The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-13
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

G. ". CIosson. Of the Santa Fe. is in
Argentine
Mr. Charles s Gleed is insthe city for
several days.
Horace swavze has gone to Denver to
work On the News.
The rain Tuesday descended upon q
number Of straw rides
The Prohibition state convention viii be
held in Topeka June %.
There will be no concert at Garfield
park Sunday by Marshalls band.
The street railway trackmen are work
Ing on the West Sixth avenue line.
The work of stone carving on the audi
forum IS progressing very slowly
GARFIELD park today is the scene Of q
Sunday school picnic from Sabetha-
A special term of the Federal court nav
be held IN LeavenWOrth this month
It is almost impossible to rent a desir-
able house in Topeka at present
The new signs on the street cars are the
most readable that have been IN use
Superintendent W H StiIweu of the
Rock Island is in Omaha on business.
Four young men killed a bull snake on
kansas avenue last night and the joints
are closed.
The alley between Jackson and Van
Buren, and Fifth street and Sixth avenue
has been graded.
It IS about time for some one TO find a
ks,arsan taking an important part IN the
Chinese troubles.
G. ". ". Yates. who now lives in To-
pesa, used 70 pc editor OF a free state
paper in Wyandotte-
and rabbits IS doing a big business on
lower Kansas avenue
John Mcdonald delivered his lecture
me scotch Boy, as Remember Him
! IN Wellington Monday night
g W Carpenter. ex-member Of the leg
I r5t from Usage ClIy; was visiting
Postmaster Guthrie yesterday.
/ Cash prizes to the amount of about 81 900
have been offered in the different classes
or the Topeka Horse show
= L. Williams says that Cofeyville
l Drzck be sold in Topeka for paving
| as cheaply as Topeka brick
4 monthly paper Just started in Topeka
! the abolition of all banks
| Walter Kutz has received a collection
oI relics from Cuba There i Spanish
/ Some of the pavements need washing
/ very badly Some day the city will own
its own water plan and them
/ The big thing which extends far above
| the auditorium is the carrier to be used
in putting the steel girders into place
Mr.. Kasper Helm, OF Topeka, and Miss
Lecia- Hefner. of Saiiua- were married in
| the Catholic church in Salina- Tuesday
The Lawrence Journal finds fault be
cause Dr. CounteFInine used water from
the River Jordan for bapusmal purposes
Senator John T. CLANCY. was once a
| crack baseball pitcher and won laurels
| tWirling for the EldOradO team IS years
| ago
I H P knight, who was formerly man
| ager of the Copeland hotel, Is now man
ager Of the Remonia hotel, at Cascade,
Colorado.
The trial of Crook Wright and Pearly
! Atkinson for highway robbery will come
up in the district court before a jury on
! Friday, June D.
The street cleaners should furnish
boards to span the flood when they food
the cutters early in the morning about the
time the store people are going to work
Judge w. D. Gilbert of Atchison. is
here to see Mr.. Rising. the special agent
Of the government, about establishing
three more rural mail routes out Of Atchi-
son
A man who represented himself to be a
( son of ex-State Treasurer @. l. Ather-
ton tried 70 defraud a man in Emporia.
He was not Mr. Atherton's son and his
/ trick failed
There is a man in Topeka who devotes
much time to politics and has held high
/ Offices. who helps his wife wash dishes
dent some day.
J. \. Policy has asked the district eourt
to grant him a divorce from his wife
Serena NJ Policy. on the grounds that
she so forgot herself as to use upon him
/ personal violence
a Topeka woman read a paper at a lit
erary club at Q. clock one afternoon TINS
week and canned two crates of cherries
the same afternoon. besides trying out
fifty pounds of lard
Judge Hook will decide the Pottawa-
tonne land case in October. There arr
over 16,0eo acres with no claimant and tbs
government proposes to buy the land ans
open It TO settlement
The census blanks have the following
question: Can you read2' and another
; you can't, go to the superintendent and n
viii read this to you"
Oscar Swayze has figured out from tbs
returns Of the assessors that the popula
ton of Shawnee county is "a 49, The
census enumeratOrs will find more peOpl
than the tax assessors did
George Martin, secretary of the stat'
t historical society. walked from kansa.
= City 10 LecomptOn. when he came Z
/ Kansas. HIS parents came by steam boa
and he got to Lec0mptOn ahead of them
The NIneWOod park railway damage cas-
! has set for Friday IN the district court
The city Of Topeka IS defendant and tn
| suit is the outgrowth of the Obstruction
Of the old Ninth street viaduct by tn
! city.
) Mr. and Mrs G. ". Preble two elderI,
I people living at 313 Branuer street. Wer
thrown from their vehicle while crossing
: [ the Santa Fe tracks on Fourth stree
7 Tuesday. The horse became scared at
switch engine and ran away
The FIslze jubilee singers appeared a
q the St Johns A. NJ E church. at tn
corner Of Seventh street and Topeka ave
. nue. last night. A highly entertaining pro
, Z era m me was rendered by the faInou
! singers, who have a worldwide reputa
ton
Since the Democratic convention decide
e to go to Kansas City that town has be
I. / come Lavish with titles when Democrat
enter the town The following IS from
the Kansas city Journal; Captain u
- Heery. of Topeka, was IN the city yes
tersav He IS manager of the IOpek
FTarbeau club. He says his orgauizatfo
2 is anxious to come 70 Kansas City for tn
] convention and thinks arrangements ca
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