The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-13
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


The mail carriers deliver mail to the
joints.
AuburndaIe has a whist club in full
swing.
More than a dozen hunting parties went
to the country today.
The Council Grove Library association
has been Incorporated.
Women arrested by the police are still
locked in the county Jail.
Work on the entrances to the state
house is progressing slowly.
Bets on the result of the election of
sheriff have not yet been paid.
Ex-United States Senator John Martin
was So years of age yesterday.
County Auditor Pagan was superintend-
ent of the state reform school two years.
Oysters in the half shell can now be OBJ
tanned at some of the Topeka restaurants.
Mayor VIII Smith of Lecompton trans
acted business in Topeka yesterday after
noon.
One hundred and seventy-hve are en-
rolled in the educational class of the Y.
W. c. A.
The Topeka stamp and coin collectors
sas avenue.
will remain closed during the winter.
May 1st it will be reopened.
The east side of Kansas avenue from
Fourth to Fifth streets is known to the
merchants there as wall street."
The thirty-frst annual meeting of the
State Horticultural society will be held
in Topeka December IS, % and 80.
A crowd of young Republicans headed
by John CLANCY and James E. Larimer
is organizing a committee of sixteen
Ensign Hawk of the Salvation Army re-
turned today from Kansas City, where
he has been attending a council meeting.
But one man was fined for violating
the rules of the Informal club by appear
ing in full dress at the party last night.
The contractors who were successful in
bidding for the state house dome work
have filed their bonds with the secretary
of state.
When the chainless wheel is put on the
market in Topeka, dealers say it will
have a large sale. Eastern cyclists praise
it highly.
The Republican state committee will de-
eide today whether or not the state cam
paign headquarters will be maintained
during the winter.
Mrs. S. L. Ruggles leaves tomorrow to
spend the winter in Youngstown. o. She
will be accompanied to Chicago by her
son, Robert Ruggles.
The executive committee of the State
Temperance union met last night and
fixed February 1 and as the dates for
the annual convention.
The reception to the kindergarten teach
ers and officers last evening at the Col
ored Congregational church at King and
Clay streets was a credttable affair.
A West Fourth street car went off the
track at Eighth and Jackson yesterday
afternoon and all the men in the neigh
borhood helped push it back on the rails.
The manager of the Topeka high school
foot ball team received a telegram yes
terday requesting that the TOpeka-Atch-
ison game scheduled for today be post
poned.
Edward Kidney, an inmate of the
Hutchinson refOrma tory, was pardoned by
Governor Leedy today in order that he
might take care of his parents, who are
very needy.
There is an 'iron-jawed'' man in To-
peka who has front tooth out. His
performance consists in whirling a boy
attached to a rope around until he is too
dizzy to stand.
The report of State Grain Inspector
Culver, filed with the auditor of state,
indicates that the fees collected during
October amounted to 81 ,O66.55. The ex-
penses of the department were SO, 1888.
A young married couple the husband
carrying the baby which was to be pho
tographed, walked up and down Kansas
avenue for two hours yesterday after
noon inspecting the pictures displayed in
windows, looking for the best place in
town.
Police Matron Thorpe says that the
number of destitute cases in Topeka is in
creasing as the winter approaches. In
many of the poor families there are either
demented or feeble-minded people, which
fact adds to the care and misery of the
rest 1t is estimated that there are at
least one thousand people in the city of
Topeka who will have to be taken care
of by the public at large. In Sparta they
used to kill them, which shows how far
we have progressed beyond Sparta in hui
manity.