The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-18

Harrison streets Sunday night, where
it was reported that a young colored
woman had attempted to commit SUI
eide. The woman was found at the
City park by another colored woman.
who took charge of her and notified
the police. The woman's story WIS
that she became Respondent because
her husband was giving attention to
another wife.
The Topeka police were notified by
telephone early Sunday morning that
three Indian girls had run away from
the Haskell Institute at Lawrence,
leaving the school at s: 80 o'clock Sat-
urday night. The Ngirls are Matilda
johnson. Edna lowering and Lillian
Sharots. The police are asked to take
charge of the girls If they were found
here but police said, today, that the
trio had not been seem
A squad of police officers led by
Capt. Maurice Leonard visited the
home of D. Newberry, 1915 West Lau-
rent street, North Topeka, Saturday
night and found nine bottles of home
brew which they decided shouldn't be
there. Newberry was not at home but
appeared at police headquarters this
morning. He gave bond pending his
trial, on charge of having intoXicat-
set for July IS.
r.. D. Palmer, physical director of
the central Y. NJ. c. A, and his FAM
lily will leave tomorrow noon for
Estes Park, Colo, where Palmer will
attend the Y. NJ. c. A. summer school
At the close of the summer session
they will go to Omaha, Nebr, to visit
relatives. Maurice Sewers, who was
physical director at Camp Wood this
summer, will take Palmer's place as
physical director at the Y. NJ. c. A.
until Palmer's return.
Local police headquarters received a
telephone message from the sheriff of
Douglas county, at Lawrence. at 1920
o'clock this morning asking the police
here to be on the lookout for a man
and woman who were headed this d.
rection in a stolen Ford roadster. The
pair took the car from a man near
Lawrence shortly after midnight the
sheriff said. and also relieved the man
of an amount of money. No trace of
the car has been found here, police
say.
In answering an advertisement,
wanting a truck driver, c. L., care
State Journal published July 1.
James H. Ford, 1872 Twiss street, en-
closed his service papers as refer
enceS together with stamps asking
that they be returned to him at the
above address. Mr.. Ford states that
they have not as yet been returned
and that he would appreciate 1t if the
advertiser of the above mentioned adj
vertisement would return them to
him.
Carl A Otis, 80 years old, claiming
Codel. Kan, as his home, is in the
Shawnee county Jail here. but tonight
will be taken to Fort WORTH Texas,
where he will face charges of running
off with the wife of another man and
transporting her over various parts of
| the country. Otis claims the woman,
| Mrs JaSSip Tanh 90 wears old WAS
forced by her parents to marry a blind
man when she was only IA years old
and was living a life of misery when
| he found her. The>case is in the hands
of federal authorities.
| Being blind doesn't prevent Otto
Doerschlag from raising pigs and
doing it well. Doerschlag, a farmer
living eight miles southwest of To-
peka, is the leader of the Boley Hill
| Pig club, one of the junior organiza-
tons of the Shawnee county farm
bureau. Doerschlag takes an interest
| in farm bureau work in general, helps
the farm bureau conduct its hog sales,
and exhibits his best hogs at the Free
fair each year. When the Boley Hill
club was formed. Doerschlag had one
eye, but lost it thru an accident several
| months ago. Twice each month he
in hog raising.
scraps. which is really the best part
| of their young lives, but when milk
| bottles are used as weapons, then it is
time for the police to interfere, thinks
a certain family living on Western
avenue They put in a call for the
police Saturday afternoon when they
claimed that some of the neighbors
children ''ganged' their youngster
and struck him over the head with q
milk bottle, knocking him down. The
parents of the lad claimed the milk
bottle was full of milk, while the
father of the bottle thrower. tho ad-
hitting the attack, claimed that II
| the child was hit hard enough to hurt
| him much. the bottle would have been
broken. The fight is said to have
been the grand finale for a general
encounter which had lasted most OF
the day. The police told the parents
in the case to keep their children
apart.