The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-06
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its brass band
The second crop Of rabbits this winter
There Is a lively contest at RossvilIe
| over the position Of post master
The trolley line plant was shut down
twice yesterday by small breaks in the
wire
]. G -Bratton has sold his handsome
| saddle horse BLACK Dick to Frank
Local talent gave minstrel entertain
| ment at the NickIe Plate school house last
night
Ex-Governor waite of Colorado once re-
presented Pawnee county IN the Kansas
legislature
There is not a village in Shawnee coun-
ty that does not have its ice house filed
with natural ice
An oyster famine has been reported in
other cities. but Topeka dealers say they
know nothing about it,
About nine-tenths of the people who
claim to be suffering with the grip have
nothing more than colds
W NJ Bush, window dresser at the Pal
ace is seriously i'll with pneumonia at
his home on Jackson street
This is the time OF the year when the
farmer who rents, is searching for d
new field in which TO labor.
The Rossvi1le school library is to be re-
pIenished by the play The Deestrick
/ School, which is being rehearsed-
1t is not unusual now to see a police
man wearing a coat three sizes two small
for him. trying to look comfortable
A slip of the pencil yesterday made the
weight of the Pat Hussey diamond a.
/ ounces. where it should have been carats-
PatroIman Henry Bernard last evening
! lost q valuable Colts revolver while on
| mis- way from his home to the police sta
( ton
| At the formers institute at Berrvton. on
/ February II. John Macdonald is TO make
1 Girls
| Ex-senator ingalls, has been invited to
| deliver the address to the graduates at
| the Wash5urn college commencement
| next spring
| A witness yesterday in an insanity trial
/ spoke OF the woman who was being tried
| for her sanity as having been always
| tickle minded
One man who failed to get Il place on
| the police force says that he was told as
/ a reason for his failure that ne had been
| g. Democrat too long
| A man who called himself James VII
| kerson, who said he from Topeka
/ was fined SO in Kansas City yesterday for
creating a disturbance
a ladies' quartette viii sing at the
chHrcb toTnorrov In The a1,enItI NI is
| Cora Boltz will sing q SOLO
| Special Officer Charlie Price, one of the
/ has been retained by the new police board
I to do special or detective duty
An appropriation of SSe00 was made to
| put an elevator in the federal building q
| Topeka The bids have been sent in DI1t
! the contract has not yet been awarded.
| John Williams, the Santa Fe switchrnan
\ who attempted TO cut man named
/ Shultz with razor. and resisted arrest
was fined So by Police Judge AtChison-
'-Disbrow was certainly a fine jailer."
! said Chief Henry Steele. in speaking of
| w L. 0lSDrOWr Sx-CILX JalI6r- He IefC
| the books in the best shape ever saw
/ them
| VIII Davis, a desperate young coIored
man. was yesterday fined 81 and costs.
| amounting to $3.50 for attempted assault
! upon one of the proprietors of the Lion
| shoe store
! Miss Carrie Dusenbury has organized a
! girfs sewing class which meets in the
! Y W C A rooms on Monday afternoons
/ The object Of the class is TO teach poor
I girls TO sew
| NJ Rundy. who Wednesday surrendered
! his star patrol driver, has entered the
! employ of the Topeka Railway company
as motorman- Previous TO his police posi-
| ton he was mOtornan for the com pany-
! The whole OF next week will be devoted
! to the transaction OF urgent business in
/ the district court The jury will be dis
1 missed and only arguments on motions
| and trials where jury has been waived
! will be heard.
| The original Fisk jubilee singers are to
| evening February Is. They are mem bers
/ Of the same organization which was con-
| nectsd with Fisk University and which
was organized in 1911
Police Matron Thorpe says that during
| the two years of the Republican admin
| istrarion she inspected meals 1T the city
! jail 1890 times. In doing this she had to
| walk $3.50 blocks. or about $50 miles For
| this and her other duties as police matron
! she received $3.50.
County Clerk AIcCabe has considerable
| trouble IN regulating the demands for
| supplies which the county officers make
| The county commissioners put limits on
has to enforce the order Often extra
| va CANT acquisitions for office supplies are
| made
Larry sheehan. deputy in Sheriff KEEP
1sys Office. and John COyne, bailif of the
I district court the only two ..F'renchmen''
| in the court house. are continually get
ting up practical jokes on each other
| insanity trial of Sheehan for next
Monday morning
An old woman on her way from Kansas
City to the Old Soldiers Home at Fort
| Dodge. stopped off in Topeka with her
aged husband and began begging food and
N.,Te- Oh. "
! the police matron furnished her a lunch
! and ordered her to continue her journey.
| as evrything necessary would be supplied
| them at the home
| Hattie Burnside. the young girl who was
| SAID 70 nave peen an associate OF Emily
| Hewitt, the missing girl from North To-
| peka, says that the statement made by
VIII Hewitt. to the. effect that she had
| been aSSoclattng with his sister is incor-
rect She says she has not associated
| with her for two years, when they at
| tended the same school together
The Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe rail-
road company. has recently spent over
NJ C A. building at the corner of Fourth
and Adams streets. The Y. NJ. G a has
given the use of the second floor An en-
| tertainment at which the new quarters
will be dedicated will be given in the
building on Tuesday evening. February
Police Matron Thorpe has secured a
good home in Kansas City. Mo. for the
young 16-year-old girl whom she found
on the East side in a hreIess room and
with but few rags on which to lie. for
case in the Journal wrote Mrs. Thorpe
asking a description they ina gined that
perhaps the girl might be their long lost
| child
Ex-Cfty JaiIer Albert Hopkins has or
! ganized a. merchants police watch which
will occupy his time His beat is on Kan
sas avenue. between Fifth and Seventh
streets. every night in the year. He will
/ be commissioned a deputy sheriff and a
! special policeman. and will wear q large
star on which Will be the words: '@Mer-
chants Metropolitan Police Later the
! beat will be extended to include the
whole of Kansas avenue The merchant )
| police will see that all store doors in their
| Jurisdiction are locked at night and watch
| for burglars.
LOUISIANA GIVES $50, 900