The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-17

| Fourth streets and Kansas avenue to-
morrow, Thursday evening, at 7:30, tc
elect officers.
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS
A wooden frame bicycle has reacher To
| peka.
Mrs. f. L. Kreamer. of Denver, is Wis
| iting friends in Topeka.
D. o. McCray has returned from a bust.
| ness trip to Chicago.
Born. to Professor and Mrs. Palmer, OF
| Washburn college, daughter.
1t will cost about &, 500 to vestibule the
| street cars on the city railroad.
w. c. F. Reichenbach has received his
| 1897 style of bicycle. 1t is a Heating.
The east entrance to the state house is
| used to advertise an irrigation pump.
The kindergartens are opening after be-
| ing closed during the winter months
D. L. Sullivan of ST. Louis. Christian
| Science healer, is visiting in the city.
| Edward Coomer has bought the six
! room house at 519 Tyler street for 900.
]. w. Gleed is in New York. Chas. S
| Gleed arrived home today from the east.
Police Commissioner NJ D. Henderson
is often in attendance at police court ses-
W. E. Dandy is building a $500 addition
to his residence at (old MOI 1853 Tyler
street.
son was looking around the state house
today.
| to Denver.
| T. -
| companied her son on the excursion trip
| to Port Arthur.
The. various political headquarters are
| practically deserted since the close OF
| the legislature.
Lieutenant Governor Harvey has moved
| from Martin & Dennis addition to 120s
| Western avenue.
F. c. Cay, general freight agent of the
Santa Fe, went to Denver yesterday on
official business.
o. A. Pier, now chief dispatcher of the
Rock Island at Harrington, spent yester>
| day in this city.
Prof. G. w. Jackson will go to Wash
his fathers estate.
The janitors of the court house are
court house grounds.
Prof. Geo. W. Jackson will play a from;
Congregational church.
The Ancient Order of Pyramids will
! give dance for members of the order and
their friends at its hall tonight
Pink Pursley was yesterday fined 500
for selling liquor, by Police Judge w. z.
Atchison. He had pleaded guilty.
Attorney General Boyle will return to
the city Thursday from a business trip to
Kansas City, Oswego and Parsons.
Bob Frost, who beat his brother few
days ago. yesterday pleaded guilty to as
sault in police court and was fined $40.
The Topeka Turn Verein will give an
entertainment at their hall tonight. There
will be exhibition drills by the classes.
John (NIcKinley) Wiley, who is somee
thing of a detective. caught a chicken
InlSI IN NOTIn topeka the Okner evening"
The most thrifty boy in town is but II
years old. He attends school and after
school sells tea and coffee to his neigh
There is at present an epidemic of
measles in this city. Fully fifty cases
cases have been reported to the sanitary
Special Policeman Yonkens lived for
several years out on the frontier and he
old time.
The Topeka Trotting association has
discovered that it has $50 in the treasury
and the meeting has been called to declare
a dividend.
E. ]. Cartridge returned to the city to-
day after a visit IN st Joe. Mo, with
seven years.
The January term of the district court
is about over, and only cases of minor
Importance are now occupying Judge Haz-
ems attention.
The Topeka Philosophical society will
meet this evening when B. B. Smythe will
read a paper on Arithmetic and the In
tricacies of Numbers
The state house grounds are being har-
rowed and fortified with the hone of
starting the grass seed which has slurn-
bered through the winter.
One would think that the old half torn
down brick building in the state house
grounds would become an eyesore to the
officers in the course of a few months.
ent of telegraph of the Rock Island. and
Meade, Kan, on a duck hunting expedi-
ton.
The Chatauqua circle will visit Wash
burn college tonight to view the stars
through the telescope under direction of
Professor Lovewell, providing the weather
is clear.
o. M. White has returned after a
business visit in the city, comforting with
the managers of the new creamery upon
the subject of re-opening the Emporia
creamery.
The resignation of George c. Ward. as
constable of Menoken township, was yes
terday accepted by the board of county
comm 1SSionerS. A successor has not yet
been appointed.
railway. passed through Topeka over the
Rock Island in his special car yesterday
afternoon on his way from California to
his home in the east.
Bert Snider a forlorn 16-year-old-bov
who had been arrested by the police for
attempting to sell pair of spectacles
without having a license, was fined 50 in
police court yesterday.
President r. R. Gable, of the Rock Is
land road. stopped off in Topeka yester-
day on his way from California to his
nome in chicago: Mr; Gable spent the
last three weeks in California.
The Golden Gate special of the Pennsyl-
vania road, which passed through Topeka
a month, ago on the way to California,
passed through the city over the Santa
Fe this afternoon on the return east.
In police court yesterday an incorrigi-
Die coiOred boy named Johnny Johnson,
who is 16 years old. was asked by City At
Hard labor, replied the boy positively.
The police arrested an old blind col
ored man for selling liquor and he
are no abled bodied jointists in the city
who are doing a rushing business every
day.
crutches as a result of the broken an
kle sustained some weeks ago while at
tempting to catch a train in Leavenworth,