Show I HOTEL AND CORRIDOR Jim Shields has returned from his eastern trip jollier than ever and brim full of the funniest kind of stories Here is a stunner that he reeled off to Mr Corridor in the Knutsford lobby last evening i You knew he began Steve Rowan Row-an is one of the oldestand best known policemen on the Chicago force There isnt a soul I think I may say in the Windy City who is not familiar with old Steve He has one great characteristic He makes an arrest just once every year and so far as I know of he has never broken this record Of course whenever the event happens all c7 the members of the force and all of his friends congratulate him wish him a happy new year and many of them and so forth and so on Well the offi cer made his annual just before I left and thropgh the arrest one of the best originated little stories Ive heard in months The man that Rowan pulled was drunk and he also stuttered more or less When he got before Judge Hen nessy the judge looked down very gravely and asked him what he was charged Sissssssssss with Oh quit broke in Hennessy Officer Rowan what is this man charged with Faith your honor an I think from sodawater all appearances that hes charged with Ten days said his honor This is from that bright sheet the Omaha Hotel Reporter of a late issue I all the other transMississipp states exhibit anything like the in terest that the juvenile state of Utah is evincing in the proposed exposition sured at Omaha in 189S its success is as Got another exclaimed Shields a 1ttle later and it wont be bad Mon lIbn day morning reading I Chicago Dutchman and as is the case with most Dutchman he was I very fond of beer and usually got a regular Saturday evening booze One evening he went to one of the gardens and succeeded in spoiling several schuppers of lager and after the liquid began to soak into the cells of his beerstained breast he began to think of his frau and a dainty little rolling pin and other symbols of domestic tranquility So he arose and wan dered toward his cosy nest He got only in frQnt of the door when he saw his big dog stretched across the rug in front of i and a little brokenly said Ah Towser der you vas You vas a gud dog You fiaff von easy times you yust sleep ind eadt und von you vont to eadt you yust eadt and dondt pays a cent You < > > 0 j I ought to be habbee You dondt hail nOdings to vorry you and ven you die dot is de end of you but me yen I die I got to go to hades yet aindt it 4 George H Dean and wife Providence Provi-dence H R Mecauley New York T G Woodmancy Cincinnati J C Bennett Ben-nett Boston and T 11 Lonargan New Zealand are at the Templeton These commercial travelers regis tered at the Knutsford yesterday Charles J Buffumy and wife Lansing Ilch W E Sharp Indiana J B Reynolds Denver S Ullmann New York D W Ames New York Fred Bothe New York Hartman Chi cago Herman Lowenthal and wife Indiana diana E B Dana New York Andrew An-drew Carrgan and S F L > McKiryn San Francisco e These visitors are also at the Knuts ford Mr and Mrs F J Jones Miss F L H Jones Mrs William H Davis and Mrs Fred Ecktain all of Cincinnati Cincin-nati Mrs W H Gurney Buffalo Mrs T Tibbits Chicago Mrs H T Noble Dixon Ill Miss Hampton Dixon Dr H A B Macauley Delaware C F Hathaway New York and W Hones H-ones Atlanta 9 Colonel Hawkins is stopping at the Brooks Arcade He is just from Mer cur and says ho is a little disappointed In the country but hes in love with Eureka As soon as the weather breaks he will get a camping outfit and go to Deep Creek M Biddell Reeves and Mrs Reeves are at the Knutsford Mr Reeves is of the veilknown firm of Clemes Reeves Co Denver Frank Murray Nellie McIIenrys advance vance is a Templeton guest J D Guiliard of Boston is living at he Cullen H A Collar of Grand Rapids and Bert Seaboldt of Du Chesne came to the Walker yesterday |