The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-27
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS.

L M. Crawford is in Denver.
The spring Improvements have begun
in earnest.
County Jailer Burdge is still sick at
his home.
Josiah Ross, independent candidate for
constable, has Withdrawn.
Frank Willard and Robert Pierce are
expected home from Utah today.
The Topeka Philosophical society will
meet tonight at the High school build
ing.
Marshalrs band will play new pieces
at each open air concert the coming sea-
son.
F. L Stevenson, the court house con-
tractor, drew 1862. 81 from the county
yesterday.
The Australian ballot to be used at the
city election next Tuesday is in the hands
of the printer.
]. Frank Bynon of Denver called on
Secretary c. NJ. Jones of the r. r. Y. III.
c. A. yesterday.
Policeman Arthur Wellman is now
a special policeman, doing duty on lower
Kansas avenue.
George B. Williams will give
Shakespearian recital at Library hall
Tuesday evening next
What has become of the old fashioned
man who used to drive street-sprinkler
up and down Kansas avenue?
Mark Howell is writing a book about
his experiences as a conductor for six
years on the Topeka street railway.
Ed Murphy was arrested in the Union
Pacific yards last night by Waterman
Steele and is being held as suspect.
Rev. Bert Paddock of Blackburn No,
10 n n0f
ing held in the Santa Fe coach shops.
The outside work of the court house is
to be completed by June l. The building
will be finished entirely about October 1.
There were twenty seven prisoners
and eight tramps in the city jail this
morning. Eight of the prisoners are
women.
Fond mothers will do we'll to watch
their daughters closely for the next ten
DAYS. The "BIack Crook is coming to
town next week.
Receiver Walker. of the Santa Fe,
passed "Weary Walker" when his train
was pulling into Topeka, and wouldn't
even recognize him.
The Republican Flambeau will meet
tonight for the first time in its new rooms
in the Curry building over the Wiggin-
Harding dry goods store.
w. J. Merrick, who had some of his
young trees stolen, is now a special po-
liceman with authority to arrest persons
who disturb his property.
When people saw A. A. Hurd and
George r. Peck walking down Kansas
avenue yesterday. they said: "There
| goes Hurd and over Hurd."
Walter Brown and Ed Turner, the
| Union Pacific coal thieves, were heard
/ T,,z4;oo Eurrvio oOt1rf vocrard AZ ffa~
noon and bound over for trial.
| James Wilson, a carpenter at the Santa
Fe shops, suffered severe bruise from
u falling freight car door a few days ago
| and is still confined to his house.
This is the time of year when mer-
chants who do not advertise, brush the
dust off a lot of shelf worn goods and
placard them as "Just Arrived"
The penitentiary investigating COM
mittee has organized by electing Senator
Parker, of Olathe, chairman, and Repre-
sentative Caldwell, of Lawrence, secre-
tary.
A Topeka man employed in the Santa
| Fe Offices, who has been working for the
company eighteen years, had his salary
reduced from $50 to $50 the first of
March.
Rev. W. F. File has been sick at his
| home, S0S Morris avenue, more tnan
week with severe attack of the grip.
Mrs. File and the children have also
been sick
Jim Finney didn't go to Arkansas City
to fight Tug Wilson. "That amt all, " he
says, Wade Watts never bested me, and
what's more Watts couldn'tli lick me if he
tried a week."
T. A Reagle, the Topeka agent of
Reds packing house at Kansas City,
which was destroyed by fire sunday, has
been notified that his orders will be filed
within few days.
Tom Allen, for twenty four years the
marshal of Junction City, is in Topeka
today having his eyes treated Allen
once arrested whole room full OF FIT
Riley soldiers single handed
". A. DeMoss of the Fifth avenue
hotel is tearing down the two little brick
buildings west of the hotel and will
build an addition to the hotel with two
nice store rooms underneath.
There has been a small increase OF
men in the Santa Fe shops in nearly
every department. notably in the boiler
shops and the paint shop, twelve having
been added in the boiler shops.
Robert Stone has returned to Topeka