The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-12
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provement.
DR.. J. E. NIinney is spending few days
in Cripple Creek, Col.
There is a Miss Yaw among the teach
ers at the county institute.
Dr. Charles Hammond of this city is
| attending the Chautauqua at Ottawa.
The state house grounds need moving
again. The weeds are getting another big
| start.
A picked base ball team of this city
will play the st. Marys team tomorrow at
St. Marys.
w. NJ. Henry has been appointed post
master at Whitfield in the southern part
/ of the county.
Roses and watermelons are seldom seen
together, but there is plenty of each OF
| them in town.
Treasurer Pattison of the Kansas
! Creamery company is manager of the abb
lene base ball team.
| Governor Leedy went home to Law.
renee today. He will return to the exc
! cutive office Monday.
Hanley brothers have secured a per-
nit to erect a 81, 500 dwelling on lots S61
and 1863 North Topeka avenue
There is a Fun. Fiz and Frolic' dra-
( matte company touring the country and
giving shows at school houses.
Dick Mallory. who was breaking stone
| o nthe county stone pile, walked out of the
gate yesterday afternoon and escaped.
The members of the state board of rail-
road assessors hope to complete their
work in that capacity today or Monday.
Mr.. Ed Roller of the Waggoner drug
store, will leave tomorrow for a two
weeks visit in Joplin, Mo. and Nashville.
Tenn.
A column and a half writeup of a base
ha1
ent is some reporters idea of getting
news"
c. j. Rosen. the Topeka contractor. was
removed to the Stormont hospital today.
and will undergo an operation for liver
trouble.
F. J. Turner, who was sent to the Uni
ted States penitentiary for counterfeitine,
has been discharged and has returned to
Topeka.
township, has been convicted of OBJ
structing the road. He was fined 500 by
Justice Chesney.
Grand Chancellor w. A S. Bird of the
Knights of Pythias, has returned from
Atchison where special services and a
banquet were held.
Have you seen the airship?'' asked a
young man of one of his friends last
night. mo, McMahan is under arrest
and his joint is closed" was the reply.
Mr.. w. H. Schriven, superintendent of
the Pennsylvania railway lines, passed !
through Topeka yesterday afternoon in |
his special car over the Santa Fe for CAL |
ifornia.
Tomorrow morning at II o'clock the an
nua1 baccalaureate sermon to the WASH |
burn college graduates will be given in
the college chapel. President C. NJ. Her
rick will deliver it.
Phil Daley of the engineering depart
ment of the Santa Fe, and Clark Daley
of the office of Valentine, GODDARD & Val
entine, went to Ottawa yesterday to at
tend the Chautauqua.
A series of lectures on hypnotism is be-
ing delivered by Mrs. J. G. Wood al the
Nickel Plate school house. corner of Sec
ond and Buchanan streets. The lectures
are given in the evening and are free.
Weather Observer T. B. Jennings re-
ceives a government telegram every morn
ing from the Chicago weather bureau
headquarters containing forecasts for
this section for the succeeding "A hours.
Frank Anderson, for several years in
the office of the auditor of passenger re-
ceipts of the Santa Fe, left yesterday for
Portsmouth, o., where he takes a posi-
ton with the Drew-SeIby Shoe company.
Mrs Anderson accompanied him.
Several hundred Harrison telephone
wires are still on the poles in the city,
not in use. The lead from Fifth
and Quincy streets south on Quincy to
Eighth and Jackson streets, consisting of
nearly 100 wires is still in position.
The Topeka railway employees have or.
gained base ball team and they would
like a game with most any team in the
city. If Topeka keeps on getting beaten
as in the past. the Railway team will
challenge Charlie McCabe's players.
The management of the Topeka baseball
team says that if the Topeka fans will
give the right sort of patronage to the
games the team will be made just
as good as is possible in this locality.
The games will have to be made good
first.
At MarshaIPs bans concert tomor-
row afternoon at Garfield park. Sousa's
new march, 1.-The Stars and Stripes For
ever" will be played for the first time in
Topeka. This march has just been pub
lished and is said to be one of SOusa's |
best compositions. The Friday evening con-
certs will probably be begun next week
Harmon Ryus has returned to his home
in this city from Chicago, where he spent
two weeks after leaving his official duties
at the Wentworth Military academy.
While in Chicago he saw the veriscope
pictures of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. !
fight, and says that to see the photo
graphic reproduction is almost as good as
seeing the real fight.
Sam Logan, a cOlOred man, who not J
long ago was released from the peniten-
-iary, was fined SIS by Police Judge Atchi-
son for vagrancy. Chief Steele had or !
lered him out of the city. but he came
back and was arrested for vagrancy.
While in the penitentiary he formed an
attachment for Mary Marshall who, ,
since being released, lives in Topeka.
Hamilton hail. on Quincy street was
crowded last evening to do honor to {