The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-06
SHOTS ATHOMENEWS,


Go ask papa. the maiden said
He also knew the life he'd led,
And understood her when she said:
Go ask papa
Attributed TO Leslie NJ. Shaw, Secretary
OF the Treasury
The erection of a wooden bridge over
Mission creek in Dover township will
begin next week.
Three Topeka men, NJ. W. Henderson,
J. 3. EldIidge and W. f. Jenkenson
are in New York city.
W. w. Smith. private secretary to
Senator Burton, has returned to his
home at 1920 Polk street.
The only big attraction scheduled for
the theaters during the remainder of the
season is Al G. Fields minstrels-
Frank NJ. Stahl has moved back to
TOpeka-is this a sign that he has his
eye on the job of chief of police.
Rev. John A. Bright of Topeka is IN
Strasburg, Ohio, conducting religious
meetings for his son, Rev. George S
Bright.
A social was given by the United
Commercial travellers in their hall at
the corner Of Sixth and jackson streets
Saturday night.
The next hearing of testimony in the
dollar gas case VIII be at Little Rock.
Ark, on April 10. The gas company
viii offer some rebuttal testimony
There will be a meeting of the Ladies
Aid society Of the First Baptist church
with Mrs. J. T. Hankla at the Fifth
Avenue hotel next Wednesday at 2:30
p. N.
John Q. Royce and Senator Hays B.
White the two Sixth district Repub BIZ
can candidates for railroad commits
sioner, came down to Topeka today to
watch developments.
An entertainment of which the prin
cipal feature win he an old time slav-
chapel at the corner of Fourteenth and
Van Buren, streets tonight
There will be special gospel services
at the First Lutheran church commenc-
ing tonight and continuing through the
week. The subject tonight is The Pas
sion of Christ or the Last Week Of the
Messiah.
Miss Carrie Ford. until recently con-
nected with Bethany college has been
chosen matron of Stormont hospital, TO
succeed Mrs. Van Iaer, who resigned
last week Miss Ford was at Bethany
for ten years.
Webb N1cNaH is in Topeka today on
his way to California to attend meet
ing of the California grand lodge A O..
II. w. He is becoming a great CAD
der" Next month he viii attend grand
lodges in Rhode Island, Illinois and
Nevada in his capacity as supreme
master workman of the order.
The National Life Insurance company
which bought out the Kansas Union, in
the hope Of obtaining control of the
Kansas Mutual, eySects to enter the
Kansas field. and will maintain an
agency here. It --.l enter into the bid
ding for the control of the Kansas Mu~
tual when the stockholders of that
company hold their meeting
The committee which has charge Of
the entertainment of the delegates ana
visitors at the international convention
of the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A will have
a meeting tonight in the city Y. NJ. G.
/ A parl0rs to consider how to secure
rooms for their accommodation. About
]. 600 people viii have to be taken care
Passion tide services will be held at
/ the First Congregational church Tues
day Thursday and Friday evenings of
this week. The meetings will follow
the order of events in the closing week
of Christ's life. On Tuesday Miss
Mary Daniels will sing Nothing But
/ Leaves and on Friday Miss Vida Wood
win sing Olives Brow
The Northern Shawnee Development
company exnects to begin boring for
gas, oil and anything else worth boring
for that may be under North ToDe6a
within a week. Just now the drilling
machinery is being unlOaded on the
/ property of ]. H Skinner. Just west q
the old Rock Island rOund-hOuse II
/ Shorey. The drill was procured in the
southern part o. Kansas about week
ago and the drilling company is now
looking for traction engine with which
| to work it.
Lutz the man Just released by ths
county authorities from the larceny
charge on which he was arrested OF
complaint Of Arthur Stewart an agen
of the Union Mercantile company of st
Joe, has been rearrested on forgery
charge. Lutz is alleged to have forged
the name Of Mrs. c. H. Rigby. wife O
the North Topeka candy maker, to al
order for two rugs worth s13, which h'
made away with. Sheriff Lucas wen
to St Joe to arrest Lutz, who consentes
to come to Topeka without demanding
a reouis4tion.
Saturday afternoon the city council
chine While in general the machine
worked perfectly, and tailed the vote
for each candidate correctly, it wa
found that the arrangement for open
ing and shutting the doors of the boot
was not absolutely reliable. This vii
be an easily remedied defect, but it wa
evident that it would not be safe t.
risk the machine in the election Tues
day. The voting at the fifth precinc
of the Second ward win be done in tn
good old-fashioned way, with ballots.
Fortv-two years ago last Saturda.
Kansas elected her United States sen
atOrs, James H. Lane and S Q. Pom
erOy. The vote stood: Lane, SIS; Pom
eroy, 81; Marcus J. Parrot 40; F. P
Stanton q; NJ w Delahay, 2; S. D
Houston 1 S. A KlingInan 3: A ]
Isaaks, II; NJ. F. Conway, 1. All ar
dead except Judge Kingman and S. D
Houston. Mr. Houston lives with hi
daughter, Mrs l. +. Parsons, on
farm near Salina- He was the only FIRE
state member of the first territorial leg
islature who was not unseaJed, and h
resigned.