The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-11
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

COtAlIdCtQ4s 4AcS 1IAONCQ 10 Albuquerque.
The second crop of hay is being
harvested this season from the south
end of Central park.
Alta Shumaker secured a divorce
from Lewis Shumaker In the district
court yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Charles Smith is acting superin-
tendent of the Topeka Athletic associa-
ton in the absence of Herman Crow.
]. T. Bradley, receiver of the First
National bank, has returned to his
duties after an absence of two days
out of the city. .sa
o. P. Updegraff. who will be the Of
fetal starter of the races at the state
from trip to Denver.
Joseph A. Blondin of Topeka is now
chief assistant aeronaut to Leo
Stevens who is making successful
trips with the Baldwin airship in New
York.
c. T. Mcclellan, division superintend-
ent of the Santa Fe, received word
Saturday of the death of his father,
Theodore E. Mcclellan of Brunswick,
Maine.
G. c. Clemens says there has not
been bank failure in recent years
banks that fail seem to always hold
his notes.
Charles Blakesley: 1t is now feared
that the resignation of State Treas
urer Kelly. which was placed in
escrow during the campaign in Kan
SaS last autumn, was also in the Dew
III bank.
Auditor Wells says that he will not
authorize the payment of the bills of
Governor Hoch's advisory board. The
board has been expecting to get it's pay
out of the $4,000 appropriated by the
legislature.
The Santa Fe has filed with the state
board of railroad commissioners its
answer in the grocery commodity case
filed by Wichita. Saiina and Hutchin-
son jobbers. The Santa Fe denies that
the rates are discriminative or unjust.
The balance of the money received
by the Topeka chapter of Royal Arch
NIsDns in fees from the class Of 127
recently initiated on Jubilee day. is
tied up in the First National bank.
The funds lost amount to over ST.
001
Residents in the Douthitt tract want
more street lights in that part of the
city. They claim that several people
have narrowly escaped an accident
because of the poor lights and the
presence of the open sewers, a new
sewer being constructed in the Fifth
ward.
Secretary Johnson of the state board
of medical examination, reports that
the board received 1855 last year and
expended s3,295. The board will
meet in Topeka on Wednesday and
Thursday to examine about fifty appli-
cants for licenses to practice medicine
in the state.
Former residents of Anderson coun-
ty now Topekans will picnic at Gar
field park Wednesday afternoon.
Speeches will be made by the follow
ing x-Andersonians: Judge Abram
Bergen, DR.. w. S. Lindsay, Arthur
Capper, and J. A. Ramsey.
In taking out the tall cases from the
-ex-- tote
board of control at the state house. a
lot of old letters bearing the date of
1855 and addressed to Secretary OF
State r. A. Barker. were found. The
letters related to road matters, and
had evidently fallen in behind the
cases when those rooms were occu-
pied by the secretary of state.
A part of the levels on Kansas ave-
nue. have been taken by the city en-
gineer's force. This is in accordance
ell asking that estimates be prepared
for the resurfac cling eof Kansas avenue.
The work has been delayed, however,
through the amount of work which is
pending elsewhere over the city.
President Plass of Washburn college
is in Chicago. The successor to Pro-
fessor Ellis has not yet been appointed
and no announcement will be made for
week or more. DR.. Plass intends to
take a vacation this summer and will
not GnQodVOT TO raise any InOH0y LOT
the S1,000,O00 fund other than which
comes to him through natural chan
nelS.
Charles Samson has a very fine
trotting mule which he is training
to race in the Transmulia trotting
race at the grand circuit meet at
Memphis this fall. The purse of the
race is $1,000. Samson has named
the mule ''Tom Kelly" He has been
asked why he chose that name. Be
says Samson.
The building boom which has been
active ever since March is decidedly on
the wane. Permits aggregating $10.-
F., 900 have thus far been let, at this
rate the total will not be in excess of
| $4,000. Last month they ran over
issued: Mrs. A. E. Miller, addition to
dwelling, $500, Seventh and West
! streets; R. e. McVey. 626 Buchanan
street, remodeling barn, $500.
Saturday morning. July 1, a Topeka
man ran all the way from his office
to the First National bank ard drew
his money on deposit there. He had
received a 'stip'' that he had better
get his funds in hand. "I need no
warming" he said. and ran out of his
Office headed for the bank. The next
day this same man said that there
would have been no run on the banks
Saturday morning if the State Journal
had not printed a story Saturday
afternoon of the run in the morning.
HOW MUCH HAS THE STATE?