The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-15
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS
This is Santa Fe pay day.

| 1n1S IS santa Fe pay day.
/ at his store
Crosby,,s mill shipped 100000 pounds of
| flour to Bristol, England.
The railroad mems ball will be Thurs
| day night at Hamilton hall.
The Ells will give their annual enter
tainment some time in April
Charles F. Spencer has returned from a
business trip to Des Moines, Ia.
Charles n. Nelson has been reelected
president of the Mid-Continent band.
There is a scarcity of bran and the To-
peka mills cannot fill their orders.
The Arion society will have anniver-
Judge Williams is known as the most
genial judge on the federal circuit.
P. G. Noel now goes to his office regu-
larry, though he walks with crutches.
Chief of Police Henry NJ. Steele now acts
as city prosecutor in the police court.
The members of Sunf1ower camp, Mod
ern Woodmen, will enjoy a banquet to-
Wednesday evening the Arions and in
yited guests will be given a concert and
dance.
Thirty-eight men were subpoenaed from
whom the Hillmon jury was to have been
The Topeka waterworks question will
be discussed at committee meeting to-
night.
The Missouri Pacific tracks are being put
in better condition for wagons to cross on
Fifth street.
Weather Observer T. B. Jennings will
begin the issuance of weekly crop bulle-
The. mothers meeting. of the Central
church kindergarten will be held Thurs
day at p m
c. E. Salisbury of Arkansas City has
returned home after visiting his sister,
Mrs George Wagner.
John F. McManus has gone to New
York. It was rumOred he would stop in
Chillicothe, but he denied it.
Topeka colored people are arranging to
give benefit for the survivors of the
First Kansas coIored regiment.
In the last payment from the Topeka
nan -Sn off a fnta al If Was
distributed to 100,087 pensioners.
Captain Henry Booth, who died at Lar
ned Monday, was chief clerk in the office
of w. c. Edwards, secretary of state.
DR.. c. B. Reed will move his office to
731 Kansas avenue and will occupy his
residence at King and Fillmore streets.
Elmer Stricklett, who was one of the
pitchers on the Topeka base ball team
last year, has signed with the Dallas
Walter NJ. Thompson, now member of
the board of education for the Fourth
ward, has consented to be a candidate to
succeed himself.
Robert Ruggles, the Kansas City World
correspondent. IS the star IN a nome Saleht
play which will be put at the Craw-
ford Friday night.
Frank P. MacLennan left yesterday for
New York city, where he will attend the
fishers association at the WaldOrf-As-
toria hotel this week
The printing estab lishment to which G..
w. Douglass has been appointed as as
tant manager, was established in Shang-
hal, China, in 1874
The Nautilus club of College Hill will |
give a party to its members and their
families on Friday evening at the home of
Mrs. Frank Merriam.
Mrs J. J. Frey has returned from AL
buQuerQue to see her son John off to the
KI0ndiie She will return to spend the
remainder of the winter in New MexicO,j |
Patrolman Rucker, colored, arrested |
Roy Shreve, son of Major Shreve, on |
the charge of riding his bicycle on the |
sidewalk. Judge Atchison discharged the
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bers of Topeka will go to Wichita Febru- |
airy 20 to attend the grand lodge Of the !
lodge meeting be held in Topeka
The So. officers and team s Of f Sji9am lodge fg
Wichita. where they viii eXemphty the |
work of the MastOr Mason degree before |
the grand lodge at the request of Grand /
Master w NJ. Shaver.
The police and sheriff are trying to find /
someone in Topeka who is a relative of /
VIM H Hubbard who is now under ar |
he has relatives in Topeka He is held |
on the charge of murder.
R. D. Dolman of North Topeka. and a |
brother of Judge DOlman, is confined to !
his home with an injured back He has |
jured by a fan in the car shops of the |
Santa Fe three months ago.
The name 'Klondike,' which was ap- |
piled to the old skinner ice house, at the
time of the Grocers' and Butchers picnic /
wasn't SO far off, anyway. since, the dis
dug up within 100 feet of the building
A call was sent in for ambulance |
yesterday afternoon and it was 50 min
utes before the ambulance arrived at the
scene of the accident. five blocks away.
The city ought to own an ambulance and
not depend private cOnveyanceS-
The flag over Lincoln Post hall is at
half mast today out of respect TO the
of Captain Henry Booth, who
died at I.arned. Captain Booth was for
merly department commander OF the
Kansas c.. A R, and has always occu-
pied a high place in the councils of that
Organization.
A few DAYS ago Mr. W. A. Swift was in
lola. and while there talked with S. a.
James. who has lately returned from the
Klondike. Mr.. James says that Miss
Emma Kelly of this city was married TO
George Watson, a young miner VINO IS
Immensely wealthy This corroborates
the report made by George Hargreaves
few weeks ago.
Chief Steele has given his patrolmen or
1ers to arrest any woman of low charac-
ter found on any of the streets after
dark. The city ordinance PROMPTS these
cha IA cterS from appearing on the streets
Of the city Three cOlOred women insult
ed everybody within block of the trans
fer station the other evening by their
profane and ribald rawlings and such
disgrace will not be permitted again
N s. Bartholomew has completed
of the state house which
he proposes to send to the Omaha ex-
position as part of the Kansas exhibit /
The design is made wholly from seeds of /
various kinds and is clever piece of |
work It has required weeks of patient |
the seed picture is two ana
0ne-half by three feet.