The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-16
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

to Sc Tuesday afternoon at O'Clock.
Shirt waists for men are out OF it
they are not being worn in cities at all.
Dean Kaye of Grace Cathedral will be
rendered reception at st. Simon's mis-
sion tonight.
Canvas shoes for men are proper this
season-new assortment received today,
$3.50, at the Palace.
Another batch of advertising matter
for the Wallace shows was posted in
Topeka yesterday.
The log-rolling of the Modern Wood
men of America for Shawnee county
will occur August 2.
The Emporia Elks may play return
game of baseball with the Topeka Elks
on the Washburn grounds.
The court house offices were closed
Tuesday afternoon on account of the
funeral of DR.. A. NJ. Callahan.
During July, August and September
| the Palace will close week days at 6
| p. M; Saturdays until IL p. m.
The midsummer meeting of the Pres
byterian Missionary union will be held
at Garfield park Friday, July IS.
A. A Hurd, Santa Fe attorney, has
been out with the state board of rail-
| road commissioners on tour Of in
spectiOn
The Topeka Elks will now be cha1-
longing the T. B. c. since they defeated
| the Emporia Elks at baseball by the
score of IL to 2.
w. F. Weber and Frank Newland
will be delegates to the Missouri Retail
Grocers' association meeting at Kansas
City Thursday and Friday
Secretary F.. D. Coburn of the Kan.
sas board of agriculture and Secretary
Wilson of the United States board of
agriculture are at Beloit today.
You can not make a doctor out of a
butcher nor an ice man of a farmer.
The Peoples Ice company employ ex-
nQrlenCR0 ice tn deliver ice
There is some talk Of imposing a tax
on all vehicles. The city is in need of
money, and is preparing to go to ex-
IRENE measures to raise it.
When Tom McNea1 lived in Medicine
Lodge he was one of the crack bowlers
of the town but when he tried his hand
in Topeka Tuesday he found that his
hand had lost its cunning.
1t Is a strange coincidence that the
authorities in Emporia discovered a
man selling whisky in pop bottles on
the very same day that the Elks went
down there to play baseball.
The mail carriers on the routes in To-
peka have had comparatively easy
time for the past few days. The volume
of mail has been much smaller on ac-
count of the delays in the train service.
Mrs. G. A. Helm, who has been in
Christ hospital for nearly three weeks
for recovery from an operation, has SO
far recovered as to be able to be re-
moved to her home on Fillmore street
today.
L. G. Disney has landed his job as
law clerk to the Dawes Indian coTnmiS-
sion at salary of 81 500 a year. Justice
Disney will give up his justice shop in
Oakland, as he will not have jurisdic-
ton in the Indian territory.
Ben Thompson has been arrested by
Deputy Marshal McGrath for selling
liquor to Indians. He was brought to
Topeka from Horton where he was ar
tod Gov r. o. oh
reservation.
1t has been decided that the city can
get a good title to the land purchased
recently for the pest house, and the
work of hauling the lumber from the
old pest house at the fair grounds will
be commenced at once.
R. M. Spivey has been appointed chief
inspector of the Santa Fe system of
Harvey eating houses. He leaves at
once for Albuquerque to assume his
new duties. He will retain his resi-
dence in Topeka
street car bridge are loaded on the cars,
and will be shipped to Topeka at once.
A pile-driver has also been engaged,
and work will commence at soon as the
river goes down little more
The following is from the Lawrence
Journal: "a live mule came down the
river early this morning and was swept
across the dam. He got through the
eddying current in safety, and when
last seen was going down the current
with his nose above water"
On account of the recent changes in
the operating department of the Rock
Island, Archie Campbell and Will
Myers, who were connected with the
that Office was abolished. will be trans
ferred to other duties. Their work will
be merged with the duties of the clerks
in the general superintendent Office.
at Venice recalls the following from
Eugene F. Wares poem, THE Pre-
Emptor:"
But when the night comes, emerging
from the dark
/ see the sunrise smile
Upon the Campanille,
And bronze the flying lion of st. Mark. I"
The executive, auditing and music
committees of the Choral Union met
last night to talk over plans for the
coming season. The Choral Union is
planning to bring leila de Lussan, a $500
singer here for an engagement during
the week the State Teachers associa-
ton is in session. The pipe organ fund
81 900.
A Topeka man furnishes the follow
ing: Bulletin from Tracy: Finding that
he was running short of ammunition,
Tracy, the escaped convict went to Chi
cago yesterday and purchased a car
load, together with a Krupp gun and
several gatlings. He is now back on the
scene of action, and is reported to have
had desperate battle with posse of
| 500 deputy sheriffs somewhere between
| the Canada line and the City of Mex
| ico
| A series of souvenir postal cards bear
| ing scenes of points of interest in and
| about Topeka have been issued by the
| local letter carriers association The
| cards bear pictures of the vicinity of
| Topeka from 1861 when the buffalo
roanied the prairies until the present
! time. The principal public buildings.
! colleges and state institutions are re-
produced. The cards are published by
| the local organization of the mail car
| riers' association to create a fund for
reserve in the treasury of the society.
| The set sells for 10 cents.
| The executive committee of the State
| Society of Christian Endeavor has set
| tied upon Emporia as the place for the
| next annual convention of the society in
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