The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-28
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


Harry Steinberg gives a social tackey
party tomorrow evening. Prizes given
away for the best costumes.
The county commissioners met in
regular session on Monday and looked
after lot of routine business.
Nathan B. Hart and Hattie NJ. Pave,
both of Topeka secured marriage
license at Kansas City yesterday.
John Dahlgren. famous at thespolice
Police Judge Hamilton on Monday.
Talk Of circulating petitions in Topeka
asking for the resignation OF Senator
Belts apparently meets with much
favor.
The second Ward Flambeau club Of
the Republican party will hold a meet
ing at 7:30 Wednesday evening in their
hall, 303 East First street.
The Willard ". c. T. Z. viii hold a
social meeting at the home of Mrs. Doc
ley, corner Of Seventeenth and Clay
streets, at 2.30 this afternoon.
A meeting of the Fourth ward mem
bers OF the Women's Municipal league
was held at 10 o'clock this morning at
the home of Mrs. T F. Carver, rs .Har-
EisOn street.
Claud Madison. manager of the Cres-
cent junior bowling team issues a chal-
lenge to any 16-year-old team in the
city. He may be addressed at the State
Journal office.
The city engineers force measured
the various offices in the city building
Monday preparatory to preparing esti-
mates upon the cost of papering and
kalsOmining the walls.
w. H. MaciSey. Jr-, United States
marshal, and J. S. Dean, United States
attorney, were in Kansas City yester-
day on business in connection with the
Kaw river bridge cases
The regular monthly meeting of the
Shawnee County Horticultural society
will be held Thursday, March 2, at p
m at the state horticultural rooms An
interesting program VIII be given
The regular monthly meeting of the
SnaWnEee Comfy F4ortictll tsE34s society
will be held Thursday, this week, at
O'Clock in the rooms Of the State Hor-
ticultural society at the state house.
Something ought to be done to clean
out the loafers who hang about the
police station every time a murder oc-
ours, and try to explain to everyone
who comes around just how, when,
and by whom, the crime was com
mitted-
A trail of blood along the street and
on the sidewalks all the way from the
state house to Sixth and Kansas ave
nue. has caused considerable wonder to-
day. Murders are becoming so common
that the trail of blood looked like an
other mystery. AS a matter of fact the
blood was trailed by a dog which had
been injured
The board of health met in its regu-
lar monthly session at the city build
ing last night. There was nothing of
special importance transacted. The bills
for the month were audited and the
matter of dumping refuse accumulat-
ing in the city was discussed but moth
ing definite agreed upon in the way of
a report to the city council.
Katherine Eidder opened this week
with ''Salambo" at a Chicago theater.
The Chicago papers roasted her last
week and her play "A Winters Tale"
This week the papers were more severe
than they were last week Katherine
H. ~ =
first time she has played in her town
in twelve years. Too bad Chicago does
not seem to think we'll of Miss Kidder-
In Topeka she seems to be regarded as
one of the best artists in the business
The steps leading to the portico at
the Auditorium were cleaned yesterday
evening after two weeks of fiIthiness.
It is anything but creditable to the city
to have its public building present the
appearance that the front of the porticO
presented to the eye of the passerby
for the past two weeks. It would pro-
badly not have been cleaned up last
night were it not for the fact that the
Auditorium was used
From the Fort Scott Tribune: Man
ager Jockey of the local baseball team
has received 200 applications from play
ers who want to Join the team. One is
from Pop Thompson, an old Missouri
Valley Lacquer. He is now in Gales
burg, Ill He is anxious to join the
team Another proposition IS one from
G. e Dalrymple, an old National league
player. A very peculiar proposition IS
received from a Cornell university play
er, who is ambitious to become a great
Lacquer. He proposes to come here at
his own expense. viii pay his expenses
throughout the season and If necessary
viii work for $35 a month. He con
cludes that he IS a prize and that he
viii be drafted by a big league the fol-
lowing season. He is a young man.
This story comes from the Colorado
Springs Gazette; II negotiations now
pending are completed. and IL IS very
probable that they Will be. the foot
ball team of Washburn college will
play three games in Colorado this
fall. A representative of that institu-