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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-15
THINK He HAD HELP.
Chicago Police Believe That Twins Had
Accomplices.

Chicago, Jan. 15.-Protests, loud
and insistent, came from Chicago pull
pits yesterday against the laWIess con-
ditions which were held responsible
for the murder of Mrs. Franklin c.
Hollister. This crime, added to the
killing of three other women within a
Few months, reused the ministers and
congregations to demand that better
protection be given by the police to
women.
Mayor Dunno. who returned during
the day from Denver, Joined in the
appeal saying that the city needed
more policemen. He declared 1t to be
the duty of the council to provide the
means for putting large enough
force of patrolmen out to cover the
city thoroughly
First Methodist church. Plans for a
mass meeting to compass this end
were made by others.
Sorrow and anger mingled in the
services at the Wesleyan Methodist
church. of which Mrs Hollister was
a member. Members of the choir. in
which she had sung, could not sit in
their seats before the congregation,
but remained in the pews.
Richard G. Ivens, who strangled
Mrs. Hollister Friday evening, told
two stories of the disposal of the
brown seal muf which his victim had
swung in her hand when seen a few
hours before she disappeared.
He said he carried it away with him
under his coat and hid it.
Later he said he threw it into a
garbage can. The police could not
find the muff. Out of this there arose
a stronger feeling on the part of some
of the police that Ivens had accom-
plices.
Relatives of Mrs. Hollister were
convinced the young murderer had
not worked alone. They argued that
the victim must have been detained
early in the day by members of the evil
gang" and perhaps was murdered
before evening and her body removed
to the stable where it was found.
Richard Ivens, the father of the
murderer, began to work up a defense
for his son. His plea will be insanity.
He said the young man had acted
fso11eePIVf
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Will NOT BE SHOT.
Condemned Americans in Mexico Will
Go to salt Mines.

Fort Worth, Tex, Jan. 15.-Friends of
c. S. Hart here have been advised that
he and the two other defendants, Rich
ardson and Mason, under sentence of
death in Chihauhau, Mexico, for pois-
oning two Americans. polcyholders of
the New York Life, will not be execut-
ed in accordance with the courts de-
cree by being stood against an adobe
wall and shot by a squad of soldiers,
but will be sent to the convict stockade
on the islands in the tropics off the
coast of the Southern republic to serve
terms of twerty years each at hard
labor, presumably in the salt mines
DR.. Hart formerly practiced medicine
in Texas. Richardson and Mason came
from Rochester, N. Y, and they were
in Dallas for a time and afterward met
DR.. Hart at Chihauhau.
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WANTS HIS WIFE.
W. }. Davis Tries to Regain 16
Year Old Girl.
She Is Now Held by CrittentOn
Home Authorities.
HABEAS CORPUS SUIT.
Commenced Sunday by Husband,
Just Out of Jail.
Father of Girl Says the Marriage
Was Illegal.

william J. Davis applied to the dis.
trlct court for writ of habeas cornua
sunday, claiming that his wife. Bessie
L. Davis, is being illegally restrained
OF her liberty by the superintendent OF
the Crittenton home The order was
granted by Judge Dana who made the
writ returnabie Monday, January %.
Davis is As years old; his alleged wife
is child in short dresses.
Bessie L Davis is the daughter of A.
B. Ladd, Santa Fe empIove. and was
placed in the institution by the father
who claims that she is but Is years OF
age, and that the marriage ceremony
Which was performed in Kansas City on
the 18th of last November is illegal.
At the time of the marriage. which
was a. runaway affair, A B. Ladd. the
father of the girl, had w J. Davis. the
man who married her, arrested on a
statutory charge. also claiming that the
girl had been kidnapped and taken to
Kansas City against her win. This
| charge was afterwards dismissed by
MT. Ladd and the husband was arrested
on a charge of false swearing when he
secured the marriage license from the
probate court in Kansas City, Kansas.
He was taken to Kansas City and tried
on this charge and was bound over
1
bond he has been in Jail in that city
until Saturday when the action against
him was dropped at the request of the
prosecuting witness.
The father dropped the last prosecu-
tion of Davis believing that his daugh-
ter, who is now in the Crittenton home,
would be kept there until she had
reached her majority.
AS soon as Davis was released from
jail he came to Topeka and made de-
mand on the management of the Crit
/ tenton home that his wife be returned
to him, claiming that she is nearly 10
years of age. The father of the girl
says she is not yet sixteen years Of
age and this is the story that the girl
herself has told from the start.
The ladies who have charge Of the
] Crittenton home have refused to re-
1 lease the girl, claiming that she is un-
I der age and was placed there by her
/ father and that they have no authority
to release her unless he gives his con~
sent which he refuses to do.
Considerable indignation was aroused
at the time of the arrest of Davis who
is man considerably older than the
this county was dismissed for the rea-
son that the Kansas City case seemed
to be the strongest of the two. Bessie
Ladd, the wife of Davis, If the mar
Tiage ceremony is held to be valid is
small for a girl of 16 and is not yet out
of short dresses.
About the only feature about the ha-
beas corpus proceedings is the question
as to who is the better judge of the
girls age her father or the man who
wants her for his wife.
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NOT MURDER AT ALL.
Is the Latest Contention in the Patrick
Case.

