The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16
SNAP SHOTS ATHOMEN NEWS.


Lit Crum came up from Oswego yes
terday.
Patent medicine business is NOW be-
| coming brisk.
| Councilman Joseph Griley is visiting
| at ST. Louis
Prof. l.. E. Sayre of the state uni
verslty was in town Friday.
| Col. J. H Harrison has returned from
| a business trip in the east
Hay is selling at $40 and $12 per ton,
| twice what it was year ago.
The Ellks received the returns of the
nght last night over private wire.
The Caldwell Lumber company of
| Caldwell, Kan, has been chartered with
| capital of 100000
Beautiful water colors, the work of
Miss Crosby. are on display in the art
| room at Kellam's.
There will be a special melting of
| Oriental Lodge of Perfection No. 8 at the
| Masonic building Monday.
| The High school basket ball team last
| night defeated the Colonies, at the Y M.
| C. A, by the score of 81 to IS.
State Auditor Cole has registered $34,-
| 600 internal Improvement bonds of Kan
sas City, Kan, to pay for paving work
w A. S. Bird will make an address
| at the Seventh district convention of
| the knights of Pythias at Sterling next
| Monday.
DR.. P. w. Crannell will address the
| Y NJ c. A sunday afternoon at 4
o'clock His subject will be "A Mock
| ing Dream
| DR.. j. II. Mcfarland delivered an adj
dress Friday afternoon before the
Douglas County Sunday school conven-
| ton at Lawrence.
Mr. and Mrs. Vermillion of Atchison
will arrive in Topeka shortly to remain
here. Mr. Vermillion is to take position
with the Santa F'e.
United States Senator Harris spoke
before the Knife and Fork club in Kan
saS City last evening, and left immed-
lately for Washington.
Senator Allen, of Doniphan county,
came to Topeka Friday bringing with
him crop of whiskers. His friends
hardly recognized him.
The space between the rails of the
Vinewood railway track on East Ninth
street is filled with dirt while the re-
mainder of the street is paved.
Mayor Hughes has ordered that all the
drinking fountains in town be shut off.
The weather is getting so cold there is
danger of the pipes freezing up
The Salina lodge of the National Aid
has voted to stand together until they
investigate the benefits offered by the
Bankers Union and other orders.
Two original drawings and part of the
original manuscript of William Allen
Whites 'Strategems and Spoils'' are on
exhibition in downtown book store.
There is a quarter section of land in
Trego county for sale for alfalfa rails
ing for $68-27 an acre. Inquire of the
president of the Topeka Millionaires
club.
The people who came all the way from
Coffeyville to protest against the Dali
ton parole We're rather chagrined that
they did not get chance to say any
thing.
Alonzo Wardall has dropped his in
junction suit to prevent the Bankers
Union from absorbing the National
Aid. He will fight the case in the lodge
rooms.
Mrs. George G. White, mother of
Frank Stevens, slipped and fell Thurs
day afternoon at her home, 1905 East
Sixth avenue, and dislocated her
shoulder.
The Topeka men who formerly went
to Jackson's Hole hunting every winter
will not go this year, as the license mas
been raised, and the hunters don't feel
that they can see it.
1t was week tomorrow that Sheriff
Cook Topped the loop at Pauline and
ran in front of Chief Stahls guns SO
turret to good advantage.
There is man by the name of Steel
in the Washburn football rush line. If
Steel should lose his temper, it would be
easy for the other team to make holes
through him. wouldn't it?
Next Monday evening at eight o'clock
the first winter tournament of the To-
peka Whist club will open and from
twenty-four to thirty teams will be en-
tered. 1t is important that all players
be present.
The Union Pacific freight trains con-
tinue to block street crossings in North
Topeka. There is a suspicion that the
railway wants the city to arrest some of
it's trainmen and make a test case in
the hope of knocking out the ordinance
against blocking crossings.
The Lawrence Journal says: WORD