The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-03
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS.

r. M duncan was IN McFnefSOn yes
terday.
Col J. H Richards is up from Fort
Scott today.
The Hall murder case is set for to-
morrow in the district court
Major w. w. Minnick of Wichita,
will inspect battery B of Topeka.
T. E. Dewey, supreme court reporter,
went down to Kansas City last night.
D. N. Burge, special agent for the
Santa F'e, was in Hutchinson yesterday.
F. NJ Burr. railway postoffice in
spector visited the Topeka office Mon
day
The PaoIa Lumber and Coal company
has been chartered, with a capital of
$4,000.
j. D. NJ. Hamilton, claims attorney for
the Santa Fe went to Chicago Monday
evening.
w. H. Clark, Grant Smith and Geo.
Hough, all of Ottawa, came to Topeka
Monday on business.
James Empey of Hutchinson died in
the Topeka asylum last week. He was
buried at Hutchinson.
f. H. Roberts, editor of the Oskaloosa
Independent and postm aster at that
point, was in Topeka Monday.
A proposition to add social features
to the Topeka Commercial club will be
considered at the next meeting.
a charter has been granted the Cen
fury Building company, of Fort Scott.
1t has a capital stock of $4,000.
Mrs. Nation dropped into Newton sud
denly Monday and held a meeting be-
fore the townspeople knew it.
A petition for a new trial of the New
Hope Primitive Baptist church in the
district court has been refused.
Get a supply of Midwinter stickers of
Manager Ralph. Brigham, and don't
forget to have then sent on every letter
sent away from Topeka
The Lyric Ladies at the Crawford
opera house last night drew a small au-
dience. The performance was not pre-
tentious, but fairly pleasing.
w. E. Winner has asked the county
commissioners Of Leavenworth county
for a franchise to build a Kansas City
and Topeka electric road through their
county.
E. D. Kenna, first vice resident and
general solicitor of the Santa Fe, Will
address the bar association of jackson
county, Missouri, at Kansas City next
Saturday night
George E. Lerrigo, secretary of the
local Y. M. c. A. read a paper before
the members of the Ministerial Union
Monday on the subject of How to
Reach the Young Men Who Are Not
Christians and Make Them So"
The family of P. w. Griggs, which
has been in quarantine for the past
month or so for an alleged case of
smallpox which the doctors dis
agreed, was released yesterday by Or
der of the board of health
The council last night voted to pay
the bill of $50 50 which was due to the
ladies of the Christian church for fur
nishing n eals to the city election judges
and clerks in the recent election. The
| county refused to pay the bill.
J. c. o. Morse, of Hutchinson, who is
| interested in the independent telephone
business, was in Topeka last night. He
| says an independent exchange will be
| established in Wichita in few months
and toll line built to Kansas City.
The Missouri and Kansas Telephone
| company will build other exchanges be-
/ sides that in Topeka. A site has been
| purchased in Lawrence, and the people
| there expect that $4,000 will be expend-
! ed in the building and improving the
| system.
Frank Kidman, 1s, who lives on the
| corner of st. John and Taylor streets in
| North Topeka, accidentally shot him
| self in the right foot with a 2 rifle
hunting when in some unknown man
ner the cartridge exploded, the bullet
| passing downward through his foot.
Last year the humane society in
| veStigated 147 cases, caused rs arrests
| and had nineteen horses condemned.
| Because the feed is so high priced this
| winter the society contemplates great
deal of work. The officers complain of a
| lack of cooperation on the part of the
| city and county officers.
Ed C. Gates, Arthur Hagan and City
| Attorney Hudson are up from Fort
Scott to attend the hearing of one of
|
| the supreme court. The hearing is
technically to get Mr.. Hagan out of JAIL
where he was put for refusing to pay
| his poll tax. Mr.. Gates is his attorney,
/ and Mr. Hudson represents the city.
William Lewis, alias Charles Lewis,
| alias William Samuels, who is now
| serving a sentence at the state peniten-
tiary, is wanted in Ohio on the same
| charge for which he was sent up from
! Arkansas, that of impersonating gov
| eminent officer to defraud pensioners.
| He will be released on December 10,
| and a United States marshal will be in
waiting for him as he walks out of the
| penitentiary door.
| One of the speakers before the an
| nual meeting of the state board of ag-
riculture next month will be John NJ
| Stahl, editor of the Farmers Call, of
| Chicago, and for many years secretary
| of the Farmers National congress. The
| title of his address will be Three New
| Farm Hands, and it will treat of rural
| free delivery, the rural telephone and
| the teaching of elementary agriculture
| in the public schools.
| August Kistling, Harry Foechtley
| and John Schaller went out southwest
| of town on hunting trip the other day.
When about three and a half miles
| from here, a calf suddenly jumped up
| in front of them, and, according to re-
| ports, Kistling shot 1t dead. He was
| held for the price of the animal, but
| after Scha1ler had agreed to stand for
| it he was released. The hunt was con-
| tlnued ana DeIOrc the party returned TO
town. fourteen rabbits had been bagged.
Mayor Hughes. City Attorney Spen-
| Ger and Chief of Police Stahl will be
visited by a committee of the Foster
| Humane society, consisting of Samuel
4 T. Howe, Jesse Shaw and Rev. A.
| Wyman, in the interests of the enforce
ment of any laws the city may have in
| relation to cruelty to animals. If it is
/ found that the regulations already in
existence are inadequate to require the
| lseIp of the police in making an arrest
on this charge, an effort will be made
4 to secure the passage of such an ordi-
| nance in the next council meeting
F. NJ. Sheridan, of Paola, has made
| complaint to the state board of railway
| commissioners that he can find no way
| in which to get legal service on the