Albany. N Y. Jan. 15.-A joint re-
quest by former Senator David B. Hill,
Judge William K. Olcott and District
Attorney William Travers Jerome of
New York county, for a reprieve of at
least sixty days for Albert T. Patrick,
under sentence to die next week for
the murder of William Marsh Rice,
was the net result of d hearing held
today before Governor Higgins. The
governor said he would take the re-
quest under consideration and prob
ably announce his decision late this
afternoon. The purpose of the re-
prieve required is to permit the pre-
sentation of newly discovered evidence
before the court Of general sessions in
New York city in support of new
motion for a retrial of the case.
In the course of the argument be
fore the governor, Senator Hill de-
clared that there were precise and
newly discovered scientific evidences to
show that Rice was not murdered at
all
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COLD WEATHER PREDICTED.
Wind Is Blowing "a Miles an Hour
From the Northwest.

Snow began falling at z o'clock this
morning but the storm lasted but a
few moments, finally turning into a
drizzling rain which continued until
nearly II o'clock. The precipitation
of the snow and rain combined
amounted to about one one-huAdredth
of an inch just enough to freshen the
slush which has made the streets a
sloppy thOroughfare for the week past.
There has been scarcely a change in
the condition of the temperature
which insists on hanging around 8
where it has been for several days.
The nights are as warm as the days
and the slush and water on the pave
ments does not freeze at all. The
minimum for today was 80, reached
before sunrise this morning, while the
temperature for Sunday was but one
degree higher.
The temperature for the past week
has been something marvellous even
for this country, and the conditions
are more nearly those one might ex-
pect in early spring or fall, rather
than the prevailing conditions in the
middle of winter. Weather Observer
Jennings accounts for the conditions
by saying, that there is a. low barome-
ter to the north of us and the semi
tropical weather which we are enjoy
ing is the result of the warm winds
from the Gulf of Mexico and that
vicinity rushing northward to this
cold section; and that to get there
they pass over this section of the
country and that this is the reason
for the even and warm temperatures
of the past week or So
The forecast for today and tomor-
row says: Fair tonight and Tuesday
with a falling temperature for to-
night
At o'clock today the wind is blow
ing at the rate of "a miles an hour
from the northwest, while the sun
which has been in seclusion most of
the time for several days is casting an
occasional gleam through little riffs in
the scurrying clouds.
The hourly temperatures for today
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Condition of Millionaire Mer-
chant Regarded as Hopeless.
He Has Been Steadily Growing
Weaker for Some Time.
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
Have Assembled at His Bedside
Awaiting the End.
Among These Are Paul Morton
and Robert 7. Lincoln.

New York, Jan. 15.-The following
bulletin was issued by Marshall Field s
physicians just after 1 O'Clock:
There is no change for the better in
BIr. Fields condition. He seems to
grow weaker"
Stanley Field. nephew of Marshall
Field, said that his unc!e's condition was
hopeless and that his death appeared
only a matter of hours Mr.. Field was
conscious at that time, however, and all
his relatives who are in the city were
at his bedside by his request.
Henry H. Rogers. Paul Morton and
Mrs Roswell Miller called to see Mr.
Field today.
Those at Mr.. Fields bedside were
Mrs. Field Mrs. Marshall Field, Jr.
Stanley Field and Mrs. Stanley Field;
Mrs. Henry Dibblee, d sister Of the sick
man; Norman b. Ream, William G.
Beale, Paul Morton and Robert T. Lin
coin. DR.. Billings. when asked if there
had been any change in Mr.. Fields con-
dition, replied:
Mr.. Field is in extreme danger"
At o'clock it was announced that
Mr.. Field has rallied considerably.
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ARGUMENT RESUMED.
on the Demurrers Filed in Greene and
Ga3nOr Case.

