The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-24
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Mr.. John f. McManus has returned
from st. Louis.
Chas. L. Brown returned to Arkansas
City last night.
James Wick is going to move. Reason:
Burglars too thick.
The Kansas division L. A. w. has $764
cash in the treasury.
It will take 200 horses to haul the floats
in the Santa Fe parade.
The executive council of the state will
meet tomorrow afternoon.
Reverend Francis Brandt preached at
the reform school Sunday.
A K. Wilson, grand secretary Masonic
lodge of Kansas, is in Chicago.
]. E. PAUL of the office of secretary of
state is visiting at his home in Ellsworth.
Police Matron Thorpe says she has the
names of 20 good girls willing to do house
work
W. A. Topping of the state auditors
! office is out of the city for weeks va
cation
A s. Huling of this city is the latest
addition to the L. A. w. membership in
Kansas.
I. E. Lambert, the new United States
district attorney will not move his fam
lily to Topeka.
The mother of Attorney General Boyle
is slowly sinking and is expected to live
but a short time.
The Dailey-Epps minstrel aggregation
will give performance at the reform
school next Saturday night.
The grocers and clerks will get their
umbrellas at Sain & SINNERS office to-
| morrow morning at o'clock.
The wooden steps. at the rear of the
Crawford Opera House are being replaced
| bV a Dermanent iron structure.
| Mr.. E. L. Copeland, cashier in the
| office of the treasurer of the Santa Fe, is
confined to his home by illness.
| State Auditor Morris and wife and Sec
| retary Bush and wife have returned from
weeks vacation in the Black Hills.
| The society boys ball game yesterday
| at Athletic park resulted in victory for
| HowelIs team by score of 16 to Is.
Clerk Sharitt of the federal court has
! filed new bond for $40 900. His sureties
are Willard Hall and Frank G. Willard.
/ The union barber shops will close from
1 p. to p. M. account of the Gro
GERS and Butchers picnic Wednesday.
| George Stansfield went to Chicago today
| to meet Mrs. Stansfield, who is returning
home from spending the summer in Bos-
| ton.
| There will be a called meeting of the
general Fraternal day committee on next
| Monday at the parlors of the Commercial
| club.
| Mr.. L. M Jones, chief clerk in the tele-
! graph department of the Santa Fe, has
returned after spending two weeks va
| cation in Chicago.
| Miss Daisy Smith, stenographer in the
general freight department of the Santa
Fe has gone to her home in Oskaloosa,
| Ia, to spend vacation.
| TvtJa DreSidept Of COIored
| State Free Silver league, has gone to
| Quincy, 1lI.,t attend the national conven-
| ton of colored silver clubs
! Capt. ]. G. Waters says he wants every
! stockman in Kansas at the injunction
| hearing at Emporia tomorrow. He has
sent out so notices to stockmen.
| Chief wilmarth of the Topeka fire de-
! partment,' who is now attending the ma
tiona1 convention of fire chiefs in New
Haven. is taking an active part in the
proceedings.
The work of placing the Rock Island
| trademark in the platform at the depot
| in this city has been commenced. The
trademark will be in red, white and
| blue cement.
Under the caption Self Made Railroad
| Men, a photograph and biographical
sketch of General Manager J. J. Frey of
| the Santa Fe appears in the last issue of
| the Railway Conductor.
The secretary of state in accordance
| with authority conferred by the last legis-
lature has had printed and is now send
! ing out copies of the Australian ballot
| law as it was amended.
| Mr.. NJ. Bishop, the Rock Island bridge
| foreman who was badly injured by fall
| ing through bridge in western Kansas
several weeks ago. has been discharged
| from the Santa Fe hospital.
! The wind has been from the north or
the northwest for is days; and this is
what makes the Moeser ice factory
| whistle such nuisance to the residence
section on this side of the river.
Mr.. Roy Putnam has resumed his work
! in the office of the Missouri & Kansas
| Car Service association after several
weeks confinement at the Santa Fe hos
| pital on account of badly sprained an
| kle.
Mr.. o. A Pier, formerly with the Rock
| Island in this city but now chief dis
patcher of the road at Herington, was in
Topeka yesterday afternoon on his way