The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-15
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

That 1T viii be a long dry spell uu-
less there is rains' is being revived.
Miss Fay Engle Of the city schools
left today for Colorado Springs to spend
the summer.
The McClurg illustrated lecture at
the Auditorium last night was re-
peated before 500 people.
The Sons of the American Revolu-
ton are planning to celebrate the
glorious Fourth in patriotic style.
Two OF the colOred workmen on the
Sixth ward sewer were overcome with
the heat yesterday and were forced to
quit work.
The city court was not in session yes
terday as Judge McCabe was celebrat-
ing with the other Washburn students
and alumni.
A marriage license was issued in
Kansas City. Mo, yesterday to George
A. Price of Kansas City.
C. r. Noe, editor of the Leon Indi-
Gator, was in Topeka yesterday. Noe
lives in peace and harmony in the same
county with Bent Murdoch
Kansas city Star: who is the D.
W. Mulvane who is asking for a gas
franchise in Argentine and who is
backed by +. i. Vandegrift2"
Secretary Anderson of the Com
merciaI club viii attend the Council
Grove railroad board of directors
Washburn students are packing up
their trunks today and leaving town. |
The usual number of Washburn youths
are starting out west to sell views.
The Baker university male quar-
tette will give a musicale at the
Euclid Avenue Methodist church this
evening at o'clock. No admission
fee is charged, and the public is in
vited
A strong city paper says: L. NJ.
Mo- rf-ru- &C. .sA
Saturday. He received several cars of
cattle which he bought in Dodge City
and drove out to his ranch.
IT. A. McNeaI left last evening for
Denver. He viii spend the rest of
the week visiting various Colorado
mining propositions in which he IS in
terested, and viii also visit the state
printing plant of Colorado.
Mayor W. H. Davis is suspicious OF
the necessity Of Q. K. Holidays visit to
Chicago and thinks it a subterfuge to
delay action on the liquor ordinance
which is referred to the judiciary com
mtttee of the city council Of which c.
X. Holiday is chairman.
Miriam Murphy, the little daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Murphy of
Kansas City, formerly of Topeka, is at
the Pasteur institute, Chicago. She
was bitten by pet dog last week
which showed some symptoms of
hydrophObia. and her parents took
her to Chicago.
Judge @. =. Foote criticises the pres
ent rates for water supplied by the wa
terworks The average cost to d man
on a meter, says Mr.. FoOte for the
month Of May was Sz.12 while for the
man not on a meter, 66 cents. He be
heves that an equitable arrangement
should be made.
The new officers of the Washburn
College Alumni association elected
Wednesday are: President, w. W. Fin
ney Of Neosho Falls, class Of '94: vice
president, Mr.. W. G. McGaW. Topeka,
81: secretary and treasurer, Miss Hat
tie Halbert, Topeka, class co. The posi-
ton Of secretary and treasurer has been
made permanent.
Governor Hoch's private Office is in
the hands of the renovatOrs, and it
will be thoroughly overhauled within
the next few days. The walls and
ceiling are being cleaned, and may be
newly tinted if the cleaning process
does not give satisfactory results. A
new carpet will be put down and
everything fixed up in good shape.
During the trial of the men charged
with safe blowing, in the district court,
the attorney for the defendants asked
il a wooden box, contents, cover, labels
and inscriptions was to be introduced in
evidence 'in toto" The story told at
the court house is that County Attorney
Oyama Hungate replied, with some
warmth, mo. there is no Togo about
this case
Though Judge Pollock is expected
to return from St. Paul by June 20
where he is sitting with the United
States court of appeals. he wrote on
Wednesday that the oral arguments
had just been finished, which indi-
Gates that he may not be back for
some time yet. Upon his return he
is expected to appoint a special master
to hear testimony in the Kaw river
injunction cases.
The Manhattan Nationalist says:
James Evans, the boy convicted some
time ago of robbing the Spot Cash
store and sent to the reform school at
Topeka, escaped Saturday. The an
thorities promptly notified Marshal
Boiler who kept watch for the run
away. This morning he and Night
Marshal Dougherty went to the home
of Evans parents and found him. He
was taken back to the reform school
this noon.
Mayor ". H. Davis is asking for
speedy settlement OF the garbage con-
tract matter. The Topeka Desiccating