The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12
sNAP sHOTs ATHOMENEWs.


The Bates building at Sixth and Jack T
son streets is ready TO be occupied
DR.. Francis e Clark was the guest of T
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon Wednesday.
The Sells & Downs circus will open /
the season in Topeka the latter part OF +
April
The Zanditon company viii move into
the store formerly occupied by Troup's /
Enterprise.
The total registration is now nearly /
1900. This is about one-tenth OF what /
it will reach.
the parents of a daughter, Mary Louise.
born Tuesday.
The Rosebud quartette. made up of
colOred youths, VIII sing at the Lincoln
Day club exercises tonight.
Laura Jones has asked the district
court to divorce her from William Jones
on the ground of non support
Willie Kirk, the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. B. Kirk, is quarantined at ITO Mon
roe street with scarlet fever
Friday night the new lodge room of
A O. u. w lodge No IL in the Bates
building viii be opened with grand
bali.
f. A. Gould. general superintendent Of
the Missouri Pacific, has returned to
St Louis after a business visit to To-
Deka.
Eggs are down to 1215 cents a dozen
at some grocery stores that are bidding
for trade. The wholesale prices are IS
and 16 cents.
The State Temperance union has sent
out letters at the rate of 1850 a month
IL keeping Up the constant hammering
on intemDerance.
City Clerk J. H Squires delivered his
lecture on Andersonville prison to the
people Of Shorey this afternoon at the
Shorey school house.
d. P. Elliott, George Lease and w. c.
in Wednesday f.
tending meeting of the Nancy Helen
Gold Mining company.
The Owl club gave party last night.
II Cliff Baker had been real accommo-
dating be would have run an Owl car
for the members of the club
The Independent phones are being put
in the residences in the west. part of
town They were delayed on accout of
/ the shortage of copper wire
A man with a buffalo skin overcoat
was on the streets this morning. He is
about the last Of his race as Galloway
hides are taking the place of the old
bison pelts.
Are You a Rason2" which charged
dollar prices in Topeka. played in Atch--
ison for IS cents down. Until the prices
get down to en-twent-thirt everybody
who goes viii be buncoed-
Silas Rain was elected president of
the county commissioners association
at the meeting to organize held We'd
Desday afternoon G. w SearIes OF
Atchison, is secretary and treasurer.
Wednesday a reporter was trying to
find where the State Temperance union
meetings were being held. He inquired
of AL Hayslip. Frank Bates James
Sheasly and a policeman and none of
them knew.
George Turner. Of Topeka, a negro,
fired three shots at Henry Smith. of 365
Harrison street, Kansas City. at the
latter's home last evening, and Smith
may be dangerously wounded. Turner
escaped.
The LIQUOR cases. % of them. which
+ Nichols ''inouisitiOn, VIII not be tried
in the district court until the next term,
which begins April 6, after the Repub-
lean primaries
'The Tyranny of Tears which will be
at the Crawford next week. is not
fearful drama. as might be supposed,
but one that is Sull of laughs The
actors do the crying. the audience does
the laughing.
The audience will sing John Browns
Body Lies a Moulding in the Grave" at
the Lincoln Day club meeting at the
Auditorium tonight More people know
that than America" or The Star
+ Spangled Banner"
Albert Parker A. B. Quinton Eugene
Quinton, +. NJ. Davies and Charles s.
Eagle Will bore for oil at Chanute. Just
+ which one viii do the boring has not
! been stated but all of them know how
/ to handle a post auger.
dispatch says the lord mayor of
I London wears a badge Of office which
contains diamonds valued at $500 GOO II
such a thing were the fashion for the
mayors of Topeka there would be
mighty scramble for the office.
DR.. J. T. Mcfarland explained al the
F w ednesday afternoon meeting of the
/ Temperance Union The Church's Pres
ent Attitude Towards Reform. This
was sweeping and may have included
the modus operandi of police courts.
G ". Sloan. of Cowley county, was
elected president of the county clerks
+ association at the meeting held Wed
nesday afternoon at the court house.
Albert Newman of Shawnee. viii be
+ secretary, and John Cain of Sedgwick.
| will be treasurer. The next meeting win
be held at Manhattan.
Rev J. H Lockwood, presiding elder
of the Methodist church at Beloit, stated
at the Temperance Union meeting Mon
| day in talking of prohibition legisla-
/ ton: II have boy in that legislature
today and his vote viii be right He
referred to Representative Lockwood
from Cheyenne county.
H c. Corbin, adjutant general of the
I United States army, has issued the fol-
I lowing interesting general order NO. IL:
| Until further orders stoveplpe enamel
will be supplied batteries OF neld ar
tillery when called for. Three gallons
will constitute the dependable supply for
six months for a field battery
The EmDoria Gazette says; This
morning Sheriff Ed Newlin received a
telegram from VIM. Luginsland, Of
Americas, which stated that his son,
who recently returned from the Topeka
insane asylum on parole, escaped from
his home this morning and cannot be
found. Luginsland's son was thought TO
be cured when he was sent home
The case against Red" Laird, the
young man who tried to extort money
from Charles Wolff by threa tening let
ters, was called in the district court
Wednesday afternoon and was con-
tinued for the term. The case has been
-aAcTERTPns H. nal.