The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20
sNAP sHors al HOME NEWs.
wanted name and street and number
Of the man. before we slumber-
Be he GENTLE Jew or Turk
Who can queil with deadly vigor,
Inc elandestine Kansas ''chiggeF"
In his SocialiStic work

The elandestine Kansas ''ehigger'
IN his SocialiStic work.
Topeka's 7. Nj. c. A has 500 mem bers.
Officer Lucas smokes a clay pipe on
his beat.
Raining is getting to be a habit with
the weather,
The river is rising again and driftwood
Is coming down.
A Topeka man predicts frost between
the first and tenth of September.
The city engineers force is busy set
ting grades for the new sidewalks
An expressman hauled twenty-seven
empty beer kegs to the depot at one load
Arthur Capper and George Crawford
are fishing at Grand Lake Colorado for
two weeks
The parade programme for Labor Day
has been arranged by the Topeka Trades
and labor Assembly.
c. h. Jones, secretary of the Topeka
railroad I. 81. Q. A, has resigned and
will move to Denver.
Thomas G. Shillinglaw's Million club
will bold another meeting at the Cope
land Wednesday night.
1t is mean man who will prevent the
boys from stealing melons when they are
as plentiful as they are this year
Il. w. johnson, of Topeka, has invent
ed an irrigating machine which he says
will revolutionize the irrigation business.
The owner of Patsy Free is anxious to
match her against Murphy. Both are
Topeka running horses now at Kansas
City.
Mr.. A. L McNair, of South Topeka,
wishes the report corrected that he is
Catholic. On the contrary, he is Prot
estant.
There is a candy maker in the city
who has made a study of the weather,
and his predictions are said to be very
accurate.
Rev. Bernard Kelley says he endorses
the position taken by Judge A s. John
son in his letter which was published in
last evening Journal.
W. E Zrkle, who has been the book
keeper at the Alliance store has bought
grocery store at Richland and has given
up his position here.
Horace E GoddeIl, who lives four
miles east of Topeka, has made arrange
ments to irrigate twenty five acres of
fruit land next year.
A street car man got drunk last night
and was arrested by the police When
he sObered up he left his watch for Sc
curity, and was released.
Carl Phillips, of Sims drug store. is
now drummer, having begun to travel
for the A Nj. Hughes paint and glass
company, of Kansas City.
Clyde Pence, Charles Bates and Char
lie Caldwell, of Soldier township,
shipped five car loads of extra fine cattle
to the Kansas City market today.
|. One hundred members of the G. A.
R post at Parsons have applied to the
state commander for free quarters at the
national encampment at Louisville.
| School district No. 81 west of the city
which is building a new school house,
| has sold its bonds to the amount of $500
| to the state school fund commissioners.
Mother Elizabeth Rider Wheaton the
cele brated prison evangelist was in Tope-
| ka over Sunday and in the afternoon ad-
dressed the boys at the Reform School
A crowd of Colorado Kelley graduates
| from Colorado passed through Topeka
! Sunday on the Santa Fe enroute to the
national Kelley reunion at Harrisburg
Pa.
The only concerts given by Marshalrs
| band while on their eastern trip will be
at Boston. The side trips to Pennington
Orchard Beach and Manhattan Beach
have been abandoned.
The state superintendent of insurance
has excluded the National Benefit g
Casualty company of Milwaukee from
Kansas. A receiver has been appointed
for this company in Wisconsin.
The Topeka Arion society celebrated
its thirteenth anniversary last night at
its hall by giving a concert Mr.. Ed
Buechner, president of the society de-
livered an address.
Attorney General Dawes has refused
to assist r, B. McMasters in his efforts to
GUST Commissioner of Elections Frank
| Herald from his Office. He SAYS the
state is not interested in the contest
A fractions horse created CONSERVATION
at the corner of Seventh and Kansas ave-
nue. this morning. Regardless of his
rider the animal bolted up on the side
walk and did his best to enter a store
building.
General Solicitor George r. Peck of
the Santa Fe, E. D. Kenna general at
torney of the Frisco and w. w. Greene
of the Mercantile Trust company of New
York, passed through Topeka yesterday
on their way home from Albuquerque.
Dan Frazier didn't have to pay fine
in the police court this morning for hay
ing ridden on the sidewalks in North
| Topeka. From hearing the story on both
sides it was decided that the case did not
| warrant an arrest.
DR.. W. N. West has wired in the in
jured jaw bone of Louis Deutscher, the
victim of the runaway last week. The
old gentleman is entirely out of danger.
but the injuries are extremely painful
and it will be long time before he will
be able to be out
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