The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-06

negroes were arrested Tuesday night
all charged with selling beer or whis-
key.
Bonds aggregating a million dol
lars have been registered with w. E.
Davis, state auditor, during the last
five weeks The showing is above the
average, altho it does not establish a
record. for the state The record for
August showed the registration of
bonds amounting to SS10,706.53.
Apple packing school at Pleasant
Ridge grange hall on Thursday, Sep
TENDER Z. This is also the regular
date for the monthly meeting of the
/ Shawnee County Horticultural soci-
ety. All interested parties are urged
to be present This will be an all day
meeting. A basket dinner
More liquor licenses have been
granted IN Sedgwick county than in
any county in the state, according to
the files of the internal revenue office
examined by Frank NJ. Stahl, secre-
tary of the State Temperance union
There are SO licenses in Sedgwick
county. Leavenworth county is next
with 1 5, Reno and Topeka only 1.
The injunction suit brought by Fred
C. Fisher, a conductor on the Union
Pacific. to enjoin the union officials
from calling a strike of the railway
trainmen and to enjoin them from
dismissed by Judge A. w Dana Tues
day afternoon, following the calling
off of the strike.
Owing to the recent death of James
Peabody, statistician, the Santa Fe
railway will not resume it's testimony
in the passenger rate case until Octo
Der. The case is pending before the
public utilities commission and fig
ures and records used in the case were
largely in possession of Peabody at
the time of his death.
George A Clark, former secretary
of state and secretary of the Repub-
lican league, has returned from Lar
annie, Wyo.. where he has been con-
fined in a hospital for several weeks.
He suddenly became sick at Laramie
while on a western fishing trip. He
is much improved in health and
strength.
Bessie NJ Messick has Teen granted
a divorce from B. +. Messick who lost
a hand at the McEntire mattress fac
tory and secured a judgment against
the company for $2,206.50. In the
division of the property Mrs. Messick
was given the home, 906 Monroe street
and Messick was given the judgment.
Mrs. Messick also has the custody of
the two children.
Ernest Timer, boy, has com
planned to the county attorney that
Henry Ogee struck him on the hand
and under the chin with an iron bar
because he could not produce a hunt
er's license. Ulmer now has a license
along with him and Robert Carver,
assistant county attorney, declined to
! take any action until he hears Ogee 8
! side of the story Ogee is a deputy
! fish and game warden.
! A mouse was seen climbing up the
! front screen door of a Topeka home
/ today in an effort to find a way in
] FT-1,a ~
mer is driving them in from the fields
! and they are forced to seek the houses
/ to get water and food Many homes
/ that never saw a mouse before are
undergoing an invasion of the little
pests. Rats, also, are unusually trou-
| blesome this summer
| A lecture on Christian Science will
! be given Friday evening at O'Clock
( in the Grand opera house by Ezra w.
Palmer, c. S. B., of Denver, member
of the board of lectureship of the
Mother Church the First Church of
Christ Scientist, in Boston, Mass.
/ Given under the auspices of First
! Church of Christ. Scientist, this city.
The lecture is free and the public is
invited
Ed CahiIl. who was sent to the coun-
ty Jail two weeks ago because he re-
fused to tell where he bought his first
| drink of whisky in Topeka, threw up
his hands last night and reported that
he was willing to talk. What he told
was of no value to the county attor-
ney He stated that the liquor was
purchased by himself and a friend in
kansas CITY He was released upon
! his own bond. Cahill is a stranger in
Topeka
! Here is the latest approved method
| of shutting off, the small sons talk
suggested by one who has been affect
/ ed by the heat: 1. Handing him an
/ ice-cold limeade and a straw. ..
/ Wearing ear-muffs. 8. Shooting him
/ off on an errand. 4. AZ a last resort.
/ devouring in rapid succession cherry
| pie with ice cream. limburger cheese,
/ scollops. Welsh rarebit, spoiled beef
This will end ones miseries for some
! time at least
| Katie Diehl. SO years cid, and the