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


Sheriff Cook knows now how the Cud-
any boy felt.
Bishop Millspaugh preached at Sa-
lima yesterday.
The paving on Quincy from Eleventh
to Twelfth is completed
P. H. Hunter, of the Ell Paso Daily
News, is visiting in Topeka.
1t is one thing to capture convicts and
another to be captured by them.
Thomas Hiskey of the Wa-Keeney
land Office, is visiting in Topeka
w. H. Holsinger, postmaster at Cot
tonwood Falls, was in town today.
The Washburn football team re-
turned from Lindsborg Saturday after
noon.
tournament will be played off this
week
Carrie Nation is lost again. She
promised to do some more smashing be-
fore this time.
J. Ware Butterfield has found anoth-
er Trego county in the new country
around Lawton.
Major Anderson will go to Sabetha
this week to interest Sabetha people in
locating a tannery here.
d. A. Clements was up from Kansas
City yesterday. He is now employed
by a furnishing goods house.
The Topeka High school football team
will play the Ho1ton High school team
on the Washburn gridiron soon.
The Santa Fe is endeavoring to at
tract immigration out west, from Joliet,
ILL.,, and the suburbs of Chicago
]. z. Nissley has announced that ne
will give the newSbOyS their Thanks
giving dinner this year as usual
If the proposed Washburn college
sewer district is created it will be SO
arranged that one lateral of the sewer
will reach to the college buildings.
No effort was made in handling the
crowd at Saturdays football game and
the side line rule was not observed.
There was no calling of the motion
docket in the district court this morn
ing as Judge Hazen is duck hunting.
The Kansas Medic football team will
play a game with Washburn next Sat-
urday, and 1t ought to be a very close
game.
Fatty Clarke tore holes in the Dem
tai line big enough to drive an omni-
bus through in Saturdays football
game.
The newsboys will have a paper
printed for them to be sold on Thanks
giving. The proceeds will go to the
boys.
c. H. Coultes, a noted singing evan
gelist. will begin revival meeting at
the First Presbyterian church Novem-
Der II.
The De Boissiere Home case in the
supreme court has been continued to
the February term in order that Judge
Ellis may be present.
The only thing talked about on the
streets last night was the fight with
the convicts at Pauline and their cap
ture of Sheriff Cook.
Governor Stanley spent Sunday at his
home in Wichita and is at Lindsborg
today, where he makes an address at
the Bethany celebration.
Ta stern Kansas u7of1erS have new
bugaboo for their children. Their
mothers tell them the convicts will get
them if they don't watch out
It is reported that large quantities of
apples are rotting on the ground in
orchards north of town. The price of
fruit is very cheap just now.
The Wilbur opera company sang
week in Topeka and left Saturday.
There may be worse aggregations, but
they have not been in Topeka
Some Topeka hunters are becoming
wary of strol1ing about the woods these
days. They are afraid they may them
selves be bagged by a convict or two.
The Tennesseetown free library and
reading room is kept open from 1880 to
10 o'clock each evening Visitors are
admitted any time during the evening
Mrs Mamie Bennett Harrison will go
to Kansas City the latter part of this
week to join her husband. Geo. B. Har-
rison, who is in newspaper work there.
The council committee on streets and
walks has promised to take up the
question of new street sweepers at their
next meeting. The two now on hand
are worn out.
Tucker unpired the high school foot
ball game Saturday and he is the first
official seen on a Topeka gridiron this
season who could make himself heard
to the side lines.
There are going to be some class
games of football at Washburn. The
first and second year academy is getting
up a joint team to challenge any other
two classes in school.
A small audience listened to the con-
cert by MarshalPs band at the Craw-
ford opera house yesterday afternoon.
The band men are talking of abandon
ing the Sunday afternoon concert
scheme.
About 20 young people received the
rite of baptism at the morning service
at the First M E. church yesterday,
and about twice that number were re-
ceived into full memberships in the
church
1t may be that Warden McClaughry,
warden of the federal penitentiary, will
not be able to attend the State Assoc
citation of Charities and Corrections this
week Major McClaughry is busy catch
ing convicts this week.
q. r. Brockway, who delivers one of
the principal addresses before the Kan
sas Association of Charities and Cor
rections this week. is superintendent
of the noted Elmira reforma tory at
Elmira, New York