The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-08
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS

excursion.
There is a great deal of driftwood in
the river.
And still the thermometer has not
touched 100.
Soldier creek is filled with backwater
from the river.
Congressman w. J. Bailey is down
from BaileyvilIe today.
There were 10 passengers on the Rock
Island special from Topeka.
The country roads are quite muddy as
a result OF the recent rains.
NJ. w Sutton, internal revenue col
lector for Kansas, is over from Leaven-
w. H. stiIwelI of the Rock Island is
unable to be at his Office on account
of sickness.
John H. White says the story about
! his threatening his wife with 8, revolver
is a mistake.
Cyrus Leland, who is a regular base
ball fan, attended the game at Kansas
City yesterday.
The street railway force is kept busy
clearing the driftwOod away from the
piers of the pile bridge.
It now requires two tents to accom-
modate the crowds that attend the re-
vival services in the city park.
Judge Hazen intends to build a, $500
house on his property on Monroe street.
1t is to be completed by october 1.
c. H. Duxberry, general western agent
of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at
Omaha, is in Topeka on business.
The recent heavy rains have been
making trouble for people whose cellars
are not entirely imperVious to water.
Harry Swartz of the Farm Land and
Mortgage company, has returned from
a trip up through the northern states.
The Santa Fe eating house fed 100 peo-
pie Friday who were passengers on the
New York special going to California.
Entertainments will be given at Car
field park on the first three evenings
of next week by Kline's Cinematograph
company
Colonel J. c. Gordon has so far re-
covered from his last operation that he
is able to attend to his duties at the
Copeland.
Claud Monden, who was arrested for
stabbing Homer Cunningham on Smoky
Row a few days ago, has been bound
over to the district court.
A cake walk held at the Democratic
Flambeau club Melted over $25 which
will be used towards defraying the ex-
penses of furnishing the hall.
The recent rains have interfered with
the picnics that were planned for the
last half of this week. The ground has
been too wet for picnicking.
The Kaw is up again about as high
as it has been this year, and reports
from the west concerning the heavy
rains indicate that it may be upper"
Several of the railroad men complain
that after the heavy rain of Wednesday
night, that many of the gutter crossings
were washed away and that the electric
lights were out.
John E. Allen of Kansas City under
went an operation for appendicitis at
Christ hospital yesterday, performed by
Drs McClintock and Stewart. He is
said to be doing well.
A Topeka man who has been out of
the city for several months tried his
joint key on the joint he used to patron
ize, but he found a new lock on the door,
and now he is mad about it.
If the street bootbIacks succeed in
organizing trust TO the nrCa of
Shines" up to 10 cents each, it will re-
suit in many Topeka men having TO use
their own elbow grease in the future.
| A dog was shot near the asylum yes
terday that was supposed to be mad.
Dog days will soon be here, which is the
! time of year that dogs are supposed to
be more liable to go mad than at any
other time.
w. H. Wilson. chairman of the build
ing committee of the board of education,
! has taken out building permit for the
completion of the new building at Clay
school by the addition Of second story
to cost IS 900.
The fire department was called out at
1880 Friday night for fire in the rear
of Con ChumOs' candy store. The local
| force of the Capital turned fire brigade
and had the fire well under control be-
fore the department arrived.
Gums canal in North Topeka was
choked up Friday, forming a big pond
on Jackson street. The sewers in some
I other parts of the city also became
clogged, and several miniature lakes
were formed at diffeffrent places.
A Topeka man ventures the prophecy
that people will be going crazy over the
Galena and joplin mines within the
next few weeks. He says people east
of the Mississippi are talking a about the
zinc district and he thinks there will be
/ a rush for that region shortly.
A package was mailed in the Topeka
postoftice yesterday on which there was
80 cents due. Postmaster Guthrie has
/ received orders from the pOstofice de
I partment to break up the practice of
mailing matter without sufficient pos
! tage, if it can possibly be done.
AtchisOn Champion: Captain John
/ SeatOn, who is putting boilers in the re-
form school at Topeka went over last
night and is today, with a streak of
/ rust down his nose, acting the yeoman
! Oblivious to the gossip on the outside
concerning his availability as congress
siOnal timber
The low rate at which the Topeka
/ auditorium bonds were f1oated is at
! tracing attention over the state now
and is the subject of comment in all the
papers. In a few weeks the investors
/ journals of the east will print notices
about it as another evidence of the Sc
curity of Kansas investments.
Rev. w. @. Clock, who has been visit
/ ing friends in the city recently, left to-
day to return to his work in Salem,
Mass, where he is assistant pastor of
I the Lafayette Street Methodist church
to be a State Journal carrier before he
/ went to Boston to study theology.
WHAT DID HE SAY2