The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-17
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

A parting salute of three guns was
| fired for the Twentieth regiment yes
| terday afternoon.
Teh theatrical season is over in To
peka. Manager Crawford says he ex-
poets no further bookings.
| 1t will be necessary to replant all
corn now in the ground in this county.
Hay is worth $12 ton and will be
higher by tomorrow.
1t is said that the Knights Templar
have sent to St. Louis for experienced
detectives to work on the mystery of
the Collins murder case.
Examinations in special courses will
close at the Kansas Medical college on
| Thursday of this week and the college
will close for the summer.
Charles Hurd, a son of Solicitor A. A.
Hurd of the Santa Fe, left yesterday
with the Twentieth regiment as a mem
Der of the Abilene company.
Mrs. James Lewis is now editing the
kinsley Graphic, the paper her husband
was editor of before his appointment as
private secretary to Gov. Leedy.
Mr.. Levi Scott, father of Irving Scott
has returned to Topeka to assist in the
management of the Cremerie restaurant
in which he still holds an interest.
John Thompson, who has been cook
at the asylum for the past year, has
been given a position as cook with the
Twenty first Kansas regiment.
Adjutant General Allen and his as
S1StanC, III. N. BOyO, wear their uni
forms during the transaction of official
business with the volunteers.
Mrs. Harrison Clarkson, who was in
jured in a runaway accident, is not as
badly injured as was at first supposed.
She is resting comfortably today.
Strawberries which are now appear
ing on the local markets are minus the
sand which was such striking char
acteristic of the earlier shipments.
Lieut.. Col Ed. c. Little has bought
Maj. ]: E Dallas black saddle horse
The animal is 10 years old, but the ''un-
lucky 13" has no terror for Col. Lit
tie.
Miss Ethelyn Palmer the Topeka
young lady who spent the winter in the
east as a member of the Northern
home.
Mr. James Senter, secretary of the
board of railroad commissioners, has re-
turned from Washington, D. c., where
he attended the National Association
of Railroad Commissioners.
Fred Harrison, stenographer in the
accounting department of the Santa F'e
in Chicago, is at the Santa Fe hospital
in this city with a badly bruised arm,
the result of a bicycle collision.
Sixteen Topeka young women, mem
bers of a whist club, will go to Usage
City Friday, where they will be enter
tanned by Mrs. Frank Bonebrake, who
recently moved there from Pittsburg.
sam ADAMS, q son Oh udSS T W
ans, and Fred Lyman, son of J. H. Ly-
man of College Hill, have enlisted in
the college company, which will be a
part of the Twenty-second regiment.
Topeka is said to contain two of the
handsomest passenger agents in the
United States-W. J. Black of the santa
Fe and E E. Macleod of the Rock Is
land This isn't hard on the passenger
men, either.
Lieut. Alfred Slavins of the Second Q.
inf 7T1-X who has been in this city
for the past ten days assisting in the
in of the Kansas volunteers,
has been appointed senior major of the
Fifth Missouri regiment of volunteers.
The first baby in Topeka to be named
after the hero of the battle of Manila,
is the infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. |
Jeffers who resides on Van Buren, street |
in North Topeka. The baby was born