The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-02
POLICE JOTTINCS.
Prominent Implement Men Are
Arrested Today.
Charge Is Blockading Streets
and Sidewalks.
THEY WILL RESIST.
Employ Lawyers to Test the
Ordinance.
Events OF a Day With Topeka
Officers.

The war note which Officer Dusen-
berry sounded against the implement
dealers and the wagon repair shops
several days since for obstructing the
sidewalks and streets has resulted
finally in the arrest of several of the
prominent dealers. Arrested this
morning on the above charge were
c. Underestimate, of SOC Jackson
street; T. F. Lannan, 504 Jackson; e.
G. Kinley, 426 Jackson; ]. S. Warner,
of Warner & Potter, 1913 East Sixth,
and w. A. Morton, of Seery & Morton,
2O1 East Sixth. Each of these de-
PENDANTS will make a fight and have
employed counsel. The hearing of the
cases has been set for next week
Monday at $3.50 in the afternoon. 1t
is customary for the repair shops to
leave the vehicles undergoing repairs
in the street in front of the shop or
else leave portion of the repair
work on the sidewalk. With the i'm
plement dealers the violation alleged
exists from the habit of displaying the
wares such as wagons and farm ma
chinery on the sidewalk along in
front of the numbers referred to in
the charge of obStructing the side
walk or street by leaving wagons, bug
gies, etc, at those places and pro-
VideS for a fine not to exceed $50.
Further along a clause in the ordi-
nance appears to make a provision
for the vehicle repairers, permitting
them to utilize a portion of the side
walk and street for the placing of the
vehicles undergoing repairs. The
counsel for the defense think that this
clause should insure them immunity
from arrest.
Sutch Caves restaurant, at SIS
North Kansas avenue, again came un-
der the BAN Eighteen pint bottles Of
l.. too. IL, foo
chest was the discriminating evidence.
Geo. Byrd, who is employed at Caves,
was placed under arrest along with
Cave for maintaining nuisance. Cave
was arrested about five days since on
a similar charge The raid was made
at 10 o'clock.
The two cases against Geo. Klauer
ordinance were dismissed this morn
ing. The arrests took place on the
10th and 10th of July.
Geo. Knauer and W. A Karr were
placed under arrest Monday evening
at 5 o'clock for making illegal liquor
sales as applied to drug stores. Knauer
and Karr operate drug stores on East
Fifth street. Karr's address is at lis
East Fifth street. The customary pro-
cedure of filing replevin papers was
gone through
There are still some five drug stores
in the city which stand a good chance
of undergoing the experiences of a
raid. Thus far seven drug stores have
been paid a visitation by the chief of
police Judge Hamilton yesterday af-
ternoon set for hearing the cases of
Frank Keith, w. F. Lake, G. M. Hines
and E. L. Evans. Keith and Lake
will have their trials on the morning
and afternoon respectively of the tenth
while Hines and Evans will be heard
on the morning and afternoon re-
spectively of the 18th.
The participants of the key party
so abruptly terminated by the police
had an opportunity to explain their
conduct to Judge Hamilton yesterday
afternoon. Gambling was the charge
against them, since the remnants of a
crap game were lingering about and
the five youths attempted to gambol
away from the protecting arms of the
law. They managed to RIB up a good
explanation and were let go sans fine
except Jerry Coleman who had a gun
of the "A kind. Jerry had a detectives
star which he had purchased from an
Augusta, Me-, firm which deals largely
in that sort of thing and supplies those
with verdure clad with the accoutre-
ments of an imitation detective. Jerry
thought that the star permitted him
to carry gun, but he was mistaken.
The mistake cost Jerry a SIS bill as
sessed by Judge Hamilton.
Shill Donnelly was given a fine in
police court Monday afternoon of $40
for resisting an officer. The resistance
is said to have occurred on July goth
at the corner of Washington and Cen
trail streets. Donnelly claimed that he
had resisted the officer after Police
man Chas. Smith, who was attempting
his arrest had hit him in the face.
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