The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-13
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWs

The circus viii be here Monday
The county jail was fumigated today.
Three weeks from today is the Fourth
of July.
a smell Of hrecraekers is already in
the air.
Think Of men wearing Overcoats on
June evenings.
Charlotte Perkins Stetson is going to
lecture in HoltOn next Tuesday even
ing.
1t was cold last evening and the Mar
shan's concert was not quite so well
attended as usual
A number of Topekans viii see the
game at Kansas City tomorrow be-
tween AIanning's Blues and the Mime
apolis team.
E. T. Welch, printer in the state
printing Office, was operated on for
appendicitis at Christ hospital yester-
day afternoon.
Don't be afraid that the Fan Festi-
val viii not be a glorious success. There
are already enough people interested in
it to make it 50.
Come past my house at 2 o'clock to-
morrow morning and Wen go down and
see the circus come in said one small
boy to another today.
railway viii be placed in operation
Monday for the accommodation Of the
asylum people who desire to attend the
Sells Orepaugh circus.
The Topeka club will be represented
at the ST. Louis convention by Dan
Clements and Jas. B. Hayden, and the
El1s by Hon. Pick Smith
A Topeka horse struggled in fifth in
the Omaha races Wednesday and the
next day it rained" 50 that the races
for Thursday had to be postponed.
The asylum extension of the city
The first tennis tournament Of the
season in this city viii be held at the
grounds of the Topeka Tennis club on
Saturday. June o.
At the band concert last night a fun
ny man asked for after the Ball" and
was worried to death all the rest of the
evening for fear the band would mis-
understand and play it.
Billy Davis, who played a cornet in
Marshalrs band four years ago. is back
from Chicago. where he has been tax
ing special instructions in music. He
will probably locate in HOltOn.
At a meeting of the trustees Of the
Stormont hospital yesterday afternoon,
DR. J. J.. Gilbert was elected a member
of the hospital staff. and DR.. Geo W.
Hogeboom an honorary member.
Things are coming Bob Kepley's way.
He no sooner hears that Bill West has
been disposed of than Weyman Clark.
who escaped from the county jail last
week, is captured in Kansas City.
President Baker of the city railway
says that in his opinion compressed air
viii supercede electricity in the opera
ton of street cars, and that in ten years
from now an electric car viii be a cur
iosity.
Every little country doctor in every
little country town in Kansas is per
forming operations for appendicitis
More than half the patients die and less
than one-tenth OF them have appended
tbs at all.
If every young man who could anOrd
it gave IS to the Fail Festival fund S.
600 would be raised. Topeka will be
long to the young men some day, and
the young men should do all they can
for their town.
San Jose, California, plants 100 acres
with flowers every year so that there
viii be enough for the great floral fes-
tival. Instead Of Pingree's potato plan
next year. the Fail Festival should set
out the vacant lots to flowers.
The owner of a Kansas avenue build
ing. who allows a joint to be run in one
of the upstairs rooms. spent the entire
day yesterday repairing the back stairs
which two hilarious patrons had al
most succeeded in demohshing the
night before.
Topeka should put UP three arches
across Kansas avenue for the Reunion
and Festival They can be trimmed
with evergreen and flags and not cost
much The Carpenters union viii Of
fer to do the work free and the lumber
men viii lend the tinbers necessary.
Tramps are becoming numerous in
the western part of the city. Yesterday
afternoon a tramp deliberately set fire
to barn on the premises at Fifth and
Lincoln streets because he was refused
food at the house Especially at this
time the police should afford some sys-
TEN of protection to other portions OF
the city besides the business districts.