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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-24

der command of Admiral Sir Edward
Hobart Seymour. arrived off Sandy
three other British warships, which
have been awaiting her arrival since
yesterday. The British ships remained
at anchor off the Hook. The American
cruiser Montana arrived this morning
to join the other American warships
anchored in Hudson river
Although the Hudson-Fulton cele-
brat1on does not begin until tomorrow
it is estimated that there are already
more strangers in the city than ever
before, with the possible exception of
the Dewey celebration in 1899. Fully
100000 persons went to the river
front yesterday to view the interna-
tional armada of warshipS at anchor
in the Hudson and it is expected that
today there will be more than half a
million.
With the arrival today of the Brit
iSh and German fleets the representa-
tion of foreign natives is complete.
The American torpedo fiotilla which
reached the Brooklyn Navy Yard yes
terday, will swing into it's position in
the ten miles of mighty fighting ma
chimes on the Hudson today and half
dozen other American war vessels will
arrive from coast points The three
British cruisers which anchored off
Sandy Hook in the fog night before
last spent all of yesterday in dressing
ship before entering in review before
the other navies of the world.
Fastest Warship Ahoat.
Every one Of the $4,000 officers and
sailors on the warships now assembled
here besides vast number of laymen
are greatly interested in the Inf1eXible
and it will probably be the center of
interest in the naval show vieing with
the Half Moon and the Clermont for
public attention. This is said to be the
fastest large warship afloat and naval
lacn say it outranKs in power any of
the American battleships. 1t cost the
British government IS 500 900.
With the railroads running double
train service the city is rapidly filing
with visitors. That all of them cannot
obtain hotel accommodations is indica-
ted by the operations of a syndicate
which has leased all of the Transat-
lantic liners which will be lying at their
piers during the celebration. This syn
dicate mas made arrangements with
many of the hotels to send their over
flow of applicants for lodgings to the
steamships where they will be given
berths at 81 night.
Steamship owners are likely to be
among the big money makers during
the celebration. All manner of craft
have been put into service of carry
ing visitors in the naval pegeants at
a price ranging from So to SIS a per-
brings $4,000 day to its owners
from the lessees. Sixty-five custom
clerks will assist the regular $50 Gus
toms inspectors in seeing that none
of the excursion boats are over
crowded.
The special ENJOYS of 20 countries
are now here and their ranks are
augmented by the presence of most of
the foreign diplomats resident in the
United States. For more than
social activities of international i'm
DOrtance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-24
Peary Will Not Take C0gnizance
of Other Matters
Until Question of Who Dis
covered the Pole Is Settled.
RESTING ATPORTLAND
will Reach Home at Eagle
Island This Afternoon.
Ho Declines to DeScuss Subject
of His Resignation.

Portland, Me, Sept. 24.-The morn
ing hours today were devoted to rest
by Commander Peary and his family
in their rooms at the falmouth hotel.
all being much fatigued by their jour
ney from Sydney, N. s., and last
nights demonstration.
The SMALL launch kept at their
summer home on Eagle island, was
brought to the city during the fore
noon in READINGS to take Commander
Peary, Mrs. Peary and the two child
rem to Eagle Island, about noon. The
distance is Is miles and the trip re-
quires nearly two hours.
1t was understood Mr.. Peary would
go to Bar Harbor Sunday or Monday
for a conference with General Thos.
H. Hubbard to whom he has consign-
ed important papers bearing on the
Cook controversy.
'I have authorized no one to make
any statement of that kind" said
Commander Peary today.
When shown the dispatch sent from
Washington intimating that he would
resign from the havy and devote the
of his days to lecturing and
writing, he declined to say whether he
had any intention of resigning, de-
claring that he would take cognizance
of no side issues until the main Ques-
tion of who first discovered the north
pole had been settled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-24
STARTLED THE WALDORF
Robert Bruce Gordon of BuckIin Lost
Diamond, Drew Revolver.

