The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18

The city of Topeka will have a semi
monthly pay day for its employees a
/ last. The board of city commissioner
more than a year Mayor Billiard ant
| Commissioner Miller have been work
| ing on the proposition Until toda.
when they were supported by Commits
sioner Stotts they were unable to pusi
it through the board.
J. S. Longshore, state oil inspector
today filed his August report with the
state auditor. Boiled down it shows
| Inspectors salary, 1925; inspectors ex
penses, SHIPS; clerks salary, SIS; tota
/ fees collected, $5,S43-30: fees allowed in
| spectors $2,596.05; barrels of oil in
spected, STA; barrels of gasoline in
spected, 1922; total barrels, SO, 406.
In the Saturday evening rush at til:
| Ten Cent store. an unknown Topeka
woman thoughtlessly laid her pocket
book on a counter while she looked a
some goods on a nearby counter. WheT
she returned for the pocketbook, it was
gone. With it went SIS in currency
She reported her loss to the store man.
agement, but the money has not beer
found. According to Manager Han
Ghetto, many pocketbooks are lost in
the crowded store. ThOughtless wO-
men leave their money on the counters
When they start to look for their cash
it is usually missing.
Miss Name Shortz left Saturday fol-
Los Angeles, San Francisco and Other
points in California.
Mr. Jonathan Downs left this after
noon for a business trip through Ok
lahoma and Kar sas.
Margaret Schnell. negro girl Il
years old, PA Spring street. Auburn
dale, attenA pied suicide Sunday after
noon by drinking a mixture of car
bolic acid and denatured alcohol. Hel
condition today is considered improved
and death unlikely by DR.. c. W
Schwartz, who was summoned. The
girls attempt is said to be due to {
quarrel with her mother.
The case against Alonzo Wentworth
charged with beating his wife, has beer
dismissed. The complaint was worr
to by joseph Gorrell. Wentworth wa!
the man arrested and not Gorrel. al
had been formerly published.
The county commissioners were il
session several hours this morning
Very little business was transacted BY
the board at its meeting TODAY.
DR.. Eva Harding is looking for mor'
trouble and there is every reason t.
believe that she will find it. If DR.
Eva had a voice in state politics. sh'
could kick up row that would pu
the Stubbs-Dawson controversy in thu
side show class.
The Karnival knights started out
with SIS in the hole, pulled off a parade
and a ball, paid all their bills and came
out about $500 above board board MOI
cent was solicited from the mer-
chants. And maybe you think the mer-
chants didn't appreciate it!
It's just as the public expected
Mayor Billiards. whiskers have become
an issue in the state campaign Bill
lard's alfalfa crop is the largest thai
has been exhibited on the speaking
stands since PETER discussed more
hell and less corn in Kansas.
Caleb Jackson, negro often hello
at the city prison. broke an improved
career Saturday night by drawing {
gun on NJ. D. Fletcher. a restaurant
proprietor at 207 Kansas avenue. Jack
son was fined $50 in police court thi:
morning following a plea of not guilty
Will Withers, a negro, was fined So
by Judge Arnold in police court fol
fighting.
w H. Fenman was arrested by po-
lice officers Sunday afternoon after
an assault upon a Mrs. Martin, ir
which the woman was severely cut
with a razor. The fight occurred or
East Fifth street
with picking a farmers pockets OF
about $50. was taken to the city prison
Sunday by Detective Anderson, where
her victim awaited her. When she
offered the compromise of returning
$35 he allowed her case to pass with
out prosecution.
Ross Daniels, a machinist, was ar.
rested Sunday afternoon for exceeding
the speed limit in an automobile He
furnished a bond.
The largest teachers meeting eVel
held in Shawnee county was conduct
ed at the high school auditorium las1
Saturday afternoon, when $50 of the
135 district teachers came to Topeka
for the gathering. 1t was the largest
attendance since the organization of ar
association in the county.
Rev John Koehler. pastor of the
German Methodist Episcopal church
viii leave for conference on Tuesday
September 5. The conference will be
held at Enterprise, Kan. Bishop J. L
over the conference.
The state case against B. johnson
charged with the sale of intoxicating
liquor was dismissed today in the
court of Topeka on motion of County
Attorney Simon.
Secretary H. L. Cook. of the State
Fair association, who was arrested
Friday on a charge of resisting an Of
ficer in the discharge of his duty, will
be given a hearing October 9, in the
court of Topeka. The case against
Cook was called this morning, but was
continued by consent of attorneys for
the state and defendant