The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-16

personal danger Parker will be
bound over for trial on a charge to be
determined by the county attorney.
A writ of habeaus corpus has been
filed in the Shawnee county district
court by Frank Miller, now serving
a five-year sentence. in the federal
penitentiary for stealing government
property. He was convicted in the
federal court at Ell Paso, Tex, and
claims that he should have been sens
fenced to serve two years instead of
five. His two-year stretch was fin
ished June %.
A night school to teach aliens the
English language was urged at the
recent citizenship session in Judge
James A. McClure's court in Topeka
, by the federal examiner, after the
majority of the applicants had failed
to qualify because they did not know
how to read or speak English. Most
of them were Russians. Several az
plicants were turned down because
they pleaded "alien citizenship TO
evade the draft during the war.
The second annual picnic of the
Pennsylvania Settlers association of
Kansas and their descendants, will be
held Thursday at the grounds of the
Boys Industrial school. The picnic
will begin at noon. basket dinner
will be served at 1 O'Clock. An enter
tainment will be furnished by the boys
transportation from the END of the
Shorey car line to the school grounds.
R. R. Baer, of Topeka, is president of
the association.
A northbound Ford touring car and
west bound Douthitt avenue street
car. met and battled for the right of
way at the corner of Fillmore and
Sixteenth streets, late Friday night
The street car won. The motorman
of the street car and the driver or the
Ford took up the argument, took each
others numbers and then the street
car proceeded west under its own
power and the Ford rambled right
along north under it's own power. No
one was injured.
A novel display has been in the VIM
down of the aJsperson & Seger Realty
company at S19 Kansas avenue during
the Kansas Free Fair week. The CEN
trail figure is a small model house,
complete in every detail, which was
constructed by the Whelan Lumber
company. Individual printed cards,
bearing description of each house
offered for sale are arranged around
the lower part of the window. Sam
Piles of fruit from farms owned by
the company are grouped around the
model house.
Charles G. Titus of New York City,
who is national foreign secretary of
the Y. NJ. c. A., is in Topeka today.
Reports from a survey of 1,400
cities of the United States Teceived
by A. ]. Stout, superintendent of city
schools. show tht 1,105 OF the cities
made an increase in school tax rates
this year. No increase in the rates
was reported by 22S cities. A deficit
was anticipated by 23S. Altho Topeka
was classified with the cities whose
tax rate is the same this year. the
rates have been reduced since the re-
port was issued.
T. E,aiv
school exhibit, not only did the pri-
mary department of the Westminster
Presbyterian Sunday school take first
prize as department, but it took
nine individual prizes also, first, sec
ond and third prizes in each of the
three years of the department This
is a most unusual distinction. That
part of the Sunday school exhibit of
the Lowman Hill Memorial NJ. E.
church, concerning health rules and
American life. will be taken to India
by Phoebe Emery. missionary sup
ported by that church. She will use
it in the mission schools of that coun-
try
A short circuit in the controller of
State Hospital street car No. 217l
caused display of fireworks on Kan
sas avenue this morning. little short
of the efforts of the pyrotechnic ar
fists at the Kansas Free Fair. The
car was crowded to capacity with
several men standing in the front YES
Thule, when the controller blew up
and started to spout blue flames. Mot
orman No. 2SS pulled the lever which
opened the front door applied his
brakes. and then slapped out the
hands SO quickly that none or the
men in the vestibule decided to jump.
The car was not even brought to a