The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-30
sNAP sHOTs AT H0ME NEWs.


a week from I0esday morning.
The Masquerade Carnival at the rink
tonight promises to be a big success
John w. Newell went to Johnson
county today on some law business
Assistant City Engineer VIII King is
confined to his home with case OF
grippe.
Secretary Of State J. R. Burrow has
gone out to Smith Center to spend
Sunday
Lincoln post viii hold their annual
memorial meeting at their hall at 2;3O
Sunday afternoon.
F. W. Badger is sick with diph-
iberia at his home, corner of Sixth
avenue and Tyler street.
City Attorney Dreaming will return
this evening from athena where he
was called Thursday on business.
J. S. West will take charge of his
new office, that of assistant United
States attorney, on next Monday.
Geo. z. Cole, of Topeka, went to
Kansas City yesterday. He called on
John W. Breidenthal and others.
From now on for about two months
conventions in Topeka will be as thick
as the proverbial feas on a dogs back.
Ebenezer NcCollum of Washington,
Iowa, is here on visit with J. D. Pat
tison, sanitary sergeant 1925 West
street.
The state board of education will
meet in Topeka January s and con-
slider the work of the accredited col
leges Of the state.
LOOMS, Blair & Scandrett, Union Pa
cific attorneys, have received notice that
the 1905 annual passes will be good I'M
til January 81, 1906.
Rev. James L. Washington, the negro
boy preacher, will conduct the meetings
at the A. NJ. E. church, Seventh and To-
peka avenue, Sunday evening.
DR.. OFT, of the English Lutheran
church, is suffering from an attack of
grippe and will be able to preach but
once to his congregation on Sunday
The Topeka Democratic Flambeau
club are preparing for a big time the
evening of January Il, when they will
hold their annual installation of officers.
The city council of Oakland has des-
ignated the Oakland Blade as the Off
ciaI city paper. The action Of the c0un-
ell becomes effective after December %.
Two white doves, embIems of peace,
flew into the court room yesterday af-
ternoon, evidently looking for the par
ties interested in the Cooper divorce
case.
The speech of T. j. Anderson, sec
rotary of the Commercial club, at the
club banquet on December 5, has been
printed and will be distributed all over
the state.
The Topeka Street Railway company
has secured its much disputed fran
chise from the city council of Oakland
The citizens of the little town fought
the measure.
If the ordinance prohibiting bees from
entering the city, aceomplishes its pur-
pose, Councilman Sinner has an ordiE
ance already drawn applying to flies
and mosquitoes.
Buffalo Jones who furnished the car
cases of sixteen buffalo for the Christ
mas trade will have the heads mounted
and will offer them for sale as soon as
the work is completed.
When you get your money from the
First National bank, go to Cove county
with Eastman & LaSin, lis West Sixth
street, and buy a wheat ranch. Next
excursion January ID and 18th.
About fifteen delegates have so far
been appointed from over the state
to attend the convention to be held
in Topeka January %, relative to the
Kansas state semi
Rev. Edwin Locke, presiding elder of
the Methodist church, will speak at the
Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. rooms Sunday
afternoon at $3.50. Music will be rem
dered by Mrs. r. H. Stockton.
Frank Grimes went to Kansas City
yesterday to see A E. Stilwen, of the
Orient. Mr.. Grimes told the Kansas
CITY papers that Governor Hoch
would certainly be renominated-
The negro politicians of the city are
circulating a petition asking that an
other one of their race be placed on
the police force. The name of the APP
plicant has not been made public.
If the remarks of Councilman Horn
are to be taken as an expression of his
sentiment he does not care to have
Togo Dreaming included on the regular
bill of fare at the council meetings.
Governor Hoch will pardon Alfred
Young from the penitentiaFy. Young
was given a double sentence for burg
larry and larceny, and he will be re-
leased when he completes one of these
terms.
The state insurance department is
on the trail of the American Pro-
tectors. a fraternaI insurance order at
taken out a license to do business in
the state.
Councilman c. K. Holiday will pre-
side at the council meeting Tuesday ev-
ening which is the regular January
meeting of that body. Mayor W. H.
Davis will be absent in Chicago on a
business trip.
The board Of county commissioners
yesterday held that the taxes assessed
against the church property of the Sec
ond Presbyterian church in North To-
peka cannot be collected as the property
is exempt from taxation.
The reception rendered to the State
Teachers association on Tuesday
night at the manual training high
school was one of the features Of the
convention. 1t was gotten up by a
committee Of Topeka teachers.
G. W. Kline who is a law student at
.Vashburn has been appointed as
stenographer in the county attorney 5
office Mr.. George Bell who has filed
the position for some time past having
resigned to open an office Of his own.
l. NJ. Crawford has closed deal for
a block of ground in the heart of the
city of FL Paso, Texas. and viii immed-
lately commence the construction Of a
modern theater building, to take the
place of the one recently destroyed by
fire, in that city.
Hanley & Richie. contractors on the
sixth ward sewer, are running into
considerable water and stone in exca-
waiting on and just north of HuntoOn
- street This