The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-01
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS.

The school board will meet Monday
night.
N H Loomis was in Kansas City yes
terday.
D. W. Wilder. of Hiawatha, was in
Topeka Friday.
Mr.. and EfrsiFerd Dreisbach are the
parents of a son.
The government thermometer ranged
between So and so Friday.
The w. C. T. u will meet at the First
Methodist church on Monday and Tues.
day
c. l. Wood viii entertain the Modocs
at a banquet at the National Monday
evening
There will be temperance service at
the Central CONGREGATIONAL church Sun
day evening.
Secretary Raney. of the Republican
state central committee. places Bailey's
majority at 10000
! Congressman Bowersock has appoint
ed Park Helmick. of the lola Register,
as his private secretary.
Frank White, a conductor on the city
railway IS candidate for the legisla-
ture on the Socialist ticket.
Cure that headache with q pair of Dr.
Littlefield's special glasses They ore
only 81 No. 507 Kansas avenue.
DR.. f. e. Ray, of Chicago, will preach
at the First Presbyterian church Sun
day. DR.. Ray was formerly pastor of
that church.
The ribs of the new dome of the
Washburn observatory are all in place,
and the copper sheathing will be put on
within a few days.
Henry Allen was given banquet in
Manhattan last night preceding his
speech there. He formerly edited the
Manhattan Nationalist
Judge Y. T. Hazen and Lee Jones will
leave next week for Oklahoma where
they will hunt for ten days. They will
not go till after election.
The Topeka Whist club will play in
t,ie OLD CUB rooms Monday night. The
club will move to the Smith building in
time for the session November 10.
The Kansas State university first foot
ball eleven does not play anywhere to-
day. That will probably enable the Sec
0nd eleven to spike up and beat the
Topeka High school to death.
1t took about five tons of paper to
print the Shawnee county ballots and
about two tons of that was used in re-
serve ballots that will go into scratch
pads after the election.
John d. Knox received word Friday
that second gusher has been struck
on the property of the American Oil and
Gas company at Chanute. Mr.. Knox
has an interest in the field there.
Hard coal is coming west The Chi
cago papers announce that ten car loads
reached fhere yesterday. The coal was
shipped in box cars, locked up, just like
wheat and other valuable commodities
a The American Oil and Mineral com
pany OF Kansas City, Kan.,s has been
chartered to prospect for oil It's capi-
tai stock is S9,O03sS The three dollars is
II probably the AMOUNT of stock held by
the Kansas directors.
The gas hearing adjourned Friday
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock, and will be
resumed next week in Chicago Ill.,
where the attorneys for the gas com
pany desire to take the testimony of a
number of Chicago experts
Frank Woodruff. formerly of Topeka
ana now curator q of Lincoln park at
"A Chicago, and Harry E. Lee. of Alaska.
fpassed through Topeka Friday for Mex
leo where they viii spend a month Sc
curingtnew birds for the park
Thomas Ryan, assistant secretary of
the interior returned today from the
Indian Territory where he has been to
inspect the work Of the Dawes commits
sio1s How'll remain in Topeka to vote
and VIII then return to Washington
George ]. Barker, Congressman Bow
ersocks manager. was up from Law
renee yesterday comforting with the Re
publican state committee. 1t is stated
that the fusicnists are being very active
in Barker's representative district
DR.. E. c. Ray, formerly pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of this city.
but now secretary and treasurer of the
Presbyterian board of aid for colleges
and academies, will speak at the Sun
day afternoon gospel service at the city
Y. M c. A. His theme will be THE
} Young Man in Town.
The Democratic Flambeau club will
hold a closing rally this evening at its
rooms, 232 Kansas avenue. The meeting
is open to the public. David OvermyeI
is the principal speaker, but J. J
Schenck and others will participate in
the program. Usually the meetings of
the Democratic F'lambeau club are linn
tied to members of the club, but this
evening the public is invited.
The name of E. S Hotchkin. Demo-
cratic candidate for clerk of the district
. court, is spelled Hot Chkins on the Of
fetal ballot. D. G. Tillotson, who is can
, didate for Justice of the supreme court
on the Populist ticket is given the mi
! tials y. c." Both mistakes were made
) by the party committees that certi4ie
F the names 10 County Clerk Wight
) Governor Stanley has honore1 a re-
QUESTION from Governor Ferguson of
Oklahoma for William Lee. alias VIII
lam Bush, alias Charles Mccoy, alias
Lee Ely. -Rush-McCoy- Ely is now
serving a sentence in the Kansas peni-
tertiary from Sedgwick county and will
be released next Monday. The Oklaho-
| ma authorities want him for burglary
' and will be on hand to get him when he
walks out of the Denitentiary.
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