The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-07
LOCAL MENTION.

Suits that fit SIS, made at the Glas-
gov Wooden mills, 729 Kansas avenue.
The Chicago Lumber company filed
SUIT Thursday afternoon against Doug
las & Evans, the Topeka contractors,
to recover $4,945.S7 alleged to be due
for material used in the foundation of
the new State Memorial building. The
Federal Union Surety company, which
is surety for the contractors on the
bond to the state of $17,O31.S5, is also
made party to the action. Owing to
the fact that the material is now in
the building, and that the contractors
have furnished a surety bond, a me-
chanic's lien against the property
would not lie and the action was COM
contractors, but also from the bond
ing company.
Ben Bonewitz, charged with taking
$23 from the pockets of M. E. Teeter,
while the latter was taking a nap in
the Arlington hotel, was this morning
bound over to the district court under
bond of $500. Young Bonewitz has
been in trouble before, but always ad-
justed the matter and persuaded the
him. He was less fortunate in the
Teeter trouble and will be held for
trial in the district court.
A. A. GODDARD and Mrs. Charles B.
Thomas appeared before the board of
county commissioners this morning
and asked that body to make an ap-
preparation for the support of the
fresh air camp in North Topeka. No
action has yet been taken in the mat
ter.
E. r. Bartlett, who owns property
north of the fair grounds, this morn
ing filed complaint with the county
commissioners against the mainte-
nance of pig pens on the fair ground
property. In his letter to the board,
Bartlett declares that the pens draw
millions of pestilent flies. which swarm
on his property, literally covering the
south side of the house. He declares
that this condition has injured his
property in the eyes of prospective
purchasers to the amount of $1,000, in
addition to causing the Bartlett house
hold untold annoyance.
Rosaline F. Crow was this morning
adjudged insane by a commission in
the probate court and will be taken
at once to the state ASYLUM. The
woman had been an inmate of St.
Francis hospital for some time and her
physical condition had affected her
mind. Her father Henry E. Grow, is
partment of the Santa Fe and lives at
AIS West Sixth avenue.
r. B. Marshall of Willard is in To-
peka on business matters today. Mar
shall is considerably worried because
of a certain promissory note which he
endorsed for q friend. The friend filed
suit in bankruptcy and now it appears
that Marshall will be compelled to pay
the note.
R. D. McClinan of Seneca is in To-
peka today and will take part tonight
in the festivities of the knights and
Ladies of Security.
J. E. Junkin, editor of the Sterling
Bulletin. was in Topeka Thursday to
attend the meeting of the boards of re-
gents. Junkin is secretary of the State
Editorial association. He favors sin
gle board of regents for all state edu-
cationaI institutions and believes the
board should be composed of three
mem bers.
The Kansas City waterworks tax case
was argued in the supreme court today
Wyandotte county is attempting to tax
the water plant of Kansas City, Mo-, or
that part of it running from the intake
and settling basins at Quindaro to the
state line. The county has spread the
property on the tax rolls and the case
to prevent the collection of the tax was
brought.
George Plumb, of Emporia, is in To-
peka today on business matters. Plumb
is a member of the state board of rail-
road commissioners.
George E. Tucker, a member of the
board of regents of the state normal,
was in Topeka Thursday to attend the
regents meeting Tucker recently sold
his Eureka Herald. has retired from
politics and devotes the greater part
of his time to farming and the raising
of fancy live stock.
Mrs. W. NJ Hutchinson, wife of Judge
Hutchinson of Garden City, is in To-
peka today on matters of business.
Many of the teachers in the local
schools are in Atchison attending the
meeting of the Northeast Kansas
Teachers association. A number of
Topeka educators are on the program
state Superintendent E. T. Fairchild
! spoke this afternoon on 1.-The Moral
Element in Public Education and
Superintendent l. d. WhittemOre, of
the city schools, was also a speaker.
Ira d. Cardiff. professor of botany at
Washburn college. gave an address this
morning on 1.-The General and the
Practical in Education"
Senatory John D. Myers, of Holton,
was in Topeka Thursday on business
matters. Myers said the only signifi-
canoe connected with his visit to To-
peka was the necessity of arguing a
! case pending before the supreme court.