The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-15

of the art department of K. u deliv-
ers his lecture on Epoch Making
| Pictures at the high school auditor
ium.
A short circuit in the automobile of
DIR. o. A. Taylor occasioned a run by
the fire department to Eighth and
Harrison streets at IL O'Clock this
morning. Smoke was seen coming
| from the machine while it was stand
ing in front of the high school build
ing and an alarm was turned in. No
damage was done.
| A program and reception will be
given tonight at Memorial hall for
Mrs. Katherine DeLacy Roche of Chi
cago, president of the national organ
| ization of the women of the G. A r.
A special invitation is given to all
army organizations, including the w
r. C., the Sons of Veterans. the old
soldiers and their families, and gen
eral invitation is given to the public
to attend.
One hundred and one runs have
| been made by the fire department
since the first of the year and more
than one-tenth of the calls have been
false alarms; There were 81 real fires
and 81 of them were caused by fur
| naceS, stoves or other means of fur
nishing artificial heat in buildings. A
comparatively small number of fires
was due to unusual causes.
A field day for bond registrations
|
auditor. Five city improvement and
electric lighting bond issues were reg
istered. the largest number in its his
tory although the amount of the bonds
was small Holton registered $23,02S;
Paola, s1,4S7.7O; Soldier, $4,000
Rosedale, s3,479 and $3,612.74, total
ing approximately $4,000.
The Spanish club meets tonight at
the Central Y. M. c. A, Senior Cerdio,
who was elected president of the club
| last week, will have charge of the
meeting Announcement will be made
at the meeting of a new Spanish class
under John Boggs, which will meet
Tuesday and Friday afternoons at
SIS. The new class has been organ
lied because of the increasing interest
in Spanish.
O. N Himelburger, who filed a
claim against the city for $157.79 for
| DANA ges sustained by his automobile
when he ran into a wagon standing in
| the street, and whose claim was
turned down by the city commission,
started suit in the court of Topeka
today. He has discovered in the
meantime that the wagon belonged to
McEntire Bros. and the suit is against
McEntire Bros. and the city Of To-
peka.
| w. E Atchison, county attorney,
! has applied to the district court for
an injunction against the building at
/ $50 Quincy street on the ground that
it has been used for the maintenance
| of a nuisance. He charges that the
| nuisance has been conducted and
maintained by Jack McGivern and
states that the building is owned by
| R. S. Thompson and William Thomp-
son. All three persons named are
made defendants in the action.
There are twenty cases of measles
among negroes according to DR.. H
4 L. Clark, present city physician. That
many cases are under quarantine but
he doesn't know how many more there
are that have not been reported. Most
of the cases are among children at
tending Washington and Mckinley
schools. There are four cases in one
family. DR.. Clark is putting On the
quarantine as rapidly a sthe cases are
reported.
L. L. Kiene, sheriff, didn't come
back from Oklahoma City last night
with r. o. Hughes, charged with wife
desertion. He may not bring him back
today and he may not get him at all.
Hughes has decided he isn't particular
about accepting the terms of w. E.
Atchison. county attorney, and will
not return without a reQuisition. The
requiSition was secured from the gov
ernor's office and forwarded to Sher-
iff Kiene. The hearing will be held
in Oklahoma City this afternoon.
In police court Friday Ralph Leon
ard of 115 Jones street will describe
the dcI1OnS OIL d husky young man
eScorting three young women home,
when attacked by a gang. Leonard
fas ganged Saturday night and al
though he admits he put up something
of fight he was roughly handled.
He knew two of his assailants and
they have been arrested. They are
Dewey Langley and Clarence Bjork-
land. There are warrants out for sew
eral more.
Contrary to the rule the husband
brought divorce proceedings in the
case started in district court today
by C. E. Elder against Amy J. Elder.
Elder states in his petition that they
were married January %, 1911, and
that through no fault of his his wife
left him, abandoned and deserted
him" There are no children and
there is no property. He simply wants
a divorce on the ground of abandon
nent He states that he does not
know the present whereabout of Mrs
Elder.
Seven years in the land of the rising
sun is the program of G. A Halliday,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. D. E. Halliday,
who live a mile south of the Country
club. Yesterday Halliday signed a
| seven-year contract with the Metho-
dist Book company. in which he
agrees to spend seven years in Japan
as the agent of that concern. He has
been practicing law at Wellington for
some time. He is a graduate of the
law department of the State univer-
sity. He will leave soon for San Fran
cisco, sailing for Japan March rs.
Ed and Eva Morgan, living in the
East Hill addition, were arrested by
George Frost, marshal of the court of
Topeka, charged with the theft of
1 numerous household articles from
/ Alice Vrooman- MIS-. Vroornan
charges that they stole curtains.
clothing, canned fruit and various
other things En11nyviny ia icc1,a
of a search warrant some of the ar
ticles were found, but the canned
fruit, the chief item, was missing.
The Morgans declined to plead guilty
and were released on bonds of $500
i each.