The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-24
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

Isn't it a case of dog eat dog, at
VineWood, after all?
The Igorrote's dog feast is at D. m.
and 10 D. m. this week.
| Topeka opens a series of three
games at Guthrie today.
/ The fire department luckily received
no alarms during the past few red hot
days.
! w. S. Hayslip, chief clerk in the of
fee of Auditor Wells, has returned from
his vacation trip in Colorado.
| The American Fidelity and Casualty
company of Vermont has been granted
a permit to do business in Kansas.
Mrs. Charles Samson has entered
Lady Direction in the state fair races
and Mr.. Samson has entered Lord Di-
rection.
| Congressman Charles Curtis holds
prominent place in a group of the Taft
party, in the Philippines. printed in
Golfers.
A child in the family of R. A. Moul-
ton, at APP Chandler street, is sick with
diphtheria.
state Grain Inspector ]. ". Radford
has decided to appoint c. E. Crosen of
Argonia as the new deputy inspector at
| wellington
If you felt hot yesterday, with the
mercury up to 80, read of the tempera-
ture in western Kansas, up to 107, and
you will feel cooler.
After your experience of surviving
yesterday and last night haven't you a.
slight idea of how a griddle cake feels
to be on the griddle?
Governor Hoch has accepted an invi-
tation to accompany the G. A. r. de-
partment officers to the national en-
campment in Denver next month.
On the very hottest day of the year
| the city and county authorities
doubled teams and got busy and put
| an even half dozen jointists out of
/ business.
The probate judge granted marriage
license to Darlington S. Gayitt and
Rose Augusta Gilbert yesterday. Mr..
Gavitt is the son of DR.. w. w. Gayitt of
| 300 East Fifth street.
The offices on the west side of the
| city building are so hot, SO red hot, in
the afternoons that the occupants of
many of them flock to rooms on the
east side to catch a breath.
Almost simultaneous with the ar
rival of Mother Florence, who was so
badly injured in runaway accident
yesterday, at the hospital bouquet of
! flowers reached her from the Elks.
Ed Vail, of Wichita, was in Topeka
yesterday, and packed up his drawings
| for the battleship Kansas silver service
and took them back to Wichita. He
will exhibit them in the front window
| of his store.
Assistant City Attorney Ralston an
nounced. officially. that City Attorney
Togo Dreaming was on his way home
| from Chicago in new 45-horse power
automobile with a city asphalt plant
towed on behind.
| United States District Clerk Albaugh
says that he does not know when
Judge Pollock will return from his
vacation in Canada. HE didn't know
when left there at the beginning of
the week. said Mr.. Albaugh.
Business must be picking up at the
| state treaSurer'S Office. f. G. Willard,
formerly cashier of the Merchants
National bank, has been added to the
| force of expert accountants now en-
ployed on the treasurers books.
DIR. H. H. Keith and the reporters who
went to the wreck near Rossville, Wed
nesday morning, in an automobile got
their moneys worth. The big machine
lively tilt and broke down, leaving the
party with a three mile walk in front of
| them.
Governor Ioch has consented to go
to Hays City on October 6, and make a
speech on the occasion of the laying of
the corner stone of the new gymnasium
and auditorium at the Hays City nor
NAL. The invitation to go to Hays was
delivered yesterday to Governor HOch
by ]. N. Wilkerson, president of the
Emporia State normal.
The hearing of William Shepard of
Willard before United States Commits
sioner Williams was continued on
| Wednesday afternoon until September
Is. Shepard is charged with passing a
81 bill raised to SO. Shepard is a
farmer and he told a rather straight
story to the commissioner. The au-
| thorities are inclined to believe him
innocent.
The Kelley & Lyle Milling company
of Leavenworth have filed a complaint
with the board of railroad commission
ers on coal rates. They say that soft
coal is shipped from southern Kansas
to Kansas City for so cents and to
Leavenworth for 80 cents, while on
slack, nut, pea and screenings the rate
is SO cents to Kansas City. They want
the same differentiaI preserved on
steam coal, and ask rate of 65 cents
per ton.
| w. H. Wilson, chairman of the
building committee of the board of
education, says that on September IL,
when the public schools Of Topeka
open for the year of 1905 and 1906,
they will be in better condition and
better equipped to accommodate the
school children than they ever have
been. A large amount of repair work
has been done during the summer. At
the first of the year the estimate of the
cost of improvements to be made in
the schools was $3, 500 but about &c.
600 over that amount has been spent.
Will Omit Sham Battles.