The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-26
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS
A w Overton is building a dwelling
house on lot No. $40, Buchanan street.
Capt. J. G. Waters says that the
Rousell will be taken to the court of APP
| peals.
DR.. F. w. Bailey, who now resides at
Springfield, Mo, is in the city visiting
his father.
Dressmakers and tailors are busy
| mending and making United States and
| Cuban flags.
Mrs. Emma Anderson is making i'm
| provements at her residence at 1927
| Madison street.
worn out ones on the East Fourth
street car track.
Louis Lynch is making improvements
| on his residence at 1922 Lawrence street
| which will cost $3.50.
Word has been received that o. w.
| Blood'S health has not improved since
| he went to Las Vegas.
/ Capt. Phillips was very much disap-
| pointed when the apportionment of
troops was announced.
Deputy Sheriff Fletcher Helm is said
| to be the unluckiest man in Topeka.
| He can't do anything right.
| w r. Fish, formerly. night clerk at
| business with L. B. Wyman.
Mrs. F. Richardson has purchased of
| J. w. Ferguson the five room house at
| 912 West Twelfth street for $780,
Since Col. Fred Funston arrived in
| Topeka he has been rendered the cour-
teSieS of the ElkS and the 7. A. A.
A handsome monument will be erect
| ed over the grave of the late Thomas
]. Kellam, who died two years ago.
County Clerk John M. Wright says
| that all who have claims against the
county must file them before Friday.
Topeka Fraterna1 insurance societies
are considering what they shall do in
| the case of members who go to war.
| Harry J. Myers, of Kansas City, edi-
| tor of the Western College Magazine,
was in Topeka yesterday on business.
Levi Evan has commenced divorce
proceedings against his wife, Caroline
Evan. The couple were married in
| 1864.
]. T. DanIey has been issued a permit
| to make repairs and improvements on
| his barn on lot No. 904 West Twelfth
| street.
John Benefiel who was convicted Of
careless driving in the police court had
| the case against him dismissed in the
district court.
Mark Robbins is spending a few
weeks in the city with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. A. D. Robbins. He will prob
ably join a theatrical company for a
summer season.
All the fellows around town who keep
protesting in a loud voice that they
don't want to go to the war (aIthough
nobody has asked them to) are being
called ''pacificOs."
A steel cage is badly needed in the
women's ward of the city Jail. When
drunk or crazy women are arrested it
is necessary to put them down in the
cage in the basement.
In Chief Wilmarth's office at fire de-
partment headquarters over the door
to the sleeping apartments, there is
large sign on which in white letters is
the battle cry, Remember the Maine"
Patrolmen Jenkins and Younkin have
signified their intention of volunteering
for the war. There are said to be 9TH
er policemen who will volunteer, but
their names have not been made pub
lie.
Postmaster Guthrie says that he will
attempt to secure an order to have the
federal building elevator run all the
time. Under the present arrangement
it is operated only while the court is
in session.
Valentine, has left Topeka for Costa
Rica. He will sail Thursday from New
Orleans. He will enter the employ of
the Buena Vista Mining company at
Costa Rica.
The city railway will soon have a
wagon with a ladder that can be run
up to the height of the trolley wires
and will allow man to stand on it and
repair the wires from the side of the
track and not stop the cars.
Two-thirds of the awnings on Kan
sas avenue are lower than the city or
dinances permit. The police depart
ment, under orders from City Attorney
Bird, will order all awnings in Topeka
raised to a height of at least six and
one-half feet from the sidewalk
Harry Stafford cut a hole in the door
of his Office to allow the mail to be
dropped in when the door was locked.
The next day the mail carrier pointed
out a crack two feet long and an inch
wide that he had been using to drop
mail in for a year. Harry said some
thing about all that work for nothing,
with a few of Uncle Dave Hef1ebOWer'S
kind of words added.
Judge Foster of the United States
district court yesterday sentenced
Charles Hedges to five months in Jail
Young Hedges is the boy who secured
the Hotel Throop mail from the post
office and rif1ed the letters. He is but
IS years old. Judge Foster said that he
made the sentence light on account of
the good record of the young man and
to save him from the disgrace of the
penitentiary.
Attorney D. H. Martin recently dis
carded an old umbrella which had worn
out, throwing the skeleton frame into
the alley. On the handle his name was
engraved. Several days afterward he
was surprised to receive a newly COW
cred umbrella which upon examination
proved to be on the old frame Some
member had evidently found the frame
and recovered it for sale The pur-
chaser must have noticed the name and
supposed the umbrella had been stolen
from Mr.. Martin.
To Cure Cold in One DAY.