The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-14

present telegraph. editor Of the kansas
Clty Journal, agalnsiI, ILL Jhe IoPek x CsPI "a
/ has been continued in the district court.
The Blue Rapids Plaster company OF
Blue Rapids has recovered from the Mid
| land Plaster company of Kansas City
| $73.33 in the district court. The contro-
| Versy was over the redemption of plaster
| sacks
Employees of the Santa Fe in the yards
| and shops are already specializing on the
kind of attraction to be offered at the Fan
| Festival next year. They appear to be
people.
The contract for the electric light plant
at the state house gives the contractors
! order, but it is the intention to have it
ready for lighting purposes before that if
The charity hospital needs a strip Of
hall carpet 10 yards long. Mrs. Thorpe
! nish the rags for this carpet if some per-
son or society will donate So for weaving
and chain.
on the third floor in the rotunda of the
state house are all stained with tobacco
juice left there by the crowds of visitors
who have passed through the corridors in
the past three days.
office for the third quarter, just closed.
are 81, $40 For the three quarters of the
XeaE up f. date o the reoePt f hae
fees for examining banks.
Ninety -nlne out OF every hufsqreo OF inc
candidates will be glad when the election
is over, as well the plain common peo-
a
candidate is nearly always on the verge
of nervous prostration by the time cleo
ton comes.
Two of the largest freight cars ever seen
in Topeka were in the Santa Fe yards yes
terday One was car belonging to the
GilsfQn1Iates Paving company ana vas 5ri at
other was woodenware car from Wiscon-
sin almost equally as large
There is one consolation about the cleo
ton this year. The voter will not have
to tack his ballot up to the side of the
to the top of it. as he did two years ago.
The bIanket-sheet ballot is one of the evils
of the Australian ballot system
State Architect Lescher returned yester-
day from visit to Omaha. He says there
grounds on Wednesday, and the jam was
so great that the exposition buildings had
crowded that no one could either get in
or out.
uled for home this year and the first one
will be played tomorrow afternoon Nc
Co9k field With the strong zines ,I Ia team
The Santa Fee leaving here at m. ar
rives in Lawrence in ample time for the
game, which is called at $3.50.
Adjutant General Allen says some men
have a habit of writing to his. department
for information and then writing again in
a few weeks complaining that the first
has dug up his letter files in response to
such a complaint and found that he had
written twice to the man making the COM
plant.
The gas Jets in the chandelier which
hangs from the top Of the state house ro-
tunda are all lighted with electricity, as
are most of those about the walls Of the
rotunda- The chandeliers in Representa-
tive hall were at one time lighted in the
same way, but the apparatus got out of
working order and no one has taken
enough interest in it to fix 1t.
Among other papers on file in the gov
ernor's office there is one file labeled
State Autographs" In it are the official
signatures of the governor, his private
secretary, and the secretary of state of
every state in the union. These are kept
20 that when requisition papers or other