The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-04
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.
THE COUNTRY.


And think Of the big, green meadow.
And where the cattle are standing
Knee deep in the rush fringed pool.
will go deep in the woodland
And sit on the grass SO green;
7 will go where the beautiful violet
And Jack-in-t he-bo2z are seen.
-Orville Younkin, Sixth Grade Euclid
[verse writers are invited to send contri-
buttons to the State JournalI
E. F. Ware has been in Coffeyville
on legal business.
The Commercial club meets one week
from Friday night
The Isaak Waltons are busy at Lake
View these fine spring days.
Spring house cleaning is the order Of
the day at the federal building.
The local Western association season
opens one week from tomorrow.
William George, the blacksmith,
contemplates moving to Tulsa, l. T.
Herman Crow is going to Idaho to
work his placer gold mines in June.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Sreesh of goa
Madison street are the parents of a
baby boy.
Quite number of Topeka lawyers
have been attending court up at Alma
this week.
The Harry Stafford Monument Concert
by AIarshall's band will be given at the
Auditorium tonight.
William Connors, of Crosby Bros. is
moving from 622 West Tenth street to
522 West Tenth street.
a big force of men are working at
Vinewood park in order to get it into
readiness for the opening on next Sum
day.
Deputy County Attorney Wesley I.
Jamison spoke at a mass meeting held
by the colored citizens of Coffeyville
last night.
L. R. Allen, general manager of the
Las Vegas Daily Optic, is spending
several days in Topeka. He is en-
route for Chicago.
The concert by Marshall's band and
Prof. Penny for the benefit Of the
Stafford monument fund will be held
at the Auditorium tonight.
Frank Mohler who has secured the
Rhodes scholarship, will take a his
tory, political economy and English
course He will probably fit himself
for teaching.
Part of the plastering fell off the
ceiling in the Commercial club office,
with the result that business there is
somewhat at a standstin While the re-
pairs are being made.
Jailer Ed woodruff ordered a barrel
of lime and some mops this morning
and intends to do a little cleaning in
the cell room, which is infested with
bedbugs and other vermin.
John Menger and family of San
francisco, Cal, who are journeyiDg
eastward to Pennsylvania, will stop
for several days to visit Mrs. Paliga
Fuller of 7O5 East Tenth street.
J. G. Bloom, principal assistant en-
eineer of the Rock Island is in Mis-
souri, today with II. F. White. engineer
of maintenance and way. They Will
make a trip over the Kansas lines of
the road tomorrow.
c. J. Devlin, of Topeka, has purchas-
ed the controlling interest in the Big
Muddy Colliery company. in Franklin
county, ILL., the consideration being
$4,000 MIR. DevIin is securing large
coal holdings in southern Illinois.
Senator George, Hayden has been
granted permission by the judge of the
juvenile court to ride the $3.50 saddle
horse owned by his brother, Dick
| Hayden. This mandate has been
spread upon the records of the court.
DR.. Hogeboon,I city physician.
thinks that the sanitary sergeant has
enough work and that it would prac-
tically be impossible to shoulder the
duties of the free employment bureau
upon that officer as Mayor Davis sug-
gested.
City Attorney Dreaming will make
/ his formal entry into police court legal
! proceedings on Friday. A number of
! left over liquor cases will be tried at
that times and the new city attorney
i will be present to prosecute them in
/ behalf of the city.
| Henrietta Crosman was at the Craw-
ford theater last night in Mistress
/ Nell" The performance was narred Oh
! account of the delays caused by made
/ quacies Of the Crawford stage. Other
/ wise the performance was up to her
! usual high standard.
The ottawa Herald says: Mark
/ Shields, the negro boy who broke into
! the Western Union telegraph office and
/ who was yesterday sentenced to the
! Reform school, is in the county jail
/ awaiting the result of the application
! to the Reform school at Topeka to ad-
nit him.
Lieutenant Governor Dave Hanna
saws he is getting tired of being away
from home. He is anxious to get back
to Hill City and build his new house.
When 1 go home after TINS Fa IA pa
board meeting" says Mr.. Hanna, I ex-
| pect to stay away from Topeka until
the next session of the legislature"
Colonel ]. H. Durham, ex-member
| of the legislature from Lincoln county,
is in Topeka today on law business.
Mr. Durham speaks enthusiastically
of the grain prospects in his county,
and says the present prospects Tor a
mammoth yield of graf mare the best
/ ever known.
Mike Iyddon and Mike Graney, two
| of the double trackers'' from the grad
| ing camp east of town, were arrested
last night by officers Summers and
i Hull for disorderly conduct The grad
1 ers were engaged in a little fstic con
troversy. which cost them S. each in
police court this morning.
Twenty-Five men have been employed
in Topeka to go to Chicago as strike
brea kers in the teamsters' strike at that
CITY. Flattering inducements are being
offered. Wages at s. per day and
transportation to Chicago is the magnet
which is attracting thousands of men
from all parts of the country TO Chi
cago.
The supreme court yesterday listened
to arguments in the Brant case. Thorn
ton .Brant murdered his wife. and her
property, which he thereby inherited
Il he decided to his lawyers to defend him
Brant is serving a hang sentence in the
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