The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-19
SNAP SHOTS At HONE NEWS


Governor Stanley viii address the Ohio
association next month.
Mrs. Ella. Les and daughter left FRI
day afternoon for Los Angeles. Cal.
John Breidenthal has returned to To-
peka after closing the Wathena bank.
The editors convention viii wind UP
the month and the recent rush Of con-
ventions in Topeka
Business IS expected to boom at the
Topeka recruiting station as soon as the
! army bill becomes a law.
There has been a good advance sale
OF seats for Rupert Of Hentzau Mon
day night at the Crawford.
There We're two runaways on Kansas
avenue last evening near the Rock ISL
and depot. No one was hurt.
The Kansas eommendery Of the LIE
gion of Honor is preparing to hold a.
state banquet in Topeka some time
next month
The state reform school began storing
ice today. The crystal is taken from the
dam adjacent to the institution, and Is
seven inches thick.
The pupils Of Lane school viii give an
entertainment at Asbury chapel for the
benefit Of the school picture fund. on
Friday evening, January %.
ssBobbie' Burns birthday will be duly
and affectionately celebrated by the To-
peka Scottish society on the evening of
January Is. It is the land anniver-
sary-
Is there anything significant in the
fact that the state editors follow the
cold-waterites' convention with their
own2 But then a miss is as good as a
mile
The state coal oil inspector has con-
suited with Professor HawortI. of Law
renee, as an expert, in reference to State
Auditor Coles proposed law to have
coal oil tested for its general quality as
well as the fire test.
Six notherIess children with a father
who will not part with them. but can
not get means to make them comfort
able, are reported to be in most desti-
tute circumstances on the Tenth street
road, seven miles west of town.
"Old Bohemia gets blamed for a good
many things. Every Elk that stays out
late nights just now can tell his family
that he has been practicing. This is
not saying anything about the cast,
which is practicing hard for the coming
show.
Word having gone out of the eIoquence
Of Kansas new senator-elects Mr. Bur
ton is in demand for speeches in New
York, Indianapolis, Little Rock and
Lincoln, Neb. He has accepted one fn-
cipal speaker at Lincoin's birthday an
niversary.
The hearing OF a bootlegging case be-
fore the United States district attorney
today brings to mind that there is such
thing It was supposed that this
primitive dodge had become obsolete in
the twentieth century. before evasion
of the prohibitory law had become
fine art in Topeka
The following young ladies will take
part IN the Elks' "A Night in Bohemia .
at the Grand opera house, February /
and 2: Essie Chamberlain, Lillian
Foster, Gala CuttelI, Edna Crane,
Glenna Cross, yirgie Mu1vane, Jeanette
Lord Hazel F'assler, Bessie Hayden,
Kate Clough, Bessie Stewart, Beatrice
Foster, and Miss Nye.
Professor Jackson's Twenty-third
regiment band is willing and ready to
enlist in the regular army as musicians.
They are hoping that a colored infantry
regiment will be recruited among the
number to be authorized in the army
bill Recruiting Sergeant Sorerson will
take up the proposition in a minute II
it is made possible, as it would be quite
a recruiting feat to enlist a whole band
at one stroke.