The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-27


morrow evening.
Shawnee county farmers are shipping
apples by the car load at an average price
of about 81 a barrel.
Geese will take the place of turkeys at
the Christmas dinner for the convicts at
the state penitentiary.
Many of the state house employees and
officers will continue their Thanksgiving
vacation until Monday.
The colored Knights TempIar have re-
turned from Kansas City, where they
won the competitive drill.
Stockton is to have a new creamery
The company has been organized and a
charter has been secured.
The bridge contractors have named Jan
uary 1 as the date for the completion of
the Kansas avenue bridge.
A. D. Henley, who has been visiting in
Topeka and exhibiting the chainIess BIZ
cycle. went to Kansas City today.
Burglars have twice attempted to gain
entrance to the home of T. B. Sweet, cor
ner of Third and Topeka avenues.
P. c. Lyon of Leavenworth, travelling
passenger agent for the Missouri Pacific,
was in Topeka yesterday afternoon.
F. D. Coburn, secretary of the state
board of agriculture, has returned from a
Thanksgiving visit at his home in Kansas
City.
The state treasurer is sending out no
tees to the various counties calling for
the payment of interest on school bond
coupons
Think of it, shades of early Populism.
Ex-Governor Lewelling takes an occa~
sionaI meal at the Copeland, the Repub~
1ican hotel.
December 1, after the railroads have
paid their taxes and money from other
sources is received the state treasurer will
have $246. 600.
Patrolman Frank Whitaker had the
bullet hole in his coat patched with new
cloth and he keeps the piece taken out
as mementO-
James Scu1Iy, the local comedian, was a
member of the Beach & Bowers Minstrel
company when it was first organized sew
eraI years ago.
DR.. Robert L. Greene, physician in
charge of the Santa Fe hospital, and Mrs.
Greene, returned this week after two
weeks visit in Texas.
The superintendent of insurance is send
ing out the necessary blanks upon which
the various insurance companies will
make their annual reports.
Boys wishing to buy tobacco go into a
store and say they were sent in to get
tobacco by a man. The storekeeper sells
the tobacco and technically the law is not
violated.
Only emergency cases are being taken
at the Salvation Army hospital After
January 1. if the subscriptions are large
enough, the capacity of the hospital win
be enlarged.
Classic interpretations by Miss Kath-
arine AIvord will form the next number
i,rI, To-,
Alvord comes to the Crawford theater on
December q
Now that the hurrying pedestrians have
diagonal walks in the state house grounds
it has become necessary to put UP signs
asking them to stay on the walks and
save the grass.
The BelleviHe Telephone company has
been incorporated. A large number of
towns along the Rock Island are putting
in telephones. The plant at Clay Center
is being completed.
Mrs Fannie Beardsley, who was for
many years clerk in the adjutant gem
erals office, has started a grocery store
on the west side of Kansas avenue be
tween Ninth and Tenth.
E. r. Maupin, an employee of the Santa
Fe shops. was painfully injured while
crossing the Santa Fe bridge yesterday
He slipped and fell with his legs between
two trestles, badly bruising his body and
limbs.
Washburn. flushed with recent victories
on the foot ball field, is ready to play
anyone. a challenge has been sent TO
the Ottawa eleven for a game in the near
future. The two teams played here sew
eral weeks ago and Ottawa won, 10 to 4.
The state board of railroad commission,
ers has decided that Elyria. Mcpherson
county does not do sufficient business to
demand the services of telegraph oper-
ator and the petition against the Santa Fe
filed by citizens of that place has been