New York. Sept. 24.-The first floor of
the WaldCrf-Astoria was thrown into
confusion thursday by a wild-eyed man
who ran from the barber shop to the
bar and from the har to the desk and
palm garden and the Turkish room
flourishing a revolver. The man said
that he w&s Robert Bruce Gordon and
that he came here Eve or six days
age from Bucklin. Ford county, Kan.
I he clerks say that Gordon was not
registered at the hotel
Gordon went into the barber shop of
the Waldorf and was shaved. Then he
went out, but in about a quarter of an
hour came back and hunting up the
man who had shaved him, demapded:
Here. what did you do with my
badger
The barber wanted to know what he
meant, and at his question Gordon pull
ed out L revolver. which he aimed at
the mans stomach. The barber ducked
behind the chair and Gordon went
through the tarber shop into the bar
and then to the public room of the
hotel dourishing his revolver Several
OF the clerks finally Subdued the man.
When taken to the police headquar-
eTs Gordon explained that he had lost
a valuable horseshoe diamond pin in
the Waldorf barber shop. Magistrate
Breen sent Gordon to the psychopathic
ward in Bellevue for examination.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-24
HER SIXTH HUSBAND.
Thought His Wife an Unsophisticated
Country Girl.

Kansas City, Sept 24.-When he
found four marriage certificates in his
wifes' trunk, Frederick Chapman, of
this city, who believed he had married
an unsophisticated country girl, inves-
tigated further and discovered what he
considered evidence that Mrs. Chap
man had not been divorced from her
last husband. Chapman confronted
his wife with the certificates and she
confessed to previous alliances. He
then preferred charges of bigany
against her and she was arrested. She
is held for trial in the criminal court.
According to an alleged confession
to the prosecuting attorney, Mrs
Chapman admitted having been mar
ried to five men besides Chapman. ana
said she had deserted each of them.
Her first husband was Frank Ritter,
whom she met in PaoIa, Kan, ten
years ago. Another was James Cheney
of Butler, Mo-, and Martin Wheeler of
Jasper county, Missouri, was the third.
Her two other husbands were Kansas
CitV men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-24
MOTHER LOVE IGNORED
Girl Asks Court to Name Fathers
Housekeeper as Guardian.

Chicago, Sept. 24.-Mother love
was ignored by Miss Ellen WasseIl,
Is years old. who, following the ac-
cidental drowning of her father, DR..
Jos. w. Wassell, during a yacht
cruise on Lake Michigan. petitioned
the probate court to appoint as her
guardian, Agnes L. Hellmuth, house
keeper in the WassaH home. The
girls mother. now Mrs. Thomas
Chadbourne of New York, had come
to Chicago to assume control of her
daughter. Mrs. Chadbourne divorced
Dr. Wassell in Nevada in 1906.
DR.. Wassall's will leaves nearly all
his estate to his daughter. who, TAX
ing advantage of a law allowing per-
sons more than IA years old to choose
guardians, filed her petition at the
time the will was probated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-24
AMONG SAINTS.
The Taft Special Enters the
Mormon Country.
He Will Stay in Salt Lake Until
Sunday Noon.
PREACHERS PROTEST.
PrOtestants Object to His Going
to Tabernacle Service.
Bids Farewell to His Escort of
% SheriffS.

Helper. Utah, Sept. 24.-Stil in pur-
quit of the setting sun, President Taft's
westward journey brought him into
Utah today to be welcomed by the gov
ernor, 7he senators and representatives
in congress, and a committee of citi-
ZenS, who came from Salt Lake in a
special car which was attached here
to the Taft special train. The presi-
dents first scheduled stop today was at
Provo, n short distance east of Salt
Lake, where he spent 45 minutes. He
will arrive at Salt Lake at 4:30 p M,
to remain there until Sunday noon.
Word has come Indirectly to the presi-
dent that protest has been made in
Salt Lake City by a number of Protest
ant ministers against the plan to have
the president make an address in the
Mormon tabernacle Sunday morning. 1t
is said the Protestant ministers believe
he should not go to Mormon church
on Sunday. 1t is possible the matter
may be arranged by having the presi-
cent make his address in the tabernacle
at the tire of the organ recital Sat
urday, although the matter is still in
the hands of the Salt Lake committee.
could be had from the presidents train
this morning.
Extraordinary precautions are being
taken by all the western railroads for
the presidents safety. On the long ride
over the passes and steep grades of the
Rocky mountains and in fact ever since
he left Denver, the presidential train has
been preceded by a pilot train and fol-
lowed by ''loose engine" c. H.
Schlacks, vice president and general
II anager of the Denver & Rio Grande
system attached his own car to the
presidents train at Denver and will
go through with him to Salt Lake.
When he left Grand Junction early
this morning, the president bade fare
We'll to the picturesque escort of % Col
orado sheriffs. He paid the sheriffs
very high compliment and declared to
Cne of his audiences yesterday that the
friendship Of the sheriffs is always a
good thing to cultivate.
President Taft on the eve of his de-
I.arture, a little more than week ago.
said that he expected to make IS
speeches on his trip of eight weeks
When he made short address in Mont
rose, Col, last night, his total speeches
had reached So tCar-end stops have
been far more frequent than was an
ticipated and the president has re-
sponded, wherever possible. to the
never-ceaS:ng calls for speeches.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-24
BOTH LEGS CUT OFF.
William zimmerman of Newton Is
Fatally Hurt Near Topeka.

