The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-17
81 Alp SHOTS AT HOMENEWs


Last years apples are selling for 80
cents dozen.
State Insurance inspector George T.
Anthony is at the Ottawa Chautanqua-
T. 3. Jennings addressed the Camera
club last evening on "Photo-murogra-
ply"
There is to be a Republican caucus
at the North Topeka fire station to-
night.
Nineteen Topeka people have a CO.
operative boarding club at the Ottawa
assembly.
A Topeka coIored base ball nine de-
feated an Atchison nine at Atchison
Saturday.
The proprietor Of a Topeka soda foun-
tain gives a free lunch with every ten
cent drink.
County Treasurer stahl is busy TAX
ing care of the people who want to pay
their taxes.
Governor Morrill, has been endorsed
by the county convention in his home
county, Brown.
The small boys have not yet finished
hunting for possibly lost articles on the
show grounds.
rs it possible" asked the cheerful
idiot today, for anyone to be very low
with high fever?''
This is the appendicitis season; don't
let the doctor cut you every time you
have a stomach ache.
The City railway commenced the reg
ular operation of cars on the insane
asylum extension this morning.
The Gormley bands free concert on
Kansas avenue near Tenth street last
night almost blocked the street
The gravel is beginning to arrive for
the state house walk. 1t comes from
Holiday and will aggregate !, 200 yards.
The T. A A. viii enlarge its present
quarters by taking the rooms formerly
occupied by Wetherell's dancing acade-
my.
There is one class Of people who en-
joy this weather They are the drug
gists who bought new soda fountains
this year.
SheriffKepley says he will pay the s100
reward offered for the capture of Bill
West, who escaped from the Shawnee
county Jail
The pharmacy course at the state
university has been made one of four
years. Heretofore two years was all
that was necessary.
Col. Tom Jackson, Republican nomi-
nee for the legislature in Harvey coun-
ty is here. He was personal friend
of Lincoln and Garfield.
The wives of three candidates for
governor of Kansas are at the Chau-
tauqua assembly. They are AIesdames
Morrill,, Troutman and Potter.
If the vehicles which at the Gormley
band concerts become more numerous
there will have to be a squad Of pO-
icemen on duty to keep the street
clear.
The north side of the state house
grounds now has a covering Of yellow
clay which would produce neither
beans nor buckwheat, much less blue
grass.
A crack checker player who has been
I studying the game nigh onto forty
years" was beaten nine games in ten
I last evening by a colored boy Of Il
| years.
The Lawrence postofiee is made the
/ government repository for postofiee
/ funds The Topeka Office has to make
its settlements to Postmaster lines, OF
! Lawrence.
Dr.. Peter DfcVicar and family viii
arrive from California this week to
make their home in Topeka. The eX-
! president of Washburn college will So
licit funds for the Institution.
1 Judge j. r. Lee, of Manhattan, who
\ has been sojOurning at the city prison,
viii go to Lawrence today to spend
two weeks with friends. DR.. Hamilton
is treating him for the liquor habit.
Washburn college and some of the
residents living near the entrance to
the college grounds have prepared a
petition TO the city council asking that
an arc light be placed at the corner OF
Euclid and College avenues.
There are eight people employed in
the secretary of states Office and the
entire business of the office for Monday
was answering one letter and it wasn't
much of a letter either. It was the
lghtest days business in the history of
the Office.