Savannah, Ga. Jan. 15.-Demurrers to
the two indictments returned against
Greene and CfaynOr last November We're
argued upon the opening of the court
today Colonel w. Meldrim making the
argument for the defendants after read
ing the indictments to the court. These
indictments are numbers 4i6 and Az on
tho docket The counts of No. 416 al
lege embezzlement i'm collusion and con-
junction with former Captain Oberlin
M. Carter and others ON July 6, 1897, of
the sums of $685. 600 and $3.50 l4O. No Az
lis the indictment charging the receiving
of money the defendants knew Carter TO
have embeZzied. Colonel Meldr1m de-
INJURED on many grounds among them
that The indictments failed to set out
the defendants were officers Of any
banking establishment authorized to re-
ceive public moneys that they failed to
set out when where and how the
moneys were fraudulently received and
fraudulently paid out, that they failed
i'm statements Of facts but alleged con-
clusioos.
Colonel Meldrim declared that the
checks for the two amounts alleged did
not show in any wise connection be-
tween Greene and Gaynor. On the con-
traly they were drawn by Captain Car
ter to the order of the Atlantic Con-
tIactiug company and that in no way
did the defendants appear as endorsers
or collectors of the money. The indict-
ments fail to set out and prove also, he
declared. that the defendants bore any
connection with the Atlantic Contract
ing company which, moreover bore no
relation of a fduciary nature toward the
United States the government bestow-
ing no trust or confidence in it but ex-
ercising the closet surveillance over it.
Prior indictments of the defendants
he admitted. alleged their connection
with the Atlantic Cor ortracting company
as its stockholders, but the last two
failed absolutely in this respect.
Sueeial Attorney General Erwin re-
spOnded for the government, asserting
that it would have been a physical i'm
possibility to have entered into an expo
sition i'm detail showing where the work
done by the defendants differed from
the specifications and that the iudict-
mepts as drawn We're good and suffi-
cfcnt
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HILLS LECTURE TONIGHT.
Famous Clergyman Will Speak at the
First Baptist Church.

Newell Dwight Hills. pastor of the
famous Plymouth church. New York,
Beecher, will lecture at the First Bap-
tist church this evening. His lecture
is one of the numbers on the pipe or
gan lecture course.
Mr.. Hills is a clergyman whose
reputation is second to none in
America. He is an Illinois man by
birth, and was educated in the west.
He is a Presbyterian by education, but
his first important pastorate was
when he succeeded the late David
Swing as pastor of an Independent
church at Chicago. Since 1899 he has
been pastor of Plymouth church. sue
ceeding Lyman Abbott, who resigned
to become editor of The Outlook.
He has written a great many books
which are popular in the religious and
ethical world.
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STILL AT CARACAS.
France Has Not Yet Recalled Her
Minister to Venezuela.

Paris. Jan. 15-The positive statement
was made at the foreign office this morn
ing that diplomatic relations between
France and Venezuela have not yet been
officially broken off. NJ. Taigny, the
French charge d'affaires, still remains at
Caracas A rupture, however, is irnmi-
nent, though the order to sever relations
with Venezuela has not Seen dispatched.
All communications. owing to interruD-
tion of direct telegraph connection with
Caracas, pass through Wssa 'ngton with
which capital an understanding exists
The American minister, Mr.. Russell will
take charge OF French interests in Vene-
zuela when the official notification Of the
cessation of diplomatic relations s given.
The reports that the French squadron
is proceeding to Venezuelan waters are
not confirmed. but on the other hand they
are not denied, the officials here MAIN
tanning the strictest discretion relative TO
the measures France is likely TO adopt
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Meeting of South Topeka People.

