The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-06

InaI IlHl6y InG eIeCIFzC was OS-
fective and dangerous. 1t was charged
that Mr.. Crawford was attempting to
put on a moving picture performance,
where women and children would at
tend, and about to use a wooden booth
surrounding the moving picture ma
chine. This charge was apparently
true, as the performance at the Grand
Opera house was delayed until Mr..
Crawford could remove the wooden
booth and substitute therefor an iron
one.
The man who is hired by Mr.. Craw-
ford to collect the $4,000 from Mr..
MacLennan, and consequently to main
tain that the Grand opera house was
in a safe condition at that time, is
a party named j. B. Larimer. who
represents himself in this community
as a reputable lawyer.
In regard TO the barber who is al
legged to have sustained $4,000 dam
ages. This case, bear in mind, is not
the one set for next Monday, but the
one set for next Tuesday. This suit
is the one the day for whose trial is
that which the official organ of the
trade unions of Topeka has asked be
made a holiday on the part of the
labor unions Of Topeka, and who have
been asked, by the alleged organ of
labor, to contribute to a fund to enable
the Unions to fight the case to a finish,
as so expressed.
Now, we are sorry that the official
organ of labor in Topeka has asked
that the opening day of the trial be
set aside by the Unions of Topeka as
their own Roman holiday. Not that
we object to furnishing entertain rnt
to a crowd to see the writer butchered
in a legal and financial sense, of
course-by a party named Addington.
backed by the arm of the law. No,
oh, no, not that! But the State Jour
nal employs a large amount OF union
labor. II employs no other kind in its
mechanical departments. 1t has been
employir union labor, and union Ia
Dor alone, in its composing room, its
press room, etc, for a. long period OF
years. II csc crafts linotype opera
tors, printers. stereotypers, pressmen
mailers-who, it is to be presumed
oSSl54 l0NI lHe- 4IduG 1F1IuIilSi
as their official gan, are very nee
essary in getting out the State journal
day by day. If our skilled union men
should leave the State journal on this
proposed holiday, it would seriously
! handicap the issuance OF the paper
The people of Topeka might have tic
depend for the news OF the day be-
| fore upon Senator Capper's esteemed
| ands valuable paper the next morning
But perish the thought! In thirty
| three years. the Union men and wo-
| men have never walked out of the
State Journal office leaving us in th5
lurch, on any appeal of this kind fol
g. holiday. And we most assuredly
hope that they will not walk out or
next Tuesday. because, We are really
very anxit rs to continue to supply ths
! demand on March II in Topeka and
Kansas for a daily newspaper in these
important times.of reconstruction.
! Now, in regard to the North Ameri
can hotel. The writer spent a yer,
happy day in Omaha Tuesday AM
only returned to his newspaper dutie.
yesterday. But why discuss the NORTH
American? Its Omaha promoters ar,
happy and the best people of Topeka
are behind it. See list printed Mon
| day. Now, the hotel will-excus,
haste and bad pen, What's this sud
den apparition looming in the blue SIX,
now at high noon, this hour of writ
ing?
| Our friend Horace Humphreys tell
one of his guests that the State Jour
nal is boxing for another libel suit
John Waters-you know John?-i
vAry much afraid that his friend Ad
| dington will bring anotl'7r libel sui
against the State Journal. That woult
be four-count 'em-four. Too many
| entirely too many.
There is a good story in this NORTH
American hotel proposition and the
State Journal would like to print Il
| today, but our stenographer is sicl
abed, our telegraph editor is sick II
bed, Mr.. Brown of the editorial staff
is sick in bed, and Mr.. Carruth ant
| the writer have simply got to con
serve our energies, or the devil may
be to pay" as DR.. kulp would say, a:
well as the bill of $4,000 presented
by Mr.. Crawford, the gentleman the
atrical ma gnate, and the bill of SEQ,
600 presented by Mr.. Decker, the gen
tleman barber. That's one of the
reasons. as Kipling would say. VIII,
that is another story. the hotel bust
ness. Did we say another story? We
don't altogether mean that. because
the North American people are still
contemplating building only ter
stories, as they planned from the sta TT
They simply added fourth lot. Tel
stories will do. Two ten-story hotels
a block apart, might be too many FOL
Topeka at this stage of the game.
F. P. NJ.
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