The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-01
TRAMPS WEAR THEM
Eight Knights Of the Road With
LeweIling Buttons,
BROUGHT INTO PONCE COURT TODAY.


One by One They Were Dismissed by
Judge Ensmznser and Told TO SO
Away
The police seem to have captured
Popuiist excursion train Saturday night
sleeper and all, There were eight worn
and weary looking tramps with opinions
about the moral and financial condition
Of the country and Lewelling buttons in
court this morning.
They had been captured By the police
while sleeping in a box car in the Rock
Island yards Saturday night and each
and every one of them had been over
from LeavenwOrth or some other seaport
town to hear the speech that '.Our dear
governor delivered himself of Saturday
The first man called was Joe Phel ps
who had been guilty Of absorbing more
than his share Of white horse" He &C
knowledged it like an honest though
poor little man and accepted his fine of
five dollars almost cheerfully.
Mr.. Reynolds has also fallen into the
same bad habit and the hands Of the po-
six months, and Judge Ensminger's
watchful eye had him spotted. He will
lend US his presence for ten days.
Charley Merrill, who allowed that his
home was in cultured St Louis, and
that be had been pegging away at his
trade Of shoemaking to keep upper and
sole together. whenever he had oP-
portunity, told tale Of sorrow and was
discharged.
Edgar Webster was not ID court for
the first time. His behavior before the
bar was a regular handbook Of court
etiquette and the Judge thought the city
nee led him for ten days
j. ]. Williams is a Leavenworth black
smith, according ID his own story. He
was over here to hear Mr. LewellIng ex-
plain how il was Saturday, and had gone
TO sleep in a box car with the others. He
was sorry for it, and was in full sympa-
thy with the governors tramp circular.
He promised that he would get out Of
the city soon as possible, and the judge
let him 20.
Charlie smith was in the car also. He
was cabinet maker on his way from
Pueblo to St Joseph, and the judge
thought the city could get along without
him SO he discharged Charlie.
Fred Jones was on his way to Chicago
from Colorado He had been sick and
looked it, 50 the judge let him go.
Joe Burnes was among the number
whose sweet, innocent sleep had been
rudely disturbed by the unfeeling police
He was miner and was on his way to
Pittsburg, Kas-. where he expected to
get work ia the mines The judge took
his word for it and let him 90
Tom Carroll came in next with a smile
on his face and a Lewelling button in his
coat The smile in his stomach had been
cured by a days confinement in the jail
He was also from Leavenworth and had
come over 70 hear Mr.. Lewelling and Mr.
Harper talk about the damnabIe monop-
oily custom. They may have accounted
for his comatOse condition when the DO
lice found him n the car. The Judge
looked at the Lewelling button and let
him 20 with blessing.
Mr. James Thompson is a man who has
only one leg Of his own, SO he is to be
pardoned. perhaps, for the unconquer-
able prediction he has for pulling other
peoples. James is a true knight Of the
brotherhood, and lends bis pitiful face
and the influence Of his crutch to their
appetites. In other words. he devotes
his time and his infirmities to a colIec-
ton from the general public for the pur-
chase Of whIteh0rse, with which TO drive
care away from the score Or more Of his
brothers that loaf about the City park
asmodically The judge took all these
things into consideration and made the
fine $50, with twenty four hour suspen-
sion Of sentence James had better get
out OF town before tomorrow