The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-16

| MI ana Mrs. Noah Holmes OF 5U3
Liberty street are the parents of boy.
A handsome souvenir will be given
night.
The booths of the exhibitors at the
Mldwinter exposition are just a little
| more attractive than ever before If
such a thing is possible.
Sheriff A. T. Lucas and family are
vacating the residential portion of the
| county jail building and moving to
| their new home at Oil Fillmore street.
The jury at the district court was
dismissed at noon yesterday until nine
o'clock Thursday morning, as there are
no jury cases on the docket for the
time intervening.
a partial eclipse of the moon which
| is scheduled for the 18th of the present
month will be visible in this section of
| the country providing the atmosphere
| is clear at that time.
The owners of sleighs and cutters as
we'll as renters of the same were abroad
| in all of their glory last night with the
| bells keyed to their highest pitch by
the frost which was in the air
Postmaster Rogers announces that for
certain reasons he does not care to go
to congress, and that same reason
| makes that body exclusive and keeps
999 men out of every 1000 out of it,.
The first annual meeting of the Re
tail Furniture Dealers of Kansas con-
vened at the rooms of the Commercial
club this morning at O'Clock, with a
| members.
The Topeka patrons of the Midwin-
ter exposition seem to have the sam
pie habit in an aggravated form and
some of them, women, of course, car
ry shopping bags in which to carry
away their findings.
The street railway company is
double tracking from Clay street
around to Buchanan street on the
Washburn college car line. This is
| done in order to facilitate the heavy
traffic at this point.
There is a clamor on the part of those
who could not get seats to THE Land
of Gridiron'' last night to have the
| playlet repeated and this is augment
e. by many who saw it and have placed
| their o. K. seal on the production.
The sleet and snow which has fallen
/ at intervals during the past As hours
has furnished the small boys with a
! fair substitute for ice skating which
| so far this winter has been a minus
| quantity in this section of the world.
The state cases of the docket at the
| present time for trial at the January
term of the district court will be dis
posed of Thursday and the trial of the
city cases will cofnnlence Immediately.
The cars of the Topeka Street Rail-
way company are being equipped with
| another register Wh1ch VIII snow the
! number of transfers handled by each
| conductor while the cash fares will be
| rung up on the old registers as in the
past
The snow or sleet or whatever it was
| that fell during the greater portion of
Yesterday and last night was of the
| dark grey variety usually referred to as
dirty and there was none of the
| 'snow, snow, beautiful snow" SO often
raved about.
Lieutenant Governor Hanna has been
succeeded as presiding officer of the
senate by Governor Fitzgerald and in
the future will have more time to de-
vote to the pleasures of life, plentiful
in Topeka especially during the sessions
of the legislature.
A dispatch from Los Angeles, Cali
fornia, says that poor gas is to blame
for the epidemic of pneumonia which
is prevalent in that city, which may
furnish a pretextg for those whose gas
does not burn to suit them, to think
thoughts about the gas company in To-
peka.
Mr. and Mrs. E. ]. McKernan of La
Junta have arrived in Topeka to
make this their home. Mr.. McKernan
has been promoted from the position
of general foreman at La Junta to the
charge of all of the tool work on the
Santa Fe system with headquarters in
Topeka.
A wireless message from BuHnle town
announces that the mortality in the
rabbit family yesterday and today was
not nearly as great as was expected by
the statisticians, as the snow froze as 1T
fell and the hunters were not able to
locate the homes of the aristocracy of
the tribe.
Representatives of swamp-Root.
the great kidney, liver and bladder
remedy, are making a house to house
distribution in Topeka. If you do not
receive a sample bottle of Swamp
Root and a copy of the Swamp-Root
almanac, write to Dr. Kflmer &. Co,
Binghamton, New York, and you will
be supplied at once.
Affairs of a criminal nature have
been so quiet of late that the city prison
did not have a trusty who could be
spared to clean the snow from the
walks about that building yesterday
and it appeared for a while as though
the officers would be compelled to do
the work or else wait for a warm day.
ct am reminded by the condition of
the Kansas avenue sidewalks of the
old adage, There's many slip 'twixt
the cup and the lip and journey
from the state house to the postoffice
hot &c mo n