The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-17
LOCAL MENTION.

Three drunken men paid s. each in the
police court this morning.
Hay is selling at 81 per ton on the city
market This is prairie hay Tame hay Is
much higher.
The contractor began work on the paw
and Seventh street this morning.
Ray Cox, a Rock Island section hand.
at Herington, was run over by a hand
car and received injuries from which he
died last night.
One of the patrol horses at the police
obliged to walk plain DRINKS to the sta
ton or hire an express wagon.
The books at the commissioner of cleo
registered. This leaves about 1000 to reg
lister in the next nine days.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. L. r. Warning, of Pot
win, announced the birth of a daughter
Tuesday. Mrs. Wartng was, before her
marriage, Miss Louise Smith.
A new picture, "Chrysanthemums," by
Miss Lou Nation has been hung in the
CITY public library 1t was painted in 1890
when Miss Nation was in the art school.
Miss Anna Heery, daughter of NJ.
Heery, and Mr.. Edward Clark, of Coun-
ton
George Dulen. formerly stenographer to
Assistant General Freight Agent +. c.
Maegley, Of the Santa Fe, has taken
position in the Kansas City Southern Of
c. A. Anderson. Of the Rock Island teIe-
graph office, is duck hunting in Missouri.
Dense fog gave train crews much trou-
Bile in Topeka railroad yards this morn
ing.
some of the merchants on Kansas ave-
nue. are not observing the ordinance about
throwing paper on the street. and the
street department will make complaint
to the police unless they are more care
The Mills Dry Goods company has sent
out postal cards to the officers over the
state offering $3.50 reward for the cap ure
of the burglars who robbed the store Sun
day night
H NJ Gaines. ex-state superintendent
W S1lina-
the residence at 1915 western avenue ne
expects to engage in business in Topeka.
d. Bowes, assistant general passenger
agent, and L D Cooper. travelling pas
J. NJ Cheseborough and J. Foley, Ike
officials of the Vandalia, were in Topeka
yesterday.
Effective at once, George Firmin, form
erly agent for the Rock Island at FL
Reno. is appointed travelling freight agent
with headquarters at FL Reno. Il c Cal
lahan has been appointed agent to sue
coed Mr.. Firnin.
A car Of wheat which was standing on
the Santa Fe tracks near Crosby's mill.
was broken into last night and several
for the offenders today.
The little son of c. NJ. Stockham. of
Republican parade tonight. is only three
and half years old. He was born on
little fellow presents a novel appearance
in his Rough Rider uniform.
The sanitary department IS notifying
people that they must comply with the
ordinance passed by. the council, requir
ing that a box be kept in the alley in
which stable offal must be put. The box
must be 215 feet wide. feet high and
feet long. This will prevent bad smell
ing alleys.
]. f. Howard, of the Wichita Union
Mills and f, J. Smiley, of the Kansas
Grain Dealers association, will make
canvass of the state in an effort to
strengthen the Kansas Millers' associa-
ton by the addition of many new mem
bers as possible. There are about three
hundred mills in the state and il is hoped
that the first of the year will see nearly
all the mills in the association
Robert Stone. secretary of the Kansas
State Good Roads association, went to
Washington Tuesday. He was accompan-
led by General E. G. Harrison, the gov
eminent road expert who has been in To-
peka experimenting the construction OF
the rnacadam road from Washburn to
Ssabrook Mr.. Harrison goes T. his home
At Ashbury park to recuperate before TAX
ing up his active duties again. Mr. Har-
rfson was quite i'll for two OF three weeks
before his departure from Topeka Mr..
stone will confer with Martin Dodge and