The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-18
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS.

| Henry Allen, OF ottawa, was IN 10
| peka yesterday.
"A Runaway Girl' will be at the
| Crawford tonight
| J. L. King is expected to return from
| New Mexico tomorrow.
Special Land Agent A. H. Burtis, of
Garden City, is in Topeka today.
James Hayes has just imported a
shipment of palms from Belgium.
| Spaces for carriages at the football
game tom orrow will cost ten cents.
Marshal Sterne has returned from
| Leavenworth where he was attending
the federal court.
James Reeder of Hays City called
| upon Governor Stanley yesterday on
| political business.
/ Gus Suns minstrels will be at the
Crawford for matinee and night per-
| Torrance tomorrow.
Peaches are about off the market
! They have given way to an abundance
| of grapes and pears.
The Topeka High school will go to
| Lawrence Saturday for a game with
| the Lawrence High school.
Sheriff Daniels, of Cowley county,
was here yesterday, having brought a
| patient to the insane asylum.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Prescott sub
.poened over three hundred witnesses for
| the Leavenworth term of court.
| The G. A r. council of adminiStra-
| ton decided not to adopt the Warren
| Elliott case for testing the old soldiers
| preference law
Several fine shade trees had to come
down when the city brought the side
walk along the Grace cathedral prop
erty down to grade
Merchants and business men are
making preparations to decorate their
store fronts with the K. U. and Wash
burn colors tomorrow.
/ The Commercial club needs so men to
o0t ind oil of al inn 4f
| the special election called in the first
| four wards of the city.
The Fisher store lis East 9Th ST., has
been crowded all week with buyers tax
| ing advantage of the sale of the Mitch
| ell Bros. bankrupt stock.
| The taxpayers of the county saved
So 800 last year by paying up their taxes
promptly and getting advantage of the
| rebate allowed by law.
F. c. Green, formerly employed by the
| local r. G. Dun company. has taken the
clerkship in the Missouri Pacific Office
| vacated by Ernest Tomlinson.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. Booth, of Pueblo
| Colo, are the parents of son, born
| Thursday. Mr.. Booth is the son of Mr..
| and Mrs. James Booth, of Potwin.
State Mine Inspector Edward Keegan
says he will begin proceedings in the
| Cherokee county court against the Nor
| ton Coal company for violation of the
screen law.
| c. c. Baker has returned from trip
| in the east where he visited his wife
| and daughter. His daughter will re-
main in New York this winter to study
| vocal music.
| Work on the construction of the new
| Missouri Pacific track to the Parkhurst-
4 Davis building has been begun 1t is
| to be used jointly by that company and
| the Rock Island.
| c. D. Blake and F. c. Roberts, stud
| ents of the Kansas Medical college. are
| to be in charge of the free dispensary
| which several Topeka doctors are es-
tablishing at 1zs Kansas avenue.
The dedicatory services al the unveil-
| ing of the tablet to mark the site of the
| first house in Topeka will take place at
| the Mulvane building at First and KAN
| sas avenue Saturday at o'clock
If you hear "R-o-c-k-c-h-a- l-k-J-a-y-
| Hawk on the air tomorrow, don't be
frightened. 1t will just be those var
sity men from Lawrence here root
ing for the K. U. football team.
George B. Harrison, until recently
| railroad reporter for the Herald. went
| to Kansas City Thursday. Thence he will
| probably go east to take an excellent
| position with the Cincinnati Packer.
| MarshalPs band has decided to give
| Sunday afternoon concerts at Craw
| ford's Opera House and charge an ad-
mission of 10 cents. The first concert
will be on Sunday afternoon, October
| 81
Albert T. Reid's march Guardians of
Liberty was played at the reception
| and dance at the Steinberg hall last
night The orchestral Interpretation of
| the piece is very good and the music IS
| sure to be popular.
| NJ J. Wells, locating engineer for the
Santa Fe, has applied to the free en-
| ployment agency for eight men. They
/ are wanted for a Santa Fe surveying
| party in New Mexico. Part of the order
| has been filed, but there are still few
| vacant places.
| Richard Shakeshaft, of the Santa Fe
| passenger department, has gone away
| for a two weeks vacation. All that is
| known about his whereabouts is that
| he has gone to some place where he can
| fish. During part of his vacation he will
| be on his 300 acre ranch near Industry,
| Kan.
| The state military board has divided
| the state into two regimental districts.
| The first district includes and lies east
| of the counties of Marshall, Riley, Wa
| baunSee, Usage, Coffey, Greenwood, Elk
| and Chautauqua. Territory west Of
| those counties comprise the second
| district.
| The Kansas university color is GRIM
| son, the Washburn color is blue. Dis
| play some colors tomorrow and give To-
| pel<a the air of a wide-awake college
| town. Tt will make the sons of old
Ichabod Washburn feel better in their
hour of victory defeat tomorrow IN
| the game with the varsity eleven from
| Lawrence.
| If you want to feel like college man,
| one of the real kind who smokes a
| bulldog brier and waves a flag. or if
you wish to act the college girl who
| clasps her hands and ruins new pair
| of gloves and wins box of them at
every football game, stand up at the ex-
| citing moments in tomorrow'S football
| game and shout "Rahi rahi rahi rahi