The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-27
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Louis on Friday.
The ice cream season has been offi-
I cialIy 1naugurated.
Candidates for County OFFICERS ~. ~
ready being heard from.
Nlnewood park will be formally onen-
cd for the summer a week iron, rezt
Sunday. 9--A 'i9N1
The Strawberries on the market this
week come from Texas and sell at ten
cents a box. ~
I'D 4 D. stumpf, butcher. is the latest
aeQlIlon 10 the plain clothes men on the
A case of diphtheria has developed in
the the FAMILY of Rev. D. NJ. Fisk, 1916 Col
lege avenue.
According to the elements. if not ac-
real spring day.
The next session of the federal court
WIN commence on the first Monday in
May in Fort Scott.
Cases are set on the docket of the
alstrict court sufficient to keep the Jury
busy all of next week
SYLVAN Kline has sold his resort to
Robert Pigg. It is doubtful is it can he
any worse than it has been.
The new catalogues for Washburn
are IN the hands of the printer and
VIII be ready for distribution next
week.
Weatherman Jennings does not intend
next winter. but the best laid plans
etc, etc.
The Vermont club held its regular
meeting at the 7. NJ. c. A rooms last
night After the program refreshments
were served.
In the new Carnegie library at
Washburn there will be 900 yards of
cork carpet, costing S875 and weigh
ing four tons.
The stockholders of the Topeka Coun-
try club viii hold a meeting in the
rooms of the Commercial club ut eight
o'clock this evening.
A Gas City paper says: J. P. Rogers,
who has been conducting a store on
North Robinson street. has sold out his
store to n. A. Haggart, of Topeka.
The Emporia Gazette says: The To-
peka stores probably viii not sell any
blue Overalls for a month. The state
IS selling off its supply of army suits
Clyde Miller of Usage City was in
Topeka yesterday. He says it was
merely business visit. However, he
called at the state house before he left
town.
Look out for rain Saturday. Sells &
Downs circus opens the season then.
DID you attend the opening perform
ance of the circus last year and did you
learn to swim?
The market gardeners anticipate a
good season and predict that the prices
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meat trust will have to cut prices to
stop a vegetarian revival.
The executive council has decided
that the state employees must pay their
bills. This rule is intended to hit two
or three people who are getting a bad
reputation with Topeka tradesmen.
The Spanish war veterans have been
granted permission to put a desk in
the G. A. r. headquarters at the state
house They Will have their headquar-
tiers there with the civil war veterans.
The board of railroad commission
ers have granted the Rock Island per-
mission to grant lower rate on ice
from Norton to other Kansas points
A big ice plant has recently been built
at Norton.
Captain Y. E. Cunningham of Os-
borne is in Topeka attending the
meeting of the military board. He is
captain of the Osborne K. n. G. COM
pany and is one of the crack rife shots
of the state.
Isn't staid old Topeka getting rather
gay with automobile races, circuses, Ia
dies Ministries. old fiddlers, college and
league baseball, cock fights, boxing
matches, after Easter dances, and a
few other side entertainments?
Congressman w A Calderhead of
the Fifth district was In Topeka We'd
nesday, and called on Governor Hoch.
Mr. Calderhead says he does not think
lation at the coming session.
County Attorney J. NJ. Challis of
Atchison was in Topeka Wednesday to
see Governor Hoch about a pardon
for Jim Clark a man whom he sent
to the penitentiary in 1903. Clark
sh OF his father-in-law, but not fatally.
The White Sox will leave on Friday
morning at II o'clock on the Santa TIE
railroad for Oklahoma City, getting
there at midnight. Quite a contingent
of Topeka rooters are going down on
the midnight trains to see the opening
with the Nets.
State Auditor Seth Wells says that
he received only $54 for printing the
delinquent tax list of Neosho county
in his paper this year. In hard times
the income from this source amounted
to several hundred dollars year.
Antoine Barada. a member of the
Kansas tribe of Iowa Indians, has Of
fered to sell to the State Historical So
ciety two valuable relics which have
been in his possession a. long time The
relics are documents relating to the ear
" history of the tribe. Barada wants
SIS apiece for his two documents.
From the part that members of the
! White Sox took in the sparring exhibl-
ton at the Topeka Athletic association
on Wednesday night 1t would have to
be argued that some of them know at
least something about the game. In
Nurrhv's corner were Quigley and
Henry. and Stewart was backing
Kirkpatrick.
A steeple jack who has been painting
the tower of the Presbyterian church
has been attracting considerable atten-
ton. The man has > rope slung over
the topmost peak of the tower, support
/ ing'a board seat. A bucket of paint is
/ suspended from the seat and he sings
on the paint with as much nonchalance
as if he were sitting on the ground.
The Ottawa Herald says: Mrs. T. E
/ Sheard of Topeka, deputy organizer for
| the Select Knights and Ladies, VINO nad
| been working in the interests of the or
der here several weeks. went home to-
day for a short vacation. She viii re-
turn at an early date. Il have met
Sbeard to a reporter. I'VE have added