The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-08


A crowd Of Y W. C. A. girls are pic
nicking today at Wakarusa.
The ping pong table has been Install
ed at the T. A. A. The game rivals pin
pool.
Sheffield Ingalls, was in Topeka Mon
day He came over from Rechison to-
hear Burton.
The mercury in the government Their
mometer got up to 80 Monday and it's
higher today
The demand for harvest hands is
over and the railroads have withdrawn
the reduced rates.
E. Il: Murphy. one of the D. Hill II
am a Democrat kind was in Topeka
from Leavenworth Monday.
John Coyne, the bailiff. and three s2d
degree loafers are the only ones in the
district court room these days.
There is new elevator boy at the
Columbian building. He is about the
18th since the first of the year.
F. c. Crowen came over from Atchi-
son Monday Came to hear Burton,
probably, for he rides on a pass.
Captain Joe Waters has not smashed
a chess table for three weeks. He has
not been playing very strong game
p. L. Wise was in Atchison Monday.
He has shaved his VanDyke since he
was city engineer but he still smokes
cigarettes.
Mayor Parker set three men at work
yesterday tearing down the old pest
house. The lumber will be used in
building the new detention hospital.
Charles Samson has been in Seward
county looking over the country in west
ern Kansas with the view of buying
a big ranch for himself and other
stockmen.
W. R. Hazen filed a suit in the dis
trict court Monday afternoon against
Josie Webb for $4,000 for rents on
buildings in litigation in the Webb
Branner suits
This is about the time of the year that
Justice Pollock goes north to the island
which he owns. 1t looks plutocratic for
Jayhawker justice to own everything
from the center all round to the sea.
1t is a matter of economy. says the
Peoples Ice company, to. buy ice from
them and secure lowest prices, best
service, and clear, fresh manufactured
ice. The drivers furnish printed price
list and coupon books.
George r. Henderson. superintendent
of motive power for the Santa Fe, went
consultation with other officials. W. A.
Nettieton his assistant, has gone west
ON business tour of the lines.
Mrs. Henry o. Wilbur of Burlingame
has fine flower garden and fernery and
often sends flowers to Mrs. Thorpe for
the sick. Sunday while gathering flow
ers for this purpose Mrs Wilbur step
ped off a box and dislocated her Shout
der.
The work of grading on Clay street
between Thirteenth and Sixteenth has
been commenced. When this piece of
pavement is in, it will give a continuous
pavement from Twentieth street This
Is the furthest south that any pave
ment has yet been laid.
Thomas Chapel filed suit in the dis
trict court Monday afternoon against
the Hanover Fire Insurance company
for $500. His house at Scranton was
hn hr o1Yf ia
insurance policy and the company has
not paid the loss.
Thirty pieces of fine muslin under
wear for little girls We're sent Mrs
Thorpe yesterday by the little All the
Year Round club of Lowman Hill. This
club is composed of IL little girls, who
meet at the home of Mrs. Plat and are
always busy at some good work.
Anthony Overton, of Kansas City, is
In Topeka today in the interests of the
Middle States and Mississippi Valley
exposition to be given by colored peo-
pie at Chicago August 4 to September
IA for the benefit of the endowment
fund of the home for aged and infirm
colored people.
City Attorney Spencer has been ex-
amining the title to the property which
1t was proposed to purchase for the city
pest house, and finds that it has num-
erous flaws. The title will have to be
fixed up before the city will buy the
land, and possibly a new site for the in
stitution will have to be selected.
Workmen began digging for the found
alton of fan house on the west side
of the new Santa Fe machine and boiler
shop Monday. 1t will be so by % feet
In dimensions and will be one Of four
to be located two on the west and two
on the east side of the structure. The
building will be heated by hot air and
the apparatus in these additions will be
used for forcing the air to different
parts OF it.
Ottawa, Kan, and Return $3.50 via
Santa Fe.