The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-26

1 w. Harvey are attending the session
of the federal district court, which
| commenced in Wichita this morning.
! Jose Santiago, Mexican. charged
with bringing a little 12-year-old Mex
! lean girl from Mexico to Texas and
| then to Wichita for immoral purposes,
4 is on trial today in the federal dis
trict court at Wichita. He was ar
rested a year or more ago, and was
| indicted in March of this year. After
| his indictment he escaped and was re-
captured in Kansas CITY, Mo. q! after
which he was held for a consid cradle
time in the Shawnee county Jail in
Topeka by federal officers.
A petition has been filed by cred
| itors of Henry NJ. Ar1staetts Usage City
| merchant anG grain buyer, charging
, that he is insolvent, alleging accounts
totaling $1,237.05 against him and
charging that he has transferred
property to other creditors. not en-
titled to priority. The creditors who
have filed the petition in the federal
district court here are: Tho Lyndon
/ State bank, Phelps & Son. Gilbert q
/ Swisher, DR.. f. NJ. Smith and the H.
L. Rand Lumber company, all of Lyn-
don. w.
A petition in voluntary bankruptcy
was filed in the federal court Monday
by Emo Trip, of Meriden,- merchant.
Trip listed his liabilities at more
than $4,000, and his assets at ST.
| 570.05. The latter figure included
| $S40.O5 in accounts on his books.
Eucasnacion ohborcz. Mexican.
charged with having liquor in his pos
session, Monday pleaded guilty in
Judge McCiures division of the dis
| triet court, and sentence was deferred
to December 2, a
Mrs. Eta Thatcher. aged fifty-two
years, living at zoe East Seventh
Shawnee county probate court Mon
| day and committed to the Shawnee
county jail, pending her admission to
| the state hospital Her insanity took
| the form of violent attachment TO
J. NJ. Mathews. a farmer living five
miles northeast of Topeka. and mar
ried. Her pursuit of him, as her
| soul mate n&Shlted in his filing in
sanity charges against the woman.
The spiritual courtship" lasted for
nearly four. years
Four cases in which the state is the
plaintiff are to be heard in Judge
James A, Mcciure,s division of the
district court, Wednesday, The de-
/ PENDANTS are: Roy Stonebreaker,
! charged with an assault with q deadly
weapon; Earl Mckinney charged with
forgery; C. j. Neiswender. charged
with the theft of an automobile, and
Mrs, James Switzer, charged with
| shoplifting.
The den0nd for hunting licenses
has Stacked off during the past two
! or three days, according to Douglas
4 Graham, county cler:.. Nearly all
1.-The hunters now have their creden-
the issuance of hunting Licenses from
1.-THE Keller Dustin. sport shop, for the
econyenience Of hunters who wanted to
fget their papers on Saturday after
noon. $1,000. -..-..-s-. -
1 c. w. Sheppard. 1901 West Sixth
avenue, real estate dealer. hurried
into the police station Monday to an
Then he. remembered that he had
lparked the car at the state house.
walked away and left it. 80
/ Monday night was the first night
for some time on which no motor car
thefts were reported to the police.
D. H. Baker. deputy United States
marshal in charge of the Topeka Of
flee, has been called to Atchison or
account of the death of his sister
there. James P. Fee. Jr.. IN charge of
the Kansas City, Kan, office, has been
placed in charge of the Topeka office
during his absence. Fee was sent to
ten prisoners, three from Leaven-
worth, two from Lawrence, and five
from Topeka, to Wichita, where the
federal court is now in session.
The trial of Jake Hightower, col
ored, who killed Arthur c. Ruff on
the morning of April 30 was sched-
uled to have taken place in Judge
James A. McCIure's division of the
district court Monday, but was post
l aF-iA
Ruth, municipal counsellor of Okla
homaS City, Okla, is acting as attor-
ney for Hightower, and was unable to
attend the hearing Monday.
The cases of the state against Albert
Martin and Charles Allen and against
]. B. Jackson, all charged with having
liquor in their possession. were dis
missed Monday in the district court
thru lack Of evidence.
Alleging that he drinks, becomes
abusive and threatening, that he does
not contribute to her support and that
he stays most of the time at the home
of her parents, where she boards, for
the purpose of annoying her, Ollie M
Eiseie has filed a petition in the dis
trict court for a divorce from her hus-
band, George EiseIe. They were mar.
ried in. August of 1915 and separated
in March of this year. Judge George
H. Whitcomb also signed a restraining
order preventing Eisele from entering
! on the premises of the plaintiffs par.
ents, or interfering with her. -
1zel Baldwin filed a petition in the
Shawnee county district court Monday
for divorce from her husband, Ray
mon Baldwin. She alleges that ht
has failed to contribute to her sup.
port or that of her minor child. thai
he is abusive, threatening. mean. and
cruel to her.
Joe West. alleged dope fiend, wa!
arrested in the Rock Island yard.
shortly after o'clock this morninE
by Detective Ed Glypn. Lieut.. jaime!
Kennedy and Patrolman Ivan Alex
ander. West had in his possession
some switch lamps belonging to tn,
railroad, and also some liquor
| After he bad been booked he tried t,