The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
January 22, 1917

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Vy EAT H ER FORECAST for Kansas: Snow with rising temperature to night; Tuesday unsettled and warm er; probably snow in the cast. J-Xs.s Imi t worrying; about the rise and fa I. of Wall street stocks. She watches the thermometer. HOME EDITION TOPEKA, KANSAS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1917 EIGHT PAGES. THREE CENTS i "Make Monroe Doctrine, World Doctrine" Wilson. President Makes Remarkable Address in U. S. Senate. END WAR WITHOUT VICTORY Would Add British Power to Neutrals for World Peace. i Time 1'or U. S. to Move Is OW,! I Mot After War. ARMIES TO POLICE Force for Peace Must Exceed That of Any Nation.

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Po-.ver, Mot KlvalS. Washington. Jan. H'J President Wilson, in a personal address to the senate today, laid down the question of whether the l'nite.1 States shall de part from its traditional policy of iso lation ami no entangling alliances and take part ill a world league to preserve peace a'ter the war. No such history making event with such far-reaching possibilities to the United States probably ever had been tffn in the senate chamber. Shattering precedent of more than a century, the president, regarding the senate with its treaty-making power as his counsellor in foreign affairs, ex plained why he believed the time had come for the world to know America's position and discussed the underlying causes on which he believes a perman ent peace of the world can be main tained. While President Wilson was speak ing directly to the senators after the manner ot Washington. Madison and Adams, his address was in the hands of all foreign governments or on its v ay lo t hem. Alter Century Old I'oliHcs. In the background of the funda mental proposition of whether the l'niteil States should alter the foreign policy laid down by Washington and carried out by a long line of presi dents was the possibility that out :f some such league of nations might come a way to end the present war. For nearly a half an hour the president spoke, with members of the t-enii t1 members of the cabinet ind packed galleriH listening with rapt at- lention. When he concluded there whs a tremendous burst of applase, in which m .my of the Republican sena tors joined the Democrats. When the president had finished, ami the senate returned to its regu lar business, Senator Lafollotte epito mized the sentimont of all present by i-;i y i n s Important Hour in Life of World. "We have just passed thru u very important hour in the life of the world." Senators generally reserved com ment on the president's address, but Mme Republicans who said they did not wish to be quoted, said they were Opposed to both the "propriety and fcubMance." Briefly, the president in his address aid tlui t he believed no peace which was a peace of victory in the present war would be a permanent peace and that it must be taken for granted that peace "must be followed by some definite concert of power which will make it virtually impossible that any Mich catastrophe should ever over whelm us again." Text of President's Address. The president spoke as follows: "Gentlemen of the Senate: On the 18th of December last I addressed an identic note to the governments of the nations now at war requesting them to state more definitely than they had yet been stated by either group of belligerents the terms upon which they would deem it possible to make peace. I spoke on behalf of hu manity and of the rights of all neutral nations like our own. many of whose most vital interests the war puts in constant jeopardy. "The central powers united in a re ply which stated merely that they were ready to meet their antagonists in conference to discuss terms of peace. "The entente powers have replied much more definitely and have stat ed in general terms, indeed, but with sufficient def initeness to imply de tails, the arrangements, guarantees and acts of reparation which they deem to be the indispensable condi tions of a satisfactory settlement. "We are that- much nearer a def inite discussion of the peace which shall end the present war. We are that much nearer the discussion of national concert which thereafter would hold the world at peace. In every discussion of the peace that must end this war it is takit for granted that that peace must be given v ou'i'p ucnuim tuuttjri ui power i TOPEKA GIRLS BELIEVED TO BE 'SLAVES' FOUND Helen Gardner, Jeanette and Matilda Greenburg in K. t'. Thought to Have Been in "White Slavers'" Hands. ARRESTED IN A DANCE HALL It Is ow Up to Father Bring1 Them Home. Elder Daughter Figured "Scarlet Woman" Story. to Helen Gardn-r, an Oakland girl. j Jeanette and Matilda Greenburg, To Deka girls, were arrested at a dance hall at Fifteenth street and Troost avenue, Kansas City, Sunday night. according to word received today l n,i..h Larimer, sheriff: These are tne three girls who have figured in the sensational "white slave" ttory pub lished in Topeka last week. M. Greenburg, a Topeka tailor, father of the two girls, called at the office of the sheriff and county attor ney today to ascertain if he could bring Jeanette. the youngest, home with him. He is discouraged with Miitilda and doubts if anything can i be done with her. i a few minutes later the father of jtnp Gardner girl called at the sheriff office. He stated that everything pos- 'sible had been .lone for the girl and I doubted whether it wouia u anj soon to bring her to xopeKa. air. u.ccu burg was given a letter to the chief of police at Kansas city, siaung uiai was father of the girls and requesting that he be given custody of them, if he desired. Matilda Greenburg is 19 years old. Jeanette Greenburg. 1 i years old, and Helen Gardner, 19 rears old. Feared 'White Slavers." Greenburg believed for a time that the two girls were the victims of white slavers. With that idea in mind he went to Kansas City in answer to a mysterious telephone mesage from a "Mrs. PiObinson" in Kansas City stat ing that the girls were in her rooming house and stranded. A call at the ad-Ht-ac; cf Tr Pohinsnn revealed that the girls were not there, neither could j Mrs. Robinson be found. In company with the Kansas City detectives Green burg scoured the tenderloin district in a futile search for his daughters. Later, a letter was received from Matilda stating that all three girls had jobs with the Gayety theater in Kan sas City. Mrs. Gardner called at the uheriffs office a few days ago and urged that every effort be made to ap prehend her daughter. The elder Greenburg girl figured in numerous stories during the summer when she was known as "the scarlet woman" and was detained at the detention home on accounVof a disease she had contracted. MYSTERY SHOT KILLS Kl Paso. Tex., Jan. 22. An investi gation was started today into the mys terious shooting: of Harry L,. Baker of Marietta, O., private in Company B, Fourth Ohio regiment, last nipht. One corporal has been placed under arrest which will make it virtually impos- 1U1 ar'y uuii ca.Lu.sii op ne snoum cvw 1. 1 v 1 1 c-1 1 1 1 ua dcii ii. r.very lov er of mankind, every sane and thoughtful man must take that for granted. To Set Up New Peace Plan. "I have sought this opportunity to address you because I thought that I owed 10 you, as the council associated with me in the final determination of our international obligations to dis close to you without reserve the thought and purpose that have been taking form in my mind in regard to the duty of our iiovernment in those days to come when it will be neces sary to lay afresh and set up a new plan for the foundations of peaco among the nations. "It is inconceivable that the people of the United States should play no part in that great enterprise. To take part in such a service will be the op portunity for which they have sought to prepare themselves by the very principles and purposes of their policy and the approved practices of their government ever since the days when they set up a new nation in the high and honorable hope that it might, in all that it was and did, show mankind the way to liberty. They cannot, in honor, withhold the service to which they are now about to be challenged. They do noi wish to wihhold it. But they owe t to themselves and to the other nations of the world to state the conditions under which they will feel free to render it. Outlines Plan in I trier. "That is nothing less than this: To add British authority and power to the authority and force of other na tions, to guarantee peace and justice Ihruout the world. Such a settlement cannot now be long postponed. It is right that before it comes this govern ment should frankly formulate the conditions upon which it would feel justified in asking our people to ap prove its formal and solemn adher ence to a league for peace. I am here to attempt to state those conditions. "The present war must first be end ed; but we owe it to candor 'and to a just regard for the opinion of mankind to say that so far as our participation in guarantees of future peace is con cerned it makes a great deal of differ ence in what way and upon what terms it. is ended. The treaties and agreements which bring it to an end must embody terms which will create a peace that is worth guaranteeing and preserving, a peace that will win the approval of mankind not merely a peace that will serve the several inter ests and immediate- aims of the na tions engaged. We shall have no voice in determining what those terms shall be, but we shall. I feel sure, have a voice in determining whether they shall be made lasting or not by th (Continued on Page Two.) VAN HORN NOT GUILTY "THREE BRIDGES" CRIME He Has Been Serving Term for 3Iurder He Mever Committed. Mexican Confesses That He Killed "Rabbit" Morgason. HE IS NOW AT TULSA, OKLA. Admitted Crime to Wife, Who Told Tulsa Sheriff. Hugh Larimer and Accused Man Have Been Notified. A full confession of the murder of William "Rabbit" Morgason in To peka in 1907 has been received by the Tulsa, Okla.. sheriff, according to a dispatch received by the State Journal from Tulsa. "Irish" Van Horn, a To peka hack driver, served eiyht years in the state prison at Lansing for the crime and is now out on parole. Always Van Horn has maintained his innocence. But circumstantial evidence pointed to his guilt and he j was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. The information received over the wire is confirmed by similar informa tion received by Hugh Larimer, sher iff, today, in a telegram from the Tulsa sheriff. According to Larimer's information, a Mexican, whose name is withheld at this time, confessed to his wife and she, in turn, conveyed the information to the Tulsa sheriff. Larimer and his deputies are busy today examining old records of the fa mous Three Bridges murder. Accord ing to information of the Tulsa sheriff the confessed murderer can be locked up at any minute. Details of the con fession are lacking up to date. Story of Murder. One morning in June. 1907, William Morgason, a truck gardener, was found near Three Bridges, a bullet thru his head, and his hands lying crossed on his breast. A revolver with an exploded cartridge in it lay near the crossed hands. Mrgason and Van Horn, accord ing to information given out today by county officials in office at the time of the murder, were the best of friends. On t!.e morning of the murder.-Van Horn.-, went to Abe Jacobs son's pawa shop, took his revolver out of pawn and tilled the chambers in the shop. A few minutes later, according to witnesses. Van Horn and Morgason were seen driving toward Three Bridges in a hack. Van Horn's story on the witness stand was rambling, othcials said toda'. He told various stories of the time that Morgason left the hack and that together with vol uminous circumstantial evidence of another character brought about Van Horn s conviction. It was onh a few days ago that Van Horn v as summoned to the gov ernor's office and warned that his ac tions since his parole were not receiv ing favar from the parole board. Van Horn has beer, told of the confession received ai Tulsa. 0. K. "BLUE SKY" U. S. Supreme Court Upholds Law in Three States. Curb Fraud Stocks 'ot Excess of Police Power. Washington, Jan. 22. Blue sky laws of three states Ohio, South Dakota and Michigan designed to curb sale of fraudulent securities, were today upheld as constitutional by the su preme court. The court held that authority exer cised is not in excess of the states "po lice powers" and that the law is not a burden upon interstate commerce in the sale of stocks and bonds. Kansas Had First Law. Blue sky laws, enacted first in Kan sas in 1911 with the purpose of pro tecting credulous investors against sales of worthless stocks and bonds, have been copied in some measure in more than half the states of the union. Tvrenty-six states are said to have laws embracing the fundamental principle of endeavoring, by constitutional methods, to prevent sales of "get-rich-quick" or "fly-by-night" securities. Three cases brought before the su preme court and argued together in October, 1916, concerned the constitu tionality of the blue sky laws of Ohio. South Dakota and Michigan. All had been held unconstitutional by lower federal courts and their enforcement by state officials was enjoined while the officials appealed. Two principal points upon which the Ohio, South Dakota and Michigan acts were( declared void and non-enforceable in the lower courts were: That they unduly burden interstate commerce, of which stocks, bonds and other securities were declared to be instrumentalities, and that the laws exceed the states' police powers of lo cal supervision. The states, however, contended that the laws prevent fraud only, and un like the original Kansas type of blue sky legislation, do not attempt to pre vent unwise investments. Also they contended that the laws do not re strict or burden interstate commerce, applying only to sales within the states, and in preventing frauds upon their citizens are a normal, wise and preventative exercise of state police powers. Generally, the laws provide for ex aminations of securities, prospectus and other information by state secur ity commissions, or other officials; li censing of dealers, and penalties of $1,000 fines and one year's imprison ment for violations. The twenty-six states reported to have blue sky restrictions are Arizona, CIGAR AND PIPE NOW ARE ON THE RUN IN KANSAS! House Bill Would Prohibit AH Smoking in Public Places. It's More Drastic Than the Mew Cigarette Measure. CAN'T SMOKE EVEN AT HOME A. P. Jewett of Lane Co. Purist Behind the Plan. He Would Establish Micotine Dens for the "Fiends." Smoking of pipe, cigar or cigarette in any public place in Kansas is to be prohibited if the legislature enacts a bill introduced in the house today by O. P. Jewett of Lane county. Jewett's bill is even more drastic than the Car ter bill against cigaret smoking in that it provides a penalty for smoking in any form. Smoking in Kansas, under the Jewett bill, will be permitted only in places equipped and -specially desig nated for such purposes. Jewett has played several return en ?appnipnts from Lane county. His sensitive feeling against smoking has found several outbursts during former legislative sessions when he called up the anti-smoking rule in the house. Last week he retained his former rec ord by calling up the anti-smoking rule for the benefit of men working at the press table. Now Jewett would put King Nicotine out of business in Kansas by a legislative enactment. Applies to Homes, Too. The Jewett bill provides a penalty of $10 to $25 for smoking in public places. And by public places Jewett includes trains, street cars, automo biles. th street and public highways public buildings and rooms where children are kept. Under the bill a man who returns from a strenuous day in his office is denied the right to smoke his favorite cigar or pipe in his own home. If he simply must smoke, Jewett provides that he must go to a rmblic smoking room if such a place be maintained in the town where he may smoke without disturbing or an noying fellow citizens or providing horrible examples to a growing gen eration. This is the bill which the sensitive member from Lan$"eounty would erf? act for Kansas i Section 1. That it shall be unlaw ful for any person to smoke on any passenger train or on any car used to transport the public, on any other train, or on any interurban car. street car, omnibus, taxicab, automobile, or any other vehicle used for the trans portation of the public, or- on any street in any city or town, or in any room or building used by the public, and any rooms or build in rs whre children are kept: Provided, that smoking may be allowed in public rooms fitted up and used exclusively for smoking and designated as such by proper marking either on or above the door. Automobiles Publie Plaees. Section 2. That it shall be unlaw ful for any person having the care or custody of any car or vehicle used for the transportation of the public, or of any street in any city or town, or of any room or building used by the public or of any room or building where children are kept to allow any smoking in or on any such, vehicle, street, room or building. Section 3. That any person violat ing any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misde meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $10 nor more than $25 for each and every of fense. Section 4. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute book. SENATE TO SPEED UP fa y Adopt Irorra m C'a II i n u for Longer Iays and Night Sessions. Washington, Jan. 22. Longer day and possible night sessions of the sen ate and a legislative program for the remainder of the session of congress were considered today by the senate steering committee. The committee met in response to President Wilson's personal appeal to its members to speed up action on his legislative -program, including the railroad strike restriction bill. Congress may be called in extra ses sion in the event of failure to put thru the administration's measures before adjournment March 4, and such a sess'on senate and house lead ers are anxious to avoid. One of the principal barriers m the way is oppo sition to the railroad legislation. In some quarters, however, such a ses sion is not believed to be necessary. Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida. Georgia, Idaho, Iowa. Kan saSj Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mis souri. Montana, Nebraska, Xortn Carolina, North Dakota. Ohio. Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennes see, Texas, Vermont. West Virginia and Wisconsin. 