The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-23
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS.

The muddy weather does not deter the
football players from practice.
The Y. M. C. A. gymnasium has been
opened for the winters work.
new well so feet deep is being dug
to supply water for the city lighting
plant.
A charter has been granted to the
State Bank of Weber. 1t has a capital
of $4,000.
Marie Watkins. the Topeka girl was
not in the cast of the Sultan of Sulu"
last night.
leave Kansas City today until after
O'Clock this morning.
According to a statement of State
Grain Inspector Northrup corn has
commenced moving to market.
Liverymen reaped harvest last even
ing. The rain fell hardest during the
time the crowds were going to the Sui
tan of Sulu.''
H p Miller thinks he will lead the
Democratic county ticket in Shawnee
county He is running for clerk of the
district court.
w. H. Sproul, who was a candidate
for the Republican nomination for con-
gress in the Third district, was up from
Sedan last night.
The street railway has arranged for
excellent car service to the circus
grounds near the fair grounds for this
afternoon and tonight
Election Commissioner Sherm Will
liams says that he believes the regis
tration this fall will nearly equal that
of 1900, the presidential year.
City Engineer McCabe is making
duplicate map of the paved streets of
Topeka for the use of the streets and
walks committee of the city council.
Wilson s. Beale, of Burlingame, has
been appointed by Governor Stanley to
be second lieutenant of company B.
First regiment, Kansas National Guard
The registers in the state house
''sizzled" little yesterday afternoon
1t was the most welcome sound the
state house clerks had heard for many
a dav.
During the thunderstorm last evening
lightning struck the Swedish Lutheran
church, situated at Fourth and Tyler
streets, causing damage to the Spire.
The church is insured.
Samuel D. Cooper of the Santa Fe
storehouse has returned from Ness
county where he was after prairie
chickens. He says the rain interfered
with the sport but he bagged a few of
the elusive birds Just the same.
Governor Stanley left yesterday after
noon for Olathe. where he spoke last
night. He will spend most of the week
campaigning in the eastern and south
eastern parts of the state and will not
return home till Saturday night
One of the water mains of the Topeka
water company, located at Second and
Kansas avenue, burst late Sunday af-
ternoon when fire pressure was on the
main. 1t blew up with such force that
a large hole was torn in the asphalt
pavement.
From the way in which the prize sam
pies of corn of Shawnee county are COM
to look as though Major T. J. Anderson
will be able to make excellent show
ing at Washington at the G. A. r. en-
campment this fall.
1t is expected that President w. E.
Wilson of the Vinewood park railway,
and L. E. Myers. his contractor, will
arrive in Topeka Wednesday for the
purpose of trying to straighten out the
right of way tangfe into which the road
has fallen in its effort to locate a new
route to Vinewood park.
A few members of the Ministerial
Union get together at a called meeting
Monday to take up the President Roose-
Welt Sunday services matter, but as the
arrangements had already been made to
go to the First Presbyterian church, the
meeting adjourned because there was
nothing further left to do.
Peter F. Brady, night roundhouse
machinist at the Santa Fe, received
word Monday night announcing that his
brother John, of McCook, Neb., had
been killed. The body will be taken to
Tulon, Ill. Brady has arranged to meet
the dead mans family at Lincoln and
accompany them east. He has only re-
Gently returned from Peoria, ILL.,, where
anOtner DrOther was Killed IN a street
railway wreck.
There will be a mass meeting of all
the teamsters of Topeka at 420 Kansas
avenue, Thursday evening. at 7:30
o'clock for the purpose of organizing a
team-drivers' union. Organizer Ceilley
of the American Federation of Labor,
who makes the announcement, says
that the organization ought to start off
with membership of about fifty.
Among the lodges organized at Law
renee Sunday by Mr.. Ceilley was the
painters. Tonight the woodworkers and
laundryworkers will hold their regular
meetings
Henry Senne, Santa Fe boilermaker
helper, took half
pound buffalo fish out of the Kaw river
with his hands. while his way to
work Monday. Senne was crossing the
railroad bridge when he happened to
see in the water below large fish that
evidently had gone out into shallow
water and could not make it back into
the deeper part of the stream. He
stealthily climbed down one of the stone
piers, grabbed the fish in the gills and
drew 1t out on dry land. 1t was one
Of the biggest taken out of the river
here this season.
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