The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

Councilman Elliott is able to be on the
streets.
The second T. A. A. bowling tourna-
ment opens next week
The latest forgery is on meal tickets
at Topeka restaurants
There were six contestants in the high
school oratorical contest last night
Mr.. W. q. Leib is able to be out hav-
ing recovered from his recent illness.
The membership OF the Mystic Broth
erhood is to be kept secret If possible.
Scott Kelsey will succeed ]. L Camp
bell az county commissioner next Tues
day.
The city is swarming with frauds who
beg, says Mrs. Thorpe Look out for
them.
Sam Radges has a trained bird. He
says everything he has about him is
trained
This has been the "Week of Prayer"
but there has not been much said about
it in Topeka.
Sam Radges sells about three hundred
copies of his city directory to out Of town
business men.
Dennis Dumford and Charles Timme1l
have been taken to the reformatory from
the county Jail.
Secretary of State Edwards and his
Kansas boomers are expected home from
Illinois tomorrow.
Two councilmen quit chewing tobacco
on Jan. /. People are getting nicer and
cleaner every day.
Some of the trees in the county jail
yard are being ruined by piling broken
stone around them.
Superintendent Tromp of the new
court house says that the court rooms will
not be completed by Feb /.
This ia the aIavauth of January and
there never was a mere ideal morning in
any May. This is Kansas.
A Topeka poet has pasted over his
desk a piacard which says: "Poetry
written to order while you wait"
The Washburn college papers, the
Mid Continent and Reporter are at war.
The Reporter is the winner up to date.
Three copies OF Sam Radges' new
directory have been sent to London and
one copy has been ordered from Paris.
The nurses employed at Dr. Wards
private hospital in POtwin presented the
doctor recently with a handsome gold
headed cane.
Judgment has been found against
"Tiger Bilr Campbell. of Wichita, for
that $55 room rent, but he says the 6. a
X. must pay it.
There is 81 .9s in the treasury of the
state agricultural society which Trea-
care of for years.
scope" Gordon is trying to think of
some, scheme by which he induce
Governor Morrill, to call an extra session
of the Legislature.
Bank Commissioner Breidentha1 is
now busy compiling the statements show
ing the condition of the Kansas banks on
December "a last.
The south wall of the high school
building these warm days has been
covered with red bugs as big as beans.
Where did they come from?
A colored man on Kansas avenue
whistling "Listen to the Mocking Bird
and other melodies attracted consider
able attention yesterday afternoon.
A grain of coffee was removed from
the windpipe of two year old child at
Christ hospital Thursday. The coffee had
been fast in the windpipe for a week
Councilman Skinner will introduce a
resolution at the next council meeting to
cut off Commissioner of Elections
McMasters' allowance for clerk hire.
The earth taken out of the coal and
ash tunnel at the state house is being
used to fill up the low places on the |
southwest corner of the state house
square.
Al Benjamin, representing the Aber- |
nathy Furniture company of Kansas |
City, has arranged with George W. Crane |
for the issuance of the company's cata- |
logue.
I. E. Pirtle of Council Grove, broth
er of w. j. Pirtle, of the Santa Fee claim |
department, has taken a position with |
the Santa Fee watch and clock company |
in this city.
Judge Bassett of Ellsworth. Kansas, |
well known throughout the state, who |
had one leg amputated at the thigh ten
days ago, is reported by the attending |
surgeon to be convalescing.
a Topeka man was very much sur
prised to learn that he would be COM
PEELED to pay the water company for the |
water used in mixing the plastering for
his new house. 1t cost him $685..
Judge R B. Spillman has decided |
against Mrs. Leland ]. Webb in the suit
brought for $4,000 insurance money from
the A. .. .. w. He decided that Webb
had been suspended before his death.
Topeka man who holds city office
don't like to have it mentioned because
1t interferes with his business He SAYS
when he asks people for business they
say "Why thought you were city"
The Topeka Mail makes the announce
ment that Congressman Charles Curtis
Is the most popular man in Shawnee
county, and has been SO decided in the
Mails voting contest Major T. J.
Anderson was close second.
A charity balr' according to correct
principles is said 20 be one in which
every participant displays wealth as
much as possible. Tickets ought to be
20 or $40 and every lady present should
have new gown for the occasion.
chair occupied by a woman broke
down at the agricultural meeting last
night. The woman must have been
fal lint he |
did when she got up was to re-adiust her
hat.