The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-25
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

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Senator Lucien Baker will be in To-
peka Monday.
Company A will indulge In target
practice Labor Day.
The state library rooms will soon be
ready for occupancy.
Judge W. c. Hook will be in Topeka
the first OF the week.
A. A. Robinson, president of the Mex
lean Central, is in the city.
John w. Breidenthal speaks at Cot
tonwood Falls this afternoon.
One of the large plate glass windows
in the Oxford hotel has been broken.
A new commission house has been es-
tablished at 100 East Fifth street.
The Bryan and Breidenthal club will
meet at 706 Kansas avenue tonight.
State Superintendent Nelson is busy
making speeches at county institutes.
Charles H. Ridgway, of the state in
surance department, is taking his vaca-
ton.
Walter H West, business manager Of
1.-THE Hottest Coon in Dixie is in the
city.
as common as the chain wheels in To-
peka.
A rainy Saturday as well as any other
day that is rainy is as rare as day
in June.
The Chicago Chronicle printed Justice
Patterson
The rain has stopped the Harrison
street pavement which has been so
long delayed.
DR.. Ida C. Barnes. who has been in
Chicago month, will return to Topeka
September 1.
C. A. Anderson, a Rock Island tele-
graph operator, is laying off on account
OF sickness.
The auditorium committee will meet
this evening at the Commercial club
rooms at 7:30.
Santa Fe Fireman Chas. Herrick and
James Burgess have been promoted and
are now engineers.
The court house is the dullest place in
town just now but within two weeks
things will change
o. ]. Nugent, of Hiawatha, chairman of
the Brown. county Republican central
committee, is in the city.
A man ON East Sixth avenue has a
sign out announcing that he has $500
to bet en- Stanley's election.
The headquarters of the Populist state
committee contains several dozen pic
lures of Bryan tackled on the walls.
Prof. B. f. Eyer of the high school has
resigned to become a professor at the
Agricultural college at Manhattan.
J. E. House, formerly with the Flor
ence Bulletin, is managing Ewing Her
bert's Saturday Champion at Atchison.
Mrs. Hyde, mother of Engineer ]. P.
Kelly, died at Alma Thursday. Mr.. and
Mrs Kelly are attending the funeral.
Geo Klauer seems to be favorite
with the police-his name always heads
the list in the daily arrest of jointists.
J. S. Leedy, a brother of Ex-Governor
John Leedy, of Coffey county, was Wis
itor at Populist headquarters yesterday
The members of the Populist state
committee who attended the executive
committee meeting yesterday, have gone
home.
E. r. Ridgely, chairman of the Popu-
list state committee donates his services
to the committee and pays his own ex-
penses.
The Kansas Populist committee will
ask the national committee to send
speakers to Kansas for the remainder Of
the campaign.
Mrs A. B. Lewis of 1926 Monroe street
has been informed that she is heir to
500, 900 but just who the benefactor is
has not been stated.
Kansas has 1000 boys fighting in the
Philippines in the 40th, 1874 in the
32nd, $50 in the 44th besides about SO
commissioned officers.
E. N. Smith, Populist candidate for
representative from Butler county, was
the first man to shake hands with Mr..
Bryan at the reception.
J. E. Lewis, in charge of the speakers
bureau at Populist headquarters. is busy
billing the candidates and speakers for
various parts of the state. 4
O1ly one house remains on the tract
of land bought by the Commercial
club for the Santa Fe. Preparations for
its removal are being made.
The promoters of the fall festivals in
Salfpa E nd Alma are trying to induce
Terry Stafford to exhibit his automo-
bile during their street fairs.
Chas. Dorman. of the Columbian
Electric Light company, of New. York
city, has returned to Topeka after
spending several weeks in Texas
OAlcer Mccoy found a pocketbook on
the street last night containing money. |
1t may belong to one of the many who
their pockets. We're picked
A young man on the west side spends
his odd m cnents in doing amateur de-
tective work. He does it for his own |
pleasure and makes no charge for his |
services.
Special Agent H. J. Ormsely returned |
yesterday from Atchison where he es-
ia blished a free rural delivery route He |
also established routes at Pennington, |
Hiawatha and Oskaloosa-
Walter Reid. bookkeeper in the office |
Of the state treasurer, accompanied by |
Mrs Reed, went to Atchison yesterday /
in response to telegram announcingj
the dangerous illness of his brother
Major Anderson has received some /
pictures of the nacadam streets of the
city of Montpelier, Vermont. They |
strife the majors fancy, and he advo- |