The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-19
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

larged.
R T Herriok was in Kansas CITY
yesterday.
The whist clubs win soon begin t
flourish again.
cider" Smith said it would rain Or
September 10.
Farmers say that the frost Tuesday
night did no damage
Open street cars are still being run
on some OF Topeka's lines.
The mourning emblems seen on every
hand viii nearly all disappear today
The Banda Rosa seat sale for the
past two or three days has been very
large.
The weather office win not be moved
into the federal building before next
summer
3. r. Updegraff win attend the races
and fair at Lake Contrary at St. Joseph
next week
The Knights of the Protected Ark
gave trolley ride over town Wednes-
day evening
The district court did not open this
morning for business. The docket will
be taken up Friday
1T Must have Been the Ghost of a
Coon" is again popular air with the
High school students.
The usual occupation for merchants
and business men who go bankrupt IS
to sell life insurance.
Traffic viii be reopened on West
Tenth avenue as soon as the state house
heating plant is finished
The Rock Island freight Office was
closed to day and the general offices
were closed this afternoon.
Mathews and Bulger will be at the
Crawford tonight in George AIDES farce,
The Night of the Fourth"
The public schools were let out at 10
o'clock today to enable the scholars an
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vices.
The Rock Island depot in Topeka is
appropriately and beautifully draped in
respect to the memory of President Nc
kinley.
Twenty years ago today President
Garfield died from the effects OF an
assassin's bullet. He was shot on
July 2
Secretary Coburn win likely be a
right bower to the St Louis fair conf
mission in preparing the exhibit from
this state.
Nearly all OF the first story Of the
state house heating plant has peen
completed. The work is being rushed
as fast as possible
Karl McGiH who has been working IN
the Santa Fe storehouse during the
summer months has quit to attend
school during the winter
This is the time of the year when old
settlers are reminded of Sol. Miller 5
s'Paw-paws Ripe" They are on the
market at five cents Dozen
B. II. Tracy IS in Canton at the fu
neral of President Mckinley today
He viii go on to Washington to meet
Senator Burton and D w Mulvane-
Miss Amy Reed of Springfield, Ohio.
has been visiting in oakland She has
been accompanied by her aunt. Mrs
NJ Sproull. living northwest Of town
1t is now necessary for people who
have flowers in the front yard to cover
them with papers and old quilts If they
want to prevent them from being FROST
bitten
The Republicans of Oakland will
caucus tonight for the purpose of NOM
mating township officers. The meeting
will be held in the Office of Justice Z.
H. Nagle.
The officers of the K. n. G.. who are
here attending the officers school and
are compelled to stay in camp accord
ing to regulations. wish they were at
home since the rain
Nojachus, the last Indian to be ar
rested for assault had preliminary
hearing at the United States attorneys
office late yesterday afternoon and was
held for the grand jury
r. B. Gerow, state director Of free
employment finds the servant girl
market at an even balance. He is
supplying all demands at present and
gets a place for each applicant
Topeka weather corresponds to its Ill
news and sad duties The night Presl-
dent Mckinley life went out severe
storm ragged, and this is a gloomy
meteorological DAY likewise. when he
is buried.
A folder setting forth the advantages
Of Dalhart, Texas, the new division
headquarters and point at which the
general offices Of the g. r. l. & NJ are
located has been issued by the Rock
Island railway.
The Marie Fountain Co. closed a three
nights engagement at the Grand last
night in My Florida" which gives
person an idea that whoever wrote the
piece had seen Augustus Thomas AL
ALBANIA few nights before.
The state live stock sanitary com
mission held a special meeting at Wich-
tia yesterday, and quarantined a ranch
near CimarrOn. Gray county. where
serious outbreak Of Texas fever has oc-
CURED. Twenty cattle have already
died.
John Strickrott received an order
Tuesday morning for 500 photograph
buttons bearing the picture of McKin-
ley and a special design and he had
with the trade mark Made In Topeka,
u S. A." on the back
The state house elevator IS taking
rest, in protest against being used as
a moving van. In addition to lifting
Contractors building materials along
with its passengers it has been lifting
the State Historical society from the
basement to the fourth floor.
A Topeka photographer has been
making Mckinley memorial buttons. The
button exhibits an excellent likeness of
the president in the center Of button
with a very black border, and the
words In Memoriun" underneath
Judge Hazen has taken the writ Of
prohibition under advisement and will
give his decision later. The case was
argued yesterday by G. c. Clemens and
Otis Hungate, attorneys for Waldo Cal
vim and Attorney General GODDARD and
Judge A. L. Redden for the state.
Governor Stanley wants the st. Louis
fair commission to get right down to
work and interest each one of the 1O5
counties in the preparation of an ex-
hibit that VIII excel all past efforts.