The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-23
sNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The leaves are falling. a sure sign that
winter is almost here.
The century. ball is assured. Topeka VIII
net be behind the times
Many foreigners are being natura1ized
for the election this year.
The Union lecture course begins on Mon
day evening November 5.
The Indian war dance comes off in the
auditorium Thursday evening.
The state house plants are being given
away and stored for the winter.
Republicans in Topeka are placing to
l bets on Mckinley in Kansas.
The Kansas Oil and Gas company Of
Fort Scott has been incorporated.
Henry H Glenn, of Topeka, has been
granted a pension of IS per month.
Marshalrs band will receive a handsome
testimonial from Topeka people tonight
The proposed antitrust, anti-combine
ice plant for Topeka will not materialize.
The recent rains were appreciated by the
farmers, coming OPPORTUNITY upon fail
Mayor Drew VII not appoint custod-
ian for the Auditorium until after the
Cleo Dias. the woman who was arrested
and fined for petit larceny Saturday, Is
a cocaine fiend.
The case of the men arrested in the dis
orderly. houses will be called this after
noon at 4 o'clock
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Harry French. of To-
peka avenue, are the parents of a little
son. born Monday
Lee Johnson, state labor commissioner,
has gone to Wichita to arbitrate a strike
in a harness factory.
Another case Nof scarlet fever has been
reported. It is at the home of T. p. Pax
ton on Fillmore street.
Halloween is a week from Wednesday.
Several marriages and a political meeting
are set for that night
If the weather permits GERONIMO will
make tour Of the city at noon Thurs
day in an open street car.
A popular way of securing flowers for
next years growth is TO get slips from
the large beds at the state house.
The Topeka ministers will preach next
Sunday morning special sermons for the
I. w. Q. A. convention visitors.
The Topeka high school football teams
next Topeka game will be with the Atch-
1S0n county high school November 3.
Now that the Lowman Hill school house
has been burned, new brick sidewalks are
being put down in the immediate vicin-
Anticipating the arrival of the Apache
Ihn aas for the war DANCE. Topeka small
sundoWers for the poles.
The odds reported in Topeka from In
diana are $3.50 to 81 on Bryan carrying
that state, but no money is being wag-
cred here on the proposition.
Some residents of West Second. street
of petitioning council to that effect.
The police and city officers are all well
Downie trial. The bad men will not be
so anxious to resist officers in the future.
A Topeka man has returned from a trip
money is being offered in Ohio that Bryan
will carry that state, but the odds are
4 to L
L. A. Hartman has sued J. NJ Knight
for $500 damages. Knight had Hartman
arrested for obtaining money under false
pretenses and Hartman was not
victed.
G. W. Burnett has been appointed spe-
cial policeman to guard the property of
the Cumberland Presbyterian church in
course-of construct Nm at Fifth and West
streets.
George Lugton, the elevator man in the
federal building, is a weather prophet.
He says that the weather for a week
prior to the election and on election day
will be fine
Bert Parker who was arrested Sunday
on the charge of being drunk and resist
ing an officer. gave a $25 cash bond yes
terday and was released. His trial will be
called at o'clock this afternoon.
The 18th annual session of the Missouri
Kansas conference of the COlored Meth
odist Episcopal church will convene at
Lane chapel Wednesday morning at nine
O'Clock. Bishop L Lane, LII. D., of
jackson, Tennessee, will preside. The
chapel is located at Fourteenth and Van
Buren, streets.
When the will of Mrs. Mary Chaplin was
flied in the probate court yesterday it
was found that she had left all her prop
erty, a lot in North Topeka, and two por-
traits. to Congressman Charles Curtis.
Mrs. Chaplin was nurse in the Curtis fam
lily for years. Mr.. Curtis declined the
property and it will go to her nearest
relatives.