The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-05

by the Phoenix Building & Loan COM
pany.
! Ex-Adjutant General H. H Artz is
! now acting as a railroad promoter in
! Arkansas. In this connection it may
/ be said that General Artz is the man
| who discovered the Trego county gold
| fields"
Miss Clara Berger, the young lady
! who had her right hand frightfully
| crushed between steam rollers at the
| White Star laundry last week, will be
! able to leave the StormOnt hospital in a
! few days.
A young lady, who is a stenographer
/ in the state department of insurance,
! has received, within the past week,
| four offers of a position in Kansas, one
| in Oklahoma, one in Texas and another
\ in Missouri.
People who have been congratulate
| ing themselves on the fact that the cy-
! clone season is over were terrified Fri
| day afternoon when a black cloud came
/ up from the southwest, bringing clouds
| of dust with it.
The ice water tanks are said to be re-
| sponsible for much of the illness in To-
| peza at present. Nothing will throw
persons digestive apparatus out of
gear much quicker than drinking a lot
| of ice water when over-heated.
Miss Goldie Fay of North Topeka was
given a present by the members of the
Democratic Flambeau club, because of
their appreciation of the part she took
in the entertainment and cake walk
given by them a short time ago.
The Ladies Aid society of the First
Christian church will hold lawn fete
tonight at the residence of G. w. Camp
bell, No. 1247 Harrison street. This was
to have been held last night but was
postponed on account of the rain.
There is a great deal of reckless BIZ
cycle riding in Topeka Collisions be-
tween bicyclists and pedestrians are
generally the more disastrous to the BIZ
cycIist, but the pedestrian gets the
''madder," because it isn't his fault.
c. B. Hoffman, of Enterprise, is in
| the city. He arrived Friday from an
outing in Colorado. He has been up
among the SHOWS on the west side of
the range, and the change from that
climate to this was next to unbeara-
The Western Central Life asoscia-
ton which was organized in Topeka by
! Fred Close, now with headquarters at
Kansas City, has quit business in KAN
Sas, the license being revoked at the
request of the cOmpany'S attorney.
! Superintendent Church had consider
able trouble with this company when
he first went into Office.
Miss Media Weinberger has been ad-
| judged insane in the probate court. She
! is an orphan who was left with Mrs. Anna
| Shavlo, of North Topeka, when quite
young. She is not at all violent, but
/ has been peculiar for a, number of
years, and Mrs. ShavIo thought it
would be better for her to be sent to the
asylum where she could have proper
medical treatment for her mind.
The following. from a poster is clear
| as to the meaning: 1.-The old settlers of
| Shawnee and Douglas counties; the set
! tiers who staked off the course of the
| creeks and planted the ravines and
| draws, who made the first mortgages,
| raised the first children and are now
| mighty near out of debt, in good health
| and prosperity, will hold an old settlers
| barbecue at Buck Miller's grove on Au-
| gust H.
w E. Stickel has copy of Freedom,
/ published in Manila, dated June 8. con-
! tanning the following: 1T was the
| colonel of the Twentieth Kansas, Fred
! erick Funston, who sent to General Mac
! Arthur message which promises to go
| down in history as a rare epigran. He
! said to an orderly in response to a ques-
| ton: Tell General Macarthur I can
! hold CalOocan until my regiment is
mustered out
A. Bergen and l. L. Better, the ad-
| ninistrators of the Gage estate, have
! asked leave of the probate court to pay
| the requests of $1,000 each which Mr..
| Gage made to Blitz G. Kenny. George
] @. Kenny, Mabel Gage, Ethel Gage,
I Bessie Gage and George G. Gage. They
4 saw that they have collected and have
! in the bank over $4,000, besides what
! was on deposit in the bank when the
estate came into their hands.
The following is from the Hoyt cor
! respondent of the Mail and Breeze: "A
/ cava1cade of Topeka sports and would
| be rough riders rode into Hoyt last
| Wednesday night on their way to the
! Indian dance. AS the dance was over
| and they could find no beer in town
! they took the back track next morning.
| They rode as though their saddles were
| hard, especially one dark-haired rider
| whose horse resembled Rosinante. We
| will venture the opinion that they re-
! turned sorer if not wiser
An old soldier giving his name as A.
Kennedy was sent to Topeka from EN-
! poria Friday sick and in a destitute
| condition He has relatives here, and
| started from Dodge City some time ago,
| where he was refused admittance to the
| state Soldiers home because he was
| unable to show discharge papers. His
/ money gave out and he was compelled
| to ask public assistance in order to
! reach here Kennedy was a member
| of a militia company which through
/ some mistake was never mustered out.