The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-24
SNAP SHOTS ATHOMEN NEWS

Camping parties are being arranged
for Decoration day.
State Treasurer Hefebower is on his
farm in Miami county.
Two new tandems have arrived in
town in the last two weeks.
The Swedish Independent league will
meet tonight at their hall
Miss Ethelyn Palmer. the Topeka act
ress, is home for the summer.
There are II flags foated in good
weather at the Santa Fe shops.
A new boiler is being placed in the
Santa Fe depot for heating purposes.
The street car track at Faurth and
the railroad tracks is being repaired.
The tennis season has opened. The
frequent rains have delayed it several
weeks.
Three of the Washburn college base
ball team are members of the Twenty
second regiment.
Henry Beerman has moved his studio
to the northwest corner of Topeka ave-
nue. and Tenth street.
W. A. Evans the Topeka correspond
ent of the Kansas City Star is visiting
at his home in Brown county.
ROl Nichols has secured a judgment
of $500 against the city for property TAX
en- to widen North Kansas avenue.
Topeka man recently spent an aft
ernoon fishing on the Cottonwood river
and brought back Al pounds of fish.
Topeka and will be engaged in business
with his father during the summer.
The jury in the district court has
been excused until June s, when the rest
Of the criminal cases will be cleared up.
The Washburn college ball team,
fresh from it's victory over K. u, will
play game with the Baker team on
Thursday.
A trick bicycle rider entertained a
crowd at the corner of Eighth and Kan
Ia niyht
a collection.
There is a movement to pave the
alley between Jackson street and Kan
sas avenue and Sixth and Seventh. 1t
is mud hole.
The grading for new sidewalks has
been resumed. Contractor Richie had
about given up hope of ever being able
to lay more walks.
Miss Mabel Diggs daughter of Mrs
Annie L Diggs, helps her mother in the
state library and edits the children'S
page in the Topeka Advocate.
Shawnee county's apportionment for
exhibition of state products and indus
tries at the Transmississippi exposition
at Omaha this summer, is $1,21S
Santa Fe. depot trolley cars were stop
ped at Fourth and Holiday streets yes
terday on account of repairs being made
on the track at the curve on that cor
ner.
A man looked into store window.
saw WAdl lie lHOuSHl were pretty par
asols, stepped in, and when he asked
the price found out they were lamp
shades.
The executive committee of the
Cruiser Topeka fund.- is making ar
engagements for a patriotic concert at
Garfield park on the evening of Decora-
ton day.
A prisoner who was put in the city |
jail but had not had a trial, found the |
jail room so dirty that he offered to |
clean 1t, if given water and a mop.
They were furnished.
City Engineer Barnes was reared on |
the Atlantic coast on Long Island and |
his parents and children still live there,
but he says there is no fear OF danger |
from the Spanish there.
Today is the 4OOth anniversary of |
Savonarola, and Rev. John Gordon, of |
the Presbyterian Theological seminary |
at Omaha, will lecture on his life at the |
Washburn college chapel this evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. N. Wadsworth went |
to Kansas City yesterday to meet their |
son William Wadsworth, who is on his |
way to Denver, where he will fill a the
atrical engagement at Elitch'S gardens |
during the summer.
Ralph Valentine Of this city, who ar
rived in Costa Rica a short time ago,
in a letter to his parents tells of an ex-
citing chase of the steamer he took
passage on by a United States gunboat
along the west coast of Cuba.
Miss Cecilia Quinn. daughter of Bar
ney Quinn, the Wells-Fargo messenger
on the Santa Fe plug between Kan
eas City and Topeka, will sing with the
Bostonians next season. Miss Quinn's