The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-21
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

dition.
Corn is In. tassel in the fields around
Topeka
Colonel e. C. Little was in Topeka
yesterday.
There are now IS men employed on
the Vinewood line.
Senator T. A. Noftzger is up from
Harper county today.
The place to buy good clear ice, Peo-
pies Ice Co. Phone 857.
E. w. Thompson, OF the Rock Island,
went to Chicago today.
Senator Burton is expected to spend
tomorrow and Wednesday in Topeka.
There are two new iron bridges at
VinewoOd park but they have no floors.
This morning was cool enough to suit
person addicted to the Colorado habit.
Wallace's circus which comes to To-
peka this week, advertises band of
As pieces.
There was no baseball game Saturday
but instead for amusement two county
conventions.
Miss Ruby Been of 300 Lake street
will leave this week for a visit of 80
days in Lyons
Roy Harmon has gone to Wichita
where he will assist in organizing a 10
cal BARRIERS union.
A number of the politicians will go to
Pittsburg this week to attend the big
soldiers reunion there.
The Mutual Ice company ice making
machine was started today. Its ca
pacity is 80 tons per day
An excursion of Woodmen will be run
to Topeka from Kansas City next Sun
day. The round trip will be $1.25.
The benches which were recently
placed in the city park are proving pop
ular with the visitors to the park.
At last Topeka is to have a transfer
system that will enable people to make
connections with the proper cars.
George Sharitt, clerk of the United
States circuit court, is spending few
days with his son at Houston, Texas.
The FIT. Riley baseball team will play
the T. B. c. baseball team at Washburn
park Friday and Saturday afternoons.
There will be busy time for the
livery stables, police and red lemonade
men Wednesday. The circus will be
here.
escaped from the reform school, has been
arrested at Fort Scott for robbing
store.
Bird Mcclure, Republican candidate
for congressional delegate from Okla
homa, was in Topeka short time yes
terday.
The Topeka Gun club has completed
its new club house and the regular
weekly shoot will be held at 4 p. m.
Tuesday,
Dave Hanna's friends are already be-
ginning to call him governor" so he
will become used to it by the time the
legislature meets.
The price of the set of Illustrated pos
tai cards issued by. the letter carriers
association is Is cents instead of 10
cents as stated.
You can buy good clean distilled wa
ter ice, cheaper than that natural ice
you have been getting. Call up Peoples
Ice Co. Phone 857.
A movement has been started to in
duce the street car company to give
transfers at all functions instead of at
the transfer station only.
There are two murder trials sched-
uled for next term in Shawnee county
and a strange fact is that both are of
men who brutally killed their wives.
]. E. Nissley has decided not to run
an opposition to the circus Wednesday
and changed the date Of the newsboys'
Mcfarland on the Rock Island.
Brigadier Generally. White F. Hughes
has appointed Captain H. M. Philips,
county treasurer and chairman of the
Republican county central committee,
to be his chief of staff.
A home owner is generally a good cit
izen. Why not begin to acquire your
own home now with the aid of the
Shawnee Building and Loan associa-
ton Office at lis West Sixth street.
A "low' may be coming toward To-
peka. Observer Jennings will make the
announcement of it's approach when he
sees it, He has been fooled SO often
lately that now he is from Missouri.
The S. E. Spencer case at Leaven-
worth is about to cause trouble. An
investigation into the acts of Detective
Murphy, who helped assist the Topeka
woman. has been started.
A Topeka man bought a dog but
Inf do Y.n IN a his wife and a nearly
tainted when the man who sold him
the animal proudly -descanted on its
good points to the woman herself.
Somebody in town has big dog with
voice that rivals in depth and loud
ness the hound of the Baskervilles. 1t
runs up and down Kansas avenue with
a pack of smaller ours yelping at every
jump. It ought to be taxed double.
Luther Burns, Governor Stanley's
secretary is now addressed as cap
( tain" He ranks as a captain on the
governors staff and has been compelled
to buy a new gold braid uniform to
wear during the state militia encamp-
ment at Emporia.
A. T. Abbott, superintendent of the
Nebraska division of the Rock Island
railroad, has asked T.. B. Gerow of the
state employment bureau to furnish Is
men for railroad work at Montrose,
Kan. The request has been turned over
to the city free employment bureau, and
the help will be sent from Topeka.
There will be an inspection and ex-
hibition by the Second regiment bugle
corps next Thursday evening at Z
O'Clock on Harrison street west of the
state house. The organization Is com
posed of small boys who have been put
through a drill on blowing all the trum-
pet calls of the United States army as
well as performing the drill tactics OF
the same under the direction Of Captain
Robert F. Tasker, late member OF the
United States relief expedition at Pc
kin, China. The boys went to Fort
Riley with the Presbyterian Sunday
school last week and after their appear
ance were highly complimented by Col
onel Carr, commandant Of that mill
tary post.
New surgeon General Selected
Washington. July 21-The president
has designated Colonel r. N. O'Reilly
to be surgeon general of the army to