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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-19
NOT BOYLE'S WIFE.
Woman Held for Whitla kidnapping
Said to Be of Good Family.

Mercer. Pa. April 19.-That the
woman charged with the abduction
of little Willie Whitla from Sharon.
last month, is not the wife of James
H. Boyle, but is the unmarried daugh-
ter of wealthy and respectable par
ents whose character and standing are
above reproach, is what the state ex-
poets to prove in the approaching
trial of the kidnapping cases Detec-
tive l. V. Kepner. who disappeared
from Mercer Immediately after the
recent visit of Mr.. and Mrs H Cho-
teau Dyer, of ST. Louis, has returned
and announced that he has positively
identified the woman.
Attorney T. c. Cochran, who is rep
resenting Mr.. Whitla in the prosecu-
ton. has refused to allow the identi-
fication to be made public but Will en-
deavor to have it introduced at the
trial Mr. and Mrs. Dyer, who par
TALLY identified the woman as a maid,
who left their employ about the time
that 5000 worth of jewelry dlsap-
peared. will return. it is said. as wit
nesses before the grand jury or at the
trial. The abduction cases will not
be presented to the grand jury before
Thursday.
Judge Williams, delivered his charge
to the grand jury at noon leaving nc
doubt that true bills would be returned
against Boyle and his wife charging
kidnapping.
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AT CHICkERING HALL.
New Concert Room Opened at
neutrality-suspicious. Saturday.


Local musicians are greatly in
terested in Chickering hall, a new
concert room, which the Emahizer-
Spielman Furniture company formally
opened with public concerts Saturday
afternoon and evening. The hall
which is particularly attractive in
arrangement and decoration, seats
over two hundred people and the use
of it will be granted free to music
teachers and others for concert pur-
poses. 1t will doubtless prove very
popular with local musicians. who
have needed small concert hall of
this description, and will certainly be
glad to avail themselves if its use for
pupils recitals and similar purposes .
The concerts Saturday were well
attended and two creditable pro-
gramrnes were given in the afternoon.
Professor HarveI Worrall, piano
and Mr.. Glen Waggoner. vocalist,
were the artists. In the evening Mrs.
George w. Parkhurst sang Ronald $
beautiful Cycle of Life. Dvorak's Song
NV Mother Taught Me, Sterne's
Printemps, Willeby's June Morning
and Tosti's Serenade. Mrs. Robert
Carver at the piano; Mr. Worral
gave piano and Mr.. Oscar L. DarloN
flute number These were sup
pIemented by Apollo numbers by MT
Mack. Weekly public concerts Will
be given in the hall, the date to be
| announced later.
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Mob Numbering 200 Storm the
Jail at Ada, Okla.
Overpower Sheriff, Take Out
Prisoners and Hang Them.
CHARGE OF MURDER
Was Pending Against All of the
Victims.
Lynchers Cut Electric Wires
Before Going to Jail.

Ada, Okla, April 19.-At 3 o'clock
this morning. a mob of 200 men
stormed the county Jail here. and af-
ter overpowering the sheriff lynched
four white men. The lynched men
are:
]. B. Miller of Fort Worth, Tex,
charged with the murder of A. A.
Bobbitt, a wealthy cattleman of this
section; and E. E. Brown, Jesse West
and Joseph Allen, alleged accomp1ices.
The mob worked rapidly and
quietly, nothing being known of the
lynching until daylight. The victims
of the mob were taken to a barn
within a short distance of the jail
Bring a rope" the leader shouted
and one by one the men were hanged.
The mob effected an entrance to the
Jail. by tearing down a high fence
which enclosed it. AS soon as all of
the members of the vigilance party
were inside the enclosure the leader
pounded on the Jail door.
Sheriff, we mean business" he
called to the officer inside.
You might as we'll go home, boys"
the sheriff answered, 81 will never
open this door. Duty is duty. I'm
here to observe the law and protect
these men"
For reply three or four sturdy
door. breaking it. Inside one of the
party dealt the sheriff blow with his
revolver. telling him. The mob then
completed its work
Walter Peeler. aged H. nephew OF
Miller. confined in the jail for compiled
ty in the murder. was not molested by
the lynchers. He turned states evi-
dence a week ago and was being held
as witness.
Electric Wires Cut.
| The electric wires were cut by the
mob prior to the hanging and the city
thrown into complete darkness. BuI
| for this fact no one would ever have
suspected that there had been a lynch
| ing.
The men lynched were accused o,
numbering man named Bobbitt
near dusk. he was driving in his wagor
a few miles out of Ada. The shot which
killed him. was fired from ambush. Ths
| assassin mounted his horse and rodt
away. Bobbitt's dead body was found
| the next day. There was no evidence
save the shoes on the murderer's horse
which had been removed a few mile
from the crime. Miller and his com
panions were suspected of KNOWN;
who committed the crime
! Two weeks ago the prisoners wer
placed under arrest at FIT. Worth fo
the murder and brought to Ada fo
trial. Miller had his preliminary hear
ing last Friday and was held. withou
lbail. The authorities allege that ALE
men of Canadian. Texas, hired Mile
to kill Bobbitt. Burwell paying Mile
the money. Allen. West and Bobbit
were neighbor ranchmen in Senninol
county and the trouble is alleged t
have been due to an old disagreement
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TALK OF MURDOCH.
New York Herald's Complimentary
Notice of the Kansan.

