The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-29
Trouble Will Commence With
Halloween Franks.
THEN THE ELECTION.
Blue Coats Are Consequently
Expecting a Busy Time.
Bud" Williams Will Be Sent to
the Asylum.


pening to arouse the activity Of the
Clubs"
But the police are not expecting this
to last long. combination of a bad
sort is soon to follow and the chief is
getting ready for the battle. New men
are being sworn into service and the
old men are told to prepare for the
worst.
Saturday night the annual Halloween
| festival will be given by the kids of the
city and this is a time much dreaded
by the police. While the younger kids
are tearing up street and gutter cross
| ings and greasing trolley tracks the |
older kids" are taking the day an |
excuse for a weekly spree and whisky |
and Der is split into hundreds of open |
mouths Even during the calmest of |
seasons, Saturday night is bad one |
| both in the Bottoms and on the uppers
| but when the event is combined with
Halloween the Eaton Tower quivers
with the vibration of enraged prison.
ers.
AS a protection for the law breakers
on Halloween the chief of police will
use deputies in every district in the
city. In the Bottoms where the older
people celebrate by pulling the corks
the police will lay in wait. Every cor
ner will be decorated with fly cop
and the least little disturbance Will
mean the hoodlum wagon. Since the
campaigning fever Is so high it is re-
ported that many of the politicians are
soliciting the cave jewellers for votes
and this means more than speeches.
buttonhole whispers literature and ci-
| CARS. 1t means a keg ana plenty
in it.
The rest of the city is not in much
danger of being overrun with booze
fighters but the danger of unruly klos
} and college men is greater In oln th
ent degree. The kids always have the
street car tracks to attend to. The
: street car company will watch this part
of the game. Then the gutter crossings
are torn up annually. Street commas
sfoner SNYDER will have force OF men
| 10 watch these valuables. The polica
: will do the rest-which means back al
lev crusades moving of rolling STOCK,
capturing of live stock, breaking OF
windows from extra heavy tick tacks
and unnecessary ganSlnS thuo ui9-
e turbing the peace.
= The police have always looked WIN
a an eagle eye on the Washburn coliese
crowd even though the fellows out on
|, the hill have too much wall ilo"erins
TO allow a breaking loose OF the amman
/. instincts The college men have gen.
: erallv done what they wished to re-
d CARELESS of the presence OF zone
s policeman or two, but they nave heNe.
e caused a panic or general exodus oi
= | residents.
: When the Saturday night celeoratlns
d s conducted with the aid of the police
,. thew will have just two days TO rest De
= fore the election day. Electlon Jay Il
: another of these happy go-lucky days
a where the open voter votes for ms
II favorite and then congratulates h1msell
:. on his choice His congratulations are
y always noisy and the police nave u
help out the cause.
| tion at the present time and the law
| breaking is less than in many years. II
is hoped that election days and Hal-
Ioween activities will be on the quietei
nature.
John Dagen, the young man who as
ar saulted and left in very critical condl'
m tion the father of the girl whom he wa:
or courtins, because he would not consen
i'll TO their marriage, still denies tnat NJ
al had ANYTHING to do with the fight HI
claims that his friends did the bushes!
IN without any word of advice or MN
r. from him. He was formally arrested
to of Topeka and his preliminary hearini
ng will be set for some time this week
he Johu stark the old Russian Who wa
" So badly battered by the young man,
ad still in the Keith hospital and In yer;
TO critical condition. However, DR.. keltl
ne is in hopes that the man Will pul
through He was in excellent healtl
n and is naturally strong man When as
ka saulted and this Will be an aoNdhlase
y; After the disorderly house in Mort
in Topeka had been raided the other nlgh
by the police it was found that lou
is Young children had been living in tn
he home with their mothers during IN
ne ne whole series of nightly scenes Tn
children were found by Humane Off1ce
ry King and taken to his home at once
'er They were all around the age of IL an
IL were old enough to realize the meanln
ar-fn cd
mothers Three of them were the chi
dren of Mrs Evangelina Ella Wheele
Wilcox and the other belonged to VIC
man who escaped from the house VINE
the officers made their raid Tne lou
little children will appear In tn
Juvenile court today. Mrs. Wilcox wa
fined ten dollars in court yesterday o
Judge Urmy She tried at first to ge
out of the charge of maintaining dis
, orderly house. saying that she neVt
had been connected with such thing
Rut when Detective Sauls told of no
he had been mistaken for reguls
FOUNDER by the woman and asked
come up in her room, she admitted tn;
possibly she had engaged in the bus
ness at times. Judge Urmy gave her
severe lecture on account of her grow
ing children and fined her the ten do
lars. She has no money and will SER
the time in the city jail
horse that had fallen in the sew
hole at the corner of Topeka avenl
and Fourteenth street was rescued
the police and Humane Officer Xii
Tuesday afternoon The horse was
FATALLY injured by the fall but su
tanned numerous bruises which W
disable it for a time.
bud" Williams is past history wi
the police This good news came to t
station yesterday and no more VIII I
whole force have to join together
capture the raving maniac who cont
ually complains of street car men a
street cars chasing him. For time
was thought that the old man "