The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-10
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

| ALBERT T. Reid was in Kansas City
Wednesday.
w. L. Wood, treasurer of Chase
county, is in town.
The police will soon begin to talk OF
Halloween depredations.
DIR. and Mrs. e. v. Coldren are In St
Louis for a few days.
The milk men are trying to introduce
buttermilk as a stylish winter drink.
The restaurants are doing an in
creased business on account of I. Q.
Q. F.
Ralph Van Houten is managing the
Grand opera house while J. l. King is
in Mexico.
Dr. Ernest Fahrig. the Philadelphia
chemist who isinvestigating Trego shale,
is at the Copeland
Mrs. Thomas Robb, of Polk street,
has been called to oklahoma by the
serious illness of a sister
Silas Rain. the oldest Odd Fellow in
Kansas, is really the biggest man at
the l. O. O. F. assemblage.
AL Mooney is filling up his ditch. Gov
ernor Stanley took a look out of his east
window day before yesterday
DIR. Frank Johnson formerly member
of the legislature from Chase county,
is here from Cottonwood Falls.
There is one Odd Fellow attending
the grand lodge who seems to be seven
feet tall-not quite, but almost.
The condition of Mrs. Charles Strick-
rott. who has been sick for a long time
at Christ hospital. is still critical.
This is the first I. o. o. F. grand
lodge that has not fought over the
DeBoissiere homie at Ottawa in years.
IAN American Tramp will be at the
Crawford Friday night, and THE
Wrong Mr.. Wright" Saturday matinee
and night
Warden Jewett's objection to report
ing the visitors fee accounts to the state
auditor does not increase the popularity
of the system.
Topeka aspirants are not after any
Cape Town consulships. Detractors
please note there are some tnlngs To-
peka does not want
George H. Case of Mankato, here on
business, says cattle feeders will have
hard time to pull through the winter
because of the corn crop failure.
political joke is going the rounds
clubbing the Indian Territory ''Burton's
hospital" with B. H Tracy as the next
prospective patient to be admitted
Atchison Globe: Capt Ralph ingalls,,
late of the army. has an offer from
large mercantile firm to go to Japan.
but has not yet decided to accept it
So much speculative politics is in the
air that TOpekas three candidates Tor
supreme court judge, Slonecker, Welsn
and Mcfarland. are sitting up to take
notice.
Sheriff J. B. Leaman, of Decatur
county, was in Topeka Wednesday. He
brought with him Fred Wentz, an in
sane man, who was placed In the
asylum.
Perhaps the prohibitionists who are
trying to get "Sheep" Lyle out of jail
are afraid that unless he gets out there
will be no joints running for them to
rail about
Ex-Gov Ffnney stays in today to at
tend to the office work of the railroad
commission, while Messrs.s Walker and
Fike are hearing the elevator site COM
plant at Harlan.
The state board of education is dip
ping into athletics At their Emporia
meeting they passed a resolution urging
the state schools to abide by the inter-
collegiate agreement OF Kansas What
next?
Now comes the Christian Endeavor
society of the First Presbyterian
church with a counter petition and res
olution to Judge Hazen asking that one
Sheep Lyle be not released from
servitude. Next.
The petition for the release of
sheep" Lytle from serving a sentence
for selling liquor contains the names OF
two ministers and two persons who
have been closely connected with the
joint business.
With all the gaudy red, blue, purple
and yellow robes displayed by the Odd
Fellows paraphernalia agents in the TO-
tunda of the state house, the supreme
judges have a chance to take pick and
make the United States supreme bench
look like thirty cents.
Congressman Charles Curtis has rec
commended ex-Deputy Warden John
Higgins, of Lansing. for a place as dep
uty warden at the federal prison at At
lanta, Ga 1t is probable that Georgian
will stand a better chance than Kan
san, though Higgins friends here would
like to see him land
The jury in the district court yester-
day afternoon brought in verdict al
lowing Gambler & Son. of Mountain
Grove, Mo-, judgment for 1868 against
Mrs Sarah c. CLANCY for groceries
Mrs. Clancy set up as her defense that
she had paid the bill by delivering to
Gambler a. Son Soma 500 odd ra Hons of