The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-29
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

Governor HOch is not at home today
He has gone to Marion '.for a much
needed rest
]. L. Bristow is in Topeka today and
he isn't a bit more corpuleIft than he
was when he was just plain plug edi-
tor.
A firm in Dubuque, Iowa, that manu-
features drainage apparatus for refrig-.
orators wants a location for its factory
in Topeka.
Norman Ramsey, second lieutenant in
the Ninth infantry u. s. A.. will leave
for the Philippines to join his regiment
on the 18th of September.
Sam Hale of La Crosse is in the city
on business relative to the organization
of a bank at his home town. Mr. Hale
will be one of the directors.
Now the people are threatened with a
new danger when natural gas reaches
Topeka. 1t is odorless and you may be
asphyxiated without warning.
Yankee from Providence. r. l.. has
written Secretary Coburn for a posi-
ton in the wheat fields for August
Evidently he thinks Kansas has
wheat harvest every month in the year.
The Bankers Surety company of
Cleveland was yesterday admitted to. do
business in the state. What Kansas
needs most just at this time is not
quantity in security, as much as quail
ity.
Lueila r. Krehbiel, state lecturer
for the Socialists, will address the
Economic league at 119 West Sixth
street Monday evening. She will also
address the Socialist local at the same
place at p. m. Sunday.
The monthly meeting of the Shawnee
Count Horticultural society will be held
| at Shorey August 8. Besides an interest
ing program business relative to the
society, hence good attendance is de-
sired.
A curious stranger from out of town
called at the rooms of the state histori-
cal society yesterday for the express
purpose of seeing the thigh bones of
Quantrell. He thinks he saw them and
may be he did but at any event he es-
capped unframed.
Street Commissioner Ramsey will
have to hunt a new place to dump the
street sweepings. He has been dump
ing the refuse on low lot at Second
and Harrison streets in accordance
with instructions from the owner of
the lot. The neighbors object, how
ever, claiming that the sweeping give
off an odor.
An architect is working on plans for
either two modern buildings or a fiat
to be built Immediately on the six
| lots on the east side of Kansas avenue
between Eleventh and Twelfth streets.
Mrs. J. G. Freshman owns the lots.
and will spend $4,000 each for the
residences, or if she should decide on
the fiat will expend $4,000 on each
nat.
John Coyne, formerly bailiff of the
district court, has been appointed a
sewer inspector upon the Sixth ward
! sewer tHanley and Richie, the con-
tractors have been working so fast that
we have been unable to keep up with
them with the number of inspectors
that he had employed" said Mayor w.
| H. Davis in explaining the appointment.
There is a large pool of filthy water
on the Sixth avenue road Just after
crossing the little stream near the city
limits. It gives off an odor that sug-
gests typhoid, malaria, smallpox and
other diseases and is a disgrace to the
county. Why doesn't some public spir-
tied citizen fill it up since the board of
health doesn't
City Engineer McCabe will leave
next Monday for the Portland expo
sftion and the Pacific coast. He will be
gone from two to three weeks, and
will take in all of the scenery that
is to be seen in the western stretch
of the United States. Returning he
will come by way of the southern
route to California. Mrs. McCabe will
accompany him.
A petition for the paving of Clay
street from Tenth avenue to Thir-
tenth street is being circulated. With
the pavement down Clay street for its
entire length would be paved There
ever, because it only makes the pave
ment one of 80 feet in width With
the presence of the double car tracks
down the center of the street it is
claimed 80 feet is too narrow.