The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-02
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS
Last night was the worst OF the year.

\ Last night was the worst OF the year.
| Yesterdays snow was the twelfth that
has fallen here this season
Representative T. II. Durham of Lin
coin is here attending supreme court
Tenants who wanted to move yesterday
had the sorriest kind Of an April fool.
Prospects are at present very hatter>
ing for an enormous wheat crop IN kan,
John Mcclure a railroad and municipal
contractor, visited City Engineer Wise
yesterday
John B. Marshall is troubled with rheu-
matfsTn- He had to be seated while he
led the band Sunday
DR. Sarah NJ. Kline received word yes
terday Of the death OF her uncle James
Blodgett Of Chicago
City Engineer Wise is an inventor. He
has a patent curbing and a new eaten
basin for the sewers.
There will be nothing at the opera. houses
until next Saturday. when Town Topics
viii be at the Crawford
The Young Peoples societies Will hold
sunrise prayer meeting next Sunday morn
Judge A H. Horton. who has been
spending the winter in Florida for his
health has returned home.
The. snow has been removed from the
State house steps in a. place directly facing
the doors, about six feet wide
The new rooms in the federal building
to be used by the stamp and money order
departments are nearing completion.
II. q. Nudge. general manager of the
Santa Fe, returned from St. Joseph: No.
yesterday afternoon by a special train
There are a good many colds today be-
longing to people who waded in the half
melted snow to hear the Marine Dand-
The Total Abstinence society is growing.
Last week the pledges OF over a hundred
children were taken in the city of Topeka
Judge Hook held an adjourned session of
the United States circuit court here yes
terday afternoon No cases of Importance
The Auditorium has again proved a
blessing to the city. If We had no Aud
itorium we would not have heard the Ma
some Of the people who came in from
other towns yesterday evening failed o
attend the band concert because they
could not get seats
Under Sheriff Hal Williams took a hot
bath Sunday. He was overcome BY the
physician revive him.
Miss Smith, at 2l3 Paramore street. has
city hospital. Her sister was released
from quarantine yesterda.f-
DR.. A. H. Thompson returned home yes
lectured before the dental students of the
State University of Tennessee
Every hackman in the city earned a fare
last night and some of them four or five.
Next Sunday is Easter Sunday.
The street car service was not adequate
to handle the crowds last night. Each car
was laden TO the very edge Of the steps
The street railway snow pillow was kept
noon and evening to prevent a blockade
of the ears after the performance at the
Because damned street cars ran by and
left people standing the corners IN
the SQDurDS not nalL the audience Lldl
saw Nathan Hale" was in the house
when the curtain rang up
Policeman Steffy has been dropped from
the force He was put on when Chief
Stahl first took charge to get evidence
against joints and was afterward trans
ferred to the regular force
People walked from the suburbs through
the slush to hear the Marine band last
night The street car company, had no
extra cars out to bring the people down.
town and they either had to awlk or stay
at home.
The senior students of the Topeka High
school are learning the various parts to a
little play which will have its first pre-
sentatiOn in this city at the High School
Assembly hall sometime about three weeks
distant.
Representative c. F. Biddle will leave
tomorrow for his home in Coldwater re-
turning later in the month for the or
ganization meeting Of the tax revision
commission
The suit of the Insurance Trust and
Agency company of London against the
Western Farm Mortgage Trust company,
to recover from the several stockholders
ST. $40 for money loaned, has been carried
into the supreme court on an appeal from
Douglas county.