The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-28
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Bert Lewis has written a new song
called ARROW and Song
| The first term of the city schools ended
! today. The new term begins Monday.
| l. A Strauss and Will S. Buck have
| gone to Kansas City to sell stock in their
| Klondike company.
Bailiff John Coyne of the district court
| says he smoked a cigarette Thursday, the
/ first for twenty years.
The high school midwinter commence
| high school auditorium.
| Miss Susie May Guild of 1886 Dillon
street has been elected state reporter for
the Kansas College Press association.
Probate Judge Dolman has not yet Sc
| cured an opinion from the attorney gen.
eral on the question of marriage license
Major Anderson is making arrange
mentS to have a picture of the new bridge
rooms.
Walter Richards. who was to have his
charge of selling LIQUOR TODAY. is not able
to appear in court and the case has been
postponed.
making preparations to send their dele
cations to the grand lodge at Wichita
Sheriff Cook. who has just returned
from Beloit, says that the state institu-
pie of the state may well be proud
Sunday evening a union temperance
meeting, will. be held at the First Presby-
terrain church which will be addressed by
DR.. ]. D. Countermine and others.
The new telephone directory will be is
I gued soon. 1t is probable that for the
| be printed on large cards, this being more
convenient
Sheriff Cook, got his brother, Sherman
Williams, on the regular district court
jury. Sherman Williams is a city SAM
The following have been elected as di-
Gunther, o. B. Taymen, ]. B. Doncyson,
H M. Mason, William Usher, L. c. White
and L. B. Wyman.
J. c. Eilxin has been arrested by the po-
lice for selling Intoxicating liquors. He
is charged with keeping a beer joint in
the case Saturday morning.
The National Aid association will hold
its national convention in Topeka Feb
Farmers Alliance. Alonzo WardaH is
high man in the association.
Judge c. z. Foote found a 4-year-old
who had strayed away from his mother
He took charge of the little fellow and
in about an hour found the missing pa
George Stone has been selected by the
special committee of the Topeka Bar as
ISOLATION to paint portraits of District
Judge HaZen and ex-Judge Guthrie. The
pictures will be placed on the walls in
the district court room.
Thursday afternoon at the st. Nicholas
hotel a 7. Pigg quarreled with colored
chambermaid named Jessie Morris. The
charge of assault The girl had worked
at the hotel for two weeks She Swore
TO the complaint charging the assault
Detectives Capron and Kesson, receiving
word that two crooks had left Kansas
City for Topeka, arrested Harry McKen-
Chas. Gould, a laborer They are held
on the charge of vagrancy. Kansas City
authorities have been not1hed 1t is
thought the two came to Topeka to do
the town.
old, and Charlie Renshaw, Is years. We're
arrested Thursday afternoon by Chief
Steele and Detectives Capron and KeSson
as they crawled out of the basement of
the Grand Opera House. They entered
through a rear window and were seen.
The charge placed against them was at
tempted burglary 1a f. T tnf51 were turned
S. A. Johnston, the medical student
whose case for receiving stolen bodies at
the Kansas Medical college was reversed
at Alma. Under Sheriff Williams is now
serving the subpoenas on witnesses and
the case will be called for trial at the next
term. 1t has been supposed by many
that the case against Johnston would be
droDped NJ e. Lowe is now serving his
sentence of six months in jail His case
was affirmed
Local hackmen say they will not reduce
their hack fares to compete with a To-
peka undertaken, who has announced that
he will furnish hacks for parties at 81. 30
per couple or $3.50 for two couples. The
regular price maintained by all the mack
men is 81 per couple and SO for two cou-
pies. The hackmen are indignant that
the cut has been made, but they say that
the rate will not be permanent. The man
who made the cut says that he can make
money at the cut rate and that he intends
to do it.
Major Anderson thinks that a high
standard concert will prove a good money
maker for the Auditorium. I believe
said he that we should make contract
to have some famous singer like Nordica
the Auditorium. The tickets for such an
event as that would go Just as fast as
thew could be sold and hundreds of people
would come in from over the state. All
that is necessary is to advertise, the taGt
and the people would come. They al
ready know about the Auditorium, and
if they had an opportunity to hear some
thing good and at the same time help
along the project they would fail over
themselves to get here. L believe that
we could get someone who is famous to
come here for not more than $1,000 and
we could clear a good sum-.