The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-29

and the Santa Fe office building yester-
day afternoon.
The semi-annual civil service exam;-
nation for post Office clerks and carriers
will be held at the government building
Saturday, December Z,
'Possums arc quite numerous on the
market They are said to be very fat
The flesh of fat 'possum is very much
like that of a young pig.
People entering an opera house still
hand their tickets to the ticket taker in
the envelope. 1t makes him want to
swear when there is IA crowd
A polite drunk is rarity. There were
two on Kansas avenue last night and
they met. They spent fully half an
hour shaking hands and bowling.
Smiths Pickannny band that was in
Topeka for several weeks last summer is
in Kansas City now and played ct Lea
venworth yesterday for the carnival.
a swell young man on mis- way TO call
on 4 lady, accidentally spilled bucket of
of bulk oysters over his pantaIoons and
patent feathers on Kansas avenue last
evening.
\ Topeka man who used to live on the
Marias des Cygnes, is longing for just
about peck of persimmoas. There mas
been just about enough frost 10 make
Inem paIdtaDle.
The state board of railroad commits
si0ner5 will go to Oiathe November 20
hear the complaint of T. r. Lanter & Co.
against the memphis for excessive dunn
mage charges
Attorney General Dawes addressed a
Dave Burdge meeting in North Topeka
last night. The meeting was held in
] Ohm Wilkerson's building. and J. n.
Henry presided.
The members Of Fort Pillow post G. a.
R., will hold a camp fire at their hall
Friday evening, and will be addressed
by Prof. o. c. Hill, Governor MorriIps
executive clerk.
All who spoke of the Illston murder last
evening were unanimous on one point:
that the murderer should be hanged.
We do not believe in capital punishment
III this state except when we do
Osmer Parish. now ia the asylum, has
written to J. w. Ripley that he is glad
he is there, where he can have treatment
and says when he gets out that he wants
10 go back to work for Air. Ripley.
A good many people are anxious to
know what Rol Nichols will do with the
ten feet of street he has just acquired
from the city along his property corner
of Gordon street and Kansas avenue.
The colored kindergarten established
south of the Shungauunga by Miss LIE
RiddicH as teacher. has been made j part
of the Topeka kindergarten association,
and Miss R,ddick has been made princi-
| pal.
A Santa Fe official remarked this
morning that it was kind of the reorgani-
zltion committee to postpone the sale of
the road until the 10th, as each empioye
would draw his salary on that day and
! have Il chance TO hid
The sheriff's office often notifies the
police force to look out for certain peo-
pie and then forgets to tell them Of the
| capture. Sergeant Tim Donovan yester-
day arrested the pig stealer through this
mistake after he had already made his
peace with the county.
The board of education has made a
formal announcement that Grant and
| Quincy schools in North Topeka will be
reopened Wednesday morning. No new
cases of diphtheria have appeared in
n orth Topeka since these schools were
closed
There is little poker game between
railroad men about three nights out of
the week which the police are preparing
to gobble. 1t takes place in the second
| story of railroad mans home between
| Third and Fourth streets on Adams.
| This is fair warning, boys.