The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-19
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWS

Captain Welch of 7O9 Topeka avenue, is
| sick with pneumonia.
The people of the First ward can regis
ter at Kane's drug store.
Bert Sutherland, a former Topeka boy,
| is now located at Ell PasO, Tex
The Mid-Continent band gives its an
nual concert tonight at Hamilton hall.
Attorney General Boyle has returned
from a business trip to Fort Scott and
Parsons.
This is the time of year when the city
ordinance prohibits the letting chickens
run loose.
w P Kemper of the Model Supply
Kansas City.
Probate Judge Dolman affords the lux
ury of a new typewriter for his office in
the court house.
There is to be an old-fashioned spelling
bee" at the hall of lodge No. so, Knights
and Ladies of Security.
Miss Augusta Hayes. stenogra pher in
the governors office, left today for a visit
at her home in Lawrence
J. J. Conner and D. P. Paxton of the
Model Supply company. have returned
from trip to New York.
Mrs. Walter J. Veale's best race horse.
Ding" is now being trained by Oscar
Robertson at Leavenworth.
The rain of last night made the grass
green lawns. Spring is here.
But three of the twenty men who were
let off the old Republican police force
have found other employment.
c. C. Sholes. superintendent of tele-
graph for the Santa Fe. went west yes
terday on a tour of inspection.
Eighteen teams will contest for the
hOnorS in the tournament of the Topeka
Whist club which opens tonight.
c. E Gormly. the founder of the Mid
Continent band is now in charge of the
shoe shop at the reform school
A man who has a bonfire of refuse COL
1ected from his front yard should be COM
PEELED to use smoke consumer
The management of the orphans home
have a fine healthy 3-months' old baby
boy for which they want a good home.
Henry F. Asp; solicitor for the Santa
city yesterday. He has gone to Chicago.
A. E. Neal. who represented the Wich-
tia Eagle during the session of the legis-
lature returned home to Wichita yester-
day.
w. F. Knappenberger of Mankato. a
member of the board of regents of the
state normal school, visited the city yes
terday.
/ L. Diesem. well-known irrigator Of
Garden City was a caller at the Santa
Fe offices today He used to live at Sill
yer Lake.
Patrolman Close last evening arrested
two tramps for begging on the streets.
George Abbott.
ported as favorable to the Citizen
ticket" says that he is going to vote for
Mayor Fellows.
Burning dead leaves and grass, Prac-
tice now very general in this city, is hav-
ing the. usual result of making a man
despise his neighbors.
S. s. McFadden. city clerk, says he
would rather pay 500 more to have the
Australian ballots used at primaries in
which he is a candidate
o. NJ. Capron, who has been appointed
city detective, is quite an athlete and is
said to be as physically perfect as Cor
bett. He is handSomer man, too
After all, the shillelah fight which was
to have been fought, by Larry Sheehan
and John Coyne, was settled by the latter
giving a party and inviting Sheehan to it.
The financial affairs of Shawnee county
are in much better condition than they
were this time last year. The semi-an-
nual taxes will begin to fall due June
next.
Adjutant General Hiram Allen is at his
home in Williamsburg. He will not re-
turn to Topeka until Monday. Before go
ing home Mr.. Allen experienced a week 3
sickness.
The city Jail board bill for March will
be a large one There have been on an
average of 25 prisoners there all the
month. and this means daily expense
of $3.50.
George Slxaggs. a colored man. is under
arrest charged with having stolen a pair
of horse clippers from the building where
Undertaken J. M Knight keeps his
horses and carriag es.
The prisoners at the city Jail have had