The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-12
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

Ex-County Supt. Silas f. Wright
has been appointed to a place in the
Kansas City, Kas., schools.
Adjutant General ]. w. F. Hughes
and his office force is now located in
the basement of the state house.
Topeka now has four vaudeville the
aters. They are dividing the patronage
almost as much as the churches.
c. E. Hawley late cashier of the First
National bank who has been sick with
nervous trouble, took a walk last night.
There is a strong vaudeville bill at
Vinewood this week. The Olson
Brothers and Mons Dubec with his dogs,
cats, rats and monkeys are the features
Emma L. Porter has asked Judge
Dana to grant her decree divorcing
her from William Porter. She charges
that William left home in 1901 and
has not yet returned.
The state board of railroad commits
sioners decided yesterday to postpone
| their decision in the K. C. Belt-K. C.
Southern cttse. The plan is now to de-
eide the case next week.
The alleys in the down town business
district are in bad shape. Accumula-
tons of garbage and other filth which
has been permitted to- lie around with
out removal are breeding disease.
State Auditor Seth Wells is planning
to start on Saturday for six weeks
| trip to California and British Columbia.
| If Governor Hoch wants that executive
council meeting he had better hurry.
| George Myers, a civil engineer of To-
peka was last night selected by the city
| council of lola as city engineer. Myers
| is a graduate of the state university
| and has been with the Santa Fe for
| six years. H5
DR.. r. d. Webb of Nortonville, one
of the Oldest and best known physi-
cessfully operated upon in Christ
hospital, Topeka, Saturday for gall
stones.
| The Chase building at S12 Kansas
avenue is to be converted into vau-
deville theater, to be opened August
20 by the Novelty theater circuit,
which has headquarters in San Fran
| cisco.
Sadie Estes filed suit in the district
court yesterday afternoon asking for
no reason why she should continue to
be his wife and still earn her own
living.
Mr.. o. Swanson. the contractor,
who lives at sos East Eighth avenue,
says that the report that he will move
to Albuquerque is a mistake. He says
| he intends to continue in business in
Topeka.
The fifth annual reunion of the
Twenty Kansas volunteer regi-
ment, colored, which made a trip to
Cuba during the Spanish American
war, will be held at the fair grounds
August s and Z.
| Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts of Ottawa
| thinks that the governor should take
action on the Jesse James order of
shows and keep them out of the state.
Justice is derided and crime APP
plauded.'' says he.
The Palace Clothing Co. are selling
all of their low shoes at two prices.
Stetson and Boyden SIS and Sc shoes
$3.50; WaShburn 81 and $3.50 shoes.
$2.S5. In this last lot they include five
| lines of Florsheim's So shoes.
| Governor Hoch yesterday honored the
| requisition Of the governor of Missouri
for Ude Flowers, wanted inTexas coun-
ty for burglary and larceny of some
watches and other goods. Flowers is
! under arrest at lola
I. S. Curtis, clerk of the district
court, wants the city to pay the costs
due in the 1875 liquor cases which were
dismissed in the district court after
the supreme court declared the city
| liquor ordinance invalid.
A meeting of the Topeka Retail Gro
| GERS Association will be held at the
Commercial Club rooms tonight for the
| purpose of making arrangements for
the annual grocers' and butchers picnic.
which will be held at Vinewood Park on
July &c.
George Morgan, of Anderson county,
| who was sentenced to the penitentiary
| for five years for burglary, was re-
Governor Hoch yesterday. He had been
in about three years, and his pardon
was recommended by the judge who
sentenced him.
| The Kansas authors club will hold its
| midsummer meeting tonight at the
| residence of the president, DR.. H. w.
Roby, at Twenty-first and Kansas ave-
! nue.. 1t will be in the nature of lawn
| party. Members are invited to bring
| their friends. All lovers of literature
/ are welcomed.
The managers of the Air Dome theatre
| and the newsboys and bootblacks have
signed up a protocol of peace. The
| youngsters have been climbing trees and
| houses nearby to see the show. So on
Thursday night, the management pro-
poses to let all hopefuls in free, if here
| after they will no longer hang out on
limbs and break down the water-ken-
nels on neighboring buildings.
A letter has been received by Mrs. ].
| T. Danley of Topeka, from her daughter
/ Mrs.. Thomas Gray, who with her hus-
| band, is a missionary i'll the Micronesian
| Islands off the scuthea st coast of Aus
| tralia, saying they passed through a
| Ponapa natives were destroyed. Mr.. and
| Mrs. Gray are there from Topeka and
supported by local Congregational
churches.
OF special interest to advertisers:
1.-The city, as well as the total, daily cir
culation of the Topeka State Journal
SO far this month has been greater
than during any previous July in the
history of the paper. Friday adver-
Users should not fail to have their
copy ready by Thursday to insure care
in preparation and insertion. Some
times the State Journal is compelled
to leave out advertising coming in late
Friday morning.
The following is from a Lawrence pa
per: Lawrence people who were at
Kansas City declare that the cur dog
which Walter Scott, travelling on the
Santa Fe special from California to
Chicago, picked up on the streets OF
Los Angeles, before he started on the
trip was Ben Elk the woolly white dog
which made it's home at the Elxs rooms
in Lawrence for a year or more, and
which finally left here and was heard
from in Topeka. The dog degenerated