The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-04
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

After a weeks rest from the duties of
private secretary Henry Allen has re-
turned to his desk.
Judge Hook will come over from I4eav-
enworth Monday to reconvene the United
States circuit court
The beginning of the century discus
sion is causing more trouble just now
than the Roberts case.
The September term of the district court
will adjourn tomorrow an dthe January
term will begin Monday.
Work is going ahead on the insurance
superintendent office which was recent
ly damaged by fire and water.
The Topeka Troop, otherwise known as
the -cr1ttsr company Will elect per-
manent officers tomorrow evening
G.. c. Clemens has been compelled to
take to colored glasses as the result OF
a. cold which settled in his left eye.
DIR. Swan, secretary of the state board
of health says the smallpox scare in
other parts of the state is subsiding.
The jury in the district court will be
called to begin jury cases on January Is
Criminal cases have been set for that
week.
One merchant who has been giving
premium stamps has been brave enough
to announce that he will not give any
more.
1t is expected that the refooring of the
Sixth avenue viaduct will be completed
in few. days so that it can be opened
for traffic.
The Swedish Lutheran church will soon
hold a eelebration in honor Of the e ilIsl
ship is 49,
.Addie Robbins has filed a suit in the
district court against Mary z. Stevens
and others to quiet the title to four lots
on Topeka avenue.
Colonel Huntoon who was at one time
county, surveyor VII act as Serrey9 or
the Indian Territory.
There is one good thing about the prem
cy to stop Topeka women from sending
to other cities for goods.
Birmingham, Eng, man has written
Secretary Coburn to inquire If Kansas is
a good bee country, to which the Secre-
tary replied in the affirmative.
Since the. potato deal the politicians
ard of the Osawatomie asylum shall be
| hereafter known as 'Tater Tom"
Topeka is getting to be real metropolis
tan like. The express drivers are getting
TO carrying guns in their hip pockets in
readiness for any attempted hOldup.
Rossvilles metropolitan sewer system
is well under way, and it is expected that
it Will be completed within few weeks
if the weather does not become too cold
Nat Barnes of Kansas City and a dele
cation of his associates were in Topeka
yesterday plugging the governor with ref
ship.
T. F. Doran will read his paper on
paper received much favorable comment
when read before the Saturday Night
club.
here in consultation this week and it is
expected that they will hand down an in
urday.
Miss Winnie Smith, a teacher in the
orphans home at Atchison resigned to
get married. Mrs. Bertha Ward has been
elected by the board of charities to fill
the vacancy.
William G. Thatcher. of Nebraska City,
Neb., and Mary E. Herman of Topeka
were married yesterday by Probate Judge
Dolman;. Both bride and groom were %
years of age.
The city electric lights were shut off
at midnight last night on account Of a
scarcity of carbons- A shipment was or
dered some time ago but it has apparently
been missent.
Some of the merchants are making a
raging success of giving away the most
premium stamps. Some of them are
giving five stamps in place of where they
formerly gave one
E. E. Hounsom of Topeka, was married
on New Years day to Miss Lulu M.
ents in Moulton, Iowa They will make
their home in Topeka
The State Poultry association had much
trouble IN finding room large enough
and suitable for their poultry exhibition.
When the auditorium is built this will
supply long felt want
It is claimed by one of the state offic-
quarters of the Vampire club are respon-
sible for the discoloring of the interior
of the state house dome.
Mr. Henry Latchford, A. M, of London
tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at O'Clock
on his Persona! Recollections of Mr..
Gladstone" Admission is free.
Claude Duval of Hutchinson who has
congress in the Seventh district on the
ing he can not make the race.
Chicago can brag all it pleases about
its big drainage canal which has just
been opened, but the people of Rossville
will not believe that it is any larger than
the Bourbony Creek canal will be.
Wagner, two officers of the Salvation
army, viii be in Topeka Sunday after
army army Barracks bar ii East Third street '
Mr.. E. W. Thompson, assistant general
island road, is moving into the residence
lately vacated by Mr.. Avery Turner, at
the corner OF Thirteenth and Tyler street.
Now the coal is blamed for not keep
ing Clay school warm. First the furnace,
then the janitor and now the coal. Per
the thermometer gets few degrees be-
low zero.
Oberlin has been chartered. The auto
matte telephone systems have not prov
ed a success in some of the towns in
northwestern Kansas where they have
been tried.
A party of young men came near break
ing up the slot machine business of one
of the up town druggists a few nights
ago. When the druggists made them stop
machine and had won IS Cigars
ruptcy has been filed in the federal court
creditors are Beekham, Mcknight & Co,
and the Green Grocery Co., to whom he
About every two weeks the rumor is
revived by some paper, that the Rock
Island is to control the Winner Electric
line from Kansas City to Leavenworth
This rumor has been denied several times
by the officials of the Rock Island road
but it may be true nevertheless.
E. B. Cowgirl has filed motion In the
district court to compel F. J. Close, E. H.
Snow and John Breidentha Ito make a
showing of property. He alleges that
there is still a small balance due on a
judgment which he recovered in a justice
court three years ago, which he wants
paid.
pointed administrator of the estate of
Mrs. Mary J. Wellhouse, and has given
administrators bond in the sum of
S2O.O00 The estate is a very large one
and includes a large amount of Shawnee
county real estate and the Wellhouse
residence on Topeka avenue.
The force in the sheriff's office want the
county commissioners to put an electric
bell in the probate judges office The pro-
bate judge has to use the sheriff's tele-