The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-28
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

! Work has been commenced on the
| bicycle track.
Dean Hayden of the Church of the
! Assumption is in LeavenwOrth.
Sowing the Wind is the latest book
| ing for the Crawford theater next sea-
| son.
I. A. Strauss served on the police
force when Topeka had a good police
| system.
The Topeka Auditorium association
| will meet this evening at the CONNER
| cial club rooms.
MarshalPs band will give a compli-
mentary concert at the Topeka club
tomorrow evening.
Mr.. A. L. Spangberg, of the auditor
| of freight receipts office of the Santa
Fe, is dangerously ill.
The veterans of the armies who wore
the blue and gray will meet together
July at Garfield park.
Outland and McCracken, the two star
athletes of the University of PennsyI-
vania, are both Kansans.
The team from Gardner, Kansas will
play the Topeka ball team here on Mon
day, July 4. and Tuesday.
The first Friday evening concert of
the summer will be given by MarshalPs
band at Garfield park this week.
Civil service examinations will be
held at Topeka, Salina, Wichita, Leav-
enworth, Fort Scott, and Colby, on July
27-S.
Inc JOlnIlSIS WHO OOdSled d lew
months ago that Judge Hazen was
their friend have about changed their
minds.
The meeting of the Committee of Fiji
teen which was to have been held to-
night has been postponed until Thurs
day evening.
A Topeka girl whose best young man
enlisted for the war recently has shown
the extent of her affection by naming
her bicycle after him.
tendent of the Santa Fe-Pacif1c road,
passed through Topeka yesterday on
his way to Albuquerque.
There will be a vitascope entertain
ment at the Crawford theater COM
mencing next Saturday evening and
continuing during the following week.
The Sisters of Charity, who have been
conducting the Catholic parochia1 school
in this city, have gone to Mt. St Mary's
academy at LeavenWorth to spend the
summer.
The Topeka Turner's go to Omaha on
Wednesday. The gymnasium will take
part in competitive contests at the Ma
tionaI funniest which begins this week
at Omaha.
Harry Richter, the Republican nom
inee for lieutenant governor spends
most of his time writing German letters
to his friends. He speaks German as
we'll as English.
John Collins sits in his private room
at the county Jail like a railroad mag
nate and Sheriff Cook obligingly sends
up the cards" of visitors. Being in
Sheriff Cooks charge is pleasant If you
have the necessary pull.
Probate Judge Dolman has been Of
fciaIly informed of the discharge on
June 25 of the following Shawnee coun-
ty inmates of the Topeka insane
asylum, with statement restored to
their right mind: T. w. Davis, Eugene
Woodbridge and Nora Weymouth.
Paul Hastings, formerly an employe
in the office of auditor of freight re-
ceipts of the Santa Fe, who left here
some time ago to take a position in the
Santa Fee Prescott & Phoenix offices,
is now first lieutenant in volunteer
company recently enlisted in Arizona.
The county commissioners have adj
vanced Shawnee county's proportion to
the fund for the Omaha exposition The
money was secured through the efforts
of the Kansas commission and a COM
mittee from the Commercial club, ap-
pointed some time ago. The county
will be reimbursed by an appropriation
by the next legislature.
n. F. Warehouses; residence was
burglarized a few days ago and a dia-
mond pin, a pair of opera glasses and
other small jewelry were taken The
burglar also stole a pair of Mr. More
houses trousers. When the police ar
rested Hale the alleged counterfeiter,
they found him wearing Mr.. More
houses trousers and recovered the
jewelry. Hale is now a United States
prisoner.