The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-28
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Several ladies attended the bloomer
ball game yesterday.
The United States mail wagons al
ready look the worse for wear.
The casino at Garfield park is to be
completed the first week in August
It is about time that scaffolding is
taken out of the state house dome.
A liverynan recently gave away a
white horse because it was so hard to
keep clean.
John CLANCY has become an expert
horse shoe pitcher and has challenged
all comerss.
A thermometer on Kansas avenue
registered ITO at 8 o'clock this morning
in the sun.
Sheriff Porter Cook says that he did
not want Fletcher Helms let off with a
fine but he was.
Topeka can boast Of the handsomesr
ice wagon in this part of the country.
Shower than any Kansas City has.
The man who has taken his vacation
and is again hard at work, always en-
vies the man who has not yet been
away.
If any one wants to realize how dull
Topeka is this summer, they need only
to be informed that pitching Quoits is
all corners.
A Topeka man who went into the
mountains of Colorado to camp, was
there just three days and says that he
had good time.
]. B. Marshall is arranging w. M.
Van Ness Flying Squadron March" for
the band. It will be played at the
Omaha exposition.
The Republican state central commit
tee has selected as headquarters the
rooms on East Seventh street formerly
occupied by Walt Richards joint
Bob Semple is happy. He has found
his parole papers in the possession of J.
Ware Butterfeld and he is now able to
prove that he is not in Libby prison.
wholesale Jail delivery last night but it
was only the old soldiers practieing
with fire arms for an entertainment.
All the liquor and fixtures seized by
the police in the raids on the joints Of
Antoine, Bowman and Cave have been
destroyed by order of Police Judge Fer
ry.
The First Presbyterian Sunday school
will hold the annual picnic Friday aft
ernoOn at Washburn college campus, be-
ginning at 8 o'clock.
Two boys caught a large swapping
turtle in the Shunganunga which meas
ured from head to tail q inches, and
they brought it uptown in a Wheelbar-
row trying to sell it.
A heavy rain fell on Weather Obser-
yer Jennings farm near Emporia this
week, about the only rain Of any guam
tity which fell in Kansas. This should
be investigated.
New clubs of Usage orange wood are
being made for the police force. The
wood was obtained a, few miles from
Topeka, and the work is being done at
a Topeka planning mill.
The Kansas avenue policemen keep
on the east side of the street in the
morning and on the west side in the
afternoon. At noon when there is no
shade on either side they stay in the
house.
The usual arrangement of drug stores
north of Fifth street is to have a tight
board partition back of the prescription
case where social conversations can be
held. Some of the stores south of Fifth
street have this arrangement also.
It's a sight worth going long way to
see the cOlOred soldiers marching to
Jackson's Regimental band when a live
ly air is played. Jackson has a choice
line of cake walk pieces which he mixes
in with the patriotic airs he plays.
Chas. D. Wilson, arrested yesterday,
and who claims to have been a United
States secret service detective, became
abusive when locked up, and he made
so much noise that he was taken down
into the basement and locked in the
steel cage.
The Topeka Typographical Union
elected the FOLLOWING officers yesterday
to serve during the ensuing year: J. S.
PETER, presidents Chas. Sutherland, vice
president; @. J. Cooper, secretary; J.
treasurer; Chas. Woodward, door keep
er; J. F. Kirkpatrick, member of eXecu-
tive committee.
At Dr.H. w. Roby's home at Twenty
first street beyond the Shunganunga,
there is an amusing sight. 1t is a hen
sitting on ten green apples endeavOring
to hatch them. She was not permitted
to set" and her coop being under an
apple tree, she gathered together ten
apples about the size of eggs, scratched
together straw and refuse enough to
make a nest and has been sitting on the
apples for over a week.