The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-29
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


Mr. A. c. Davis has gone to Chicago
on business
The county commissioners were in
session Friday.
Congressman Curtis will return from
Washington Tuesday.
The cold weather cranks are enjoying
themselves this morning.
Leslie McCanne leaves today for an
outing of two weeks in Colorado.
Since the melon season arrived some
of the alleys smell worse than ever.
Corn in many parts of Kansas is re-
ported to be from IL to Is feet high.
The City Railway company is doing
lots of needed repairing on their tracks
Mr.. N. Jury of the Santa Fe offices
left today to spend his vacation in Chi
cago.
The state house grounds will be now
ed soon. They are in need of atten-
J. w. o'Nen of the Topeka Water
company has gone to New York on bus
mess.
A one-legged colored man entertained
the hotel guests last night with whist
ling solos.
More people complained of the heat
yesterday than on any other day this
summer,
Grading for the new pavement on
Tenth street has commenced at Tenth
and Tyler.
The dust was flying in clouds yester-
day on paved streets that were not
sprinkled.
w. H. Sears, private secretary to SEN
ator Harris, was in Topeka yesterday
afternoon.
1t was % years ago yesterday that
the famous grasshopper raid occurred
in Kansas.
Henry Allen attended the patriotic
day exercises which closed the Ottawa
assembly Friday.
Home grown xvatermeIODS are on the
market but are not yet so reliable as
those shipped here.
The Christian Endeavor society of the
First Christian church picnicked in
Garfield park last night.
The July institutes closed yesterday
and the teachers examinations will be
held Monday and Tuesday.
Clark Daley and VIII Tinker are
fishing at Lake View. Bulletin No.
says "35 bass and so perch"
The court house has not nearly so
many visitors and loafers since district
court has practically closed.
Two supposed mad dogs were killed
within an half hours time Friday in the
vicinity of the Santa F'e shops.
James Crossfeld has returned to his
home in Singman after a weeks visit
with the family of J. s. Coe in Pot
win.
G. c. Clemens is at work on a new
compilation of the corporation laws
which Crane & Co. propose to publish
soon.
Senator Baker returned to Leaven-
worth yesterday afternoon. He win
soon leave for a trip north with his
family.
The insurance injunction cases
against superintendent Church will be
decided by Judge Hazen on Monday
morning.
The transcripts of the Postal tele-
graph cases, which were tried last week
before Justice Wright, have been filed
in the district court.
The kissing bug does not seem to be
making any great ravages in Topeka at
present, or else the sufferers are keep
ing very quiet about it.
The new Mail building on Jackson
street is rapidly nearing completion, but
no sooner is one business block compile
ted than another is begun.
Don Willis, in the office of the Uni
ted States marshal, enjoys the distinc-
ton of being one of the best account
ants and bookkeepers in the city.
The rain last night was a great relief
phere so that sleep became possible to
those who had suffered all day with the
heat
Ice water is undergoing a boycott by
many Topeka people just now. Ice wa
ter tastes good in hot weather, but like
other beverages, one can take too much
of it.
Some people say that watermelons
are better than ever before this year.
Others say they are very poor 1t all /
depends on the state of mind of the |
eater.
Mr.. Geo. c. Biedler left for his home
in Mt Pulaski, ILL.,, after a few dayss' |
visit with relatives in Topeka. Mr.. Bed |
Ter is employed on the Mt. Pulaski |
News.
There have been II drownings in |
Shawnee county this summer. Three of /
them have been in the past week. To- |
N.orsf mia
can learn to swim.
The police have named Railroad street /
in North Topeka, wall street, because /
the inha hitants get along without Ia /
boring. Ella BuckneF is the Smoky /
Queen" of the street.
w H H. Young, who will discontinue |
his services as superintendent of the |
soldiers orphans home at Atchison, at (
the request of the state board of char /
tiles, was in the city Friday.
A Topeka man who has been planning /
a vacation for the past six weeks, has /
concluded to stay at home until the hot /
weather is over, so that he can enjoy !
his trip when he does go away.
The Commercial club is in receipt of /
an inlaid picture of a Rock Island train, /
mounted in a heavy gilt frame. These 7
inlaid pictures are made by a workman |
in the Rock Island shops at Horton
A Topeka man who thought he would /
profit by his experience yesterday /
dressed himself in the coolest possible |
manner this morning, and before 9 |
o'clock he was complaining of the cold !
A motion for a new trial has been !
fled in the injunction case brought by I
D. w MulVane against c. B. Merriam |
to keep the latter from collecting a
judgment against the Topeka Capital |
company.
A party of ten Indians from Mayetta |
stopped off in Topeka Friday to see the
sights. They are on their way to the
Indian Territory to join with several of
their brothers in a hunting and fishing
The Modocs will sing at the Wathena
on next Saturday and