardrobes for
eighteen infants whose parents were too
poor to dress them properly.
A
sent so many donations to the city chart
ties, has just sent box valued at $31 to
the destitute of Bazine, Ness county.
The railroads will make a rate of one
fare for the round trip for the annual
convention of the Christian Endeavor
society of Kansas at Wichita May %
to %.
A Kansas avenue barber is taking ad-
vantage of mans weakness and vanity
by advertising that he has discovered
something to make hair grow on bald
heads.
A woman came down town this morn
ing with a heavy cloak on and her head
and neck bundled up air tight, but wore
pair of shoes as thin as paper, without
overshoes.
The county jaiIer is very mad and will
make kick because he is paid only $50
a month for "a hours work, whereas the
city pays two men $50 month each for
IL hours work day.
The railroads have granted a special
rate of one and one third fare for the
meeting Of the Northeastern Kansas
Teachers association, which is to be held
in Kansas City April 1920.
Jim Artebridge, colored boy who is
always in trouble, has been sent to jail
to work out fine of $25 and costs
amounting to nearly $40, for stealing
clothes from Mrs. Peterson's clothes line
J. G. Samuelson had a hearing before
the governor today as an applicant for
state labor commissioners. There are
thirteen applicants for this place Sam
nelson's friends say he is endorsed by al
| the labor unions in Topeka and saventv