The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-04

Most of the women folks went on ahead
with the lunch baskets.
SalOonIxeeper Moves.
Herman Hochschmidt, the genial sa-
loonkeeper, personally toted the new
sign painted for him by Claude Hopkins
the talented local artist who expects to
York this winter. Herman said he
couldn't take any chances with that sign,
cOnsiderin' how valuable it will be when
Claude has worked up an eastern repu-
tation.
Pawnbroker's Job Easy.
Santa Fe being a prosperous commun-
ity, Nose EpStein's hook shop, in the rear
of the Merchants and Farmers bank,
was fairly easy to move. His empty safe,
bought on the installment plan, was
seized the day before by the manufac-
down to the three balls over the door,
which he swore he owned in fee simple,
but would save to "hock' for his fare to
Topeka, where he has a cousin in the
rhinestone business-"a dollar down and
fifty cents when convenient, guaranteed
oreide settings thrown in"
1t being the first time all the inhabi-
tants were out in the open at once, Miss
Letitia Simpkins, authority on the latest
London and Paris modes at the Red Lion
general store, pranced along in the only
hobble gown ever seen in these parts.
siIenced With Stone.
Lon Pike-who is regular village cut
up-pretended he thought Letitia had
chillblains, from the way she hoped
along, and asked if she'd tried mutton
enough for Lon any day in the week.
She just gave him one of her Fifth ave-
nue., New York, naughty stares and said:
Il can summon up no other emotion
save that of pity for such as you. Alonzo
TilIie Wears just Stockings.
At next town meeting, when Santa
Fe's settled on its new site, Elder Jones
will propose an ordinance ITO Uplift the
Moral Status OF Our Local Stage" Thai
is because Tillie Meacham persisted in
her idea of making the trip across the
prairie in her French soubrette costume
mostly stockings. Titles regular job is
selling tickets in the box office at the
opera house, but once a year, at the An
nual ireman's Benefit, she puts on that
soubrette rig and acts right out on the
stage
A pathetic incident at the start was old
and weepin' as if his heart would break
Man and boy, 81 had loafed about that
pump talkin' politics and prophesyin
years. They finally tore him away, but
he took the pump with him.
Sheriff Is Obstinate.
The town hall was the last Of the pub
lie buildings to take the trail. Mayor
Cal Spurrier and Corporation Counsel
Pete Arkwright stayed behind to see
twenty horses driven by five men yank
it off its foundation, while Sheriff Bill
Plunkett chewed tobacco and declared
the hull thing unconstitutional, b'gosh!
way, and the mayor shouted back to the
up with the county seat"
1.-The county seat amt no passed. o
houses says Bill; ITS the land site; The
thar prisoners in the county jail on this
here site, an here l incarcerates 'em, an
here they stay till their terms is up.
And the sheriff expectorates more OBJ
stinately than ever
saunter back to argue with him.
Constitution Rules Him.
Look here, Bill, says the mayor
Fe. Kansas? Can't you take a chance
with your old paTdner?
Net agin the co .Iy ton says the
chances, Cal Spurrier. AS for me, I'm a
law abidin citizen"
Right here the corporation counsel puts
Stop barkin' at a knot, Bill Plunkett,"
says he. What do you know about the
That's the idee,'' says the mayor
Whats the use of a corporation counsel
if not to settle legal p'ints like this here
one?"
Corporation Counsel at Work.
The sheriff sits down on a log and |
takes out his Jackknife to cut off another |
counsel proceeds. IN very legal language. |
to show him that the law says that by a |
seat may be moved to any desired point |
within the county limits.
How about the site?" demanded the |
sheriff. This yere site goes clean down |
to the center of EARTH You might well |
talk about movin' the cyclone cellars, or
the postholes.''
Wien the corporation counsel has ex-
planned that an old site may be legally |
condemned, and a new site acquired, |
without the slightest violation of the |
constitution. the sheriff gets off the log, !
closes his jackknife and inquiries earn |
estly:
What About Prisoners.
Pete Arkwright, do you guarantee |
that thar Interpretation O the law to be !
bullet proof?"
II do declares the corporation coun- |
sci.
We'll, then" says the sheriff, as he /
sxpectorates half way over the jail roof, \
'p'raps you can tell me how the dickens
it, an what I'll do with the prisoners |
while I'm movin' the jail empty I've |
figured on it till I'm plum Iocoed-"
Neither the mayor nor the corporation 1
counsel had any suggestions to make on /
the spur of the moment Accordingly, as /
the rest of Santa Fe, Kansas, skidded its !