The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-25
POLICE JOTTINGS.
Another Out of Town Contractor
in Trouble.
This Time He Was From Kansas
City.
GIVEN A SMALL FINE.
Told to Get Home as Fast as
Possible.
Last Night a Busy One for
GIVEN A SMALL FINE.
Last Night a Busy One for
Guardians of Peace.

| About 4 o'clock Wednesday after
| noon a great deal of interest was CEN
| tered in the arrest of a prominent
| contractor at an up town restaurant.
| Out of town contractors who come to
| dig their hooks into Topeka are fast
! getting into the class with the In
| dians from the reservation out on
| the edge of civilization" Every time
an Indian comes down he tanks up
| so have done a large number of con-
| tractors-and they are all arrested
alike.
A paving contractor for a Kansas
City firm and living at the National
caused the excitement at the
restaurant but was soon dragged out
side by Patrolmen Woodward and Nc
Guire and given ride in the Topeka
beer wagon, alias the patrol In police
court this morning he was fined the
plain drunk fee of SIS which an of
ficer went to the National with him to
secure. Later a message came from
Kansas City to come on home at once
where the attitude is kinder-and he
went.
Last time it was Leavenworth
man with the same sort of appetite
the appetite difficult to foster in To-
peka because nursed by such wet
nurses as Kansas City or Leavenworth
the Dollar-Five of Topeka creates a
terrific fever and round feet.
Seven telephone calls in six minutes
just before the sun came out last
evening enforced upon the police the
responsibility which a number of suS-
pender buttons refused to assume
around on Quincy street.
Come and get an awful man." was
the plea. The poor man knew not
what he did but evidences point to the
probability that he thought he was
Bacchus but Dollar-Five substituted
for wine had put his hilarity in the
crazy column and he proceeded to
pose from corner post to another post
never feeling that he was IN the mod
ern way where it is the custom to
remember the suSpenders-that they
are hooked securely on.
So many and urgent were the calls
that the police made regular mid
night rush for the place designated.
When he saw the two horse chariol
coming at full speed he promptly
ducked itno an alley where he was
thrown into the cart and his clothing
adjusted. At the castle he gave his
name as D. F. Vanderhayden and
slept last night in the castle ward to
loses in the police court business for
Willing away their time. Five ducats
he was "gigged'' for at the morning
session.
Big Rain Killer. whose reservation
name is Albert Ross to make him
feel Americanized, but whose Topeka
name at the police citadel which he
always visits when in town is Bottle
in the Face has been assigned to the
S25 class of drunks. He was re-
leased after serving out fifteen days
but in an hour a North Topeka Of
fcer called for the patrol and who for.
but the same Albert Ross. And the
judge fined him $25. But an Indian is
a good loser or else does not know he
left out in the cold. This prank re- |
he never begs nor whimpers. More |
often he laughs deep and good |
natured seemingly amused.
The five boys arrested on a charge |
of robbing a back porch refrigerator, |
were all discharged without a fine by |
Judge Urmy last evening. The |
offense consisted of the removal of
two pieces of pineapple and a piece of
meat from a refrigerator, which was
left out in the cold. This prank re- |
suited in good scare for John Sharp |
and Noble Foster, the pair who con-
Quoted the raid. but they promised to |
be good and not do it any more. Will |
liam Blaine. Archie Hosford and Clyde |
Demon, the other three who were ar
rested, were cleared by the confession |
of the boys who pulled Off the stunt.