The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-08
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

E. W. Thompson. of the Rock Island.
is in St Louis.
Today is the city's pay day. The city
clerks office was crowded all day
The regular annual meeting of the
Commercial club will be held tonight
]. S. Parks, of the Continental
Creamery company, has gone to Chi
cago.
Charles Sweringer has been appointed
substitute mail carrier at the Topeka
Office.
G. ]. Mulvane has gone to Chicago to
attend his brother, p. 1. Mulvane, who
is i'll there.
Capitola Rebekah lodge will hold its
installation exercises at the regular
meeting this week.
George Wood, formerly editor of the
Madison, Kan, News, was in Topeka
today on business.
Sara J. Wilson filed suit for divorce in
the district court from William H. VIII
son yesterday afternoon.
A train Of soldiers from Ohio passed
through Topeka Tuesday night over the
Santa Fee on their way to the Philip
pines.
R. c. Heller, who has been named by
Governor Stanley to succeed Judge
Thomson, is in Topeka attending the
supreme court.
The preliminary rehearsals for the
Nordica engagement by the Topeka
Choral union were held at the High
school auditorium.
1.-THE Man from Mexico" will be at the
Crawford tonight. Walter E. Perkins is
not with the cast. He is with the east
ern company at Buffalo.
A great many people are visiting the
Santa FTe shops today to look at the
biggest engine in the world" It is well
worth trip to the shops.
Bailiff John Coyne of the district court
had a dream that he was to fall heir
to $4,000. He wants his creditors to
avoid he 6Taa f1nr1 fV-110
M. A. Low left last evening for Wash
ington. He told a reporter in Kansas
City that his trip had nothing to do
with Kansas federal appointments
The most Objectionable feature of the
chicken show is the fact that the whole
city hall, from stem to stern, smells
like a chicken coop, and sounds like
one, too.
VIII Roberts. who has been in Ho-
bartS drug store for several years, has
secured a position to travel for a soap
manufacturer. He will begin some time
this month.
The Midwinter exposition buttons are
out and are being disposed of by the
ladies of the Orphans home. They were
made in Topeka, U. S. A, by John
Strickrott.
Miss Annie Sauerland has returned
from holiday visit in Winchester. She
was accompanied home by Miss Ella
Steven of that place, who will be her
guest for several days.
Gen Hugh Cameron, the Kansas
Hermit, was in Topeka Tuesday His
are better, and it is believed he will
not lose the use of them
The lecture advertised to be given at
the First Christian church by DR..
George H. Combs, of Kansas City. on
Friday evening, has been Cancelled on
account of DR.. Combs illness.
Miss Eva Morse, of Emporia, daughter
of H. b. Morse, mayor of that town,
who has been in Stormont hospital for
a month or more, is rapidly recovering
and will soon be able to go to her home.
r. ]. Johnson of Mitchell, Rice coun-
ty, has asked the state board of rail-
way comm iSSionerS for an order to
compel the Santa Fe to allow him to
build an elevator on it's right of way.
]. B. Larimer read a paper before the
F'ortnightly club last night on Polar
Explorations" He is authority on the
subject because he owns an Arctic ice
cream freezer and a Greenland ice
chest.
A small boy yesterday rendered the
chicken show managers a new exhibit
in the shape of a coon. The coon will
be on exhibition as soon as it is proper
ly Gagged, which of course is necessary in
a chicken show
A new elevator has been installed in
the Columbian building. Some lawyers
who have offices on the top floor and
who have not been at their desks since
the Tiff stopped, are now doing bust
ness at the old stand again
1t was stated yesterday that eleven
councilmen voted for the resolution to
pay Councilman Bergundthal $780,
Eleven councilmen voted, but only ten
of them voted for the resolution. Mr..
Bergundthal did not vote.
Miss Julia Wooster, of BeIoit, has re-
turned to Topeka after a two weeks
visit with her parents at Beloit- She
will remain here till March 1, when she
will go to Oklahona to take possession
of the claim which she won in the
rattle"
A commission of physicians in the
probate court yesterday found that
Frank Cook was not insane. He was
rather rattle-headed, but the unofficial
opinion seemed to be that the cure
would be the rod instead of the in
sane asylum.
William N. Ludwig filed suit in the
district court yesterday to have a re-
ceiver appointed for the National Aid
association, for the reason that he Sc
cured judgment against the company III
the city court for $172. and has been I'M
able to collect it.
Malon Burget, deaf mute, announces
that Albert Parker will win in the SUI