The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-11
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


| law carried or not?
| The pet stock show commences Novem-
/ Der q and lasts a week.
| The Washburn college foot ball team
! left yesterday for Denver.
| ]. W. ATorphy will undoubtedly be the
secretary of the POpulist senate.
| From now until next January Topeka
| will be the Mecca of the ofhce-seeker.
| Assistant General Passenger Agent Mac
LeOd of the Rock Island is in Chicago
! The POpulists have universally discOv
| cred that it is wrong to bet on elections.
| Delbert Stryker contemplates going to
| Colorado after the administration changes
| in January.
one PopuIist says that he won't be sure
| just how it happened until Dave Leahy
| explains it.
The city council will try to award the
| contract for an electric light engine Mon
! day evening.
The street car tracks between Eighth
and Seventh on Kansas avenue are be-
| ing repaired
Chief Strauss is making an album of
photographs of all the criminals arrested
The last bin of the Committee of FIT
| teen has been paid and the committee will
Nearly everyone at the state house is
! taking it phtlosophically today and trying
| to look cheerful
Mayor Fellows was in Newton this week
| looking after the repair of property owned
Last night a horse and a table spread
| went to lucky numbers.
some OF. the other state house people. His
! job holds good until 1900.
The American Volunteers have revived
| giving dinner for the poor.
! Gx-Goyernor Lewelling says the ques-
| is how to preserve fusion
! Frank Dickinson has brought suit in the
! district court to recover $21O alleged to be
due him for pasturing cattle.
! T. D. Fitzpatrick postmaster at Salina,
vas IN the elIy t t re3o1clng with the
J Since the election result in the state is
kn0n 5ngTe IS not o6a interest being
| The burglars who robbed S. S. Otto. c.
MCCOY and F. I1lIIinger II been bound
| over to stand trial in the district court
/ Probate Judge Dolman led the county
/ ticket in the late election. He received
/ 100 more votes than Major T. J. Anderson.
| A resident of Martin & Dennis addition
/ says there are more prohibitiOnists in that
! part of Topeka than in any other part.
with fear 'i and Trembling, aitRoGgh they
! offered odds, but they are glad they did it
/ now.
IT'S tough to pay election bets" said
| John Waters, as he ordered a suit of
clothes for another man who bet on Stan
| Frank Grimes state treasurer-elect from
/ the short grass country, attended Gay
/ est Manhattan" last night and only blush
It isn't the looks of the work that makes
| a milIiner pOpular-it is the price she
! charges. The higher the price the more
popular.
Secretary Bird of the Republican county
who think they have claims against the
! committee.
wf Kind IL eiotu n he F soeS R9t make
| Of him-he is feeling pretty comfortable,
/ thank you
| Eight society young ladies will usher at
Any. mistakes in seats will be reported to
/ the box office.
| state house clerks passes to go home to
vote on, although they usually get passes
at other times.
/ on election day and it came in some parts
| Of the state, though not in quite the way
| that he meant
Since the election a state house stenog-
| rapher says she will never, never marry
| certain a game.
Those stylish looking girls on the street
yesterday in light colored tailor-made cos
| TUNES were members of the Gay Man
haitian company.
Billy Morgan of Hutchinson is in To-
Hes He says the Rep6bIcan majority in Reno
county is over 800
The annual meeting of the State Horti-
| cultural society will be held on December
! e. Is and %, the same dates as the State
/ Teachers association.
Major A. NJ. Harvey says he is through
| with war and politics and has resumed
| the practice of law in his old office in the
Columbian building.
! The stone for the new steps in front of
| the Church of the Assumption has arrived
and work on the steps and Vesubules Will
1 be commenced at once
Although Webb McNall lives on a farm
| close to the town of Gaylord, he is in an
| other township and has to go half way
] to Smith Center to vote
Some people have been talking of hav-
I ing Major Anderson be a candidate for
mayor, but they have. discovered that he
| does not live in the city.
One state house employee has posted the
| following. tfWanted-A job. Apply to
most anyone in the state house between
! now and the LIST of January
| It used to be that to secure the services
! of several young ladies to oficiate at a
punch bowl was like hunting for a needle
/ In a hay-stack. Things have changed.
One of the things that some of the state
| house employees feel sore about is that
/ they paid out five or six dollars to go
/ home to vote and it didn't do them any
good.
A brick sidewalk was laid on the south
side of Eighth street between Harrison
4 street and Topeka avenue some time ago,
of dirt
Some who come down early in the morn
ing want to know when the stoves will be
put in the street cars. Answer, when it
gets cold enough for the packing in the
boxes to freeze.
One Topeka mans idea of being in the
seventh heaven of bliss is to wear good
clothes, a silk hat, and have money
enough to hail cab instead of waving the
silk hat at a street car.
Chairman CLANCY of the Republican
county committee says that 1t takes longer
to get returns from the country precincts
of this county than it does from the back
woods precincts of Marie.
H. J. Wright of Morris county visited
the state house yesterday to get the seal
of state on some documents he will send
share in a 800 100000 estate.
Nearly every man in Topeka has
solved to address Tom Anderson as Sen
ator," but when they get to talking with