New York, April 1e.-The New York
Herald printed an article Sunday by
Representative Murdoch of Kansas on
the fight on the house rules. The ar
ticle is prefaced by an account of Muir
dock. The story. with a large portrait
of the Kansan glaring at Speaker Can
non, occupies full page.
somebody" the Herald says, has
called Victor Murdoch the red haired
Kansas man who always is laughing
and always in dead earnest. He always
lis in earnest, but he doesn't always
laugh. Away back in Wichita in the
late 'S0s. Murdock and William Allen
White used to foregather and in the
fuiiness Of their youth plan their fu-
ture, whereby Murdock was to be the
great literary light of Kansas and
White it's political genius.
That plan went askew. Murdock is
| not great in the literary sense, but
Speaker Cannon will bear evidence to
the fact that he has made his political
mark White is not much of a states
man, but he wrote What's the Matter
with Kansas and stories that are clas-
sic in the present day boys literature
Furthermore. it is the opinion of Kan
sas that neither Murdock nor White has
we'll started upon his journey
The Herald tells of Murdock's fight
against the railway mail graft 1t says:
| I'm a recent letter. written to one OF
Ihis personal friends in New York, Mr.
Murdoch wrote:
AFTER / had been down here while
III discovered a thing which had beer
hidden away 80 years. having escaped
four special commissions which hao
made a search of the premises for il
land one expert statistician. who was
ipaid 5000 for his effort. What 1 found
was this: In the computation for find
ling the average daily weight. upor
(which average daily weight the govern
tInent paid the railroads for the carriage
lof the mail. the postoffice department
has been weighing the mails seven day:
THAT is every day in the week. an6
tthen dividing by six to get the average
ldaily weight. In other words, the de
lpartment included Sunday in the divi
ldend. but excluded it in the divisor.
A Waste of 5 Million a Year.
by this process figured out tina
in "a years the government had over
, maid the railroads 20 million dollars
and at the moment of discovery wa
/ overpaying them at the rate of mil
t lion dollars a year. Self-evident as thi
Inreposition was, it was so astoundini
, as to inspire disbelief over perio
towering months 1 made the fight i
Icomnittee and in the open house for
correction l made every possible mo
: it1on under the rules that could b
I tlmade dinned the proposition in th
Iears of the house day after day an
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ROBBED FREIGHT TRAIN
Four Men Found With $4,000 Worth
of Stolen Goods.

Omaha, Neb., April 19--The arrest
on Wednesday at LaPlatte, Neb-, of
four men in house in which was
found stored $4,000 worth of goods al
legged to have been stolen from freight
trains in the vicinity of Omaha was
followed by a full confession from the
leader of the gang, which IS sald 10
imD1icate several others, including
some prominent Omaha business firms
where their plunder has been sold
The men arrested are Louis and j.
w Adair, Alfred Bachs and j. Walt
ers. They have been working on the
Adair made the confession. Their plan
was to board freight trains at South
Omaha and throw off the goods after
the trains started. They have been
operating since last October and are
alleged to have stolen many thousands
of dollars worth of goods.
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GAINES BUTLER FEUD.
1t Is Being Aired in the District Court
Today.