William Zimmerman of Newton, rid
ing a Rock Island freight train as q
caboose passenger out OF Mayeee@
bound for Topeka last night, feH pc
meath the wheels and both legs were
severed He was brought into Topeka'
a distance of twenty miles, and TAKEN
to the Stormont hospital, where he
died this morning.
Two long cushions, soaked Win
blood, floating down the river, were
dragged from the water near the wear
sand boat at o'clock this morning
This led to an investigation by ChleI OF
Police Eaton who is not entirely sat
isfied they were those used atter the
Zimmerman accident.
Train No. 991 brought the semicon-
scious man into Topeka about O'Clock
this morning. The blood saturated
cushions were seen floating in the river
at o'clock by A. H. Koepke, an en-
ploye at the sand boat. The cushions
f1oated down about ten minutes apart
and one had reached the Melan bridge
before he hooked it.
1t is possible that the cushions were
from the train 991 which is a local be-
tween Topeka and ST. Joseph. If so
they were thrown from the train when
it made a return trip crossing the Rock
Island bridge above the sand boat,
though Koepke did not see a train.
Trainmen are supersticious, it is said,
and the conductor may have thrown
away the cushins upon which thinner
man bIed Still the officers are not
quite certain that some other sort of
trouble may not be responsible for the
blood soaked pads.
J. H. Smith, a brother-in-law of Zin1-
norman, whose home is at Horton and
whom Zimmerman was visiting was
visiting with him on the train. He has
rebate checks from tickets which
proves the two had been passengers
and were not beating a ride. 1t is sup
posed Zimmerman stepped out upon the
front platform of the caboose at
Mayetta when the train jerked up.
throwing him under the car.
One leg was cut off above the ankle
and the other above the knee. One
hand was split also by the flange of
wheel. When he reached the hospital
he was almost unconscious and an ex-
animation showed he had no chance to
recover.
Will Zimmerman was but 18 years of
age and had been employed for months
as a boilermaker's apprentice in the
Santa Fe shops at Newton, where his
parents live. His body was taken to
the Penwell undertaking establishment
to be prepared to be sent to Newton.
Mr. Smith, the brother-in-Iaw, has
telegraphed the parents and awaits
them here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-24
NO FROST IN TOPEKA.
The Mercury Dropped to 46 Degrees
This Morning

A heavy dew. which fell early in
the night. prevented the appearance
of frost in Topeka and vicinity this
morning. The temperature was low
enough, and aside from the heavy
dew. conditions were right. The
maximum yesterday was 49, and the
minimum was reached at o'clock
this morning, with As. Hays City,
Kan, reports a minimum tempera-
ture this morning of "a, but fails to
minimum is not reported much below
38 at any other Kansas station ex-
cept Topeka. The forecast for the
next "a hours is. Fair. warmer
Saturday" This afternoon the wind
is blowing miles an hour from the
seat of war-(North pole) and the
hourly temperatures are recorded
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-24
ROASTED UNDER CAR.
Driver Burned to Death and Compan-
ions Neck Broken.

Americus. Ga. Sept 24.-One per-
son was burned to death, another in
stantly killed and a third seriously
burned when an automobile driven by
John McLendon ran off an eight foot
embankment here early today. Nc
Lendon and Miss Vinla Herman, one
of his companions, were pinioned be-
meath the wrecked car, which caught
fire. Ethel Hit, another member of
the party, although severely burned,
ran screaming to the city, two miles
distant and gave the alarm. Miss Her
mans neck was broken by the fall and
death was instantaneous, but McLen-
don was roasted alive.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-24
SEELEY IN TOPEKA.
Rupture Specialist, Who Fitted Gar.
VIII Be at TI1roop.

