The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-19
CALLED TO TINE.
State Charged With Furnishing
Light and Water to a Joint.

Governor Stanley and the board of
directors of the state penitentiary are
to be censured by the Prohibition state
convention tomorrow because the state
penitentiary power and water plants
supply light and water to a Lansing
hotel in which a joint is operated.
The Prohibition stare central COM
mittee has the evidence necessary to
prove these claims, and sothe committee
officials will attempt to prove to the
convention the following facts:
'F'irst-That the ElnoIa hotel, 400
feet from the main entrance to the
state penitentiary, contains joint
Second-That the penitentiary power
supplies electric lights to the hotel.
Third-That the hotels water supply
is furnished by the state penitentiary.
'Fourth-That the warden OF the
penitentiary and the board of directors
have violated their promises TO make
an effort to bring the joint within the
powers of the law.
''Fifth-That the governor has re-
fused TO give any consideration to
petition from the w. c. T. y. to pre-
vent the state from furnishing water
and light to a joint"
committee of Leavenworth county
Prohibition workers recently called
upon the warden, J. B.. Tomlinson, and
requested that he stop furnishing light
and water to the joint. The report of
the committee says:
The warden at first attempted to
put us OIL ana Cld1IQeQ ne QlQ not nave
time to hear US. Later he wanted us
to- see the county attorney, which we
knew was a Subterfuge, and we pressed
the warden. He promised finally that,
he would shut off the lights and water.
This was in December. The board of
directors received a long petition from
the people to suppress the evil, but no
attention was paid to it. The gov
ernor took the same action with ref
erence to a petition sent to him"
Tho PrOIaihitinniStc 70
Dawes has succeeded in landing a
small number of the Klondikers in jail
but say they return at once to the bust
ness and claim that the pike south of
the Soldiers home running to Lansing
| is lined with joints and disorderlv
houses, against which no crusade has
been made.
A Prohibition committee recently
caused the arrest of one man for sell
ing liquor on the pike. He was tried
before a justice of the peace and fined
800 and sentenced to go days in jail.
The officers have failed to enforce the
order of the court. The guilty person
has not paid cent of his fine and has
not been near the Jail in which he was
sentenced to serve 80 days.
The petitions and circumstances
which have been forwarded to Gov
ernor Stanley and the conferences
! which have been held with the prison
| officials and the actual work done by
F. B. Dawes on the Klondike will be
| considered at meeting of the state
| committee this afternoon at the Fifth
! Avenue hotel. At that time the state
| committee meets to plan tomorrow s
convention, and frame the resolutions
| which will be presented to the .conven-
| ton.
The convention tomorrow will, in all
probability. nominate Major w. H.
| Holsirger of Rosedale, Wyandotte
! county, for governor NJ V. Bennett,
who nominated George w Click for
governor, will likely be chosen for at
torney general. When Click did not
enforce the prohibitory law as Ben
nett claimed he had promised to do
| Bennett left the Democratic party and
now associates with the Prohibitionists.
The convention will be called to order
at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning in
Representative hall by Mont Williams
| of Lansing, chairman of the state
| committee.