100 Million Lost by Investors. In addressing the supreme court, the National Association of Attorneyj General said the legislation w:t-: in response to the increased flotation of fraudulent securities during the lust twenty years, causing loss of $100, 000, 0U0 annuaily. The association asked the court to uphold the legisla tion, particularly as meteoric value of stocks due to the war has given new impetus to issues, and purchase by the public, of fraudulent securities. Of the blue sky laws enacted, the Kansas act. the West Virginia law of 1914 and the Iowa statute, in addition to those of Ohio, Michigan and Soutn Dakota, have been held void by lower courts. The decision does not affect the Kansas law in Iny way. Bank Com mission Benson announced this after noon. There has been no dispute over the law in this state. BEGIN TO CLEAR MEXICAN BORDER OF ALL GUARDS Fnnston Designates 25,000 State Troops to Go at Once. Leave for Home as Fast as Transportation Is Provided. ORDER INCLUDES 25 STATES Pave Way for Return of Per shing's Army of Invasion. To Muster Oat National Guards at Home Stations. San Antonio, Tex.. Jan. 22. General Funston has designated more than 25.000 national guardsmen to leave the border for their home stations at once, in accordance with an order just issued by the war department. The troops that will move homeward as soon as transportation facilities can be provided, are as follows: Kentucky Ser-ond infantry.- Maryland Fifth infantry. Massachusetts Anibulanee company Dumber '1. Field hospital number '2. Minnesota First infantry, First Field artillery. Oklahoma First iufantry, troops A and B eavalry: Field hospital company, Com pany A. engineers. Pen ps viva nia Second Field artillery, rnmnan'v nGrinPPr: Sixth infantry; Kightb infantry and Third Brigade head quarters. I tan iseconn squanron cai an Tennessee Ambulance company number 1; Field hospital number 1. Virginia Second infantry. Wisconsin Second infantry. South Carolina Troop A. cavalry: Com pany C, engineers, and Field hospital. South lakota Fourth infantry. Missouri Fourth infantry. Montana Troop A. cavalry. Nebraska Field hospital number 1; Company A, signal corps and Fifth in fantry. New Hampshire First infantry. New York Seventy-fourth infantry, field bakery company, supply train, am-bulaiK-e company number 4. North Carolina First infantry. Ohio Fourth infHutry, Fifth infantry. Third Brigade headquarters. First squad ron cast. Iowa First squadron cavalry. Held hospital number 1, ambulance company number 1, brigade headquarters, and Third infantry. Indiana Second infantry, ambulance company number 2. brigade headquarters. "IHstrict of Columbia liattery B, Field artillery. a Illinois Brigade headquarters and Third infantry. Pelaware Two battalions of infantry. Arkansas First infantry. Louisiana First battalion Field artil lery. Field hospital number 1. Start Home in Few Days. Washington. Jan. 22. War depart ment officials today explained that some units of the 25,000 national guardsmen whose return from border service has been ordered, probably could start for home within a few days and that all "will be returned for mus ter out as rapidly as transportation facilities can be supplied." General Funston selected the or ganizations which are to be with drawn according to a general plan of relieving those longest in border ser vice. Troops from twenty-five states and the District of Columbia are in cluded in the order. CLOSE IN "LEAK" Exhaustive Inquiry of Stock Sales "ow Underway. Congress Committee's Attorney Begins Gathering Evidence. New York. Jan. 22. New work of gathering slips, records from the stock exchange and lining up wit nesses for the New York section of the probe into the "leak to Wall street" began here today under the personal direction of Serman L. Whipple, Bos ton attorney, who will conduct the ex amination for the congressional com mittee. Stock exchange sales slips showing transactions on December 19, 20 and 21. the three panicky days during the dispatch and announcement of Pres ident Wilson's "peace note'' will be gathered. When these sups nave oeen garn ered it will be an easy matter to find what firms made big sales before publication of the note. After that it is but a step to find out what firms were selling short and for what clients. Books of the brokers will disclose names of the short sellers. Will Prole Stock Exchange. Too. Afterward prominent bankers will be called. J. P. Morgan, Frank A. Vanderlip, Pliny Fisk and others will be quizzed. The members of the committee will not arrive until tonight or tomorrow morning. The understanding in finan cial circles is that the inquiry prob ably will not be extended to an in vestigation of the New York stock exchange. The present plan is to call officers of '.he stock exchange among the first witnesses and question them about the exact procedure in the sell ing and buying of stf cks. SUICIDE HER ANSWER Leaves Husband Free to Oivc Wrong ed Girl Kis Name. Chicago. Jan. 22. Mrs. Bella Swit zer answered a letter of appeal from her. husband by saturating a cloth with chloroform and binding it about her face. A letter, signed by her husband, John C. Switzer, in Des Moines. Ia., explained that he had wronged a 17- year-old girl, who was soon to bear him a c:tild and begged her to help him. Her death leaves him free to eiv the girl his name. MUNITION MAKERS ENDANGER SAFETY OF UNITEDSTATES Threaten Ruin to Preparedness Program, Says Daniels. Making Money More Important to Them Than Patriotism. NEED GOVERNMENT FACTORIES Many Firms Manipulate Prices at Their Pleasure. Little Attention Paid to Quality of Shells. the Washington, Jan. 22. In a vigor ous attack upon American munition makers. Secretary of the Navy Dan iels declares that only relief by gov ernment munition manufacture will prevent the imperiling of the entire preparedness program. The secretary has issued a public statement replying to criticisms directed against the award of recent shell contracts to the British firm of Hadfield Co. The statement criticised in no un certain terms the attitude of certain American manufacturers declaring that their action lent color to the oft repeated charge that "preparedness is a synonym for profits and not patriot ism." The secretary declared that Ameri can concerns had failed to either im prove their product or reduce their prices as they should have. In his statement he said: "The department wishes to give all its orders to American manufacturers whenever they quote reasonable prices and furnish shells that meet navy requirements. Notning out tne utter failure of the most patient ne gotiations and appeals to the patriot ism of the little group of steel man ufacturers which has a practical mon opoly of this business has made it im perative for the government to build a projectile factory and give a contract to a foreign bidder. The Bethlehem Steel company, controlled by Mr. Schwab which has been filling the pa pers with advertisements criticising the navy department admits in its lat est advertisement tht tho it was two years ago awarded a contract for $1. 500.000 of shells, it has not yet made shells to meet the requirements of the navy department.- Until it -is able to fill Its. contracts it does not become the Bethlehem Steel company to crit icise the navy department for award ing contracts to manufacturers who can make shells that meet tests." Make Little Progress. Secretary Daniels expressed deep disappointment that the American manufacturers have failed to profit by past experiences. "I regard the attitude of these com panies in this and other matters as most unfortunate," he said, "and were there no relief, thru competition either by the government or by other more patriotic firms, I would feel, that they were putting our entire program of preparedness in peril. In urging necessity for our tremendous program of naval development in congress I found the most serious obstacle to content with was the feeling of many congressmen that the whole matter of preparedness was a deliberately or ganized campaign on the part of manufacturers of war materials to ob tain enormous contracts at fabulous prices. I did not share this opinion. "The splendid action on the part of some other manufacturers in forego ing the chance to obtain war profits from the material needed in the con struction of our new program has justified my belief that other manu facturers of war materials will per sist in extracting the last penny of profit from our urgent necessity gives a certain color to the arguments of those who believe that preparedness is a synonym for profits and not for patriotism. -rainipuiaie rnces. The secretary asserted that the cam- paign of the American munitions mak- ers to boost prices for the 1 4-inch shells, the big gun shells of the mod ern dreadnaught, crept up towards the 1500 mark, onlv to lumhl. hacir ito 315 when the knowledge came to tne American rirms that Hadfield, umltecl. was ready to make such bid. Thereafter, according to the sec- retarv. the Americans held down th.lr bids until encouraged bv the belief that the Vnrnnean ws i- nlin.inl.J foreign competition when they raised their bid to $539 per shell. c.r.tQr,r Tioniaic 1 ....II. ,..'111., V 1 AO additional reason for accepting the British arms bid, that the Bethlehem Steel company's percentage of accept- j able shells out of a test lot of thirtv-I preaic c' four submitted to the department was! Trains Annulled; c lone Sm-IiooIs. only 8.8. Trie Crucible Steel company, I The Chicago Great Western railroad he said, produced a better average discontinued its trains on the Koches- with 37.7 per cent of passed shells. jter-Ked Wing division at noon -Sunday I and trains on other lines have been Mnntf FOR nJlinF CTADC'ann""e,i' nUUn lUn IIUUC OIMmO The storm area covers South Da- kota. southern Minnesota, centr-il National Movie Censor Board Rules Minnesota western Wisconsin and ex tends to the Creat Lakes. Her Off the Screen. North Dakota. Montana and Mani- r toba reports only a small fall of snow r eor;, a?; ."jJV?? eJ?.,.ur"'.. of movie houses if the national board

of review, which censors the riickennB nims. nas ks way aoout it. 1 he moral eiiecx is noi wnai 11 snoum oe, te bf hS fdeCVdd- ftnereaSler il wiU u productions. v.,j j ...i i was announced, after letters had been received from correspondents all over the country, giving an opinion of the effect of such pictures on the public. 75 HORSES DIE IN FIRE 15 Autos Destroyed in Omaha When Livcrjr Barn and Garage Burn. Omaha, Jan. 22. Seventy-five horses were burned to death and fif teen automobiles destroyed by fire which early today burned the livery barn and garage of Levi Gorman I and several small buildings adjacent, The losses aggregated $75,000. QUEEN OF ALASKA SEEING GAY N. Y. IS UNCHAPERONED New York, Jan. 22. "Little Louise" Sachen, known from Koyukuk to Ju neau as "the Queen of Alaska," is here unchaperoned to see the sights. "Little Louise," in fact, never heard of a chaperon until she got to Broadway. She didn't know what a subway was and had never seen a tall building. The regular complaint she makes to every shivering New Yorker she meets is that "it's so blistering hot here." "Little Louise" is five feet six inches tall, weighs 170, is IS and pretty. ZEROHEJOODAY! Mercury Drops 51 Degrees in Less Than 21 Hours. Twenty Below in Northern Part of State This Morning. Hourly temperature readings fur nished by the weather bureau: 7 o'clock 8 o'clock 9 o'clock 10 o'clock 1 1 o'clock 1 2 o'clock 1 o'clock 2 o'clock. 4 6 .10 ...13! Temperatures today averaged 20 de grees below normal. The wind is blowing at the rate of 12 miles an i hour from the northwest. Rio Janeiro saying that according to From 51 degrees Sunday morning a telegram received at Pernambuco. the mercury slid down to zero at 8:30 ;lne British crujser Glasgow has sunk o clock this morning, making one of' t.a the longest drops that ever occurred la commerce ra!der 130 miles in Topeka. Extremely cold weather in Para. Brazil. No details ar the northwest driven by a high wind i given. Sunday afternoon and night was re- j sponsible for the cold wave here. The London, Jan. 22. German newspa expectcd snow failed to materialize, pers are rejoicing over the exploits of but it probably will arrive tonight, j the commerce raider in the South At The wind had moderated to 15 miles lantic, according to an Amsterdam an hour from the northwest this dispatch to the Times, morning after reaching 35 miles Sun- Captain Persius, tho German naval day. i critic, writing in the Tageblatt, recalls Snow and a slow rising temperature 'that when German destroyers "carried tonight is forecast, with unsettled and lout attacks in the English channel and warmer weather Tuesday. More snow is probablv due Tuesday in the east-, her and November, Arthur Balfour, em part of Kansas. Reports to tho j then secretary of the navy, assured local weather bureau indicate that no ;the house of commons that the British snow or rain fell in the state Sunday, guard service would -be so careful in A rain of .18 of an inch fell in Topeka 'the future that the Germans would Saturday night. i never venture to undertake such dan- Shipping Forecast. j serous expeditions again Captain Persius says that Sir Ld- Th,ElPPe h LL r; rd C.ron has been unable to justi tect 36-hour shipments north and wes. Balfour's assertion, and main- aga.nst lempe raturjfs ot Izerc to 11 -be- "German light forces have low; east and south, zero The lowest several attacks in British waters temperature here tonight will be zero. and Moeww tne s.cond. a big abov according to S D. Flora. local h BUCCSU8fuiy passed th rXUTo ofB oegPr;etiBr.tish adv e Buarda and reached The mercury had only crawled up 2l e starvation Blockade, degrees by 9:30 o'clock this mormn? )an ,s.oermaI)y and was not expected to go above 'shortly to establish a submarine "bar this afternoon. A temperature oq around England and France. t- zer this morning was 16 degrees be- j temptinB a -starvation blockade" her low normal. v,, i self, according to general belief In Reports to the local weather bureau :1nese nations. pasengers on the Indicate that temperatures over Kan- white Ktar liner Baltic sai(1 to(Jay. sas rangea rrom zero .su aw ur- it, .(A The rnercury dropped to 20 be- North Platte. Neb., and north- n Kansas is represented by low at western North Platte on the weather map... v,.D,,M ,mi ffi'i,ii h.,. Twenty-five inches of snow fell Sun- ize the Kcheme as a -barrier" not a day niKht in St. Paul. Minn, with a ..nIockade To make BUCn a barrier wind of forty miles an hour and a tern- effpctivet it is reprte.l that Germany pcrature of 12 decrees below zero. win t ,nto Rervice lhirty new 8Uper. The extreme cold weather and snow (,uper..ubTnarinea"-CRpnble of ein was en era. in the northwestern sec- teej) knots on thf surface, armed with tion of the United States. neavior puns tnan any undersea craft The Iays Rocord. heretofore in service and armored Huf- The highest temperature on record ficiently to make them impervious fx for this date is 66 degrees, established cept to fairly heavy missiles. More in 1909. The low record, 5 below zero, over, these new boats are said to be occurred in 1888. fitted also for extensive mine laying Temperatures in Concordia Sunday j and able to cruise 2.000 miles or more nipht went to 2 below zero. Dodge j wit hout replenishment of supplies. Pity reported zero while at Wichita I The Baltic's passengers also fur the mercury stopped at 6 above. The nished reports that In connection with cold weather in Kansas was along the this blockade Germany is preparing a northern border. The mercury was new contraband list on which it is ex down to 22 below at Sheridan, Wyo.; pected that all articles of food will be 2fi below at Havre. Mont.; 8 below at placed. Denver, and 20 below at Du'uth, Minn. IX BI.IZ.Mltl) GUIP. 40-Year Record Set by Snowstorm In i Northwest. st. Paul, Minn.. Jan. 22. a b!iz j ho)ds the northwest in its grip. Min- j nfapolis and St. Paul reported the: newest rail or snow with seventeen inches. i Train and street car traffic was I paralyzed Sunday. The majority of ;,rains scheduled out of .St. Paul were annulled. i A milk shortage was predicted to- d,?" b? creamery men of the Twin I v 1 me iuiii-i ilnl"1 .uuimy on jwnom tney depend lor their milk sup- P'y nuniiifu iiiem niui n win uu (impossible to ship for several days. Hed V mff. Minn .seems to have

..iT- r V. T of fifteen inches of snow. The city in f t completely cut off from rail I cat,,on Ith. 'tU "J!? ine Ifllll'fl dl UI II ur- I W 1 1 J V 1 1 i t-3 j at 8 a. m. todav registered 1 below. Tne Minneapolis school board an- nounced there will be no school in j that city today Dtiluth'to Snowbound. 1 T-i 1 1. Atnn lan I li 1 T V.

1 bus v today trying to restore normal COnUtllUNS unci uiic v i inr iihiri wviric j v lien flits j-,i:iir:M liic 3iiiii ii.,iht storms in years. A high wind accom- i she knocked on the door and the lam panied the Enowfall. which started j ily took her in and put her to bed. She early yesterday and continued all las'. was made as comfortable as possible night, crippling railways and tele- j while the police were notified and a phone and telegraph service. j physician called. Dr. L. B. Bushon? Fight Fire in Blizzard. j is attending her. Cleveland, O.. Jan. 22. Sixteen fire j own nt;aill.ant Mal. companies fought desperately m a France. Jan. 22. Edouard bhzzard here today to prevent the ,Jerrot of the national subsistence bu spread of a fire which was destroying announced at a meeting of the the Mayor-Maries company s six-story brick furniture store in the heart of j d FnorUy in which the res tne congested business district.. ,aurants will be obliged to serve onlv j j Omaha. Neb.. Jan. 22. Railroads (Continued on Pagtf Two.) Haider Dispatch Says British Cruiser Has Sunk Sea Pirate. Locates Clash 130 Miles Off the Coast of Brazil. NO DETAILS YET RECEIVED Germany Kejoices Over Ex ploits of Commerce Destroyer. Will Establish Submarine Bar- rler Around Eueniies. Buenos Aires, Argentine, Jan. 22. Laprenha publishes a dispatch from at the moutn ol tne l names in ucio f Accorrting to this information Gcr- According 10 tnis miorinatiuu jt-r- m ,ana t() nf)tif tn world about j j,bua' j of the institution of this ppw form o( bloc)ane. The notifica- IN HER BARE FEET j i Woman in Mffhteoivri Takes Early Morning: Walk. Carries Her 3-I)ay-01d Infant- Temperature Scar Zero. Clad only in her nightgown and blanket, Mrs. Edith Archer, mother of a three days' old infant, carried her baby from the home of Mrs. C. T Kirkpatrick. 707 Morrift avenue, to th ll r. m t.f Unm.p Khiill 1191 U'nof ,l near zero. Mrs. Archer has been de i Hrlous at times, physicians state, an.l

II II I It I J V 1 1 I M llHVr I I T I 1 1 I 1 L 1 condition whi the nude Ihe trip. I Officer Woodward, who was called to tne Snuii home, found that Mrs. lmliHs parents live in Osage :it. ;and they were notified by the polics department. Mrs. Archer came here three weeks ,ago from Montana. She is separated i from her husband who lives at I-yri- Hon, Omw county, Kniuu, She came j here, according to her own story, so she would he able to make her hus- i band pay at least part of her doctor bills. x when she arrived in Topeka. Mrs. Archer went first to St. Francis hos- I P"al. later was sent to the Kirk- I r.einb Vk.vna Tho haKu va-aiB hrrn three days apo. the save no reason for her early murnirp Junket. fche nai j gotten out of bed while she was tem j porarily alone, wrapped the baby i carefully and throwing a blanket over V, V. 1 .1 .1 .i .1 mo,!, t In a trin hum.

