The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-05

the throttle he sped down Kansas ave-
nue. faster than ever. The messenger
boy caught the number but on investi-
CATION it was found that the owner
was not known. The original owner
claimed he had sold the car and up to
the present time the driver has not
been traced.
The police are going to hold watch
es on some of the motorists who ex-
coed the speed limit and their numbers
will be taken If the speed is over
reached. Motorcycle riders will also
be watched. A number of the latter
have been making speedwayS out of
the west end of the city and many
narrow escapes have been reported.
Viola Terry, a girl 16 years old, was
caught up for the first time last night
for street walking on the river wharves.
She was making her beat along the
edge of the city park and. grew so bold
that she approached the Fearful FRI
bance This officer caused the Begin
ming of a police career of another OF
the young girls of the city The police
report scores of these little girls WORK
ing in the bottoms during the darker
hours. They have gone into the habit
of approaching men as they alight from
the midnight trains on the Rock Islano
and Union Pacific and the police VIII
take them up as quick as they can DC
caught. The girls are clever enough TO
keep their eyes open for the appearance
of the police and they are rapidly
learning the plain clothes men. In
truth there are very few people in the
Honeycombs who do not know the
sentinels from the Eaton Tower. NOT
long ago one of the detectives OF the
force who is a new man down in the
Death Valley was surrounded by four
or FIVE of the young disorderly house
inmates. He received a. call just at the
time and was unable to get them to-
gether again. 1t is surprising the
number of young girls who have en-
tered into this business. All OF them
are under twenty and their language
is far worse than the angriest OF sail
ors. Every other word is either OBJ
scene or the worst of slang. There Is
an excellent field for local mission
work in the Bottoms of Topeka
Attracted by the drunken cries of
Henry Hull and Mike Kelley. Sandy
Rivers, a knight of the roadbed, sneak
ed out from his comfortable bed be-
meath a box car in the Rock Island
yards last night and Joined the happy
duet which had consumed many DOT
ties of liquid cheer. On demanding
ers, the bum emphasized his remarks
with taps on the shoulders of the
drinkers. They heard not and he
tapped harder. Still their ears re-
mained stubborn and he raped them
on the head. At last after numerous
frantic efforts to attract the attention
of the white horse riders the tie trav-
eler heaved a huge cinder at their up
pers and the battle was on. The two
drinkers wanted to keep their whisky
as bad as the vag wanted to get 1t and
the battle grew desperate. Above the
din of the strife the Silent strides of
Officers Wonderly and England could
not be heard and not until the presence
of two huge clubs appeared on the
horizon did the battle end. The police
got the whisky and the fighters got
five dollars apiece or five days on the
pebble hill. They chose the latter by
request and the dust is flying today
With the last days of good weather
drawing near the Trail of the Tramps
I is being deserted and the wandering
stragglers are gradually closing into
the cities over the country. One-third
of the arrests made lately are ''vags,'
men who have nothing to do and who
desire nothing but nothing to do. AS a
! last resort they are we'll satisfied with
The board at the city jails and they
generally land here But it is the habit
] of each police judge to expell the man
! from his city and so they are passed
on from Jail to Jail. hated everywhere
and loved nowhere.
The pawnshop business is causing
| the police any amount of trouble these
days. Circulars filled with hundreds
of descriptions are arriving every day
and with each circular trip through
( the pawnshops of the city is demand
: ed-or at least suggested. For m
stance in a little town in Nebraska not
4 long ago a jewelry store was robbed
and over one hundred watches taken
1t was reported that the robber came
! to Topeka and the watch numbers
were sent to this city with the inform
alton. Detective Hopkins together
with his box car book went from one
end of Kansas avenue to the other
with the numbers and records and ev.