The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-06
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

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The White Sox will return home next
Monday.
The board os county commissioners
win meet tomorrow.
Central park lake is now in excel
lent condition for tub regatta
The State Bank of Dover will be open
ed within a week. The building is COM
pleted.
The heavy rains have revived the
blue grass which was suffering for
moisture
Ada L. Black has filed suit in the
district court against Charles Black for
divorce. She charges cruelty
Miss Grace Miller. deputy city clerk,
is in the Indian Territory spending her
two weeks vacation with relatives.
County Attorney Hungate is con-
templating another fishing trip. Look
out for another joint raid by the
sheriff.
w. H. Thompson of lola, formerly
clerk of the appellate court in Topeka,
is here to argue a case before the su-
preme court.
The owners of the Topeka baseball
park ought to have chrome. They
have put up board shade at the rear
of the grandstand.
Herman Crow, superintendent of the
Topeka Athletic association, leaves to-
QttJ lOI 1lldAiO 10 operate HIS placer
mines during the summer.
Frank Grimes: 81 wish that the State
Journal and Capital reporters would
play "a ball game so that I would have
another chance to umpire"
Chairman Taylor os the transporta-
ton committee of the Commercial club
says that he is meeting with great sue
cess in getting subscribers for the To-
peka Trade Train.
The police department will receive a
new equipment of clubs. Mayor w. H.
Davis is considering the quality and
character of wood which will enter into
the construction of the new clubs.
Chief of Police Goodwin left this af-
ternoon for Buffalo to attend the EIks
annual conclave. He will be gone for
about ten days. First Sergeant Gardi-
ner will be in charge of the force in
his absence.
The waterworl1s committee of the city
council meets this evening at o'clock.
The ordinance prepared by City Attor-
ney Dreaming specifying the character
of the management of the plant will be
considered by the committee and no
slight changes.
Representative E. L. Kerns, of Logan
county, has decided to move to Topeka
and open up a real estate Office here Tor
the sale of western Kansas land. Mr..
Kerns is in the city at present looking
for a suitable office. While in the
house, Mr.. Kerns had the distinction of
being the youngest member. He was
married during the session.
For twenty years Dennis Hope, an
educated negro, has been connected
with the First National bank as gem
eral utility man and collector. He is
the only Hope left to console the di-
rectors and depositors, and before the
affairs of the institution are wound up
it is probable that he will not be the
only man connected with the bank
whose name is Dennis.
W. F. Sager, of Stanberry, Mo, was in
Topeka yesterday on, his way to Liberal,
Kan, where he will make his headquar-
tiers while engaged in selling off 11,520
acres of land in Stevens and Haskell
counties. Mr.. Sager is a real estate
man, and knew of 70 quarters of land
in those counties owned by eastern peo-
pie. He traced the owners around the
country, and finally located them at
burlington, Iowa, where he closed a
deal with them for the entire u quar-
ter sections.
Chief of Police Goodwin is still fight
ing for higher salaries for his police
men. 1t is a recognized fact that To-
peka is paying it's officers less than any
town in the United States, not barring
Podunkville and Razorback Town. a
Topeka policeman gets 81 for twelve
hours work. Chief Goodwin on We'd
nesday afternoon mailed each council
man a schedule of what other towns
in the United States of Topeka's size
are paying their police officers. He
hopes this will have some effect in get
ting them to do something.