The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-14
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS.

| SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.
Miss Russ, of Mcpherson, has been
given a place at the insane asylum.
| E. w. Thompson has gone to Old
Mexico He will be away about week
| Miss Lucena Nation has returned
| from Chicago where she has been visit
ing for two weeks.
The Slayton Woman's Symphony or
| cheStra drew a very small audience at
| the Crawford last night
Sheriff Mikels. of Morris county. has
gone home after bringing Frank
| Thompson as far as Topeka.
Thompson. the Washburn college
football player, has left the school and
returned to his home in Beloit-
w. H. Firth, general passenger agent
of the Rock Island at Denver, visited at
the general offices here yesterday.
The public would like to know who
is playing the leading part in THE
| Second in Command" Stahl or Cook
Booth space at the Kansas Midwinter
exposition sells for from $40 for Xxi
foot space to $50 for 10x16 foot space.
Louis Bennett, an employe in the
street department, is suffering from in
juries received by being under a fall
ing stone.
The state officers are rejoicing in the
prospect that heat from the new heat
ing plant may be turned on in a few
days.
G. w. Clark will give a free illustrat-
ed lecture at Topeka lodge, No. II. A o.
U. w, Friday night, on Great Things
in America
Judge A. H. Ellis, of the supreme
court, has suffered a relapse at his
home in Beloit and is again said to be
in a serious condition.
The Christian Science lecture by E. A.
Kimball which was to have been given
next Sunday afternoon at the Crawford
opera house has been postponed.
for doh hot
if there had been a key of beer in the
house with the convictS, Chief Stahl
would have taken it at all hazards"
The smoke in Topeka in the early
mornings and evenings these days re-
mind one of Kansas City, where it is
sometimes impossible to get a breath
of fresh air.
Henry Smith filed suit in the district
court Wednesday afternoon against the
Union Pacific railroad for $1,000 dam
ages, for injuries received by being. run
into by a freight train
a confirmed Topeka bachelor con-
tributes the following: Bigger and
uglier than ever is the impression
which the produced by the new winter
styles of wOmen'S hats.
Fire destroyed the switch light shanty
in the Rock Island yards last night
The damages will probably aggregate
500 1t is supposed the fire originated
from a spark from an engine.
Prof A D. Wilcox, field lecturer of
the State Temperance union, is hav-
ing Mr. Sheldon's who Killed Joes
Baby?' illustrated for the purpose of
using with his stereopticon. George M.
Stone and John Strickrott are doing the
work.
Owing to change in plans. the up
town office of the Topeka Desiccating
company will be in charge of W. L.
Osborne, not of Frank Zingheim, the
president of the company. Mr. ling
he r.11
Dan Anthony, Jr., was over from
Leavenworth yesterday afternoon, and
suggested to Governor Stanley that the
Republicans of his county would like
to see Sheriff Everhardy, of Leaven-
worth ousted at once and q Republican
named in his place.
Charlie Sessions is responsible for the
statement that the first thing Sheriff
Cook did after being released by the
convicts was to send check to the
ransom fund for Miss Stone, in order to
show his appreciation of the situation
she is in.
The Rev DR.. E. P. Dunlap of Siam,
who is well and favorably known by
many in Topeka, is spending the day
with Mrs. CIeland and Mrs Cook, S19
Quincy street. The doctor will speak
this evening at the First Presbyterian
church The public is cordially invited
to be present
Labor Commissioner johnson sue
the coopers' strike in Kansas City The
men are to receive SO a day during the
busy season and 81. so a day the rest of
the time. They have been striking since
last August for So a day the year
around.
The Postal Telegraph company has
yielded to the demand of the city that
it put up a $4,000 indemnity bond to
protect the city against damage suits
arising because of excavations made in
the streets by the telegraph company
For a time the company baked at this
requirement.
Edwin A. Munger, formerly a Topeka
man and now attorley in Chicago,
is president of the Hamilton club, the
largest political organization west OF
New York city. Recently he went to
Albuquerque, N. M, and delivered a
speech in favor of the admission of that
territory as a state.
There are about II cases of disease
being treated from the new free dis
pensary, which the city council sup
ports to the extent of $25 a month.
Part of the patients pay small fees, to
partially cover the cost of the medi-
cines which they receive.
A policeman who stood on the depot
platform yesterday and saw the cap
tured convicts on the train shackled,
handcuned, wounded and guarded by
half a dozen armed men, said II would
like to have seen them yesterday" He
saw them Sunday out near Pauline, but
the trouble was they saw him first
The Chicago Tribune says: In 1875
Fred Wellhouse, the Kansas apple
king, was wage Garner. He had
practical knowledge of orchards, how
ever. and began a small scale to raise
fruit Now he has 1.240 acres of or
estimated at $1,000 bushels
II Johnson of So 1ara