The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-13
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.


There are many politicians that will HE them
And get out Of the country for that very cOun-
There are many men and maidens with grave
huLters in their breasts
Who will hide in fear of sciences latest photo-
There are men with boot leg whisky or excuses
With religion on the outside. who will fee as
for their lives.
As the camera Rend increases at no very dis
For they must. or be kept dodging-these new
ode
rays.
The fire departments have had weeks
rest
Elk Mayor Harrison says he is through
with politics.
Poor Commissioner Hale's office looks
like grocery store.
The new district court room will not
be ready before March 1.
Art Massey saws that the only race
horses that pay are runners.
The coal business went up this morn
Ing as the mercury went down.
r. 7. Kreipe and Nels Newton want to
lease the fair grounds for year
State. Senator Robbins of Pottawato-
mie county. was in Topeka yesterday.
No less than fifty men have applied
for the vacant places on the police force.
There are a: least twenty-five men in
Topeka who want to be candidates for
constable
A. A. Jacobs, probate judge of Re-
public comfy, visited Judge Wood yes
terday.
The record of a day: Sunshine, clouds,
rain, slesi, snow, slush, wind, ice, frost,
sunshine.
80 Hi 4ha
building in which Police Judge Ferry
has his office.
Col. Tomlinson says he never had any
faith in the success of the Mystic
Brotherhood.
Poultry thieves are getting numerous.
An East Eighth street man lost three
pigeons recently.
Police Officer Mcdowell is presiding
over two beats pending the suspension
of Patrolman Wellman.
Ex-Police Sergeant Henry Steele says
that Chief Wilkerson is one of the best
criminal catchers in the west
The last Rams Horn contained a pic
ture of Justice David Brewer, of the
United States supreme court.
The PopuIist state central committee
will meet tomorrow evening to decide
when and where to hold their first state
convention
Bishop Vincent has recommended that
church bells be rung at the noon hour,
that christians may be reminded to pray
for christendom.
The members of the state board of ir-
rigatiOn have gone to Finney county to
inspect the new irrigation plants in that
part of the state.
R. n. Chilcott, editor of the Wamego
Times, stopped in Topeka on his way
hfT ~ \.
meeting at Holton.
Ex-Governor John P. st. John has con-
sented to give gospel talk to the rail-
road \. Nj G. A. men at their o. m
meeting next Sunday.
Chief Wilkerson received picture of
Abraham Lincoln today which he de-
clares the best likeness of the martyr
president he has ever seen.
prominent Topeka Populist saws
there are more politicians in his party
than ever before, and consequently they
will make better nominations this year.
Mrs. E. G. Sausman has returned from
Hornellsville, N. Y, where she attended
the funeral of her father, Judge Harlo
Hakes, who was prominent man where
he lived.
Coulter, the boy murderer, puts in his
time at the county Jail while waiting for
his sentence in studying with merry
song a copy of the penitenTiary rules and
regulations.
Watchman W. W. Wiley of the Santa
Fe railroad arrested a colored man by
the name of A. Jackson, on the charge
of stealing a wagon load of coal from c.
c. Nicholson in North Topeka. The coal
was in a Santa Fe car.
s. w. Williston, professor of geology
at the State university and former pro-
fessor of anatomy at Yale, lectured on
anatomy before the Kansas Medical col.
lege students last evening. DR.. Williston
lectures here twice a week now.
There are forty -four prisoners in the
county jail. Five or six of them were at
one time arrested by Gaines and were
glad to welcome him. "Wei," remarked
Mr. Gaines, 'at one time there were
twenty-three of my prisoners in this
place"
Lincoln post G. A. r. last May, asking
congress to extend the pension privi-
leges to all members of the Kansas
militia who served during the war under
United States army officers, is soon to be
presented to congress.
A 13-year- old boy by the name of Ell
mer Bracken, got off q Santa Fe train in
Topeka last night. He had been sent
from a town in Missouri and wanted 10
gov ~ MOu0nOhig vi were us parents
live. He spent the night in the police
station and Poor Commissioner Hale
bought him ticket to Hutchinson.
The Y. N. c. A. board of directors
have held a meeting and appointed a
part of the working committees for the
association for the coming year. The
following are the chairmsn of the com
mittees named: Executive committee,
J. p Davis, chairman; Invitation COM
mittee, A. Hadley; finance committee,
II. G. Bowman; auditing committee, F.
o. Popenoe; railroad department, r. b.
Gemmell.
Wichita and return by the Santa Fe