The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30
Case of a Friend Who Was Not
a Friend.
Calls Police and Has Companion
Taken to Station.
DRIVES IN TRAMPS.
Box Car Travellers Sought City
Boarding House.
They Are Fed, Lodged and Sent
on Their Way.

A friend OF ]. WOOding foun0 tnaI
person suffering from locomotor ataxia
on Sixth Atreet last night, and proceed
ed to take him home but had forgotten
where wooding lived and Wooding was
far from telling so there was nothing
to do but phone the police.
Detectives Sauls and Summers went
to the spot indicated and found the
friend diligently holding the "soused"
up against the building. Then the
friend turned him over to the officers.
No, how would you like to have 1rleno
like that?
After a little nap at the station
Wooding furnished bond and went
home, nor did he appear this morning
for trial, FORGETTING his So bond instead:
for a part of which. the friend mlght
have bought the man a room until ne
found his bearings.
A motley bunch of buns reported at
the police station last night for lodging
and were marched out in sad array TINS
morning They hailed from Herington
Emporia, and Kansas City. From
country-bred Sloane to. Wh1skered
voice of Italy, Anton Pelon, they nIeo
out and claimed their Jackkn1Ves- fun-
ny it is but every bum has his jack
knife and usually that knife is all that
can be found on them when searched
prior to their keeping. Perhaps IN IN tne sIa
closeness to nature the knife is the one
indispensable article, both OF derense
and offense, first against each other and
those they attempt to pluck and then
in the preparation of the chance teed.
Just 100 buns have been booked at the
station for lodging during the montn
of January, an increase over any past
month.
BESIDES the numerous plate glasses
blown in by the high wind pair OF
eye glasses were scurried along the
street and lost, for which the ponce
TIL Hnu n
to pick them up somewhere in good
condition. Mrs. B. B. Evans of st.
Clair, Kan, was crossing Kansas ave-
rue during the wind storm when her
rimless glasses were unceremoniously
snatched from her face and 1ostled
down the avenue. Following in the
wake it was found that the case had
been discarded and subsequently found
but the glasses had made off for good
unless the city officers can detect them
leaning upon some fence or post in the
pawn shops, or on some strangers nose
Thomas Campbell whoever you are,
you are wanted at home, 1907 North Van
Buren, street. Somebody has notlheo
the police that you are lost from nome
and that if they should see you to tell
Won that your wife wants you at home
to help with the dishes. Now II your
wife had not been mentioned the sup
position would be that you were
child but children do not have wives,
so YOU are liable to the suspicion of
being dippy, or otherwise lndlsposeo.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
A IS reward is offered for the loca-
tion of a liver and white pointer and a
red setter which have been lost or sto-
len from z. S. Lee at 913 Kansas avenue
1t seems the tables are turned for those
dogs ought to be able to locate any
thing for themselves.
handsome new Jail docket will be
opened and put into use with the be-
ginning of the new month. The book,
bound in leather and linen was fur
nished by the Crane company for 1925,
that being the lowest bid for its max
ing. This is the lowest price paid for
a docket in years, yet the book is SUI
perior in every way, containing among
other added conveniences a vowal in
dex.
The current fines for the month of
January amount to 1851. so; and the
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