The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-15
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few. days. The house is being fitted with
modern improvements.
The sale of seats for the engagement Of
the Del Conte Italian Grand Opera com
pany will open al ROwley & Shows drug
store Friday morning.
Arthur Kane of Kansas City was in To
pel1a Monday He has been i'll for four
weeks and is just returning to his work
on the Kansas City Star.
Mr.. Paul Morton, third vice president of
the Santa Fe, is in Topeka today attend
ing the Wichita coal rate hearing before
the railroad commissioners.
-Four young ladies who are members of
the Episcopal church have broken their
Lenten pledges and have enjoyed the So
cial pleasures of the season.
The AriOn society has placed a large
crayon portrait of the deceased president,
Ed Buechner in a prominent position in
the rooms Of the organization.
The county commissioners ought to
sow at least another pound of blue grass
seed on the court house grounds, if they
do nothing else towards their improve
ment.
ing put on between Topeka and Kansas
city by the various railroads, cheap Sun
summer season.
Judge Hazen has refused to grant Arch
Lord, convicted of keeping a place where
Stafford gave notice that the case will be
Elizabeth woodward of Fort Scott died
Saturday. She was a sister of Mrs, P.
@. Noel of this city and of General Wea-
yer, who was a candidate for president for
the Peoples party.
This evening and Wednesday evening
the Topeka Camera club will exhibit Ian
tern slides from St. Louis and RedIands
Call, at the 7: A. A. rooms Look out
for the red light
Conrad Mayer, the German barber. made
a speech at the Shawnee county congress
siOnal convention in which he declared
and elected governor
Mr.. Chas- B: Lantry of this city is in
Arizona experimenting the shipment of
considerable construction equipment from
Arizona to Texas, where the firm has
taken big railroad contract.
Rev. Harvey H. Fowler who was for
several years a reporter on the State
Journal, has been assigned to Linn, Wash
ington county. by the Methodist confer
ence He has preached on the Manhat-
tan circuit for two years.
Fred Badger, formerly of State Journal.
is writing the Kansas notes in the Kan
sas City Star very entertainingly, and
Fred Vandegrift has broken away from
brought back into the house as long as
the fine weather lasts.
''Sidetracked,' with julie Walters in the
principal role as EOratio xerxes Booth,
the tramp, will be seen at the Crawford
of this kind of an attraction know what
to expect. The speciality features are said
to be new and entertaining.
The temperance committee has secured
its injunctions against the Hoffman and
Richards joints. After Judge Hazen told
the attorneys that he would not grant
an injunction except on affidavit, the
ment and late Monday afternoon the tenn
porary iniunctions We're granted.
James W. Padgett and ]. W. Drumm
were brought from Manhattan and are
arraigned before United States Commits
sioner George w Clark Drumm is
charged with passing counterfeit money
and Padgett with receiving goods that
were stolen on the Fort Riley reserva tion.
Commissioner Clark fixed their bonds at
| $3.50 each.
Major T. J. Anderson, secretary of the
| Commercial club, will be candidate for
state senator. He said today: There is
| a lot of croaking because the Commercial
| club has taken steps to reduce taxes, but
| the club is making a move in the right
| direction and 1 have notion to make my
J fight for senator on that issue. There IS
sore need Of retrenchment-