The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-22
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You Tel EN-. Poet. You're Whittier;
You Tell EN-. Pitcher, You Got the Lip
You Tell En-. Austria. I'm Hungary.
you Tell En-, Alex. You Know HOwat
Happened.
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The Lillian Mitchner w. c. T. U. will
hold its annual picnic at Gage Park,
Wednesday afternoon, to p. m.
All issues OF Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue ADV.
T. D. Alden, assistant freight auditor of
the Santa Fe, is improving from an op-
GRAFTON performed at the Santa Fe hospital
recently.
Mrs. Mary Gist, a negro woman. was ar
rested Monday by Jailer Frank Parcels
on a charge of netit larceny. 1t is alleged
she stole pai1 of trousers from the Dimrnt
Il Klein store a COZ Kansas ave.
Elwood B. Whitney was arrested Monday
by federal authorities when he left the
gates Of the federal prison at Leavenworth
after serving sentence for forging United
States money orders. He will be charged
with a second offense OF the same nature
Another change in Kansas national guard
officers was announced today by Adj. Gen.
Charles l. Martin. First Lieut.. Paul c.
Sheer, adjutant Of the second battalion,
will replace First Lieut.. Orville NJ. Allegro
as second IN command of Company II. Al
legre has moved to Burlingame.
The time of the church services of the
Seabrook and East Indianola Congrega-
tional churches will be reversed next Sun
day. On account Of the reception of new
members at the East Indianola Children 8
Day program the pastor will be there in
the forenoon and at Seabrook at s p. m.
Posing as the wife of a soldier in order
to collect his allotment is the charge
against against Mrs Bessie NJ Blazes who
was arrested Monday at Chanute by federal
authorities. 1t is claimed she lived with
the soldier for time after being divorced
from her first usband. She was married
again and her present husband supplied her
bond.
E. Gaylord veteran Santa Fe employee
is joining the ranks of the pensioners
the company. and will return to his home
in Coeur-de Alene. Idaho. Gaylord en-
tered the Santa Fe service as a clerk in
the tracing department of the accounting
bureau March, 1879 in Boston, and when
the offices were moved to Topeka he was
transferred to this city.
The alley between Kansas avenue and
Quincy street and from Tenth to Eleventh
street will be paved as originally con-
templated, before the restraining suit was
filed against the city by John Newell, ac-
cording to an ordinance adopted by the city
commission at Its regular meeting today.
The commission approved report by W.
s. Hancock, commissioner of streets. recon-
mendlng action as originally contemplated
in the best interest of the city" The
dispute over the alley had two sides. The
property owners along Kansas avenue
Quincy owners objected. Newell took the
matter into court. He owns property on
the Kansas avenue side.
Mine and well products furnished the
principal freight traffic for the Santa Fe
railway, according to w. d. Storey, presi-
dent The Santa Fe system is like a great
river having one main body and thousands
of streams to feed it. These streams cor
respond to the many branch lines lying
out into the different thirteen states and
bringing products Of oil, zinc, copper
silver and lead into the freight system
Products of mines and oil fields com
prise total of 1892 per cent of the bulk
tonnage carried. Agricultural pursuits and
bulk tonnage per cent of 1855. Manufac-
tured products. which include agricultural
implements and machinery and a thousand
and one other articles, furnish 1873 per cent
The forest regions contribute tonnage OF
7.31 per cent. while the animal industry
furnishes 563 per cent. Miscellaneous
freight is but 20 per cent of the total.