The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09
|ON THE NORTH SIDE
Two Boy Tramps Entertained
at the Fire Station.
Say That They Are Only Travel
ing for Fun.
MRS. LUGTON ISTRIED.
Decided That She Is in Need
of Rest.
Taken to Hospital Instead of
an Asylum.
hrs. LUGTON ISTRIED.

''Tell the truth while you're at it
1t won't hurt anything this time
RMS is what a young man, who gave
MS name as William Parks, his native
state as ''N'Yo oik"i and his home as
any place where my lid is off at
said this morning at the fire station
| TO the companion of his travels who
| gave MS name as Harry Smith, also
from N Yo1k,' and his home as the
same as Parks The bows said they
had just blown in" from Kansas City
and were asked how long they stayed
IN Kansas City. Smith had started
to answer ''six months when his
companion corrected him saying:
I'VE stayed there a month and a half
and gave him the valuable advice
quoted above. The boys claim to have
been travelling for several years. ''just
for the experience" They carried a
small memorandum in which the names
of several cities in England and
America were written. The lads say
they have visited all of these places
and intend to visit many more.
Parks says he learned shorthand at
the Wallace business school at Chi
cago. Smith does not boast, of any
accomplishment except "living some
how" They are rather bright looking
good home training. PARKS" is
dark compleXioned, with dark eyes
and rather regular features, of a little
below medium height and slender.
he appears older. Smith is light
complexioned with rather sandy hair.
He is heavy set. He says he is Is.
The youths seemed to have slept in
local livery barn after riding a
freight from Kansas City here last
way to Portland. Oregon.
At the fire station this morning,
they entertained the firemen with
stories of adventures with trainmen
capes from death in railroad wrecks.
Both say they do not intend to be-
come professional ''hobos" but will
settle down ''after while" They show
package. They say this package is
their grip which they sent on ahead
to Denver from Kansas City. They
tell that they have been getting their
meals from the farmers between rides
by putting up hard luck stories.
''This snow today recalls one of the
worst snow storms have ever seen in
Kansas" said NJ. C.. Holman. man
ager of the western Woolen Mills
this morning. "That was on March
25, 1880. 1 was then living in Mar
shall county near the Central Branch
of the Missouri Pacific. The road was
then known as the Central Branch of
the Union Pacific. On this railroad
trains were stalled for a week.
remember that the last train came in
on Saturday and the next one did not
arrive at the small town near my place
until a week from that day. All kinds
of rumorS reached us, however.
Among other things it was said that
on the Union Pacific, near Ellis, the
snow was so deep and packed so hard
that the engines would run off the
track right on the snow drift In our
own county, the tracks had to be
cleared by men with shoVels before
the trains could pass I tell you after
a week of no trains at all the first
train to arrive looked very good to
u.s.
Mrs. Elmyra Lugton, the wife of
George Lugton, of 1890 Madison
street, who was tried for insanity at
the probate court Monday will be sent
to Keith's hospital for further treat
ment instead of to the asylum. This
is according to the decision of the lu-
L. A. Ryder, H. H. Hazlett, and H. B.
They decided that the
woman needed a complete change and
rest more than anything else. On the
stand Mrs. LugtOn seemed to know
she was being tried for insanity and
answered questions in coherent,
straight forward manner However.
she told about hearing neighbors
quarrel, of her desiring her hubsand
or allowing her to act as peace maker.
Dr. Ryder, the family physician, at
tributes her mental trouble to poor
health