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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-04
WANT CONGRESS- TO FURNISH
WORK FOR UNEMPLO YED

Cincinnati, May &c. jefferson Davis,
President, and ..Arizona Bob, Gillespie.
n w president of the Cincinnati Unem-
,p,osed Protective association, started
, ,as. night to hobo their way to Wash
1na .sV3, where they expect to present TO
s ss,s;s Taft and Congress a petition
nshi.E That the government give ems
5tisso oy to the nations unemplyed on
r eae construction of a great national
my from New York to San Francisco
Bonfeld and l.. IS. Golfer Of the Gin
se, ,n Automobile club and by Park
s NJ W. Rodgers, who is chairman
% y me executive committee of the Good
ROADS Federation Of Ohio.
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.BoRAH CONCLUDES SPEECH.

Washington, May aa.-senator Borah
of Idaho today took the floor to con-
fclude his speech in the senate iii favor
of an income tax amendment to the.
pending tariff bill. s
Both Senator Deliver of Iowa and
ranged to speak today. But it is not
likely the time Will be sufficient for.
them to conclude theirSremarFs as Mr..
5Dolliver has prepared an extended adj
dress in which he will favor lowering
OF duties. especially the wooden and cot
ton schedules AS he will antngonize
the bill in its present shape in a Wig
orous manner he is likely to have
many Interruptions by senators on the
Republican side. 81
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-04
JAP SEALING SCHOONER
KlSSA MARU SEIZED

Seattle, May "A dispatch from sitka
announces the seizure OF the Japanese
sealing. schooner Kissa Maru, with 30 men
for violation of the sealing laws gester-
marines with q machine gun under d.
.rcction of Deputy United States Marshal
iShoup went out from Sitka. to the Kissa.
anchor Ontthe approach, Of the lnunehes,
the Klssa tried to escape but was over
hauled. The Japanese say their vessel,
ran toward shore. for shelter from a
storm. They admit sealing. and had 10
skins aboard.
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PROSPECTIVE NEW
TURKISH CABINET

E, 80 Son tiainttt!op is, May 4.-rile new
4 foI Ill,,e. probably Will be organized as
S Wand Yizier-IIi,mi jPasha.
Minister of Justtce-Kakk Pasha.
Bey s 'iie MS . eel - .e1iti
is,i ahai s,t of Mines and Forests-Ar-
h, ne OTTER ministries yill be retained
81 sS Inc last incumbents. Both Kakki
: tha si, 10 and Ami Bey are siennbers of
Y eoti1inlttee of Union and Progress,
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SHAH ACCEPTS ANGLO 4.
RUSSIAN PROPOSITION

ST. Petersburg, May Despatches
from TeEeran say that the shah of
Russia. The two powers have made
arrangements to grant a loan to Per
STA as soon as the Date of the elections
shall hav, been decided on.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-04
DOMESTIC CALAMITY.

L. C. Burlington. 1850 Emerson aveu-
ue. has been released from quarantine
and he and the children ara out and
around again. Mr.. Burlington buried
his mother and wife within q month of
each other, leaving him with three
small children who were stricken with
scarlet fever and 10 grippe for several
weeks.
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Authentic Reports Of Those ) Com
mitted Near Tarsus Coming
n with sickening Detail.
coME 100 HORRIBLE TO Q NAME .I
Il Least Ten Thousand Persons
We're Massacred in This
Province.
.1,o,e villages Wiped Out--Youns
Turks Trading Armenian Armenian
Girls for Horses.