The property owners of Shunga-
nunga drainage district No. 1 win meet
at Seventeenth and Kansas. avenues at
1880 o'clock January II, to discuss the
drainage question.
Councilman Sinner says the purpose
of the meeting is to decide whether or
not the property holders will vote
bonds for the construction of drainage
bitches to relieve the neighborhood in
time of overflow from the Shunga-
nunga creek.
The drainage board has the right to
levy upon the property in the wet
district, but the property holders will
have chance to take part in the dis
cussion
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WITH GERMANY.
Ambassador White Instructed to
Stand by Kaiser
In the Conference on Morocco
at Algeciras.
FOR THE OPEN DOOR.
And an international Commits
sion Of Control.
The Vatican Also Is Against
France in the Matter.

London, Jan. 15-The Associated
Press is advised that Ambassador
White. representing the United States
at the Moroccan conference at tAlgeciras
viii support the German contention both
as to the open door" in Morocco and
as to an international commission TO
control the policing of the country.
1t is suggested that this may make the
adoption of the German view probable,
particularly in light of the fact that
Russia has shown marked indifference
to the appeal of France for support. The
Influence of the vatican is also under
stood to be hostile to France.
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WORKED OLD SOLDIERS
Induced Them to File on Homesteads
and Leave the Land.

Omaha, Neb., Jan. 15.-The trial of
Rev. George G. Ware, president of the
Z. B. I. Cattle company, charged with
conspiracy to defraud the government
of public lands was resumed here
today. Frank Lambert, one of Wares
alleged co-cOnspirators, confirmed pre-
vious testimony to the effect that he
induced about twenty inmates of the
soldiers home to file on homesteads
and give 99-year leases to the u. B. I.
company. Lambert said he paid them
$3.50 each and received from Mr.. Ware
$50 for each lease secured. This fee
he divided equally with Harry Welch,
who was aiding him.
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PolIom After the Money.

Frank Pollom of Soldier township,
has gone into training, not for a prize
fight, but for the spelling match on
March 81, to be held between repre-
sentatives of the county schools.
]. c. Polom, father of the aspirant
for spelling honors, has offered his son
81 for spelling down his school, So for
spelling down all the schools in his
township, and $50 for a winning in the
county contest. Therefore young Pol
lom has three contests ahead of him.
To win the young man must beat his
school and township, and then defeat
thirty-two other aspirants from the
eleven townships of the county.
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BURBANK MUST SERVE.
President Roosevelt Declines to Inter-
fere in the Case.

Leavenworth, Kas., Jan. 15.-Ad-
vices received at Fort Leavenworth
from Washington state that President
Roosevelt has declined to interfere
with the finding of the court martial
in the case of Lieut.. Sidney S. Bur
bank, Sixth infantry. recently sem
fenced in the Philippines to fifteen
months Imprisonment and dismissal
from the army.
Burbank was convicted of deserving
his Filipino wife, who some time ago
was granted divorce and alimony.
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LOCOMOTIVE UPSET.
Spreading Rails Cause a Wreck on the
Jersey Central.

Elizabeth. n. J., Jan. ia passenger
train on the North Elizabeth branch of
the Central Railroad of New Jersey was
derailed last night at Division street The
locomotive was overturned, but the crew
escaped serious injury by jumping.
Most of the passengers we're hurled
from their seats and several were cut by
living glass. None were seriously injured.
The accident was due to the spreading
of rails at the point where the branch
diverges from the main line
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Twenty-second infantry Returns.

San Francisco, Jan. 15.-The army
transport Sherman arriving from Manila
brought the enlisted men of the Twenty
second infantry. numbering five hundred
and sixty men and their officers. They
will be stationed about this bay. A pas
has been for the past three years in
command of the department of Visayas.
including the islands of Mindanao and
Samar He is en- route to Chicago to
take command Of the department of the
lakes
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STAR THEATER REOPENs.
Drew Good Crowds Yesterday at Both
Performances.

The star theater which has been
closed for the past month reCpened last
night under new management through
out. and bids fair to be as popular a
little play house as when it was first
opened.
The management played to two
crowded houses last night and gave an
unusually strong bill both as to the
There are three single teams and two
doubles on the programme as well as
an Illustrated song, and the usual NOV
ing pictures.
The music throughout was excep-
tionally good and the stage effects con
siderably above the average seen at
variety theaters.
The Star opened under the direction
of the Western circuit and win be un-
der the local management Of John j.
TaW aW-sCn.
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Smoot.s Bin Passed.