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THE TOPF.TTA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 191? RAIDER DESERTS FRUITFUL FIELD IN SJITLANTIC 3io 'ew Depredations Reported Since Survivors Landed. Descriptions by Prisoners Prove More Than One. BRAZIL PATROUNG COAST South Sea Fairly Swarming With Allies' Warships. Ocean Rovers Probably Took Many Days' Start. BY CHABXES P. STEWART. Buenos Aires. Jan. 22. Absence of accounts of depredations by '-he .er man raider or raiders occurring within the past week, and the fact that a vast cordon of allied war ves sels and guardians of neutrality have failed as yet to locate her, led to the belief today that the t"r,;rr te nors had changed the field of opera- "Since the raider dispatched the Ji-uaner.o steamer Hudson Mara to Fernambuco loaded with i.risoners. nc definite word of the vessels where abouts has oeen received. This was on January 1 2 ten days a so The packet bx;t Ba'nia reported her belief tne raider had passed her fir off, and Fpeeding northward, off the coast of Rio Grande Del Norte. The most c?.rful questioning of sur vivors landed at Pernambuco has fail ed to elicit anythiig iike an agree ment as to the raider's appearance. The widest variance was developed, giving additional credence to the de tailed storv of the captain of the cap tured British step.mei Radnorshire that the raider had armed and equip ped at least one of her captures, pre sumably the British merchantman St. Theodore. See Warships Everywhere. The south Atlantic today was liter ally swarming with searchers for the ship or ships responsible for the blow at allied commerce. Brazil added to her fleet of war vessels watching to prevent violations of neutrality by de taching a number of vessels from her fleet. They will patrol Brazilian ter ritory water. Neutral merchantmen arriving at various South American ports, reported allied ar vessels al most constantly in sight. Five steam ships variously reported as merchant men and cruisers were said to be lurk ing between Provoacao and Yacare. BOOST STATE SGHOOLS Students and Alumni Form Permanent Organisation in Topeka. A permanent organization known as the Kansas Educational Institution as sociation was formed here Saturday evening by the Student-Alumni union, in- session at the Chamber of Com merce rooms. The purpose of the or ganization is to consider anything of benefit to the various Kansas institu tions and to conduct publicity cam paigns to put thru such measures. The membership in the association will consist of one representative of the student body and one of the alumni of each Kansas school. Kan sas university, the Agricultural college and the State normal at Emporia were represented at the meeting. Pitts burg normal and Hays normal were unable to get here on account of the short notice, but are expected to join the organization. Officers elected are: Willurd M. Glasgow. president County Clubs union, K. TJ., president; Leo C. Moser, president K. S. A. C. Student council, secretary; Carl W. Salser, secretary of the Emporia Alumni association, treasurer, and D. H. Mcintosh, presi dent senior class, Emporia normal, vice president. Among the notables present at the organization meeting were Prof. N. L. Flint, K. U. W. Y. Morgan, lieutenant governor; Clyde Miller, attorney, and le Harrison, secretary of the state board of administration. SING AT H. S. TONIGHT Jubilee Singers Appeared at Five To peka Churches Sunday. The Williams Jubilee Singers will appear at the high school auditorium tonight as the fourth number on the Young People's entertainment course. The Jubilee Singers have sung in To peka many times and are a real fa vorite with music lovers here. Sunday five churches had the bene fit of their presence in town. The company Fang at the First Christian, the First Baptist, Central Congrega tional, the First United Brethren and the First Congregational churches. The organization has maintained for years its reputation of being the finest colored ensemble in the country. It consists of a male and a female quar tet. LINCOLN DAY SERVICE Topeka A. R. to Observe Birthday of President February 1 1. Lincoln's birthday will be observed Sunday afternoon, February 11, by the G. A. R. veterans of Lincoln Post. The parade from the post hall on Sixth street to the Auditorium will be led by the K. and L. of S. band. The band will play at the auditorium, dur ing: the. seating of the audience. Robert M. Painter, department com mander, will act as master of cere monies. The Modoc club will simt patriot! airs, and Mrs. Arthur S. Henderson will irtve two vocal solos. The address of the afternoon will be delivered by the Rev. Edmund J. Kulp, pastor of the First M. E. church. His subject is Abraham Lincoln. The Lincoln Post invites the public to at tend their memorial services. Seats will be reserved directly in front of the rostrum for the Civil war veterans. Pass Wyoming Booze Bill. Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 22. Governor .lohn B. Kendrick has signed the bill submitting prohibition to the people of Wyoming. The bill provides for a vote to be taken in 1918 on the adop tion of a prohibition amendment to the state constitution. It was the first measure offered in the Wyoming sen ate this year. TopaysAmusementsI IRIS Ethel Clayton ai.d Rock cliff j Fellows in "The Bondage of Fear." HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM Williams Jubilee Singers. OKPHEUM Dorothy Dalton. Lou ise Glaum and Charles Ray in "The Weaker Sex." NOVELTY Five acts vaudeville and Tie Shielding Shadow" pic ture serial. COZY "The Piper's Price," and a comedy. For details, pritcs. etc., see adver tisement ou another page of the State Journal. ZERO HERE TODAY (Continued from Page One.) here today report considerable delay in trains due to last night's snow and windstorm. The storm had subsided, but a brisk wind was still blowing and low temperatures were reported. At Sioux Falls, s. u., tne mercury regis tered 15 below zero, 12 below at Sioux City, Iowa, and 5 below at Lincoln. Neb. The local orriciai reaaing was iu below zero. The snowfall ranged from two to three inches in this vicinity to a foot in southern South Dakota ana every where was badly drifted. Rivers at Flood Stage. Pittsburg. Pa.. Jan. 22. Heavy rains and melting snows over the wa tershed of the Monongahela and Alle gheny rivers all of yesterday and last night prompted the weather bureau to announce this morning that the Ohio river probably would reach flood stage 22.5 feet here. Both the Alle gheny and Monongahela pere reported rising at all-observation points. Coldest This Winter in Denver. Denver, Col... Jan. 22. The coldest weather of the winter and a dropping thermometer faced residents when they rose today. The thermometer was 10 degrees below zero at 7 o'clock. Drops 35 Decrees in Six Hours. Peoria, 111., Jan. 22. Zero weather was predicted for today following a storm that brought the temperature down from 58 degrees to 23 degrees in six hours. The wind reached a velo city of thirty-four miles an hour arid worked considerable damages to awn ings, signs and buildings under con struction. Heaviest Snow on Record in Minn. Winona, Minn., Jan. 22. Southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin are today recovering from the heaviest snowstorm and blizzard of the past fifteen years. Snow which fell for twenty-four hours and was drifted by high variable winds, completely de moralized street car traffic in this city for the past thirty-six hour.:. Freight train transportation on the Milwaukee road was suspended. The snow fall of fifteen inches shatters all records in the history of the local weather bu reau. DAILY WEATHER REPORT. Kurnlshfd by the weather bureau office, Topeka. Kan., for the twenty-four hours endinjr at h. m. Stations. Boston, Mass Buffalo, N. V Calvary, Alb rhtrugo. in in'innnti, O Concordia. Kan Corpus Christ. I eiiver. Colo. le.- Moines, la I loiign City. Kau. lUihith. Minn VA Puso. Tex Ft. Worth, Tex (ialreton. Tex Havre, Mont Jacksonville. Kla. Kansas City, Mo. Little Itwk. Ark. Los Anceles, Cal. New Orleans. La. New York, N. Y Platte, Nffb. Oklahoma City Phoenix, Ariz Pittsburg, Pa Portland, Ore St. Joseph, Mo. St. Louis, Mo St. Paul. Minn. Salt Lake. Utah.. San Francisco San It fete. Marie. Seattle, Wnsh Sheridan, Wyo. Spokane, Wash. Swift Current, Sas Tampa, Fla Toledo, O TOPKKA, KAN. Washington. 1. C Hih. Low. Tree. W'ther. .TO 22 ..'IS Fair -M 22 .2(1 Cloudy 12 0 Clear 44 16 .IS Clear 5S 4 .54 Snow 44 2 It Fair 74 Titi T Cloudy IS S 0 Fair 4fi 4 .04 Clear no 0 0 Cloudy IS 20 .21", Clear 52 0 Clear f.S 2 .54 Fair 7(1 5H .11) Cloudy 10 2(S 0 Clear 74 f,2 0 Cloudy 54 4 T Clear tm ::o .:14 Cloudy 50 0 Clear 7S 5(1 .2ti ltain ::i .!I2 Cloudy 12 20 0 Clear 02 14 0 Cloudy 4s o Fair 4 l.fls cloud v 44 0 Cloudy 52 14 0 Fair tit 14 0 Clear If. 12 .78 Clear 20 .08 Clear 51 44 0 Clear 4 40 ?M 0 Cloudy 4 22 0 Clear 2S 20 .01 Cloudy s. 20 24 0 Clear 7 0(1 0 Cloudy "2 20 ."4 Clear 40 2 0 Clear 52 34 .54 Cloudy 4ti 0 0 Cloudy .14 22 T Clear Wir bita, Kan BRING OUT NEW CRISIS Germany Says Raider's Captives Are Prisoners of War. Washington, Jan. 20. The German admiralty statement that the neutral subjects in the crews of the vessels captured by the German raider in the South Atlantic 'have been removed as prisoners of war," -will raise a com plicated quest, if any Americans are among them. The whole question turns on wheth er an armed merchant ship is a war vessel and the gulf between this coun try and Germany on that question is still unbridged. Of coudse, Americans n such ships could be consilered as prisoners of war only if the vessels were considered as war vessels. No indication has been received that any of the vessels sunk by the raider were other than defensively armed. The state department has held thruout that a vessel cannot be classed as a warship unless it is under naval orders and the naval flag and manned by naval creks. The German admiralty statement made just at this time when the arm ed ship issue between the two coun tries is becoming more complicated was taken to foreshadow a more pro nounced attitude as to the question on Germany's part. CHAMP CLARK WILL RUN Speaker to Make Race For Presidency If "Things Look night." Washington, Jan. 2 2. If "things look right," Champ Clark will be a candidate for president in 1920. Closest friends of the speaker have said that he has made no plans to go out after the nomination. They added, however, that "if things look right iij 1920" the speaker may do so. Most of the Missouri delegation is known to feel that "because of 1912" the party owes Clark the nomination. Big Steamer Torpedoed. New York, Jan. 20. The British steamer Toftwood 3.082 tons) which left New York Christmas day with a cargo worth $750,000 has been tor pedoed and sunk, according to a French line cable message f-om Havre today The French line, which cleared the vessel, said she carried a general cargo and no munitions. To Prevent the Grip. Colds Cause Grip Laxative Bromo Suintne removes cause. There is only one "BKOMO QUININB." R. W. Grove's signature on box. 25c Adv. FIRST WAR CLOUD -FOR LEGISLATURE APPARENT TODAY House Threatens to Reject Ap propriation Bills in Senate. East Side May Be Asked to Withdraw Money Measures. SENATE VIOLATES PROMISES? House Claims Senate Agreed to Pass Up Charity Budget. Educational and Penal Institu tions Are Given Their Share. The first war cloud of the present legislative session appeared today when the house members threatened to reject appropriation bills originat ing: in the senate. Members of the senate ways and means committee may be asked by house members to withdraw their ap propriation bills for state charitable institutions. If the bills are not taken from the calendar, it is probable the house will refuse to consider them. Under an agreement, it is claimed that the senate violated its promise by orig inating appropriations for several hun dred thousand dollars. When the house and senate ways and means committees organized, the work for the session was distributed. The house was to originate all appro priations for state charities, as well as the executive and judicial appropria tions. The senate was to originate the appropriation bills affecting state educational institutions and penal in stitutions. Now. it is claimed, the senate has violated its contract. All of which may mean that the house will retaliate by refusing to consider sen ate appropriations for state charities. Or should the senate refuse to abide by the working agreement the house may decide to originate all appropria tion measures. Fails to Keep Faith. "The appropriation measures sub mitted to the senate are not in keep ing with our agreement." declared Coolidge of Smith county, chairman of the house ways and means committee. "Our agreement at the first joint ses sion of the house and senate commit tees provided that the house should originate all appropriations for char itable institutions, as well as the exec utive and judicial appropriations. Pe nal and educational bills were to come from the senate. The house has lived up to the word and spirit of the agreement. But the senate has failed to keep faith by introducing bills for state charities before they have been considered or approved by the house committee. "I don't know whether the record will show the exact words of our agreement, but I think the individual members understand the agreement senate to" do under the circumstances!;1" the convictions of mankind The would be to withdraw these bills. They certainly can't expect the house to pass them in the face of our agree ment. If it is all right to violate the agreement in one place, we might just as well wipe out the agreement en tirely. In that case each house would originate its own appropriation meas ures and the Lord only knows when we would get home." The senate bills which aroused the house members came from Senator Walter K. Wilson of Washington coun ty, chairman of the senate ways and means committee. The bills were in troduced by Senator Wilson and re ferred to the committee of which he is chairman. Measures introduced in the house were originated by the ways and means committee and offered as committee bills. A break between the house and sen ate concerning appropriations might revive the appropriation deadlock of two years ago. In which event the bright prospects of an early adjourn ment would be shattered while the legislature fought over allowances to state institutions. FORCE WORLD PEACE (Continued FwmPaseOne- guarantees of a universal covenant and our judgment upon which is funda mental and essential as a condition precedent to permanency should be spoken now not afterwards when It may be too late. Must Include United States. "No covenant of co-operative peace that doea not include the peoples of the new world can suffice to keep the future safe against war and yet there is only one sort of peace the peoples of America could join in guaranteeing. "The elements of the peace must be elements that engage the confi dence and satisfy the principles of the American governments, elements con sistent with their political faith and the practical convictions which the peoples of America have once for all embraced and undertaken to defend. I do not mean to say that any government would throw any obstruc tion in the way of any terms of peace the governments now at war might agree upon, or seek to upset them when made, whatever they might be. I only take it for granted that mere terms of peace between the belliger ents will not satisfy' even the bellig erents themselves. Mere agreements may not make peac sure. It will be absolutely necessary that a force be created as a guarantee of the per manency oi -he settlement eo much greater than the force of any nation now engaged or any alliance hitherto framed or projected, that no nation, no probable combination of nations, could face or withstand it. If the peace presently to be made is to en dure. It must be a peace made secure by the organized major force of man kind. The terms of the immediate peace agreement will determine whether there is a peace with such guarantee, can be secured. The ques tion upon which the whole future peace and policy of the world depends is this: What Is Aim of Present War? "Is the present war a struggle for a just and secure peace or only for a new balance of power? Who will guarantee, who can guarantee, the stable equilibrium of the new ar rangements? Only a tranquil Europe can be a stable Europe. There must be, pot a balance of power, but a com munity of power; not organized rival ries, but an organized common peace. "Fortunately we have received very explicit assurances on this point. The statesmen of both of the groups of na tions now arrayed against one another; have said in terms that could not be misinterpreted that it was no part of the purpose thev had in mind to crush their antagonists. But the implica tions of these assurances may not be equally clar to all may not be the same on both sides of the water. I think it will bj serviceable if I attempt: to set forth what we understand them to be. "They imply first of all that It must be a peace witnout victory. It is not pleasant to say this. I beg that I may be permitted to put my own interpre tation upon it and that it may be un derstood that no other interpretation was in my thoughts. I am seeking only to face realities and to face them without soft concealments. Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be adopted in humiliation, under duress at a tol erable sacrifice and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon wnicn terms or peace would rest, not permanently but onlv as unon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last; only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit. The right state of mind, the right feeling between nations is as nec esary for a lasting peace as is the just settlement of vexed questions of territory or or racial and national el legiance. 