The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25
SNAP SHOTS AT HONE NEWS

Passenger traffic eastward is heavy
now.
Marshalrs band viii give a concert
this evening at Garfield park
An October chill the last OF May
brought out the automobile coats again.
The new license collector. P. H.
Forbes. collected $500 in licenses yes
terday.
Assistant State Auditor Dick Sanders
is making a trip of several days in Ok
lahoma
J. M. Simpson, of Mcpherson, and A.
". Smith, Of Groveland, were in the city
last night
The fire department went down to the
river bank last night and extinguished
a fire which was burning In trash
heap.
The Sunday meeting at the Young
Women's Christian association viii be
led by Mr.. J. J. HOstutler, subject a
Living Sacrifice
Governor Stanley has appointed W.
H. Cecil justice of the peace at Lincoln
to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of James o. Smith.
The following physicians are appli-
cants for the position of city physician:
H. B. Hogeboom, Q. E. Judd s. A.
johnson and w. d. Storrs.
Col R. w. Blue was in Topeka yes
terday afternoon comforting with the
politicians. He is still looking for the
appointment of pension commissioner.
Charles E. GormIey, formerly director
of the Twentieth Kansas band and later
a bandmaSter in the regular army, viii
move to Ottawa the list of June.
About the worst piece of asphalt
pavement in town is the block on
Quincy between Sixth and Seventh It
makes one seasick to ride over it.
Philip Sprague has been reappointed
janitor of the city building He IN
doubtedly succeeded in convincing
Mayor Hughes that he voted for him.
B. L. Strother, of the Abilene News,
for 20 years a staunch Democratic ed1-
tor and leader in Fifth district politics,
has a mention for secretary of state.
The United States civil service COM
mission announces an examination will
be held in Topeka June 19 for positions
as clerks or carriers in the postoffice
service.
The officers Of the battery from Fort
Riley, which has been encan ped at the
fair grounds called on Mayor Hughes
and Governor Stanley yesterday and
paid their respects
Plans for the new state house heating
plant are ready. The executive council
viii advertise for bids at once and
award the contract at the expiration of
the 30 days legal limit.
DR.. Ernest Minney assistant physi-
clan at the insane asylum, has gone to
Chicago to buy an auton obile. He viii
make the trip Overland III the sSA4ctE
from Chicago to Topeka
Because James Martin would not
stand the cost of a friendly suit to clear
the title of 800 acres of pasture land
that the state wanted to purchase ad
joining the Dodge City Soldiers home,
the deal is off; $1,000 was the price.
City Engineer McCabe will not begin
the work of estimating the cost of the
proposed Kansas avenue bridge across
the Shunganunga till about June 1. His
time is now all taken up with pavement
estimates and in setting stakes for the
graders.
Senator Burton is discovered at last
His faithful henchman, Grimes. pins his
faith on Nervine but the senator sticks
to home products and drinks .'Abilena,
a beverage displayed at the recenl
druggists convention. If he does it
regularly, as the bottIers of the mineral
spring claim, Burton is paying dearly
for his greatness.
A man who passes himself off as a
deputy United States marshal seems to
be doing a profitable business in Phil
lips county He went into q joint at
Stuttgart and held up the proprietor,
under threat of arrest, for $50. The
county attorney notified United States
Marshal Sterne of what is going on, and
if the fake deputy marshal is caught
it will go hard with him.