The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-18
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Judge Morton writes his legal docu-
ments on typewriter.
Sheriff kepIey is now called "Father
Kepley" by his friends.
Mrs. Frank NJ erriam is quite ill at her
home on Euclid avenue.
The street sweeper was at work on
Kansas avenue last night
Susan B. Anthony is 76 years old to-
day, and she is lively yet.
There is a man in town whose name is
julius and his wife's Juliet
Bishop Vincent preached twice last
Sunday to Topeka audiences.
An average of eight tramps sleep at
the police station every night.
Albert Griffin ia canvasslng the city
for his book on the financial question.
There is case of scarlet fever in the
family of J. M. Blair. 1919 Prospect
street
Dick Cooley says the St Louis club
will do early spring playing at Dallas,
Texas.
Councilman Elliot says less than any
man in the city council but what he says
counts.
A young Topeka lawyer, when asked
what jurist he took as his ideal, pointed
to himself.
Every amateur photographer in Tope-
ka has trained his camera on the new
court house.
The police are keeping their eyes on
number of small boys who are harass-
ing young girls.
The argument for a new trial of the
Gaines case has been set for Thursday in
the district court.
The elevator in the new court house
will not run until the district court
moved in, March 2.
The grounds around the Church of the
Assumption are being graded ready for
seeding to blue grass.
When the county commissioners have
a wall built around the new court house
the people will rejoice.
A Topeka man has written a drama
with the death and funeral of w. Fl.
Bossington's dog as a nucleus.
Since December 1 Christ hospital has
cared for sixty-two patients, of which
nineteen were charity patients.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal is at
Hutchinson on business connected with
the defunct Valley State bank.
Gormley's band has new set of in
struments that cost s. 400. The band is
composed of forty-five members.
Dave Naylor and his workmen are
cutting down trees and burning brush on
the south side of the state house square.
David Henderson's Sinbad company
will play a return engagement at the
Grand opera house in this city February
20.
About 700 tons of ice was stored in
the ice house at the state insane asylum
last week, mostly brought from Soldier
creek.
Jailer Hopkins says that he had not
tasted liquor in six monnhs when he was
ta T1nf0d with tina hAaF from nnrQir'1
cellar.
The Swedish American Flambeau club
endorsed three workmen for places on
the state house grounds and they are now
at work.
The Masonic grand lodge is in session
at Wichita and the A. o. U. w. grand
lodge meets at Leavenworth the last of
the week.
The chief of police has a collection of
pictures that he examines oftener than
people generally look at photographs of
their absent friends.
Johnny Collingsworth went through
Topeka Sunday without being arrested.
but he locked himself in an apartment of
the smoking car to do ii.
John Macdonald left yesterday for
jacksonville, Florida, to be present at
the annual meeting of the national asso-
citation of superintendents.
The register of deeds and the treasurer
have sketched pen and ink signs for
the doors of their offices in the new court
house. Signs are needed.
The net profits from the charity ball
were $408 10; $240 went to the Orphans
Home, $3.50 to the Associated Charities
and a $40 special contribution for
Mrs. Thorpe was turned over to her.
If Chief Wilkerson hired q man to
watch supposed burglars and would de-
tect them in the act of robbing a house
would the burglars go free because they
were arrested on the evidence of spot
teri"
J. G. Knox wants to move his creamery
from Hoyt to Topeka if some person
will put up a suitable building aud rent
it to him, There is one mile and half
southwest of town. It was built for a
creamery.
For the second time within a month
the fire department was last night at
6:45 called to the apartments of Miss
Lou Ellsberry in the Hicks fats on West
Sixth street. The chimney was burning
out. No damage.
Judge Hazen last night refused to in
He said "a court of equity ought to keep
hands off and let them fight it out" It
seems to be a case for the president of
the college to settle.
81 have no patience" said ex- Governor
ST. John to the railroad men Sunday,
with the man who will not take and
work hard at the best position he can get,
even il it only makes him a living" and
the railroad men applauded the senti-
msnt.
Mrs. Mary A. Cornelius, president of
the Equal Suffrage association and chair
man of the legislative committee of the
Woman's Kelley league, has issued a
circular to the Legislators of Kansas with
a view to securing state legislation to
furnish pauper insbriates with the Kee-