The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-02
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


Secret Service" will be at the Craw
ford tonight
The postoffice was closed part OF the
day yesterday.
The public schools will open after the
holidays next Monday.
The Kansas Hermit returned to Camp
Ben Harrison yesterday.
The Y. NJ. C. A. night school begins
again tomorrow night.
Jennings did well on the weather
style for New Years day.
James H. Guy is actively pushing his
candidacy for minister to Haytl
Cider Smith and L R. Hicks agree
on a cold wave early in January
The Kansas Midwinter exposition op-
ems its doors two weeks from Monday.
The annual meeting of the CONNER
cial club will be held Wednesday night
January 8.
The weather bureau closed at noon
yesterday but the weather went right
on being pleasant
The excavation for the new Whiteker
commission house at First and Kansas
avenues is being made.
There are New Years resolutions
made in Topeka, u. S. A, which have
already been shattered
There is an old saying that as the
first three days of the year are, SO will
the first three months be-
N. H. LOOMS completes his series of
lectures on contracts before the law
class of the Y. NJ. c. A. Monday night.
Judge Pagan stayed in his office New
Years morning, attending to the needs
of those who We're hungeIing and
thirsting after matrimonial bliss.
Miss Fay Tincher and Austin Ripley
gave in very clever manner parody
on Romeo and Juliet" at the railroad
7. NJ c. A. on New Years night.
The warrants for personal property
unpaid taxes will be placed in the hands
of the sheriff for collection, with a PEN
atty attached, on January Il or sooner.
The largest single charter issued by
the state during 1901 was to the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas railway COM
900 81 7
Several members of the T. A A.
"swore off, billiard playing yesterday.
Some persons have been unk1nd enough
to remark that they never played much
billiards, anyway.
Mayor J. w. F. Hughes is not as en-
thusiastic about poultry raising as he
used to be before he had city and
few suburbs to look after. He missed a
chicken fanciers' meeting not long ago.
New Years day being a holiday did
not keep carpenters from working. A
number of new houses all over the city
are being built, and the workmen re
FUSED to lose a single day of such f1no
weather.
Mrs. Nation says that when she goes
to Nebraska in March to lecture it will
not be in the interests of Bryan or any
other political party, except the prohi-
bitionists. That is Gods party" she
observes.
City Attorney Spencer filed a motion
in the district court Tuesday for new
trial of the Frank Zingheim case
against Chief of Police Stahl in which
Zingheim secured a judgment for $50
by default.
January is a great month for ban
quets- There are three big affairs be-
sides several lesser ones. They are the
breeders, the State Bar association, and
the Kansas Day club.
1--WE have a new book and shall be
glad to see your name written there,
was the answer to all the New Years
greeting given the night jailer at the
police station, over the telephone at
midnight Tuesday night
Local railroad officials are inclined
to discredit the rumor that the Eastern
division headquarters of the Santa F'e
will be moved to EnDoria. They say
that Topeka is so located that the BUSH
ness can be handled only from here.
NJ w Sutton has saved nearly all of
his salary during the time he has been
internal revenue collector. He has made
enough from his law practice and out
side sources to supply all that he mas
needed to spend. He has saved $4,000.
The following by the Kansas hermit
was written in honor of one of his
Wife like wisdom to the good, always
is a blessing choice; therefore friend
don't think me rude, if / say Philip I
rejoice
A Topeka man triumphantIy pointed
out to a friend today that he remem-
bered to write "19O2," but upon inspec-
ton he discovered that he had written
Dec. 2. 1902" In his anxiety to get the
month. 9
At the meeting of the Ministerial
union on Monday, January 6, Rev. J. d.
Countermine, pastor of the First Pres
byterian church, will read a paper on
the question Does the Abuse of Our
Public Men by the Press Foster the
Growth of Anarchy"
L. r. Clark school superintendent of
Edwards county, has asked State Supt-
Nelson to come out there in February
to deliver an address at a meeting at
which Mr.. Clark proposes to start a
movement for the consolidation of rural
schools in that county.
Food Inspector ]. P Farnsworth win
begin the inspection of dai-ies today.
He is doing the work as directed by
the board of health though he firmly
maintains that he valves none of his
legal rights to independence or none of
his perquiSites as food inspector.
Warrants for the arrest of the escap-
ed convicts who were recaptured and
taken back to the federal penitentiary,
on the charge of murder will at last be
made out. Ed McKeever, newly ap-
pointed assistant district attorney went
to Leavenworth today to attend to the
matter.
John Espelin has filed a request with
the city clerk for an extension of the
sewer through his premises to the river.
The river has gone away and left the
sewer mouth 16 feet from the water,
and has moreover washed away the dirt
from Mr.. Espelin's land Mr.. Espelin
lives at S02 Chase street.
Ralph Kennedy, who for several
weeks has been doing duty as day ticket
clerk at the Santa Fe, will continue in
that place. Samuel Zimmerman who
held the position until he became sick
a short tine ago is better, but having
secured another situation will not re-
turn to the depot.