The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-20
sNAP sHoTs Aq Hone NEWS

Lawns still have sere and parched
appearance.
The Salvation Army viii give an ice
cream social tonight.
The Santa F'e and Rock Island are
in need Of telegraphers.
D. W. Mulvane, George Findlay and
George Case were in Kansas City yes
terday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. n. johnson are
spending the summer at Spirit Lake
fishing.
The Elks go to Milwaukee tomorrow.
VIII Alexander has returned from
Ell Reno.
Miss Mabel Diggs has returned from
El Reno, where she registered in the
big lottery.
The county auditor has to give a
$4,000 bond, and he does not handle
any money either
The railroads are doing good bust
ness handling people returning from
the new Indian country.
Have you been down yet2" is now
the question, and n cans have you been
to FL Reno to register for a chance at
the land.
The city water mains will be extend
ed into the Washburn college grounds.
Holbrook hall will be connected with
the mains.
George NJ. Herrick, who recently re-
signed the presidency of Washburn col
in business.
The youth of Topeka apparently
know what the people want for they
have started dozens of lemonade and
ice cream stands over the city.
The gospel meeting at the Young
Women's Christian association Sun
day will be in charge of the music
committee. The hour is AS
Fl It is expected that a large number
Of Topeka colored people will go to
Ottawa, August 3, to participate III
the emancipation celebrat ton.
The b Street Baptist church has is
sued invitations to the members or
the congrega ton for trolley ride
Monday evening, to leave the transfer
station at ESQ %. m.
There has not been much change in
the condition of x-Congressman John
Davis. who lies at the point of death
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. L. ID.
Whittemore, in this city.
Word has been received in Topeka
that Mrs j. p. Aliens mother, Mrs. J.
r. Brown, was fatally burned at Col
umbus, Ohio, Friday, and died at
o'clock last evening.
The dust has become very disagree
able in some parts of town. People
on Fourth street east of the railroad
say that the dust has become a great
nuisance during the present dry
weather.
T. J. Coughlin, who has just returned
from FL Reno, says there is great
deal Of fiction being circulated about
the new country. He says prices are
no higher than here, and water is free
as air
Two Of the smallpox cases have been
released from quarantine, leaving only
three cases in the city. The sanitary
sergeant is Offering even bets that by
Tuesday there win not be a single case
of smallpox in the city.
The deep ravine near Eighteenth and
Lincoln streets is to be filled up by the
city. This ravine is in q very unsan-
itary condition, and it is believed that
1t was the cause of the recent sad SER
les of deaths in the Nelson family.
There will be 2 ball games at Wash
burn Athletic park this afternoon. The
asylum and T. A. A teams will play
first, after which the Hyperion and
Commisceo dancing clubs are sche-
duled for setto of about three rounds.
Loren Hildebrant, the reform school
inmate, who was brought before Judge
Hazen for trial for running away from
the school and who was released be-
cause the law was defective, has been
sent to Oklahoma by the school au-
thOrities because they say he was bad.
They seemed to be afraid of him, al
though he was a harmless enough look
ing boy. The best way to get out of
the reform school seems to be to loco
the officers by posing as bad man.
b. f. Pankey says that he expects to
start MS telephone exchange with 700
telephones in the city. Topeka has a
smaller number of phones in proportion
to the population than any town in
Kansas where Independent telephones
e1ist.In Independent towns. there are on
an average of 100 telephones to each
thousand of population. If the same
rule applied to Topeka. we would have
nearly 1000 phones instead of 1000. The
difference between Topeka and the
small towns is that in Topeka people
pay SO and $3.50 a month for phones,
and in independent towns the price is a
dollar.