The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-09
SNAP SHOTS ArH0ME NEWS

The sidewalks are covered with a
thin layer of mud.
J. B. McAfee was at one time chief
of police of Topeka
The Topeka bowlers have been busy
telling how it happened
A restaurant proprietor threatens to
give premium stamps
Some very handsome calendars have
been distributed for this year
It is now County Commissioner
Haynes and Coroner Hogeboom.
The work on the upper floors of the
state house is progressing rapidly.
Three new chickenpox signs have re-
Gently been put up on East First street
Next week will be taken up in the
district court with the criminal docket
The northern department of the court
Of appeals is sitting at Concordia this
week.
The year of 1900 viii see many con-
ventions and large gatherings in To-
peka-
When there is public meeting in the
state house at night the elevator does
not run
Annie l. Stowe has been granted a
divorce from Alfred Stowe In the dis
trict court.
There viii be meeting at the armory
tonight to organize a Charles Curtis
campaign club
The money order department at the
book typewriter
Gen Hughes, besides being a general
and coal dealer, is an enthusiastic
chicken fancier.
The county commissioners reorganized
yesterday by electing T. P. Rodgers,
chairman of the board.
Topeka will be full of visitors this
week on account of the number Of state
meetings in progress.
The poultry show was open nearly all
night last night on account Of the
judges weighing the birds
The managers of the State Temper
ance Union expect a larger attendance
this year than ever before
If anyone doubts that Kansas avenue
is dirty just take a look at it while the
two inches of mud is there
The Thatcher building on East Eighth
avenue has been in almost continuous
use for a printing establishment
Earl Evans of Wichita who has
place on the Kansas Day programme is
Governor Stanley's law partner.
It has been discovered that on New
Years a banquet was given at the Cope
land hotel in honor of J. NJ Thomas
The second trial of the Wise highway
robbery case in the district court has
been set for Thursday of next week.
A special venire of fifteen men has
Been summoned for jury duty in the
Leach murder case in the federal court
Col. Richard ]. Hinton and wife. of
Brooklyn, are visiting with the family
of c. R. MaunseH, 1112 Van Buren,
street.
The Commercial club meets tomorrow
evening. The meeting will be very i'm
portant because new directors will be
elected.
The new Topeka overall factory will
be located on the third floor of the
Branner building. over Swift & Holli-
days drug store.
The friends of Pool Grinstead are
making preparations to ask that ne be
pardOned from the Jail sentence imposed
by Judge Stuart
This sort of weather is easy on coal
bins, but most people believe that it is
not as conducive to health as colder
weather would be.
John V. Abrahams is the latest suffer-
er from bicycle thieves His wheel was
stolen from the basement floor Of the
Columbian building.
There were 5000 copies of The Kansas
Issue distributed in Topeka churches
Sunday to advertise the meeting OF the
State Temperance Union this week
Walter Belknap will be sent to the
reform school as an incorrigible. Com
plant in his case was filed in the pro-
| bate court by his mother, Mrs. Ada
Belknap.
w. r. Comstock, rural delivery carrier
on the Mission route, continues to break
| all records. Last week he carried 5,655
pieces of malta average of nearly 1000
a day.
The corridors of the federal building
| resemble a soldiers barracks today. A
| large number of soldiers throng them.
| They are here to testify in the Leach
murder case
Taylor Riddle chairman of the Popu-
| list state committee, has called a meet
ing of the committee fo- February
to fix the time and place of holding the
| state conventions.
Chris Roberts, who has been in Jail
in Washington county for the past two
years for selling liquor, has applied
for pardon on the ground that he IS
about to die with consumption
Morton Albaugh, chairman of the Re
publican state committee is in town
| consulting with members of the execu-
| tive committee concerning a call for
| meeting Of the state committee.
The county commissioners nave re-
| fused the petition of the Rossville State
bank to be made a county depository,
| for the reason thai the funds would be
too hard to reach from Topeka.
At the whist tournament last night
| koontz and Drum made 156. the highest
score for the '.norths and souths'' and
| West and Copeland made 1873, the high
| est score of the casts and vests"
There are some men at the state house
| that are never busy when they want
| favor Have some one ask them for
a return of the courtesy and they are
| so busy they have scarcely time to
| breathe
This will be a week of night meetings
| at the state house. The elevator should
| be operated and the lower corridor doors
should be open. People walk around
| the building two or three times before
| finding out where they can get in
The Shawnee county officers began
| their second term yesterday. In coun-
| ties where new officers were elected
| there was a change of officials. This
| doesn't hold true of county treasurer,
! however, whose term doesn't begin till
| October.
Governor Stanley will spend two
weeks investigating the state instftu-
tons He is absent at a time when
| large numbers of people are here from
different parts of the state to attend
annual meetings and they would like
| to see the chief executive in his. Office.
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