The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-01
SNAP SHOTsAT HOME NEWS.

ne WATERS SUN ana deep
With charmed power, had drawn me to
I knew. o sailor on the silent sea.
That you were sent to me-
In that sweet memory we call dream
You gave me light and comfort ,un-
The days dull cares that seem
So often sad and sickening to bear,
Dropped soundless in the stiffness OF the
And Vanished out of sight
have my burden buried in the sea
And find the shining way
Where may walk unfatterlng ana Tree
Serene and safe. beloved, while L keep
The peace you brought in sleep.
Watch for Samson's state fair auto
Wonders! The price of coal did nos
advance Monday.
Mr.. Ernest Crawford left today for
vacation at Eureka Lake
The new month started in with gen.
uine September weather.
Judge John Guthrie has returned from
a trip to Excelsior Springs.
Sheriff Lucas expects to remain n
the city during September.
The leaves are already falling from
some trees. The cause is the wet sea-
son.
c. w. Snyder is the latest recruit to
has been ordered
]. S. Dean, United States district at
torney has returned from a visit to
him home at Marion.
City Engineer James McCabe is about
sick with rheumatism. but continues to
go ahead with his work.
Frank McRea of 1920 Harrison street
is out of Christ hospital after an Illness
from abscess of the head.
The advance sale of tickets for the
state fair began today. The price of
the advance tickets is reduced.
Twenty building permits were granted
during the month of August. All were
of comparatively small amount.
Amos B. Roush has been appointed
regular u. S. mail carrier in the city.
He succeeds Carrier Groom, resigned.
r. L. Thomas has moved into his new
Quincy street cottage. 1t is the most
complete house of the kind in Topeka.
William Riley Hatch. the Kansas ac-
tor from Wichita, is still playing the
part of the tough man in THE Burgo-
MASTER"
The Washburn baseball boys are talk
ing over the advisability of employing
a coach for next season The idea is
to improve the batting average of the
team.
There were but II fires during the
month of August. and in none was the
damage very severe. Beck's mill sus-
tanned 500 loss which was the most
severe of the month.
The Shawnee Building and Lean AS
ISOLATION has over 700 plans of houses in
its office, and persons intending to build
are invited to call and examine them.
Office lis West 9th st.
Potwin people are worried because
their sewer is clogged up. Nothing can
be done to relieve them until the river
goes down so that the sand at the
month of the SavVPr can he raYaTOved
]. Ware Butterheld has just received
word from Iawton. Okla, that free
milling gold has been struck i'll the
Wichita mountains, a few miles from
Indiahoma on the Frisco railroad.
Governor Bailey has offered reward
the Parties who attempted to wreck a
Missouri Pacific train in Wyandotte
county with dynamite a few days ago.
H. c. McCarty. special agent of the
census bureau at Washington, was in
Topeka Monday arranging for the aid
of the state labor bureau in collecting
manufacturing statistics in Kansas.
The work of paving Holiday place at
the Santa Fe depot is being rushed at
top speed The bricklayers were busy
all day Sunday, and it is thought that
within another day, the street will be
ready for use.
The contract for installing a new
heating plant in the executive residence
has been awarded to F. P. Edison for
81. 292. 1t will be a hot water system.
Three other bids were submitted. rang
ing up as high as $3,1l4.
In response to an inquiry about the
location Of Sawyer Donald Moore, pub
lished in the State Journal, ]. w. Meek
er of Eskridge. Kansas, has written
saving that Mr. Moore is now living
with B. H. Brownfie1d, Everest, Kan
sas, Rural route, No. 2.
]. c. Emahizer and E. w. Hughes,
who were arrested for refusing to pay
license as installment houses, will come
before the city council Monday night
with petition asking for the repeal Of
the installment house license clause in
the ordinance.
Assistant Attorney General Pestana
will go to the southwestern part of the
state in a few days to try to make col
lections from a number of counties owing
the state seed grain accounts. Several
weeks ago he collected $1,000 from the
northwestern counties.
Rev Chas NJ Sheldon and DR.. Nor
man Plass are camping at a place call
ed Jacks Cabin. in Gunnison county,
Col. The county is so sDarsely settled
taht there are only two regular ministers
in the county The ministerial popula-
ton is just doubled so long as Mr.. Shell
don and Mr.. Plass are there
Charles L. Wilson. who has filed his
appeal to the supreme court from the
Shawnee county district court, in which
he was convicted of obtaining money
under false oretenses on cattle mort
gage and sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary, has been released on So
600 bond. 1ts
W. F. Knapp, deputy U. S. marshal,
has returned from a vacation trip to
Eureka Springs, Ark, his parents home.
Knapp says the apple business Is push