Washington. Jan. 15.-In the senate
today a bill reported by Mr.. Smoot
giving to homesteaders on the recently
opened Uintah reservation an exten-
sion until May Is, 1906, to establish
residences was passed.
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washington, Jan. 15.-James B.
Brown Scott, of California. professor
of law at Columbia university, New
York, has been appointed solicitor of
the state department to succeed
Judge Pendeld, resigned.
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10 Lnrv Worl Tollar

A number of motions were disDosed
Of in the district court this morning
most Of them of minor importance. The
motion docket and assignments were
called and the preliminary work relative
TO the trial Of the jury cases disposed of
oy the court. The jury were dismissed
o'clock Tuesday morning. The motion
IN the case Of Robert L. Stone, guardian
Tor Clara L. Hughes. for an additional
allowance, was heard and the motion
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Cambridge Mass. Jan 15.@The re-
port of the treasurer of Harvard on
lhe funds of the university is published
today Up to July 81, 1905. the funds
amounted to S18.036.O25. an increase
OIL Sl,2S0,271 over last year The
teachers' endowment fund which is
the largest, amounts to S736225. The
total amount of gifts during the year to
establish new funds was S1,455I32
GlIts for immediate use amounted to
80 1926, being payments by J. Pier
pont Morgan. Mrs. Coils P. Hunting
ton and David Sears for the new build
ings of the medical school.
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shipwrecked Crew brought In.

Philadelphia. Jan. 15.@The steam
ship Olaf Kyrre, from Shields. arrived
here today with the crew of the bark
CordilIera, from St. Johns, n. B., for
Buenos Ayres. The twelve men were
taken off the bark on January 8 The
Cordillera was abandoned water
logged and dismasted in latitude 34.41
north, longitude 41.56 west.
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LAMP TRAINER LOSES JOB.
New Arc Lamps Make Saving in the
City Pay Roll.

The installation of the new enclosed
street arc lamps seventy in number,
which burn 100 hours without requiring
retrimming. instead of the ten hour
schedule with the old lamps, necessitates
the cutting down of the force of line
men. Ira Wilson. a colored line man, will
be let out the first of February. The city
saves $3.50 month by the reduction,
leaving three linemen still on the payroll.
The installation of thirty lamps on Kan
Sas avenue by the Edison company. which
is making test and taking care of its
own lamps, also cuts down the amount Of
work.
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Los Angeles, Jan. 15.-AIbeFt Wilson,
thirty years of age. whose relatives re-
side at College Corner. o., shot himself
in the forehead in the presence of hun
dreds of people at Arcade station yes
terday and died in the receiving hospital
two hours later. The shot was fired
with suicidal intent and evidently in a
moment OF mental alteration.
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KEITH MUST FIGHT.
Dr.. II. II. Hazleu Enters the Race for
Coroner

AT the last moment Dr. H II. Keith
has discovered that he is to have opposf-
ton fin his race for the second term as
coroner. DR. II. II. Hazlett this morn
ing paid his deposit to the county cen
tral committee and has announced that
he is a candidate for the nomination Of
coroner. This announcement came as a
surprise as it had been about conceded
that Dr.. Keith would have no opposi-
tiOn.
The doctors of the city made des-
perate fight against Keith two years
ago. but were beaten. and they appear
to be getting read to renew hostilities.
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JUDGMENT WILL STAND
Judge Dana Refuses to Change the
$1,000 Verdict in Cooper Case.

Judge Dana this morning overruled
the motion to modify the judgment in
the case of John G. Cooper against
Clara Cooper Cooper sued his wife for
a divorce which was granted after a
sensa atfonal trial which lasted for more
than a week. One thousand dollars ali
mony was granted to Mrs. Cooper which
did not seem to suit either of the parties
to the case.
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Columbus. O.. Jan 15.-Rev. W. n.
Cleveland, bother of Former President
Grover Cleveland. who has been strick-
en- with paralysis, is in an unconscious
condition today and the doctors say that
bis death IS q matter Of hours.