The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-29
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

c. H Rhodes. of Topeka, is making
the awards for the chicken show al
Atchsson-
Gen. Hugh Cameron. the Kansas her
nit, went to his home, Camp Ben Har-
rison, last evening.
The moisture Wednesday afternoon
did not record any precipitation in the
government rain gauge.
Judge Hazen has under Amusement
the divorce suit brought by Augusta
Miller against c. r. Miller
The branch alliance of Unity church
will meet with Mrs. Silas Rain, Ills Van
Buren, street, Friday afternoon.
DIR. Ernst Fahrig is now operating
the test mill which is working on a new
lot Of the Kansas gold shale.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Newlin and
children, of Hutchinson, are visiting
Mr. and Mrs. George Manning.
The attendance record at the Mid
winter exposition is broken each day
Wednesdays crowd was the largest yet
recorded.
The railroads have made a rate of
fare and a third for the annual con
vention of the State Temperance union
to be held here.
There will be a Nichols meeting of
the Roosevelt Republican club at Chiles
hall, Tuesday, February 3. A. J. Viii
son is president.
Sheriff Lucas is getting after those
VINO nave not pau their personal pLOD-
erty tax. He has executions and al
tachments to serve.
John r. Mulvane and Edward Wilder
were in Kansas City Wednesday to at
tend the meeting of the Missouri and
Kansas Telephone company
Frank Brown, clerk of the United
States district court, is in Wichita on
telephone business. He is president of
the Wichita Telephone company.
Mrs f. H Bowman of Lowman Hill
is seriously i'll at Stormont hospital. She
was operated upon Wednesday morning
for tumor and also for appendicitis.
The day of prayer for colleges is be-
ing observed at Washburn today Spe-
cial religious services were held at 10
a. m. and none of the classes are in
session.
Kalfee, the bad. bold highwayman-
who robbed people Of any amount IN
! der 30 cents. will be tried in the dis
trict court on the charge of highway
robbery, February 10.
J. c. Barr, a civil engineer on the I'm
ion Pacific, had a leg broken Wednes-
day. The velociDede on which he was
riding near Rossville was struck by q
Union Pacific trafn-
The registration is now about LOO,
with about so days more to register be-
fore the spring election The election
commissioner says he expects a record
breaking registration this year.
What do the postmasters want to
hold conventions for? They can't raise
the price Of postage stamps. or enter
into a combine to drive all the little
+ postoffices out of business, and that is
what conventions are for nowadays
The Pachetta Brothers, the wonder
full barrel jumpers, at the Midwinter
exposition are Norwegians and speak
but very little English They draw
enough English money each week,
however, to buy town lot.
PascafaI the aerial coutOrfiOOfSt at
the Midwinter exposition, is just the
man for some Topeka girl to set her
cap for. His hair is just the right shade
/ of red. he wears real nice clothes and
/ his salary is as much per year, if he
works fifty-two weeks, as that of Sen
ator Long.
Manager Brigham. who is running the
/ MidWinter exposition. smokes the best
cigars of anyone in connection with any
4 amusement enterprise in Topeka. This
is the statement made by a Topeka man.
and he says therefore that Brigham S
/ show IS the best on record
! Henry DeMoss. colored. who was
/ serving time in the county Jail two
years ago for robbing Tromp's cigar
store, and who climbed the wall and
escaped, has been located in La Junta,
4 Col. Sheriff Lucas went there Wednes-
day to bring him back. This is the first
/ jaunt the new sheriff has had.
All this talk about Nina, the Roman
ring performer at the Midwinter expo
sion, wearing red tights is false. She
4 does not wear red tights, and those who
say so are laboring under a delusion. a
4 Topeka man went to the expo. Wednes-
day afternoon and saw her perform, and
ne says positively that she wears green
tights.
The suit of Patterson against Open
lEheimer is set for February 9 in the dis
trict court. This is the suit Of the man
who owned the cars used by the midwa }
outfit which was at the fair GROUNDS
last fall against the man who tried Ii
keep the Midway corralled for one sea.
SON. The man who owns the cars wants
some cash on account
The postmasters' association visited
afternoon IN a body as the guests OF
the exposition management, John Guth-
RE ard Joseph Bristow, walking arm
in arm. headed the delegation anC
marched into the exposition, across the
grand plaza, up the stairs to the gal
lery and to the reserved seats with al
the solemnity that would be necessary
for Il funeral cortege.
NJ B. Light, the Cider Smith of Win
field" is preparing to let the farmers
of Cowley county know all about tn,
weather in advance. Light is voluntary
observer for the government weather
bureau. He has secured weather sigma
flags and has posted poles for them ir
various parts of the rural districts
Each day he telephones on the country
lines to the pole stations the weathe
forecast and the proper flags are dis
played.
A Revolution Was Due.
San Francisco. Cal, Jan. 29.-Willian
Davidson, a mining man. who has ar
rived here from the lower coast report.