The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19
EATON is ON A VISIT.
Looking Up Liquor License Rec.
ord in LeavenwOrth.
PatrOlmen Working Hard to
Swell MunSOn Fund.

Wagging wagon tongue to which
he had no right but the mine points
of the law" and making a noise like
selling out that right for cash when
he had wagged it as far as a black
smith shop on Jackson street has re-
suited in disaster to one Samuel John
son, colored man, having the tongue
tied up in police court while Judge
Urny got the last word to the effect
that a quarter of a hundred dollars
would be necessarily paid to the jailer
before said Samuel might regain his
liberty.
The pole was one belonging in a
medicine wagon OF Bruce D. Gardner,
manager of the Marvel Manufac-
turing company at -120 East Fifth
street. 1t was missed before noon
Thursday but there was no clue to the
thief
However, johnson was seen selling
or trying to sell a pole at the black
smith shop and wondering what he
had to do with buggy poles, Detective
Summers took him to the station,
charged him with larceny and left
him there while an investigation was
made. Then the theft of the tongue
from Gardner's wagon was reported
and joining circumstances Samuel was
'it.''
''Ephriham Johnson come with me,
it's your judgment day." called the
jailer at the grated door. mo. this
am Sam. Ephriham Johnson don't live
heah no more" Sam, taken before
the judge felt himself a slipping and
concluded the best thing he could do
was plead guilty. He pleaded as per
that conclusion and was fined $25 on
a petit larceny charge.
A public exhibition was pulled off last
evening by a couple of "Pugs" on Kan
,ivfa n nd
Fourteenth streets. The ring was built
like ring around the rosie and in the
chase a number of window lights were
knocked out by the flying pebbles
Somebody had the presence of mind
to phone the police and in short time
three detectives arrived. They We're
Summers, Sauls and Hopkins. But
when they had arrived one of the pugil-
lists had been put down and out for he
was nowhere to be found The cham
pion, Elmer King, was escorted in
triumph to the station where he SEEM
ed to think big match would be ar
ranged for him.
Asked by the capitalist, Mr.. Urmy,
whether or no he had done that fight
ing he proudly answered, I did. it"
''I give you S25,'' said Mr.. Urmy. "Oh,
the moke, pug that can fight like that
Is worth five thousand in any match"
and King shrugged his shoulders in
disdain. But he was not offering you
that for fighting" explained the Of
ficers. 'he said he gave you that to give
the jailer, haven't you got 1t? No"
well, then get back into the pen, don't
stand round all day"
Chief of Police R. w. Eaton is spend
ing the day in Leavenworth with
friends who will give him certified
copies of the federal liquor licenses held
in Topeka. 1t is quite expensive to
have each one certified and sent by
mail whereas by going over the chief
cat all 2 hnnRh
and keep them on hand for the benefit
of the retail liquor dealers in Topeka
who are not supposed to exist. OF the
eight traffckers captured the other
night onlv one, Frank Raynor, is
thought to- hold government license
The wet goods found in the various
places will serve to land the propr1etorS
into the clutches of the federal license
collector. But if they did hold the
license that will serve to prove they
did sell and would give them to prose-
cution by the state, so the liquor deal
ers in Kansas are up against 1t on the
license business whether or no. The
trials of the eight are set for the 23rd
of the month.
Happily the rumored raid on the
Grand theater by the chief and his
braves for the purpose of clothing Miss
Hoffman and thereby discounting a dol
lar and a half'S worth of the two dollar
attraction did not take place last night
proving not only not distasteful but
very beautiful and artistic-at least in
the eyes of the police reporter who act
ed as censor in the absence of Chief
Eaton.
When YOU ordered four tons of coal to
be dumped into your cellar a month ago
and paid for ii without more than look
ing at it after it had been dumped did
1T look a little shy in proportions for
the amount of money pried loose from.
Well, maybe it was: A Topeka coal
dealer of the Topeka Coal company
cured by c. B. Hamilton for offering
for sale and selling load of coal which
had been falsely and incorrectly weigh
ed. A load of coal he was sending to
Mr.. Hamilton looked short and when
Investigated found to be $50 pounds
short which probably Jared off on the
way from the yards in North Topeka
italization
The most active workers in the city
for the Munson fund are the city
policemen, all of whom are carrying
a pack of the tickets for the Majestic
theater. performance to be given Sun
day night and button-holing every one
they think approachable with such a
charge. Patrolman James has al
ready sold forty tickets. that being
the highest number sold by any of
them so far. But speaking of fires, !
there is a stunt in that show, not per-
formed but sung. where a hero-medal
chaser rescues a maiden from third
story window by throwing her a rope
and pulling her down.
oliver Boyer and Willie Marrs who |
live at the police station got day off
yesterday and last night and washed
down their oats with too much
brandy. They were unable to get
home to bed when seen by Patrol
man Fowler so he kindly took them
there and tucked them in their ac-
customed hunks 1t will be some time |
before they get a leave of absence |