The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-09
SNAP SHOTS ATHOMENEWs.

Z stop to fast bicycle riding in the city.
Cyclists are just beginning to enjoy
I the country roads again after the heavy
I rains.
Capt. Joe Waters would make prize
newspaper Photographer. Did he miss
his calling.
The Omaha races in which number
Of Topeka horsemen start their horses,
+ began today
Every man in the state house is close~
ly following the political fight ia Nc
Fhers0n county.
The Topeka people who win attend
the Republican national convention are
getting ready to go.
The boy wit the toy pistol is already
out attesting the fact that the Fourth
of July is not far of.
1Iarshau's band is preparing to cele-
brate the Fourth of July and has order
ed a supply OF fireworks.
State Senator Billy Sterne is in Sc
daIa, Mo, again. ID. G. Netsker has
not been weu for some time.
Gormley's band give their first open
air concert tonight on the vacant lots
just across from the Copeland.
The curious have tramped down the
grass under the window where Childs
and Clark escaped from the county jail
Ed NJ. Smith Of the auditors office
al the state house, is a salaried choir
singer in one of Kansas City's churches.
Pat Sherman has received a Mexican
s0mbrero as gift from General Man
ager Nickerson of the Mexican Central
road.
The body of L. =. Mccain who was
Kicked by a mule and killed, near Au-
burn. was taken to WamegO today for
burial.
The state insane asylum band has
inaugurated open air concerts. They
are to be given Monday and Saturday
evenings.
Dean Hayden of the Church Of the
Assumption VIII attend the Bishop
Fink jubilee services at Leavenworth
/ Thursday.
Mold the '.silent circumnavigator'
from the Peerless" Wichita. is now
t exercising his ventriloqual powers in
Kansas City. Mo
The people Of Martin & Dennis adj
dition are happy because of the pros
poets of electric lights at an early date.
~ ork is now going on.
So many cases are being dismissed
on call in the district court that Judge
Hazen is making assignments Of about
fifteen cases for each day.
j. p. Bartholomew says that he has
not given UP the lower dam project but
4 franchise and contracl soon.
/ Weather Observer Jennings is now
/ absent from the city from Thursday to
! Saturday each week instead Of from
Friday to sunday as formerly
State superintendent Stanley has
/ started out on his annual county in
stitute inspection. There are now 60
Of these Institutes in progress.
The board of county commissioners,
T1-a@mr
I ing about the city and Investigating
the objections made by taxpayers
Dean Low and Otto Eakes, who left
/ for Mexico and Central America yes
tarday afternoon, expect to take NUM-
/ Der of Photographic views while on the
trip
This is the time of year when college
students blossom INTO book agents
This is a sort of post graduate course
TIC give them nerve to battle with the
world
In Mrs. Charlotte Perkins StetsOn To
peka sees the wittiest woman that ever
addressed Topeka. audience. But To
peka doesn't see her because Topeka
doesn't go.
"A new time schedule will be inaugu-
rated i'm few days on the West Sixth
street line Of the city railway on &C
count of the extension of the road to
I the asylum
Excavation is now being made for a
three-story brick on the west side Of
Kansas avenue, near ninth. which will
be occupied by Culver & Bailey upon
its completion.
o. Swanson was awarded the contract
for the construction of the new Santa
ne shop building at Argentine instead
of Fletcher Lewis. as announced in last
evenings Journal
=. w. Howe of the AtchisOn Globe,
was in Topeka yesterday and professed
to be greatly disappointed at finding
that AIarshalrs band does not parade
the streets every day.
Judge Lee is again in jail unable to
take care of himself. He is not fined
any more but simply held and taken
care of days at a time because the pO-
lice don't know what else to do with
him.
Lincoln post has passed resolutions
thanking Dr. Hamilton for the use of
his hall on Memorial day and encour-
aging the people of Topeka to assist
DIR. Hamilton TO build a gallery in his
hall
no one whose stature is SO great, and
whose limbs SO elongated, it is no Won
der that Private Secretary Joe Bris-
tow is glad Governor Morrill, has re-
moved to more comfortable and com
mOdi0us quarters.
AT a recent lecture in Topeka a little
baby greatly greatly disturbed the lee
turer and the audience by running
about the room and pounding on chairs
The father and mother thought it al
very funny and laughed heartily but
the lecturer and those who wanted TIC
hear the lecture felt like strangling the
whole family.
Thin or gray hair and bald heads. s,
/ distressing to many people as marks O.