N. ,,,,,,,,ya1, SATURDAY
Tarslls, 1As'a ~ ~.
April "a, via Constantlnople'3 My =
.ntbentic details Of the atrocities COM
mtted ny .'i as al, t,,;.. ,,ts
In the villages a III ~ i.'f -
,rlct are now coming into Iarsus5 Win WIZ
s,.,.on,,e abundance. The worst par.
sisNei -, !, !, ,., tiyas cannot no
ticalars ~ 80 - ea...,, ,.;.,,s,,,t
mentioned. put they SO. 5ioitil Mie'.s.ue
doubt that at leas looUo persons io 1ss
their lives IN TINS province ahu ,so'ile
diplomats a,,,,.i p,ase, L rs,oanieh I,assehe
I.Nv nai,'sE -, rSristia i, kew anu
Hamaulsh, aotna iiv m;i,,ef mi F;nrf,
keso.ooh oas ~ ,,rsnu,atIons NJ frorn
81 these soa pi ,,eo,,, X lne tnwi, or 900
510 % IVY !, I'M Jaft naa,lv
people tlei q s. ,.s, IN,
all women ahd Nh, az IN red l,e
salne lhilie W.T. ~. ~ III
rhifkes, or
ana "a
unsparing, Even SiIeeiss aIiu s2yIiats
were struck down VIII lle arn'e,l.aii -
Entire families We're burned to .uS.ltil =.
their homes. Hundreas q .slrls hltu
young women We're tnaltreated ana car
RED off TO the hareins. I
The correspondent Wassiniorfneel that,
6 at one place q party or 100 Armenians
surrendered to the soldiers, me prls-
s Dners were taken to an open field,
where the women were ordered to stand
apart from the men. Every one of the,
men was then shot. In many cases
they went to death with their women
olinging to them. trying to save their
lives "A large number Of women were
injured because OF their resistance
sixty men were brought down into this
district from Hadjin ana are now held
AZ slaves ri I'LL i5 q
Il
TRADE, GIRLS, FOE HORSES.
5yonnp s,rnr,ss aroun5 r,ars,,s b nd 40
.re III s,inr a m, On 10 y rirls FOR rrrses
,i.a
ssnsate ora Il 'I,,st 1i and rio,enre IN
tbn nonla ,,f "a 10. I "a * IN
Tho mnss3cras ~ : a. ,,nar i !. 81 NAVE
q WIS iio sueh 3oes,te to Ekill women ana
last massacre. There have been NUM-
and children viii, - el;hra ion md
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BAER DEcL1NEsl

Los Angeles. May84.-Jo ohm Willis Baer,
president OF Occidental college, tele-
graphed to the New York college board
today that he would not accept the offer
made to him by the board some days ago
to become its secretary. e
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ADANA STILL LAWLEss.

Adana, Monday, May 8, via Larnaca,
cyprus. May d.--Adana is still law
nss. More people We're killed yester-
aaN. There are 10000 dead in Adana
) proYilce as o result OF the inassacres,
and $1,000 homeless and Spenniless refu-
gees are wandering into tho vIlayet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30
REPAIRS LINES.
Railroads Are Now Operating Tele-
graphs Which Were Damaged.

The Santa Fe has succeeded in getting
wires up between Kansas City and Law
renee, so that today there are two wires
working from Topeka to Kansas City.
The train service has also improved and
none of the trains today were over an
hour late.
The Rock Island experienced all kinds
of trouble with its wires Friday. Between
Smith Center and Phillipsburg over fifty
poles were out and there were several
breaks in the line between Mcfarland
and Harrington. These have all been tenn
porari1y repaired. The train service is i'm
proving and there were but few late trains
on the Rock Island today.
The Union Pacific wires have been tenn
porarily repaired and no further trouble is
expected by this road. All the trains were
on time today.
The Associated Press wires have been
repaired and while the service is not of
the best variety, the State Journel is en-
ebled to furnish its readers with the news
today.
The Postal and Western Union Telegraph
companies have also made repairs that
messages can be sent through to the east.
The railroads in Topeka all report trou-
BILE east of Kansas City and towards Chi
cago last night. In Illinois the wind did
not quit until six o'clock this morning.
All the trouble which the railroads have
experienced is thought to be over.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

