The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-20
sNAP sHOTs ATHOMENEWs.

This is the weather that Cider
Smith forecasted.
The jury viii be at work in the dis
trict court this week
Dr. r. r. Sanders has moved to To-
peka from Burlingame.
Charles Holland wishes a divorce
from Emma Holland because she is
cross.
Rev J. d. Countermine preached at
Lawrence Sunday on the text Man
What, Whither2"
Congressman Charles Curtis is in
Washington but he didn't leave word
when he would return.
John Bunyan Adams. representative
from Greenwood county in the last three
legislatures, was in Topeka sunday
Schroeder. the divine healer who was
IN Topeka for a time two years ago, has
returned. He viii be in Topeka a week.
The supreme court is catching up with
Ats work. During the last year only ~
cases were filed. while 800 were dis
posed Of
w H. Ryan. formerly Democratic
state senator from Crawford county
was elected mayor Of Girard IN the re-
cent municipal election
The Mission Valley Cemetery associa-
don win hold its annual meeting at 1
p. m. on Decoration day on the Gem
etery grounds at Valencia.
The druggists, who only a short week
ago were advertising various brands Of
"hard Ticker now have supply OF
malt extract in the window.
One of the things which has been
brought out against Victor Murdock
since his nomination for congress Is that
he was once an amateur actor.
Congressman Phil Campbell viii be
one of the speakers at the banquet of
the Knife and Fork club of Kansas City
on April % Senator Dolliver Of Iowa
will also speak.
Governor Bailey has appointed D. c.
Condor Grant Hornaday. Andrew }.
Sherman and w. War; of Fort Scott as
delegates to the good roads convention
to meet in St. Louis on April p.
-Four teams from the Topeka Whist
club went up to st. Marys Saturday
night expecting to have an easy game
with the whist club of that town. St.
Marys won by four points
1T rains on the just and the unjust"
Saturday the Washburn and Ottawa
baseball players We're sprinkled, but
Ottawa was playing the best ball when
the game had to be stopped.
DIT H. w. Roby secretary of the
state medical board, is preparing to
push prosecutions against persons who
are attempting to practice medicine
without being licensed by the board
The name Of Mrs A. NJ. Kester of
North Topeka was drawn IN list Of
jurors in the district court last Satur-
day. Mrs. Kester is out of the state
but if she were here she is ineligible
being a woman.
Col Alexander Hogeland addressed
the boys of the Reform school at
o'clock Sunday afternoon Tonight ne
will appear before the council in behalf
of his two proposed ordinances which
he wants passed in Topeka
The bleachers at the Washburn base
ball park are just as hard as they were
last year. There Is no roof to keep or
rain or sun but it costs something Tor
the privilege of sitting there and it is
little better than standing
Chief of Police Gon is entertaining an
idea Of establishing a tier of steel hunks
in the iail. The hunks are not very eN-
pensive. and from a sanitary standpoint
win be a great improvement on the
system now used. He will submit the
proposition to the council
Rev Chas. NJ. Sheldon is preaching
series of sermons to the children Of the
church. Yesterday the subject OF his
sermon was Growth" and he illus
trated it with bulbs OF various vines ana
plants which he later distributed to the
children in the audience.
The street railway companys trolley
wires fell in a heap at the crossing or
the Oakland and North Topeka lines,
Second and Kansas avenue, Saturday
night. The wires were not cut out and
were left lying on the street with watch
hours.
Chas. Dalgreen. an aged painter. was
cast into Jail last night, together with
one Joseph Jackson. on the charge Of
being drunk and disturbing the peace
The two had been giving a lifelike imi-
tation of the Fitz-Corbett mill, and were
covered with blood and Indignation.
They were fined s. each.
The Rev j. NJ. Jackson. who recently
resigned as pastor Of the Euclid Ave
nue. Methodist church. preached at his
former pastorate Sunday. Mr.. Jackson
is now visiting for a short time his
father at Granville, and VIII supply the
pulpit Of the Euclid church until a per-
manent pastor is secured.
From now on the brick made at the
Capital City plant west of town will be
hauled into Topeka in Rock Island cars
instead of by wagon as in the past
City Engineer McCabe is endeavoring
to have the amount of brick necessary
To keep the paving contractors busy,
always on hand so that there may be no
delay from want of material
Atchison Globe. Bale Waggener has
promised to deliver an address before
the Odd Fellows at Topeka on the 18th.
BETS are made in Atchison, Is to 1, that
he won't be there. That's his way of
advertising; he promises to speak when
ever asked, and gets his name on the
posters in big letters. and then fbs out
of going.
Saturday the farm house owned by
the Thomas family ON the Union Pacific
tracks was totally destroyed by fire. to-
gether with the barn and outbuildings.
Ut is supposed the fire started from d
Union Pacific locomotive. Most of the
live stock and household goods were
saved, but the loss On the buildings is
about $4,000
A cane made from the mast of the
Spanish flagship Reina Christina, sunk
in Manila bay by Admiral Dewey, is in
the possession of J. A. Ramsey. Nor
man Ramsey. his son, was in Manila
as q member of the Twentieth Kansas
and boarded the hulk OF the disabled
vessel with a number Of other soldiers.
lie himself cut the fragment from
which the cane was made.
The Vinewood Park railway com
menced work today on its viaduct
across the railway tracks at Thirteenth
street. The structure win be built on