The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-27

charges that he has said repeatedly
! that he did not care for her and that
she was told she could shift for her
self. She obtained a restraining order
from Judge James NJ. Mcclure en-
joining the defendant from disposing
OF any of their property or drawing on
1 their bank account pending the out
come of the suit.
| The state charter board today ap-
proved the charter application of the
/ Hutchinson Canning company of
! Hutchinson. The company has a capt.
( talization of $4,000.
Mrs. Minnie Moore is on trial in the
court of Topeka today on a charge of
/ receiving stolen property. A small
quantity of silverware, to the value
| of $13, and stolen from the Union Pa
cific hotel, is alleged to have been
| found in her possession while she was
running a rooming house at -31S Madi-
son street. The trial is before a jury.
Car owners who have been offend,
ers in the matter of too bright motor
i lights have increased the toll of police
| Judge fines and have made the total
| the largest for many weeks. The re-
| port of the police judge to the city
| commission today for fines of all kinds
| in August was $2,977. Violations of
the recently passed parking ordinance
| also increased the total above normal.
Mrs. Hattie S. Salyer. 1924 North
! Kansas avenue. made her husband,
Harry NJ. Salyer, defendant in an
action which she filed in district
| court, Monday afternoon, asking for
separate maintenance. Mrs. Salyer
says she has good husband when he
| is sober, but charges that he has de-
yeloped so much taste for squirrel
whisky recently and drinks so heavily
that it is no longer safe for her and
| their four children to live with him.
| She obtained an order restraining
/ him from mo1esting her or the chill
| dren in any way.
The field meet of the 7. w. c. A. at
Garfield Park Saturday. October l. is
attracting many girls interest. Attn
Ietic events will occupy most of the
swimming pool is opened for the win
| ter season, but no one is allowed the
use of the pool without first having
a physical examination. Miss Nell
| Stringfellow, physical director is TAX
| ing applications for examinations
which win be made by physicians at
the association building. The fall
| gymnasium classes will begin Monday
| morning under Miss Stringfeilow's di-
rection.
| o. J. button, general agent for the
company with offices at 500 Kansas
avenue, received a telegram Monday
announcing the death of Jesse r.
| Clark, president of the Union Central
Life Insurance company, of Cincinnati,
| Ohio. Clark. who had visited Kansas
! a number of times, ranked as one of
| the leading life insurance executives
| of the country. He was elected presi-
| den of the Union Central in 1906 and
] before that time he was treasurer of
! the company. He was 81 years old.
Besides its life business the Union Cen
| trail has farm loan agency in Topeka,
| in charge of A. Zahner, at 92S Kansas
| avenue.
| The attention of the police was call
| ed today to a destitute family strand
| ed in Ripley park. The family con-
sists of a father and mother and six
or seven children, who tell the story
] that they recently lost their all in the
Texas floods and are attempting to
reach relatives in Colorado. When
| Patrolman Bunday and Kilmaurs and
Kate King, welfare agents, went to
! the park about noon today. they found
the father lying on the ground sick.
and some of the children, one a
youngster of three years. practically
! naked. They were penniless and the
| children said they had had nothing
| to eat since Monday. Two dollars
worth of groceries was quickly given
the family and other relief measures
probably will be taken