The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-16
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

There are now &c prisoners on the
city stone pile force.
The foot viaduct over the railroad
tracks on Third street has been re-
painted.
The uniforms of the new Topeka ball
team will be gray with maroon trim
mings
1t is reported that the Twentieth
Kansas regiment at San Francisco has
the finest band of any regiment sta
toned there.
The Topeka Boys Bugle corps is to
be fully equipped with uniforms and
accoutrements and will have a must
cal instructor
James Moore, paymaster of the Santa
Fe,pays every man in the Topeka shops
by handing him his check and he knows
the most of them by name.
According to the new war tax the
Topeka Athletic association will have
to pay $65 on their pool and billiard ia
bles and bowling alleys.
Next Sunday is Communion day at
the Kansas Avenue NJ. E. church, North
Topeka, and the Rev. DR.. Boyd of Sill
yer Lake will preach in the morning
and administer the sacrament. DR..
Embree will occupy the pulpit at p.
m.
Vice President John E. Frost of the
Kansas commission to the Omaha ex-
position, has received 1921 from Har-
Vey county as full payment for that
county's subscription to the state ex-
hibit fund.
Thomas FurIong, president of the
Furlong detective agency. of st. Louis,
was in the city yesterday comforting
with his superintendent, Dell Har
baugh, the detective who worked up
the important evidence in the Collins
case.
If the weather permits, the cinemeto-
graph pictures of the Passion play will
be exhibited at Garfield park tonight in
connection with concert by MarshalPs
band. The pictures will also be exhib-
tied tomorrow night. The admission to
the park will be 10 cents.
A. L. Davis, SON of j. P. Davis, of the
Kansas Mutual, is at Hot Springs, Ar
kansas, and the Arkansas City Thomas
Cat'' says of him: Mr.. A. L. Davis,
of Topeka, Kan, is in the city. He is
a wealthy capitalist and large real es-
tate owner"
General J. K. Hudson said today: "I
have taken the liberty of notifying the
war department that I am ready for
duty but so far [ have received no or
ders. 1 am expecting orders by mail
any day to report for duty. All L know
at present is that 1 have been assigned
to the Fourth army corps"
Col H. c. Lindsey has gone to Ho1-
ton today to open a recruiting station.
He will be in Topeka on Saturday and
Monday to take recruits for the Twen-
ty-secOnd regiment. He Will open the
recruiting station at 8 o'clock in the
morning either at his stable on West
Fifth street or in the Masonic build
ing.
Chief of Police Henry M. Steele was
in Lawrence yesterday attending the
preliminary hearing of George Lyons
and AlphOnso Smith, the men arrested
in Topeka with 115 pocket knives in
their possession. A hardware store was
robbed in Lawrence and the goods were
identified by the Lawrence merchant.
The old horse car tracks are being
taken up on Tenth street in front of
the horse car barn recently torn down.
The pavement will be relaid and put in
good shape.
The Topeka Dramatic club will make
it's initial bow to a Topeka audience at
the Crawford theater tonight, present.
ing Jerome K. JerOme'S curtain raiser,
Sunset" and Rachel Bakers farce,
1.-THE Mysterious Mr.. Bob The club
contains talent, and the young people
composing it have worked hard to
make their first dramatic venture a
success. There has been a fair sale of
tickets, and an audience of at least an
encourag ing size will probably see the
performance tonight.