The long standing feud between H. n
Gaines and James Butler is being aired
in district court today. Butler, editor
Of a paper called the "Co-operatiye
Leader is defendant, and, Gaines, own
eI and publisher of the farmers Ad-
yocate.'' is plaintiff. Gaines is. suing
for $4,000 damages. and includes as de-
PENDANTS the stockholders sot the KAN
sas Farmer.
January 10. 190S published in his pa
per. the 'sCo-operative Leader, an ar
ticle containing much disrespect for the
n1aintiff. An extract from the article
in question was added to the petition
II mentions Gaines in such endear1ng
terms as straitor." midnight assassin,
confidence man." ETC.. and compares
him to Harry Orchard. Benedict Ar
noId and other historic crooks
1t is charged against the stockholders
Of the Kansas Farmer that their cor
noration does job printing as a side
line and that one of these JOBS Ior
hire was to set to type and print the
lcony of the "Co-operative Leader" con-
tanning the Hbelous matter. The stock
holders named are A. r. Heath, A. H.
roweil1 M. A. Low, Albert T. Reid and
II r Mulvane The Plaintiff claims
thew are liable for printing the Butler
The defense cites that Buffers pub.
ncation. now defunct. simply retallatee
| in kind to numerous attacks made o!
iHaines upon Butler. An attempt VIII
| he made to erase any connection W1tf
fine suit on the part of the stock com
many owning the Kansas Farmer, OF
lfhe grounds that the publication was
sinnIy a stock job in which the print
ers had no interest.
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Hams mind was unbalanced by the
stories of friendship of Mrs. Hams for
Annis Whether or not Mrs Claudia
T.. Hains, wife of the defendant would
be called as a witness for the prosecu-
ton is not certain and much depended
upon the decision on that point. Fifty
witnesses were summoned for the de-
fense.
The selection of a jury began before
Justice Harrietson IN the supreme court
at the opening of court. Captain Hams
was brought over from the Queens
count jail at Long Island City. He
looked pale and worn and wore heavy
dark beard.
District Attorney Dewitt said before
court opened that the prosecution would
have about 25 witnesses and had re-
tained three alienists to combat any
testimony of insanity. which the de-
fense might introduce.
The district attorney said he had no
formal promise from Mrs. Claudia
Hams, the defendants wife, that she
would testify for the people, but said
that she had left Boston and probably
would be accessible If wanted. Mr.
Dewitt is assisted in the prosecution
| by John Hetherington, first assistant
district attorney of Queens county,
| and George A. Gregg, former district
attorney.
Eugene n. Young and Daniel O'Reilly,
who was an associate counsel for
| Harry Thaw, appeared for the defense
The first twelve talesmen examined
were excused.
| District Attorney Dewitt's examina-
/ ton of the talesmen was brief Law
yer Young for the defense examined
each man at length. 1t appeared from
| his line of questioning that the de-
tense intended to plead insanity for
| the prisoner.
Captain Hams sat in coHS fiahked
by his lawyers Major Hams. his
! brother and General Peter c. Hams,
his father, sat at the table with him.
| The prisoner maintained a stoical
Indifference so the proceedings.
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OUR WORST EVIL.
a. C. Preacher Says Gambling Over
shadows Every Other Curse.

Kansas City, April 1s.-After
preaching an anti-bridge whist ser
mon on Women Who Gamble" Rev.
j. L. Thompson. pastor of the Forest
Avenue Christian church, last night
at the request of the women members
of his congregation, turned his denun-
ciative eioquence against men who
gamble
"Gambling has certainly kept pace
with the progress of the country.
said Reverend Mr. Thompson. "only
few years ago professional
gambler was a marked man. Today
deceptive characters on earth are al
lowed to pose as gentlemen in good
society
..It is a fact that the revenues from
the race track depend on the
gambling feature. They do not man
age horse races for philanthropic inn
provement any more than the owner Of
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MERCURY TAKES A DROP
Falls From 80 Degrees to 40 With
North Wind.