It's shame Miss Adelaide ThurSton
ever plays an evening engagement. She
ought to cut out evening performances
altogether and confine her efforts to
matinees. Miss Thurston is a typical
matinee actress, very popular with the
googlygoo Fems who eat chocolate
throng the tea roms and soda foun-
tains afterwards. She is undeniabl
pretty and almost clever-perhaps she
Is extremely clever, from a business
standpoint for she has won and holds
distinct clientele, and assuredly meets
the demand in the overnight stands, so
amply provided for in New York by
Miss Mannering, Miss Maxine Elliott
and others of their ilk.
Miss Thurston filed her annual en-
gagement at the Grand last night and
in spite Of the most severe storm Of
the season a number of her admirers
were faithful and an average parquette
audience saw A Woman'S Hour the
play which she is using this season.
Mr.. Frederick Paulding, the author, is
also Miss Thurston's leading man. He
is a somewhat better actor than author,
judging bv his efforts in both capacities
by the revelations of last night, but
probably, like Miss Thurston he is fol-
lowing George AIDES advice and giving
the people Chat is the Thurston Glen
tele before referred to) what they think
they want. A Woman'S Hour is pretty
bad, from almost any standpoint and it
is no argument, either for or against
it, that there are lots of playgoers who
like that sort of rot, don't you know.
The fact that Miss Thurston is con-
tent season after season with such
measure of success as she has earned
in the vehicles she affects is the best
reason for believing that she is not
capable of anything better and yet she
is young woman of attractive per-
sonality and gives frequent glimpses of
stronger possibilities. With the excep-
ton of Mr.. Paulding who is capable
actor, her support is mediocre. It has
been yahs and yahs since we saw a
villainness of just the peroxide type
that Miss Pauline Eckart makes of
"A1ine Girard," the Other Woman, and
her work was interesting from the
archaeological standpoint. The company
was well dressed and the piece would
doubtless have been well-staged-
Thurston's plays usually are-except
for the accident which befen the
scenery in the storm yesterday and
which made it unfit for use last night.
The house scenery had to be used but
the company properties were available
and if the scenery was equally good,
and it doubtless was, the original pro-
auctions must have been all that could
be demanded A. F. J.
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OVERCOME BY GAS.
Fred Ward Didn't Turn OFF stove-Is
Nearly Dead

Fred Ward of Chicago, ILL.,, was
found nearly dead from asphyxiation
in his room in the Darlington hotel
shortly after noon today. The room
in which he was found was a small
one and all the windows and transoms
were closed. There was a gas burner
in the room which was connected by
a rubber tube with gas stove. The
stove was still burning, which indi-
Gated that all the oxygen in the air
had been consumed. There is but lit
tie hope of his recovery.
Ward retired as usual last night. He
did not come down to breakfast this
morning and was not seen around the
hotel during the forenoon. When he
failed to come down to dinner, en-
ployes of the hotel tried to rouse him
but without success One of them
looked through the transom and saw
his predicament. The door was smash
ed in and DR.. H. H. Keith, county
coroner, was notified. His life is being
prolonged by medical aid.
Ward came to Topeka about
month ago and has lived at the OAR
lington hotel ever since. He talked
little about himself, but it was learned
that he had told one of the boarders
of his brother-in-law, who worked for
Marshall Field & Co. in Chicago. He
carried with him a small outfit which
was used for making name plates such
as are placed or key rings and the
like. He received no mail during his
months stay in Topeka. This is all
that could be learned concerning him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30
FIREMEN HAVE STRUGGLE
An Empty Barn Burns and Adjoining
Buildings Saved.

While the f1remen and the fire
marshal were congratulating them
selves on the extreme luck of the last
day or SO in missing all fire alarms
of any kind during the hurricane, a
call came in at $3.50 this morning
from the district bounded by Seventh.
Eighth, Van Buren, and Harrison
streets. Before the companies could
arrive on the scene a large empty
barn belonging to the Stamey Livery
company was in flames and surround
ing property amounting to thousands
of dollars was in danger. After an
hour of hard fighting all of the prop
erty was saved and the one empty
barn was the only total loss of the
OF the morning
The fire started in a story and a
half barn on the alley running north
and south between Harrison and
Van Buren, streets bounded by
Seventh and Eighth. 1t was un-
doubtedly Of incendiary origin as the
barn was empty at the time and
nothing in it could have caused the
north is large two-story barn
owned and occupied by the Mutual
laundry in which is stored all of their
delivery horses and their wagons.
This barn was scorched badly and
part of the loft was burned but moth
ing was lost. The f1remen succeeded
in saving the six horses, all of the
wagons and the harness. Two tons
of hay stored IN the loft caught fire
from the adjoining burning building
but this was extinguished before it
could spread to the bottom floor and
to surrounding property. One small
barn across the alley west from the
Stamey barn was scorched and
caught fire at different times but the
fire companies fought it to a stand
still.
It was one of the hottest fires of
the year. The wind was blowing a
perfect gale from the north and the
thermometer was below zero. Com
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30
OF CONCERN TO THE CITY
A Number of Matters Disposed of at
the Council.

