The Topeka state journal., 1898-01-27
SNAP SHOTS AT THOMENEWs

gin Friday.
The joint cases in the district court win
! be cleared up this week.
Paymaster William Hobson of the Rock
Island is visiting in Chicago.
Next Tuesday the Y. NJ c. A. bowling
alleys will be closed for repairs
Henry billiard is arranging to give a
! masked ball at Hamilton hall soon
S. H. Conner has purchased the First
Avenue hotel and took charge today.
Candidates for constable and justice of
! the peace are already circulating cards.
East Fourth street near the railroad
crossing is in a deplorable condition.
This is the kind of weather people claim
benefits the wheat, so don't complain.
! ]. L. Campbell has sold $57.75 worth of
lumber from the old Kansas avenue
/ bridge.
! Dick Hodgins will build a house be-
! tween Fifth and Sixth on Lincoln street
! this summer.
J. J. Schenck. the lawyer, now occupies
rooms with r. 3. Welch in the Column
bian building.
Mrs. George c. Stoker of 1905 West Sixth
street is slowly recovering from a pro-
tracted illness.
Mr.. c. s. Sutton, auditor of freight re-
ceipts of the Santa Fe, is an accomplish
ed cello player.
The high school first term examinations
have been completed. The new term be-
gins Monday next.
Today was observed at Washburn col,
Iege with prayer for colleges. Glasses
were dismissed at a. m.
Mr.. R. S. Boyle, conductor on the Rock
( Island between Topeka and Caldwell is
i'll at his home in this city.
DO0pan 11-1,O moe, or,., 7,,, +o7 e~o-..
Washburn college in 1895, is now prac>
ticing law in New York city.
A Topeka attorney says that the day OF
ranting attorneys has passed and that
lawyers are now business men.
John Macdonald returned Wednesday
from Chicago, where he lectured on ROB
ert Burns before the Oakland club.
Major Anderson has advised his son by
a letter which is not to be opened until
the boy is d years old, to keep out OF
politics.
Colonel J. w F. Hughes has been given
the contract for furnishing the coal for
the county. The price is 1920 per ton for
Weir City. ~
DR.. Daniel Whitmer is at Christ hospi-
tai, where he is nursing a broken les
and sprained ankle, a result of the fab
he suffered Tuesday.
There is a four -year-old child in Topeka
who can quote poetry from Kipling
gIibly as a schoolboy can repeat the verses
from his first reader.
Columbia Council No. 50. Knights and
Ladies of Security will give a musical
and literary entertainment at Lincoln
Post hall Friday evening.
The next entertainment in the Wash
burn college lecture course will be lee
ture by Frank Bristol of Washington, D.
c.. on the subject BRAINS"
A short sketch of General Manager Frey
of the Santa Fe appears in a recent num-
Der of the Railway Conductor under
the head "A Self-Made Man
The first officer of the State Bar asso-
citation to arrive for the annual meeting
was c. c. Coleman of Clay Center, chair
man of the executive committee.
DR.. H. H. Miller of Rossivlle has again
been compelled to enter Topeka hospital
for treatment. DR.. Miller is suffering
with inflammatory rheumatism.
Washburn college will probably Join the
college base ball league this spring, which
will include the state university, Baker
university and Ottawa university.
Clerk Sharitt of the federal court says
that the New York Life part of the Hill
mon controversy has not been dismissed
1t will be as soon as Judge Williams ar
rives.
Major Anderson has received two large
pictures from the Santa Fe to be hung
on the walls of the Commercial club
rooms. They are scenes from the Rocky
mountains.
On a Washburn college trolley car
which left the transfer station Tuesday
evening at o'clock there were &c men
on board and not one woman. All the
shoppers got home on the car 20 min
utes before that.
A Topeka hardware man was exhibiting
a patent shovel for removing snow from
sidewalks yesterday, to a crowd of friends
and prospective customers, when the
shovel broke into pieces much to the
chagrin of the dealer.
There will be q meeting Saturday night
in the Y. NJ c. a. rooms on East Eighth
street for the purpose of forming a Klon>
dixie mining company. The meeting is
called for the Santa Fe shopmen who are
interested in the gold fields.
The second trial of DR.. Samuel A.
Johnston for implication in the Topeka
grave robbery cases is set for trial at
Alma for next Tuesday. NJ. E. Lowe
was convicted at the first trial and the
appellate court ordered a new trial in the
Johnston case
The officers of the Kansas College Press
association are as follows: President, L.
A. NfcKeever, Salina; vice president, NJ.
L. Shelter, Atchison; secretary and treas
urer, f. w. Potter, Peabody. The an
nual meeting of the association will be
held at Lawrence February ..
The small purple and white ribbon
badges worn by Masons is the indication
of mourning among the thirty-third de-
gree men Recently a prominent Wash
ington lawyer and a leading capitalist in
New Orleans, both distinguished thirty
third degree men, died. The badge of
mourning is now being worn throughout
tI,a I-.,itad sstates laI- tl1osa 1zhn have ad-