About 30 per cent of the male popu-
lation of Topeka decided Sunday morn
ing that the time had arrived to put
on summer unmentionables. 1T was
the Hunch that Failed"
At O'Clock. just when the faithful
were headed for the church and the
otherwise were thinking about getting
up. Observer Jennings heard stin
small voice remark: BEAT it for the
weather station and hang out the
trouble rag" And He DID
Which was absolutely correct IL
grew warmer and warmer While Pro
fessor Jennings was telling the people
by bulletin that the temperature would
fall to 40, the mercury was headed for
the top of the tube. At ! O'Clock In the
afternoon it registered 50. AT 10 min
utes after 2, the wind, which, was blow
ing steadily from the south at the rate
Of 12 miles per hour took change Tor
the worse and only required one min
11te's time in which to come in at the
same speed from, the north. This
zephyr freshened to a speed of 20 miles
per hour. and in few minutes the
Temperature "dropt''-that is the way IL
is spelled In the bulletins-to 4S- Inc Inc
change was sudden. but harmless. The
| lowest point reached was 40. There
was no frost. The trace of sleet at
| o'clock this morning will help the blue
grass.
The wind this afternoon has modera
ted to - miles per hour from the nortn
and the temperature is rising gradual-
lly. The precipitation of the mornlns
was not of sufficient Importance t'
measure, and is recorded otlcially as
trace of moisture" Local forecast 10
| tonight and tomorrow. is: "Warme'
| tonight-unsettled tonight and Tues
Idav Hourly temperatures today.
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the highest vote ever received in that
fight was IL out of a membership of
3S7. Immediately after congress adj
journed Roosevelt. to whom had ap-
pealed. corrected the practice by an
executive order issued by the post
master general. There is not a soul
in the United States who defends the
old Communication today
1T was this which started me in
the campaign against the rules. Hay-
ing had the experience and actual DEM
onstration of the pitiable helplessness
of the individual representative, even
when armed with a proposition that in
its very nature was .undeniably just
i; became to me a compelling duty to
free the vehicle of legislation
Mr.. Cannon has great admiration
for the red haired Kansan-he likes
him. but he despises his methods. Mr..
Cannon certainly believes that the
wheels of government would be clogged
if individualism is not suppressed in
the house of representatives. His rules,
in his opinion. are saving the govern
ment from disaster. Murdock holds to
the contrary, and so long as he so holds
he may be trusted to continue his fight
from his seat on the floor of the house.
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WILL OPERATE LANYON PLANT.
Amendment OF Receiver VIII Mean .
Complete Reorganization.

New York. April 1s.-From y.
Borne, president of the Colonial Safe
Deposit company and director in the
National Park bank, both of which in
stitutions are understood to be holders
of Lanyon company bonds, II was
learned here that the action OF the
Trust Company of America, of which
Mr.. Borne is chairman of the execu-
tive committee, was taken with view
to an early reorganization Of the COM
pany.
ssThe bonds of the company" SAID
Mr.. Borne. "are very closely held and
the receivership does not mean the
dissolution of the company or the cur
tailnent Of any of its activities. The
placing of the affairs of the company
in the hands of Mr.. Rogers, acting In
the capacity of receiver instead of as
president is in a sense friendly
proceeding, taken for the protection of
the bondholders, but with no detri-
men to any of the other Interests in
volved-
''There vii be no interruption in the
operations of the company"
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roulette wheel keeps it going nightly

a roulette wheel keeps It going nightly
to study motion.
This evil of the race track, how
ever, is small when compared 10
stock gambling. The most demoranz-
ing c,.rse of the nation today is the
monstrous game of chance going on
in Wall street. 1t is a citadel of So
called respectable citizens who ply
a criminal occupation for a livelihood,
for they make their money without
any value behind it. The Louisiana
lottery was infinitely unimportant
with the evils in Wall street. The lot
terry was played fairly-there were
no stacked cards or loaded dice, and II
did not imperil the legitimate busl-
ness in this country as does Wall
street
general Sherman said, war is
hell. No, general. it's gambling May
the powers of heaven and earth de-
liver us from it."
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A CRY FOR HELP
From the Scene of the Recent Massa-
Gre at Adana.

From the Scene OF the Recent Noooo
ere at Adana.
Boston, April ia. brief cable dis
patch, in effect cry for help from tne
scene of the massacre at Adana, Asia
Minor, where d. H. Rogers and MI.
Maurer perished. has been received oy
the American board of commissioners
for foreign missions here. The message
is as follows:
CHAMBERS"
This was from the Rev. William
Chambers, the resident missionary OF
the board at Adana. Convinced that the
help requested must be prompt, Secre-
tary Barton notified the of1clals OF the
state department at Washington or the
appeal There are thought to have peen
upwards of Is missionaries connected
with the American board, gathered at
Adana last week for the annual con-
ference of the central Turkey mission.
The identity of the particular dele
gates is not known to the American
boards officers in this city, but among
the entire number of missionaries IN
Central Turkey of whom SOME are likely
to have been in Adana. are the follow
Miss Kate E. Ainslee of Ohio; Miss
Alice c. Brewer of Washington, niece
of Justice Brewer of the United States
supreme court: Miss Isabella NJ. Blake
OF Vermont; Miss Ellen NJ. Blakely OF
| Winchendon, Mass; DR.. Thomas d
! Christie of Hartford. Conn.,, and his
wife: William N Chambers of Canada
land his wife; Cornelia P. Chambers OF
! Philadelphia: Fred F. Goodsell and his
wife, Lulu x S. Goodsel of San Fran
Mich; Frederick w. McCullum anC
Mrs McCullum of Toronto, Canada
Mrs Margaret r. Trowbridge of Brook
IIvn and Miss Clara L. Peck of Chicago
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The Man Who Killed William e.
Annis Last August
Called to Face a Jury on the
Charge of Murder.
A PLEA OF INSANITY
Indicated by Manner in Which
Jurors Are Examined.
The Prosecution Has Retained
Three Expert Alienists.

