Show WAS DRINi Pr PranK Credited to General tant-General at the Ship Function Causes Cry for His C Court urt TOPEKA Kan can June 24 Rumors Rumors of ofa a a. co martial court are plentiful about the Statehouse today because J I W W. F. F Hughes General Adjutant-General is said to have spiked the lemonade of which the Kansas executive partook when the silver service was presented present d to the I battleship Kansas in in Phil Philadelphia delphia Monda Monday afternoon The Kansas party was composed of the he Governor who talks about tern tem perance the General Attorney who has compelled much temperance in Kansas Kansas Kan Ran sas sas the Auditor who allows the anti anti- joint bills to be paid and the Treas who pays them Besides there is the Secretary of State Vho who knows how to make punch and tb the Adjutant Adjutant- General who would command tha the militia if the army were called out to enforce the prohibition laws Jaw It all came out today when A. A L J. Ti Green a a- a grocer a-grocer grocer here received r the fol lowing letter his cousin in Philadelphia Phil adelphia I sP suppose se you know of course that your our illustrious temperance Governor was as here yesterday with a party and presented the battleship Kansas Kansa with a silv silver r service In the service was a very very handsome punch bowl Now the question with our people is what do Kansas Kansa people know about an n invention invention tion of that ha kind t They They- showed how little ittle they knew by having it filled with lemonade But it seems that one of oi the I party party party- I believe his name is Hu Hughes hes living in Topeka on the quiet slipped a quart of whisky into the lemonade After having hav hay lug ing ing a drink and kin his lips he i induced some others of the party to join join lorn him with tJ th the re result that they all stayed by the punch bowl until it was emptied declaring it the best temper ance drink they had since leaving Kan- Kan sas |