The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-07
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

III AT Hum u NEW III
bridges 10 build and the increase in
the price of steel is going to make a
big difference in the estimates of Wal
ter Arnold, county engineer
Topeka lodge No. S11, Fraternal
Brotherhood, will have election of Of
ficers and initiation of candidates at
the meeting this evening at Moose
hail.
The Country club dinner dance will
be given this evening unless it rains,
in which case it will be postponed
until a week from this evening. The
dance will be preceded by an aesthetic
dancing entertainment, given By Miss
Margaret Koontz and her pupils.
Memorial services for the late As
sociate Justice A. w. Benson were
held at the supreme court this morn
ing. Associate Justice Silas Porter
read a memorial to the late judge. the
proceedings were spread on the court
records. There was number OF rep
resentatives of the Kansas bar pres
ent.
The public utilities commission filed
a suit in the supreme court today ask
ing for an order to compel the Queen
City Oil & Gas company to continue its
operation in Kansas 1t is set forth
that the Queen City Oil & Gas COM
pany has discontinued its service to
customers without applying for per-
mission from the commission.
Robert Yates, police judge, long be-
fore it was warm enough to wear it,
purchased a Palm Beach suit and left
it at the police station. 1t is there no
longer. The police docket shows sew
eral petty thieves turned loose since
Sunday and police officers are won
dering if one of them picked up the
suit as he left the Jail.
Suffering from chronic ailment
| that has resulted in an unusual swell
| ing of both legs and feet, Tommy Fam
| brough, who says his home is in Enid.
Okla. was found lying beside the Rock
| Island tracks, west of the city this
morning. On direction of. the city
health department, the young man was
| taken to local hospital.
The people of Highland Park school
district No. 35 will hold their bond
election Saturday, June 10. for the
purpose of erecting high school
pleted will be thoroughly modern
throughout and will be a credit to the
district The election will be held at
the school house and the polls will be
open from a. m. to 6 p. m.
The bridge across the Kaw river at
the brick PLAINTIFF steel work alone
| cost the county $15,65S.S7 The
same steel would now cost the county
| $22, 193.49. The county has five
i Fifty delegates have been appointed
| by Governor Capper to attend the an
nual convention of the Ozarks Trails
association at Springfield. Mo-, June
| 272S. All of them are men living out
of Topeka
The Canton Bridge company, Kan
sas City Bridge company Illinois Steel
Bridge company and the Missouri VAL
ley Bridge and Iron company today
filed in the supreme court responses
to questions asked them by Attorney
General Brewster, in the states at
tempt to prove a monopoly. or near
monopoly, in bridge work in Kansas
| Sixty days had been given to the COM
pany to file answers
| Through her attorney, Edwin Nc
Keever, Mrs. Belle Mathewson of 6O2
Lincoln street. this morning notified
the city commissioners that unless sat
| isfactory settlement can be made fol-
| injuries received by her February u
when she slipped on the ice coated
| sidewalk on West Sixth avenue neal
Harrison, suit will be brought Mrs
Mathevson alleges that she suffered a
fracture of the hip joint which has re-
suited in permanent stability.
George B. Caldwell of New York
this noon told members of the Com
mercial club the bad points of the
Stephens-Ashurst bill now pending be-
loAo COESreSS- he pointed out thai
under the provisions of the bill, tbs
consumer would be affected and il
would result in his always being com.
PEELED to pay the highest price Also
the retail merchant would find him.
self bound down by restrictions Al
every turn and the cut-price sais
would become a thing of the past
The body of A. d. Griffin, a former
topeka negro, who was an active can
didate for register of deeds of the Dis
tr1ct of Columbia when he died Sat
urday, has been taken back to his ole
nome in Ala bama for burial Griffin
died at Kansas City, where he wa.
the editor and owner of a newspaper
Known as the Kansas Elevator. Fol
many years he was business MANAGE
of the Topeka Plaindealer and made
all the political conventions held owe
the state securing subscriptions an,
advertising for that paper
L. L. Kiene. sheriff, entertained a
a guest last night Archie Sweet. con
victed in Hamilton county last weel
OF the murder of Nellie Byers, tn
Grant county school teacher foun,
stripped and dead in a sand blowou
last fall Sweet was on his way t,
the state penitentiary to begin a lif
sentence. He was accompanied by ]
l.. McCarter, sheriff of Hamilton coun
ty. They stopped over night here il
order to get rest. Sweet continues +
deny his guilt and ventured the opin
ION that he would not be in the peni
tertiary more than six months