The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-24

10 nOlG at least nunQreQ.''
Sheriff Kepley was 80 years old Sun
day.
There is lively trade in Easter bon
nets.
For the fourth time this year: Spring
has arrived.
W. E Dom has served SO of his 225
days on the rock pile.
The paper pavement on Kansas ave-
nue. is wearing well.
Under Sheriff Lucas carries a Colts
revolver about foot long.
There is John NJ. Wilkerson running
for alderman in Kansas City, Mo.
Capt. ]. B johnson will not build on
his Kansas avenue lot this summer.
The county furnishes but one razor
for the Sc prisoners now in the county
jail.
There is a case of scarlet fever in
the family of George Dick, geo Polk
street.
The next thing to be built at the state
house will be the stairways in the north
and south wings.
People who come in from the western
counties in the state report wheat in ex-
cellent condition.
The new concrete floors in the corri-
doris at the state house may do to walk on
but they are not pretty.
A dozen wheelmen made the run to
Meriden Sunday, instead of TO Law
renee, as was anticipated.
J. G. Samuelson has been appointed
state organizer of the Retail Clerks Ma
tional Beneficial association.
The sx-slaves pension association was
addressed last night by W. /. Jamison
There are now $40 members of it
A drunken man devouring piece of
pie graced the patrol wagon as it was
driven up Kansas avenue yesterday.
The deputy sheriffs practice shooting
at birds with their reviewers when they
are out in the country serving papers.
The Woman's Progressive Political
league will hold its regular meeting to-
morrow afternoon at Ills Quincy street.
Zabud council A. F. and A. M. will
work the degrees of Royal and Select
Masters at their meeting in Masonic hall
tonight
There is talk of running Sam Riggs,
who has become famous in the Hillnon
case, for congress in the Second dis
trict.
The man who requires ten hours
sleep now finds the nights too short. The
man who requires ten hours sleep is
diseased.
Lizzie Ferguson got a divorce from
he abandoned her. She is a woman of
about &c.
Captain ]. Myers, ex-aecretary of
state of Indiana and ex Congressman
from the Anderson district visited the
state house.
Mrs. l. s. Curtis, wife of the deputy
district clerk, is still sick in Paris, H.,
although her fever has been broken and
she is getting better
Frank McGrath, the erstwhile head of the
Farmers Alliance movement, is peddling
d patent hog pen through Kansas. he
was at Manhattan this week.
The Coopers' union of Kansas City
has expelled two of its members who
participated in the Oxley Stave company
case heard before Judge Foster.
William Sullivan, sick at the comfy
Jail with rheumatism had to be carried
10 the bath yesterday. After the bath
he walked ally back to his room.
John r. Gentry of Sedalia, Mo-, the
PAGER of that name, visited in this city
yesterday, the guest of John Frey.
State Treasurer Anterior gets his daily
exercise from tramping over the state
house grounds twice day to look AT the
progress of the landscape gardening.
Ex-Police Commissioner P. ]. Bone
brake says if he we're sheriff he would
break up the kangaroo practice if he had
TO put every prisoner in the jail in
chains.
George Seward and Harry Overholt, of