The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-02
HE WE'D THEM.
Probate Judge DOlman Unites
a Couple This Morning
While Judge Hazen Divorces
Another Couple.
IS DIVORCE CASES
Set For Next MOnth-COurt
Opens Sept. 6.
News of the Various County
Offices.

Today J. H. Blake and Rosa Hickman
both of Willard, came to Topeka with
the intention of getting married. The
girls mother accompanied them, and
as they went to the court house their
faces made up in an expression of hap
piness what they didn't in beauty.
Clerk S. c. Garrard was in the pro-
bate court and he received the company
pleasantly It isn't hard to pick out a
prospective bride and groom when on
an errand of this kind. Mr.. Garrard
asked them to be seated and then filed
out the license for them. J. H Blake
said he was 35 years of age, and Rosa
Hickman blushingly admitted that she
had passed but Is winters. The license
was duly filled out and handed the
man.
The three started toward the door,
Mr. Blake saying: I guess we will go
up to a justice of the peace-they mar
~ people for 81"
This was the signal for Mr.. Garrard
to get in his work. He halted the we'd
ding party and exclaimed: Yes, know
that But just look! It is raining!
You don't want to go out in that rain,
do you? Now, Judge Dolman will be
here in few minutes. He charges 81. so
but then he fills out a nice certificate
for you free of charge which is worth
easily rs cents. We have to put 20 cents
in revenue stamps on, too. Better wait,
hadn't you? 1t is really raining quite
hard
This was telling argument, and the
three from Willard turned about and
resumed their seats. Messengers were
dispatched for Judge DOlman. He was
found at a soda fountain and rushed
to the court house. He performed the
ceremony which united J. H. Blake and
Rosa Hickman in holy WedlOck, filed
out the papers, collected the fee and dis
missed them with his blessing. Thus it
was that a justice of the peace lost a
81 fee.
Weddings and divorces often go hand
in hand in courts of record, and today
was no exception. A suit was filed by
w. H. WiscOmbe asking for divorce
from his wife, Hattie E. WiscOmbe. He
states that they were married at To
peka May Is, 1891, and that he was at
all times a dutiful and loving husband.
He says that in September, 1896, his
wife abandoned him and has since re-
fused to live with him. He asks for an
absolute divorce.
The James E. Schneb1ey drug stock
was today sold by the sheriff. The as
signment was made a few weeks ago
in favor of the c. D. Smith Drug COM
pany, of Kansas City, Mo, on claim
of $1,730.51. The claim was afterwards
corrected to $1,599.S8.
Today at the sale there was but one
bidder, and the stock sold at the low
figure of $3.50, purchased by the c. D.
Smith Drug company. The company
will dispose of the stock and discon-
tinue the business.
E. G. Wilson, through his attorneys,
Carver & Larimer, has filed a suit in
the district court against Constable
Josiah Ross in which he asks for 500.
In the petition he states that on July
IA, 1898, the defendant seized an iron,
fire-proof safe which he had in his Of
flee. The seizure was made on a judg
ment rendered against Wilson. Mr..
Wilson contends that the constable still
refuses to give up the safe notwith-
standing the fact that July %, 1898.
Justice w. S. McClintOck dismissed the
order of seizure He claims that the
safe is worth $500, that he has had to
pay out $50 for attorneys, and that he
is entitled to exemplary damages of
5000.
Carroll B. Merriam has bought at
sheriff's sale the house and lot No. %
Woodlawn avenue, Potwin Place, for
81 500 The foreclosure suit was filed
against Wallace NJ. Gregory by Augusta
A. Foster
RirS7 ard o. Davis was brought to To-
peka last night in charge of y S. Dep
uty Marshal J. J. Kelly, of Ohio, and
lodged in the county jail to await trial
in the federal court in the charge of
having robbed a mail box at Kansas
City.
District Judge z. T. Hazen leaves to-
day for California to spend a month,
as ris vacation. During his absence
Probate Judge Dolman is authorized by