The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-31
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.


Colored Wrights have way of doing
wrong.
Rev. Don Colt of Wichita seems to trot
in the 2:07 class.
The cows of Topeka agree that hal
ter is worth ''pound" of cure.
A. G. Stacey, who is now city editor of
the Wichita Beacon, is in Topeka to-
day.
General Manager ]. ]. Frey of the
Santa Fe sailed for America last oatur-
day.
Receiver ]. c. Wilson of the Santa Fe
is expected home from Colorado this
evening.
People who came down town early this
morning with their summer clothes on
shivered.
Treasurer Edward Wilder is expected
home from California the latter part Of
this week.
Judge C. E Foote of Marion, probably
thinks now that there were eight 'tgreAt
couspiracles."
The county commissioners will sell the
last $25,U0U of new court house bonds at
noon tomorrow.
J. NJ. Knight has little lawsuit on at
Louisville, Kentucky. and w. G. P
Breckenridge is his attorney.
There is a man over in Atchison who
is so stingv he has quit bowling to wOm-
en-, so as to make his hat last longer.
A Topeka man says that he don't mind
little Indian uprising but it's time to
call out the troops when they massacre
q hole community.
So many loafers stand in the doorway
to the courthouse that II IS almost impO5-
sibfe for a woman to get in Or out the
practice should be stopped.
Cliff Holbert, who recently captured a
burglar at Atchison is to be taken into
the Atchison county Anti Horse Thief
association without ballot
The county commissioners have al
lowed estimate No 26, on the new court
house to Stephenson & Co, the contract
ors. This last estimate amounts to
$3,7341O.
A Topeka young man who was fgur-
ing few months ago on spending the
summer among the lakes, will go to
farm near Richland next week to rest
few days
Topeka is about the only town in Kan
sas in which II. H. Holmes, the Chicago
murderer, never lived. We are not proud
of turning out criminals as Wichita
seems to be.
Seven inmates of the school for idiotic
and imbecile youth at Winfield are from
Shawnee county, and the poor commits
sioner has been requested TO send them
| some clothing.
A standing rule on the JOURNAL is
! that no young woman will be allowed to
| have her name spelled "Mae" in this
paper. Folly in the young should be
! corrected, not encouraged.
The officers of the state temperance
union are sending out bills announcing
meetings for Rev. j. D Woods, one of
| the state organizers which are headed:
"Law or Anarchy; which,"
Judge Hazen has thrown out the an
swer of the defendants in the divorce
| Case of Polly TOmlinsOn against JOna-
than TomlInson of Tecumseh on the
| ground that it was not sworn to-
| L. T. Yount is "kidding" the police
| force by telling Chief Wilkerson he will
! capture Il burglar some day and take
! police what a rObber LOOKS like
The county commissioners have been
notified that bridge across Deer creek
| in Topeka township known as bridge Nc.
was washed away in the storm Monday
evening A large tree was blown down
and fell across the bridge.
| A member of the Equal Suffrage
league says the league is going after"
the Social Purity league for merely COM
polling men to marry young women they
| have ruined The men simply desert and
are free, they say; they should be pun
! ished more than that.