The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-12
POLICE JOTTINCS.
Officers Have Lively Time With
Petty Offenders.
Two Supposed Deserters Picked
Up by Officer PinkstOn.
A. G. ANTRIM CAUGHT.
North Slider Charged With Run
ming Pool Hall on Sunday.
Two Indian Boys From Haskell
Are Arrested.

The police have been busy since Sat
urday night picking up stray derelict
DRINKS, weary hayward Indian boys
and cold homeless soldiers. None OF
them were sensational and all were of
the common variety that meet the eyes
of the average policeman every day-in
fact he is paid to do this same thing.
Officer Pinkston is in line to get a
500 bonus from the government as soon
as he can obtain the proper evidence
from his prisoners. Sunday he round
ed up two soldiers who are said to be
deserters One was flying under the
name of Richard Waldan and the other
exhibited an Ed Remington tag. They
were both young and good looking and
when caught were gradually winning
the hearts of a number of Topeka
lasses. INQUIRIES concerning them have
been sent to Leavenworth-mean
they are playing mouth harps in the
city keep. r4f
Running a pool hall on Sunday is not
a bad job in a blue town unless the
police are lettering around. Over in
North topeka, S13 North Kansas ave-
nue. A. G. Antrim owns a cue and ball
distillery and after looking up and
down the street Sunday he decided that
there was not an officer in sight-not
sands for the simple duty of capturing
unruly youngsters-co Mr.. Antrim OPP
ened the doors of his establishment and
invited the fun-hungry crowd in. The
first crowd was augmented by sec
end, the second by a third and so on
at any rates the crowds began to col
lect so regularly that officers James
and Douglas combined human interests,
clubs, stars and all and constituted
crowd No. s. They landed at the An
II, To
fun and before the call to arms could
be issued by the proprietor call to
arms came to the stonequarry, Fifth
and Jackson, and Big Bob, the patrol
driver pulled his gray lid down over
his face and followed the point of the
Mr.. Antrim was soon trans
ferred and furnished bond for appear
ance at the police court this afternoon
The Indian boys at the Haskell in
stitute in Lawrence are gradually learn
ing the ways of the world. They are
them so fast that they become
with that hunger for more
they always come to
Topeka to get it. Sunday two of them
Frank Cardue and Charlie Papadie, both
minors, came to Topeka to enjoy the
sights, also the sites, and they soon
landed on one of the latter-the police
station building. They admitted that
they were Just common runawayS and
said that Lawrence was getting too
easy to explore. They knew the 1oca-
ton of every refrigerator in the city
and they were all being used for kitch-
en- cubbards-nothing doing. They are
being held at the Port of Missing Men
or the Lighthouse of the Eaton Eagle
Eye and the authorities from the Has
ken school will come and claim them
az once.
Among the string of DRINKS there is
onIy one who need be mentioned En-
DRY Felker is one of the brick masons
in the city who declared he was unable
to live on So a day and he has received
O. raise. According to the police he
could live on 81 day if he would let
the +'devlsh drink alone. He will be
fined the customary five and turned
loose on his fat job of handling brick
This completes the docket up to date