The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-20
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

P L Bonebrake is in Kansas City to-
day.
What has become Of the new gas COM
pany?
Carpenters and painters are in de-
n1and.
George f. Cole. state auditor. is visit
ing at Girard.
There are a few cases Of whooping-
cough in town.
Yesterday there were thirteen prison
ers in the county jail
1.-THE Star Boarder'' is the attraction at
Crawford's tonight.
Capt. John Seaton. of Atchison, was in
the city yesterday
The sixty-frst Kansas supreme court
report has been issued
Wall & Hanley have completed all
their contracts for the city
The last of the smallpox patients in the
pest house has been discharged.
The Washburn college paper fight has
at last gotten into the dispatches
Director Merriam announces that
there viii be no census recount for To-
peka-
Street Commissioner Snyder has four
crews of men constructing brick side
walk.
A new edition of the Kansas statutes
Is taking the place of Webb's compila-
ton.
Frank squires is hunting at Lake
View. where the ducks are said to be
numerous.
The city officers and the police are all
deeply interested in the Summers
Downie trial.
The street force has completed the
work on the parkings on Monroe street
between Seventh and Eighth streets.
Fireman Hub McNeely is back from
Chanute, where he attended the funeral
Of Frank Tweedell, former Tepekan.
". A Thompson. deputy warden Of
Lansing this morning after a visit in
Topeka
The paving and grading contractors
are all at work and are rushing the men
in order to complete their work before
bad weather sets in
Dean Sykes and Canon Bywater will
leave Monday for Louisville, Ky, to at
tend the annual missionary council of
the Episcopal church
Mrs Thorpe has returned from Beloit,
where she took a girl who was adopted
by a family near that town She also
had other business Of d private nature.
The ironwork for the roof Of the ad-
dition to the federal building has been
shipped and the contractors expect to
have it in place by the first of Noveu1-
Der.
Marshalls band and the Republican
Flambeau club may go to the inaugura-
ton at Washington if the hopes of those
who are talking of the trip are carried
out.
The mayor will probably call a special
meeting of the council for Monday
night when the building committee will
make their report, and the city building
will be accepted.
How the deaf and dumb players from
OIathe can carry on successful
WrangIe with the umpire in q football
game is a question which is being solved
this afternoon.
City Physician Hogeboom will move
into his office in the city building next
Monday. The commissioner of elections
will move to his Office in the Auditorium
as soon as the registration is completed.
The police say they have no clues re-
garding the robberies of the Mills dry
goods store or DR.. Keith's store, but Ser
geant Donovan is out of the city, and it
is thought he has a trace of the rob
bers.
The mayor and the streets and walks
committee think that it will be impos-
sible to complete all the paving con-
tracts this year, but the city engineer
and the contractors think the work can
be done.
A travelling man writes to the State
Journal: Il have often read Of painting
the rainbow, etc, but have come to
nounces Satan is dyed here-an colors.
See his tri-celored sign on the avenue"
There has lust been added to the col
lection in the Rock Island ticket office
new picture. Tt is a strikingly natural
scene in the beautiful Rio Las Animas
canyon on the Denver g. Rio Grande.
1t is a large photograph by the Detroit
Photographic company, made close 10
nature nv q. new firtiEg process