A sigh of RELIEF Is going up all over
the city today. Last night the streets
and walks committee of the city
council in whose power has been
placed the remaining of the streets
threw the matter overheard for the
present and in case the matter might
come in handy at a future meeting a
little thread bearing the name "de-
ferred" was attached to the PROPOSE
ton.
Some day when the Sea of Trouble
is quiet and the trade winds have
dropped to the depths the little string
will be carefully pulled in and the
street naming proposition that has
been stirring up more neighborhood
rows than anything else in the his
tory Of the city will be carried to the
admiraPs deck and handled with care.
The street naming question has been
referred to every committee and every
com hination OF committees in the city
council. The council has done all in
its power to make the city of Topeka
uniform and we'll laid out city but
on account of the extreme selfshness
and the false pride of some of the
"hooray-for-me" citizens the good
work will have to be killed and laid
away to rest until another time when
the city. The streets and walks COM
mittee fought over Roberts rules of
order last night until the street nam
ing business was forgotten and then
string and cast the troublesome thing
to the winds 1t was a wise thing for
the committee to do and they display
ed an excellent line Of forethought
when they acted in such a manner.
The last-the very last-paving pc
tition was granted last night. 1t was
for the paving of East Sixth to the
city limits. This will make the pave
ment reach as far east as the ceme-
terry and leaving only about a block
of unpaved street to the entrance of
the cemetery itself. East Sixth street
is getting its share of the pavement
this year and the people in this dis
trict will have enough taxes to last
them for years to come.
Part of the bushes transacted by
the streets and walks committee last
night could be boiled as follows: "The
objections Of the petitioners against
the West Tenth street pavement were
fled" 'All of the sidewalks petit
tons and objections were carried over
until a better day" 1.-THE Kutz reso-
luton to clear the Shunganunga was
politely placed on f1le.''
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Thomas Mitchell. aged 80 years,
died at his home eight miles north
of Topeka at $3.50 this morning Mr..
Mitchell had lived on the same farm
for thirty years. The funeral will
take place Monday at $50 a. m,
from the Church of the Assumption,
and the interment will be made in
Mt. Calvary cemetery.
Mrs. Ellen c. Witwer died at -11:45
Friday night at her residence, 1925
Western avenue She was born in
March, 1926 and was in her eighty
third year. She was married -Decem-
Der 90 1852 to Weaver D. Witwer at
Grand Island. N. Y. They came to
1907 at Topeka. Six children survive
her: Frank r., of Iowa; Mrs. r. B.
Irwin, Scott county, Kansas; Mrs. B.
F. Wharton, Topeka; W. D. Witwer.
Salina; c.. c. Wftwer, Topeka, and
Miss Marie Witwer, Topeka
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least NPEkANOIE|
s 21sek.lrsa 81 a. e