'The equality of nations upon whicn peace must be founded, if it is to last. must be an equality of rights, the guarantees exchanged must neither recognize nor imply a difference be tween Dig nations and small, between hose that are powerful and those that are weak. Right must be based upon the common strength, not upon the individual strength of the nations upon whose consent peace will depend. Equality of territory or of resources there, of course, cannot be; nor any other sort of equality not gained in the ordinary peaceful and legitimate development of the peoples them selves. But no one asks or expects anything more than an equality of rights. Mankind is looking now for freedom of life, not for equipoises of power. "And there is a deeper thing in volved than even equality of right among nations. No peace can last, or ought to lust, which does not recog nize and accept the principle that gov ernments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no rig-ht anywhere exists to hand peoples about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property. I take it for granted, for instance, if I may venture upon a single example, that statesmen everywhere are agreed that there should be a united inde pendent and autonomous Poland and that henceforth the inviolable security of life, of worship and of industrial and social development should be guaranteed to all peoples who have lived hitherto under the power of goverrunents devoted to a faith and purpofe hostile to their own. Peace Would Be Upset. "I speak of this not because of my desire to exalt an abstract political principle which always has been very dear to those who have sought to build up liberty in America but for the same reason that I have spoken of the other conditions of peace which seem to me clearly indispensable, because I wish frankly to uncover realities. Any peace which -does not recognize and, accept this principle will inevitably be upset. It will not rest upon affections ferment of spirit of whole populations will fight subtly and constantly against it and the world will sympa thize. The world can be at peace only if its life is stable and there can be no stability where the will is in rebel lion, where there is no tranquillity of spirit and a sense of justice and free dom and right. Paths of Sea Must Be Free. "So far as practicable, moreover, every great people now struggling to wards a full development of its re sources and its powers should be as sured a direct outlet to the great high ways of the sea. Where this cannot be done by the cession of territory it can no doubt be done by the neutrali zation of direct rights of way, under the general guarantee, which will as sure the peace itself. With a right comity of arrangement no nation need be shut away from free access to the open paths cf the world's com merce. "And the paths of 'the sea must alike in law and in fact be free. "The freedom of the seas is the sine qua non of peace, equality and co-operation. No doubt a somewhat radical reconsideration of many of the rules of international practice hither to sought to be established may be necessary in order to make the seas indeed free and common in practical ly all circumstances for the use of mankind, but the motive for -such changes is convincing and compelling. There can be no trust or intimacy be tween the peoples of the world with out them. -The free, constant, un threatened intercourse of nations is an essential part of the process of peace and of development. It need not be difficult to define or to secure the free dom of the seas if the governments of the world sincerely desire to come to an agreement concluding it. limitation of Armament. "It is a problem closely connected with the limitation of naval arn.a ments and the co-operation of the na vies of the world in keeping the seas at once free and safe. And the question of limiting naval armaments opens the wider and perhaps more difficult ques tion of the limitation of armies and of all programs of military preparation. Difficult and delicate as these ques tions are, they must be faced with the utmost candor and decided in a spirit of real accommodation if peace is to come with healing in its wings and come to stay. Peace cannot be had without concession and sacrifice. There can be no sense of safety and equality among the nations, if great preponder ating armaments are henceforth to continue here and there to be built up and maintained. The statesmen of the world must plan for peace and nations must adjust and accommodate their policy to it as they have planned for war and made ready for pitiless con test and rivalry. The question of arm aments whether on land or sea is the most immediately and intensely prac tical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. At Liberty to Speak. "I have spoken upon these great matters without reserve and with the most explicitness because it has seem ed to me to be necessary if the world's yearning desire for peace was any where to find free voice and utter ance. Perhaps I am the only person in high authority amongst all the peo ples of the world who is at liberty to speak and hold nothing back. I am speaking as an individual and yet I am speaking, of course, as the re sponsible head of a great government and I feel confident that I have said what the people of the United States would wish me to say. "May I not add that I hope and be lieve that I am, in effect, speaking for liberals and friends of humanity in every nation and of every program of liberty? I would fain believe that I am speaking for the silent mass of mankind everywhere who have, as yet, had no place or opportunity to speak their real hearts out concerning the death and ruin they see to have come already upon the persons and the homes they hold most dear. That United states May Join. "And in holding out the expectation that the people and government of the United States will join the other civil ized nations of the world in guaran teeing the permanency of peace upon such terms as I have named, I speak with the greater boldness and confi dence because it is clear to every man who can think that there is in this promise no breach in either our tradi tion or our policy as a nation but a fulfillment rather of all that we have professed or striven for. "I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world: "That no nation should seek to ex tend its policy over any other nation or people, but that every people should be left free to determine its own policy its own way of developments unhin dered, unthreatened, unafraid, the lit tle along with the great and powerful. Avoid Alliances. "I am proposing that all nations henceforth avoid entangling alliances, which would draw them into competi tions of power, catch them in a net of intrigue and selfish rivalry, and dis turb their own affairs with influences intruded from without. There is no entangling alliance in a concert of pow ers. When all unite to act in the same sense and with the same purpose, all act in the common interest and are free to live their own lives under a common protection. "I am proposing government by the consent of the governed; that freedom of the seas which in international con ference after' conference representa tives of the United States have urged with the eloquence of those who are the convinced disciples of liberty, and that moderation of armaments which makes of armies and navies a power for or der merely, not an instrument of ag gression or of selfish violence. These are American principles, American policies. We can stand for no others. And they are also the prin ciples and policies of forward-looking men and women everywhere, of every modern nation, of every enlightened community. They are the principles of mankind and must prevail." The sense of direction in migratory birds as marvelous as it is mysterious. The familiar inhabitants of our dooryard martin ooxes return tne next year to these same boxes, too meanwhile they have visited Brazil. TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS Chicago, Jan. 22. WHEAT Reports that a German raid had been sunk pave an ad vantage today to the bulls in wheat. Hope of larger clearance and of a renewal of for eigu buying tended likewise to strengthen the market and bo. too, did Nebraska re ports of extreme cold weather and of ice covered fields. 1 rade, however, was very light. Opening prices which ranged from tile same as Saturday's finish to one cent Hfighep with May at Sl.Snvi to $1.ST and Jiuy at Si.ul'tj to I..r2 were rollowed ry a moderate general advance and then some thing or a reaction. The close, nevertheless, was unsettled Mc to 2c net higher with Mir at $1.8U to $1.87 and .luly at J1.5."Vi to $1..V,. CORN 4'orn sympathized temporarily with the upturn in wheat. Purchases, tho. were only in smalt lots and this support soon gave out. After opening fec to tgl c hlgber, the market underwent a grau ual sag. The close was nervous at (STibC to net advance. OATS Oats swayed with corn. Trade was light. PROVISIONS Weakness in the hog mar let pulled down provisions. Arrivals of bogs were more plentiful than had been lookea ror. Ctilcmso (irmln ftlcrket (The range or prices for grain mturea ou The Chicago Board of Trade as rs- iiorted by Thos. J. Myers. Uroker Coluizi dan Bids.) Chicago,. Jan. 22. 0mm Open High Low Today Sat. WHEAT May ..18714 187-'5i IS.T's 187 186 Jn.lT ..152 154 l.WVi 153 151 '4- Sept. ..134 137 133 136fc COItN Mav ..101 101 100 101 1001,4- July 99 100 98 99 99 OATS May .r8 58 57 58 58 .luly 5oi 56 55 55 55 PORK Jan ..30.37 30.40 30.37 30. 40 30.57 May ..29.22 29.25 29.12 29.20 29. 2 Kansas City Grain Market IThe range of prices ror grain futures on The Kansas City Board of Trade as ve-po-ted by Thos. J. Myers, Broker. Colum bian Bldg. Kansas City, Jan. 22. Close- Open WHEAT May ..183 Julv ..148 Spt. ..131 CORN May 98Vi July 97 High Low Today Sat 1S3'4 149 132 98- 97y4 180 14fiVi 130 97 96 182 149 132 98 97 182 13ol 07 96 Chicago Grain Market Chicago. Jan. 22. WHEAT Close May. $1.80 1.87; July, $L53(jjl.53 Septem ber, l..o'?sisx..to':. ORN Mav. $1.01: July, 9999c. OATS May, 58a58c; July, 55 g MP0RK Jan., $30.40; May, $29.20; July, $28.92. LARD Jan., $15.90; May, $16.25; July. ?1SHORT RIBS Jan., $15.15; May, $15.42. Grain Gossip. IFurnlshed by T. J. Myers. Columbian Building.) Minneapolis wheat stocks decreased 30, 000 bushels Friday. Elevator stocks of wheat in Kansas City decreased 270.000 bushels last week and corn stocks decreased 2.154 bushels. Exports from the United States aud Can ada Saturday were 841,000 bushels of wheat, 25.0000 barrels of flour, 314.0U0 bushels of corn and 104,000 bushels of oats wheat and flour combined. 954.000 bushels. An Argentina cable said: "Much diffi culty is being experienced in filling grain contracts owing to antagonism between German and allied firms aud this restricts business. Damage reports on corn continue. Weather is hot." Chicago Produce Market. Chicago, Jan. 22. BUTTER Market steady. Creamery. 3136V2C- EOGS Market higher. Firsts. 39c; ordi nary firsts, 3537c; at mark cases included, 35(0 38c. POT ATOI7S Market unsettled. Wil consin, $1.70lb1.80 Michigan, 1.751.S5; Coiordo. Idaho aud Washington white, $1.85(0,2.00.. POULTRY AlWe, higher; fowls, 18c; springs, 18c. Kansaa City Produc Market Kansas City. Jan. 22. WHEAT Cssh Market lc lower. No. 2 hard, t.89fal. 91; No. 3. l.S6(ttl.s9; No. 2 red, $1.SU(&1-S9; No. 3. $LRKBl.S7. CORN Market Hlc lower. No. 2 mixed, 96c: No. 3, 95fe96c No. 2 white, 97c: No. 3. 9096.c No. 2 yellow, 97c No. 3, 9"3 96 c. OATS Market &c lower. No. 2 white. 57i457Vjc: No. 2 mixed, 5556c. RYE $1.50. KAFIR AND MILO MAIZE $2.482.56. HAY Market steady. Choice timothv, I10-010 Prairie. $11.00; choice alfalfa, $0.i0 21.00. BRA N $1.44(3 1 .46. SHORTS $1.5K1.70 x4T Receipts ars. BLTTER Creamery, 39c: firsts, 37c; seconds. 35c; packing, 26c. K;GS Firsts. S POCLTRY-Market unchanged. C.fc.OSB: WHEAT May, $1.82; July, $1.49 September. $1.:2. CORN May, 98&&9Sfec; July, 97c. New York Stock Market Wall St., New York, Jan. 22. STOCKS Early advances were .generally extended, notably in Marines, Oils and various spec ialties, but this advantage was surrender ed before the end of the first hour. The setback was coucurrent with advices from Washington announcing the president's purpose to address the senate in the matter of foreign relations. Leaders like United States Steel and the allied equipments and munitions reacted 1 to 3 points with 10 for Bethlehem Stel. Shipipng fil off abruptly with oils and gas shares and standard rails yielded to to' 2 points. Rallies ranging from fractions to over a point were scored at noon. Bonds were irregular. Shipping shares were the foremost features of today's early operations. Marine prefer red sou rising more man a point with sub stantial fractional gains in the common stock and Atlantic Gulf and West Indies other strong issues included New York Air Brake, General Motors and Agricul tural Chemical at advances of 1 to 3 points, while Ohio Gas. Sears Roebuck and Cali fornia Petroleum, common and nref erred. also rose materially. Bethelehem Steel open ed uncnangea dui soon lorreitea a point and United States Steel was steady. Minor rails were moderately active, especially Wabash, Missouri Pacific and Long Island. Kansas City Live Stock Sales. (The following rales were made this morn ing at the stock Yards, Kansas City, and reported over long distance telephone di rect to the State Journal by Clay. Robin son Co., live stock commission mer chants.) Kansas Citv. Jan. 22. CATTT.F Re ceipts 14,000 head. Market steady and strong. HUGS Keceinta 9.000 hpd Msrkpfr He lower. Bulk of snips, sin.softw.ao:" ton. $11.00. Kece Dts 12.000 ftpad. Market steady. Lambs, $14.00: wethers, $10.25. KILLING STEERS. No. Wt. PricelNo. Wt. Price. 52 1218 10.50 56 12t3 $10.40 25 1183 9.00 I 4 1097 8.00 COWS AND HEIFERS. .1120 K10 .1140 r.so 4 1210 4 910 8 1190 5D0 7.25 4.S5 7.50 5 9.2 STOCKERS AND FEEJ5ERS. 8S1 1.10 7.30 910 6G1 8.00 7.00 S.-51 800 180 230 8.05 CALVES. 10.50 I 1... 9.75 I BOLLS. 6.50 I 3.. HOGS. 1 4 180 ..1120 258 2:14 153 110 .1190 11.00 40 3.17 10.85 72 183 10.45 31 146 9.75 I 11.00 10.70 10.05 28.. 12.. Kansas City Live Stock Market. Kansas City. Jan. 22. HOGS Hecelnts 9.000. Market east. Bulk of. sales. $10.75 1100: heavy. 1090ca 1105 packers and butchers. $10SO&1100 light, 1050gl085; ptgs, 900&1025 CATTLE Rc!nt 14.000. Market steady to 10c higher. Prime fed steers. $10.ar("t 11.50: dressed beef steers, $8.50jj 10.75 western steers, $7.50(&;ll.00 southern rteers. $7.00(0).. 00; cows. $5.25(0,9.00 heifers. $7.00 (all.OO: Blockers and feeders. $7.00jj9.50 bulls. $fi.50faS50: calves. 7.00M12.00. SHKKP Receipts 12.000. Market steady to Btrong. Lambs. $13.75ftl4.1" yearlings, $11.50ai2.50: wetners, 75(0,10.25; ewes. $.40&10.00; stockers aud feeders, $050 13.00. Chlearo Hw Stok Market Chicago,' Jan. 22 HOOS Receipts 77.000. Estimated tomorrow 50.000. Market weak. 5c under Saturday's average. Inlk of sales. SlO.irwa'11.00: Icht. 110.45(011.00 mixed, $1 .60(0,11.10; heavy, $10.5(d;11.15 ronen. jio.uexoio.su: pigs. SK.25ta1u.1u. CATTLE Receipts 23.000. Estimated to morrow 9.000. Market strong. Native beef cattle, $i.(Kall.80: western steers, $.i5(o, 10.00; stackers and feeders, 05.75(a 8.90 cows and heifers, 64.75(al0.15. calves, $10.25 41.75. SHEEP Receipts 23.000. Market weak. Wethers, $9.75(810.90; lambs, $11.75al4.')0. TOrEiiA MARKET REPORT. Cattle and Bogs (Prices furnished by Wolff Packing Co.) Topeka, Kan., Jan. 22. Hogs MIXED AND BUTCHERS. $8.00(3 10.65 HEAVY 8.00(S 10.70 LIfiHT 8.00(010.50 PIGS 0.50ia 7.00 Oood to choice. ,...$R.50 to 7.25 Fair to good 5.50 to GOO Cows Oood to choice $5.50 to 6.50 Fair to good 4.50 to 5.50 Common to fair 3.50 to 4.25 Heifers Good to choice $6.00 to 7.50 Fair to good 5.00 to 6.00 Common 4.00 to 4.E3 Hulls Fleshv $5.50 to 6 25 Medium 5.00 to 5.25 Vesi calves Prime fat $8.50 to 10.06 Medium good 6.50 to 8.00 Fair 4.00 to 6.00 Sheep and lambs Fat ewes $7.00 to 8.00 Fst wethers 8 00 to BOO Fat lambs 9.00 to 10.00 Shoru lambs and sheep 2c under above prices. (Positively canot use sheep or lairbi unless fat) Batter and Begs. (Furnished by the eBiitrlce Creamery Co Topeka. Kan.) Topeka. Kan., Jan. 22. CTTICAOO EGOS 36V-(B37c. NEW YORK EGOS iOc. CREAMERY- BUTTER Chicago, 36V2c: New York, 39(939'; Elgin, 36c; Topeka wnoiesale, aoc. Topeka Grain Market. (Furnished by T. J. Miliar. 1, corner Kansas Ave. ami Curtis St) Topeka, Kan., Jan. 22. WHEAT $1.75 1.80. CORN 94c. OATS 60G5c Poultry, Eggs and Batter. (Furnished by the Topeka Packing Com pany, corner Laurent and Madison.) Topeka, Kan., Jan. 22. HENS -Hi lbs. and over, 16c: under 34 lbs.. i:ic; springs, over 2 lbs.. 16c: ducks, 9c; geese. 10c: broilers. 2 lbs. end under, 18c- old roosters, 9c; staggy young roosters, Topeka May Market. (Furnished by T. A. Beck. 112-14 East 6th. Topeka, Kan., Jan. 22. PRARIE HAY $9.00. ALFALFA $17.00. COZY Showing ex clusively the anutnal photo plays. Continuous from ll,to 11 TODAY DOROTHY PHILLIPS "The Piper's Price" A beautiful screen version of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson's gripping story, "TbaM Who Dance Must Pay the Piper." "IT'S A BLCEBIRD" Comedy features wltb every program WEDNESDAY Honse Peters and Gail Kane, In "THE VELVET PAW" You'll any it's tne best you've seen this year. V GET INTO THEC Gold Note Christmas Club I It's to Your Advantage to Join Before March (Do If Gold Note is applied on the purchase of a "Santa Fe Special" Watch, a fine Diamond or other articles from our store 2 0 Come In Let Us Jl Today at 3; Night 7:45-9: 15 Majestic Jan. 26 2 DAYS COM. MAT. SAT. ANY SEAT 25c NIGHTS 25-S5-50-7&C. Seats at Box Office Thar. GRAND OPERA HOUSE Matinee Night OC THURSDAY, Jan. W- Matinee Popular Prices Famous Dancers PKICESi MATINEE 25, 50, 75c, $1.00 NIGHT 50, 75c, $1, 81.50, $3 SEAT BALK OPENS AT ROWLEY'S ON TlESIlAV, JAN. S3 GRAXD OPEltA TK'KKTS READY TOMORROW MOUMXG AT 9 THE REGULAR SEAT SALE FOR THE BIG PRODUCTION OF 46 A I at the GRAND, Wednesday Evening, Jan. 31 By the Distinguished Organization SANCARLO QpCra QjlT&riCl COMPANY Under the Ausplres of The Topeka Rotary Club WILIi OPEN TOMORROW MORVIXG AT ROWLEY'S DRUG STORE, 9 A.M. Tho Prices: Entire Lr. Fir. J2; Boxes. 2. 