The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-16

But why we should fuss
On the kind, don't see,
For amy old money
Is welcome to me.
Almost all the county officers drink
mineral water.
There was just enough rain last night
to sprinkle the lawns.
There We're four separate picnfcs at
Garfield park yesterday.
1t is cooler. P. S.-This snap shot
was written in the morning.
A drummer is making a canvass of
the city distributing cigarettes.
The weather threatened a big rain
storm last night but it didn't come
A new brick sidewalk has been laid
in front of the Grand Opera House
John Macdonald is in Salina where
he is visiting the teachers institute.
A Topeka woman whose pet cat died
last night donned mourning today. f'
A new sidewalk is being laid on the
Topeka avenue side of Huntoon park.
Corn around Topeka is willing from
the effect of the heat and dry weather.
E. D. McKeevers father lives in JEFF
ferson county and is a radical POpu-
list.
Ex-Polfce Commissioner L. T. Yount
viii attend the Populist convention in
st. Louis.
A few men were courageous enough
to venture on the streets yesterday in
their shirt sleeves.
The most beautiful and pleasant eve
ming drive around Topeka is through
POtWin and Auburndale.
The Snow-HamiIton controversy
| threatens to stretch out in the coming
years in the Kansas courts.
! best informed men on revolutionary
history of any man in Topeka.
There is a hay war among feed men
| on the north side and the price of bail
ed hay has been reduced to 10 cents.
Work has been commenced at grad
ing Huntoon park. Gravel walks like
those in the state house grounds will
| be built
The gold men are circulating a
| pamphlet which was gotten up in To
! peka under the title: plain Talk About
| Free Silver"
The first fambeau parade of the
| campaign with fireworks will take place
| Saturday evening, July 25, at the Bry-
! an ratification.
w. F. Federman, who used to be en-
! ployed in the state auditors office and
who was a radical Republican, says
! he will vote for Bryan.
The elevator in the Columbian build
! ing often does not run during the noon
| hour, and fourth floor visitors groan
! when a trip is necessary.
| NJ A. Low, president of the Rock Is
! land, has pet parrot at his residence
| which supplies the neighbOrhOOd with
all kinds of poIly-ticaI talk.
| A Topeka young man who will spend
the winter in Kansas City, says he is
1,5e- 171
| can go to see some good theaters there.
An informal reception is being given
Mrs. Julia A. Chase of Hiawatha by
the w. r. c. of which she is state pres
ident, at the National hotel this after
noon.
They are not making as fast time
| over at LeavenwOrth as we did," said
Frank H. Foster to a State Journal re-
! porter. But they are having bigger
/ crowds"
The games played here this week with
Junction City are not league games
The ones following, however, will be-
| The schedule will be made Saturday
for the season.
About 40 of the Republican FIambeau
club were out parading on Kansas ave-
| nue. last night in their white suits and
with their hambeaux lighted. They
made a pretty sight.
Albert Horton, son of Judge A. H
| Horton, is in Colorado for the benefit OF
| his health. but it is reported that he is
| worse. He is one of the Topeka boys
| who fell sick at Lawrence university
| last winter.
a horse hitched to a phaeton buggy
| the property of ex-City Marshal Hill
| of Potwin, ran away yesterday. He rar
fully half a mile through the business
| streets before he was stopped. Little
damage was done.
man is in town soliciting advertise
ments to be painted on a big board tC
| be placed on the Kansas avenue island
! during the fall festival. AS a matter OF
! fact the island will be cut out by the
| bridge builders before the Fail Festival
At the Chicago convention buttons
/ were distributed on which were the
picture of a man hanging onto a lamp
/ post with his hat on the ground
Around the picture were the words
Tell them that you saw me and that
I was looking WE'LL