The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-21


per man who IS now employed on the
st. Joseph Gazette has returned home
after visiting friends here.
Mr.. Ike Stewart, brother of DR.. S. C.
Stewart Of this city, has returned to
his home in Eenia, O., after a two
weeks visit with his brother
There are plenty of chickens on the
market in Topeka today. The reason:
Buffalo Bnrs Wild West is in town.
and the farmers are here to see it.
Y The last issue Of the International
Journal Of Surgery contains a photo
graph and sketch of DR. Geo W. HOge-
boom, chief surgeon Of the Santa Fe.
A Topeka man who went hunting and
remembered his friends with game has
been invited to so many suppers out
that he expects a rebate on his board
bill.
John COyne and Dan Wyatt claim
the championship horse shoe pitchers
belt They have defeated every one
who has dared to enter the arena. with
them.
Ex-Attorney General John N. Ives
and Ed Wagner, formerly of Topeka,
who are now in partnership in the law
bushes occupy room 1, TOltec building,
Denver
Two heavy coal wagons met in the
middle of a span of the old bridge to-
day and there was almost a panic.
People on the span thought it was go
ing down.
Rehearsals for the kindergarten
opera "Powhattan" are being carried
on almost nightly now. The opera
viii be given the last two evenings OF
this month
There are some Indians in town to-
day that do not belong to Buffalo Bill.
They are from the reserve and came
down to see what Indians lin captiv-
ity" look like.
Lewis Kingman, formerly of Topeka
now chief engineer OF the Mexican Cen
trail railway. has been appointed to
appraise the Atlantic & Pacific rail-
way for sale.
Ducks are plentiful at Lake View just
now, and many Topeka sportsmen go
down on the morning Santa Fe trains
and spend the day, returning on the
plug at night
Mrs. Sadie Young has commenced
suit for divorce from her husband,
David Young. She says in her petition
that her husband on one occasion
knocked her down.
Sheriff Bob Kepley who was serious
" i'll last week from a cold he caught
in Kansas City while trying to MAIN
tam OI4GI during the carnival IS now
able to be down town
Charles A. Morse, said to be a To-
pelza man. is in jail at Victor, Colo,
charged with having passed a check
for S27 which he had not the money in
the bank to settle for.
Jackson's band is rehearsing for a
grand cake walk and jubilee to be Civ
en- at Hamilton hall. Professor Jack
son viii play one of those wonderful
slide trombone solos.
Mrs. DR.. Sample. mother of Brake
man ROlla Sample, who was killed at
Oklahoma City Sunday morning,
dreamed that her son was dead a few
days before the accident.
The advance sale Of seats for the per-
Torrance of Madame Sans Gene" by
Kathryn Kidder Monday night will
open at the Rowley drug store Thurs
day morning at 9 o'clock.
The affairs of the Topeka base ball
club for this season have been settled
up The association handled over So
600 in the two and half months of its
existence and is out of debt.
Men about town are beginning to plan
their business so they will be able oc-
casionally to take an overcoat and a
pocketful of cigars and spend half
day watching the new bridge grow.
Modern WOodman'' was booked to
play at the Grand Opera House last
evening but was cancelled. The papers
in the small towns in the southern part
Of the state ridiculed it numerically.
There is a case for charity at Twenty
fourth and Tyler streets. The woman
is 70 years old and sick and her only
is a boy of u, who wants to
go to school. They are out of clothing
Robert Stone. Warren NJ Crosby, /
Thomas Page, DR.. L. NJ. Powell and
President Herrick of Washburn coll
lege have been appointed as state exc I
cutive committeeman of the Y. NJ. Q. A /
Mrs. Thorpe has on her charity list a
man 20 years old and three small boys !
who live near Fourteenth and Wash /
lngtOn streets. They are almost with |
out food and have no bedding of any
kind.
The newest thing in collins in Topeka /
Is a slumber couch. The top Of the (
casket is removed and the body is in
full view and appears to be on a /
couch. 1T adds to the numerous horrors /
Of funerals.
The First Presidential Voters club /
will meet at the office of Noble & NIer-
Ram Saturday evening to make ar
engagements for its part in the Repub-
iican parade to be given one week from /
next Saturday.
The "FuIcrum" which has been is
sued at Burlingame and is the official
organ of the Straightout Prohibition /
party of this state has moved its Office /
to the Office block on East Fifth street /
and will be published here in the fu- /
ture.
a petition of West Eighth street peo- |
pie has been presented to the street !
company asking that COnduc- |
tor Deever and 8IotOrman Haskell, |
who let a car get away from them and /
itch itself recently be reinstated. The |
refused.
Kathryn Kidder, who will be in To- /
oeka Monday night is playing at KAN /