The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-02
LOCAL MENTION.


Mrs. +. E. Smith is seriously sick at
her home 1401 Lincoln street
j. J. German and Otis Hungate will
shoot a 25 live bird match Tuesday af-
ternoon at the Gun club grounds.
The United States federal officers Of
Topeka are attending the session of the
United States circuit court at Leaven-
worth this week
The Silver Statue baseball team de-
feated the Kansas Democratic Flambeau
club team at Lowman Hill Sunday
Score, TO 4 after the sixth inning.
There are now no smallpox cases in
the city. The last case, that of William
Cole, who was taken into the pest house
through hole in the fence, was re-
leased today.
Street Commissioner Griggs started
the weed gang to work today. One gang
of two men is working in South To-
peka, and another gang in the north
west part of town
The claims of Health Officers Lind
Sey and Thomas for back pay were
turned down by the claims and accounts
committee, and Will come before the
city council tonight.
Alexander Balstrom, a bricklayer- en-
ployed on the new Santa Fe machine
shops, fell from the frame work of the
structure to a scaffold Is feet below to-
day. He received serious but not fatal
injuries.
Sunday at Church of Assumption the
DelA4o were R0DllSuGQ 1DL the lAISl LAll1E
announcing the approaching marriage
Of Miss Bessie Butterfly and Mr.. John
Morr1sy. Miss Butterfly is the daughter
of J. p. Butterfly.
The council will this evening be offer
ed an S-rOom house and three lots of
ground at Thirteenth and BeIeview,
southeast of the city, for $500, to be
used as a pest house The offer is made
by J. A Swanson.
The Stricken business college base
f7111 mill
lege team Wednesday afternoon. A
game IS being played today with the
Insane Asylum team and Wamego viii
come to Topeka Saturday.
Ramsey & Ramsey placed a carload
of Fort Scott curling on East Fourth
street this morning, thus disproving the
claims Of the rival curbstone contract
Ors that the Ramsey firm could not Sc
cure any more Fort Scott stone.
Judge Hazen this morning denied a
new trial in the case of the Remington
Paper company against r. L. Thomas,
In which the company secured judgment
against Thomas as shareholder in the
Topeka Capital company for $780,
Measles are becoming prevalent. Five
cases were reported this morning. They
are as follows: Family of Grant Nell
son, 120 East Sixth; Mr.. Kramer. 11z
Monroe; Mrs. Blevins, 828 Chestnut; w
2. Stewart. 1006 East Eighth; W. L.
Coy, 721 Lake.
The rains Saturday afternoon and
night washed out three forty-foot steel
bridges over the Half Day creek near
ElmOnt. The water rose to a depth of
nearly four feet over the bridges. A
thousand acres of corn was also dam
aged by the water. The fields were COW
cred to a depth of two feet by the wa
ter.
Judge Hazen is trying to decide who
shall have possession of q farm near
Wakarusa. Q. E. Sager sold it TO E. E.
HOunsom, who leased it to S r. Grimes
Grimes put in a crop of corn and now
Ralph Buckley claims that he had a
lease on the land given by Sager.
Grimes and Sager both want to cult
vate the corn.
Judge Hazen this morning sustained
a motion to set aside an execution
against the Sells estate brought by Bar
bara Tauer. Miss Tauer secured a YER
dict in the district court sustaining her
claim in the probate court for $4,000
against the Sarah Allen Sells estate, bur
Judge Hazen held that the verdict in
his court was only for the purpose OF
establishing her claim.
Judge Hazen decided this morning thai
the motion to quash in the case Of
the city of Topeka against J. H Ward
should be sustained. Ward was ar
rested by the police for refusing to pay
a license of $40 year imposed by an
ordinance upon prOprfetOrs of install
ment houses. The warrant in the case
fail to say that he kept a place where
time or some future time" For that
reason Judge Hazen quashed the case,
as the warrant had to read as the ordi-
nance