The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-09
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


E. F. Caldwell of Lawrence is here
today.
w. o. Nevill is spending week at
Davenport, Iowa.
Frank Long has been in St Louis
since Saturday on business.
c. H Hubbell, superintendent of the
Rock Island is in Kansas City.
The Topeka Commercial club will
meet tonight to talk state fair.
H J. Jarvis has returned to his home
in Holton after a brief visit here
Joe Morgan of the Excelsior Coke &
Gas Co. is visiting in Connecticut
Burt Burr, rural route inspector, is
working in Wilson county this week.
No swindling scheme has been uncov-
cred in Topeka during the past week
H u Nudge is out west in his Spe-
cial car. He will be back Saturday.
James Ryan, a Dodge City letter car
rier, visited the Topeka postoffice Tues
day.
r. H.. Fogel is experimenting the
building of a paper mill at Oconto fans'
Wis.
James NJ. Turner, real estate agent
from Arkansas City, is visiting in To-
peka-
John Fox, Rock Island live stock
agent at Kansas City, was here Mon
day.
f. w. Caldwell and c. A Rutherford
day.
VIII Anderson has taken a position at
Parkhurst & Davis wholesale grocery
house.
Hotels and eating houses have been
doing a land office business for the last
two days
o. P. Byers, commercial agent of the
Rock Island at Hutchinson, returned
home today.
Lodge 3S1 of the A. o. U. w. gave
HsTIaC G.
day evening.
Mehl and Thompson may be back on
the Washburn football eleven before the
week is over
William Fisher is one of the leading
Holton Odd Fellows attending the grand
lodge meeting.
Among the delegates to the Odd Eel
lows convention here this week there
| are many odd fellows.
For the benefit of the smokers says
G. c. Clemens, I'D like to see a street
car that is all rear platform"
May Barnes filed a motion in the dis
| triet court yesterday to revive her SUI
| of $500 against the Sells estate
Judge w. c. Hook has returned home
| after sitting here to listen to the argu-
ments in the Topeka gas rate case.
A. Ryan. a letter carrier from the
| postoffice at Dodge City, Iowa, was a
| visitor at the Topeka postoftice Mon
| day.
r. w. Day, formerly division engineer
of the Rock Island at Topeka, but now
| assistant chief engineer at Chicago, II
here
| Today is pay day at the city hall
| The usual crowd of creditors is swarm
| ing about in the city clerks Office get
| ting their checks
| Supreme Court Judge A H. Ellis l.
convalescent from his recent illness
| and has gone to his nome at beAol
| from Kansas City.
| The Modoc club will sing 1.-The Steii
| Song before the school teachers at tn
| annual convention of the teachers or TN
| state here in December
]. ]. Harlow, who runs Mort Al
baughs paper, the Kingman Leader
Courier, is in Topeka attending the
I. o. o. F. grand lodge
The police were greatly amused yes
terday by a. drunk who wept copiousi'
| and wanted to go home to NAV. IN
police are easily amused
Atchison Globe: Joe Waters, OF TO
peka, is in town. He is one of the at
| torneys for Tom Lloyd in his big dam
age case against the Santa Fe
Bert Hill. of the state printing office
has Joined the Washburn college or
chestra and will play at all the colleg
entertainments during the winter
D. O. McCray says that people L
| western Kansas are writing to him, a
state immigration agent, asking aoou
the prices of eastern Kansas farms.
Will White is on the programme G
the State Teachers association in de
cenber He will talk about THE Coun
try Newspaper and the Country School
The total amount of the reward nov
Il offered for the capture of the asSaSsl
| of Detective Montgomery is 81, 800 IN
state and county offer $3.50 each and tn
| Santa Fe 81 ,000
Since T. Buttolph Jennings, weathe
| prophet and prognoSticator, has cease
| to issue his weekly climate and crop re
port he is gayly singing Since the har
| vest days are over.
| A German family, consisting OF
man. his wife and their baby, are BEN
taken care of by the police. They al
rived in Topeka without money 1e'
days ago from Nebraska The man
trying to get job
The reason that Haskell has so niue
the best of K u. in football this yea
| is said to be because the Merchant
: | Athletic association of Lawrence Ia
transferred its financial support frol
K U. to Haskell.
w. l.. Brown. of Kingman, one of II
Populist leaders in the Seventh dl
J trict, and of whom it is whispered thu
, he has lOngings to return to the Reput
| lican ranks is here attending the "a
Fellows convention
1 NJ E. Younlxin, who has been collect
ing dogs and taxes, has taken up n
, regular job. firing the heating appara
US at the Auditorium He still catcn'
| a few dogs on the side.
, People who find it necessary to driN
! | through the state house grounds ST