The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

coming.
At o'clock last night snow fell for a
few minutes.
The supreme court will not convene
again until January Z.
There is man III town SO lazy that he
only puts one "f' on off
The members of the city council will
return tomorrow from Wichita.
| The fourteenth child was born to a
North Topeka mother this week.
Topeka now has three bands which
would attract attention anywhere.
The Shawnee County Farmers iusti-
| tute commences today at Grange hall.
| George T. Anthony has been president
of the state board of agriculture twice.
Topeka lodge of Masons No. II will
elect officers tonight and hold banquet.
The state board of agriculture will be
twenty five years old at its meeting next
month.
The new windows in the air shafts in
the state house dome look like church
| windows.
The Congregational club will celebrate
Forefathers' day at the church next
Monday.
The Municipal league will meet in
| Trades Assembly hall tonight, when
| OmC0T5 VIII Do 0I0CteQs
DR.. kirkpatrick secretary of the state
board of health, is in northwestern Kan
sas this week.
The offices of the State Temperance
union have been moved into the Real
Estate building.
| Dick Chase, ex-warden of the state
| penitentiary, is in Topeka visiting his
son John Chase.
J. L Bristow says the JOURNALS Wash
| ington interview with Cy Leland sounded
| just like Cy would say it.
New boards are being put in the floor
of the old river bridge from time to time.
They make it rather uneven.
Two of the arrests yesterday were for
| leaving horses unhitched, and one for
| hitching horse to fire plug.
There will be no money available for
the improvement of the state house
| grOundssuntil after January l.
Some of the men who came here to bid
on the bridge bonds looked as if they
were not over twenty years old.
Cuthbert 6 Sergeant have been given
the contract to build go barrel cistern
at the new court house for 1858.
Squire ]. B. Evans of North Topeka
says it is no use to keep dog to guard a
hen roost He has had two dogs poison
| ed.
The programme is out for the annual
| meeting of the state board of agriculture.
which is to meet here January 9, 10 and
Ii.
The county commissioners have con-
firmed the appointment of Samuel II.
Pitcher to be associate teachers exami-
ner.
The inmates of the city prison have
ia ble luxuries two times week, Sunday
and Wednesday. They look forward
to it.
a newspaper carrier and a Wells
Fargo express wagon driver were arrest
ed yesterday for leaving their horses IN
hitched.
Sheriff Burdge says he and Chief Wiki
erson could not hunt for Tony Smith
after they got the news about the grave
robbers,
John Ramsey is visiting his father, the
street commissioner, for a few days and
another fireman is taking his run out oil
Nickerson.
The suit of Ermine Payne against the
Santa Fe for $4,000 damages for heI
husbands death has been dismissed by
Judge Foster.
Isaac Woodward of Haviland, Kansas
western evangelist of the Friends
church, is visiting Assistant State Super.
intendent Fellows.
John J. Ingalls, has his stationery
printed with the following prelude to the
letter: 81 beg to acknowledge your ia,
vor and will say in reply" -.
Captain John Seaton, of the state board
of public works, says he engaged hi:
room for the national convention when
he was in St. Louis this week.
The board of public works allowed
some estimates on state work recently, sc
that the men employed on state work
will have money for Christmas.
Most of the particularly destitute poor
for which Topeka is caring at present
are movers who had to stop here. They
always seem to get just this far.
A Topeka man wonders if the freight
rate contract between the Hutchinson
salt companies and the Santa Fe is to be
included in those to be cancelled.
This has been a remarkable month sc
far for tho scarcity of DRINKS. Only
probably be thicker about Christmaf
time
A tunnel is being built on the north
side of the east wing of the state house
to enable the workmen in the en-
zine room to run the ashes out to the
road.
George Higgins says if thare is any
thing that would make a Democrat out
of him it would be for Cleveland to get uI
a war with England on the Venezuels
matter
Chief Wilkerson and Sheriff Burdge
spent 1925 in hunting for Tony Smith
last week, and they don't get cent from
the county. They shared the expense
equally.
P. G. Noel is booked to read paper
on "The Aspects of the Horse Situation
and It's Future Outlook" before the COM
ing meeting of the state board of agri
culture.
A lode about three feet thick of silver
bearing quartz that promises a valuable
ASSAY Was struck by T. J. Gunther while