The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-04
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

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There are $500 male voters registered.
There are now two cases of diphtheria
in the city.
| Potwin will build an addition to its
school house before long.
Id. Mcfarland has moved his law Of
fee to the Real Estate building.
x-Chief of Police Wilkerson is said
/ to be worth in the neighborhood OF $oO,-
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P. Q. Davis has sold his harness store
at 7l6 Kansas avenue to Bradshaw q
Friend
A Topeka man proposes to invent snow
shoes for his bicycle and be ready Tor
next winter.
| United States Commissioners Mileham
says that the business of his office amounts
| to next to nothing.
A Topeka weather prophet says that
\ there will be seventeen days of bad
weather this month.
The Equal Suffrage association will
meet in the parlors of the Throop hotel
| tomorrow afternoon at $3.50.
| Ex-Chief of Police Wilkerson has the
revolver carried by DR.. Fraker, the
| famous insurance swlndler.
Some lawyers get more excited when
arguing to jury over money than in
| bAGAE AAoA pAOoSs
The light in County Treasurer Stahps
| office is not very good, and an electric
| light is burned continually.
The district court jurors like their
opera chairs so we'll that they will hardly
leave them during adjournment
The Sporting News says that Dick
Cooley was offered only 81, 500 for this
season by Chris Won der Ahe.
A new monthly paper, called "The
| Typewriter" has made its appearance in
Topeka. Eugene Smith is the editor.
The coal hole committee has made no
report. OF course we want that $4,000
for bridge approaches, or something else
nice.
West Fifth street, between Kansas
avenue and Van Buren,, is lively place
now that the court house has been fully
occupied.
A Topeka bard says he will write
combination poem on spring and beauti-
full snow, so as to be sure to cover the
ground.
Joe Waters is already three days be-
hind time with his annual spring poem;
it might be said that spring is also three
days behind.
Tony Brown, who has gone into bust
ness for himself, has his cards printed
'.Anthony Brown" and no one knows
who is meant
W. W. Leaning of 1I40 North Jeffer-
son street picked up lost pocket book
on Kansas avenue yesterday containing
small sum of money.
Governor Morrill, did not attend the
opening session of the State Temperance
union, but he had representatives there
to look after his interests.
The trade of the court house grocer,
A. G. Hale, proprietor, is always poor on
sloppy days like yesterday. Poor people
don't like to shop on bad days.
Rev. John A. Bright will address the
Young Peoples society at the Swedish
Evangelist Lutheran church, corner
Fourth and Tyler street. tonight.
Some Potwin people are talking of in
Producing high school course in their
school. Potwin pays about $125 month
TO Topeka for high school privileges.
John Coyne is carefully measuring the
poker chip which District Judge Hazen
used to call the attorneys to order with
in the Gaines and Coulter murder cases.
Captain J. B. Doncyson, of the T. A.
A. W., says that the complete schedule
of all the Sunday road runs to be made
during the season will be ready by
April 1.
Rev. J. G. Dougherty who wants Gov
ernor Morrill, to abolish the police COM
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is the acting secretary of the State Tenn
perance union convention.
Objectionable characters who have
friends in the county Jail wonder why
they can never strike the right visiting
day. The jailer tells them a different
day every time they come.
The witness stand in the district court
has been turned so that the witness faces
the examining attorneys, with his right
aide to the jury and his left to the iudge
Stenographer Ralph CAV has to excuse
the witnesses back.
Some of the Topeka suffrage workers
are threatening to tell some "awfuI
things" about the way Helen Cougar was
Htreated" by two prominent Republicans
when she was here during the last session
of the Legislature.
The March number of the Jenuess
Miller magazine contains three pictures
which were submitted by William NJ
Lyon, of this city, in the prize amateur
Photographic contest. They are all pic
lures of children.
A Topeka man who never advertises
writes long articles for the papers when
ever his business gets him into trouble.
Doesn't he know that people never read
the papers. What's the use of writing
to them when you're in trouble.
Candy Got Her Property.