The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-08
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The letter boxes need repainting.
Topeka has a first class ball team at
last.
The political campaign will soon open in
earnest.
Mr.. A A. Hurd solicitor for the Santa
very few people are attending the
Omaha exposition.
Fishermen from Lake View and along
the river report good catches.
General Superintendent Nudge of the
Santa Fe is in Colorado.
F. R French, editor of the Lakin Index,
is visiting in the city today.
There are five men named Davis in the
grocery business in this city.
The Forepaugh and Sells Brothers shows
will not visit Topeka this year.
The Kansas Holiness camp meeting
opens this evening at the city park.
Yesterday was day of runaways. Two
hacks and three buggies were on the list
The ex-polfcemen are making an effort
to sell off their uniforms and equipment.
Several awnings have large holes burn
Fourth.
Every package of patent medicine sold
at drug stores now contains a revenue
Misses Harriet and Sue Lowell of 1851
Lane street are cousins of General Shatter
Mr.. W. P. Homan, general manager of
the Kansas Midland railway, was in the
city yesterday.
Henry Grueber promises to have the
scaffolding out of the state house dome
within a few days.
water standing in them the full width of
the street and half a block long.
+ h E Wi be matinee for chfitdrgn at
The admission will be cents.
Insurance Commissioner Webb NTcNal
Will go to his home in Smith county to-
morrow to look after his wheat crop.
A tennis tournament will be held tomor-
row afternoon on the courts of the To-
streets.
The bicycle repairers are reaping a har--
aEf ~I1ea AID hot n rcd
are always broken while riding along on
the smooth pavement"
One Of the Drettiest sights around To-
pelza is the pond of Egyptian and Japan
csc lotus at brentwood. the suburban
home of Major T. J. Scudder.
The Topeka Trades and Labor assembly
has signihed its intention of uniting with
the Grocers' and Butchers association for
the big picnic No date has been set as
Webb McNan says that Harry. Richter
claims to be the author of the valued poll
icy law but he has discovered that Mil
ton Brown Of Garden City is father of the
Mr.. E. L. Copeland and Dr. w. N. West
have gone to Boston as representatives, of
the Topeka whist club at the National
time in the east.
Topeka can boast of one drinking foun-
Topeka is to be dry otherwise, we should
at least have a sufficient number Of pub
lie drinking fountains.
Christian States has filed a mechanics
! lien on the z. r. B Dry Goods store for
SS4. 81 Tor Work done IN hitting up the store
last spring. The lien was filed in the
clerks office of the district court
Sergeant FenneH of the Sixth infantry.
who is in the list of wounded at Santiago.
is the man whose jaw was broken by J.
S Leach, now in the Shawnee county jail.
Leach killed one soldier and seriously in
jured Fennell.
The first closed car of the season with
out a vestibule was run out of the To-
peka railway shops this morning, all new
ly painted and repaired. It IS probable
that the vestibules will not be taken off
the cars this summer
A special term of the Kansas court of
appeals viii be held in Topeka Septemberr
catching up with the docket. The court
is a year and a half behind. The regular
term of the court will be held in NOVem-
Der.
Mrs. Lucretia Wflson,a stranded actress,
with her 3-year-old daughter, was in To-
peka yesterday trying to collect
in Denver. She was a member of
the New York Speciality company, the
manager of which abandoned the COM
pany in Cairo. Ill, with all the funds,
leaving her with but 4 cents.