The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-18
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS

c. w. Snyder is in Clifton this week
on business
Fields minstrels will be at the Craw-
ford tonight.
DR.. Mcclellan, of st. Marys, is NOV
ing to Topeka.
In spite of the weather spring hats
are ready for purchasers.
J. s. Dean, United States district at
torney, has returned from Marion.
Rev. ]. F. c. Hill has gone to Denver
to assist with some special meetings
Major T. J. Anderson is at Fort Scott,
attending the Masonic grand lodge
Fred Nixon has contracted to paint
stacks for the Santa Fe boiler shops.
The Independent Telephone company
has issued a book of telephone num-
berS.
The Republican Law and Order
league will meet tonight at the Security
building.
People who move are looking for
houses, making ready for their regular
spring pilgrimage.
Andrew Baird, state secretary of the
Y. NJ. C. A., was in Winfield Monday.
Easter eggs come next.
A meeting of negro voters at Fort
Scott has endorsed j. H. Guy, of To-
peka, for minister to Hayti.
The Crescent Sash and Door COM
pany, of Wichita, has been chartered
with a capital stock of 100000.
Th6re Will be a dance at fU4-d 40 Kan
sas avenue "Wednesday evening, to be
given by Irwin lodge 260, A o. U. w.
Dave Mulvane has no doubt discover
ed by this time that there is some anti
Burton sentiment in Shawnee county.
p H Coney is at the head of a new
| mining company to prospect for zinc
| in the Benton county, MissdMri, district
where he owns land.
Fitzhugh Lee received $500 for his
| lecture in Topeka. The Spanish-Amer-
brought
| him here had nothing left.
The white wings have been doing
| effective work both yesterday and to-
day in cleaning the down town streets
| of the remaining snow and ice.
A movement was set on foot at the
| recent Republican banquet in Kansas
| City for joint banquet of Kansas and
| Missouri Republicans next year.
The Mills Dry Goods company has
| filed an amendment to its charter with
| the secretary of state increasing its
| capital stock from 100000 to 100000.
Supt. Frank Nelson has gone to Nc
| Pherson county to look after his po-
! litical fences. The primaries in Nc
Pherson county will be held next week
| Howard Wood and Lewis Bird Daley,
| formerly of Topeka, are president and
assistant treasurer respectively of the
Corporation Trust company of New
| York.
The Shawnee Gas and Oil company
| was formed to prospect in NeoSho coun-
| ty. The company owns about 200 acres
| of land within two miles of the city of
| Chanute
Frank L. Brown has gone to Wichita
| to look after the progress of his new
| telephone plant, which he is installing
| down there in opposition to the Bell
| company.
H L. Rising. who was for eight years
| a claim adjuster for the Santa Fe, has
been elected secretary of the Wichita
| Commercial club, and the Wichita Traf-
| fic bureau.
The Haskell Indians will meet the
local Y. NJ. c. A. team in a game of
| basket ball tonight at the Y. NJ. c. A.
gymnasium.
Mrs. William Bergmann, who was Sc
verely burned in a fire at Tecumseh
several weeks ago, has been in serious
| condition since then, but is now report
ed much better.
Sergeant H. c. Sorenson, who form
erly had charge of the recruiting sta
ton for the United States army in To-
peka, has been honorably discharged
| after 20 years service. He is now at
Salina-
Secretary Barnes. of the State Horti-
cultural society, is very proud of the
medal he recently received as TIE re-
ward of Kansas for making an extra
fine exhibit of apples at the Paris ex-
position.
This is the time of year that the in
surance companies pay their fees into
Ine state Al
ready during the month of February
the department has received over $751;
600 from insurance companies.
H. Fl. Brandt, for several years trav-
cling cigar salesman for H. H Parker,
has established a business of his own at
400 Kansas avenue, where a large
wholesale stock of the finest eastern
cigars will be handled by him.
Wellington also wants the summer
encampment of the Kansas National
Guards. 1t figures that it would be
the state military board, those of Gov
ernor Stanley and c. ]. Carver.
Street Commissioner Frank Snyder
says that the wind blows in a circle
around the state house, and in confirm