The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03

| little water was wasted that it stood
up later.
The iron stats and the tin roof not
more than Is inches apart held the fire
in compact space or the whole build
ing would have been afire in the
| length Of time taken to reach it with a
1 stream of Water-having to chop
through the walls of the skylight shaft.
Preparations for the celebration of the
GLORIOUS Fourth are progressing in a
MODEL manner from the poIiceman's
some exceptions aud many punches of
crackers and other noise makers have
been exploded but there has been none
OF the wild prelude of former years.
The chief OF police announces his
intention TO enforce all the regula-
ton concerning the shooting of guns
and the larger cannon crackers and
viii have a special force to watch the
streets for lads with the contraband
goods
I've are greatly handicapped" he
says, "by the fact that the ordinance
which prohibits the use of the large
crackers, blank cartridges, cartridge
canes and such stuff, does not also
prohibit the sale of them By the or
dinance the merchants are allowed to
sell tons Of the goods which we are
then expected to see are not exploded %
What may be proven to be an IN
called for ana brutal use of a police
mans club was the beating of George
Bradshaw by PatrOlman Bryant last
right Both the beaten man and the
officer are colcred.
Bradshaw was brought in last night
at S:45 o'clock covered with blood from
a cash over his eye. Patrolmen Eng
land and Bryant are credited with the
arrest and the man was booked for
drunkenness and resisting an officer.
The chief says it should have been for
disorderly conduct.
The mother CT Bradshaw came to
the station this morning and had Dr..
H. H. Keith dress the boys wounds.
Besides the cash over his left eye, he
exhibited a great bump on his left
side, where he says he had been kick
and back where he claims to have been
struck with the club-aH he says for
doing nothing. He was sitting on the
door step of the house of Boots Hen
derson at the corner Of Crane and Mon
roe streets. with Boots and Mrs. Young
v hen England and Bryant walked past
After passing, Bryant turned back, he
says and coming up to him said: I
want y0u," and kicked and cuffed him
and then hit him with his club when
he had pushed him out of his chair
oLto the ground.
Bradshaw was arrested for VACANCY
ard fined S15 rot long ago and has
served many fines in the prison He is
known as a neer DO well and the pO-
lice say he had threatened to kill Bry-
ant and his father which warranted the
officer in taking no chances with him.
Mrs. Eta LIyod, girl wife of E. c.
Lloyd, who had left her in a room at
1913 Garfield avenue and gone to
work at Russell, Kan, is evidently an
independent little thing and quite able
to take care of herself.
1t develops that there was some
small differences of opinion left IN
snoothed when Lloyd went away and
hence the failure of the girl to write
him In lonely Russell he repented
having an opinion and returned to find
the wife put out of the room and
nowhere to be found and he was ex-
ceedingly heart sore.
The Mrs" had been put out Mon
dav night, the same he left 1t was
Friday he returned He was frantic
Finally Detective Lawson found the
girl last night working at 314 West
Fifth street and providing for herself
industriously.