The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-06
POLICE JoTTINGS.
How Jailer Morgan Had Foot
Race With Himself.
He Won the Contest and Stakes
Of So.
HARVEST OF SOLDIERS
Pensioners Who Drink Up Their
Allowance Arrested.


An Easy Prey for the Topeka
J0intists.
~ FIHl JAILER MORGAN
Y AHksl5H ran a foot race
ZNv3ElHIHhGa with himself this
~ Gl9Rl#u morning The stake
~IW Vaha2 amounted to So
ES4y - net. Morgan won.
~ ~ 1t was thus: Tom
" "a Smiley. an old SOL
<6MM " der and member
n of the City park
eWI pot gang, who was
KaaM fined S. with the
NGl13i rest, labored two
i541 days in the stein
MSJ Id Rarten and then
W IHMU decided that he
V-L%I was too muscular
to indulge in such
pastime, SO he voiced a Willingness to
pay the balance of his fine out of the
coin which was taken from him when
arrested. and thus leave the vale of
tears He was turned out. and Morgan
time to subtract. So for professional ser
vices. Tom spread his wings and dis
appeared. Then Morgan discovered
that he was liable to pay 50 out of the
personal check he draws today unless
he caught Tom and induced him to re-
fund the three plunks. Hence his hasty
exit from the coop in pursuit of the es-
cape. Luckily he found Thomas at the
Rock Island depot and settlement was
effected.
Isaac Yancey, colored, practically adj
mltted that he was seller of vile brew
when he came in this morning and paid
$50 for the privilege of selling on the
past Sabbath But perhaps he didn't sell
anything. Who knows? The eh4rye
says he kept a tipping shop open on
open the door all day, and didn't sell a
drop. No? Yes?
r. g. Whiting, an old soldier who
came to Topeka to draw his Is bones.
spent portion thereof for the vile red
booze Consequently he became verv
offensive in his manner, and was de-
tanned The old man had one Of those
lasting DRINKS, the product of very
bad whisky. His first fine of $40 was
reduced to IS by the court today, and
diers' home before he got into any
more trouble Topeka jofntists reap a
rich harvest on pension day. A HARM
less Indian or battered up, childish old
man who gave limb or his health to
the government 40 years ago, is con-
sidered their lawful prey. The keepers
of the low grade dives can't rob or
short change an alert rounder. who
knows them by heart. and they seldom
try 1t. but let an Indian or old soldier
escape from town with a dollar. and
the dive keeper feels that he has been
robbed of his Just dues.
Albert Ross, or "A1batross" as he
calls himself. knowing that he is bird
is in reality an Indian. Albert has
money in the bank Therefore, when
he is arrested. he Ianguishes all night
in the coop, and in the morning, after
being fined some five gobs of wampum.
telephones his banker at Holton, who
does this frequently. He made it work
this morning.
Con Kaufman was drunk, he admitted
that such was the case. Three. Thanks.
Come again.
W. Smith violated the sanitary ordi-
nances by doing his own cleaning up
without furnishing the licensed scaven-
gers with job. He viii be tied for
the same this evening.
Monday eve the PROPRIETOR of an
installment house called at the home of
a colored woman who lives way down
south on Washington street The gen.
tleman from the easy payment empor-
ium intended to take away certain
goods which the colored woman, Mrs.
Hardy, had purchased after the MAN.
ner known as two-bits-a-week. But the
gentleman wandered away from the
domfcile of Mrs. Hardy without the
goods. He wandered just a few feet
prior to Mrs. Hardy, who meandered
along in his wake with broom The
gentleman from the easy payment
house was a ffrst-elass wanderer. and
beat his pursuer under the wire. He
decided that, although he was there af-
ter the goods. he was not there with
had neglected to keep up the fwo-bits
a-week proposition, and was therefore
in arrears. The proprietor of the rug
and-parlor-lamp emporium had sent his
substitutes after the bartered articles,
but they had failed to make hit with
the lady of the house. and in each in
stance had departed hastily, and with
out that which they came after There
fore the handspring Of the establish
ment called In person. intending to
break two windows with one brick by
capturing the spoils and teaching his
understudies how it was done at the
same time. Verify, the lot of an in
sta1lment man containeth many rocks
and some hard soil.
A pair of rusty handouts, which an
swefs the description of those worn by
F. J. Beaver, who escaped from Sheriff
Hurt, of Nashville, Tenn, on April 3
were found Sunday in a barn in Park
dale by some boys. 1t IS evident thai
Beaver was an expert with the metal
cuffs, as he removed them from his
hands without breaking them OF using
file They were found near the point
where Beaver is supposed to have
jumped OF the train while his eaptoz
slept.
Chess Tourney Continues.