The Topeka state journal., 1899-07-28
sNAP sHOTs ATH HOLE NEWS

Ex-county Attorney Harry Stafford is in
The Topeka cooks and walters wiz soon
organize a union.
West Sixth street.
Edward Wilder treasurer of the Santa
Fe, has gone to Boston.
There are a half dozen brands of Fun
ston cigars on the market
The state house lawn mower will soon
be repaired so it viii NOW
Children West Tenth street hold
fancy lantern shows every evening.
w W9Tkmsn 9,5 5S are. are rem9ying . the remains Of
Nearly all the stables at the Topeka fair
grounds are occupied by race horses.
Harry Ashby has returned from vaca-
ton trip through the Indian Territory.
J. J. Kinney of the Santa Fe secret
service is building house on Topeka ave-
Taylor Riddle, secretary of the state
/ live stock sanitary commission, is in the
c. w. Green. travelling passenger agent
OF the Big Four, was in town Thursday
County Treasurer Phillips has returned
from a fishing expedition down on the
The new home of L. s. Ferry will be
one of the handsomest on the Topeka ave-
nue. extension.
The Royal Neighbors of Tecumseh and
urday evening
The drunken Indians who have been
giving a corn juice dance in Topeka
have left town.
The annual meeting of the Kansas Pho
pea Peary n 6etobsr VIII De heia IN 10
The, soldiers reunion committee will
reunion in September.
e: P. Greer. editor Of the Winfield
of the new Prentis history.
w F. Kunz, druggist, and ], G. Holland,
architect, are new applicants for member
ship in the Commercial club
New signs designating The Great Rock
Island Route" have been placed in a con-
spicuOus place at the depot
Prairie chickens are reported to be
PIen6i3i IGa IN IN, the country put the reports
The West Sixth street railway tracks
are being greatly improved by force Of
Topeka will soon be favorite summer
resort. Many people spend their vaca-
tions in the shady groves near Topeka.
AL Mauck is trying to arrange for a
game with the st. Louis mail carriers
ball team, which will tour the country this
Eastern passenger agents are dropping
into Topeka looking up business for the
6. A R. reunion at Philadelphia Septem-
Fred Jewell and wife of Lincoln. Neb..
visited the state house Ihursday- he IS
private secretary to Governor Poynter of
J. r. Horner of Cottonwood Falls has
been appointed justice Of the peace to
of d. J. White.
the law passed by the last legislature
brings $4,000 or $4,000 in annual revenues
Voters who did not register for the
spring election or who have moved since
must register now in order to be able to
vote for the new city hall
When open car is run on the oak
land line the business IS much more 5nan
ride around the loop" for pleasure.
Several Topeka. people who never saw an
automobile are becoming, automobile en-
thusiasts and announce their intention of
owning a steed of that nature as soon as
they can.
Topeka's paving is not progressing as
rapidly as some, people would ike De
supply the necessary material as fast as
The first band concert Of the Topeka
club series VIII be given this evening on
the lawn Of the clubhouse at Sixth and
ginning at O'clock.
George and Joseph King and Fred Jen-
before going on to see the green corn
dance. The. found out the Indians had
stopped dancing a week ago and now they
toned.
oils recently called on f NJ Dice, vest
ern superintendent of the rural delivery
his assistant, Mr.. Hathaway, are are over
run with applications for rural delivery
routes
Congress will be asked to appropriate
$1,000, 900 for the free rural delivery sys-
many of the counties Of Kansas win be
able to secure the advantages OF rural
Politics is the great game in Kansas.
As soon as the nominations are made one
ofee two Years Iifhe IL the future f 19 T The po
ntfcal brush in Shawnee county is already
full Of candidates for the county offices
next year.
A Topeka man who lost his job with
an undertaken because of poor business
tried to get a place with a tombstone
merchant and was refused. He applied
to the sexton of cemetery for work and
when refused came to the conclusion that
times are hard.
A Topeka man who keeps tab scfen-
tific improvements says that the next
on an electric car in the evening in order
to cool off, win get on the front seat of
an afrShip and sail around up among the
clouds for an hour or So
People who go on fishing trips. when
asked why they brought no fish home.
invariably. say that they got 50 tired of
couldn't bear the thought of bringing any
home with them. Their friends are in
This is the season of the year when
railroad engineers glance out of their cab
windows and the smoke OF ap
preaching engine. It is just around a
at his orders, mutters a prayer, shuts off
steam and stands ready to apply the air.
He takes the curve and discovers the rea-
son of his fright-a threshing engine
Roy Evans. the ball player, who IS well
known in Topeka, is making great rec
ord pitching for Providence, R 1 He
ers, having struck out thirteen men in
one game. eleven in another The PrOvi-
Toronto, Montreal. Syracuse, Rochester
and Worcester. and Evans pitched three
of these games.
Tours In the Rocky Mountains
The Scenic Line of the World" the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad, offers to
tourists in Colorado, Utah and New
NexicO the choicest resorts and 70 the