The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-08
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The northern SHOWS. the southern rose
Have known your wandering
New Englander, New Englander,
OF all these varied climes,
OF all tina lands whose wales and sands
Are sung thousand times,
Ken you one breeze whose dearest breath
Is like the old old air?
Ken you one rood-coast, plain or wood
AS those of old so fair?
New Highlander. New Englander.
Your heart Is staunch ana tFue's
Il never yields to other fields
The love that first 1t knew
FOR though mid regions e'er so blest
Is cast your daily lot,
Your mind harks back, the homeWard track
To some New England spot
Edwin l. Sabin. in Atlantic
Congressman Curtis was in Kansas
City Wednesday.
Wednesday was the day cider" Smith
expected storm and rain.
D. w. N1uIvane. of this city. was in
Kansas City Wednesday.
Topeka hunters report that ducks are
not plentiful in this vicinity.
The American Benevolent association
will initiate class of fifteen Monday
night.
Duck hunters report that the game
seems to fly unusually high this year
It always seems so.
T. A Mcneil of the. Mail and Breeze
Is visiting the Chanute oil fields, where
he has some property.
This mornings temperature was
what the late Harmon Wilson would
have described as "chizzly.'
This was one of those mornings when
the bracing air makes you feel like
millionaire. if you walk fast.
Guy Adams has purchased a new
automobile which will be delivered
here about Christmas time.
A regiment of U. S. infantry camped
at the reform school last night. They
are on their way to Fort Riley.
A class of twenty-five candidates
were initiated by Capital City tent "a,
knights of the Maceabees, last even
ing.
4 business meeting of the First Unit
ed Presbyterian church will be held at
o'clock Friday evening, at the parSon-
age. az Tyler street
A marriage license was issued at
Kansas City Wednesday to John Pat
zell, Topeka, aged SO, and Katherine
, Rohrig, Topeka. aged %
Have YOU gotten your season football
ticket? The first game will be PLAYED
on the Washburn field Saturday after
noon-Washburn VS.. the College of EN-
bo~ia.
John Londberg, who used to have
stable of fast horses in Topeka, now
lives at Meriden. He still raises fast
horses and has a half~nlife track on his
farzss.
The railroads entering Wichita have
declined to make any concession from
their announced rates for the grand
lodge Of the Odd Fellows which begins
Monday.
civ Engineer McCabe will ask the
city council for authority to buy
new transit instrument. The one now
in use was purchased in 1886, and IS not
reliable for close work.
Owing to the fact that the flood
washed out many of the stakes in
North Topeka it is likely that great
portion of the town will have to be re-
surveyed by the city engineer.
The band with the Sixth regiment,
which was camped near the Reform
school last night gave a concert for the
boys of the institution during the even
ing, which they greatly enjoyed
The case against Fritz Durein, the last
of those brought by A. f. Redden, as
assistant attorney general, was set for
Yesterday in the district court but was
continued on account OF Judge Redden
illness.
F. H Harding. a hay dealer of Du-
rand. Woodson county, has filed a com
plant against the Missouri Pacific with
the railroad commissioners, stating that
he is unable to secure cars IN which TO
ship hay.
Samuel T Howe. member of the city
council from the Fifth ward. will go
to Colorado today to look after the
placer mines there of which he is su-
perintendent. He will be gone about
thirt-7 DAYS. t-
Senator J. r. Burton was in Topeka
Wednesday afternoon on his way To
Kansas City to make speech before
the river improvement congress there in
favor of his scheme to prevent floods
by storing flood waters.
A meeting of the city officials to dis
cuss the joint question was held We'd
nesday afternoon. as reported in the
state Journal, but the parties interest
ed refuse to give out any information
as to what was done.
Major T. J. Anderson has proposed
that Topeka people get together and
raised in Shawnee county. The corn
should be used in making a display at
the worlds fair at ST. Louis.
John Fleishmann. the Topeka high
school boy who is now trying to get a
place on the K. Z. team. was out at
Washburn athletic field last night and
watched the Washburn and high
school teams play practice game.
H. ]. Allen. chairman of the state
board of charities. is in Topeka. He
says that the new asylum at Parsons
will be ready for occupancy in a very
short time. and that epileptics from the
other asylums will then be taken there
A new policeman will be added to the
force tonight. He is John Hart, who
has been resident of the city three
years and has been clerk. No one is
TO be fired" to make a place for him
as the force is short two or three men,
Washburn's graduating class has de-
cided to buy caps and gowns The
boys will decline to year them regular
" in public for feas the impression
may gain footing that the gowns are
used to conceal holes in their trousers.
The judiciary committee of the city
council will recommend to the city
council that the suit brought by the
Crawford Amusement Syndicate COM
pany for the destruction of billboards
by u mob be compromised for 5000 and
co=s~
Coach Bert Kennedy is hammering
away at the defensive work of his