50. Upper Boxes J2i Balcony: 1st 5 rows, 2; next 3 rows. J1.50, remainder of balcony, 1. Gallery: 1st S rows, (res.), 1: remainder, (unres.) 60c. Mail Orders for this noteworthy event, both from in and out or the city, received and carefully filled in the order of arrival, when accompanied by remittance. QODOQOQODOaOB SORHEUMgl Children Sc. Adults 10c Today Tuesday Wed. DOROTHY DALTON CHAS. RAY LOUISE GLAUM, in "The E3 o a o B o u o a o o EH Weaker Sex" gll o The story of a real woman, who disproves the "weaker" chance. It rtiurs true. Rcfru lar prices: Children 5c; adults 10c. Beginning Today. A Good Comedy Splendid Music a o o m onopononopoBO MAIN SHINE PARLOR SHOES FIXED Tacked Solr. 3e Rubber Heels Oe Leather Heels S Special Shine, fie 526V8 KANSAS AVENUE 1st INTEREST Interest If You Want Cash in December We mail your check in Decem ber. Pay taxes pay anything you wish to. Why not get the INTEREST? Explain Our Club Matinee 10c; JiiKlit 10-20-30C VAUDEVILLE ACTS 12TH SHIELDING SHADOW Grand OPERA HOUSE Matinee and Night I )t FRIDAY Jail. 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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1917 COLLARSX f NO RISE IN PRICE You can still buy a J 2 for 25cy II -3- B Only Store in i 9 Topeka sell- I B. AS insr Collars at old prices. Fred Voiland 7th and Kansas Ave. BELL- Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it 25c at all druggists. L M. PENWELL Funeral Director RORER'r STKKI.E. Assistant I'tinnr 608-310 Qnlni i St. Service Station A 1.1. MAKES OF BATTEKIKS ItECllARGET) Machinists Electric Co HIS W Slh I'linne 034 Money to Loan On Real Estate Rates Low No Commission State Savings Bank 6G1 Kansas Avenue Every Day Thrift As sure as you receive your wage check, so sure you ought to be to invest a part of it. Large or small amounts start an account; no difference both earn dividends. Money to Loan, l or Home Owning. Kepayable Monthly. THE CAPITOL BUILDING LOAN ASSOCIATION XJ (pfiiuajtJLo HSTORAGE BATTERY j -v X7"HEN it comes to tobacco an complexions, any im provement on Nature ain't any improvement. Velvet is E3 mm E5 made Nature's Superior Service All-Steel Trains To KANSAS CITY DOCBtE TRACK VraCB N"0 STOPS Tpek Ar. Kan. City l; j itH if I.t. Ebb, City Ar. Topka 4:15 m. tm. :S5 a. m. Jj pjBlffiv2i 7:55 a. m, 9:45 a. m. 5 :M im. t :45 a. ra. f& -J f j "III1 f a. m. 12 p. m. MOa.a. :2a.m. ?-m&Vg$maS l 1:36 a. m. 13:49 p. m. 3:16 p. an. 5:14 p. m. tt&J Syfrr"1" yfeag 11 :OQ a. m. 15:fp.m. :W P. m. 5:15 a.m. 6:Sp. ra. 4:15 p.m. ft:S5 p. m. 7:85 p. m. C.K. BASCOM. C. P. A. m- I- 7 :45 p. m. p. m. 10:00 p. n. 11 :55 p. m. 5:54 p.m. 14:44 p.m. Phoa 4434 11,40p.m. 1:50a.m. Up to the Minute SpoittinqNews From Everywhere. PLAY FEW GAMES Kansas Conference Teams Hare Light Schedule This Week. Aggies and K. U. Stage Real Battles at Lawrence. nini to the fact that this is ex amination week at Washburn college, little attention will be paid to basket ball by the Ichabods and -cramming" will probably be their most popular sport thruout the week. The pressing nature of the exams was largely re sponsible for the calling off of the game with Bethany college tonight. The only game now on the card for the week is the one with the Manhat tan Aggies Thursday night, and, judg ing from the score of the previous con test with the Farmers, there is little chance for the Kennedy men to win. Next week. Manager Heller announces, the team will take its first extended trip of the season, being away four days. Cooper college will be played at 'Sterling, after which the Ichabods will visit Salina. Wesleyan at Salina, Bethany at Undsborg, and McPherson at McPherson. Iiij? dailies at K. VT. The goal tossing interest in the state this week will center largely around the clashes of the Aggies and Jay hawkers, at Lawrence. It is general ly conceded that these schools have the edge on all others in the race for the Missouri Valley championship and the results of their meetings Tuesday and Wednesday will have an impor tant bearing on the championship. The only peg upon which a compar ison of the two teams can be hung is the one holding the results of the Washburn-Aggie and Washburn-K. U. games. Both of the state schools hum bled the Ichabods without trouble and with decisive scores on their side of the sheet, but, a week later in the season, the Aggies made a bigger score against Kennedy's men than the Jay hawkers had been able to make. Week's liill IJsht. Most of the Kansas conference teams are now well settled in their stride and are playing their best game. Most of them, however, will play light schedules this week. Among the games carded are the following: Bethany against Ottawa at Ottawa, tonight: Hays Normal against C. of K. at Emporia, Tuesday; Hays against St. Mary's at St. Marys, Wednesday: Kmporia Normal against Bethany at Kmporia. Saturday; Kmporia Normal against Hays Normal at Emporia, to i night: Pittsburg Normal against 408 residents of Kansas registered at Hotel Astor during the past year. Single Room, without bath. $2.50 and $3.00 Double: $3.50 and $4.00 Single Rooms, with bath, $3.50 to $6.00 Double $4.50 to $7.00 Parlor. Bedroom and bath, $10.00 to $14.00 Times Square At Broadway, 44th to 45th Streets the center of New York's social and business activities. In close proximity to all railway terminals. way. i O'ROURKE EXPECTS FULTON TO UNCROWN JESS WILLARD Tex O'Rourke. the man who trained Willard for the Jack John son fight at Havana, is enthusias tic over Fulton. "I'll land another title with that bird, now mark me," said Tex after the fight with Cow ler. Before the fight began Fulton asked the referee to stop it if it got too one-sided. It did, but Fulton didn't require assistance. Bethany at Lindsborg, Saturday; Bethany against Baker at Baldwin, Tuesday. GRAND CIRCUIT MEET Many Changes Proposed in Famous Harness Horse Organization. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 22. Possible changes in the grand circuit's make up constituted the chief point of in terest here today when the stewards gathered for the forty-fourth annual meeting. Peoria, 111., and Jacksonville, Fla., have presented applications for mem bership, and Readville, Pa., where the 2-minute record was broken by Star Pointer, is understood to be consider ing similar action. This meeting will consider demand ins of Hartford a guarantee that it will give a full week of grand circuit events. It is charged the Connecticut track gave adequate purses and less than three days of races of grand cir cuit calibre. Should Hartford drop out, Poughkeepsie probably would also go, for shipping distance would be too great for horsemen to make the ven ture. The rules committee, will consider reverting to the standard time-allow ance-system, forsaking the present method whereby fast horses are al lowed in slower fields after having lost a number of races in faster time. The coming steeds have been imposed upon by the fast ones, is the rather general protest. The pari-mutuel betting system adopted over the old bookmaking sys tem in Detroit, Cleveland and Grand Rapids, is sure to come up again, tho an effort last year to make it general tailed. Tracks represented are Columbus, Detroit, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Poughkeepsie, Hartford, Syracuse, iexingion, Atlanta and Cleveland. THREATENS GOLF WAR

Western Association to Make New In terpretation of tlie Amateur Rule. Chicago, Jan. 22. Action indeoen dent of the United States Golf asso ciation on the definition of an amateur golfer will be taken by the Western Jolf association under the new officers and board of directors elected at the annual meeting of the association. It was said that the contemplated move i ment might lead to a rupture between the two leading golf bodies in America and eventually result in the formation of a new organization which would at tempt to become the supreme court of golf in the L rated States. io sooner had the annual meeting ratiried rulings by the outgoing board of directors making the Western Golf association's definition of an amateur conform to recent rules of the United States Golf association, than the new board of directors met and named committee to formulate a positive def inition of an amateur. This committee is composed of President Charles F. Thompson of Flossmore club. Secre tary Charles M. Smalley of Olympian fields, and Assistant Secretary Crafts w. niggins. an ot Chicago. The amateur rule committee will submit a draft of a new definition to the other officers and directors for ratification and the new rule will then be placed in effect by the board of di rectors, subject only to review at the next annual meeting of the association. Sport Wheezes ti i .Topi in will get the Topeka Western league franchise if Jonlin folks will build a nan parK ana no several other Jittl things, rupbjo. Hutchinson and rodun also could get the pef upon these condi nous. i Freddie Welch )ind Charley White are I planning a big robbery in Cuba. After tbe one they staged in Colorado Springs one would think they would lack the nerve. 1'ut Fred uud Chas. arc game lads. When the bull team leaves town, the; pool rooms Hose at ft o'clock and cigarette toting becomes a crime the "liberal mind- ed" person will then bepiu to Jet his howl be heard. And then it will be entirely 1 in order to pass a law forbidding the use 1 of face powder. P.aseball Magazine is fathering: a new battinsr average scheme under the thenrv that some players do not get full credit for their stick work under the present system. Baseball magazine never did any official scoring, that is evident. The average ball player would commit murder and think himself justified if he even had a suspiciou that the official scorer was not giving him everything he was entitled to. F. C. Stiehm has alreadv started spring football training at Indiana university. Jumbo intends to go out for "meat" next season and he believes the best start Is tbe earliest one. He now has seventeen men in regular training. Ban Johnson's scheme to establish a home for old ball players is undoubtedly a plan to block tbe threatened Fultz strike. it migot be said that Han s suggestion is the strongest evidence that he is taking the threat of the Fraternity more serious ly than he likes to admit. Even at K. I", they are admitting that it looks like the Kansas Aggies have the best basketball team in the Missouri Val ley. However, the Jayhawkers will be able to show just how they stack up with the farmers tomorrow and Wednesday nights when the two teams meet at Law rence. rrof. Hefelbower of Washburn college says he believes basketball is a more strenuous game than football and that he would not be surprised to see the time come when it will cease to be an inter collegiate sport. French Champion Killed. Pau. France, Jan. 22. Georges Bernard, the middleweight champion pugilist of France, was killed while making a flight. He enlisted in the aviation corps at the beginning of the war when he was only 1? years of age. RE-PLAY SERIES

Dodders and Red Sox May Meet in Exhibition Games. Another Scheme of Magnates to Take in More Coin. BY JACK VEIOCK. New "Fork. Jan. 22. Baseball play ers may boot chances in a game of ball. But the baseball mags are not overlooking any bets, blieve us. Any time there is a noise iiKe a dividend the mags pounce upon the chance to collect, and the very latest plan of a number of big league club owners to grab the "elusive" will be put into action this spring. isot to be outdone bv the mags or the American association and the In ternational league, who have planned an inter-league series to be played after the working out of the regular schedules, the big boys have cooked up a string of inter-leaeue spring series which they believe will go big. Yanks and Braves, Too. Some time ago the New York Giants and Detroit Tigers agreed to play ex hibition games between themselves in Texas, and continue the prolonged series on their way north. Shortly after this plan was announced the lankees and Braves jrot together and a like plan was hatched. Last, but not least. Chubby Chawles Kbbets of the Dodgers con ceived the idea that a renewal of the 1914 world's series between the Dodg ers and Red Sox ought to lure the shiny shekels to the gates in minor league parks. He put the plan up to Harry J? razee of the Red Sox, and as the two teams are slated to do their spring training at Hot Springs, Ark., tnere appears to be nothing like a stumbling block for the series. Humdinger Idea. "Whether Ebbets has secret hopes of etting revenge for the drubbing those aforesaid Red Sox gave his Dodgers last fall will probably remain a mys tery. But the idea of giving the minor league fans a chance to see the per formers of the last big world's classic in action against each other is a hum dinger. At least, Mr. Ebbets admits that such is the case. DEMAND TRAINED COACHES. Increased Attendance at Normal School Caused by Athletic Growth. Emporia, Kan., Jan. 22. More than 1,000 boys have registered at the Kan sas State Normal since June 1, 1916. This is about one-fourth of the total registration, and is an increase of nearly 50 per cent over the average number of men enrolled during the last five years. This increase is largely due to the introduction of a course in athletics into many of our high schools. This course requires an ex perienced teacher. The majority of the high schools are demanding thoroly trained coaches and the Kansas State Normal school offers, perhaps, the strongest courses athletic training obtainable in the west. Another factor responsible for trie increase in the number of men at tending this school is that teaching as a profession is proving more attractive tit vniinir mon enlorinir ni-n-ir a narAor! because of the introduction of modern methods and management. OHj IX SHERIDAN AND THOMAS Western Kansas Oil and Gas Company Will Extend Field Ijimit. Rexford, Kan., Jan. 22.- A move ment is on foot to extend the terri tory of the Western Kansas Oil Gas company, which was organized In Hoxie a short time ago. George Myers of Hoxie, in company with an oil expert from Atlanta, Kan., was in Rexford for the purpose of interest ing some in this locality in the oil proposition. This company, with headquarters at Hoxie, expect to develop the oil prop osition in Sheridan and Thomas coun ties and should they succeed in strik ing a few good wells it will mean great deal, to everyone here. MRS. HANNAH BOBBINS DEAD. Pioneer Kansas Woman Was Mother of St. Ijouis Newspaper Man. Kansas City, Jan. 22. Word has been received here of the death of Mrs. Hannah E. Robbins at Colony, Kan. Mrs. Robbins was 78 years old the widow of a pioneer Methodist and the mother of three well known Meth odist clergymen, one of whom is Dr. Kirk Robbins, pastor of Ravenswood Methodist Episcopal church. Chicago, A fourth son is Harry P. Robbins, an editorial writer on a St. Louis news paper. TCXjSA MAN BLOWN TO PIECES. Explosion Near Chautauqua, Kan, Was Felt for Twenty Miles. Chautauqua, Kan., Jan. 22. Mac Stephenson, a well shooter, was blown to pieces near here when 1,200 quarts of explosive blew up. The explosion was telt for twenty miles around Stephenson was alone when the ex plosion occurred, it is believed. His home was in Tulsa, Okla. Send Expedition to Orient. Philadelphia Jan. 22. Officials of the University of Pennsylvania an nounced today that the university mu seum will send a new expedition to the far east next month to study ancient Chinese art. The expedition will be under the leadership of Dr. Carl w. Bishop, curator of the section of Ori ental art at the museum. Three years win oe spent in tnina and Japan. 25 YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA From the columnt of THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL January 23. 1832. John E. Winn has sold out bis jewelry business to W. Udmuuds. lie will continue to reside in Topeka. The Saturday Night club meets tonight in Frank Foster's law office. The paper of the occasion will be read by T. S. Hand on "The English Novel Its Place in Liter ature." A. I. Gray was around Saturday for the first time in several weeks, having been confined to bis home in Potwin Place with the grippe. Senator Perkins will remain clean shaven. Senator Peffer has whiskers enough for both. The Rev. Charles M. Sheldon has return ed from Chicago where he purchased a stereopticon to illustrate his Saturday evening lecture and made arrangements for the publishing of his serial story "Tbe Life That Now Is." Mart Wikidal ia now on the road for Charles Eagle. SHOT WIFE, BABY Walter Harold, Toronto, Then Turned Gun on Himself. Woman and Child Dead, Hus band Cannot Itecorer. Toronto, Kan., Jan. 22. Walter Harold, 23, shot and killed his wife, 18, and their baby daughter here Sun day afternoon in a fit of jealousy. He then turned the gun on himself, in flicting a fatal wound. The baby died instantly and Mrs. Harold lived only an hour after the shooting. Harold and his wife had been separated since Thanksgiving, according to Mrs. Ada Thorn, mot her of Mrs. Harold, at whose home the triple tragedy took place. Mrs. Thorn had gone out of trie house to get a bucket of coal when she heard the shots. She ran in and found the bodies of her daughter and granddaughter and son-in-law. Har old soon regained consciousness and was able to walk to an automobile when the coroner and sheriff arrived. The bullet was found embedded in his brain. He was taken to Brightwood hotel after the wound was dressed. and physicians say there is little hance for his recovery. Jealousy Was Motive. According to a statement made by Mrs. Thorn, Harold and his wife had quarreled Sunday morning and Harold left and went up town. He wanted his wife to live with him and she refused, according to Mrs. Thorn and Harold threatened to take the baby. Harold gave the coroner a letter to be opened after he was dead, but he made a statement later in which he 1: "My father is Christopher Har old of Kankakee, 111. I am from Kan kakee. I am 23 years old. I shot my wife because I was jealous. I shot her first. I shot her twice, first in the head and then in the breast. I shot the baby once. Then I shot my self once. I have been working lately for the Eastern Distributor company at Eldorado and I have $60 in wages coming to me. NO NEW JAIL AT WICHITA. Bond Election Was Illegal, Sedgwick County Attorney Decides. Wichita, Kan., Jan. 2 2. Sedgwick county's magnificent new jail no long er is. It ceased to exist, even as a paper proposition, when County At torney Ross McCormick handed down an opinion to the effect that the elec tion was illegal, the bond issue invalid and the contracts let by the old board of commissioners void. 