The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-25
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The street cars were appreciated again
this morning.
Steel engravings printed on silk are now
in the market.
Small boys with very large guns may be
seen going hunting.
Several crates of sleds were received Sat-
urday by toy dealer.
The police have turned Il criminals over
to the state this month.
The clerks offices in the federal build
ing are being renovated.
Charles P. Adams has returned from
business trip to Chicago.
The Scottish Rite Masons commenced
their fall reunion yesterday.
Sundays wind played havoc with trees
in different parts of the city.
Captain J. G. Waters has had but one
picture taken in twenty years.
Mark Mason has been appointed sub
carrier by Postmaster Guthrie.
w. H. Thompson and Q. E. Hungate are
in OskaloOsa on legal business.
TT The e. picture trainers hays W. many orders
The cold weather put stop to more
than one house-cleaning in Topeka.
The express companies are training new
men to be ready for the holiday rush.
A Topeka prophet says that he sees
mistakable signs of a long, hard winter.
The furlough of the Twenty-first Kansas
regiment has been extended to November
Out in Pawnee county both parties have
nominated women for county superintend-
ent.
At the present rate we will have a gen
erous slice of winter before fall is over
J. NJ. senter is making Populist speeches
in the northern part of the state this
The political orators will only have to
put in two weeks more at saving the
The state house employees grow more
and more anxious as election day APP
John w. Breidenthal estimates the vote
this year at $4,000. TWO years ago it
The weather man struck it right this
time; He said Tuesday colder, with
DR.. G. A Wall is visiting in the city.
He will return to his home in Albuquerque
in two weeks.
The BARRIERS are. preparing to pounce
| down on the next legislature with a bar
bers' license bill.
The Committee of Fifteen and CONNER
! clal club viii hold a joint meeting We'd
nesday evening.
VIII Moeser and Lee Jones went to the
| ing expedition.
J. R. Burton pronounces Hawaii as if it
were spelled Hi-o-Way, with the accent on
! the first syllable.
A mania for challenging Republicans
seems likely to break out among the Pop
! Captain P. H. Coney has an Indian war
! club that belonged to Sitting Bull. 1t
/ weighs ten pounds
Two snow storms In October is another
| the oldest nhabitant."
| House cleaning is now in progress at the
| federal building. Several of the offices
| will receive new carpets.
| W. D. 4OWHSGuU, the COlOTeQ
| Leavenworth, will address colored people
/ at Hamilton hall Saturday evening
| Councilman Morgan has been off duty
| for a week, but he was able to attend the
| meeting of the city council last night.
| A Topeka washwoman reads the socie-
| ty columns OF the newspapers to learn
| when her patrons are away from home.
| J.. G. Slonecker has returned from EN-
| porfa, where he went to take evidence in
! the bankruptcy case of Fred Dumbauld.
/ Daughters of the Poor" now running
| at the GillisS Opera House in Kansas City,
! comes to the era VVfOTd fhRatpr weak
| Ed Etter of the Hotel Throop says that
| the most essential qualification of a sue
f fiers hotel clerk Is to De a good ''0l-
The Populists are devoutIy hoping that a
/ certain tuesday two weeks from now Will
| been.
The medicine companies that started out
from Iopeka last spring are now return
! ing for the winter. That is, the few that
| survived.
Justice McCIintook adjourned his court
! yesterday afternoon and appeared as coun-
! sci for the defense in a case in Justice
| Guys court.
| The programme of the annual reunion of
| the Scottish Rite is printed in FIVE colors
| and contains half-tone cuts of all the Of
1 fcers of the body.
Frank Cloyes of Atchison, DR.. Dingess
| of Potter and Ike Ebert of Efhngham took
| the Scottish Rite degree in Masonry in
/ this city yesterday.
Bailiff John Coyne is already receiving
| applications; from women who want seats
/ more than a month away.
| Charlie Ross, assistant secretary of state,
| resembles Buffalo Jones in one respect.
| are shivering with the cold.
Mr.. c. J. Webb, chief clerk in the Santa
| Fe division office in this city, has returned
| the knights Templar conciave.
| Mr. w. o. NevilI chief clerk in the Of
| fee of the assistant general superintend-
| ent of the Rock Island, has returned from
| Chicago after attending the peace jubilee.
The examination questions for the teach
| ers' examination next Saturday were sent
/ out To-Day from superintendent Stryker
| office to the various county superintend-
1 ents.
politics is a little. decent this year"
! block without being pushed off the side
| walk by someone who wants to talk poll
The Gilsonite company has torn up its
! pavement on the south side of the state
| house and will relay it. 1t was toe fat
| the first time and the water would not
| run off.
The Y. W; c. a. gymnasium has receiv-
| Water company and the Y: M. c. A. has
| instructor.
| If the municipality should run the 1aun-
| dries would you continue to miss collars
| and handkerchiefs, and would the gov
| with 'bluing."
| The fusfonists have nominated fifteen
women for county Offices in the state and
/ the Republicans have nominated twenty
| eight. All but three of them are for coun-
! ty superintendent.
The lawn at the court house was planned
| landscape gardener. He says that many
| people do not like a depressed lawn be-
| cause it is new to them.
/ The Republicans now accuse the Popu-
| lists of 'swiping'' some of their old en-
| VelOpes and using them to send cut Ny
| ron Waterman cartoon of Frank Grimes
! and Uncle Dave" HeheboWer.
| Another Kansan has gone on an explor-
| ing expedition toward the north pole
! Evelyn Baldwin, formerly superintendent
| of the Oswego schools, is with Walter
| Wellnan in his search for Andree.
| Rev. S. B. Anderson formerly pastor of
| the First Presbyterian church in this city
| has been invited to deliver lectures on
| theology to the students Of the DanvilIe