The Topeka state journal., 1902-05-22
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Iopeka lawns show the efIsct OF the
rain.
from Fort Scott.
The horse barns at the fair grounds
are being repaired.
Some of the contractors are paying
so cents an hour for brick masons.
Again it is demonstrated that May
and not June is the month of roses.
The work Of grading for the East
Fourth street pavement has commenced.
The rain ought to lower the price of
cracked oats and shredded wheat bis
cults.
Washburn is scheduled to play High
land Park college baseball team to-
morrow.
George ". Martin has given his col
lection of 500 Kansas books to the Col
lege of Emporia
Grand master Of the exehequer must
be the best job in the K. P. grand
lodge. G. S. Jobes got it.
Monte Christie" will be at the Craw-
ford next Tuesday. It is the last at
traction booked for this season.
The federal court at Salina has ad-
Journed and the federal officers of the
Topeka offices have returned home.
The government thermometer dropped
Y degrees yesterday afternoon between
3 and O'Clock. when the rain came.
F. P. Lindsay seems to have made
as many errors on the bench as the
Washburn baseball team does on the
diamond.
It was a good thing the Ottawa bali
team didn't come, for the heavy rains
turned the Washburn baseball field into
a duck pond.
People besieged the newspaper offices
Wednesday evening with inquiries con-
cerning a reported storm at Manhattan
in the afternoon.
Mrs. Mary E. Lease was in Topeka
a short time Wednesday on her way to
Wichita. The police did not have to
keep the crowd back.
Jailor Morgan, of the police station,
and the other wheel horses Of the Dem
Ocratic party are in Wichita today,
trying to be harmonious.
The Washburn macadam road is COM
pleted- The road makers will now go
to work on the Rochester road from
North Topeka to the cemetery.
Al Coyne, son of Bailiff John Coyne
of the district court, is a sailor on board
the Dixie, which has sailed to Mar
Unique with supplies for the destitute.
The politicians are lining up now.
Fred Jewell has accepted a. position
in the TrOutman camp. Therefore
Shawnee county will probably be for
Troutman.
Albert T. Reid's Washburn baseball
boy poster is out. The Mashburn base
ball player is the first of a. series of
baseball pictures to be given to the
public by Mr.. Reid.
The members of the Republican Flam-
beau club who intend to go to the Re
publican convention at Wichita next
week will meet at Tammany hall Fri
day night to complete arrangements.
?. D. Atchison, who for u years has
been a conductor on the CITY railway,
resigned yesterday. He deserves a pen
sion for life. Talk about heroism and
sticking to the post of duty when life,
limb and kidneys are in danger!
MI
ment association will meet next Tues
day evening at the Commercial club
rooms It is important that all who
are interested in the movement take an
interest and attend the meetings
James H Devlin, engineer at the
postoffice, is recovering from an op-
Grafton at Christ hospital which he un-
derWent Sunday. He jumped from a
Santa FFe engine at Argentine yards
several years ago and received injuries
which have caused him much trouble.
The sandstone blocks which We're laid
some time ago under the street sprinkler
hydrant on Eighth street are being re-
laid tOday The action of the water
from the hydrant has softened the
foundation and the heavy water
sprinklers have mashed the pavement
out of shape.
The Ottawa baseball team did not
ccme to Topeka to play Washburn yes
terday on account of the rain. While
the rain cloud was the blacklist and old
settlers were talking of a tornado,
few of the faithful went out to the
Washburn grounds. They got wet and
came home.
Charles Ramsey says that other Fort
Scott curbing men are trying to freeze"
him out of the curb contracts which he
was awarded in Topeka by buying up
the quarry at Fort Scott which con
tracted to furnish stone for his con-
tracts. Mr.. Ramsey claims to have a
contract with the quarry which will
hold in spite of the change in owner
ship.
A new kind of binding twine is being
sold in the Kansas market that is man
ufactured from a kind of grass that
grows in the l0WlandS of Michigan. It
is made by a Minnesota firm and man
ufactured mechanically in such a man
ner as to make it impossible to use it
in any but harvesters of that company's
make.
W. Lingren. the meteorological expert
of the United States geological survey,
returned to Topeka today after an
eight days investigation of the gold
shale fields in Ellis and Rush counties
He has with him a lot of specimens of
the shale which he will test in his lab
oratories at Washington for gold and
silver
There is opportunity for City Engi-
neer McCabe to exercise his authority
on the pavement al the foot Of Van
Buren street and Topeka avenue. The
material in the pavement is defective