The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-16

State Treasurer-e elect T. T. Kelly was
in Kensas City Monday.
The government thermometer ranged
between 20 and &c Monday.
Charles Sessions and Harry Brent are
working on a patent air brake.
The insane asylum used 80 boxes of.
toothpicks during the last year.
Chief Justice Frank Doster went to
Kansas City Monday afternoon.
The Independent Telephone company
now has 1000 subscribers in Topeka.
''Florodora" will be at the Crawford
next Monday. This will be its first visit
to Topeka.
F. L. Vandegrift has been confined to
his home in Kansas City for two weeks
by sickness.
D. J. Hanna. lieutenant gOvernor-elect
has been recuperating at Excelsior
Springs. Mo.
The patients of the insane asylum
used S23 packs of playing cards during
the past year.
Mile. Zelie de Lussan will appear iii
concert at the Auditorium the night
after Christmas
]. D. NJ Hamilton, general claims at
torney of the Santa Fe, was in Kan
sas City Tuesday.
There is one thing in Topeka now that
is cause for cOngratulation-the mayor
talk has subsidized.
The head man in the line to secure
his place at 4 a. m.
A Topeka man says the best test o.
citizenship is whether a. man cleans the
snow off his sidewalk.
The patients at the Topeka insane
asylum chewed 7.077 pounds of tobacco
during the last fiscal year.
Governor-elect w. ]. Bailey was in
Kansas City Monday night. Bailey SAID
he went to consult his tailor.
John R. Chambers. formerly of the
Throop hotel, has purchased the Glad
stone hotel at Arkansas City.
At the Topeka insane asylum, S29 hats
were used during the last fiscal year, 81
caps. 119 hoods, and no bonnets.
c. w. Trickett of Kansas Sity is men
toned as a possible successor to Judge
. West in the attorney generals office.
Since the snow came ". Y. Morgan
has discarded his skull cap for a hat.
Too had there is no snow in summer.
It has not been charged that any of
the senatorial candidates are responsible
for the disabling of Chairman Albaugh
Tony Brown" VIM. Green's giant
steer. was slaughtered Monday. He
lacked a few pounds of weighing a ton.
The first snow always leads people 10
buy new cutters but they have sufil-
Gent time to repent before the winter
is o.e=.
The Wichita Beacon says that the
reason Stuart Robson cancelled Topeka
was because Of row with Manager
Crawford.
The grocery stores have no good
chestnuts this winter. 1t is believed
that the minstrel shows have cornered
the market.
A Topeka parent who took his twu
children into an aggregation Of Christ
mas toys is suffering from nervous
prOstration.
Congressman Charles Curtis is ex-
peeted to arrive from Washington Wed
nesda=- and at once open senatorial
headC-uarters.
Street Commissioner Griggs had the
grading machines at work Monday
clearing snow out of the cutters on
Kansas avenue.
Another case of smallpox has broken
out in the family of D. f. Baker. az 1874
Sumner street. Oakland. The family is
in quarantine.
Speaker George Barker was the largest
man n the last house. 1t is BELIEF ed
that the largest man in the next house
won't be speaker.
A lot more plastering has fallen from
the ceiling of the upper corridor in the
city hall. The roof is performing it's
usual stunt of leaking.
Probate judge Pagan has some very
beautiful marriage certificates. Framed
and properly filed out they make suit
able Christmas presents
The Ferris Comedians are an excel
lent theatrical combination but it re-
quires a great deal to overcome the eff
feet Of their big street organ.
Why is it that when a woman falls
on a slippery walk she laughs d the ac>