The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-07
SNAP SHOTS ATHOMENEWS

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| There is an extra supply of fakirs in
Topeka now.
The Topeka base ball team will go to
| Abilene tomorrow.
Mr.. L. S. Woolverton is spending a few
| days in Kansas City.
| Webb Stevenson is taking his vacation
and is following the state circuit bicycle
] races.
1t begins to look as if the new bridge
| might be almost finished for the Fall
| Festival
Col Sam Radges has laid his heavy
overcoat away for either very hot or very
| cold weather.
Arthur Murphy. bookkeeper of the Hall
Lithographing company, is taking a two
weeks vacation.
Zip Sebree. trainmaster of the c., R. L
e. P. at Fort Worth, Tex, is in the city
on railroad business.
Miller, who played third base for the
| Topeka base ball team and deserted, is
now with Junction City.
The Salvation Army hospital now has
eight patients in it. By crowding thir-
teen have been kept there.
r. W. Blair of the Union Pacific and
Charles Currier planning a fishing
and hunting trip to the Rockies.
w. B. Houston of Council Bluffs, Ia,
is in the city visiting the family of A.
W. Lacey at 700 Topeka avenue.
Mr.. Edward Lange of go Van Buren,
street. has presented Mrs. Lange with a
horse and surrey a birthday gift.
Mr.. F. S. Savage of the general passen-
ger department of the Santa Fe, has
turned from Chicago with his family.
The Kansas Medical college will open
for the season of 1878 on September IA.
The season will continue twenty-six
weeks.
Mr.. H. A. Utterman is training a num-
Der of horses for the tournament to be
given under his direction during the Fall
Festival
H. NJ. Phillips. candidate for the office
of county treasurer, lost some garden
tools and harness recently at the hands
of burglars.
p A Topeka lithographing company has
received an order for a large job of litho-
graphing and bank supplies from British
Columbia.
Mr.. E. c. Fowler has taken a position
in the office of the auditor of freight re-
ceipts of the Santa Fe. Mr.. Fowler was
formerly employed in that department.
Col. w. P. Tomlinson. who was one of
the most rabid of the Free Silver Demo-
Gratis last year, has experienced a change
u AeeIl anu AOW says Tie Silver wave
is receding.''
Eddie Foy, the comedian, who has been
seen in this city in a number of Hender-
sons productions, and last year in "Off
the Earth" will appear I'm Gay New
York" the coming season The produc-
ton will visit Topeka during the winter.
Police Matron Thorpe says that the rea-
son so many young colored people are
bad is because the parents don't train
them properly while they are young.
Which is also the reason why young
white people are bad.
The people who stood on the streets for
two hours last night waiting for the BIZ
cycle parade went home greatly disap-
pointed Care should be taken not to adj
vertise a feature which provisions
have been made to give.
Edward A. Crane, special government
commissioner, is in Topeka and will re-
port the proposition to purchase the
two lots north of the postoffice. The ap
for that purpose is S35 900, but
SO, 900 may be used to remodel the st.
Nicholas hotel building.
Ed McKeever received letter from a
Kansas City paper asking him to give the
best reason for the calling of a special
session of the legislature He replied
Because some of the legislators could
get their railroad passes renewed, and So
a day would be a mighty handy thing
with which to buy Christmas presents"