The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-02
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.


The White sox open up the home
season today with Joplin.
City License Collector R. F.. Clough
reports that his collections for July
were s643.50.
County Clerk Newman has granted
seventy-two hunting licenses since the
first of July.
The unexpected has happened again:
The White Sox- won another game of
ball yesterday. ESQ .-
A building permit of $4,000 has
been granted to the Y. M. c. A. for
the erection Of it's new building.
The city council will hold only one
nleetingTnext month and that will be
! the regular meeting on next Monday.
Mayor w. H. DAVIS will not take
vacation this year t,,,. IAN am too busy
Rev. R. A. Eiwood of Wilmington.
Della, speaks tonight in the Lowman
Hill M. E. church. Subject, Whose
Fault?"
The police force changed shifts yes
terday; the force that did night work
last. month will do day duty for the
next thirty days. :. -
Mr.. Paul w. Morton, a graduate of
Amherst college, has been elected in
structor in mechanical drawing at the
manual training school.
The corner of, Seventh street is being
steel bill board onothe building, occu-
pied by Mathews & Drechsel
Mr.. Volney B. Cushing of Bangor,
| Maine. will give an address in the First
4sChristian church j z tSraght. at Height
o'coick. Subject. 1;"fhe Saloon vs.. So
! ciety.'
James cuthbert has taken out a
building permit for the erection of
lone-story brick and stone business
building on lot 14S, West street. to
cost $1,500. IN ~r~t-!
| Rufus Frazier, the dog catcher, may
dispose of all of his. stray dogs to the
Igorrotes when they come here next
week. The Igorrotes claim that as
steady diet dog cannot be excelled.
Tony Demuth of the Topeka Cash Dry
Goods company paid ~ilis first months
rent to his new landlord yesterday, War
rem NJ Crosby having become the owner
of the property where the store is To-
Gated. ..,-ys
The Topeka Y. NJ, C. A. hike" club.
which left here Tuesday for Leaven-
and will proceed on their way this
morning.
Albert Summey, who has been COM
piling statistics for the government at
the station in this city, will leave soon
! for Havana, Cuba, where he Will con-
tinue in the same work.
Arthur Kane has quit smoking. He
| waited until his family was out of town
! so that he would have no one except his
friends upon whom to vent his i'll hui
NOR occasioned by the reform.
The old flash light signboard which
has been disfiguring- feature on the
| south side of the building on the corner
| of Seventh street and Kansas avenue
for a year or so has been torn down.
/ Yesterday being the first of the month
| bill collectors were. out in full force.
| They report that they were unable to
| find hardly any one who did not have
/ their money tied up in the failure of
the First National bank.
The Primary Sunday School Teachers
| union will meet Friday at 3 p. m, at the
! Y. w c. A parlors. Mrs. w. H. Holmes
will give an exposition of the lesson and
Mrs. Ida Heron will give the primary
| lesson.
The mother of Jessie Harris swore
out warrant yesterday afternoon
charging Pearl Smith with assault to
kill. This is the pair of girls who met
on Kansas avenue Monday night and
proceeded to carve each other.
Harry Trivollo of the bank commits
sioner's Office has gone to Rantoul
! where he will start a new bank. From
| there he will go to LaEygne o ma sim
| liar Grand Each bank is to be CAPT.
talized for $4,000.
Ex-Governor w. j. Bailey was in the
city yesterday attending meeting of
the directors of one of the oil com
panies in which he is interested. Who
will blame him if he isn't losing sleep
over the political situation.
Sam l. Hale, the we'll known Populist
in Rush county w11o4is also we'll known
in Topeka, has organized the La Crosse
State bank with a capital of $4,000.
This indicates that the modern Pop is
not very much afraid of the big" Red
Dragon.
/ A woman asked the transportation de-
/ partment of the Santa Fe for pass
/ yesterday and was Immediately hustled
loft to Jail Does this mean that the
officials are going to use vigorous meth
DDS to discourage the practice of asking
for free Transportation
4 The annual meeting of the board of
education will be held at the Topeka
high school next Monday evening. AT
this meeting the newly elected mem
bers will take their offices and sew
eraI of the old members step down
and out.
4 Enough blasting powder to blow UP
the whole west end of town went out
in two wagon loads to- the contractors
of the Sixth ward sewer this morning
The blasting powder comes in black
ten gallon cans. There We're several
hundred cans in the two loads
Judge Dana having refused COUNTY
Attorney Hungate new trial in the
/ case of the knights and Ladies OF