be teleDhoned to Ind. phone 2ssl black
Mr.. and Mrs. wooding have re-
turned home from North Dakota.
where they have been since last June,
the guests of their daughter.
nome from Kansas City where he
spent several days on a business trip
Mr.. Charles Steadman will go Sun
day to Sheffield. Mo-. where he has
accepted a position and will remain
permanently. Mrs. Steadman and
sons will join him in a few weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. Tinsley of 500
East Fifth street entertained the fol-
lowing guests: Rev. and Mrs F. E.
Mallory, Miss Jessie watson, Mrs. w.
Mrs. Wooding.
The funeral of Fred Morgan was
held from the home, one mile east of
town. He was 16 years of age and
died Thursday of pneumonia.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs G. B.
Stoudt of No. 5 Elliott street, has
been placed under quarantine for
smallpox. Calvin, their little son, is
| sick.
! Miss Margaret Hill, daughter of
Mr.. o. K. Hill. of 1877 Emmett street,
i is suffering with an attack of small
| pox. The house is under quarantine
Mr.. Edward Miller has arrived here
| from Germany and will make ms
home with his brother, Mr.. Walter
| Miller.
Mr. c. A. Nix of Marceline. MO.
has come to Topeka to make his fu-
ture home here.
| Mr.. Sam Cramer of 215 Grafton
| street has returned to work again at
ter being off several weeks on &C
count of illness.
Mrs. C. Coddington of 41S Jeffer-
| son street was called co Kansas Cit!
| Wednesday on account of the serious
| illness of her niece, Miss Nellie Parr
| and Mrs Ed Ash, who has been sick
| threatened with an attack of pneu-
monia, is much better.
Mr.. Charles Chase has returned to
Kansas City after a short visit here
with his mother.
Twenty-one young people of Bran
ner school have been awarded
diplomas for the completion of their
course at the grammar school They
gave a play entitled "a District
School, which was exceptionally well
rendered. The graduates were: Miss
Mae Barbee, Miss Alta Amos, Miss
Miss Alice Ellenberger, Miss Birdie
Lindhead, Miss Lottie Jameson, Miss
Lena Roof, Miss Florence Radcliffe,
Miss Viola Sawyer, Miss Valeta
Shaffer, Miss Velma Swearingen, Miss
Leah Treadwell, Miss Blanche Under
wood Mr.. Elmer Baldwin, Mr. Archie
Kay, Mr. Tom earle, Mr.. Leroy Her
ring, Mr.. Ralph Hope. Mr.. Martin
Mears and Mr.. Frank. Dyson.
Hear Messer at Majestic p m. Sun
day.
T11us+ro+a5 1ao+,,-o NHa3os+io . - ~
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panies 2, 3 and responded and they
had three lines of hose and one
chemical on the flames in very short
|. time. The pressure was very good
will be remembered that these barns
are situated in between vast amount
of proprty right in the heart of the
city and if a fire had gained any
Roadway whatever together with the
cold weather and the hard wind it
would have been a hard proposition
to stop. The connections and the
hydrants were frozen stiff before the
hose was disconnected and the hre-
men themselves were a sight TO see
Chief WiImarth found it necessary to
saw some of the clothes from his
body on account of the ice that had
collected there. All of the hremen
were one thick coat OF ice from head
to foot and many of them had TO
thaw out before they could change
their clothing. There were not over
twenty people to witness the fire and
it was very quiet and yet dangerous
blaze.
The loss to the buildings will prob
ably not exceed $1,000. Chief Will
marth says that this figure would
cover it all very easily. The fire mar
shall feels very much gratified over
the work of his men in stemming the
blaze as he realized the immense
amount of property endangered.
The first report that spread this
morning was that all of the Mutual
laundry horses had been burned but
there was little to the story as every
horse was pulled from the building by
the f1remen. There might have been
an old buggy in the Stamey barn as
there isaremnant of something among
the ruins but the said the barn was
empty and nothing of any value was
inside. There was no insurance on
the burned barn.
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Mr.. John DRESSER has returned
home from Anderson county where he
| was called several days ago on bust
ness.
Mr.. Henry White of S65 Kellam
street, who has been quite sick for
several weeks with an attack of
typhoid fever, is able to be out and
around again.
The Ladies Aid society of the Chris
tan church will give a dinner next
Thursday in the Dawdy building
Mrs. Mabel Richard, who has been
quite sick for several days, is improv-
ing and is able to be up and around
Mrs. Joe Ward has gone to Ration, N.
M, where she will spend a month
visiting relatives and friends.
Mrs. w. s. Pate and daughter Ethel
spent Friday night the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Lingo.
Mr.. r. Burkett is disposing of his
| household goods at 32S Oakland ave-
nue..
Mrs. Dr. w. T. Taylor of 29s Oak
land avenue, who has been confined to
her home with a slight attack OF
pneumonia. is slowly improving.
A few friends of Miss Ethel Johnson
of 1874 After avenue spent an evening
with her. Those present yere: Miss
Louella Huston, Miss Ada Sherwood,
Mr.. Earl Cummings, Mr.. Lee Burg
hardt and Mr.. Sherman Taylor.
Mr. Ed Johnson, who has been an
emp1oye of the Santa Fe shops here,
has accepted position in New Mexico
and left this morning for that place.
The Ladies' Aid society of the NJ. E.
church will meet next Thursday with
Mrs J. G. Huey on Chester avenue.
The Oakland Forestry club met last
with Mrs. Shuler at her home on Ches-
ter avenue.
The Ladies' Aid society of the NJ E.
church met Friday afternoon at the
parsonage and planned future work.
Mrs. w. S. Eastman and daughter
Helen were the guests of relatives in
North Topeka.
Mr.. William Johnson. who has been
sick for several months, is now rapidly
improving.
Rev. Van Horn of Sheridan, wyo,
is visiting old friends here for several
weeks. Mr.. Van Horn is a former
pastor of the Presbyterian church.
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Ketchum of
Manhattan Kan. are spending a few
DAYS visiting friends and relatives.
Miss Hazel Ball is in Kansas City
visiting her sister.
Mrs N E. Copeland is unable to be
out on account of Illness.
Mr.. Karl Hummell. who is in Keith's
hospital with an attack of pneumonia.
is improving and will be able to be out
in few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Williams have
gone to Wichita where they will make
their future home.