The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-09
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


Chief Ramsey was sick at his home
Saturday.
There will be no fire bell in the new
The water melons which are on the local
markets are not good.
DR.. Hammond has recently furnished
office rooms at 704 Kansas avenue
The city council meets tonight and the
water committee will make a report.
Buffalo Jones has named his two
mountain goats Teddy and William"
Sloan lodge will hold q. special com
munieation Thursday afternoon and even
spend the remainder of the summer in
Colorado.
A Bennett and P. F. McKirahan were
each fined 50 for fast driving in police
court Saturday.
The annexation case comes up in the
district court next Monday, July 16, in
stead of today, as reported.
The iron pillars to sustain the second
story of the addition to the federal build
ing are in place
the smokestack of the Edison electric
plant-it is 1S5 feet high.
The police court fines for the month of
June, 1899, amounted to $S61.00; the fines
for June, 1900, $l6S.5O.
Sheriff Cook knows. more about horses
of Shawnee county than most men who
pose authorities
Out on Tenth avenue bicycle riders oc-
cupy the sidewalks while the pedestrians
walk in the weeds.
Complaint has been made to the police
of the violation of the Sunday ordinance
by a lot of boys playing ball
Genuine blackberries are taking the
place of rnuiberries, which have been sold
In Topeka for blackberries.
The August Clothing company have
some Interesting store news in their ad-
vertisement on the fifth page.
The campaign orators are all busy writ
ing memorizing the speech they will
deliver this summer and fall.
Terry Stafford ran his automobile half
way to Silver Lake and back through the
sand as easily as it runs on the pave
ment-
There was jug of whisky in the buggy
which was demolished Saturday by the
fire department, but it was not even
cracked.
The Kansans feared the Jerry Simpson
would miss the convention in Kansas
the, close
Mrs J. W. Breidenthal has returned
from Kansas City where she spent the
week with her husband at the various
conventions.
Sheriff Seitz and ex-County Clerk Gray,
of Mcpherson county. were here yester-
Murphy, to the asylum
Three tramps were drunk at the Rock
Island ''Y'' Sunday and were arrested.
One of them had completed a rock pile
sentence the day before.
The case of Sells Fields, who was ar
Tested for selling lgu3r: vas dismissed ed
account of lack of evidence.
ward, has secured the contract for build
ing new court house at Burlington, Cot
fey county. The price is S35, So
The Kansas people who attended the
convention in Kansas City last week are
recovering sufficiently to be able to get
into the harness for active duty again
The city couacil of Emporia has passed
over the mayors veto, ordinance
granting a franchise to an Independent
telephone company, of which S. J. Bear,
of Topeka, is the promoter.
Governor Stanley and Mrs. Stanley will
leave this week for a. camp near Creole,
Col, where they will camp out with
party of friends. This camp is the prop
erty of some Wichita and Emporia peo-
pie.
Officer Pavey had few interesting re-
marks to make this morning concerning
the Salvation army. He sleeps during the
day and the army has moved closed to his
house. They held an all day session yes
terday.
Within 10 minutes after the collision
occurred on Kansas avenue Saturday ar
ternoon between the fire department and
a buggy the crowd had carried away all
the smaller pieces of the wreck for SOU
venirS.
J. NJ. English, whose buggy was smash
ed Saturday by the chemical engine from
Station No. 2, asked Chief Wilmarth, at
ter the accident, to send him home He
lives at Auburn and thought that he de-
served some kind of transportation