The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-27
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Iockjaw.
Washburn will play the Ottawa foot ball
team in Topeka on Monday.
Today's rain and mist sent a number
of duck hunters to the country.
The fifty-eighth Kansas supreme court
reports will be issued in January.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Freeman are NOV
ing to the Copeland for the winter.
The state convention of the Y. NJ. c. A.
will be held at Lawrence November 11-14
The fifth report of the Kansas court
of appeals is being prepared for publica-
ton.
The Topeka Athletic association has
moved into the new rooms in the Masonic
building.
State Printer Parks and w. E. Bush
secretary of state, have been accepted as
members of the Elks.
Roy Armstrong, clerk in the office of
the master mechanic of the Santa Fe at
Ottawa, is visiting in this city.
Thomas A. Scates returned home to
Liberal last night, having spent the day
transacting business in the city.
Eight new members have been taken
into the Topeka whist club this month,
bringing the membership up to 20.
A ladies' tournament, to be participated
in by wives of members, is to be arranged
in connection with the Topeka whist club
this year.
The state dental convention will be held
in Topeka early next spring. Ottawa
people tried to get it held there, but To-
peka won.
The Topeka whist club has this year ar
ranged to present a gold medal to the
winning team of the Monday evening
tournament.
Colonel IT w Harrison Homer q Row
man and w. w. Phillips were members of
the Scottish Rite Mason class in Wash
ington last week.
The office rooms in the Jewell building
are now ready for occupancy. The Of
flee rooms in the Hogeboom building will
be ready next week.
The revised and annotated statutes
which are being prepared under the su-
pervision of Judge w. c. Webb will be
ready for delivery in two weeks.
The Rathbone Sisters in this city will
give a dance for the Knights of Pythias
and their friends at the K. of P. hall
on the evening of November 10.
Billy Edwards cement sidewalks around
the state house grounds are growing
weaker each day. Great cracks in the
masonry appear after each frost.
The Topeka Equestrian club will meet
this evening at o'clock instead of 7:9O
o'clock. Business of Importance will
come up for consideration tonight
The police think that the fellow who
was arrested here with three grips full
of clothing is named Johnson Jordan and
that he is wanted at Leavenworth for
theft.
The state treasurer has experienced
some difficulty in running the department
this week because of the absence of
a, visit.
General Passenger Agent Black of the
Santa Fe returned yesterday afternoon
after making the trip to Albuquerque, N.
M, on the first California limited train
out of Chicago.
The state treasurer has received from
Kingman county $3.612.33 delinquent
state taxes and interest. Washington
county has also remitted $9S1.66 the
delinquent tax account.
A horse and buggy owned by Jefferson
Brown, a young colOred man employed
by Howell Jones, was stolen from a barn
between Ninth and Tenth streets on Kan
sas avenue last night. The matter has
been reported to the police.
General Superintendent Nudge and Su-
perintendent of Telegraph Sholes of the
Santa Fe left this morning for an inspec-
ton tour over the southern and southern
Kansas divisions of the road. The Of
ficials will be absent three days.
The Republican and Populist state COM
rnittees are issuing daily manifestoes in
the dispute concerning the penitentiary
coal mine and the state treasury dehcien-
cy controversies. Both are making fran
tic effort to attach the responsibility to
the other party.
1t is estimated that sixteen trolley cars
IoNvN her
/ This is four less than those now in
service, accordingly one car each will be
taken off four of the lines until the re-
naming vestibuIes are finished. That
will require but four or five days.
The police were called yesterday after
noon to Ninth and Madison streets to kill
a dog which was supposed to be mad.
1t was at the residence of George Wade.
The animal had come to his house several
weeks ago and he kept it. The past day
or two it manifested rabies. Patrol
Driver Heartburg shot the dog.
William Allen White of the Emporia
Gazette has the leading article in the
November number of Scribner's. 1t is
one of the series on the Conduct of I'm
portant Business and is called 1.-The
Business of a Wheat Farm" 1t is Illus
trated by eighteen pictures, some of them
full pages.
Invitations have been sent to the
friends of the members of the Topeka Ath-
Ietic association extending to them the
courtesies of the club rooms on Friday
night The new billiard room will be for
rnally opened on that night The floor
of the old billiard room on the second
floor has been waxed for dancing. Wat
sons orchestra will be stationed in one
end and there will be dancing from to
IL o'clock. The billiard and pool tables,
the bowling alleys and gymnasium will
be used for the entertainment of the vis-
itors.
Billiards. Horehound Syrup is the
best known remedy for Consumption,
Coughs, Colds and all Throat and Chest
Troubles. Every bottle is guaranteed.