The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-24
SNAP SHOTS ATHOMENEWs.

The K U. football team started to-
day for Madison, Wis.
Judge William Easton Hutchinson. of
Garden City, is here today.
Frank Shepherd left Wednesday for
Beaumont, Tex, on a business trip.
J. Fletcher Walmsley of the City of
Mexico is registered at the Copeland.
The locomobile company will have a
branch store opened in Topeka soon.
o. E. Sadler and j. E. George are To-
peka visitors from Liberal, Kan, today.
J. B. Belts is erecting a building for
the Wells Fargo company at Hutchin-
son.
The X U. second eleven is to play the
Washburn second eleven at Lawrence
November t.
Sheriff Sawyer of Wellington was in
Topeka today, having brought boy to
the reform school,
C. H. Morrison has completed the
transfer of his jewelry store to the old
Clements store room.
Orphan Knight, Topeka horse, took
third prize in the PAGERS class at the
Kansas City horse show.
Moss, the substitute back of the
Washburn football team, gives promise
Of being a star drop kicker
The E1ks will have a Halloween dane
ing party with tcider and donuts'' for
refreshments as the bulletin heads.
Roy Ritchey and wife and e. H
Johnson and wife are attending the
morse snow at Kansas City To-Day.
The Polk school football team beat
the Lowman Hill school team yester-
day afternoon by the score of 10 to 0.
Mrs. Charles Blood Smith occupied a
box with Mr.. and Mrs. L. c. Boyle at
the Kansas City horse show last night.
Five of the Is flushing tanks of the
North Topeka sewer will have to be re-
paired. They are found to be leaking
Those who have not registered must
do so before Friday night at 10 o'clock
if they wish to vote at the November
election.
County Poor Commissioner Hale is
getting in readiness for his rush OF
business that always comes with cold
weather.
c. A. Fellows and A. c. Wilson were
in lola Wednesday visiting T. S. Slower
of that place and looking over the &C.
ment and brick plants.
Several Topeka horse fanciers went to
Kansas City today to see Cresceus. 1t
is needless to say that Albert Parker
was one of the number.
D. N. Burge has asked for a new trial
of the case brought against him BY
Kelchner & Mackey. They secured
judgment against Burdge.
Wednesday was sewer" day at the
city jail Beer to the amount Of 10
kegs was poured into the sewer by
order of the board of health.
D. Y. Wilson, of Belleville, stopped in
the state house yesterday on his way to
the horse show at Kansas City to look
after his boom for state auditor
A movement is on foot to establish
tannery with a capacity of $4,000 hides
per month at Topeka The matter is
being negotiated through the CONNER
cial club
Willis will be reached this week by
the gang which is putting down new
steel for the Missouri Pacific. After
that the work will be discontinued until
next spring.
Carol B. Merriam was elected mem
Der of the board of directors OF the
Merchants National bank yesterday, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death OF
c. H. Guibor.
The A. c. Goodwin company has been
established in Topeka to manufacture
an improved stove-pipe collar and fiue
stop. The plant will be in operation
by November 1.
Frank FARRELL is considering the OPP
portunity presented to settle up his Ok
lahoma claim since the sale of the Kan
sas City Times has cancelled its position
of correspondent here.
Captain Adna G. Clark of Lawrence,
was in Topeka yesterday securing en-
dorsements to his application for a lieu
tenancy in the regular army. He was
Twentieth Kansas captain.
H. c. Bowman and w. H. Wilson are
expected home soon from Washington,
where they went to represent the To-
peka Scottish Rite bodies at the meet
ing of the supreme council.
The Modocs will celebrate the twenty
fifth anniversary of the organization of
the club at the home of Major T. ].
Anderson, the founder of the club, on
Monday evening, November %.
The Missouri and Kansas Telephone
company has filed it's $1,000 bond, and is
now permitted to excavate in the
streets of Topeka. The two telegraph
companies are still under the ban.
The supreme court is an important
factor in the Topeka Gun club. Charles
Morton, of the clerks office. and c. r.
Jones, Judge Ellis stenographer, are
two of the best marksmen in the club.
A. G. Klingaman, who is one of Prof
Bashford's friends. says that he does
not believe that Mr. Bashford is right
about the Kansas shale question Mr.
Klingaman believes there is gold in the
shale.
The name of the ST. Louis man who
as agent for other parties, purchased
$40 900 worth of Santa Fe bonds is John
H. Blessing. He will be still more of a
blessing to Topeka if he takes that
other S3s.000
The Millionaires club has decided to
erect solid gold statue of Ceres or
some other fair goddess on the highest
peak in Trego county just as soon as
Cripple Greek and Klondike stand in
second place to Trego for gold.
Friday evening the knights of
Columbus will hold an important meet
ing in the Security building. A large
number will take the third degree, the
work being put on by Judge Redden,
of Denver. Later an elaborate banquet
will be given.
A Topeka man, once prominent po-
1itically and now prominent and sue
cessful in business, is liquidating all
debts acquired in the days when he
sowed his wild oats He hunts UP the
dram shopkeepers and pays all two and
three dollar accounts with a generous
interest added.
Captain w. N. Hughes, brother of
Mayor Hughes, has been retired from
the regular army because of sickness. |
Captain Hughes has recently been sta |
toned at Columbus. but for six years