The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-09
sNAP sHOTs HOLE NEWS

J. willis Gleed was IN Kansas City en-
business yesterday.
MarshalIs band viii give a. concert at
Garfield park tonight.
Lower Kansas avenue is in need of a
visit from the street sweeper
Dean Low was here a few hours yes
terday while en- route to Washington
The. hremen at station No. 8 are paint
blue
The 1Iodocs viii take part in the John
Marshall benefit concert at Garfield park
The fields and banks on the Oakland
loop are a carpet of green again to de-
Congressman Charles Curtis left wash
ington yesterday and is expected to be
The new carpets have ca laid IN the
OFFICES Of the pension department at the
General J. K Hudson was in Kansas
at Versailles, No
The Prudential Insurance company will
move into the corner room of the Office
block September 1.
F.. c. Gay, who is now. in the copper
mining business in New Mexico. was In
Kansas City yesterday.
The building of the four new bridges
across the Kansas river may be delayed
on account of the steel strike.
Prof. Oscar Larson of Topeka gave a
concert at the Swedish Baptist church at
Colorado Springs Wednesday night
A great many watermelons are being
shipped into Topeka now They come
principally from Texas and Arkansas
Miss Jennie Glidewel has returned to
Valencia after q. short visit with Mr.. and
Mrs. f. E. Crouch of Poplar street
Charles Graves, day clerk IN the Hotel
Lee, Oklahoma. City, but formerly clerk
at the Copeland, is here for a short visit.
A Shawnee county farmer yesterday re-
ceived $S8S54 for 36 hogs, or an average of
fed.
Mayor Hughes has sent out letters to
the mayors of fifty cities of about the
size of Topeka asking about the gas rates
in those cities.
Gov. Stanley went to Norton last night
to attend a logrolling. He will go from
there to Lincoln Park, near Downs. to at
tend a. Chautaucua~
"Topeka's Finest" create a new impress
sion upon strangers visiting here now.
The police are proud of their new uni
forms and helmets as anyone, though
State superintendent Frank Nelson has
cal institutes and left last night for a
visit to Swedenborg, Ia, as his vacation.
other cities have their owl cars. but To-
pelxa has .shoOt-OWl' cars. At least that's
what the Topeka conductors designate
their trip when they take out a trolley
A Washington dispatch says: The bids
for repairs to furniture Of the public
awarded to ". l. sticRan n and F. 4.
Beckstrom-
D. w Little, assistant superintendent
of public instruction. addressed a local
institute at Mankato today ana VIII Vlslf
fore returning to Topeka
Despite the fact that the Topeka pOlics
are lad in new uniforms and have begun
they should be patrolling their beats
Mike Wall the paving contractor, was
fined $50 in police court yesterday for fail
ing to place lanterns around his pavement
excavations at night This ought to serve
as q warning to other careless pavement
contractors.
Sam .Pottinger. the county custodian OF
the fair grounds, says that the man and
woman now in charge of the pest house
allow the patients to wander promiscu>
ously about the fair grounds Mr. Pot
finger has a. kick coming
The street commissioner and city eng1>
neer are both in favor of city ordinance
requiring the water and gas companies to
in the pavements. They say it is impos-
sible to repair the pavements.
The railroads. have raised the freight
no doubt justify another raise in the price
Of ice as fixed by the trust; The next
out the last of whatever competition stin
exists for the trust.
Chief wilmarth has condemned the old
stone building at the rear of the store
buildings at 921 Kansas avenue. The old
stone building has partly caved in and is
Kansas avenue which was condemned
last week, has been torn down.
A Topeka man who takes ice from the
in the waste tank of his ice box. The way
he can account for its presence there is
into a block of ice, and the trust claims
to manufacture its ice from distilled wa
ter, too
A B. Quinton. representing Mrs. Dru>
ella Wooda1l, presented to the council
committee on electric lights last night the
her claim for 5000 for the death of her
husband. David WoOdall, who was killed
while repairing an electric lamp in Pot
trician was given that WoedalPs death
was due to an uninsulated wire fastened
to a tree The committee viii discuss tho
matter further next Tuesday evening.