The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-14
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

These are the days that rejoice the heart
of the hunter.
Jesse Shaw, who has been quite sick, is
able TO be around.
Mayor Fellows has returned from a
business trip to Newton.
The state house walks are much better
since they have been relaid.
The addition to the Charles Wolff pack
ing house has reached the fifth story.
A dozen new houses are in the course of
erection in the vicinity of Washburn col
lege.
This is the season when whist and high
green bay tree
tt is said that Frank Grimes will have
that cartoon enlarged and hang it in the
state treasurer's office.
The trial of John Collins for the murder
of his father opens in the district court
two weeks from today.
The Republicans are already trying to
missioner Of Elections Younf
Several fiocks of wild geese went south
last night. People who pretend to know
say this is a sign of big storm.
Chase Johnson, bond clerk in the state
AUDITORS Q on Will resign at ONCE and
The city council will meet tonight and
make another effort to award the contract
The dirt taken from the excavation for
the new SIDEWALKS is used to fill the city
property at the south end of the Kansas
avenue bridge.
This is the time of year that people see
the sun rise without much effort. The
sun is entirely too swift for them in the
summer time.
Mrs. Annie L. DIggs thinks the adju-
tant generals department is a useless ap-
it ought to be abolished.
Mr.. S. J. Bear, who has been visiting
his family for the last week, left last night
ting in of a telephone plant.
Jim Senter is preparing to give up the
office of secretary Of the board of railroad
as the new administration comes in.
George Harris. Ed Abbott and Clayton
went hunting north of town Saturday and
brought back wagon load of squirrels.
Every day now some Republican goes
that he 9 may pick out the t6bs he Wants
at ManPao ben he es 5 SO h5s paper 9
stead of leasing it, but he wishes now that
back
Every man WHO did anything toward the
entitled to take his pick Of the various
posal.
The regular docket of this term of the
district court closes on next Monday.
Judge Eazen will take a week for misce1-
Collins ---
The young ladies who will act as ushers
Wednesday evening are now studying
charts of the first floor Of the Crawford
theater.
Emma Driver wants a divorce from
James Driver. who, according to her pc
AtAclAss mas DCCA Ting u uI1NS HSE
into distraction. She has filed suit in the
district court.
The man who happened to make lucky
guess on somebody's majority has asSum-
ed an air of superiority over the rest of
mankind as he goes around explaining
how he figured it out
Major H N. Boyd. assistant adiutant
general, is a newspaper man. He is pro-
prietor of the Belleville Freeman, one of
the Oldest Democratc papers In the
northern part of the state.
W. o. Hummer, the man who was con-
victed of attempting to kill Lucinda Hen
prisoners at the county Jail This is said
to be largely due to the fact that he poses
as a martyr.
The man who hauls coal to the state
house has a scheme of his own for IN
loading it. He drives his wagon directly
over the chute down which the coal is to
go, springs a trap-door in the floor of his
wagon and the coal does the rest.
Jim NIorphy has quit compiling the re-
turns of the election. Every precinct in
the state has sent in returns to the Popu-
mittee has ceased to have any interest in
looking them over.
One Topeka woman who is greatly in
tereSted in the doll show will not let her
little daughter see the exhibit, because
she realizes the agony the child will IN
dergo al seeing so many treasures which
she is not able to possess.
Susie B. Guild has brought suit for S.. 200
damages against the city in the district
court. She says in her petition that she
was thrown by a detective sidewalks on