The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-15
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

Governor Hoch returned today from
his trip to Ottawa
Fifty-one boys attended the z. NJ. C.
A. swimming class at Cowles' pond on
Friday.
Sunday afternoon SedaIia and Topeka
will play a double header at Associa-
tion park. The first game will be called
at 2:S0 o'clock.
That weatherman Jennings can
produce all sorts of red hot weather
will be admitted, if he will stop try
ing to prove the accomplishment.
A farmer came into Judge Dick
Hayden's office yesterday and asked
to borrow the judges $3.50 saddle
horse to work during the haying
season.
State Oil Inspector Hussey was in To-
peka yesterday and fled his report.
During the month of June his depart
ment collected $1,s6S and paid out in
salaries $720.
On Monday the White Sox leave To-
peka for Is days trip, the longest of
the year; While gone they win play
and Oklahoma City.
Fritz Durein has punches of grief.
Some one stole his game rooster. his
'fghtin' chicken" the pride of his
heart. Fritz told Judge Urmy all about
it on Friday afternoon and a warrant
was sworn out for a eolored suspect.
State Live Stock Commissioner John
B. Baker says that glanders is very
I prevalent among the horses of the state.
He advises that a horse. with glanders
be shot at once. as the disease is in
durable.
Andy Jordan, who sustained four
broken ribs in mixup with Dick
IIayden's seven-gaited high school
saddle horse, still rides the thorough
bred. He has a few unbroken ribs
on hand.
sued in the supreme court by the Ross
| Oil and Gas company. 1t is an Allen
county suit, in which Eastman claimed
1922 for drilling an oil well. The jury
| decided for Eastman, and Ross appeals
the case.
having a hard time now to stop the
harvest hands who are still coming to
Kansas, apparently under the impress
sion that the harvest is sort of a con-
tinuous performance. Gerow is trying
| to switch the tide towards Nebraska,
where they need the men.
| Scott Hopkins, the Horton banker,
| and a regent of the State university,
has bought J. F. Jarrell's house on Fill
more street, and will move to Topeka.
He is going to make Topeka his home
| SO that his children can attend Wash
burn college. 1t looks as though this
is sort of a joke on the State university.
Crowd all the many large churches
| in Topeka to the doors. all the COM
bined congregations would not be q
| fraction of the number of people before
whom is placed the Saturday Sermon
on the twelfth page, in the State jour
nal each Saturday evening. This ser
mon reaches a congregation of about
$4,000 people.
It was up to Judge Urny on Friday
afternoon to determine whether or moi
a pruning knife was a dangerous wea-
pom, one not allowed to be carried. A
man by the name of Dumas, a farmer
| was arrested yesterday with pruning
knife on his person, but he insisted tG
Judge UrTny that the only use he found
for it was to cut plug tobacco AMI
prune trees. The court accepted thal
| view of the matter.
i Under Sheriff John Lucas is In
Tulsa, I. T., waiting for a warrant
and requisition to be forwarded tc
him to serve on Bill George. George
was until recently a horseshoer in To-
peka. He went to the Indian Terri.
tory and took with him a running
horse owned by another man, which
he was racing on shares. There i:
some technical sort of enbezzlemen
charged against George because ht
took the horse outside the state.