The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09
POLICE JOTTINCS.
Renowned Rough" " Ready
Promises to Disappear.
ALI Because He Blew Police
Whistle.
MYSTERY OF A ROOM.
UnWelcOme Guest at Hotel
Answers in Court.
Unusual Number of Drunken
Men on Street.

Rough" Ready blew the police
whistle and saved his hide perhaps.
Rough is restaurant man of lower
Kansas avenue, but besides the res
taurant holds a retail liquor dealers IL
cense which is suspicious. Ready had
some money to collect or something
else to do way down yonder Sunday
afternoon and went armed with a half
pint bottle of whisky. Well, after he
got there it did not take long for the
population to know of it and some 200
came out of their houses to greet him.
Many a man has gone down into the
same region when he thought he
| would be a hero in the enemys coun-
| try and was left there bottom up while
| the enemy disappeared with his good
cash. so Rough, knowing the propen-
stiles of the natives, entered, armed,
as aforesaid. His alteration with his
| arch enemy grew louder and stronger
| until the entire constituency of his op-
ponent had collected to see who dared
| to stand so pat in Ephriam's town. 1t
was Rough" about three sheets to the
wind telling the blacks to back away
| and that of a sudden. He stood erect
and fearless, though a trif1e unsteady
with the plint of a great Colts in his
| rear pocket caused a tremor of fear to
creep through the frames of his an
| tagOnists.
Just then something dropped. 1t
was one Fred Collins, ex-convict, a
| hero true, who fell upon Rough and
| with fingers at his throat drew up his
arm and jerked the weapon from the
| hip pocket. No sooner had it Shone
upon the vision, than there was rush
for the center. The neck and shoulder
of a fiat whisky bottle which had first
seemed a gun was the fearful weapon.
Now as they began to crowd toward
| him for a drink, he thought they were
after him. Still defiant, he whipped
from his pocket a real police whistle
and threw into it seven lusty calls of
distress and the ever ready patrol
came up under full steam taking the
whole street as is the way with the
wo bbley, loose-wheeled shay.
All blame was shifted to Ready for
trying to be bad man and he alone
was arrested. He furnished $50 bond
to appear this afternoon on the charge
of drunk, disorderIy, and blowing
police whistle Over night Ready
thought it over again and decided that
Topeka was no good place for him any
way. consequently he came to police
court early this morning begging to
plead guilty, saying that he was leav-
ing the town for good as he no longer
was a hero here. Talking to the chief
he said, "In that crowd yesterday a
negro took $S5 out of my pocket and
disappeared. 1 believe it was Dick
Williams. but I couldn't find him last
night and I want to leave today so I
will have to let it co. The story of
Ready was fined SO and allowed to |
leave the city.
More drunks than usual were picked |
up by the officers over Sunday in spite |
of the fact that so many jointiSts and |
drug store dealers have been put out |
of business. Where the. booze comes |
from has been worrying the big chief |
u "a Witnessed rs
since as before the prosecutions of last |
month which have practically closed |
the joint district. Bootlegging seems I
to be the only method of selling possi-
BILE and that has now been found to
have picked up already. John Thomas
was arrested for investigation yester-
day which investigation proved that he
was sneaking the dollar-five around |
the feed yards and hay market. Con-
fronted with the evidence this morning
he preferred not to wait for trial but
pleaded guilty to one sale Immediately |
and began serving out his impost time
money nor friends but Sylvannia Sims,
and we must not talk about her and
the house on the river bank.
Among the many in yesterdays spirit
league session were q number of In
dams from the reservation at Mayetta.
Two of them were fined $20 each. They
were Carr Schobney and Albert Ross.
Ross on the stand. like a faithful In
his whisky but insisted that he did
not know. Now this is great many
times that you have been in here. You
Indians come down for no other busi-
ness than to get drunk. That is the
only purpose for which you come to
Topeka, and now you refuse to remem-
Der where you get the liquor. But you
always know where to get it and you
get drunk every time you come down
here don't you?'' reeled off the judge.
Yes, sir meekly replied the poor In
dian In plaintive tone.
Even in the shadow of the Jackson
street station a little miss has been
stealing lodging in the Hotel Purviance
for many moons but a dark cloud has
come over the moons and the miss was
arrested Sunday morning at 10 O'Clock
In a room and a nightgown when she
shouldn't have been in either.
Since he began the operation of the
hotel a month or so ago the proprietor,
Geo F. Burdett. has seen womens S /
clothes in room No but never did he
see the woman and there was ever in |
his mind that mysterious query, who
lives in No. 7?' often he watched un-
til he was weary but saw no one come,
neither did the clerk see anyone, though
the gas was used and the electric
lights were burned and the bed was
clothes were often left around
the room.
The old hotel, so-called, at PIT West
Fifth street, in another day, suffered
an Ill name. Mrs. Purviance kept the |
place until her death several months |
ago when a woman agent for Mr.. Bur-
dett took charge of it and operated it
at the same rate. There was a regis
ter at the office by way of formality
but the guests and their conduct have
been everything informal.
Now, Mr.. Burdett himself has taken
control and proposes to have guests /