The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-18

steady growth of this company is
very encouraging to it's founders who
expec. to obtain the full quota of
sixty-eight officers and men within a
| very few weeks. All members are
requested to be on hand promptly, SO
| that there may be no delay in start
| ins the drill.
| The skirmish line of the delegates
for the quadrenniaI convention of the
| Court of Honor arrived in Topeka
| Sunday night. 1t was expected that
| most of the delegates would be on
| hand for the opening of the conven-
| ton tomorrow morning at 10 O'Clock
at Moose hall. More than 100 dele
gates and their friends are expected
| fo- the convention. One of the fea-
| lures of the convention will be the
| initiation of a class of 100 candidates,
including Governor Capper.
A bicycle and automobile collision
| resulted in an injury to Lynn Banta,
| SIS Horne street, Sunday morning.
Banta was riding out of the alleyway
north of the poStoffice, where he has
| a position as mailing clerk. when an
automobile driven by Sam Hallowell,
proprietor of the Shawnee Suit COM
pany, 407 Kansas avenue. struck his
| bicycle. crushed it out of shape, and
threw Banta onto the hood of Halo
broken. and he sustained numerous
cuts from the glass of the broken
windshield.
The police Sunday night forced a
rear door at 5o2 Kansas avenue and
found, in the rear of a shoe shining
| parlor, a poker game in full blast,
| they say. Five men arrested and held
under $40 bond included Andy Genos.
Frank Genos. Thomas Skowros, Mike
Candos and Tom Mangaklos. Anoth-
err alleged poker party was raided at
| 226 East Fifth street. The men taken
e-ta
as Art Davis. James Depew, Ben Levi,
James Reuben, Ben Frank and John
Brown, the name ''Blitz'' being placed
by the police after the latter name
Bond was placed at SO.
Governor Capper today received a
the first victims of the bone dry law.
The petition came from Johnson coun-
| ty and was signed by friends of Fred
Seibert. Just before the bone dry law
became effective, Seibert went to Kan
sas City. When he returned to Kan
sas, the sheriff found a quart of whis-
ky in his suitcase. Seibert denied
ownership of the liquor. He also de-
died that he owned a trunk which
came on the same train and contain
ed a quantity of liquor. But the man
was convicted under the new law.
Now his friends have asked Governor
CAMPER to set aside the courts order
and give Seibert pardon.
I. O. Parker, a white man, was
arrested today by government au-
thorities charged with representing
himself to be a government officer
Parker's arrest followed information
submitted to the authorities by Sher-
if Hugh Larimer. Parker was made
efeudant in a replevin suit brought
in the court of Topeka by Edwin and
| Eliza Perkins aged colored people,
to recover SIS worth of black walnut
logs which theJ claim Parker took
from them. representing himself as
government agent with authority to
| seize the logs if they were not turned
over to him. He represented to them,
thew charge that the logs would be
paid for upon their delivery at the
state fair grounds
The action of the city of Topeka
in sending diseased immoral women to
the detention home at Lansing was
upheld by the decision of Judge j. H
Wendorff OF the Leavenworth county
district court in the habeas corpus
| proceedings brought by Ed Rooney.
attorney for six negro women interned
at Lansing on the industrial farm.
His decision provided that the women
could not be sent to the penitentiary
but could be sent to the detention
home The women were informed I'M
der an emergency measure designed to
free the cities of the state from influ-
ences dangerous to the soldiers who
visited them. The habeas corpus suit
was brought on the contention that
the measure applied only to towns like
Riley, Geary and Leave1- worth, where
| the military camps are situated
The Herman construction company.
contractors for the erection of the
Preston B. Plumb Memorial build
| ing of the Emperia State Normal
school, and the Chicago Bonding and
Insurance company, bondsmen for the
] contractors. are made defendants in a