F. H. Seeley of Chicago, the noted
truss expert. will be at the Throop
hotel and will remain in Topeka this
Saturday, Sunday and Monday only,
September rs. &c and II. Mr.. Seeley
says: "The Spermatic Shield Truss as
now used and approved by the United
states government will not only retain
any case of rupture perfectly, affording
closes the, opening in ten days on the
average. case.'' This 4instrument re-
ceived the only award in England and
in Spain, producing results without
surgery or harmful Injections, If any
interested call, he will be glad to show
same without charge or fit them if de-
sired. Don't lose this opportunity.
Remember dates.
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FOR HEROIC RESCUE.
Gold and Silver Life Saving Medals
Are Awarded.

Washington, Sept. 24.-For heroic
rescues in various parts of the coun-
try, gold and silver life saving medals
have been awarded by the treasury
department to Frederick w. Mcneil
ey, navy yeoman; Hugh F. Doherty
Brooklyn, n. Y; Robert Mellon and
Fitz Wiltshire, Panama canal zone
employees; Michael Mallai, chief boat
swain's mate in the navy; M. M.
Quesna, second lieutenant of engin-
eers in the revenue cutter service and
Captain E. ]. Dodge, Wilbur L. Dodge
and Peter Peterson, the four last
named for rescues at Mackinac, Mich.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-24
NEARER TO MARS.
Distance to Neighboring Planet Re-
duced by 15,OOO,OOO Miles.

Washington, Sept. 24.-Nearer to
the earth by Is million miles than it
has been for fifteen years, the planet
Mars today is the object of immense
interest to the astronomers through
out the world, principally at the Unit
ed States Naval Observatory here. Its
average distance from the earth is SO
million miles. Its distance from the
earth today was only 100000 miles.
With this proximity, interest in the
planet which is always keen, will be-
come, even among those who cannot
claim to be students of astronomy, all
the keener, on account or the prob
ability that new discoveries concern
ing matters Marian will be made.
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BOY LOST FOR 83RD TIME
He Insists That He Gets Tired of Stay
ing at Home.

Chicago, Sept. 24.-Raymond Will
liams. seven years old, known as the
champion lost boy, is missing for the
83rd time. Yesterday the lads moth
er asked Chief of Detectives Wood to
detail detectives to find him.
Since Raymond has been able to
walk he has continued to worry his
mother and the police by repeatedly
running away from home. He is US
ually gone for two or three days and
then returns to tell his parents that
he was tired of staying at home all
the time"
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in the long line of craft in the Hudson
river today.
The Half Moon was towed from her
berth at a Brooklyn dock this morning,
down the East river and harbor to the
Kill Won Kull, between Staten island
and the New Jersey shore, where she
took her station in readiness for the
start of tomorrow's parade. The quaint
little vessel was greeted by the whistles
of every boat on the river and bay.
FuItOn's Grave Decorated.
The grave of Robert Fulton in Old
Trinity churchyard was marked and
decorated today by the Robert Fulton
Monument association. At each corner
of the slab was placed an enormous
American flag and around were set
miniature American, British and
French standards.
At the grave gathered a number of
relatives of the inventor. There were
Mrs Arthur Taylor Sutcliffe and her
sister, Miss Cornelia Crary, great
H Schuyler Cam
mann, a great grandson; Mrs. Herman
H. Cammann, the only granddaughter
of Fulton, and David S. Jacobus.
The monument which the associa-
ton hopes to erect in Fultons mem
between Hath and 116th streets. A
great water gate will be built, where
guests of the state ami
nation may be fittingly received. 1t is
that the work will begin next
year. The cost will be about So, ,6J0,-
900.
Arrival of Foreigners.
New York, Sept. 24.-The German
cruiser squadron, composed of the
Victoria Luise, Hertha, Bremen and
Dresden, which will participate in the
Hudson-Fulton ceremonies, arrived in
New York today, reaching Quarantine
station at Sis a. m.
The British battleship Inf1exible, un-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-24
ALL IS READY.
Preparation for Zig Marine
Spectacle Is Complete.
Celebrating the Hudson and
Fulton Anniversaries.
In THE SAME WATER
Ride at Anchor the Clerm0nt
and the Lusitania.
British Cruiser InfleXible a
Center of Interest.
IN THE SAME WATER

New York, Sept. 24.-AH the units
which will compose the magnificent
marine and aeronautic spectacles dur
ing the celebration of the Booth ami
versary of the discovery of the Hud-
son river and the 100 anniversary of
Fulton's first trip up that river in
steamboat were gathered in and
about New York today, with the sim
gle exception of one of the aero
planes.
And a strange and wonderful fleet
of marine and air craft they would
have made if assembled in COM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-24
WITH LAWTON AND WRIT
The Body of General Corbin Is Laid to
Rest at Arlington.

