The Topeka state journal., 1901-04-26
SNAP SHOTS AT HONE NEWS

paired.
It cost s2o275.52 to run the police depart
The cost Of the city electric light plant
last year was $19 9295.
Senator ra5e9. F. N y: sponable. Of Gardner. was
IN Iopela Thursday.
It cost s.. 416 to board the prisoners at
the city jail last year.
w J. Fitzgerald, Of Dodge CITY. was in
/ topeka Thursday and today
George w. Martin secretary Of the his
torlcai society, is in Kansas City today.
WaShburn and Baker university will
park. pssIl %" SATURDAY at the "ashDurn ball
Mrs F; r symmes, of Branner street.
eases.
Rev. Charles M. sheldons four-year-old
% %ehlld. Miriam. is seriously i'll with catar-
at the Walnut Grove NJ. z. church Sun
number is 566.
Roderielz Macdonald will assist his
School Journal
Albini. the magician. who claims to
| Crawford all next week.
ra5iresa e; g, Sinner, stenOgrapher to the state
| Westmoreland yesterday.
Miss Gertrude Stewart, Of Nashville,
Tenn, arrived this week to visit her par
ents at 1l6 Monroe street.
State Supt- Frank Nelson delivered the
eonm,encement address at the Chelsea
| school in Kansas City today
= -Gentry's animal show will be at Topeka,
! Thursday, May 2, afternoon and evening.
Fourteenth street near Kansas avenue.
City Clerk Squires says that $470 was
4 spent by the police for secret service men.
That means spotters' salaries for a year.
Governor Stanley yesterday appointed
nissary Of the First regiment, Kansas
National Guard
Sam Keevap sat down On opa ,oin+ of
q 1Ihree.pointed scraRIng tool yesterday at
Whit WhittelSer Bros. Three stitches were
Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ Mcfarland saw the
/ opening of the National baseball league
one Of the three games.
Prof George e. Penny of the state uni
versity, viii select the singers for the solo
hail. go Kansas avenue, tonight.
IA 4 large party Of Seventh Day Advent
Mich where they have been attending
the annual meeting Of the church.
The Rev. Mr.. Allen, of the Walnut
versary address ss' h before the T Philips
county Odd Fellows today. at I1irwin
A delegation Of Topeka odd Fellows
went to kansas City this morning to
take part in the eighty-second anniver-
sary Of the establishment of the order.
This month Dog Catcher Nels A1cCon-
nell has already turned into the city
treasury Sl25 for taxes collected It hasn't
been such good month for dogs, either
"Coontown 400 will play a matinee to-
morrow afternon at Twelfth and Kansas
Is and 25 cents. A night performance will
also be given.
Auditor Coles investigation of school
bringing the deIinquents TO time, paying
up back interest and principal on school
land purchases
solo at the Marshall band concert at
the Auditorium Sunday He was winner
of the violin solo prize at the Hutchinson
jubilee 1893 and 1900
E W. Thompson, assistant general
passenger agent OF the Rock Island, has
continental Passenger association. held
last week at Delmonte. Cal
The force employed in the city engi-
neer's office IS busy making the plats for |
the paving on Clay street between Sec
between Harrison and Topeka avenue.
A great many Topeka people took ad- |
CITY The occasion % Of the s'G Rates vas 's the
ceiebratio1 Of, Of the eighty-.second ami |
The, sixteenth annual debate Of the |
Washburn college Gamma Sigma literary 4
Ioele9g e %ll Ds he1o SoR1gHt Ra ds 5ne col
Larimer and ". F. Schoch Will be the |
judges
The opening of the United Brethren |
church at Twelfth and Quincy streets, |
will be on Sunday Bishop ]. $. Mills, l
p. p. Ph. D.. Of Denver. Colo. VIII speak |
of McLouth at 7:30 p m.
Rev D. NJ Fisk, pastor of the First
church tonight. for the benent Of the pic |
ture fund of Buchanan school The sub |
ject is Material and Intellectual Glories /
of the Nineteenth Century"
a conditional pardon is asked for Albert |
Denham. serving twenty years for muir
der. He killed the wife of his former |
employer M. r. Wilcox. in Mcpherson |
county, with a bullet intended for Wilcox. |
1t is claimed that Wilcox had Denham /
disinherted of English fortune by |
slanderCuS letters sent to the old country. /
Chief Justice Doster is pressing the appl-
cation.
Ex-Governor Samuel J. Crawford re-
turned yesterday from Washington, ID. |
C. Mr.. Crawford has been there in the I
interests of parties who have large in
terests in Oklahoma and the Indian Ter
ator John NJ Thurston. OF Nebraska, as
attorneys in a large lawsuit over oil lands
in the Territory Mr. Crawford says the /
Kansas delegation in Washington is a
strong one. He will go to his farm on
Spring river, near Baxter Springs, for a
short stay
The Wakarusa and Berryton CORE
spOndents of the Mail and Breeze are in a
jangle. This is the way the Berryton
correspondent gets it back at Wakarusa:
4. sWilliamsport township needs a hail.
Wakarusa- With all due Difference to the
opinion. WilliamspOrt does not need a
hall If in the face of her own conven-
fence WakaruSa has closed her school
house against township meetings, a
meeting place can be found much more
convenient for the people by being nearer
the center of the township.