The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-04
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| sas Tuesday.
The Kansas avenue cutters were
| flushed this morning.
Topeka now has Chinese restaurant.
| 1t is on East Fifth street.
There were 497 patients cared for at
| Christ hospital during the past year.
The paving in the alleys where the
Edison steam pipes were laid is being
repaired.
The remnants of the Thanksgiving
| turkey have. at last disappointed from
| mortal view.
C. c. Baker, president of the Topeka
Electric railway, was in Kansas City
Tuesday on business.
The sale of seats for TOO Rich to
Marry" at the Crawford Monday, be-
gins Thursday morning.
People never seem to despond in in
quiring as to whether the supreme court
has decided who is mayor of Topeka
The Woman's auxiliary to the Kansas
Midwinter exposition will meet Tues
day, December 10. at the w. G. T. u.
rooms.
County Attorney Fred Seaman, of
Wabaunsee county, was in Topeka
Tuesday. He now owns the Eskridge
Tribune.
State Treasurer Grimes is having a
telephone closet built in his office. Most
of the other state offices are Similarly
equipped.
There are seventy-ffve cases on the
at the December sitting which opened
yesterday.
A w Dana piloted hunting party
out to Dover and frankly admits that
other members of the party got more
game than he did.
One of the most formidable tasks
about the state house is to climb to
State Historical society's rooms when
the elevator isn't running.
c. B. Horton, assistant superintendent
of the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany at Omaha, is in town making his
semi annual office settlement
E. S. Quinton who has returned from
an Indian Territory hunting trip says
that the weather was too warm to en-
able them to preserve the game.
w. H. Clark and Grant Smith of OF
tawa are here today to participate in
a $4,000 damage suit entitled Shapter
We. Ransom, in the circuit court
This evening there will be a musical
recital at Washburn college. 1t is the
first of series of second-semester re-
citals given by the advanced pupils
Mrs. Belle Webster, of Emporia,
passed through Topeka Tuesday even
ing her way to Horton, where she
will visit her mother for a short time.
Those who were unable to get seats
at the Rooney Boys concert last year
should go early to hear them next
Monday night at the Christian church.
Constable Ben williams of Oakland
has stirred up a hornets nest by drag
ging the carcass OF Cow into the
woods near the village and leaving it
there.
If the man who wrote to Governor
Stanley that he killed J.. s. Collins
hadn't forgotten to sign his name, the
letter might have received more con-
sideration than it did.
The supreme court has granted a
stay of execution in the case of George
H. Pntney convicted 20, vi of attempted TEN ted
fixed his bond at $1,000.
The restaurant keepers are beginning
to tell what they will have for Christ
mas dinner, and the star boarders are
commencing to announce where they
will go for dinner that day.
The case of the Hanover National
bank of New York VS.. the First Ma
tional bank of Burlingame in the fed
eral court is taking the longest time to
try of any case on the docket.
The total amount of building permits
issued during the n onth of November
was SIT, 563. These permits were mostly
for dwelling houses There were no big
permits granted during the month.
A v. Lindell, bond clerk in the office
of the superintendent of public instruc-
ton, is a connoisseur of peculiar names.
The latest addition to his collection is
that of U. S. Banner, of Vfning, Kan.
City Engineer McCabe is preparing
the Instructions to bidders in the pro-
posals for building the sewer in the
west part of town. This sewer will
drain a district composed of four
blocks.
Butchers predict that by spring pork
will sell on the hoof for cents pound
and beef at 7. The amount of stock
being fattened in this locality is not so
great as usual, because Of the high
prices of feed
A ]. Within ore, chief clerk in the
office of the secretary of state, return
ed Tuesday. from eating Thanksgiving
turkey in Iowa Kansas turkeys are
not likely to ORGANIZE a boycott on him
for sighting them.
A few of the cracks and assures in the
West Eighth avenue asphalt pavement
have been filled full of asphalt by the
not repaired, and the places fixed pre-
sent an uneven surface.
Christmas is three weeks from today.
Major Anderson will not read paper
before the stockmenS congress at Chi
cago this week. He was too busy to
get away. Instead he sent his paper to
be read by the secretary of the associa-
ton.
The Topeka auditorium is the best
heated public hall in Topeka. 1t has
never been subjected to criticism. The
engineer of the building states that in
the coolest weather the room can be
raised to 70 degrees temperature within
three hours.
Ben Simpson, of Paola, who at one
time knew everybody of prominence in
the Republican party in Kansas, stroll
ed through the state house yesterday
without seeing a face that was familiar.
1t was his first visit to the state house
in three years.
After citing the fact that Secretary
Wilson, of the United States depart
ment of agriculture, backed out of his
semi interview after he was
severely called down by Secretary Co
burn, the Minneapolis Messenger points
the following moral: Don't monkey
with Coburn-''
Rev. A Schmid, a pastor of the Ger
man Lutheran church, returned today
to his home at Alma with his bride,
formerly Miss Hannah Schafer.a teach
er in the public schools, whom he mar
ried here Thanksgiving day. They were
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