The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-02
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

court room in town.
Farmers are talking about 40 to so
bushels of corn per acre.
The state poultry show will be held
in Topeka January to 49,
George S. Rising, OF the Lawrence
World, was in Topeka last night
Two nights battle at Garfield park
and the bombardment has not brought
rain.
Anyone who awards prizes at a
chicken show is entitled to be called
Judge"
The sidewalk entering the state house
grounds at the southwest corner, needs
repairing.
H. c. Bowman has sold his farm,
southwest of the city, to E. A. Popenee
for $50. 900.
The pavement at the south entrance
to the state house grounds is being re-
paired today.
W F. sehoch has left for the mining
spend a week.
The state tennis tournament next
week will bring a big crowd Of crack
players to Topeka.
The block between Harrison street
and Topeka avenue on Tenth avenue
will soon be paved.
Superintendent Mauck of the T. A. a.
is trying to arrange for three days OF
base ball here soon.
The gas mains on Tenth street are
down the pavement.
More than a dozen people sat around
the cool spots in the state house Tues
day all the afternoon.
The question for debate is: ''Resolv-
ed, it is hotter carrying an umbrella
than going without one"
]. s. Dean of Marion was in the city
yesterday visiting w. V. Church, state
superintendent of insurance.
The bicycle track at Garfield park is
q n
the racing men can work out"
D. o. McCray has gone on another
trip down into the wiIds of Arkansas
to look after his mining interests.
Mrs. Lew Hanback, entered upon her
duties as superintendent of the girls in
dustrial school at Beloit Tuesday.
Another Kansas horse goes east. Pr
lot Evans, owned by NJ. w James Of
Willard, has been sold at Columbus.
Kansas farmers will have money and
plenty of it this fall. The corn crop
this year will excel all previous rec
ords.
Luther Clarke has filed a suit for d.
vorce from his wife, Martha Clarke, in
the district court. He charges neglect
Of duty.
On the strength of the fact that the
pavement is going out Huntoon street,
several deals have lately been made in
| real estate.
The case of George Beaufort, for SELL
ing liquor at 724 Kansas avenue, has
been postponed. He did not "sell'' it.
He served it.
When Pick Smith left last night for
Jackson's Hole he took with him the
gun that he killed a bear with It is load
| ed for two this time.
Three days ago the farmers said
nothing could hurt the corn crop. Now
| they are beginning to hope this wealth
| er will not keep up long.
Out Of seven new actions filed In the
district court Tuesday, five were divorce
suits. 1t is no wonder that Judge Hazen
| said divorces were on the increase.
Work has begun on grading the alleys
in the block bounded by Kansas ave-
nue., Sixth avenue, Van Buren, and
Seventh streets, preparatory to paving.
Canon Bywater is still in Colorado,
where he is spending his vacation. He
and Judge Dolman grubstaked an old
miner in the Cripple Creek gold district
recently.
City Attorney Bird will take testi-
mony in the waterwOrks injunction case
next week. He intended to do so some
time ago, but the city hall suit pre-
vented.
Frank Dudley, who had his hands
and face severely burned in the burning
of the grand stand at the fair grounds,
is able to resume his place in the post
office once more.
Complaints of insanity have been filed
in the probate court against Thomas
Cornish and Frank Robertson, inmates
of the county Door house Neither is
violent or dangerous.
Jealous note from the Newton Kan
san Republican: The announcement is
made that gas has been discovered at
Topeka. This is irrelevant, but 1t is the
place to laugh, just the same.
The appearance of soldiers uniforms
on the streets for the last day or two
is due to the meeting of the Twenty
second Kansas for the purpose Of form
ing a regimental organization.
Cyrus Leland's private desk In the
pension office is always piled a foot
high with papers and letters, yet he al
ways knows where to put his hand on
any paper he happens to want.
A general denial has been filed as an
answer by the attorneys for S. E. YOe-
man in the damage suit brought
against him by Mrs David Jackson for
causing the death of her husband.
Topeka has a good representation in
the mining districts of the southeastern
part of the state at all times. Many
business men and capitalists are finan-
cially interested in property there.
Judge Guthrie has moved from his
old home on Quincy street, where he
has lived for the past thirty years, to
his new property at s21 Clay street. He
will not patronize the street cars.
Most people said yesterday was the
hottest day of the year. Many of them
will say the same thing today even
though the thermometer does not go as
high within five degrees as yesterday.
Many Topeka housekeepers wish that
a hot dinner wagon such as is pro-
posed by Mrs. A. E Hunt, were already
started in Topeka, so that they would
not have to do much cooking this hot
weather.
It was only ten weeks later than this
last year that our first blizzard came,
while the trees were still heavy with
leaves. An odd settler" is making the
prediction this year that frost will come
in six weeks.
The Degree of Honor. the ladies, aux