The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-27

Paign is that the managers have to read
the campaign songs that are submitted to
them.
VIM. Campbell of the board of railway
commissioners is down on bicycles He
says they are an enemy to the human
race.
Ed NIeKeever is making Republican
speeches in Hodgeman county and leav-
ing his own campaign to the central COM
mittee.
Three school girls were smoking cigar
cites in company with several boys on the
south steps of the state house yesterday
Miss Lutte LytIe the Topeka young col
ored woman lawyer, has been appointed
at Nashville.
The San Francisco Wave, which has
Just reached Topeka, contains two pages
or excellent pictures of the Fall Festival
and Miss Rose.
The. registration books will close at 70
vote at the state election unless your
name is on the lists.
Work. has. been commenced in tearing
down the old bOttling works on Monroe
erected on the ground.
If there is anything a ladies' whis. club
in Topeka thoroughly enjoys it is 10 have
the report OF their meetings run under
Tom McNeaI says if Assistant Attorney
General Smelling is too big man for him
to tackle, he is willing to come down to
Attorney General Boyle or Senator Har-
ris.
Governor Leedy will have one thing to
comes" said a Topeka Republican today.
He won't have to listen to ofdceseekers'
for another two years"
o. T. Crawford was at one time treas
urer of The Mountain Pink company, a
the present manager of the Hermann
company, was manager.
Captain Morris spends considerable time
at his office nowadays in spite OF his rheu-
matism. Assistant Auditor Taylor is out
campaigning, and one of them has to be
IN the Office to audit bills.
Mr. L. NJ Crawford is probably the only
man in town who cuts his own hair. He
bination of mirrors and says he can salts
fy himself better than any barber.
H. G. Lariner has written a letter of
who has been nominated for superintend-
ent of Pawnee county. and the letter has
been published in the local papers.
A verdict for the defendants was render
ed by the jury in the district. court in the
company against Green & KaIe. The con-
trOversy was over a car load of potatoes.
comb. president Of the Nefional BeeEe li5
ers' union, to deliver an address on api-
state board of agriculture next January.
Specifications for the repair OF the led
ed from Washington by Postmaster Guth-
RE. The most important item of the re
pair will be the painting of the stone
The cellar of the state house, down
where the heating plants are; is a regular
halls. which lead away into unknown
darkness. A man could hide there for a
good many days.
Howard Wood, son of Judge J. c. Wood.
was Eugene Fields favOrite baby when
he was of the proper age and lived next
the poet in St. joe Field would borrow
the baby, take it for drive and then
write one of his famous baby poems.
The small boy and toy wagon combina-
ton on the sidewalk strikes terror to the
heart of the pedestrian, especially when
the boy sits back in the Wagon and pro-
pels it with his foot One boy can run
four men off the sidewalk and not half
try.
The district court was in session up to
II o'clock last night with the trial of the
damage suit of John Ward against Joseph
Burgess. The trial was continued into the
night because all the witnesses are resi-
dents of Tecumseh and Judge Hazen did
them to Topeka another day.
The colored Free Silver club. or that
part of it which was diSpleaSed with Gov
ernOr Leedy'S appointment of Rev. G. ID.
Olden as messenger to the cOlCred troops
at Santiago, has sent a communication to
the cOlOred regiment, giving their version
of OIdens church troubles The idea is
to destroy his influence with the regiment.
There are about 100 applicants for ad-
mission to the ''Leedy Guards the col
them have uniforms yet. They are be-
ing drilled by Captain Peterson. The en-
tire 100 should be uniformed. The or
ganizatiOn, if maintained, will be worth
showing to our visitors at the Fall Festi-
val
The State Historical society has almost
a complete file of the New York Daily
Tribune from 1876 up to the present time.
There are few numbers missing prior to
1850. and the year from August 1873. to
the most valuable file of newspapers in
the society's collection.