The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-12
SNAP SHOTS ATHoME NEWS.

The county commissioners VIII meet
Friday.
The Evil Eye" will he at the Grand
tonight.
A T. Lane, Of Wichita. was a Topeka
visitor Tuesday
s. NJ Brewster of Troy, was in the
city Tuesday night
Herman Grow brought 80 ducks from
Lake Viey Tuesday
Farmers are hauling pumpkins by the
wagon load to feed cattle.
The government thermometer ranged
between CO and u Tuesday.
c. w Merriam has discovered coal
under his farm nea~ Seabrook-
Albert Sarbach, epresentative-elect
from Holton, was in Topeka Tuesday
The bazaar which was to have been
held in Capital City hall, has been post
poned.
The carpenters have begun work on
the new Harvey eating house at the
Santa Fe depot
Albert Reid has commenced to econ
omiZe. He now wears an old RooSe-
Velt' campaign hat.
Galen Nichols has filed a statement
to the effect that it cost him $307 to be
reelected county attorney.
Roy Bucknan of Topeka left today for
Dallas, Texas, where he has position
on the staff of the Daily Times-Herald
Fred Cole, Frank Crane, William Nor
ton, A. B. Quinton, w. H. Ward return
ed from Lake View last night loaded
with ducks.
One of the new attractive gold leaf
signs is that which has been placed on
the front window of the office room
which the New Oxford hotel is to oc-
cu2y.
E w Hook and F. Dumont Smith are
to be two of the three speakers at the
! Thanksgiving dinner of the Knife and
Fork club at Kansas City tomorrow
night.
John T. Clancy. state senator from
this district, is the latest man to nave
boom for mayor thrust upon him. Mr..
/ Clancy blushingly admits that he has
heard about it.
Edward Smith. formerly of Topeka,
died in Chicago last week as the result
of fall in the steel mill where he was
employed. He was grandson of Mr.
]. D. Smith of this city.
T. T. Kelly. state treasurer elect, has
offered Senator Frank Sponable of
Johnson county, the job of assistant in
the state treasurer's office Sponabie is
a banker at Gardner and was a Kelly
supporter.
Property owners of the city should
clean w the vacant lots now before
| bad weather comes. There are a great
number of unoccuDied lots which could
be made more slightly by having the
weeds and rubbish taken off.
The improvements in the Rock Island
! telegraph Office are nearly finished. For
1 a light partition This has been torn
down, and now there is one big room in
which there is plenty of room for all
4 the operators.
It is becoming more and more evident
that members of the legislature Will
| have to worry along with three dollars
a Gay and ''perquisites." The people or
/ the state evidently do not believe that
more than that.
The big brass hinges which were sto-
/ len from the chapel door at Washburn
at the time of the Freshman cane rush,
have been returned. The threat of the
faculty to make the Freshman class
pay SIS for the hinges seemed to facil-
! itate their return.
Bad boys in the west part of town are
making life miserable for the sewer
contractors out there. They steal the
/ lanterns which are hung out to warn
/ people of the existence of excava tons.
-Four lanterns have been stolen within
the past few days.
Albert Busey. machinist in the water
service department Of the Santa Fe, is
| half brother of the Sheriden Marble
who was killed at the county rock crush
er yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Busey. re-
ceived a telephone message calling him
to the scene of the accident.
Henry F. McComas. the veteran
1 printer who was found dead in bed
1 Tuesday noon. was cousin of a child
which in an early day was kidnapped by
Ine lnOldnS near r OFT OCOll- 1ne Cnllu )
parents were first murdered and then
it was carried away and never recov-
/ cred. l---
The United States officers brought
Harvey Grayson. William Burns and
Frank Weaver up from Clay Center
Thursday. Then men are charged with
having blown open the postoffice safe al
Green, Kan, and stealing stamps to the
amount of 800. They escaped by
handcar. III
The employees of the Vinewood com
pany are experiencing considerable diff
fculty in digging holes for the trolley
/ poles along Fifth street between Jack
son and Van Buren,. A deep ravine
! once occupied the location, and the stone
and gravel filing which was used does
not dig easily.
| w. ]. Haggard, of the Santa Fe plan
ing mill, has just shipped two barrels of
apples to some cowboy friends in Pan
handle Tex. He says that apples are So
a barrel down there, and when the boys
! found out that they We're so much
cheaper here, they requested him to send
them a few barrels.
The guess is now being made that c.
! c. Coleman has agreed to retain Judge
j. S. West as first assistant attorney
/ general. 1t is intimated that deal of
this kind was made at the Wichita con-
vention- This IS untrue. but the reap
/ pOintment of judge West would be one
of the most popular that Mr.. Coleman
could make.
Shungamoor is the resonant appella-
! ton which has been given to a new
| country house which F. L. Peacock has
built south of Washburn college near
| Shunganunga creek. The house is in
the edge of an immense fruit farm
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