'There is nothing left to do but start all over again," said Mr. McCormick. "This may be done either by calling a new election or by legislative act val- dating the illegal election and the bond issue." GIRL KILLED IN AUTO CRASH. Three Companions Injured When Car Ran Over Dog;, Causing Fpset. Salina. Kan., Jan. 22. Miss Bernice Bean, 1 6 years old, daughter of a wealthy farmer near here, was killed and her sister, "Vera, 17, and two boys were severely injured when the auto mobile in which they were driving upset near Culver. One of the boys was driving the car, which ran over a dog, causing the accident. LOOK AT CHILD'S TONGUE IF SICK CROSS, FEVERISH Hurry, Mother! Remove poisons from little stomach, liver, bowels. Give "California Syrup of Figs" at once if bilious or constipated. Look at the tongue, mother: If coated, it is a sure sign that your little one's stomach, liver and bowels need a gentle, thorough cleansing at once When peevish, cross, listless, pale, doesn't sleep, doesn't eat or act natu rally, or is feverish, stomach sour, breath bad; has stomach-ache, sore throat, diarrhoea, full of cold, give a teaspoonful of "California Syrup of Fisrs." and ;n a few hours all the foul. constipated waste, undigested food and sour bile gently moves out or Its little bowels without griping, and you nave a well, playful child again. You needn't coax sick children to take this harmless "fruit laxative; they love Its delicious taste, and it al ways makes them feel splendid. Ask your druggist for a 50-cent bot tle of "California Syrup of Figs." which has directions for babies, chil dren of all ages and for grown-ups plainly on the bottle. Beware of coun terfeits sold here. To 'ae sure you get the genuine, ask to see that it i& made by "California Fig Syrup Company." Refuse any other kind with contempt. Advertisement. PURE DISTILLED WATER S-rallon bottle and cooler for tho office. 3-rtHon bottlo usd cooler for the bom. -gallon bottle. Jut the right ize for tbe refrigerator. TOPEKA PURE WATER CO W. C. Shock Absorbers For Sale The only satisfactory shock absorber for Ford cars sold, and I am offering them at a special price of $10.00, a sav ing of $3.50 a set. Ask tbe hundreds of satisfied customers about' them. They will teil you they can't be beat. These shock absorbers are guaranteed to be satisfactory, and I have the exclusive agency for this territory. E. G. KINLEY 423-S6 Jacluon. ft Order by Phone I This store opens at :so CaU 3500 I nd closes at 6:00 There's nothing half hearted about this January All small lots of winter,, mer chandise are included things of which you are in immediate need. And prices have descended with a crash down to very bed rock! r January Clearance COATS In the Apparel Section there Is a most interesting clearance of Win ter Coats in two lots Lot 1 Coats worth up to $25.00 on sale $14.95 Lot 2 Coats worth up to $35.00 on sale $18.75 Included are Coats in all the lat est styles, fabrics and colors one of the best coat-buying, money saving opportunities of the season. V THIRD FLOOR PBLLETIEKS January Clearance Fancy work 50c and 75c Pillow Co vera on sa 25 75c Library Tabic Scarfs on sale. 39 65c. 36-incIi Center Pieces on sale 450 $1.50. 54-inch Center Pieces on sale 750 The above are of excellent quality white needle weave, neatly stamped for Grecian filet em broidery. Children's 30c and 40c sizes 4 and 5 years; of blue and linen color gingham, ready made and stamped for em- 1 C broidering on sale $1.00 Bungalow Aprons of superior quality percale, stamped to be embroidered 'C SECOND FLOOR PELLETIER S J January Clearance Housewares 7-pieee, imported, $1.75 Coaster Sets; a 10-inch round tray with nickelplated rim and six indi vidual Coasters 1 IE to match.. 1,A" 7-piece Kitchen Sets: a 4-quart brown-and-white Mixing Bowl, a Potato Ricer, an Egg Beater, an Extension Strainer, a Fork, a Can Opener and a 12-inch QQ Kitchen Pork for $1.75 Enameled Roasters; the 16 inch size, "Savory" 1 l Q pattern J..XS7 $3.75 Kerosene Stoves; the 2 burner size with four 1 QQ 4-inch wicks --J0 $8.50 "Perfection" Oil Stoves; the 2 -burner size fi reduced to FOURTH FLOOR PELLETIER'S January Clearance Women's coats A rare bargain; a rare bargain," Coats that were intended to sell for They are good, conservative style, heavy cloakings in dark colors to out at the remarkably low price of PETTICOATS of dark green RMteen with elastic tons and shanes $1.00 wide flounces regular $1.00 values. vaiues pricea to close 73c HANDBAGS of genuine leath er a variety of styles and HOSIERY WOMEN'S medium weight wool Hose, fine thread, fast black witu gray heeia a nd toes all 1 sizes Alt c Lace INFANTS' red. blue, regular 25 ones wool Stockings black ana tan 50c .3 pairs UNDERWEAR WOMEN'S Undershirts and Panta of fJee-ed white cot ton regular 50c garments 37c CHILDREN'S Union Suits with soft, warm fleece reg ular ooc vaiues.... 39c Order by Mail Ielivery Prepaid Clearance Sale -the reductions are January Clearance Trimming Furs Everything from plain Coney at 75c a yard up to Beaver at $7.00: bands of ail kinds and colors for trimming toats, suits and dresses all now on 1 sale at exactly 2 MAIN FLOOR PELLETIEUS SILKS A lot or up to 69c Silks; Poplins. Shantungs and a few Messa lines and other weaves 2lC priced to close, per yard A big lot ot up to $1.25 Silks; Mescalines, Satins, Taffetas, Silk Serges, etc; good, de pendable Silks for dresses, waists and trimmings l0f on sale, per yard JW Dress Goods $1.75 Suitings. 54 inches wide, in a good line of colors includ ing plum, gray, green and two shades of blue on sale, Gj per yard if OK, $2.75 and $3.00 Crepe Gabar dines; n'gre, navy, copper and wistaria at practically C A half price, per yard... $2.00, Heavy, Diagonal Suiting, 54 inches wide: for coats and suits; choice of eight 1 JTA good colorings per yd. $3.00 Heavy Cloaking, 54 inches wide; for good, warm coats; tan. navy. Royal and 1 CA red per yard A.JU Remnants All Silk Remnants. price All Wool Remnants price MAIN FLOOR FELLETIEK'S J r January Clearance Infants' wear INFANTS DRESSES 69c Dresses for 39c 89c Dresses for 49c $1.00 Dresses for 69c 1.25-S1.50 Dresses. .c 1.69-$2.00 Dresses 98c 2.25-2.50 Dresses. .$1.49 Sizes six months and one year. Dresses of sheerest nainsooks and batistes trimmed with dain tiest laces and embroideries with fetching little bows here and there. BABY CAPS Babies' 65c to 11.00 Caps.. 48c Babies' Caps of silk poplins and Crepe de Chines with shirred, embroidered and plain bands and dainty Val. lace trimmings. -Babies' $1.25 to 7Qr ,$2.25 Caps for 7U" The daintiest of little Caps, prettily embroidered and ribbon trimmed and finished with rib bon rosettes and ribbon flowers. for tiny tots SERGE DRESSES $3.60 to $5.00 serge O QK Dresses on sale. The very smartest of serge Dresses for little tots of 2 to 6 yeans. A variety of styles in Copen., navy, brown and cardi nal; some with belts, some trimmed with buttons, some with touches of plaid and some wool embroidered, just like mother's dress. SECOND FLOOR PELLETIER'S Sale $3.98 indeed women's $9.00 to $12.00. full length Coats of be closed o QQ KNIT TOQUES boya; white, gray, upto 5yc values with complete fittings and $1.23 ft7r J 9 BABY MITTENS; soft, warm ones in white, red, pink and blue regular 10c Cp ones for SHADOW I-ace Edges: wide ones in beautiful patterns, white and ecru A 1 10c valuea 2 KMBROIOEKY Edges from 2 to 8 inches wide in dainty closed patterns regular 10c LACES VENISK Iace Kdses; dainty patterns for trimming waists and dresses our Qrt vaiues, per yard for MORNING SPECIALS on special sale until noon, Tuesday Hose 5c Socks 5c Women's cotton Hose tan. mostly, and a few black 10c and 124c values Men's coa r s e weave, mixed cotton Socks; warm and very aerviceiibie; well on sale until noon, Tuesday 5c worth H'ic on until noon BARGAIN BASEMENT PELLETXEU S deep and drastic! The word "Thrifty" best applies to those who are taking advantage of this great sale--supplying imme diate and future needs at most d cided savings! January Clearance $2.98 $4.00 to $6.00 values Women's button and lace Shoes of patent, gunmetal, suede, crave nette and velvet with welt or turned soles and Cuban or leather Louis heels. All bUh In the lot. but not to each style All out on a big bargain table so as to make choosing easy small lots and broken lines of women's $4.00, $5.00 and $6.00 Shoes t, be closed out in this January Clearance QQ Sale, "VO SECOND FLOOR PELLETfRR'H Domestics 12 c Cliallies, 30 inches wide: right and dark colors. -83 25c lleeced Flannelettes, 27 in. wide; for wrappers, robes and kimonos per yard 100 15c SilkolinCM, 36 inches wide; for comforts and draperies yard -10f 29c Wool Scotch Plaid Flannels., 27 inches wide; fast colors; for children's dresses and petti coats and for covering com forta 1Q Blankets $1.25 Gray cotton Blankets: 50x 72-inch size, for fleeced sheets for children's beds pair 89 $2.29 Heavy fleeced cotton Blankets in mottled grey; 64x 76-inch size, excellent for ser vice pair 1,79 $2.69 Gray twill fleeced cotton Blankets; the extra large 72x 80-in. size a small lot to close out at 1.89 $3.50 Wool-finish Blankets; the 72x80-inch size, extra soft and warm; tan and gray on 2.89 $2.50 Comforts; good size, soft warm ones filled with fleecy cotton on sale 1.98 $5.50 Cotton Down Comforts with the best of satin cover ings in handsome Persian ef fects on sale 3.9S $5.50 Auto Robes; full size, good, heavy ones in plaid pat terns 3.49 Fancy Linens Up to :uc; Centers; the 24-inch size, square and round.. 19 $2.25 Centers or Lunch Cloths; 36-inch size 1,25 $2.AO Centers; the 30-inch size of linen with embroidered and scalloped edge 1.25 $5.00 I Jon ml TaMe Cover; the 54-inch size, hand embroider ed and finished with scalloped edee 2.50 MAIN FLOOR PELLETIER'S January Clearance Sale Men's and boys' wear AH odd lots and broken lines must go! Many of th lots are small and will undoubtedly be sold before noon. Come early and shfare in the savings. for little brown, etc. SCHOOI, PTi good. itv irenble unes for boys of ft U 16 years; medium dark pat terns regular ti&c A Qp values for xOC BOY HtOl'T LOXO PANTS of kbaki; ilandy for work or play sizes 8 to 14 years 0"7f 00c values OI MGHT SHIRTS and PA JAMAH of soft. warm, fleecy flaonelette, slightly soil"! regular 50c ?f garments itO- MACKINAW of plsln gray aDd plalrt blanketing, warm and servh-enble; only a small lot. but all lm to begin lth up to $7.50 QK values itmHO 6c Mir. WORK SHIRTS of t.lnin hlti. mnbTiala. with aB'l without follars; all siz- to begiu Willi 50c values. 37c KWF.ATfiRS we've entirely InA many .nd SO (town STOeS the .ri.-e: big, heaiy. part h1 Sweaters wllh wide roll collars men's regular 1 75 Sweaters re-priced for QKp Quick clearance tfOK- sale crt

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1917 (Eopefca tate 31 intra al An Independent Newspaper. BY FRANK, P. MACLENJJAIf. Entered as second-class mall matter. VOLUME XXXIX .No. 19 OFFICIAL STATE PAPER. OFFICIAL PAPER CITY OF TOPEKA. Subscription Rates. I By lull. In advance, effective January 15. 191T, from January 1. 1017.1 By mail, one year $4.fiO By mail, six months By mall, three months 1.20 By mall, one month -50 Rates by Carrier. Effective January 15, 1917.j One week 124 cents Two weeks for a quarter 25 cents Four weeks BO cents Telephones: 353a Eastern offices: Psul Block, representa tive, 250 Fifth avenue. New York: Mailers building, Chicago; 201 Devonshire street, Boston: Kresge building. Detroit. Member: Associated Press. American Newspaper Publishers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation. By far the largest gross value of farm production in this country was reached in 1916, according to esti mates made by the United States de partment of agriculture. The total of crops and animal products was $13, 449.000,000. in increase of 2, 674, 000, 000 over the total of 1915. which was itself a high-water mark. The mere increase is greater than the census gross value of farm production in lSSfl. and is nearly as large as the census crop value in 18M. The in crease of 116 over 1914 was $3,554, 000.000. The gross value of farm production is the total of crops and animal products, and takes no account of the use of a product as a material for other production; nor are any costs of production subtracted. Huston, a great wool market before the war, says the Transcript, has be come the greatest in the world since the war has lessened London's relative traffic in this great commodity. Here at this extremity of the United States and with no wool-growing hinterland, Boston sold 303,000,000 pounds of woo! in 1916. against London's 294, 375.000, while foreign and domestic receipts at this port aggregated 440, 000,000 pounds. America now takes ore wool than threat Britain, and oston is now the largest ma.'ket of the largest wool-consuming country n the world. Field Marshal von Maekensen, the Fhil Sheridan of the European war, must be a thorn in the flesh of the allies, and of England in particular, since he is a Scotchman. Apparently it will require both the referendum and the recall to get Pershing out of Mexico. The attention of those who think eggs are high is called to the poor Norwegians, who are paying 64 cents a dozen In their own country. The effort of Wilson of Pawnee to lower the legal contract rate of in terest from 10 to 8, by introducing a bill for that purpose may win the ap proval of his constituents, but that is about all it will accomplish. Even should the bill pass it will make little difference. Money will bring what it is worth. Interest rates are governed by supply and demand. Banks and persons having money for hire will find a way to get the returns warrant, ed by the market conditions or they will keep it or send it some place where the pay Is better. The American flag is about to be lowered the second time in Mexico. But it was hauled down voluntarily at Vera Cruz and it will come down with out compulsion at Pershing's camp. One can't fight a prostrate opponent ro there was and is no cause to remain and wait for him to get up. The ques tion that the people are likely to ask is: Was there any reason for going in when under the policy of the ad ministration nothing could be accom plished? In his search for some nation that can whip him and stop the war. the kaiser is directing his attention toward Switzerland. The outlook for a re ward to his endeavors is promising. Every man in Switzerland is a soldier and the natural defenses of the coun try are unsurpassed. By the time the farm loan banks get into operation, it may be that there will be no farmers left who need any money. Many banks in Kansas are farmers' loan banks already. President Wilson promises to place himself in front of the public build ings pork barrel but the vote in the house indicates that it will roll right over him. It had 234 votes to 92 against. The movement of a trainload of po tatoes from Colorado eastward, under guard, indicates that a new line of en deavor has opened up for train robbers. An Irish manufacturer has prepared in detail a plan for laying an 18-inch submarine pipe line between the Brit ish Isles and America, which, accord ing to estimates, would transmit oil to England at a small fraction of the present transportation cost. The scheme is described In the February Popular Mechanics Magazine. As pro posed, the pipe would be made of steel ribbon on the helical-tube principle, so as to be flexible. The overlappings of the ribbon as it winds round and round itself would be packed with as bestos twine. The tube would be able to withstand sn Internal pressure of 2.000 pounds and an external pressure of 10,000 pounds per square inch. The scheme calls for an outlay of i $50,000,000. It is estimated that thej nauapuruiuon cost per l.uuu ganons per 1,000 miles would be. about 50 cents. By tank steamers it is about $50. BIG FIGURES. Four "chains" of five and ten-cent stores in this country did a total busi ness last year of $125,000,000. Ice cream to the value of $300. 