The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-21

gov Wooden mills, 729 Kansas avenue.
President Frank K. Sanders will
speak Sunday morning at the First
Congregational church.
"well Done VS.. Beautifully One-haf
Done'' will be the subject of the ad-
dress which DR.. F. L. Loveland Will
church. '"This will apply especially,
said Dr. Loveland, ito reforms and
work of the church. There have been
so many irons in the fire that the
tendency is to do nothing we'll"
Dr. D. M Fisk will give series of
six illustrated sermons at the First
Congregational church on 1.-THE Refor-
nation in Germany and England, and
the Rise of Religious and Political Lib
erty.'' The subject for Sunday evening
will be, THE Morning Stars of the
acknowledgement and Huss."
A burglar collected s5.s5 in the home
of J. E. Guild at 91S Topeka avenue
Wednesday night. The report to the
police is that the man left the mark of
bare feet on the window sill where he
entered. The cops are looking for i
barefooted man.
A couple of negro porters had an
hotel and Matt Haynes emphasized
with a revolver shot, Haynes, it seems.
had been supplanted by one Fred Har-
ris on the porter job and had taken the
matter to heart. The shot missed and
both negroes ran.
The law question Involved in the
Chesterfield hotel case is whether
Porter Wright was the agent for the
purchaser or the seller of the booze he
was sent to buy. AS agent for the seller
he would be guilty but they do not
punish for buying the stuff.
Owing to the war between Tip O'Neill
of the Western league and the Western
Union the State Journal experienced
great difficulty in getting a ball park
wire from Wichita on the plays this
afternoon. The Postal came to the
rescue.
Governor Stubs will issue a procla-
nation in a few days urging the min
listers to preach on tuberculosis April
80. The state board of health and the
Society for the Study and Prevention
of tuberculosis have fixed April 30 as
tuberculosis Sunday and the governor
was asked to help arouse interest by
issuing a proclamation and urging the
ministers to help in the fight against
the disease. The board of health AMI
the society have gathered much ma
terial to be furnished free to ministers
throughout the state to use in their
sermons. 1t is asked that each min
| lister preach at least one sermon on
| tuberculosis on that day.
Gilbert Peterson pleaded guilty to
highway robbery Thursday afternoon in
the first division of the district court
1t was charged that Peterson had at
| tackled George O'Brien while the latter
| was crossing the Rock Island bridge in
June, 1910. O'Brien was Go years old
and was injured in he attack. Peterson
went to Colorado after the O'Brien
| episode and was arrested in Colorado
| Springs several months ago.
| Evidence in the Chesterfield hotel
| liquor case was completed this morning
and was argued this afternoon before
| a jury in the first division of the dis
| trict court. The case has been the
| hardest fought liquor prosecution tried
at this term of the district court. The
state has relied almost entirely on
| 'spotter" evidence for a conviction and
witnesses for the defense established
an alibi to prove that liquor was not
kept for sale in the hotel A travelling
| salesman testified that two barrels Of
! beer found in the hosiery belonged ia
| himself and another man.
wallace c. Richardson. well
known crop expert, is here today from
Chicago. Mr.. Richardson is greatly
pleased with the appearance of Kan.
sas this spring.