The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-12
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.
Tt is tax-paying time again.

night
Harry Cohn has returned from visit
in Rossville.
One of the sure signs of winter is the
Shut the Door, sign.
The asphalt repairing on West Eighth
avenue has been completed.
C. H. Hubbell of the Rock Island is in
Chicago to assist in arranging a new
time card.
Isaac a. Rigby, Concordia attorney
and Republican politician, is in To-
peka today.
R. S. Brigham, manager of the Mid
winter exposition, will return Wednes-
day morning.
Mayor Hughes and City Physician
Judd visited the new desiccating works
this morning.
Twenty-three of the ten convicts still
at large were located at various parts
of the state today.
E. C. Strickland, disciplinarian at the
Haskell institute, Lawrence, visited in
Topeka yesterday.
The r. A. A. billiard tournament has
been forgotten since the border ruffian
days begun again.
Mr. and Mrs. John Barnett of Moberly.
Mo-, are visiting at the home of Mrs
M. L. McNeely. 225 Adams street
H H. Embry, general freight agent of
the Rock Island is in Chicago and j. j.
Schubert assistant is in st. Louis.
at Vernon, Tex, looking after large
ranch interests which he has there.
One of the hardest books to get at
the city library is 'sPudd' nhead Will
SON." 1t is in constant circulation.
Past Grand Master John A. Bright of
the I. o. o. F. has gone to Texas and
the Indian Territory to be gone week
Miss Mabel LIE Porte Diggs of Topeka
has received large number of votes
in a contest for a $3.50 piano at Kansas
City.
Rev. j. M. Whitehead is at Union
dale, Clay county, to assist Rev. Mr..
Ericsson in series of revival meet
ings-
The chief topic of debate in the
Cremerie Forum at present is, Were
Sheriff Cook and Chief Stahl justified IN
escaping ?"
A. K. Rodgers was in Kansas City
Monday attending meer1ng of the au-
diting committee of the Ancient Order
of Pyramids.
Senator Burton's apartments in
Washington are in the Edwards flats,
adjoining the Shoreham hotel. on Fiji
tenth street
AS soon as cool weather comes on To-
peka has the smoke nuisance. rms
morning the air was so thick it was
almost sitting.
James Stewart is the coach of the
Medic football team and their work in
dicateS that he knows a thing or TWO
about coaching.
Charles r. Wood, secretary of the
Missouri and Kansas Hotel Keepers
association, was in Kansas City yester-
day on business.
One Topeka man who claims to keep
up with the times didn't find out there
was an election last week until four
days afterwards.
The new machine at the Wolff Pack
ing company's plant which will increase
the capacity 20 tons of ice a day is be-
ing put in position
The second annual meeting of the
Kansas Association of Charities and
Corrections begins Thursday evening
in Representative hall.
1t took twelve different addresses in
seven different languages to welcome
Bishop Won Scheele to the Bethany jU-
bilee at Lindsborg Sunday.
The hardware men were busy selling
ammunition yesterday that was guar
anteed to be fresh and not been kept in
cold storage for a year or more.
w. W. Martin formerly department
commander of the G. A. r., but now
treasurer of the Leavenworth soldiers
home, is over from Leavenworth.
The owners of the Thompson crema-
tory are said to be trying to sell their
building and crematory outfit to a Gre
matory company in some other town.
Mrs. L. J. Chapman filed suit for di-
vorce in the district court Monday af-
ternoon from her husband, ]. S. Chap
This evening the Y. P. S. c. E. of the
Third Presbyterian church will hold a
business meeting at the home of Miss
Anna Slusher. 734 East Eighth street.
The Denver Wheel club football team
defeated the Leadville team Saturday
by a score of IT to o. The D. w. c. won
the game from .Washburn by forfeit
ture.
Grass fed beef on the market has
resulted in lowering the price of beef
a few cents It will rebound again as
soon as corn fed beef is put on the
market.
A class in extemporaneous debating
under the instruction of Prof. Cart
wright of Washburn college will be or
ganized at the Y. M. c. A. rooms this
evening at 80
Will the city or the county now have
to bear the expense of a court of in
quiry a la Schley to find out whether
Cook or Stahl had cold feet in the
face of danger.
The Women's Missionary society of
Westminster Presbyterian church will
meet Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 with
Mrs. ]. r. Silver, corner Sixteenth and
College avenues.
Warden Jewett came over from the
into the state treasury 81, S01-5S. the
earnings of the penitentiary for the
month of October.
The G. A r. council of administra-
ton VIII meet tomorrow IOr the puf-
pose of smoothing out the difficulties
between Department Commander Nor
ton and other members
United States Senator Harris will be
the principal speaker at the dinner of
the Kansas City Knife and Fork club
next Thursday evening. He will speak
on The Isthmian Canal.
Warden McClaughry at the Leay-
enworth federal prison seems to bear
the same relation to the capture of the
ESCAPED cOnyictS that Admiral Sampson
did to the Battle of Santiago.
Most of the doors to private offices
in the state house bear the one word,
Private but the door to Frank