The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-04
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

This weather is fooling even the grass.
1t Is turning green.
Lieutenant Governor Troutman has re-
turned from Chicago.
The Commercial club meets at the
National this evening.
Many years ago Jailer Disbrow lived
on farm near Auburn.
The first Shawnee county court house
was built at Tecumseh.
Elk Police Captain Gish Is now re-
porter on the Co-operator.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Skaggs of Oak
land are the parents of a daughter.
S. N. Wood, who has been seriously
sick with pneumonia is much better
The railroad commissioners office is
the hottest place in the state house.
The regular annual trial of the Hill
mon case will begin again next month.
II. G. Larimer is to make temperance
speech at Vidette next Sunday after
noon.
The floor of the new district court
room is sloped at the rear like an opera
house.
The new paper gives the Office at the
county Jail much pleasanter appear
ance
The county attorney and poor commits
sioner have moved their Offices into the
new court house.
c. E. Bigelow is at his desk in the state
labor commissioners office after a two
weeks sick spell.
E. P. OFT, land agent of the Santa Fe
at hinsley, Kan, is visiting his brother,
S. S. OFT, in this city.
The county officials who have already
| moved into the new court house are
overrun with sightseers.
Board walks are being laid at the new
| and are only temporary.
Mr.. c. J. Brown, clerk of the supreme
| court, has returned from weeks bust
| ness trip through Texas.
| Superintendent of Schools Davidson
still has a very bad cold and is confined
to his home part OF the time.
Alonzo De Garcia is a Mexican boy
who lives with A. A. Robinson and at
tends jackson street school.
Miss Laura Radford, state secretary of
The Young Women's Christian associa-
tioD, is at Leavenworth this week.
Judge John W. Day, of Topeka, is the
only Republi candidate for Judge
Clark's seat in the appellate court
Parents ought to read their children's
| Excelsior readers and see if they are full
OF errors and blunders as is charged.
Mr.. J. P. Davis says that nothing can
induce him to be candidate for coun-
Gilman from the Third or any other
! ward.
C. II. Nettles has gone to Kansas
City, where he will report the famous
Linwood wreck cases in the Federal
court.
The commissioner of the poor says he
| will feel thankful if his expenditures
| for January do not amount to more than
| $1,000.
The office of the Kansas Christian Ad-
vocate has been moved from the Man
speaker building to the basement of the
Office block.
Bishop j. II. Vincent will speak on
Palestine at the Tourists club of the
| Young Women's Christian association
this evening.
| A locked railing will prevent specta-
| tors from surging up on the witnesses and
| lawyers in the new court house as they
do in the old one.
| The young woman who has been hand
! ling the newspapers in the rooms OF the
| state historical society has thrown up her
place 10 get MARK d.
! Poor Commissioner Hale has a corner
| basement room in the new court house,
and the other officials refer to his place
as 'the corner grocery"
! Indictment by the grand jury and
board at the county jail comes like a
| blessing TO JO1QtlSk Cam blOUG, VINO spent
| last winter at the poor farm.
Governor Morrill, usually rides from
| Hiawatha to Horton in a stage coach
coming to Topeka, but the roads are now
| SO bad the stage can't run.
| Frank Payne, who says he lives at
Alma, admitted that he is vagrant, but
said he could not find work, was fined So
this morning by Police Judge Ferry.
Sentimental girl stenographers who at
tended the Coulter trial are wearing slips
| of paper next their hearts with the sig
nature of the boy murderer Oh shem.
It has been a sort of m:suomer to
speak of the Jury box" at the old dis
trict court room. It will not be at the
new. for real box has been constructed.
The officers of the state temperance
union will within a few days send no.
tees out to all the preachers in the state
| asking them to observe Temperance Sun
day.
Three beggars appeared at Mrs.
| Thorpe's today and said they lived in
| Potwin. This is unusual. 1t is about
the first case on record of beggars from
| Potwin.
Those now in the new court house are
county attorney, clerk, treasurer, register
of deeds, county superintendent, poor COM
missioner, probate judge, county commits
| sioners.
Although there will be nothing to &c
| into the north court room in the new
building. it is nearing completion faster
| than the district court room, which is
badly needed
Cd. Small, assistant cashier of the
| American bank in North Topeka, has
| been informed that he is the father of g
daughter. Mrs. Small is visiting rela
| tives at Bloomington, Ill.
Elk Street Commissioner Naylor says
the cross walks in the western portion o.
the city have not been cleaned during
| the muddy Weather. but some of them