The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-07
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Dancing tonight. Special music
Kellam hall. Admission 35c.-Adv-
The excellent parade picture print
ed in the State Journal Wednesday
was taken by J. c. Wolcott.
L. C. Rahn's Shirt factory at 624
Kansas avenue, has received orders
for officers uniforms from the Nj. Z.
Lilley company, of Columbus, ..
union meeting of the women of
the Christian churches of Topeka will
be held Friday at the Oakland Chris
tan church The program will start
at 1920 O'Clock in the morning and
will last until evening. Dr. Arthur
Braden of Kansas university, will talk
at II o'clock.
A fortune awaits the unbound heirs
of Robert J. Walker, territorial COVER
nor of Kansas in 1851 Word was re-
ceived here by w. o. Rigby, post
master, from Washington, advising
him to communicate with all the old
settlers of the state in an effort to
trace the heirs.
The West Side w. c. T. U. will meet
at the home of Mrs. Harriet Tichenor,
32S Hawthorne street, Friday after
noon at 1880 After the business
meeting short flower mission pro
gram will be led by Mrs. Meyers and
Mrs Organ will present the work of
making housewives" for the soldiers
Thirteen Topeka boys have Joined
the navy in the last three days. ac-
cording to recruiting officers here.
The dawn of the day of selecting
names in the draft scheme has
brought the Situatio nearer home to
the men who have formerly not
thought of the situation as affecting
them.
George Degginger, aged cripple.
charged with an attempted assault
upon 14-year-old Ella Vogel. was re-
leased from the county Jail today upon
a bond of $1,000. Originally the bond
was fixed at $4,000 by Douglas Ora
ham, clerk of the court of Topeka,
but it was later reduced by Judge r.
NJ. Lee.
The May issue of 1.-The Kansas Off
cial" a magazine edited by Oscar
Swayze, former chief clerk for Shaw
nee county came off the press today.
Swayze starts out on his first page by
printing a picture of the American
flag, fills up the second with an arti-
Gle knocking Kaiser Bill" and de-
votes the rest of his space to articles
of interest to Kansas county and state
officials.
The Pansy club of Dover, Kan,
at the Odd Fellows hall, Friday even
ing, June Sth. The proceeds are to
go toward paying for new piano
they have purchased for the Con-
gregational church of that place.
Topeka Homestead, No. 1912,
brotherhood of American Yeomen,
held a meeting Wednesday night at
Bates hall. Gov. Arthur Capper and
L. NJ. Penwell were present.
A warrant has been issued from the
c, urt of Topeka for John McGinnis
charging him with removing cash and
travellers checks to the value of $3.50
from the home of w. D. Boughton at
1901 Harrison street. The complaint
states that there was $50 in paper
money and 5000 in travellers checks.
The complaint does not charge bur
glary nor does it charge stealing. 1t
merely charges McGinnis with re
moving the money and checks.
Following a two-day trial in the
first division of the district court
guilty" in the case of the state against
Justo Ramirez, charged With the muir
der of Francisco Burciago. The jury
was out for an hour while Ramirez,
with his 6-year-old son on his lap
sat in the court room and waited.
Ramirez can understand but little
English. yet his expression changed
when the verdict was read. He could
understand that. John Schenck, who
represented Ramirez, pleaded self-de-
Tense for his client and it was upon
that. theory that the Mexican was ac-
quilted by the jury. The killing took
place in August, 1916, near Richland.
The body of Burciago was buried in a
shallow grave along the Wakarusa
river and was found in February of
this year thru the efforts of Augustin
Alba, Topeka detective.