Flushing, N. Y, April 19-Insanity
both at the time of the killing of Will
lam E Annis and since was expected
to be the chief point of the defense in
the trial beginning today Of Captain
Peter c. Hams, Jr.. charged with the
murder of Annis on the float of the
Bayside Yacht club on August Is. last.
Counsel for the defense announced they
would attempt to prove that Captain
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CRUSHED HIS SKULL.
Glenn McAIuIlin of MacksviIIe Kicked
on Head-Is Still Alive.

With piece of the front of his skull
as wide as the horses hoof which
kicked him pressing his brain and rem
dering him unconscious, Glen Nc
Mullin, a small boy, was brought to
Christ's hospital Saturday evening
from Macksville.
The boy had been playing around the
stall when the family horse kicked,
striking the lad full on the head. The
section split open and caved in was
over three inches in length. DIR. Bowen
performed the operation of elevating
the skull.
Today the boy is reported improving
and the doctors say that he may live.
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PATTEN CROWD SELLS.
July Wheat Is Hammered Down
rs Cents.

Chicago, April 1s.-Selling at
tributed to the "Patten crowd" and
allies, although on a moderate scale
TODAY sent the price of July wheat of
on the board of trade. and close on
that option being 21s cents under
Saturdays final figures
At one time July sold at 81 1.1S u
This tempted profit taking and the de-
cline brought stop loss orders under
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Lanyon Failure Helps Pueblo.

Pueblo. Col, April 19.-The new roas-
Ter of the zinc smelter of the American
SmeIting and Refining company. it is
unofficiaIly announced VIII De started
~, shortly and smeltermen in this city
state that the probable cause for this
i the failure of the Lanyon smeiter at
lola. which is expected to divert more
ore to Pueblo.
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relief. The killed at Adana are esti-
mated at more than 1000 but no par
ticulars of the massacre are yet avali-
able
Disturbances have occurred also at
Marash. a city of about $4,000 people
in the yilayet of Alepho. and about ~
miles northeast of Alexandretta. 1t Is
reported that 20 persons were killed OF
wounded there The authorities at
Marash behaved well and the disorders
were soon put down.
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DECISION UPHELD.
Ala ALBANIA Roads Denied a Rehearing
at New Orleans.

New Orleans, La, April 19.--The
United States court of appeals at New
Orleans today denied a rehearing in
the railroad rates cases of Alabama re-
Gently decided in favor of the state.
The state fixes the rates by the bills
sustained on 10 commodities and
makes passenger fares 21a cents a
mile.
The railroads figuring in the case
were the Louisville & Nashville Rail-
road company, the Western Railway
of Alabama, and the Nashville, Chatta-
nooga e st Louis
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PROF. HUNTER COMING.
viii Deliver Address to Shawnee
Alfalfa Club Saturday

Bradford Miller, president of the
shawnee County Alfalfa club, announc-
ed today that Professor Hunter
stare entomologist at the ManhattanAg-
ricultural college. will deliver an ad-
dress in Topeka at ? o'clock Saturday
afternoon. Professor Hunter is an al
falfa expert. and will speak on the sub
iect. He will speak at the Commercial
ol,1h rooms
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STOPPED ANSON'S COLTS
Police Interfered for First Time at
Manhattan Field.

New York, April 19.-"PoP" Arson
and his Chicago colts are indignant
today because of police interference
yesterday during a game at Manhat-
tan field, in the upper part of the city
with a local team of mi-profession-
ais The officers stopped the game
after six innings of play Throughout
the Bronx the police were active in
suppressing Sunday ball playing. but
this is said to be the first time that
a game on Manhattan field has thus
been broken up.