The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17
and Sons of Herman are to be guests

and Sons of Herman are to be guests
of the performers.
Judge Hazen has sentenced Amos
B~rubaker, who was convicted of hog
tiary. He served time before for steal
ing the same kind of live stock.
An election for the selection of a Sec
ond lieutenant will be held onigh at
M~etropolitan hall ~ the members Of
to be chosen will succeed H. Helwig.
Assistant Attorney General West says
that county officials who hold over I'M
der the biennial election law should
provide themselves with new bonds in
order to be sure that everything is reg
ular.
Dean James Philip de Bevers Kaye
viii give a talk on Florence. Italy. with
s~tereopticon lantern, under the aus
pieces of the Sons of the King, in the
Guild parlors, Wednesday evening, jan
uary Is.
Lansing in a few days to personally in
vestigate the title to Steiger's island in
the Missouri river. which the state is
considering buying for p~enitentiary coal
mining
w. H. Barnes, secretary of the State
Horticultural society, delivered an adj
dress on 1.-The Horticultural Progress
of a Century" at the convention of the
Iowa State horticultural society in Des
Moines a few lay ago
A paper on 1.-The Strength and Weak
ness of the Church Today" was read by
Rev. ] A Stavely before the Ministerial
union Monday. The election of officers
will take place at the next meeting of
the union on January 6.
This time the roar against the street
car p comes from the people
who live out near Quinton Heights. The
complaint is that not enough cars are
run to Civ the patrons comfortable ac-
c-ommodations these cold mornings.
Does the Abuse of Public Men by
the Press Foster Anarchy" is the sub
ject of a paper that is to be delivered
by Rev. J. d. Countermine, of the First
Presbyterian church at the next meet
ing the Ministerial union in
People who drive should be more
careful in ~blanketing their horses Along
Kansas avenue a great many
stand shivering in the cold with no COW
ering whatever, because their owners
are too careless in putting the blanket
on to see that it is fastened.
Governor Stanley has refused to grant
a conditional pardon to William r.
Walden, who is serving q sentence or
five years in the penitentiary for killing
Thomas Hoffman. a Santa Fe brake
man, in a fight resulting from Walden
attempting to steal a ride on a train.
James Haddock, a former employee of
the Santa Fe in Topeka but now with
q smelling firm at Anaconda, Montana,
has been in Topeka for q few days Wis
iting. He is on his way to Gable, Ill,
to remain over the holidays and will re-
turn to this place later to remain a
week.
Since the ruling of the district court
on the breaking and entering ordnance,
the police department has been taking
a rest. Last night passed without a
single arrest. 1t is probable that the
iointists will now bar their doors and
feel secure against the vag of the
police.
E. r. Burkholder, president of the
Farmers State bank of Hillsboro. who
has represented Marion county several
times in the legislature, is preparing to
nationalize his bank. He has raised it's
capital from $40, 600 to S25, 600. The latter
sum is the minimum allowed for a ma
tional bank
ceiving stolen property was dismissed
in police court this morning by tbs
prosecuting attorney, and the charge of
violating ordinance 2129, governing junk
dealers, and failing to report purchases
of second hand goods to the police was
charged with buying a set of harness
which had been stolen. The case was
continued at the request of Attorney
t. H. Balm of the defense
George Burghart was arrested several
days ago on a complaint by License
Collector P. H. Forbes for refusing to
pay a SO license on an electrical banjo
in his cigar store, which was claimed
to be a slot machine not a gambling de-
vice, and subject to a license Burghart
swore in court his morning that the
machine was operated only by the en-
slug was used instead of a coin. and
had been used in this ann since the
yearly license expired last month. The
defendant was discharged
Atchison Globe: Frank A. Roots