The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-13
SNAP SHOTS AT HoMENEWs

/ GeneTal MdndB0E Frey OI the SANTA re
| left today for Chicago.
I The First Presbyterian church will pic
| mic at Garfield park tomorrow.
| Councilman Warner will take steps to
| improve the Martin & DENNIS park
Secretary of State w. E. Bush has re-
| turned from a short visit in Jewell coun-
| ty.
Judge w. M. Whitelaw of Hutchinson
visited the state officers in this city yes
| terday.
All the defeated candidates for sheriff
are still on the street telling 'how it hap
| pened."
Bank Commissioner John W. Breiden-
thai is in Omaha looking after private
business.
Webb Wilder, who used to live in To-
peka, but now of Chicago, is making
visit in the city.
Mr.. W w. Flack, chief clerk in the
Rock Island office in Horton, spent yes
terday in the city.
A. A. Graham, claim agent of the Rock
Island in this city, is in Pennsylvania on
two weeks vacation.
One of the most prominent lawyers in
Topeka once lived in a western dugout
and tried to raise wheat.
A Topeka undertaken furnished two rigs
for Saturdays primaries in the interest
of candidate for coroner.
Fellows & Van SAINT have secured the
contract to build the George Stoker resi-
dence on West Sixth street
Mr. NJ. r. Cain of the office of secre-
tary of state, has returned from visit
with his family in Hutchinson.
Junction City opens a series of base
ball games al Athletic park on Thursday.
Friday will be ladies' free day.
Assistant Manager Chas. Hixon of the
Topeka Railway company, was a police
officer in Holton for three years.
drug store will be opened in the
Mulvane building at the southwest cor
ner of Sixth and Jackson streets.
Grandma Try, mother of Representative
Newt Try of Fort Scott, is dangerously
sick. She is visiting relatives here.
,, The Topeka Academy of Medicine and
Surgery met last night. Cancer and
'hystero-epilepsy'' were the subjects dis
cussed.
Stuart Henry has withdrawn from the
firm of T. E. Bowman & Co. H. C. Bow
man and C.B. Merriam will continue the
business.
H. B. Fleharty, Governor Leedy's exc
cutive clerk, is in Salt Lake City as a
delegate to the Transmississippi CONNER
cial congress.
The last issue of Frank Leslies Illus
ITdlSu w 00kly picture VI d
basket of hailstones gathered in Topeka
after the storm.
John Macdonald, editor of the Western
School Journal has been elected presi-
dent of the Educational Press associa-
ton of America.
Mr.. John Dolman, of the legal depart
ment of the Rock Island. left this week
for New York and Nova Scotia two
weeks pleasure trip.
Topeka people watch that Festival fund
grow with the same anxiety that people
in the rest of the state watch the corn
grow.-Atchison Globe.
r. B. Turner, who was arrested for for
gerry in Kansas City has been held for
year is in danger of being SO long that
trial and his bond fixed at 81, 000
Topeka has been done up. A terrific
hail storm in South Wurtemburg yester-
day killed thirteen persons, and caused
81. 900, 600 damages.-Atchison Globe.
Mrs. ]. r. Hague has purchased the
florist business of r. J. Groves at ST
Kansas avenue. Mrs. Hague has been
connected with the store for some time.
Receiver Walker of the Hutchinson &
Southern railway. was in Topeka yester-
! day comforting with Rock Island officials
in regard to the big wheat movement in
Kansas.
1t is said that the Floral parade this
carriages may have to move two abreast.
Scores who did not decorate their car
riages last year will appear in the parade
this year.
Mayor Fellows and the city council have
great deal of trouble with the Salvation
Army which insists on holding meetings
in front of the city building while the
council is in session.
W. c. Squire of the Santa Fe mechani-
New Mexico division of the road rating
the big compound engines recently turned
out of the Topeka shops.
Mr.. w. o. Neville, chief clerk in the
office of the assistant general superin-
tendent of the Rock Island, will leave to-
morrow for Spokane Falls, Wash, to
spend two weeks vacation.
Mayor Fellows says that the secret
committee of five appointed to select a
queen of the Festival would like to re-
/ ceive suggestions. The communications
should be sent to the mayor.
The drug stores are the proper agencies
through which to do the liquor business
of Topeka. The law so designates them.
Nobody ever hears of drunken fights
around a drug store. Close the joints!
A lock box has been put in the office at
police station to which the chief, and two
sergeants have keys. They write notes to
each other and place them In the boX. The
notes are not love letters, either; some of
them are pretty peppery.
A cablegram was received in the city
today announcing that the Rev. A s.
Embree, Chas. P. Adams and Frank
Shellabarger had arrived in Liverpool
early this morning. They reported that
the journey had been a smooth one.
Several owners of bicycles in Topeka
are rafting off their wheels. Some years
ago this way of disposing of bicycles and
until