The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-22
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Dancing tonight Glass (s p M,
social GO p. m.). Kellam hall.-Adv.
City Commissioner W. l. Porter is
haitian today.
Judge Yates holds jointist in con-
tempt because he derives so little
profit and risks so much.
Mrs. Albert Reicherter. hay dealer
of Silver Lake, Kan. is seeing Florida,
and expects to visit Cuba before re-
turning home.
Myer ]. Scrinopski. &c years old.
Topeka and Donna E. Self. % years
cense from the probate judge this
morning
j. Fred Scott, assistant secretary
for the Santa Fe here, was in his office
Wednesday for a short time, the first
time for several weeks, because of an
operation
Another vein of coal has been
depth of $500 feet. 1t is expected
that if there be oil in the well it will
be discovered in the next few days.
Jonah Barrett, a Topeka lad, has
been arrested at Newkirk. Okla, for
stealing automobiles. Barrett was
! placed in the state refornatory but
escaped after one days confinement
A four-inch water main is being
connected with the big main on Kan
sas avenue, to supply the new Lux
building at the lower end of the street.
Workmen from the city waterworks
department are on the job, and it is
expected that the connection will be
| In some time tomorrow
Fred Miller, paroled from the state
reformatory at Hutchinson, is in trout
| bic again and is being held at police
! headquarters awaiting the arrival of
the probation officer from the state
reformatory. Miller attempted to pass
| forged checks on a restaurant keeper
and pawn broker in Topeka recently.
If county authorities wish to impose
the limit on Emery Felker he can be
made to spend two years in the coun-
ty Jail for refusing to tell where he
obtained liquor which has kept him
on a three days jag. Felker refused
to produce any information that would
/ lead the authorities to the jointist and
he was placed in jail.
Marvin Boyle has accepted a posi-
| ton in the advertising department of
the State Journal He was formerly
connected with the Shawnee Chief I'M
der Ernest fuckers manageme nt. For
| the past two years he has been with
the Daily Miner at Butte. Mont, and
the Daily Bee in Omaha. He came
back to Topeka because. he says, it is
the best town of the three.
! Whether ingrowing toe nails caused
the amputatior of Richard Schwalm' S
toes or whether the falling of a heavy
cylinder on his foot was the cause, is
being argued in Judge George H
Whitcomb's division of the district
court Schwalm is suing the Union
Pacific railroad for $4,000, alleging
that the railroad is responsible, thru
negligence, for the fall of the cylinder
on his foot while he was in its employ
at Cheyenne, Wyo.
The millionaire special carrying
oil and gas magnates, which is in the
southern Kansas and Oklahoma gas
/ fields. on the Santa Fe lines is spend
ing most of today at Eldo-ado. The
party on the train spent last night at
Augusta. Tomorrow the train will go
to St Joseph, and the next day back
| to its starting point, Chicago. 1t will
not visit Topeka Representatives of
the Doherty interests which have TAX
en- over the Kansas Natural Gas COM
pany, are with the party.
A bottle of Virginia Dare wine and
three DIRE ssed chickens in the ice box,
and one sizzling on a stove were the
only signs of prosperity discovered by
! Robert Carver, assistant county attor-
ney and Joe Holman, deputy sheriff
| when they raided a place occupied by
/ Ed Davis at First and Harrison streets
| this morning. The rest of the house
had nothing in it but old furniture
They searched a neighboring barn
where Davis kept a horse but it, too,
was minus any liquor. Davis is a
| negro.