The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-10
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

The detention hospital now has
seven smallpox patients.
The Forepaugh & Sells shows will
be in Topeka on the 4th of September.
The Labor day festivities will be
held at Vinewood park this year on the
4th day of September.
The state board of railroad commits
sioners held a meeting yesterday, and
authorized a few minor changes in
rates.
A new sidewalk has been built on
the Fourth street bride over the Shun-
ganunga by Street Commissioner
Ramsey.
The board of directors of the State
Fair association will meet at the Com
merciaI club rooms at o'clock Satur-
day afternoon.
Yesterday was pay day for the en-
ployes of the street department and
those holding miscellaneous claims
against the city.
The bond of M. Heery. who will
erect the new building at the reform
school, was approved by the board of
control yesterday.
William Rodgers, who has been man
ager of the Crawford theater at Ell
Paso, will take a medicine show out on
the road this fall.
The Whiting and Bown- an families
returned last night from their camping
trip to Maple Hill. They have been il
camp about six weeks.
Judge A. w. Dana left for Denver,
Colo, today where he will rest for
few days before the opening of the
September term of court.
Unless the macadam walks around the
state house are paved with asphalt
soon, they will become impossible on
account of the rank growth of weeds.
All tickets sold to the infected yellow
fever districts in the south are sold
subject to quarantine delays" by the
various roads running into these dis
tricts.
DR.. H. B. Hogeboonn, city physician,
who has been critically i'll for two
weeks, is convalescing. although it will
be several weeks before he will be able
to be about. $3.50
Roy Crawford stopped in Topeka to
nave a conference with his partner, A.
S. Kane. Mr.. Crawford likes FL Paso
but like the little boy he has had about
enough of it.
Tiff w. Felix who has been visiting
in Ottawa has returned to Topeka again.
The Jones Dry Goods company is fig
urlng upon opening up branch store
in Leavenworth.
A marriage license was issued in
Kansas City yesterday to Adolph john
son, aged "a, of Topeka, and Alma
Stolberg, rs years of age and resi-
dent of LindsborS.
Ralph GREELEY was yesterday refused
admission to the reform school on the
plea that there is no room there for him.
All of the state institutions are crowded
beyond their capacity
The Christian Standard special passed
through Topeka yesterday for Los An
geles with delegates to the national con-
vention- of the Christian church. That
should be a good train to ride on.
Now that Governor Hoch is absent
from the state, Lieutenant Governor D.
]. Hanna can play governor. In case
of an emergency, Hanna might be call
ed to Topeka from his home in Hill City.
The state board of control is up
against another lien case. A Russian
woman out in Trego county has gone
crazy. She is not an American citizen.
and the state will try to have her de-
ported.
This being the season of fish stories it
might be well to mention that DR.. Law
renee Chamberlain, late of Topeka, re-
Gently caught a 500 pound Jew fish near
his home in the Cedros Islands, off the
coast of Mexico.
DR.. H. L. Aldrich, superintendent of
the Caney hospital. formerly lived at
1O6 West Eighth street, and also at
Dover. He is now city physician of
Caney, Montgomery county, thriving
little city in the heart of the gas and
oil belt.
The joint business under the new adj
ministration seems to be good thing.
Frank Raynor, one of the admitted
leaders in the jointist profession, took
out d permit N6SlSIQdy lOI lAS 6ICCllOli
of a concrete building at Alb West Cur
fist street.
At 4:15 yesterday afternoon the fire
department was called out for the sec
ond time during the day by false
alarm. The alarm was turned in from
First and Monroe, just one block from
the place where the first act of that
kind occurred.
Clarence Barford, who has been in
the general passenger department of
the Santa Fe for several years, has
been promoted to the position as night
ticket agent at the depot to succeed
Taylor Belcher, who goes to the city
office of the company in LeavenWorth.
The new city stationery has been re-
| ceived from Crane & Co., the successful
bidders. The stationery costs just about
one-half of the old style of stationery
formerly in use. The city building cut
does not appear and in its place the
name of the department is simply
printed.
]. L. King returned from a trip
through the east yesterday. Mr.. King
left here more than a month ago as
delegate to the Elks convention at
Buffalo, and he says that he has Just
been visiting around since. The re-
mainder of the delegates have been
home for several weeks.
City Clerk Squires is going to enter
in the drawing for quarter section
in the opening of the Uintah reserva-
ton lands Ralph Squfres, his son,
is now in Grand Junction to file his
fathers application for a claim. The
drawing will take place at Vernal,
Utah, on August II. The entries close
on the 18TH
H. B. Howard, who left last week
with members of the Christian En-
deavor society of the First Congrega-
tional church for a weeks camping
trip near Maple Hill, reports that the
party is enjoying itself and that fish
ing is fine. There are about twenty in
the party and expect to break camp
next Monday.
Mayor w. H. Davis has been in
vited to send three delegates from To-
peka to attend the League of Amer
lean municipalities, which holds its
annual convention at Toledo. Ohio,
August 1925. If very many more
delegates are appointed from Topeka