The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-31

DR.. L. H. Mum has the newest auto
mobile in Topeka.
Mrs. Thorpe. police matron. is in
Manitou for vacation.
MS. Z. G. Deity. of Kansas City, is
visiting Mrs. ]. Langston.
1t is likely to rain again tonight. The
Floto show is still in town.
The fifth crop of hay is ready to har-
vest from the court house lawn.
The delinquent tax list for this year is
much shorter than for last year.
DR.. A A. Raub has opened an office
at S21 Kansas avenue. Phone 672.
Col. Veale has some sample sugar
beets growing in the state house yard
George Fleming, Santa Fe switch
man. will spend his vacation In Kansas
City.
Won't the FIoto show please stay a
week? The gardens and fields need
rain.
Nick Chiles is in Lawrence attending
the convention of the Benevolent as
ISOLATION.
The railroads must be losing business
No one has gone to Thunder Mountain
for "a hours.
Ex-State Treasurer Frank E. Grimes
is in Lawrence in the interest of the
Orient railroad.
The Topeka Golf club has about forty
members this season and fifteen of them
actually play golf
Rev. ]. A Renwick was called to Abb
lene Thursday to preach at the tuneral
services of Mrs. c. H. Bagley.
H H. Marley was in town yesterday
Mr. Marley is travelling passenger agent
for the Michigan Central railway
Charles Gormley is organizing new
band at Ottawa to be composed OF
young men from 16 to 21 years old.
Times are dull in the district court.
as far as legal matters go. The court
house janitors are cleaning the room.
County Clerk Newman has received.
seven new applications for reduction OF
taxes on property damaged by the Hood
C. H. Matson, who was operated on
for appendicitis at Stormont hoSpltal,
was able to leave his home yesterday.
Just as a Topeka man sent his wife
and children to the cool regions OF
Colorado this chilly wave struck To-
pelSa.
The state prohibition paper, which
used to be published in Topeka is being
printed by the Emporia Gazette estab-
lishment.
Judge Hazen is still following his in
tent of not being a candidate for re-
election. He made that resolve a year
or so ago.
Thomas Legion of the Santa Fe test
department returned yesterday from
short trip to Kansas City on business
for the company.
Otis Hungate has not bought the life
preserver he intended to purchase. Con-
sequently he has not been fishing in
deep water lately.
Observer Montgomery, of the local
weather bureau station, is preparing an
official report on the Topeka flood for
the United States weather bureau head
quarters at Washington.
Robert A. Campbell, Jr., of Hutchin-
son, Kan, was yesterday commissioned
ant and battalion quartermaster of the
Kansas National guard.
Reginald NJ. Grist of Kansas City, and
Amy l.. Kearney of Topeka, were grant
ed a marriage license at Kansas City
Thursday. They gave their ages as
''over u" and over IS" respectively.
Suit to quiet title has been filed in
the United States circuit court by Dan
iel ]. Rsmey Of Johnson county. The
land when originally disposed of by
Jane Coldwater, an Indian woman, was
improperly described.
The last district court docket set for
trial before Judge Guthrie during his
last few months on the bench of the
Shawnee county district court num-
bered 1,400 cases. Disney, in Oakland,
didn't even equal that.
Harry Pierson is a new fireman at the
Santa Fe roundhouse. He will fire on a
passenger run out of here Mr.. Pierson
arrived here on Wednesday from En-
poria, his former home. He was ac-
companied by his family.
George p. Hayden. who represented
Nemaha county in the last legislature,
and a brother Of Probate Judge Hay
den, has announced himself as a candi-
date for the state senate from the Ne
a-Pottawatomie district.
The room on the third floor of the
Rock Island depot which has just been
vacated by the freight department of
that road, will be occupied shortly by
the chief engineer and his force. This
rooc< was formerly used for the time
cards.
The creditors of John w. DeHart of
Lyndon have fled a petition asking for
the appointment of a receiver for his
business. Among the claimants are
Kistler-M etzler. wholesale grocers in
Topeka. DeHart's liabilities aggregate
about 81, 800.
George T. Pitts of Wellington. a mem
Der of the Democratic state central COM
mittee, was in Topeka Thursday He
says that fusion is dead in Kansas; that