The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-04
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The state house was closed today.
State Treasurer Frank Grimes is in
DR.. R. E. Mcvey is in Kansas City for
the day.
John Frey has gone to work in Argen-
tine for the Santa Fe-
George A. Clark and F. P. MacLennan
are fishing near lola.
James Hughes Of Hope Kan, is spend
ing the Fourth in Topeka
The Cottage Praying band is having a
picnic near OsawlIie today.
The Coultis farm is again opened to
its friends for the summer.
A picnic party of young people started
for Wakarusa at O'Clock this morning.
The court house was deserted today. All
the orhcers We're patriotic and celebrated
The reform school boys picnicked today
address.
The G. A R reunion committee meets
at department headquarters Thursday afs-
ernOOn.
The county Offices were closed last
morning.
The telegraph Injunction cases have
trict court
Roy shreve. one of the western Union
messenger boys, is back from a vacation
in the east.
This is the. time of year when people
wish they had a job as Arctic explorer for
about three months
Rev. NJ. C. Long. who soon goes to Chi
sage; was given q farewell reception by
A picture of Mrs. Stanley wife of the
governor, occupies a prominent position
in a downtown elevator.
L. H. Palmer, local representative of the
cago to spend the Fourth.
Charley Sessions is at Excelsior Springs
spending the Fourth with MS Sessions,
who is there for her health
The hambeau club left at noon today
for Rossville expecting to have a high
royal time in the village up the Kaw.
ing tbe desfrucfion' of he snanfsb fleef ar
Santiago as well as the Fourth of July
The proprietor of a candy store. with
up last night and spent the day celebrat-
The rain yesterday interfered with the
nag raising over station c in POtwin, and
the exercises were postponed until We'd
Henry Beerman has gone to Ottawa to
spend q part Of the summer. This is the
in September.
W9Tk on the Seventh street PayiRg was
Nat Barnes, postmaster at Kansas City,
Kan. was in Topeka last night.
Plcnics, the most successful progenitors
pie, are the popular amusement of the
day despite the threatening weather.
One of the most patriotic men in To-
VII VII I his mds IfaIi5ter Wlo kePt on
horses with flags in honor of the day
The boy who gave Mrs. Thorpe a bunch
OF hrecrackers to be given to some poor
boy who couldnt buy any probably had
as much fun today as any boy in Topeka.
Nervous people We're kept. awake most
OF the night last night by the hendS who
thought they couldn't do enough ceIebrat-
ing in one day, and SO had to begin the
night before
Denver Post: Hop tea" was dispensed
at TOpeka's races, and the blue ribbon peo-
pie have raised a cry of protest that re-
sounds to heaven Hop tea is Kansas
csc for logger beer"
Travel has been extremely heavy on the
railroads for the past day or two owing
to the Fourth of July rates. People al
ways think the Fourth of July is a good
time to go somewhere else.
There are three motions fled in the suit
of Dolman against the Santa Fe. They
are Tor a new trial, to set aside the verdict
and for a judgment on the special find
1ngs. They will be argued on Thursday.
Thomas Stanley has been removed from
the position of superintendent of the state
man in the capitol John Dudley IS now
in charge of the building and grounds as
custodian.
The boy who perpetrated the best prac-
teal joke today was the one who substi-
tuted a real giant hrecracker for the
dummy with which a smart alecky young
man intended to frighten people. When
the explosion really took place the 5 a.
young man was more frightened than
anyone else.
The committee appointed by the Shaw
nee county bar to draft resolutions in
memory of the late Judge Foster have
been given another week in which to re-
port They were to have had the mem
orial ready yesterday. but its preDaration
was left 10 Colonel w H. Rossing ton, on
account of his intimate relations with
Judge Foster, and Colonel RossingtOn had
not had time to prepare II.