The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-08
SNAP SHOTS ar HOME NEWS

There is sleight of hand show at
Hamilton hall this week.
| Mayor Harrison is attending the Farm
er's institute at Mission Center.
There is almost $1,OOO,OOO in the gen.
eraI revenue fund of the state treasury.
Ex-Police Judge Ensminger is becom-
coming very successful police court
lawyer.
Mr.. jennings cold day that he has
been predicting for SO long has not ar
rived yet
Governor Morrill, has appointed Ben
nett Brown of Linn county state mine
inspector.
Senator McTaggart of Montgomery
county raises cotton and has cotton gin
on his farm.
Many Topeka young men are wearing
long faces today The legislative girls
are leaving.
Four restaurant walters will be dis
charged Saturday night, because the leg
islature is over.
The politicians who got jobs from the
legislature are now looking for some
thing else to do.
Representative Gardenhire has found
it necessary TO wear eyeglasses that mag
nifty several degrees.
There were twenty-four cases in police
court this morning and only three of
them were continued ones
Ex-County Superintendent Josiah Jor
dan is still seriously sick as a result of
the fall he received several months ago.
Tom Pete, jointist, pleaded guilty in
the district court yesterday and was
fined 800 and given thirty days in the
county Jail
Battery B gave a dance last night
iol, ..x<o 6vvr hea,.o of hn
Kansas National guard from various
parts of the state.
A senator few days ago presented a
lengthy petition which was rolled to-
gether like scroll. 81 move the petit
ton be unrolled," he said.
DR.. A. Clifford of Lawrence, and DR.. p
d. st. John of Wichita, have been elected
delegates to the health congress to be
held at Denver next September.
Mrs. Mattox, who has been visiting her
son, who Is i'll the county Jail sentenced
to be hung for murder, has returned to
Oklahoma. She has been here several
months.
As yet no women have announced
themselves at the spring election. Mrs.
DR.. Roby and Mrs. T. II. Church were
talked of by suffragists today for the
board of education
Tomorrow afternoon there will be a
childrens' 5-cent matinee at the Grand
opera house. It is a sort of a stereopti
con entertainment and is advertised as a
$4,000 production.
The state board of health organized
last evening. DR.. Taylor Raines of Con-
cordia, was elected president, and Dr. 7.
kirkpatrick of Westphalia, secretary.
DR.. j. L. Gilbert of Topeka, was elected
state chemist
A we'll known doctor on Kansas avenue
entertained few callers of both sexes in
such a particularly jolly way last even
ing that complaint was made to the pO
lice. There were no arrests, however,
on that account
John Richie got severe fall on the
brick sidewalk in front of his feed store
last evening. He was attempting to
close the door when the latch came off,
and he fell, his head striking the side
walk with considerable force. He is
able to be around today.
DR.. N. B. Ward of Topeka last night
resigned from the presidency of the
state board of health, to retain his place
on the board. 1t will take effect July l.
He did so because custom has always
decreed that the president shall be a
homeopathic, and the secretary an
allopath. DR.. Ward is of the latter
school OF m0OlCIn6.
Driftwood Pete In Luck.
While splitting wood near his boat
house at the foot of Tough borough ave-
nue. few days ago "Driftwood Pete
made a lucky stroke of the ak, which
put him IN possession of nearly $500 in
gold. He was pounding away at hol
low log when the ak cut through and
struck against some metallic substance,
which proved to be an iron pot tightly
sealed. With eager haste he broke the
top, and to his delight gold coins came
rolling out. Upon counting the coins
| the find amounted to $500.
The pot had been incased in the log
| apparently for a great number Of years
| and is thought to have been hidden in
| the tree during the war. Where the tree
came from will probably never be
known. It had been felled somewhere
up the river and drifted along with the
current to yield its treasure to Drift
| wood Pete. -
''Driftwood Pete'' has earned live
hhood all his life by catching driftwood
and other floating articles OH the Missis-
| sippi river during the summer months.
| It was several months ago that he
caught the log which contained the Pc
| of gold, and it had lain near his cabi
ever since until yesterday, when he
started to split it up for f1rewood. st
! Louis Globe Democrat.