The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-19
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS

T. F. Doran is still confined to his room
suffering with erysipelas.
The ei99ployes Of tn. the wooien mill ut, took
The police force has a pet. It is q. tame
coyote and is kept chained in the jail
The plasterers of Topeka have organ
lzed a union The charter membership is
home
Art Long viii do his silent sugar bar
rel act at the Crawford Saturday in the
comic carnival.
Dr. D B. Eastman returned yesterday
from the meeting of the Medico Psyche
logical society at Milwaukee.
Miss Carrie Sheffield, who was burned
IN the gas explosion at the postoffice, is
now able to be at work again
A number of Topeka Elks are now pre-
pairing to attend the reunion and carnival
of the order at Milwaukee July . to Is.
The pension office base ball team viii
play the Santa Fe office team al the Low
man Hin grounds Thursday evening at
$50 o'clock
Eddie Mccormick. a boy living near the
corner Of Fourth and Madison streets.
Santa Fae depot yesterday
Deputy Marshall Prescott has gone to
Texas with l. l. Garten, man arrested
az Lawrence some days ago for sending
obscene letters through the mail.
The front entrance of the Warren NJ.
Crosby store is to be remodeled. Instead
of having two entrances, as at present.
there will be only one large entrance.
The Nye sisters. whose song and dance,
..I,aree, Paree,' was. one Of the hits of the
take part in the carnival at the Crawford
Saturday.
The following officers have been elected
First Baptist church: Precentor, Ida God
frey. organist. Mrs Walter Frazier; Illus
traitor J. W. Godfrey
People at Burlingame have written to
Topeka asking if the city has any paper
flowers left over from the flower parade
to SELL All the flowers have gone where
the woodbine twineth long ago
G. A -Hageman- proprietor of the Cros-
py hoJel az beaumonI, Tex; IS IN topeka.
the Copeland. He is now wealthy. hav-
ing struck a gusher and sold it for $4,000
There is a man in Topeka who. it is
claimed. has two children in orphans
home because of alleged non-ability to
support and who. at the same tiTne. spends
his evenings in the billiard halls of the
town
A $1,000 damage suit against the Santa
States court by Mrs. F. R. Bonsall. Mrs
BOnsall says that she was thrown from
crushed.
James E. Iarimer. commissioner of the
Parker-Hughes recount, has been called
the justice presiding over. the third divis-
recount started He is now called
Judge
the Capital Iron Works, is In Topeka He
is assistant chief engineer of the COnsoli-
dated Railway Electric Lighting and
Equipment company, with head quarters
in New York
Ferry Luther Piatt. for some time a
Washburn college student and for the
ty high school at Effingham. has been
elected principal of the Nortonville
schools for the ensuing year.
The Elks are getting in training for
their Fourth of July picnic to be held at
Will be a strictly Up to date affair with
hlgh ~1re hlgh Owe hign parachute
balls '-' 49, ~1-''''''-'S '''- 80 =
The state tax revision commission de-
cideG to stay all week 50 they have
viii probably be two state tax commits
sioners and county assessors elected for
four years after the style of the Indiana
An attempt is being made to put Lewis
c. Brown of Salem, Smith county. into
against him tuesday IN the United states
court by Ellet Bros. Shoe company and
the Sw0fford Dry Goods company of KAN
sas City. The amount Of the claim is ST.
Jerry Simpson told a Topeka friend that
the talk about his moving to Kansas city
bluff" on Congressman Cowherd that
Jerry would move into his district and
run against him. Jerry says: II am not
going to leave Kansas unless 1 take
notion to move down into the new Kiowa
country. but I won't -
Representative Charles Harris of EN-
poria IS in luck He took out q SO ac-
cldenI insurance pOlcg on coming 10 To-
peka last week The other day ne ran a
fish hook in his hand while down Cotton
wood fishing. 1t had to be cut out It
was a painful experience. but under the
circumstances Harris is satisfied.
The Topeka Coal company. located at
First and Jackson streets. win close up
1t has not paid. It was started by the
Home Riverside Mining company OF Leay-
enworth for the purpose Of handling
Leavenworth coal. A r. Hickerson. who
has been in charge of the Topeka office,
will accept a position with the Wear Coal
company.