000,000 was sold. Two of the great packing house companies have recently made public their annual statements to their stock holders. One of them shows sales of about $525,000,000 and net profits of more than $23,000,000. The other report reveals sales of about $585, 000,000 and net profits of more than $20,000,000. In about the same period exactly the fame in length but covering a somewhat different fiscal year, the richest and most profitable automo bile company in the country made sales of about $206,000,000 and not profits falling a few thousand dollars short of $60,000,000. The primary law appears to be an expensive institution. But if a thing is new Kansas is bound to have it, no matter what it costs. She is now showing a tendency to go in for city managers. PLATFORM PI.EIGES. The Democratic platform in 1912. upon which the present administra tion was put in power, says the New York Journal of Commerce in an edi torial calling attention to the extrav agance of congress, declared that "the high cost of living is a serious problem in every American home," and it put the responsibility upon the Republi can party and its tariff policy. It also denounced "the profligate waste of the money wrung from the people by op pressive taxation thru the lavish ap propriations of recent Republican con gresses." and demanded "a return to that simplicity and economy which be fits a democratic government, and a reduction in the number of useless offices, the salaries of which drain the substance of the people." In ef fect it gave a pledge for the reform of all this. The term of the adminis tration which got support on that plat form is drawing to a close. There is little need of calling attention to the v.ay this pledge has been kept. The unexpected war in Europe may 1 cited as an excuse for some of the failure, but before, that could have been anticipated provision had been made for a decided increase in the number of offices, with no reduction in those which migh tbe regarded as "useless." There was no effort to re turn to that simplicity and economy that befits a democratic government Appropriations were increased and the changes made in the tariff failed to reduce the "high cost of living." There has been a multiplication and increase in federal taxes which has not by any means been altogether an ef fect of the war in Europe. A good deal of the increased expense attrib uted to that conflict has not been nec essary, and there has been no sign of an effort to reduce expense for the internal administration of the govern ment. Now, as this term is drawing to its close, there are ne plans for adding not only to the burden of fed eral taxation, but to the national debt. Tobacco in any other form would smell as loud. Why the war on the meek and lowly cigaret, while the big black cigar and the clay pipe are al lowed to go free? Perhaps the law makers want to try out on the "coffin nail" and if they get by will attack the weed in other forms later. It will be recalled by old timers that the Pro hibitionists in the beginning of their fight declared they merely wanted to banish the saloon nothing more. What they have done to liquor itself since is history. SUGAR AND THE WAR. A reason for the high price of sugar is found in figures regarding the trads in this article last year. It is due to heavy exports to Europe as a result of the war. A compilation by the foreign trade department of the National City Bank of New York shows that the value of sugar exp'orted from the United States in the calendar year 1916 was in round terms $100,000,000 against $43, 000,000 worth in 1915, $18,000,000 in 1914, and less than $2,000,000 in 1913, the year immediately preceding the war. Indeed the United States had never been an exporter of sugar in any considerable quantity until the exigen cies of the war rendered inaccessible the sugar producing area from which western Europe had been accustomed to draw its supplies. Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia as the world's great producer of beet sugar had met all the sugar requirements of the remainder of Europe, but when their supplies became no longer avail able by reason of war conditions, and those of France and Belgium were greatly reduced the remainder of Eu rope necessarily turned to the cane sugar section of the world for its sup ply. Cuba, Java, the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico and the Philippines are the world's largest producers of cane su gar for exportation. India is a large producer, but has none for exporta tion. Java distributes most -of its out put to adjacent Asiatic countries. As Cuba, Porto Rico and Fawaii send practically all of their sugar direct to the United States, our own market became the chief source from which Europe could draw sugar, especially in the refined form, since the cane pro ducing islands of the world export most of their product In the raw state. As a conseanenne the nnantitv of su gar exported from the United States jumped from 52,000,000 pounds In 1913 to 390,000,000 pounds in 1914, 963,000,000 pounds in 1915, and ap proximately 1,750,000,000 in 1916. while the advance in prices meantime put the total value of refined sugar exported in 1916 up to about $100, OOu.OOO. REMARKABLE SPEECH. The speech of President Wilson, printed in full in today's paper, is one of the most remarkable addresses ever delivered. It is said no president since Washington has made his appearance before the senate on the subject of foreign relations. After the adjournment of the legis lature we probably shall hear the cus tomary outcry about the huge appro priations. If not then it will come when the tax levy ir, made. Yet the people of large sections of the state elect men to come up to Topeka for the express purpose of obtaining a big sum from the state treasury for the benefit of some state institution in their vicinity. A system of log rolling is engendered against which the mem bers outside the interested group are powerless. A pointless joke seldom scratches. Why talk shop out of business hours? Beg-in by giving of your best and you will always have the best left for yourself. 4fr There is .nothing more nerve rack ing than to have to listen to a chat terer who talks to fill up a silence. A bore delights in explaining the why, wherefore and when of some thing in which his companions take slight interest. LOBE SOTTS From the Atchison Globe. One soon tires of posting up diaries and scrap books. About the worst bore is he who is educated and pifflicated at the same time. There are also those who regard the steam calliope as a. musical in strument. Those who want the best of it may also be listed with those who do much shouting for justice. And the worst of it is that there are just as many sides to the argu ment when it is over as when it be gan. While she may swear the society reporter to secrecy, an engaged girl never makes much of an effort to conceal her engagement ring. Ab Adkins admits he was never much of a fighter, altho he has been married long enough to learn a good deal about defensive- tactics. HOUSEHOLD HINTS I.cnion Jelly. Put one cup sugar, one and one-half cups cold water, four cloves, one-half inch stick cinnamon in the sauce pan; place on range, stir until sugar has dissolved, bring to boiling point. Add one tablespoon gelatin which has soaked in two tablespoons cold water five minutes. Stir until gelatin has dissolved, then add one-fourth cup lemon juice and few grains salt Strain into a mold, dipped into cold water, and chill. Spices may be omitted. For Macedoine Pudding: Add, when jelly begins to stiffen, a mixture of fruits, cut in pieces and drained. Mold and chill. For Lemon Sponge: When mixture begins to stiffen, beat with egg-beater until very light and frothy. Mold and chill. For Jelly in Layers: Divide jelly in three portions and put one portion in bottom of mold, when firm decorate if desired with candied cherries and. cover with a second portion beaten until light. When that is firm cover with a layer of plain jelly. Mold, chill, cut in slices and serve. The dif ferent layers are pretty colored pink and green. For Snow Pudding: Add to lemon sponge the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs. Mold, chill and serve with boiled custard. The Table. Date Tart Three eggs, one cup sugar, one cup Hour, one teaspoon baking powder, one cup dates cut up, one-half cup chopped nuts. Separate eggs, beat yolks, add sugar, part of flour, adding the rest to dates and nuts; then add dates and nuts to mix ture. Beat whites and add last. Bake in a slow oven from thirty to forty minutes in a flat tin about one inch deep. This is delicious served hot or cold with whipped cream. Egg Bread Cut stale bread into thin chips and saute in good lard and butter or bacon drippings until deli cate brown; to three cups bread chips use two eggs; beat well and add one half cup milk: pour over bread in pan and stir while frying until golden brown crusts form; season well. Steamed Pudding Put into a bowl two cups of flour, one saltspoon salt, two level teaspoons baking powder, one level teaspoon each of ginger and cinnamon, one cup chopped suet, one half cup each sugar, molasses, citron, currants and milk and one egg, well beaten. Mix the dry ingredients, then add your fruit, sugar, molasses, milk and egg, beat well, pour into a well greased mold and steam two and one half hours. Seven-Cup Pudding One cup flour, one cup suet chopped fine, one cup sugar, one cup milk, one cup bread crumb?, one cup apples chopped fine, one cup raisins and currants mixed (dates or figs may be used instead of raisins and currants), one teaspoon baking soda, one teaspoon mixed spice. Mix flour, suet, bread crumbs, sugar, spice and soda well together; add fruit, mix well, add milk and put into well-buttered pan and frteam two and one-half hours.' Serve hot with lemon or orange sauce-. Savory Pork Chops One pound pork chops, one large onion, salt and pepper. Put pork chops into baking pan with a thin slice of onion on each also a little salt and pepper. Pour a little water in the pan and bake. They are delicious, a great im- 1 provement on fried chops. ON pra OF TEE MOMENT BY SOT WL MOBITOX. To a Bat Clerk. Shall I. trying on a bat. Buy, because you hope for that? Shall I buy this awful lid Just because your brother did? He it stylish as the deuce And the latest mode and use, If it b-j not fair to me, What care I how fair it be? If it makes me look an ass When I gaze into the glass. Must I buy to tickle you. Even tho you wear one, too? Be it quite the latest trick And most very very slick. If it seem not slick to me, What care I how slick it be? When I know it looks a fright Must I buy to be polite? Just because's it's certain that You would like to sell a hat? Be it made of llama's hair And the only thing they'll wear. If it be a fright on me, What care I how late it be? Our Question Box. Dan You can quit biting your nails if you're sure that you should, but you will hardly find anyone else will ing to give the same time and care to it. Edna The young man may have had some reason for breaking your engagement, but you might sue him now that he's in an asylum, as he has probably lost his reason. Curious The South African Ogosho (draco clavipes) is herbivorous at some seasons. It is not, however, anthropophagous. Look it up your self. We had to. I. E. All Snees' Day may be in the winter, but it isn't in the dictionary. Outside! He stayed and stayed on many nights. Did Will; With no regard for saving lights, The pill! And this enraged her pa, old Root Until One night he hastened down to foot The Bill! The Fresh Thing: "You have a nice fat legacy," A lawyer said to Widow Dye. And then, of course, in quite a peeve She told the horried beast to leave. And he still wonders why. This Day In History. Two hundred years ago today the author of the first knife-and-pea joke, an English criminal, was hanged for his atrocities. He had also murdered his gran Jmother. Happy Thought. The more harping you do here the less you'll do hereafter. In computing the cost of things these days one adds up the fi&iires for a sum total. And some total is what you get. Many a man of impressive appear ance has to admit that he owes a great deal to his tailor. Sudan Grey. He wooed the lovely Sutrnn Grey. He songht her heart and hand: But when she always told him Nay He sought another land. Said be. "A vengeance will I wreak, I'll earn a pile of dough. And Sne will rue it, so to speak, That she has told me No." And so he did ns he declared And very rich he grew: Then back to Susan's town he fared, To get the goat of Sue, And Sue was pleasant as oould be And bid him come to call. "Oh. ho!" he laughed and eke 'Tee hee! This isn't bad at all Revenge was sweet. He went to see His Susan and to chat Alas! "She is so fair," mused he, "I'll have tho girl at that! "For tho she knows I've lots of dough I love her as of yore." And then what did he do but go And kneel upon the floor! And Susan heard his gentle plea. Her lovely eyes, they fell. "Oh. never in the world said she. You cannot always tell iUPE TALES BY RUTS CAM1BOM. Clothes. Are you ever astonished and ap palled at the power desire for clothes has over the mind of the average woman over your mind and mine? I am. I love books. I love out-of-doors. I know that friendship and love, a tranquil mind, an uncovetous appre ciation of beauty wherever found, in humanity, in art, or nature, and an altruistic interest in the world's prog ress are the realities of life. I know that clothes are not one of 'the vital realities. I know that if I can wear becoming, warm and whole clothing, that is all I should care about. I know with my mind that since the dress I bought three years ago is still becoming and perfectly whole, I ought to have the strength of mind to be contented, and not be discon tented because it is plainly of a past day vintage. All these things are what my mind says. And then some day I go into town and look into the shop windows. Or, I meet women to whom pretty and fashionable clothes are the important things of life. And as if I had been exposed to a contagion, I catch the fever of the desire for pretty things and all that my mind says is forgot ten. I can hardly think of anything else but clothes. The thought of them intrudes upon my work, my reading, my amusement. I strive to plan how I can have things that are beyond my means. I plan ridiculous extravagances. The realities grow pale beside this unreality. By and by the fever dies down, and I see things more sanely, but, alas! I know I shall have it again. I might think I were different from others if I had not caught glimpses of the same passion in them. I have seen women plunged in grief that nothing else could move them from, begin to take a new interest in life at the thought of new clothes. I have seen an utterly ambition less girl become a wonderful planner and con triver when her wardrobe was in ques tion. And I know that there are wom en with whom the fever is not inter mittent but continuous. The other day I read a newspaper letter from a working girl who had to support her mother and who must dress "neatly but plainly." She snid that when she looked at other girls all she could think of was their pretty clothes. What queer kitUe kattle we women are, afte- CENSORED. Tbe "Co-Ed Nnmber" of an undergrad uate magazine at Northwestern University has been suppressed. The cover design by Miss Helen Judson. representing a female figure, was condemned by the faculty.) When a bunch of bad young ladies turn a college into hades. There's a job for Herma n Schuettler with his biHv, gun and star; We must stay inside the fences while we're learning moods and tenses; Never jump 'ein, Helen Judsou; you are safer where u are. There are sumptuary measures that re strict illicit pleasures;. So we'd better throw our Balzacs and Boccaccios .ray. If we read the New York Clipper, then the academic slipper Will benevolently coax us toward the strait and narrow way. Bat yonr picture, Helen Judson, of a nymph with scanty duds on, Is an insufficient reason for au academic storm For the Lord who made the lilies, hya cinths and daffodillies, n a very human moment made the very human form. We are anchored to conventions which the canon never mentions, While the vital rules of conduct are in differently known But oar nostrums ill not aid us when we meet the Mind that made us. Which will judge us, at the finish, by a standard of Its own. There is much that we are able by a trade-mark, tag or label To contaminate and sully with the taint of mortal sin And a clumsy definition is a ticket to per dition The Creator (God forgive Him) made the legs of Rosie Quinn. So it's quite a likely story that the angel hosts in glory (Where I hope you'll travel, Helen, when you reach a good old age). Standing primly in their places, with their hands before their faces. Watched you sideways thru their fingers when you drew that naughty page. B. W. W. in Chicago Post. EVENING STORY Paradise Flats. (By Olive Gray.) Peggy tried to sa"e the soup, but it was too late. She sat down forcibly in a puddle of water, the soup landed in her lap, and over all spread her um brella like a riuge snuffer, pouring rivulets of water down her neck. The man with whom she had collid ed at the windswept corner apologized, but there did not seem to be any one to apologize to excepting the top of an umbrella and a pair of feet. Dispos ing of his own umbrella he seized hers, lifted it away from the wreck and as sisted Peggy to her feet. "Are you hurt?" he asked. "No," she answered, shaking the soup out of her skirt. "But poor Mrs. Mally will have to do without her sup per, I'm afraid." The bowl lay in shattered fragments on the pavement. "That's too bad. I'm terribly sorry. It was all my fault. Ia there anything I can do to make it up?" Peggy hesitated, which gave the man a chance to see just what kind of person it was he had encountered so forcibly. In the half light, with the street lamp giving an uncertain, ghast ly glimmer, Peggy looked so ethereal that the young man had a feeling that she was going to disappear into the mist and float away. But with all her paleness she was almost too beautiful to be real. Surely his good fairy had brought him this way tonight, for it was a part of the town he seldom visited. "Yes," she answered, all unconscious of what was going on in the other's mind, "there is something. Mrs. Mally is very sick and she can't have anything but broth. So broth she must have and there is no one but myself to get it. There is a restaurant about half a block away, where i hpvc been getting her supply evenings. I've just come from there, but I've got to hurry on to Mally's right away, because Mike, the oldest boy, works at night and he's gone. The baby might fall downstairs and Patsy is probably making a meal off the matches while I'm here talking. So if you don't mind, you might bring the soup -.rjst ask for plain beef bouillon ail I'il run along to look after the family.' "Sure. I'll get the soup. Is there anything else?" "Nothing, thank you. It's the Para dise Tenement across the street there fifth floor." "Paradise Tenement!" He looked at the high, gloomy building with broken windows and rickety steps. "It doesn't look it!" I Bed ome Tales El CLAEA INGRAM JUDSON THE THREE Three little raindrops came down from the sky one right after the other. For some time they had lived close together in a cloud and had come to be very warm friends. So, when Mother Cloud said it was time for them to go to earth, they resolved to go together and see the wonderful sights about which they had heard. Very tightly, they held hands, but they fell so fast that they hardly got a glimpse of tho earth before they found themselves in a cold, dark