The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-26
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

w. l.. Higgins and wife, of Emporia
are visiting in Topeka.
p w Griggs has gone to Marshall
town, Iowa, on business
The Y. M. c. A will give a Thanks
giving dinner to young men away from
home"
The state offices will be closed
Thanksgiving day So will the county
and city offices.
Bishop Millspaugh is in Hutchinson
presiding at the convocation of the
Wichita deanery.
The city physician has decided that
the four children dismissed from the
enpox, not smallpox.
The Topeka Scottish society is ar
ranging for a series of monthly Scot
fish concerts this winter.
The flag is flying from the Masonic
quarters on Jackson street which
means the Scottish Rite is in session.
superintendent of Insurance Church
has issued authority to the Royal Union
Mutual Life Insurance company to
transact business in Kansas.
The Eslks will have real Thanksgiv-
ing dance Thursday night with cider,
doughnuts, baked apples, nuts and all
the rest of the necessary fxings.
Bets of to 1 are offered that Gov
ernor Stanley won't even hit the ball
the first time he kicks at it Thursday
afternoon on the Washburn gridiron.
W. H. Bartlett has been named by
Governor Stanley as justice of the
peace for Plainville township, Rocks
county, to succeed Fl. ]. Lambert, re-
signed.
Reports from Mexico state that Grant
Gillet, the absconded cattle king, re-
Gently gave a magnificent ball at Chi
huahua, Mexico. at which there were
800 guests.
Richard r. Hargraves of Topeka has
a n1-dn no T 7 Qat,f rco
scholarship of the State university. The
scholarship is offered by the alumni
association.
The Atchison Globe says: REV. L. P.
Broad, a Topeka minister, was at the
Byram yesterday. and had number of
callers among local ministers. Now,
what's up?"
A. B. Hulit, who recently returned
from Mexico, says that Grant Gillett is
drawing $500 month and expenses for
himself and family as superintendent
of a big mine.
The executive committee of the State
Editorial association will meet at the
Copeland on Tuesday of next week to
decide upon a place for the next annual
meeting of the association.
The Mitchell Bros. Bankrupt stock of
Dry Goods, Shoes, Clothing, etc, has
been reaTranged and the prices have
received a deeper cut than ever. Fisher,
11S East 9Th, is closing it out fast.
People living around Lowe, a locality
in Chautauqua county. have applied TO
the board of railway commissioners for
an order to compel the Missouri Pa
cific company to make a flag station of
that point
John Macdonald has been chosen as
a delegate from the Topeka Scottish so
ciety to the banquet of the St. Louis
Caledonian society, to be given at the
Planters hotel in St Louis, next Sat
urday evening.
To he
arguments Friday morning on the ques-
ton of revoking the permits of drug
gists who have been convicted in the
police court of selling liquor and who
have appealed their cases.
The city of Parsons has arranged to
furnish cheap water and gas to the new
state asylum to be built there, and the
state board of charities and corrections
will now proceed to make arrangements
for the work on the buildings.
The sledge used yesterday in ham
mering open the bond vault in the state
treasury is said to be the same one used
by George L. Douglass in the legisla-
tive war of 1893 to break down the door
of the house of representatives.
The board of railroad commissioners
have received notice that the Burling
ton railroad and the people of Oberlin
have fixed up their differences over the
drainage question in that town without
the interference of the commissioners.
hand lower box at the Crawford last
night. The judges looked as seriously
at the actor, Warde, as they did at G.
G. Clemens when he digs up some
point of law that was never before
heard of.
under heading Fortunes in Life In
surance," prints a list of the leading
policy holders of the country. Three
kansas men are given, as follows: B. P.
Waggener, Atchison, $4,000; Calvin
Hood, Emporia, $1S0000; c. J. Devlin,
Topeka, $4,000.
The Haskell Indians have played
seven football games this fall and lost
one; they have made a total of 1876
points, as against their opponents 40
The K. U. team has played nine games,
won three, and played two tie games;
the team has scored rs points against
it's opponents 100.
From the Colorado Springs Gazette:
Captain Emerson, well known in min
ing circles in this city does not take
any stock in the reported finds of gold
Emerson has had a careful test made
on the alleged gold bearing shales of
that locality and the best returns he
could obtain were two cents, not 81,
a tom.
w. III. WATSON, statistical clerk in the
office of the state superintendent of
public instruction, is suffering from
blood poisoning resulting from a slight
scratch on the leg. Mr.. WATSON struck
his leg against the edge of pail while
in his haymow a week more ago.
He thought nothing about it at the
time. but recently 1t has been swelling
and has become very painful, and his
physician pronounces it blood poison.
News has reached Topeka of the |
death in the Philippines of Mrs Ernest
Agnew, wife OF Lieut.. Agnew, formerly |
of the Twentieth Kansas but now of |
the Thirty-sixth regular infantry. Mrs |
Agnew was formerly Miss May Sexton, |
of Minneapolis, and both she and her |
husband graduated from the state uni |
versity. They were married only last |
AUGUST and left soon after for Manila