The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-12


police court since Friday noon.
Swim at Gage Lake-supplied by a
well of fresh and pure running water.
ADV.
Many Topeka people are receiving
invitations to B. P. Waggener's chill
dren's picnic at Atchison, July IS.
Marriage license was issued today
| to Elmer A. Lowe, aged 20, and Ma
| bel Woodruff, aged Is, both of Topeka.
A half dozen shoes frozen in a big
cake of ice have attracted much at
tention today in front of a local shoe
store.
DR.. ]. w. GraybilI of Newton, Grand
peka arranging for special session of
the order which in all probabilities will
be held this city early this fall.
Poor Commissioner Bacon took
| Mary Bunch. the half witted woman
! who has been detained at the county
/ Jail, to the poor farm last night.
Gene Stotts, former city commission
er, came floating down the Kaw river
this morning with 29-pound cat fish
weighing down the rear of his boat.
| Undersheriff Hugh Larimer will
| take George Winter, who recently
! the reformatory at Hut :hinson tomor-
! row.
Morton Albaugh, clerk of the feder-
| al court, will spend Sunday at Lake
! View and asked United States District
| Attorney Robertson to accompany
| him.
A E. Sweet general manager of the
second district of the Rock Island Lines
with headquarters in this city, returned
to Topeka today after an inspection
trip over the lines of the road.
The commerce club of Pueblo, Colo,
wants to get up an agricultural and in
dustrial congress, similar to that
which Topeka will have in November,
and has asked for the Topeka plan.
E. T. Cartridge, general tax COM
missioner of the Santa Fe with head.
quarters in Topeka and Archie P. Null
holland of the tax department, will re-
turn this evening from a trip over the
eastern lines of the road.
A building permit was issued today
to DIR. w E. Heatherly for the con-
struction of a two story residence a&
40 West Sixth avenue to cost $4,000.
feet in size.
but now a resident of Roswell, New
Mexico, is in the city 6r a few days
looking after the marketing of 10000
bushels of apples he expects to market
from his orchard this fall.
A. c. Ridgway vice president of the
Rock Island Lines. with headquarters
in Chicago. was in Topeka comforting
with second district officials few
hours last night. Mr.. Ridgway is in
charge of operation on the road.
May Williams, the little colored girl
who is said to have been badly mis-
been temporarily placed in the care
of Mrs S. F. Malone of the Crittenton
Home for Colored Girls She was
taken there this morning by Police
woman Eva Corning.
The Santa Fe has opened new
depots at Fowler and Manzanola,
Colo, where the citizens held cele-
brations in honor of the events. j. r.
Koontz, w. w. Strickland, J. w. Now
ers, H. c. Pribble, Isaiah Hale, P.
Walsh and ]. c. Burnett of the gen.
eral offices here participated.
H. H. German. chief special agent
of the special service department of the
Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe railway
International association of railway
special agents and police, figures ex-
tensively in an article appearing in the
current number of the Railroad Mans
magazine.
There will be a meeting held at the
West Sixth street school house tomor-
row afternoon at 8 o'clock for the pur-
pose of organizing a Sunday school. Mr.. |
F. E. Gates of the American Sunday |
School Union Mr.. H. w. Bomgardner. |
president of the County Sunday School )
Association and Rev. Ralph Ward of
Westminster church will be present |
and speak.
The South Side Civic club met last
night at the home of DR.. H. w. Roby. |
The club passed a resolution and ap- |
pointed a committee to ask that the |
city commission make improvements
in Lakewood park, pass an ordinance
prohibiting the whistling of locomo- |
uves within the city limits. and work
the sanitary force in removing low |
hanging boughs.
Mrs G. L. Hawkins of LaGrande, |
Oregon, has written Chief of Police |
Hughes to think him for the work |
done by the police force in looking up
her relatives. The chief received a |
letter from her several weeks ago ask |
ing him to locate all of her missing |
relatives, most of whom have been in
Topeka. Detective Carl Golf was put |
in charge of the case and has succeed
ed in finding one uncle, one cousin and |
two aunts, besides finding out about
the death of her father
Several perfectly human men have
called the State Journal by telephone
recently in verification of the story
that with the sun and light in a GER
tain position a person may see right
the fiimsy clothing of girl pa
raiders on Topeka's "Petticoat Lane"
The kemper auto line running from
the corner of West Sixth avenue and
Jackson street to Gage park and re-
turn will again be put in operation on
Sunday between the hours of two and
maintain a fifteen minute schedule to
the park from the end of the Asylum
car line.