place. "Where are we. exclaimed one, I can't see anything at all; surely this isn't the pretty earth, all full of such wonderful things that the cloud has told us about." "No, this is so dark and cold, I'd rather be back in the cloud," said an other. "Catch me, catch me, I'm slipping down," cried the third. So they held hands tighter than ever and waited to see what would happen. Pretty soon, they heard a whisper so soft they couldn't tell what was said. But they listened again and heard, "Come this way, come this way." Of course they couldn't see a thing, but the voice sounded pleasant, so they decided to go. Groping along thru the dark earth, they followed the voice till they came to where other raindrops were going the same way. "Do you know where we are going?" asked one of the raindrops they met. "Oh, yes," he answered. "I've been here before. We are going to the spring." "The spring?" asked the first, rain drop, "what is that?" "The spring is our friend, even tho it be hidden under a pretty, shiny ice covering," replied the wise raindrop. "It will take us up to the air and sun shine." So light gladly the raindrops fol lowed the voice of the spring and it led them up and up. till suddenly they came into the sunshine. Down the side of a hill they scam pered, so fast they had no time for "It Isn't. I'd like to shov you the inside." "I'll bring the soup right away," he answered. A few minutes later he knocked at a door at the head of the fourth flight of stairs, stairs that creaked and swayed with his weight, patched here and there like half-soled shoes with boards of any size and shape. He had tripped on one of these and Mrs. Mal ly was in danger for a second time that evening of losing her supper. Peggy opened the door. "It didn't take you long," she greeted him. "Won't you come in?" "I'm dripping wet," he protested, waiting to be coaxed. "Oh, that doesn't matter. The roof leaks in forty places anyway. I've put dish pans and plates and buckets around, but the baby drinks up the rainwater, so I had to take them away. The carpet's irrigated until you could grow rice. Come in." She drew for ward a broken chair-and placed it be side the table with the lamp. "Say, this is the darnedest place I was ever in. Nearly broke my neck on those stairs. It isn't safe for you to be here, is it with all the dampness and everything?" In the lamplight Peggy looked prettier than ever, not quite so ethereal as when he first saw her, but still pale, and circles under her eyes told of overwork and loss of sleep. "Just as safe for me as for these kiddies and that poor sick soul in there!" nodding toward the next room. "And I'm only here evenings, while they're here all the time. I live on the other side of town. Mrs. Mally does my washing that's how I discovered her." "Who the who owns this place? It ought to be reported to the department of public safety." "The Everett Real Estate Com pany." "Are you sure?" "Yes. At least that's where I paid last month's rent.' He was thoughtful. "Why didn't you tell them at the office how things were?" "Tell them? I did, and I've done everything in my power to get some one interested. They forget all about their property until rent day comes around. He looked around. Plaster and pa per were falling from the walls, papers and old rags were stuffed into broken windows, and, as Peggy said, it rained almost as hard inside as it did out. The baby crept over and .pulled it self up to his knee. He lifted it to his lap and opened a sticky little hand. TMMinir down in his pocket he pro duced a bill. "Here, little chap. This might help generally. Give it to the lady." "You mustn't do that!" cried Peggy when she had extricated the donation and noted the amount. "Oh, yes I must! It's to get a nurse to relieve you and some proper food and all the rest of that Samari tan stuff. And I'm going to see about fixing up this death trap. I stand in with the Everett Real Estate Com pany, you see. Now I must be going. Good night!" he said, rising. "Good night!" said Peggy, holding out her hand. "And thank you, oh, so very, very much." "Good night," he said, again forget ting to let go her hand. "Good night!" said Peggy with fin ality that could not be disputed. And he turned toward the stairs, feeling that he had left something very val uable behind. The next day Peggy looked up from her desk. One of the stenographers was talking. "Did you know the boss was back?" "Who?" "Oh. I forgot you didn't know him. Why, Mr. Everett. He's been to Japan. Came home yesterday. There he is now." The door of an adjoining office opened and a man came out. Peggy started. It was her Samaritan. Then she understood. Paradise Flats be longed to him. "I would like to see you a moment, please," he said, recovering instantly from his surprise. Peggy went in. "I've ordered that building to be put into tip-top thape- rent free for six months. I've been away. After this I'll look after things myself. Did you get a nurse for that woman?" "Yes." "And have you a little time to spare me now? I -I'm dreadfully lonely and I've taken a notion that you are the only company I want." "I think so," she answered, flush ing a beautiful pink that caused the young man's heart to pounds alarm ingly. (Copyright, 1917, by the Mc Clure Newspaper Syndicate.) RAINDROPS. sightseeing, down the hill, over the stones, till splash! they landed in a lake below. There they floated around slowly and had time to see that the earth was beautiful, just as the cloud had said. Brown hills were around the lake, flecked here and there with little patches of snow, which looked like far away clumps of daisies which grew there when the sun was warmer and soft white clouds floated overhead. "Are those clouds where we came from?" asked the oldest raindrop. "Yes, that's where you came from and where you are going," said the lake. "Oh, I could never get up that les, you can." laughed the sun. and he threw down a ladder of sun beams and the three little raindrops held hands very tightly and climbed the golden ladder up, up, up, till they reached their cloudland home. topyrignt py Clara Ingram Judson.) PAY INHERITANCE TAX Attorneys of Hartnett Estate Send Check for $262,593.30 to Kansas. The state tax commission received a telegram this afternoon from at torneys of the Charles H. Hartnett estate, stating that they were sending ctruiieu cnfuh iu i ne commission for $262,593.30, this amount being due the state in the form of inheritance taxes. The tax is derived rora bonds of the Standard Oil company, the Prairie Oil Gas company, the Prairie Pipe Line company and several thousand shares of Santa Fe stock owned by the estate. The bureau of soils is co-operating with cement mil)s. blast furnaces, and wool scourers witb the object of enabling them to recover potash as a by-product whererer tola proves to be commercially feasible. The melting point of southern -made bat ter is higher where cattle are fed cotton seed products. SEEK OIL AT WILLARD Eastern Company Will Start Drilling Tomorrow in Shawnee Co. An eastern company, thought to be the Standard Oil company, will start drilling for oil tomorrow on the R. L. Titts farm near Willard, Kan. The name of men behind the search for oil is not known but it is understood that they control extensive leases in the vicinity of Willard. According to the geologist's report indications are good for a deep well. The present company is prepared to sink their well to the depth of 2,000 feet. There is great excitement prevalent in Willard over the affanr: The coun try for several miles around the town has been leased by different com panies and the sinking of other wells is expected to follow in the near fu ture. UHRIG TO SPEAK HERE Kansas City Kloctrical Man Will Ad dress Chamber of Commerce. Fred B. Uhrig, manager of the Western Electric company of Kansas City, Mo., will address the members of the Chamber of Commerce, at the noon luncheon Thursday, January 25. His subject will be "Development of Electricity." Jacob Pillikopf, member of the board of public welfare of Kansas City, will be the speaker at the noon luncheon Wednesday, February 7. Pillikopf has been a pioneer in Kan sas City welfare work, and it was largely due to his efforts that the municipal farm was secured by the city. BIGGEST EXPORT YEAR 1916 Foreign Shipments of IT. S. To taled Nearly 5 Billion, Washington, Jan. 22. Nineteen sixteen was Untie Sam's greatest year in foreign trade. Exports reached the unprecedented total of $5,481,000, 000, according to a department of commerce statement today. This ex ceeds by $1,926,000 the total for 1915. LOCAL MENTION A pie supper will be given by the Brotherhood of American Yeomen at Bates hall Wednesday evening. Friends of members are invited to attend. The Social Service club of the First Presbyterian church met this after noon at the home of Mrs. J. B. Walk er, 1126 Topeka avenue. Wednesday morning, dreaded final examinations begin at Washburn col lege. Examinations are held morning and afternoon, beginning at 9 o'clock and at 2. The new term opens with enrollment January 31, the classes be ginning February 1. Ida Redna was found by the police walking about in the Rock Island yards Friday night. She had escaped from the State hospital, where she was returned. The postal card found In the pound can of Rumford Baking Powder will admit you free to the Midwinter Ex position. Adv. A new bulletin just issued by Wash burn college is devoted to the fine arts department under the direction of Dean Horace Whitehouse. whose pic ture, drawn by George M. Stone, ap pears on the title page. The new bul letin is larger than the old type for merly put out. Williams Jubilee Singers at High School Auditorium tonight. Prices o5 and 50 cents. Auspices Topeka Lo cal C. E. Union. Adv. Late this afternoon Sheriff Hugh Larimer instructed County Attorney Robert Garver to file a complaint against Frank Emanuel, the Mexican who is accused by the Tulsa, Okla., sheriff with having confessed to his wife that he killed Morgason. Bessie Constine today filed suit in the district court for divorce against Richard Constine. She lives at 127 West Gordon street. The couple was married in Garden City October 3. 1904. Mrs. Constine alleges gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty. Dancing tonight, school 8 to 9, so cial 9 to 12. Hall's orchestra. Kel lam hall. Adv. During the rainstorm Saturday night John Doe, or other unknown parties, entered the garage in the rear of the home of T. H. Bridges and re moving a Ford car, departed for parts unknown. The thief or thieves over looked a big Cadillac touring car standing beside the Ford. Sheriff Larimer received a wire from Meri den today. saying that a Ford oar had been found near there, mired in the mud. It is believed that this is the Bridges car. A perfectly good auto tire has been found in the west end of town. It !s now in the sheriffs office awaiting the owner. Manhattan Cleaners. Phone 179. Adv. Poon Chew will appear at the First Baptist church January 25, at 8:15 o'clock. The Chinese statesman gives the fifth number of the local C. E. union lyceum course. Practice for the class songs of the senior class of the high school was held this afternoon in the high school auditorium. The Bremen's ball will be held at Kellam hall. February 8. Several vaudeville acts will be staged and a number of fire stunts will be shown. Social dance at Moose hall, Wed nesday evening. Gents 25c; ladies free. Union music. Adv. February 15, the Journeyman Bar bers' International Union of America will give its annua, ball at Kellam hall. Dancing begins at 9 o'clock. Hall's orchestra will play. A series of lectures will be given by Prof. Raymond E. Sc-hwegler of Kan sas university, on Monday evenings from February 5 to March 12. The lectures will be given, at the Y. W. C. A. auditorium and deal with reli gious education. The Topeka Train ing School for Sundav School Workers is conducting the course. New .rb PradnM Varied New York, Jan. 22. BUTTER Market I steaay. creamery higher than extras, 40i 4' EGGS Market steady. Fresh gathered extra firsts, 41-. CHEESE Market steady. State held specials. 24fr2434e. POULTRY Alive, unsettled; no prices settled; dressed, firm.:- NEW BANKING LAW Co-operative Financial Institu tions Is a Provision. Chittenden Bill Would Create State Money Problem. NO RIGHT TO REJECT CHARTER State Banking Department Would Be Powerless to Act. Twenty Persons Could Organize a $10,000 Bank. The Kansas house of representatives today opened a new vein of sorrow for the bankers. Under provisions of a bill by Representative Chittenden of Ellis county, co-operative banks may be organized in this state. That isn't all. Chittenden removes from the Stat banking department the right to reject applications for charters when certain provisions have been complied with by stock owners. Under the present law co-operative banks have a small chance in this state. The co-operative game has had its effect on the grain and elevator business and in many localities co-operative stores have been organized un der the state laws. But the banks have viewed the co-operative move ment with slight concern. Now the co operative boosters propose to engage in the banking business. At present the state bank commis sioner is given a rather wide range for the expression of judgment as to the need of a bank in a town. Under the existing statutes, a one bank town sel dom encounters two or three banks. But the Chittenden bill leaves a big loop hole for the men who seek to or ganize banks and fail to secure char ters. When charters are denied under action of the state charter board, a co operative bank is as easy as a fishing expedition. Chittenden's bill provides that twen ty persona may organize and conduct a co-operative bank. They must sub scribe for stock in an amount not less than $10,000 and shall file their notice with the state bank commissioner. If the stock is properly subscribed, the commissioner must then grant a char ter. Following the action of the house last week in passing the Wilson bill, reducing the contract interest rate from 10 to 8 per cent, Kansas bankers now face the co-operative plan. The Chittenden bill doubtless means a big fight if it receives a favorable commit tee report and will call forth opposition from scores of hankers -both state and national in all sections of the state. CONCERT CONTRACTS Marshall's, K. k of S. and Jack son's Bands to Play in Parks. Contracts for band concerts this summer were allowed this morning by the city commissioners at their reg ular meeting. Marshall's band was awarded a contract totaling $1,500 for a series of fifteen concerts, the time and place to be determined later by V. L. Porter, commissioner of parks. The Knights and Ladies of Security band was given five performances at $225, and Jackson's Military band, a negro organization, will give four con certs. DEATHS AND FUNERALS OR LIN THURSTON CRAWFORD, who died Wednesday in San Francisco, will be buried Tuesday afternoon In Topeka cem etery Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock in the liouie of L M. Crawford. Strictly private. BritltELL BENNETT. JR.. Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Burreli Bennett, died Sat urday at the home of hia parents. 1121 Lime street. The funeral will be held at 3 o'clock Tuesday in the home. Inter ment iu Topeka cemetery. INFANT BRADBURY, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bradbury, died last night at the home in Silver Lake. The funeral waa held this afternoon in the home. Inter ment in Silver Lake cemetery. WILLIAM LAKE, age 80, a pioneer res ident of Topeka, died Saturday at bis home, 2005 Santa Fe street. He was an ex slave and waa known also as William Ware. The funeral was held this after noon in Stonestreet's chapel. Interment in Mount Auburn cemetery. MAIIGEIUTA MAUER, age .1 months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joaeph Mauer died Saturday night at the home. 11X1 North Lake street. The funeral waa held this morning at 10::(0 o'clock in St. Joseph's German Catholic church. Inter ment in Mount Calvary cemetery. JAMES MiDONALI). age 71. died Sun day morning at the home of his aou, Alex. McDonald, 50 Franklin street. The funeral will be held at 1 o'clock Wednesday after noon in the home. Interment in Rochester cemetery. MISS. MARY A. HUNTER, age SO. an old resident of Topeka. died Saturday at the home of her daughter, Mra. O. A. Mcllevnolda in Kit Carson. Col. She waa the mother of Howard Hunter of Topeka. The funeral will be held at 1'-M o'clock Tuesday afternoon in I'enwell'a chapel. Interment in Topeka cemetery. Mra. Hunter came to Topeka in 1MU7 and lived here until thirteen years ago when she went to Colorado to make her home with her daughter. JULIUS A. PRATHER. age B7. died Saturday at his home. 315 Polk street. He la survived by a wife and five children. They are Mra. Callie I'rather. Mra. F. O. Lucas. Mrs. Spencer A. Abbott. Mra. Guy Taylor. Fred C. Prather and William T. Prattier. The funeral waa hel- today at 2 o'clock in Penwella chapel. Interment in Topeka cemetery. GRANT G. HAMMON. who died In San Diego, Cat. January It, waa buried in San Diego. He was formerly proprietor, with W. H. KienU, of the Avalon bakery in Toiieka. MRS. PRUDENCE L. BATMAN, age 81. died Saturday at her home, 02B Chandler street. The funeral will be held at 10::0 ociuck Tuesday morning in Penwella chapel. Interment in Topeka cemetery. MRS. DOLIF GOI'K. age 26. died Sun day at her home, 100f Eaat Crane atreet. Arrangements for tbe funeral will be made later. MARY NKAL GRAY, ft-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grover C. Gray, died Sunday at the home, 1320 Monroe street. The funeral waa held this after noon In the home. Interment in Fouler cemetery. JOHN SCHWARTZ The funeral was held this afternoon in the Oakland Chris tian church. Interment in Topeka cem etery. FRANK LAUGE8, who died Friday at hia home in Elmout, will be buried Tues day in Mount Calvary cemetery. Funeral Hervb-es will be held at 8::!0 o'clock Tues day morning In St. Joseph's German Cath olic church. 1

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