The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-26

Populist convention. viii deliver a SER
les of Populist speeches in Kansas this
week.
The Topeka free dispensary at the
Kansas Medical college, is open to the
suffering public Medicine and treat
ment viii be given poor people free of
charge
The first Of the winter meetings Of
the Topeka Daughters of the Revolu-
ton viii be held next Friday afternoon
at p. m. at the home of Mrs. A H.
Horton.
The NIodocs have quit the practice of
singing at political meetings simply for
the glory. Hereafter they Will sing on
ly where financial remuneration is
forthcoming.
The Tom Watson banner hangs so
low that it rests on the trolley wires
OF the street railway. This is about as
close as Mr.. Watson viii ever get to
the lightning.
A dress rehearsal of the opera Pow
hatan" viii be given at the asylum
Wednesday night, and after the rehear-
sal the members Of the company win
enjoy a dance.
The First Presidential Voters club
viii carry red, white and blue umbrel-
las with pictures of Mckinley and IIO-
bart on them in the Republican parade
Saturday night.
The curfew doesn't seem to be very
thoroughly in effect on Saturday
nights. Dozens of little boys and girls
were on Kansas avenue Saturday
hight at 9 o'clock.
The officers and board of directors
of theWestminster Pres byterian church
Kindergarten met at the residence of
Z
1 Wednesday evening.
In the windows OF the homes on West
Sixth avenue. between Western ave
nue. and West street. 80 pictures of
/ Mckinley are displayed and only 2 Of
! Bryan. This is 16 to 1.
A Topeka barber went to q Sunday
/ school meeting at q small town not far
from Topeka yesterday. and after the
meeting adjourned talked politics to
the crowd for several hours
At one of the schools west of the
city the boys have caught the Wild
! West fever, and as a result several Of
the small boys have sore neel1s as a
result of having been lassOed.
Judge Foster has appointed D. w.
AIulvane special master in the case OF
1 the American Loan and Trust com
pany VS.. the Leavenworth, Topeka &
! Southwestern Railway company
Pottawatomie Indian Simon Ketosh,
from the reservation drank some hard
cider and alcohol Saturday night. and
soon he imagined he was a whole Wild
! West in himself. Jack King arrested
( him.
Anew farce comedy chorus called THE
/ Ninth Battalion on Parade has been
written by Ernest Hogan, a New York
/ colored man who used to live in TOpe-
ka and afterwards took to theatri-
/ Gals.
An effort will be made by the local
women suffragists to get Miss Susan
3. Anthony. the veteran advocate Of
I suffrage, to stop at Topeka as she
comes from California just after the
election.
The clerk Of the supreme court is
moving into his new Offices in the
south wing of the state house. The
/ judges moved a week ago. The next
sitting Of the court Will be in the new
court room.
Last week while George stansheld
and Dean Low We're hunting near Sill
Yer Lake both fired at the same in
slant at a blue crane. The crane was
killed and now hangs in Stansfeld's
front window.
Judge Foster has appointed II. c.
4 Clements to examine the books of the
/ Consolidated Light, Heat and Power
company of Kansas City. The ap-
/ pointment grew out of an application
for a receiver
The employees of the Santa Fe gen
eral offices are being treated to all
manner of Republican campaign liter
allure extant. The latest distributed
are papers on the home life Of N1cKin-
/ ley and Hobart.
An efficient policeman held up two
choir boys who were going home from
choir practice at the Episcopal church
! one evening last week after curfew
/ time and caused them no end of trouble
/ to escape arrest.
/ An Atchison paper says that an
I Atchison woman intends to give a big
4 party complimentary to a Topeka girl
who is visiting her. as soon as she can
/ break the girl of the habit of sitting
with one foot under her.
Iowa university didn't send railroad
transportation to the state university
football team so the Kansas-Iowa
western league game which was to
have been played today was postponed,
and may be declared off.
The Santa Fe telegraph department
/ is receiving requests for election re-
turns from many more stations along
/ the line this year than ever before. The
returns are sent out by the Western
Union over the Santa Fe wires.
When the Washburn college football
team arrived at home from Atchison
after defeating the Midland college
team 81 to a large number of the stu
dents met them at the depot and a high
time was had later on the college cam
pus.
c. w. Lanning. a merchant from
Allen, Lyon county who spent Thurs
day night in the county jail has been
released under $3.50 bond. He opened