The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02

Pictures of Governor Capper sign
ing the Bone Dry bill on sale at Wal
cott's.-Adv.
Professor w. A. Harshbarger,
tonight for the Academy of Science
upon Luther Burbank, His Life and
Work" Free.-Adv.
DR.. C. S. Kenny, superintendent of
the state tuberculosis sanitorium at
Norton, will give a talk at the Y. NJ
c. A, March 5. His subject will be
kansas and tuberculosis
Flowers appeared in court Thurs
day. Russell Flowers, a carpenter,
plead not guilty to charge of wife
desertion. He was released on 5000
bond to appear for trial March 6.
The Shawnee county court house
has decided to obey the state laws.
For the last week the court house has
had three kegs of beer, along with a
barrel, and nineteen quarts of the
stuff. Not until Thursday was the
property confiscated.
Burning gas in the tank of a ce-
ment mixer was the cause of fire
alarm turned in late Thursday after
noon. When fire companies arrived
the gas had burned up. The mixer
belongs to the j. Thomas Lumber Co.
and is being used in constructing the
foundation for the extension to be oc-
eupied by the Buick Meter company,
at 1905 Kansas avenue.
Three members of one family have
been taken to hospitals within the last
three weeks to be operated on for APP
pendicitis. Mrs. F. f. Wilson, 1641
Fillmore street, was the last one of
the family. Her mother, Mrs. Jennie
Wilson, of Denver, underwent an
operation February 1 0 and Lena Will
son, daughter suffered the same
experience in Denver February IL
Allen Taupert, clerk and deputy
in, he of ed
States marshal, broke into the big
league Thursday, when he made his
first arrest. He served warrant on
Theodore Copeland of Lawrence, who
has been brought here to answer for a
charge of sending Objectionable mat
ter thru the mails. He was arranged
before Frank l.. Campbell, United
States commissioner, and his hearing
set for March s. He was released on
$500 bond.
| Six of Kansas City's biggest finan-
ciers will spent the morning in To-
peka, as the guests of the Officials of
| the Baird Pneumatic Tool company.
The visitors will include G. H. Gray,
representing the Armour. Swift AMI
Burlington interests; c. H. Bartrim,
of the Central Coal & Coke company;
o. C. Smith, vice president of the
Kansas City Structural Steel COM
pany; c. A. Burton, of the Kewanee
Boiler works; E. L. Hudson. of the
| hdW Boiler WOThS. anu TutI
of E. S. Truitt & Co.
Charles A. Moore, for ten years
general agent in Kansas for the
Equitable Life Assurance society OF
New York, has resigned his position
to become secretary and agency di-
rector of the Globe insurance COM
pany of Salina. Mr.. Moore will leave
for Salina next week but his family
will not move there until fail Dur
ing his twenty-four years residence
| in Topeka he has been prominently
identified with commercial and socia
life of the city. Prior to his insur-
ance connection, Mr.. Moore was q
travelling salesman with headquarters
in Topeka.
A verdict for the defendants, J. NJ
Dickinson, receiver of the Rock Is.
land Railway company, and L. H
Lanham, special officer. was
brought in by the jury Thursday, il
a case brought against them by Caro-
line Rodriguez, Il Mexican girl, fol
$4,000 for the killing of her father
Nestor Rodriguez. According to the
complaining witness, Rodriguez was
killed by Lanham in May, 1913, al
Harrington, Kan, when the r-exicar
was put off train. The defense
showed that Rodriguez was threaten.
ing the officer with a big knife an6
that the shooting took place on the
station platform.