The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-15
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS
This is Santa Fe pay day.

Corn is ripening very fast.
The city council will meet tonight.
Sheriff Cook transacted business in
Alma last night.
The dry weather is killing young
shade shade trees.
Mrs. H. NJ. Washburn and son John
have gone to Colorado.
DR.. S. A. Boam has returned from
protracted visit in the east.
The rain this morning freshened
things up but more is needed.
Jackson's Twenty third regiment band
is practicing campaign music.
Carl Jockheck denies that he wishes to
bet any money on the election.
The Arions will hold their annual pic
mic at Vinewood park Sunday.
The sidewalks in front of the hotels
are popular resorts these hot evenings
The state house lawn will be moved
when the fox-tail grows some more.
c. L. Short, train master for the Santa
Fe in Chillicothe, Mo-, was in town yes
terday.
Lathrop Resseguie returned yesterday
from a trip through Texas and New
Mexico.
Except for the county officials the
court house is almost deserted this hot
weather.
Judge T. F. Carver has gone to Cham
bersburg, Pa, called by the illness of
his mother.
Senator Lucien Baker is in Chicago
He made a formal call on w. J. Bryan
yesterday.
The basement of the city prison is al
most filled with paraphernalia captured
from the joints.
The colored delegates to the state con-
vention of Masons will picnic at Garfield
park tomorrow.
The Republican county central COM
mittee will meet Saturday afternoon at
the old court house
You can get the blue Premium Stamps
by trading at Ed Cookers grocery, 223
East Tenth street.
Boss Croker Swayze will hold the reins
over the meeting of the Tigers at Tam
many Hall tonight.
Premium Stamps are always given
with purchases at Sam Hindman'S gro
Gerry, opposite transfer station.
Morton Albaugh, chairman of the Re
publican state committee is in Kingman
attending the cattlemen's celebration.
Mark Hanna has appointed Dave Null
vane a member of the advisory commit
tee for the national Republican COM
mittee.
The street railway company has relaid
the paving along it's track at the street
crossing on Eighth avenue and Quincy
street.
board of charities, has returned to his
home in Sedgwick after a business visit
in Topeka
The dry weather has been a boon to
y L
crop is short they have lost none of it
by wet weather.
VIII Wilson, the day caller at the
Santa F'e roundhouse, is spending his va
cation in Albuquerque and Denver. He
is accompanied by his wife.
There. will be "longfeet' given by the
Sloan lodge Blue Jays Thursday even
ing at the home of w. c. FReichenbach, |
corner Western avenue and Second
street.
There is no plumbing in the addition
to the city prison A detention hospital |
without plumbing will not be very con-
venient for the patients.
The extra force put on the addition to |
the federal building two weeks ago is |
still employed and will be kept as long |
as the quarries continue to furnish stone |
sufficient to KEEP them at work.
You can rest assured of bottom prices
on all kinds of coal as we'll as premium |
stamps" by buying your coal of Webster |
Tulloch Coal Co., 116 West Eighth street |
or corner of First and Quincy.
A new position of night f1agman at
the Santa F'e Fourth street crossing has |
been created. Flagman Symns, who has |
held the position of day hagman for Is |
years, retains his old position.
A Mrs. T. J. Conrad of Topeka is re- |
ported to have found her mother whom |
she was separated from Is years ago. |
The woman supposed to be her mother |
is Mrs Mary Taylor of Emporia who is |
called Crazy Mary"
governor, has returned from Sherman |
county where he addressed a meeting, |
after which a county organiza ton was |
effected for the purpose of putting a |
local ticket in the field
Here is the latest hot weather story: |
"A man was burned on Kansas avenue |
yesterday. He was carrying water to |
the street force at work on the track: !
the sun caused the water to boil and the |
water carrier was scalded."
Mrs. Weber, the woman who was put |
in jail on a charge of insanity. to which |
Rough Ready swore has been sent to |
her mother in Brighton, Iowa She has /
been in very poor health and has been |
receiving aid from the city since she was
released from the Jail
The room back of the office in the DO /
lice station viii be fixed up and used by |
the officers At present there is no place |
in the station where they have room to |
hang a coat. The room will be painted |
curtains put on the windows and it will /
be fixed in other respects to make it a |
comfortable ROOM
The sidewalk between Burghart's cigar |
store and the transfer station on West |
Eighth avenue is in a frightful condition. |
The pipe leading from the Sheldon |
drinking fountain was placed under |
meath the walk at this point and when |
the walk was replaced no care was ex- |
erclsed- A person walking along the |
street at this point is apt to think he is |
walking over a rubbish pile
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