The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-27

$40 in taxes on land purchased by the
county at delinquent tax sale
Charles L Seagraves, travelling pas
senger agent for the Santa Fe, has gone
ia FEES immigration schemes.
N s. Johnson, proprietor of the Hotel
Florida on Cottage avenue, Chicago, is
here for visit with his sister. Mrs. G.
w Closson of s01 Monroe street.
Ed F. Grote has sold the old thinner
man meat market, at III Kansas ave
nue., which he purchased few weeks
ago, to the Davis Mercantile company
The man who catches the Modocs
creased pig at the Labor day picnic
gets the porlxer for a prize. Mayor
Hughes has not yet agreed to COM
pete
Since the old Salvation Army hospital
mas been turned into a residence the
neighborhood of Sixth avenue and
Buchanan street looks SO per cent bet
ter.
James Naylor says the report that
his son Oscar died of tuberculosis while
en- route home on a government trans
port is not true. He says that he died
of dysentery.
An experienced fg-greaser can OBJ
tain a contract by applying to the
ModOc club. One who can try the lard
out of the hog to do the sticking with
Will have the preference
A man named George Bayless was
hOrseWhipped by a woman in Kansas
City yesterday. The victim was
relation to the George Bayless who pre-
sides over the Topeka telephone sys-
tenn.
l.. s. Dolman. formerly probate
judge in Shawnee county, will probably
be one of the commissioners from
Lawton to Washington to ask for $780,
600 bonds to be voted for city water
works.
Workmen began digging the fve-foot
trench for the heat-pipes and wire con-
Quits across the state house lawn to-
day. AL Mooney expects the work to be
done in fifteen days.
DR. f. Trachsell, formerly of Merideu,
has located in Denver. Mrs Trachsell
and children will be guests of her
brother, J. M. Holt of Topeka, until
next week when they will go to Denver.
The Crosby auto delivery wagon,
which has been out of use for several
months has again made its appearance
on the streets. This makes the sixth
auto in Topeka at present, and there
will be others.
Representative Jam es Lawrence, of
Sumner, was up today for a look into
the state library and the governors
Office to c1inch his promised appoint
ment as judge Of the Nineteenth dis
trict.
Street Commissioner Frank Snyder
is waiting for the arrival of the second
car of lum Der before commencing the re
pairs TO be made on the Shunganungd
bridge. One car of lumber is now
standing in the Santa Fe yards.
City Engineer McCabe says that it
will cost $1,000 to pave the south APP
proach to the Kansas avenue bridge,
1t is likely that the city will have to
pay the entire bill.
Mayor Hughes is engaged in tabu-
lating the replies received to his letter
sent out in search of information about
gas rates. Out of eighty towns to
which inquiries We're sent, about fifty
have replied.
A telephone message Monday after
noon called a policeman to South To-
peka to take charge of d lost child 1t
was Policeman Abe Henderson's little
girl, who had been visiting and for
gotten her way nome.
Senator Burton will be the top-liner
at the forthcoming smoker of the Mis-
souri, Republican club in Kansas City,
September II. All others but the SEN
ator must bar politics is the rule laid
down for the speakers.
Warren Harper, for the past two
years a student at Washburn college.
left Monday night for his home in Bur
hngame. He intends starting a chicken
ranch at that place and viii not return
to school for some time
DR.. J. H Maintz, representative
from Washington county, is in Topeka
DR. Maintz, as chairman OF the COM
mfttee on hygiene and public health,
carried the medical law through. He
is progressing SO well with the regis
tration.
The construction of a new steel
bridge across the Shunganunga a mile
west of Tecumseh was begun Monday.
the material having arrived Saturday
The structure will be about go feet long.
and will be especially appreciated by
the people living in that locality.
If the police department would exer-
else half the vigilance in enforcing the
ordinance against throwing glass upon
the pavement that they do in catching
people who ride on the sidewalks they
would be a whole lot more popular with
the bicycle riding portion of the popu-
lation.
Jesse Elliott broke all fishing records
at Lake View Monday by catching a
black bass weighing pounds. 1t is be-
HeYed to be the biggest bass ever
caught in Kansas. The fish was land
ed with difficulty by the aid of Harry
Secrecy. Mr.. Elliott VIII have the fish
mounted.
w. A L Johnson. state labor COM