The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-27
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The school board will meet next Mon
day.
Nip and Tuck" a meIodrama, will be
at the Crawford tonight
1.-THE Girl from Maxims'' will be at
the Crawford Tuesday night.
The county commissioners met today
and will meet again next Friday.
L. A Stebbins of Topeka was a room
mate of Gen Funston at the State uni
versity.
too cold for any but the most enthusi-
astic sleigh riders.
A. B. Kirkpatrick has returned from
Buffalo where he participated in. the
national bowling contest
d. w. Mulvane has wired Frank
Grimes that he viii come home to at
tend the Kansas Day banquet
Plants frosted; waterpipes frozen coal
bins nearly empty. few of the things
that were discovered this morning.
The jury in the Croft LIQUOR case fail
ed to arrive at a verdict Saturday and
was discharged until this morning.
Nothing gives Capt. Clad Hamilton
more pleasure than to hear of the sue
cess of some Twentieth Kansas boy.
Six members of the Topeka Whist
club defeated that many players from
Ottawa Saturday night by eight points.
Q. p. M. McClintock read paper on
1.-THE South in Literature before the
Saturday Night club Saturday evening
Fort Scott, Hutchinson and Wichita
will all make a fight to get the Repub-
lican state convention away from To-
peka-
The people who were behind the idea
of putting a statue of Ceres on the
state house dome have again aban-
doned it.
Between the automobiles, the smoke
| and the snow this morning one was re-
minded of Chicago or some other city
with all those trimmings.
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will come to Topeka to help entertain
the politicians who come to attend the
Kansas Day club banquet
Kansas City. Kas., is trying to ap-
pease Fort Scott in the contest over the
| attempt of Kansas City to secure a fed
| eral court, but Fort Scott is still fight
| ing.
| This was one of those mornings when
| Sam Radges, Esq, fails to follow his
| summer theory that blankets and furS
| should be worn in summer time to keep
| the heat out Just now he thinks like
| others that they might keep the cold
| out.
w. w. Toilette, who was the ap-
praiser for the city in the negotiations
| for the purchase of the Topeka water
| works plant, has just been appointed
| consulting engineer for the United
| States in the international boundary
| comm ission with Mexico.
| One observer remarked this morning
| that the unusual amount of smoke in
| the atmosphere which INSTRUCTED vision
| for more than a block, was brought
about for the reason that people were
| burning an extra amount of fuel on &C
! count of the cold weather.
Prof E. Weise, a Topeka teacher of
| German who served as a lieutenant in
| the German army, says that Prince
| Henry who will visit America is able
| to converse in German, English, French,
| Italian and Russian. He is also a
| Latin and Greek scholar.
| Assistant Attorney General West
/ and expressions used by w. H. Ross
| ington in the brief of the defendants in
| the judgeship suit. Mr.. Rossington
| uses such terms as summation, =
"unambiguousIy.' and unacceptable
| dilemma
The asylum car which reaches the
| transfer station at 7:55 was so crowded
| this morning that women were COM
| PEELED to stand on the platform and
people along the route were left stand
| ing at street crossings. few extra
| cars during this bad weather might
| popularize the Topeka city railway.
A special dispatch from Springfield
Ohio, says that Rev Mr.. Small has de-
| clined call to the First Congregational
| church at Topeka. Mr.. Small is evil
| IDENTIFY laboring under misapprehen-
| sion. He has not received a formal
tender of the position of minister OF
the church; he was simply invited to
| come and get acquainted with the peo-
pie of the church It is thought that
| he may accept this offer.