The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-03

sling. They are probably victims of the
railroad shops
The Union Pacific west-bound train
yesterday hauled two carloads of ofil-
GERS and soldiers of the United States
Twenty eighth field battery, who are
being transferred from Jefferson bar
racks to Vancouver.
Sheriff O'Connor, of Emporia, came
to Topeka today with Edward Houser.
whom he arrested in Emporia at the
request of the sheriff from Lincoln,
Neb., for forgery. Houser was deliv-
cred to the Lincoln sheriff here.
Mayor Hughes will present his plan
for lighting the city buildings from the
city electric light plant to the members
of the council next Monday night
Mayor Hughes figures that the city can
save about 500 a month by lighting its
own buildings
quarreling with the faculty. The fac
ulty requires the class to write themes,
and the class won't do 1t. The faculty
holds the ace, however, because it re-
fuses to classify the juniors as juniors
till the themes are produced.
Walter Roberts, charged with rob-
bling Clarence Dolmans grocery store
in North Topeka, on September II, was
bound over by Justice Wright yester-
day and in default of $1,000 bond was
committed to the county jail. Roberts
wife, who was also under arrest, was
ordered released.
Rev. Norman Plass, a graduate of
Williams college and a resident of Will
Jamestown, Mass, has been given
temporary appointment as financial
agent for Washburn college. He will
work in the eastern states. He takes
the work formerly done by Rev. D. H
Scarrow, who was financial agent for
the college for several years.
The Tontine Savings association, of
Minneapolis, Mimi, has distributed to
its patrons in Topeka this week 81, $40
in cancellation OF diamond contracts.
Although the company has been estab-
liShed eight years, the Topeka agency
is but two years old, and the payments
here are but just beginning. The com
pany has paid through its Topeka
agent, A. W. Majors, S21 Kansas ave-
nue., $4070 so far, yielding to contract
holders in two years return of $3.50
for $50 invested in small installments.
AS was clearly explained in the State
Journal on Monday when Judge Hazen
announced his decision in the writ of
prohibition case against Judge Redden
and refused it, the decision does not
touch upon Redden's right to subpoena
witnesses, and If you receive a legal
request from him to call and testify
you will have TO do SO. SO far as Judge
Hazen's decision is concerned. Judge
Hazen simply decided that G. c. Glenn
ems writ of prohibition was 40 years be-
hind the times, and he told Glenn to
'go Away back and sit down..
Wednesday evening q posse of report
ers who were loafing around the police
station saw a. verdant looking party en-
route for the court house, and immedi
ately gave chase. These individuals
were evidently new to Topeka, as they
first called at the county Jail. mistaking
it no doubt for the probate court. They
were set right by a jail attendant, and
finally arrived at the proper place. The
father of the prospective groom made
the arrangements and the contracting
parties, a youth who his proud father
stated was "a little better than Is, yes.
agoin on right smart toward IT, and
the prospective bride who admitted to
81 summers, were lined up before Judge
Pagan and made one The bride, who
was about Is inches shorter than her
protege, prom ised to take him to raise,
and the thing done, after which the
judge displayed an alluring array of
chromos and the bride chose the one
with the grea test profusion of flowers.
The tender husband gave his address
as Carbonate. and the bride hailed
from Rfchland.