The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-31
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

The police are wearing Their SUMMER
helmets.
The annual election of patrolmen
] takes place April IL.
| The April term of the district court
! begins next Monday
Every person in town has resolved
not to be April fooled tomorrow.
At least two Topeka young ladies
| have taken to riding a tandem by them
| selves.
There are only forty-six divorce
| cases docketed for the next term OF the
district court.
1t is the knights Templar that Mar
| shall's band will escort to church next
| Sunday, Easter.
Col. U. B. Pearsoll of Fort Scott,
storekeeper at the penltent1ary' IS
| seriously i'll.
The Union Mining company ofGale-
ma, has been chartered with capital
| stock of $32, 900.
| The April assignment of cases of the
| supreme court will be taken up next
| Tuesday, April Z.
A Topeka tailoring firm says bicy-
clists come in with torn trousers al
most every day.
Lawyer E. N. Gum thinks the dis
trict court room has the acoustic prop
critics of a cistern.
The man who predicted that there
would be seventeen stormy days in
March missed it one day.
Clerk Sharitt of the United States
circuit court almost has the evidence
in the Hillmon case by heart
In some parts of the city the wooden
sidewalks were blown out of their
places by the recent heavy wind.
When Thomas Keene puts up his
bills it is a challenge to play for the
gate receipts, in sporting parlance.
A colored man says a Negro is never
co Of OF Gn n
among his people as when he comes to
die.
The last three of the six games of
the duck pin tournament will be play
ed tomorrow evening on the Y. NJ. c.
a. alleys.
A Topeka man who has just moved
into a house numbered I'll has observ-
ed a fitness of things by purchasing
pair of dice.
One of the young players with Thorn
as Keene is SO STEPPED in classic dra-
ma that he has chosen Cassius as part
of his stage name.
A day of bread and water generally
puts energy into the LATEST tramp con-
fined at the city prison. Besides its
good for his health.
The Journal is now printed largely in
Merganthaler. The English edition will
be resumed as soon the new limo
type becomes naturalized.
Ida Echman, the woman who was
found wandering about east of town,
was declared insane yesterday in the
probate court and taken to the asylum
today.
Receiver A. D. Hubbard of the Ham
ilton Printing company has been ordered
to file his report in the district court by
April 10, now that the SnoW-Hamilton
case has been decided.
There are two hats in the police sta
ton which were blown away from their
owners during a heavy wind and
picked up on the street.
A Topeka three-year-old new woman
who saw a bicyclist go by said she
wanted a little bicycle now and a big
one when she got to be man.
Lee Jones is contemplating being
clown in THE Country Circus" which
the Ellxs are rehearsing. Lee has a
good shape for heavy villain.
Thirty-eight members of the commit
tee of fifty have accepted their appoint
ments. This is the new State Temper
ance unions law enforcement commit
tee.
The bowling contest between the T.
A. A. and the 7. NJ. c. A. which was to
have been held last night was post
pOned on account of Keene's engage
ment.
One of the smallest real estate trans
fers ever made in this city was that of
c. o. Knowles to Julia NJ. Clark. which
included seventeen inches of Kansas
avenue property.
Judge Hazen has ordered that Ray
mond Hit. aged 6, be allowed to go
back and forth between the Hit and
Sloan families as he pleases, pending
his decision of the divorce.
a bicycIist who doesn't wear trous-
ers guards found out today that March
winds sometimes blow a trousers leg
into the chain. 1t cost him the ruin of
a Sl2 pair of trousers to learn it.
While fba oonorata Ano,c
finished in the state house corridors
the passageway through the dome on
the first floor is closed and people are
compelled to go upstairs or downstairs
to get through.
District Judge Hazen says the long
bitter and expensive law suit between
E. H. Snow and the Hamilton Printing
company was caused by not having a
sufficient written contract when they
formed partnership
President Baker of the street railway
company has made another promise in
regard to the Potwin extension. He
says part of the material is now here
and part on the way. and that the ex-
tension will soon be built.
E. G. Smith, one of the employees
who was affected by the recent cut in
the auditor of freight receipts office of
the Santa Fe, has taken a position tenn
porarily in the office of w. A. Coats.
secretary of the Arkansas Valley
Town and Land company.
The fire marshal has issued a per-
init to Job Goode to build an addition
to his house at SO North Klein street
Dick Cooley has gone to ST. Louis to
try to come to terms with President
Won der Abe of the Browns.
A Topeka man predicts that before
the summer is over there will be open
saloons in Topeka. How nice There
will be people vomiting on the side
walks and falling through show win
dows every day.
PINGREE AND DICKINSON. |