The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-06
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS


Senator Leidy.. of Butler county. was in
Topeka Wednesday
Judge A. H. Horton is in LeavenWorth
today attending court
Congressman Curtis is in Atchison to-
day on a political pilgrimage.
tending supreme ooiyr II VVednesdaV
City Clerk j. H. Squires is expecting to
take fishing trip to Usage county this
week
The paving which was improperly put in
At Fifth and West streets is being re-
President Herricx win deliver the bac-
eala9reate address at Washburn college,
The street lights are burning intermit--
where.
The. annual picnic of the .Armory In.
Garfield park
Governor Stanley has appointed Harry
Kansas City Kas.
Senator John c. Carpenter. Of. Chanute.
was here last night. route to the
Junction City encampment,
The city engineer has finished the
plats and grades for all Of the pavement
so far ordered by the council
Representative Emil GrOsser responds
to the. salutation '-dow's Buffalo2" He
came in from Dickinson Wednesday.
The reported merging of the Santa F'e
and Union Pacific railroads is not cred
tied by many of the local railroad men
The big steam roller is at work at the
College avenue pavement excavation.
VIM Bradbury is doing the work for the
City Attorney Chas. f. Spencer has
been in Leavenworth the past three days
court.
Speaker George. J. Barker was up from
Lawrence Wednesday for conference
with National Committeeman David Null
vane.
Mrs. wellington White, a New York lee
tlrer on China, win speak at the West
minister Presbyterian church next Sun
day evening.
Tom .AIcNeal will preside at the Sat
Night BANQUET Cone
land Friday evening. He is president OF
the organization.
Colonel Hughes has instructed City
License Collector Forbes to go after the
delinquent hucksters and make them pay
up their licenses
George z. Lerrigo, secretary of. the city
X NJ e A, left today for Boston Mass,
ton of the Y. NJ. c. A
There will be no baseball game this
year between the Washburn seniors and
ton to partake of a game.
The West Side Mothers league will
meet with Mrs Lydia Wehe, Sixth and
Lincoln, Friday afternoon, at 2:30 o. clock.
Mrs. W. A McCarter will speak
The Kansas avenue asphalt pavement in
some localities Is IN bad condition, but
the city has a maintenance contract
which is expensive to the taxpayers.
Chief of Police Stahl will give a picnic
near his farm at Auburn on June q. This
is one of the. regular Stahl Sunday school
picnics which have become famous.
The Washburn college chapel will be
lighted with electricity for the commence
ment exercises, Holbrook hall, the young
womens dormitory, is also being wired
for electric lights.
The tax commission is not sitting this
week, Attorney General GODDARD and Sem
ator Fred Dumont Smith. two Of its
lawyer members being busy with SUI
preme court cases.
Probate Judge Pagan has ordered Mrs.
Sal1e Germany to be brought into court
Tor trial as regards her sanity She. is
suspected of setting fire to the Dickinson
farm house near Neriden recently.
Lee Histed. of Chicago. a brother of
listed IS to begin the publication of a
new magazine on September I. It will
zine.
Residents in the vicinity of the High
seihooi are -hesrd ,eongratHsd.atlng them
that scholars carelessly scatter waste
paper. as they come out Of the building
and litter I'D the parkings.
There viii be one more baseball game
ls sgr MbasnpVTn a n eld
the fragments Of its team ana have a
game will begin at 3 o'clock.
T. H Bain's bond has been approved
by the county commissioners Mr.. Balm.
of the peace to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation Of s. S. Urmy. who
became assistant city attorney
The Sixth ward dog tax collector has
work among the CANNES Of the west side.
Each dog which paws its tax gets its
name written in a big record book, to
gether with its pedigree, as far as it has
any
The Waconda Oil and Mining company.
of Topeka, was yesterday chartered under
the laws Of South Dakota with a capital
stock of $400Q The directors are r G.
Martin. Frank Brazier and G. K. Holli-
J. W. Tucker. of Cawker City.
Secretary T. J. Anderson, of the Com
nercial club, has sent out special invi-
tations to 500 Topeka business men to at
tend the next meeting of the club The
meeting Will be especially to consider the
question OF how to get more manufac-
turing industries in Topeka
The following marriage licenses have
been issued in the probate court: Jesse
c. Wilson, Topeka. to Nellie NJ. Russell
Topeka; Lewis Perry, Adrain, Kas., to
Hattie NJ. EustiS. Adrian, kaS.; Arthur c.
Harris, Topeka, to Maud Rat1ey, Topeka.
Charles F. Rice, Topeka, to Ella Ramsey,
Topeka
Thirty band uniforms have arrived and
at the express office awaiting the
order of Prof. George Jackson They are
for the use of the TWenty-third regiment
band and cost 500. of which only 800
has been raised. As soon as the remainder
is secured the band uniforms will be
turned over to him.
F. Smith. Of Clyde, took the civil serv-
ice examination here this week. for Phil
ippine service Leroy Powell, who will
conduct the examinations for postonice
carriers and clerks, says that the list of