The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-19
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS

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G. W. Lewis was in Kansas City yes
Dean J. W. Sykes was in Kansas City
yesterday.
The Rock Island freight depot will soon
be completed.
The sidewalk graders are working on
the west side.
The asphalt PAYERS are working at
Tenth and kansas avenue
The pension office ball team viii play
the Y NJ c. A tomorrow.
The dust in some of the city streets is
becoming almost unbearable-
Miss Mary A. Lawrence, a returned mis-
sionary, is visiting in Topeka
The watermelon season VIII probably be
a short one in Kansas this year
G. J. Brown was in Kansas City yester-
day from his home at Blue Rapids.
The West Sixth avenue cedar block
pavement is gradually growing worse
D. W. Little, assistant superintendent OF
public instruction has returned to To-
peka,
Roland Perkins Of Manhattan was
brought to Christ hospital today for an
operation.
Marshalrs band. will give a concert at
well sprinlxled.
More bets have been won and lost on
the bucket shops.
Richard Allen win go to Fl Reno To-
99ight to g., register for chance IN Uncle
The Twenty Regiment band will go
to Ottawa on August and furnish music
for the emancipation celebration.
The PAYERS are now working on Buchan>
between Fourth and Fifth streets.
The new pavement on Fifteenth street,
between College avenue and Dillon
streets. is torn up by the water COM
pany.
Mrs. J. L Gilbert, whose husband died
this week at Granville, denies the report
that he was addicted to the use Of NOR
phine.
There is no green corn on the market
and the question now is: Win the Potta-
watomie Indians have their annual green
corn dancer
The jumbo roller. has Just completed the
work OF packing the earth Tor the paving
of Tyler street from Sixth avenue TO
Fifth street.
Gov. Stanley is preparing to make a
tour of the fairs, reunions and assemblies
over the state during the next two months
to make speeches.
There is little left of the old Sterne
building at Tenth avenue and Jackson
street which is on the site of the proposed
state house heating plant.
freight Office &c of the er Rock Island here
will go tonight to Oklahoma TO register
for the drawing of government land.
The seven men who compose the city
weed gang We're let out yesterday Street
Commissioner Snyder says that the weeds
have all been killed by the hot weather
City Engineer McCabe thinks that it
rots the asphalt pavement to sprinkle it.
Better let it rot and then get some pave
ment that is suitab BILE for business streets.
Miss Minnie Johnson Of Topeka is lee
turing in Kansas. At Abil enc this week
she gave two lectures, Character Build
ing and What is the Matter with Kan
sas''
Charles H. Warner, the negro arrested
for completely in the Davis assault in
Kansas City, has been released by the To-
peka police. He was not one Of the men
wanted.
The custodian of the Rock Island de-
pot is experiencing some difficulty in get
ting the grass in the park west of the
depot to grow since the Oklahoma. home
seekers used it for sleeping ground
A man who stopped off in Topeka on his
way to Ell Reno to register was robbed
of a gold watch, his money and his rail-
way ticket last Tuesday night. The rob-
bing was done by woman who invited
the stranger to take a walk with her.
They drank some beer together and the
rest was easy for the woman The man
told his troubles to the police The wO~
man went to FL Reno on The stolen ticket.