The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-03
SNAP SHOTS ATH0MENEWs.

The government Thermometer ranged
+ between 25 and 80 Monday.
The street cars on the College Hill line
OF the city railway were delayed early
this morning by the snow and sleet.
President Frost has named the full
! list OF standing committees for the
/ Commercial club for the present year.
At the State university the registra-
ton has passed 1900 and it is claimed
will be over ], 800 before the end of the
school year.
The biennial worry is now depressing
/ the State university at Lawrence. viii
/ the Kansas legislature do the right
Senator Stewart is going to withdraw
his joint resolution cutting down the
state printers fees third in order to
replace it with bill
The senate yesterday confirmed the
appointments Of H J. Allen, G. w.
Kanavel and Reuben Vincent on the
state board of charities.
/ The young sailors IN Topeka this week
with the naval recruiting officer at the
federal building, attract a good deal OF
attention on the street
Mrs. W. w Manspeaker. of Topeka.
who is visiting in Los Angeles. had her
leg broken a few days ago by being
thrown from a street car.
Andrew Baird, secretary of Young
4 Mems Christian Association. viii visit
4 lola today and viii hold a conference
/ with the pastors of the churches.
4 The board of education will hold an
! adjourned meeting next Monday. This
! board is becoming much excited and
4 lately has held three extra meetings.
Side Tracked viii be at the Craw-
/ ford tonight. Politicians with booms,
+ legislators with bills, janitors with re-
solves to work that have been side
! tracked" might find comfort in attend
4 ing.
The Kansas university museum Is to
have a stuffed elephant. One belong
ing to Lemon Brothers circus died re
Gently at Argentine and the hide has
been donated to the university to be
mounted.
Monday Judge Hazen was asked by a
/ lawyer to pass a motion for week IN
stead of deciding 1t Monday VIII
pass the motion until next Monday
morning" said Judge Hazen, land then
1 viii override it"
David T. Gregg says that any rumors
to the effect that he has or will with
draw from the contest for the nomina-
ton of judge of the city court are err
roneous and that he is in the contest
to the end.
The trial of Frank Kalfee. charged
with highway robbery from the person
of Frank Lewis. and others. will not be
heard within the next 20 days. c. A
NIagaw, attorney for KaIfee, secured a
continuance of the case in the district
court.
After cider" smith, the ground hog
and Director Jennings agreed on snow,
snow came In directing the elements
4 it seems that caucuses have to be held
and that all parties must decide on what
shall or shall not be served in the way
Of weather.
This said the man who was sweep
4 ing slush off his sidewalk at o'clock
this morning when he should have been
4 at his Office a half hour before, proves
that my contentious that the ground
/ hog is mythical are erroneous. laugh
/ ed at his hogship Monday and this is
where he laughs"
I The jury in the district court which
heard the suit of Fred Slater against
the Edison company to decide whether
the company owed $4,000 or not for an
engine, which the company claimed was
not up to the specifications, finally
brought in a verdict in favor of the Edi-
son company.
A Topeka young lady. who is not mar
ried, tied string tightly around her
wedding finger and left it there for sew
i eral hours. Then she took the string off
and went to see palmist. The palmist
bit like a young trout at the bait and
at once told the woman she was mar
/ ried and described her husband.
The paid admissions to the Nidwinrer
/ exposition numbered sc, 1874 The adrnis-
sions last year numbered $4,000 Last
year there were 10 days of the expOsi-
/ ton and this year Il. The first 40 days
! of this years exposition had an attend
ance within a 100 or $50 of the attend
ance for 10 days last year.
The senate judiciary committee has
given its approval to Noftzger's bill
/ on the redemption of property sold UNI
der mortgage foreclosure 1t provides
a limit of eighteen months on the time
/ in which the defendant owner may re-
deem unless where the property has
been abandoned the limit is six months.
Wednesday night at II o'clock the
Topeka El1s will give social session
/ at which several senators, representa-
tives and lobbyists may been seen. III
fact this will be sort of a highly infor-
NAL and entertaining affair for the bene
I fit of the law makers. The Elks aIwa Us
] look after the senators and representa-
/ tives during the session.
An lola paper says: THE other day
an lola grocery firm received lot of
/ apples from Topeka. They were fine ap-
/ pies and we're put on sale A travelling
man saw them and bought peck
which he took with him to his home in
I Topeka He could get them ten cents
/ peck cheaper here than he could in
1 Topeka"
/ Postmaster John Guthrie has received
notice from the department that post
! masters are forbidden to assist in col
/ Letting money due from 2ostoffice en-
+ ployes to money loaners. Money loan
4 ers send circulars to employees Offering
j to make loans on personal notes. secuF
+ ed by an order on the postmaster to pay
/ to the holder the face of the note out
Of the employees salary. Postoffiee en-
/ DIoyes are also forbidden to borrow
money in this way
A Winfield paper says: While in To-
peka last week NJ. 2. Light, the local
/ weather observer. met the section direc-
tor Of the United States bureau and in
+ formed him of his plan for giving the
F farmers daily weather reports by means
+ of flag poles erected at designated places
over The county. The director was 50
! pleased with the scheme that he for
+ Svarded a detailed plan of it to Wash
4 fngton with recommendations that it be
j put in general use
/ In the wagon case in the district court
where 81 damages was involved and
/ costs amounting to S68 were piled up a
motion was made Monday Judge Ha-
zen overruIed it. The lawyer for TIE