The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-06
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWS

The Festival chorus meets tonight.
The fall campaign will open tomorrow
morning
The majority of the judges of election
today are POpuliStS.
The ice trust. too should dissolve, along
with the other trusts
During the quarter ending March 81.
Shawnee county collected s1s7-20 in fees
Ex-senator J. W. Parker of Olathe was
IN the city yesterday on legal business
Mrs. Laura Bond of Kansas City. is
visiting Mrs. King at Eigth and Mon
roe
Ex-Policeman Kirk Pinkston is building
street S7sG au''''0" 70 MS "0e' ~ LAY
An Uncle Toms Cabin show always has
2-ToPsies-2 and the show isn't worth
General Passenger Agent w. ]. Black of
the Santa Fe makes his weekly trip to
Chicago today.
Jafler Leech of the county jail is now
absorbed in reading Stead's IF Christ
Came to Chicago
from EmpOria was in the city visiting
Santa F'e officials today.
James R. Ankeny, aged q. and Eva Bo--
hart, aged 20, have secured license to wed
from Probate Judge Dolman.
Governor Leedy was one of the inter-
eSted listeners at the hearing OF the Nc
Nall contempt case yesterday
Charles n. Nelson superintendent of the
Topeka Athletic association viii be an
aide camp on Governor Leedy's staff
Chairman T. P Rodgers of the board of
county commissioners has read nearly
every work of fiction in the city library
Miss Anna w. Heartburg of North To-
peka has been appointed StenOgrapher in
the office of State Treasurer Hefebower.
The new captain of the Topeka Athletic
assOcia ton Wheelnen will at once make
a schedule of runs for the club this sea-
son.
The Young Peoples Christian Endeavor
society of the First Congregat ional church
will give a book social next Friday even
Webb NfcNan is not in jail yet. He was
at his office today after yesterdays trial
looking for something to write a letter
about
THE dead Ines we're marked out by
Commissioner of Election Yount around
the polling places this morning before
o'clock.
Howard Huey, clerk in the office of the
paymaster of the Rock Island. has re-
turned from a visit with relatives in
Garnett.
The people of the western part of the
city say that they are eomforted with the
the same track a second time.
The city council is disposed to make
some improvements at the city jail but
first expects the police commissioners to
show some disposition to economic.
Lieutenant Governor Troutman says
that American consuls in Europe usually
leave all the work for the vice consul
themselves.
frankie Mckay who brought a sensa-
tionaI suit against H. P. Throop in To-
peka several years ago is making trou-
bic for a prominent Denver man in the
same manner
T. E. Pounds, treasurer of the former
city central committee, has filed a report
with the county clerk showing that $685.. 40
was collected from the candidates at the
recent primary.
The secretary of state and his assis-
tants are preparing the copy for the ses-
sion laws to be sent to the state treas
urer. Publication will be completed some
time next month
Laura Smith. a Smoky Row character
who robbed Dick Brookins, a deranged
colored man of so in alley some time
ago, pleaded guilty to petit larceny in the
district court yesterday afternoon.
Sylvia Addison. the cOlored woman who
a week ago has been bound over to the
district court by Justice Grover in the
sum of $500. She is in the county jail
Donations to the Salvation Army hospi-
tai are received by Poiiee Matron Thorpe
since the appeal Tor aid a friend has Civ
en-. s., a visitor 50 cents. J johnson 81. 90
and the list will be larger after while.
Austin Prescott steward at the Topeka
asylum and for p years a resident of
Topeka. is talked of as a candidate for
the nomination for county treasurer 1t
is very likely that he will enter the race.
1.-THE average man begins dying at
about IS years Of age He doesn't get the
job finished though, until he is about TO-
says q Topeka man who has had infiam-
matory rheumatism by spells for 20 years
State Oil Inspector Z. V. Wharton has
assigned Frank w Elliott of DentonVilIe.
one of his assistants 10 this territory Mr.
Elliott will have charge of the business
in this city and make Topeka his head
quarters
A Waterman discovered a box car to be
on fire in the Union Pacific railroad Yards
Monday morning at O'Clock a. Tyler and
Morse streets The chemical engine from
No. extinguished the blaze. The fire
was caused by tramps.
By prompt effort on the part of the &C.