The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-17
SNAP SHOTS AT HONE NEWS

G. Sturgis of 115 Madison street Is sick.
A. D. Walker Of Holton was here Tues
Judge Redden was in Emporia yester>
day
Fine, large. red raspberries are on the
market.
Paper hats seem to be doing wen this
Postmaster Andrew Swallow of Meriden
There was rain last night, but the
drops were few indeed
Gary Sturgis of North Harrison street
has gone to FL Reno, Ok.
Sheriff Thomas O'Connor of Emporia
was n town Tuesday evening
Garfield park viii be sprinkled before
all or MarShall'S band concerts
The Thermometer stood at 100 at g.
and O'clock yesterday afternoon.
A. l. Hirbour is going to the Choctaw
country to take chance in the draw
steinberg's orchestra played for the
Elks picnic and dance at Concordla last
Awnings" to be placed on horses bri-
dies to protect their heads from the sun
Gov. Stanley returned from Colorado
last evening, where he has been e week
in the mountains.
The Twenty-third Regiment band Wlll
tionaI hotel tonight.
Rev. Charles M. Sheldon. is working
the reporters his plans.
Duncan s. Isowrie.. freight and ticket
~ -
nerer, Wyo-, was here Tuesday.
Baseball mines picked from the Commits
a match game Saturday afternoon
]. r.. Burton is expected in Topeka the
last Of this week The tire US ,s., are ex-
The latest shipments of cantaloupes
from Texas indicate, from the flavor, that
the drouth is being felt in the Lone Star
State
The BARRIERS trust of Topeka has an
nounced that hereafter no more baths
he, p f'0rs7 x aGrrfr
Is cents.
Billposters for Ringing. Bros circus
visited the country for % miles around To-
peka yesterday covering barns and fences
with posters.
u Fl. Engie, secretary Of the Kansas
address next Sunday morning at the
Baptist church
D. Y. Wilson. clerk of Republic county.
still has a fighting chance of making
crop out his way
State Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton Frank Nelson has returned from De
troit, where he has been attending the
teachers association meetings
Jackson's Twenty-third Regiment band
will try it again from the balcony Of the
National hotel tonight If there is rain
after the concert it will be safe to say
Jackson did it.
The people living in the vicinity of Te-
cumseh are sun exercised over lhe ap-
pair the bridges which have lately been
declared in bad order.
Frank E. Watson who for the past sew
eraI years conducted Watsons orchestra
at the Crawford theater here and who
last season left Topeka to locate IN Kan
sas City, will lead orchestra until fall
at Pine Port hotel, Elkhart lake, Wiscon-
sin, q summer resort
FL Reno dispatch. The best paying
graft in Ell Reno was established here to-
day by q good looking young woman
clairvoyant who says her name is 'Phara,
the Egyptian and her home is in Alex
andria- There are men here, however,
who say she is a native of Kansas and
that she lately was a dressmalxer in To-
peka- Be that as it may, she took in 800
today telling homeseel1ers whether they
would be lucky in the drawing. Nearly
everybody who put up was promised q
claim. t4Phara, the Egyptian" charged
so cents to tell whether a homeseeker
would draw a claim and 80 cents to name
the value of the property. She touched
most of her customers for a dollar.