The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-06
LOCAL MENTION.


Sunday schools should hold their an
nual pictnics in Lakewood Park. A
natural grove.
Myrtle Myers today filed suit in the
district court, asking for q divorce from
Frank Myers. The couple were married
in Topeka May %, 1902. They the par
ents of two sons, and years old. Mrs.
Myers charges her husband with, extreme
cruelty and states that his actions have
been of such a character that she has
been unable to live with him.
The board of city commissioners this
morning approved the petitions for a
great white way on East Fourth street.
The petitions call for an extension of
the Kansas avenue lighting system
from the intersection of Fourth street
and Kansas avenue to Holiday street
at the Santa F'e tracks.
The police were active Saturday and
Sunday in trying to enforce the pro-
hibitory laws and arrested several
stocks of wet goods but the owners
fed and no one could be found who
would claim the stock. Beginning Sat-
urday afternoon they went to 911 East
Eleventh street where they found sew
era1 cases and a keg of beer and four
gallons of whisky in a wagon in front
of the place of John Brown and negro
with a police reputation. Several Other
places were also raided.
Suit to enjoin the city commissioners
and the Topeka Street railway from
removing the depot at Potwin, was filed
in the district court today by A. Bun
ker. The street railway is made party
defendant with the mayor and city
commissioners.
The Bowman property at Tenth ave-
nue. and Van Buren, street, overlooking
the state house, was sold today at sher-
III sale to satisfy a judgment held by
the knights & Ladies of Security. The
property realized $3.50 and was bid in
by representatives of the fraternal or
der in full satisfaction of the judg-
Inent.
A meeting of the promotion COM
| mittee of the Commercial club will
probably be held Friday noon. Sec
| rotary j. Will Kelley will give a report
of his recent tour of 16 factory cities,
and Will have some recommendations
to make.
| A meeting of the Shawnee Medical
society will be held tonight in the
rooms of the Commercial club.
The regular May. meeting of the
board of education will be held this
| evening at o'clock.
The Second Regiment band will give
a concert in the City park on Tues
| day evening, beginning at 1880 O'Clock.
| 1t will be held under the auspices of
the Topeka City Park Amusement Co.
The concerts will be given three times
each week the remainder of the sea-
| son.
The Kreipe $40 team and the Bot
toms Sharks played a game of circus
| baseball Sunday afternoon. The 31O's
won % to 6. They made % hits
of which were home runs. The 31Os
want out of town games.
Merchants and Manufacturers de-
string to see the finest line of adver-
Using souvenirs for State Fair pur-
poses and for all coming customers
see the line run by James Kerr, who
| is well posted in this style of adver-
tising.S A card to 1927 Arch street,
will put you in line.
H F. Perkins, father Of ". E. Per
kins, who committed suicide in the
Edwards hotel in Kansas City by swat.
lowing carbolic acid, believes that his
son was robbed of a watch and dia-
mond ring after he died. The boy
had valuable ring and watch when
he went to Kansas City, but neither
was on the body when it was brouh hit
to Topeka. Mr.. Perkin. alleges that
the body was taken from the hotel,
where 1t was found, to the undertake
er's morgue without having been
viewed by the coroner and the watch
and ring have disappeared. He is MAX
ing an investigation and hopes to re-
cover the missing property.
A permit was issued today for the
erection of a $4,000 dwelling for Dr.
w. E. Heatherly at Ala West Sixth
avenue. Frank H. Deppe will build a
$4,000 dwelling at a9s-S95 North To-
peka avenue. w. T. Wilson will
build a $4,000 dwelling al 615 West
Fifteenth street. The Clearinghouse
company was given permit to build
two-story dwelling at S11 Garfield
avenue. Frank Forbes will build a
$500 house at 1925 College avenue.
o. H. Larimer, who has returned
from Manhattan, where A 4. Longren
made some sensational flights last
week, says that the Topeka aviator
made the most difficult flight of his
career as an aviator last Friday aft
ernoon. THE wind was blowing 80
miles an hour but regardless of this
fact Longren flew ten miles, said
Larimer. 1.-The Saturday evening fol-
lowing he went up to an altitude of
5000 feet, where he struck calm air.
He flew for IS minutes. The whole
town was crazy over the flights. Lon
gren will fly at the fair grounds next
week on Thursday and Friday"
Anna and Robert Jones were arrest
ed Saturday night by Officers England
and Maze and are charged with disor-
derby conduct. They were pulling off
a tenderloin stunt in the vicinity of
the old gas office building on First
street when the officers arrested them.
They will be given hearing in police
court this afternoon.
Sunday morning the city and shop
fire companies in that territory, an
swered an alarm from the Santa Fe
yards where ties were burning. The