Washington. Sept. 24.-Almosts side
by side blythe bodies of Generals Law
ton and Writ. the body of the late
Lieutenant General Henry c. Corbin
was buried in Arlington National cem-
etery today in the presence of mem
bers of the distinguished officers fam
lily and his close personal friends
The body of General Corbin has re-
posed in the receiving vault of the
cemetery since September 10.
The brief religious services at the
grave were conducted by the Rev. w.
w. Brandeer, chaplain of the Fifteenth
cavalry, stationed at Fort Myer, Va.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-24
THE CLERMONT's TRIAL.
Replica of the Fulton Boat Makes
Ten Mile Trip.

New York, Sept. 24.-After a ten
mile trip on the Kill Won Kull the
C1ermont, replica of Fulton's boat
which signalized steam navigation on
the Hudson. returned to her dock at
Mariners Harbor. Staten Island
where she was pronounced com
plete success by representatives of the
Clermont committee. The sDeed of
six knots an hour which had been
made on the builders trial had been
reduced to five miles by an overhaul
ing of the engine which lies exposed
in the vessels hull.
At 2:3O o'clock when the party
which was to make the trip abroad
Continued on Page Eighty
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BALL PLAYER A HERO.
William Neff Used Athletic Ability to
Save Life of Small Boy.

Bethlehem, Pa, Sept. 24.-Through
his ability as an athlete. William Neff,
a member of the Slatington baseball
team, saved the life of little James
Marshall yesterday. The child was
playing on the brink of a steep en-
bankment, and, losing his foothold,
plunged head first down the incline.
Neff, who was at the bottom of the
bank, saw the fall and sprinted under
the tumbling lad in time to catch him
in his arms, saving the child from
death ON the Jagged rocks.
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ST. JOHN is THERE.
Former Governor Attends Prohibition
Gathering in Chicago.

Chicago. Sept. 24.-The policy of the
Prohibition party in the national cam
paign of 1912, and possibly the presi-
Dental candidate, will be tentatively
determined by the scores of party lead
ers who are in Chicago to celebrate the
fortieth anniversary of the founding of
the party. Among those here are John
Russell, temporary chairman of the
first convention and Prohibition vice
presidential candidate in 1902 and John
P. ST. John of Kansas, former presi-
Dental candidate.
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FOUND IN THE RIVER.
Body of Kate Patten Discovered in
the Ohio.

Portsmouth. O.. Sept. 24.-Mystery
surrounds the finding of the body of
Kate Patten, aged %, a shoe factory
emplove in the Ohio river here.
Authorities are investigating
She was last seen in company with
an admirer Wednesday night, but this
man can throw no light on her death
Relatives believe she was aceidently
drowned.
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TWO MORE ELEPHANTS
Have Fallen Before the Gun of Col.
Roosevelt.

Nairobi, B. E. A, Sept. 24.-Theo-
dore Roosevelt who is hunting in the
Mweru district, has bagged two more
elephants. Mr.. Roosevelt will soon
leave the Mweru territory for the
Guaso Nytro river.
Kermit Roosevelt has killed an ele-
phant and a rhinoceros- He will
shortly move over to Lake Hanning-
ton, in Naivasha province, and con-
tinue his hunting there.
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NEW GREAT WESTERN OFFICERS
President FELTON, Announces Appoint
ments for Reorganized Road.

Chicago. Sept. 24.-The following ap-
rointments have been announced by
president S. M. FELTON, of the Chicago
Great Western railway: R. H Scott,
of Disbursements; H Ernest
auditor of freight receipts. and J. F.
Wade, auditor of passenger receipts.
These officials will have offices at ST.
Paul until further notice but it is un-
derstood that they will be transferred
shortly to Chicago.
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FIRED FROM CAR TOP.
Shot at the Express Messenger on
Georgia Central Train.

Savannah. Ga, Sept. 24.-It was be-
Heved an attempt was made to hold up
the eastbound Central of Georgia pas
senger train before daylight when
someone from the roof of the express
car fired on Messenger Feyres, who re-
turned the fire with his rife.
The train at the time was between
Gordon and Mcintyre and was stopped
at the latter place. AS it did so,
man was seen to run into the woods.