The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-18

Adv.
At five o'clock Sunday night a small
gasoline explosion and conflagration oc-
CURED at the home of J. T. Robinson, 427
East Seventeenth street. A stove in the
dining room was not lighted, but turned
on; someone carelessly struck a match
and the, vapor escaped in a blaze. Loss
amounted to SIS.
Council No 1, K. and L. of s., are
arranging an unusual program for
next Tuesday evening, at the lodge
hall. Every member of No. 1 is urged
to be preSent.-Adv.
An alarm from box II, Santa Fe alarm
last night at s o'clock The fire started
in the furnace of the boiler shop; the
damage was trifling.
In the city. commission room this morn
ing an ordinance appropriating $1O,045 for
! was set aside for the water department,
and $22, 62.61 for street and alley paving.
quest from Governor Stubs asking per-
mission of the commissioners to enter
the city sewer south of Eleventh street
and west or Kansas avenue for the pur-
poses of accommodating the Memorial
| building; request was granted in the COM
mission chamber.
Two pleas of guilty to charges of viola
tons Of the prohibitory law, each of which
the first division of the district court this
morning. Following the entry of the pleas
| George Spiker, charged with violations on
eight counts, was placed on trial, and a
/ jury is busy hearing evidence in his case.
G. F. James, one of the old offenders,
pleaded guilty to five counts Of violations,
the minimum penalty for which is five
months in the county Jail and fine of
, $500 and costs. Sentence, however, was
deferred. c. P. Epperson entered plea
of guilty to two counts and sentence also
was deferred. Other counts against both
men were dismissed by the county attor-
ney.
Notice-There will be a meeting of
the Woodrow Wilson club at the office
of Allen & Allen, SOL Jackson street,
at 8 o'clock Tuesday, November 10.
: 1 members urged to be present.-W.
o. Rigby, president; Otis S. Allen,
secretary.-Adv.
A new piano player, the gift of Miss
Alice Davies of Los Angeles, Cal, daugh-
ter of Benjamin NJ. Davies of 800 West
Sixth avenue, has been installed at the
Y w c. A. The instrument was much
appreciated by the officials and the girls
of the association.
C. D. Skinner fell through the second
floor of the Merchants Transfer building
this morning and sustained painful o.
though probably not serious injuries. An
ugly cash was cut in his head, and many /
bruises sustained. He was taken to MS /
home at 915 Monroe street
The next meeting of the Kansas Asso- !
citation of Life Underwriters will be in the
nature of an evening dinner-the third
Monday of next month. The association
met this noon in the rooms of the Com I
mercial club.
No farm or city loan is too large for |
Better Realty and Loan Co. to make. /
Their companies have $10O, 900, 10000 assets. |
ADV.
The Jayhawker club will meet tonight /
at luncheon at the Throop hotel and after 7
ward listen to a paper, THE Elements OF I
the Automobile" by Charles Weirenga-
c. T. Graham slept in room at the
Manhattan restaurant with a strange
man Sunday night, and the latter rob-
bed him of a suit of clothes early this
morning. The clothes were taken about |
6 o'clock, and the entire police force is
trying to locate the stranger who took
them out of the room.
]. H. Meyer left his watch and fob
in a bath room at 307 Van Buren, street
this morning, and is now bewailing its
loss. He used the bath room about s
o'clock and left his watch on the wash
stand. He returned about an hour later
and the timepiece was missing.