The Topeka state journal., 1899-07-01
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS
This is bin collectors day.

PluI1s have arrived in market
There will be a scarcity of water
melons for July 4
Chancellor f. H. Snow of the unfvers-
ity, is in the city
Almost everyone is going fishing on
the Fourth of July.
Today the police change beats and the
night men go on days.
Under Sheriff Hollis Williams has
lived in Topeka Al years.
Ex-Sheriff r. B. KepIey saws he will
not be a candidate for sheriff.
The new Corliss engine at the city
electric light plant, is ready for use.
It takes one-eighth of a cord of wood
to fire up an engine on the railroad.
]. J. Falls is again at his desk in the
office of the Santa Fe auditor of freight
receipts.
Mayor Fellows went to Lawrence
today to bid on the new chemistry
building.
Frank StahI has declined to be the
candidate of the Good Citizens league
for Sheriff.
L. E. Bennett. United States vice
consul of Bangkok, Siam, was in To-
peka Friday.
This is July Last month was warm
but the hottest day was only "a and
the coolest so.
he was called on account of the illness
of his brother.
The w. c. T. U. will meet Monday
afternoon at 2:30 O'Clock at the First
Methodist church.
Mr. Perry L. Rush, who has been
spending the week in Dil1er, Neb., will
return home today.
The Santa Fe Railway and Medical
society took in 35 new members at their
meeting this week.
Dean Sykes will deliver the Grafton at
the laying of the corner stone of the
lola high school July T.
The county treasurer's Office has ta-
ken in $75, 600 in the last week on taxes
for the second half.
Wanted-Some 18th century men to
work in the Topeka injunction factory.
Apply to J. Bilious Billiard, president.
Many letters that come from foreign
ports are opened and fumigated before
allowed to go to their destination.
Miss Myrtle Eversole is at her desk
again in the Santa Fe car service de-
partment, after a few days sickness.
DR. Reynolds of Horton, who was
operated on for intestinal trouble at
Stormont hospital, is improving rapid
ly.
Fannie NJ. Hutton has brought suit
for divorce, in the district court from
W. W. Hutton whom she married June
It. 1897.
Solomon Wilder of the Santa Fe car
service department has returned to work
after months absence on account of
sickness.
Morrison F. Ramsey, spoken of in the
/ Chicago Record story, should have been
Norman F. Ramsey, who lives at 1911
West Sixth street.
The Commercial club will meet July
u, to make plans for the circus which
Dean Low intends to give for the ben
eft of the Auditorium.
Since being handsomely painted and
supplied with palms and electric fans,
the National hotel dining room presents
a home-like appearance.
Topekas auditorium should be ar
/ ranged so that horse shows may be
given in it. Topeka is one of the best
| horse show towns in the west.
The building on Jackson street, for
merly occupied by the Brush Electric
Light company, is being torn down to
make room for Crosby Bros. annex.
The July meeting of the board of di-
rectOrS of the Young WOmen's Christian
Association will be held at the rooms or
Kansas avenue Monday morning at $3.50
There is some talk of having one DO
liceman patrol the city on a bicycle.
| officer McElrOy is mentioned for the
place. He would fill the bill as well as
the bicycle.
]. s. Morse will pay the government
$252.50 for the privilege of tearing
down the old St.Nicholas hotel building
The addition to the federal building
will be erected on the site.
Aaron Brown and George Thompson
were lOs-kGQ up III the county jail r H.
day on the charge of grand larceny.
Both are colOred and are supposed to
have stolen over s1O0 worth Of brass
from the Rock Island.
At last accounts the Topeka injunc-
tiOn factory was having a hard strug-
gle for existence. The general manager
and all his assistants had. struck and
President J. Bilious Billiard was run
ming the whole factory with his mas
terful hand.
A letter headed, ''Dampfer Kaiser
Wilhelm H. from Mrs. James B. Hay
den, to friends in Topeka, says that
from the 5th to the 10th of June, the
vessel was in a severe storm but ar
rived at its destination safely only three
days behind time.
w. S. Culver, with the Topeka party
in the Klondike, writes under date of
April q. that the party has taken up
nine claims and expect to stay three
years. None have been sick. The party
is composed of MeSsrs. Culver, Chance,
Sawyer and Newland.
The ladies of the G. A. R. societies
of lola are going to present each re-
turning member of the Twentieth Kan
sas regiment with a velvet sunhoWer
It's kind of the ladies but velvet sun
flowers are not exactly military They
look better as pin cushions than badges.
The revising department and the in
terIine department of the Santa Fe
auditor of freight receipts office, will
cross bats this afternoon in what wiH
probably be an exciting game of base
ball. The game will begin at 2:30 o'clock