The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-06
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The state house walks are almost the
| worst in town
The snow is nearly all gone and there
was no flood after all.
Three women registered Monday, not,
| Wlthstandlng the storm
Mr.. Richard Gundry is still seriously |
| i'll at Stormont hospital
| Miss Emma Kelly is expected home
| from Klondilxe in August.
William A. Lishear left today for |
| kansas City and Eureka Springs
| The Shawnee County Populist club |
viii meet at Weber's hall tonight.
Judge Postlethwaite returned last ev- |
ening from his home at Jewell City.
People should bear in mind that the
registration books close on March 49,
The state live stock sanitary COM
mission is in session at the state house.
Representative E R. Burkholder of
| H1llsboro, Marion county, is in the city
today.
The Topeka city troop meets tonight
lions.
G. o. Nelson. of swedesborg, Iowa, is
visiting his brother. Superintendent
Nelson.
Doc Thorpe of the Santa Fe store
house department is in Chicago for a
few days.
George NJ. Munger. Populist candidate
for the nomination for governor, is in
the city.
Judge Hook came over from Leaven-
worth yesterday afternoon to hold fed
eral court.
The ice on the pavements this morn
ing made travelling with unshod horses
very unsafe.
Washburn is short on baseball pitch
ers- One has to be discovered for the
coming season.
There will be a matinee performance
! of The Burglar" at the Crawford
theater Saturday.
The park question is growing in in
terest. Nearly everybody is interested
in securing good parks.
Mrs ]. G. Wood will lecture at the
state university this afternoon on 1.-THE
Abuse of Hypnotism."
Material for the auditorium occupies
half the width of Quincy street at the
corner of Seventh street.
The condition of the roads is putting
: up the price of hay, which is now fut-
b tering around So per ton.
5 Crane & Co. have issued the fifth
n number in the Twentieth Century Clas
|. sizes, kansas In Literature"
t State Auditor Cole has returned from
e attending the county convention of
:. Crawford county Republicans.
) The new styles in shirts for men this
spring are almost frightful. The pat
!, terms are excessive in color and figure
: The city health department has fol-
: lowed the other city officers to the Of
- flee block, and DR.. Peers is now located
there.
People living in portions of the city
: which have heretofore been dark are
: rejoicing at the prospect of securing
!, lights.
Music dealers say the visit of Sousa
and his band has created a demand for
q hind the Cum .5
: BILLY" West, the minstrel manager
VIII visit Topeka for the first time this
\ week since dissolving partnership with
u George Primrose.
t Tom Hurley has been turned over to
the county authorities and will have to
:. stand trial for burglarizing w. L. Os-
r born's store on Saturday night.
t, The Woman's Missionary society of
the Central Congregational church will
?; hold thank Offering meeting at the
d church on Wednesday, March z.
Bills have been put up in Topeka for
the production of ''Quo Vadis," to be
put by the Woodward Stock COM
pany in Kansas City next week.
t Judge L. S. Crum, who has been al
Hot Springs taking treatment for rheu-
matism, has returned to Topeka He
W has lost SO pounds during his sickness
'e The Commercial club is talking of
) having the Beckett family of aerialists
= for the next Fall Festival. This is not
; the kind of entertainment the people
want.
a a R. Greene, inspector general OF
1r government land offices, accompanied
At by his daughter are in Colby, Kansas
- guests of Mr.. Greenes son, a lawyer OF
J. that place.
If you want Topeka to have a nice
/ system of parks where everybody can
s. go and have a good time. don't forget
lie to register, so that you can vote for the
&c park proposition.
The Washburn football enthusiasts
are trying to secure Ben Owens of the
state university, for their coach for
next year. Owens has the proposition
Is under consideration.
The Topeka Street railway has put
into service one of the cars recently
so purchased and rebuilt in the shops here
u It is No. II and is on the Washburn col
az Iege-Santa Fe depot run.
% The senior class of the University OF
IT Kansas this year numbers 223 members
- The various schools are represented as
~ follows: Arts, "a; law, 81; engineering
~ IA; pharmacy, 81; fine arts, Z.
~a Farmers say that the roads are not
. very bad at present, as the mud is only
- one or two inches deep, and beneath
he that the ground is frozen. But just wall
81 until that beneath begins to thaW.
IN Santa Fe baseball enthusiasts hav,
he been invited to attend a meeting to b.
held tonight at z o'clock at the K;
Y. NJ. C. a. to elect a captain and lool
after other matters connected with tn
club.
ID Prof F. w. Blackmar. of the Uni
versity of Kansas, has been invited by
the directors of the Paris exposition tt
Mt take part in the congress of social sci
al ence and the congress of religion to bC
st held in Paris during the coming sum
IL mer.
g. The Monroe street people who wan
"s the street paved from Sixth avenue tC
It's 80 49, - - e. Ifo+ ip tbe ola 80
~ which asked for paving to the NORTH
VI side of Sixth when Sixth is already
Of paved
o. Con Chumos was called for trial il
J. police court yesterday afternoon to an
E. swer to the charge of running a slo
C. machine without a license. As he haC
n obtained a license between the time o.
the swearing out of the warrant and thl