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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03
Declares big Stick Swinger''
Wasted Poor Peoples Money.
is FOR AGE PENSIONS
Hatchet Wielder Wants Widows
and Mothers on Rolls.
Leading Hot.Fight for PrOhibi-
ton i'm South Dakota.

The editor of the State Journal found
the following from Mrs. Carrie Nation,
in his morning mail:
Hot Springs. S. D.. March 1, 1910.
To the Editor of the State Journal.
am now in South Dakota assisting
in the campaign till the election in Aprll
when this state votes for the privilege
of local option which is a compromise.
assist because I will drive out the
demon everywhere. but South Dakota
should have asked for state wide pro-
hibition. The local option course Is
the trick of the Anti-Saloon league VINO
make prohibition as far IN the future
as possible Kansas can now see what
she would have had on her hands II
she had submitted the great amend :
ment as South Dakota did. Kansas is
through her troubles, South Dakota
has her work all to do over again ana
the struggle will be harder but truth
Is mighty and will prevail
Economy Hopeful Sign.
TITS a hopeful sign and a great bene-
fit to the people when President Taft
advocates economy. His sincerity IN
this matter remains to be proven
Theodore Roosevelt set the pace more
than any president for extragant
and waste of the peoples money He
wished to look at the American fleet
To crafty that desire it cost the
American people a quarter. O1 d
The millions being spent to dig canal
in Panama and the millions that VIII pe
spent in a needless enterprise are 10
furnish positions and large salaries TO
favorites. 1t was one of RooseVelt
pet schemes to build warships and
spend money to keep war and blood
shed in the minds of our young men.
If he ever advanced an idea that did
not mean spending the peoples money
/ do not know of it. His gigantic ideas
meant a gigantic outlay on the peoples
part He got the credit of big things
which wrought disastrous consequences.
The large receipts of the national
treasury is from the poor man. The
disbursements of the government go 10
the monied people. The poor people
close the shortage In the treasury
Wants Age Pensions.
Fort Mead, S. D., cost the peo-
pie over million last year. 1t is cav
airy post 1 visited the different troops.
Cards and billiards are their favorite
pastime A mile from there is Sturger
with ller dozen saloons, the result OF
which I found in the guard house at
Fort Mead. They have a canteen where
all kinds of tobacco and cigarettes are
sold to the boys, mothers boys. If half
this outlay were used to give pensions
to old INDECENT widows this would be
common humanity. 1 ask the w. G. I.
U of Kansas to see that their repre-
sentatives in congress have a bill in
troduced to pension our aged widows,
who will not spend 1t for drink and
but in providing themselves
against a penniless suffering old age.
Do not these mothers deserve this first
of all? Who gave the world soldiers,
sailors and statesmen? Who builded
the foundation Of all progress, of all
greatness? Mothers.
CARRY A. NATION.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03
INJUNCTION GRANTED.
Commerce Commission Is Restrained
From Enforcing an Order.

Kansas City. Mo. March 3.-The
interstate commerce commission was
permanently enjoined from enforcing
an order prohibiting railroads and
other carriers from allowing compen-
sation to owners and operators of ele-
vators for elevation and transfer of
grain in transit in a decision filed in
the United States district court here
today.
The decision was written by Judge
Sanborn and was concurred in by
Judges Hook and Adams.
The decision says that "the order of
which prohibits the allowances or pay
ment by carriers of all compensation
to owners and operators of elevators
for the elevation and transfer Of grain
in transit is beyond the delegated
power of the commission"
The injunction suit was filed in st.
Louis by the Peavey Elevator COM
pany. which was supported in it's petit
tion by the boards of trade of Kansas
City Omaha and other cities in the
middle west.
The interstate commerce commission
issued the order prohibiting the own
ers of elevators from receiving COM
pensation for the elevation and trans
fer of grain in transit on the theory
that such action amounted to rebate.
The order had, it was alleged, been
most detrimental to the business of
elevators, the total value of which is
of dollars
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03
OFF FOR LAKE NO.
Colonel Roosevelt May Take a Shot at
the Antelope.

Khartun. Sudan, March 3.-Colonel
Roosevelt and his party left Mongolia
toda- for Lake No, where Colonel
Roosevelt NAV take a shot at the ante
lopeS of that vicinity.
The party is due here, according to
local understanding on March II.
Honors From Switzerland.
Geneva, Switzerland. March 3-For-
mer President Roosevelt and Brutus j.
Clay, former American minister to
Switzerland, were TO-DAY appointed cor
responding members of the Geneva
National institute.
Original Plans Stand.
Naples, March 3.-Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt and Miss Ethel, returning
from an excursion to Capri today.
found a message from Colonel Roose-
velt awaiting them The message
stated that Colonel Roosevelt had
made no change in his plans. He ex-
poets to arrive here during the first.
week in April and will go to Rome to
call on King Victor Emmanuel and the
pope. He will then proceed to Paris,
where he is due on April Is.
Voted Freedom of the City.
London, March 3-The court of COM
mon council today unanimously adopt
ed a resolution comforting the honorary
freedom of the city on Theodore Roose-
welt in recognition of the distinguished
services to civilization during his presi-
dency and his efforts towards the
maintenance of the peace of the world.
Mr.. Roosevelt will visit London the
middle OF Nav
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03
UNIQUE THEATER PARTY.
State Journal Invites Representative
Citizens to See Servant in House,

| What will prove the largest theateI
party ever organized in this city viii
! be present at the Grand opera house to
| see 1.-THE Servant in the House" on
| Tuesday night, March s. as guests of
the State Journal.
Although this play was presented
here for one performance last year,
there are a large number of Topeka
play lovers who did not see it.
It is a religious though hardly an
orthodox symbolical drama which has
caused a great deal of comment espe-
cially from churchmen-
The State Journal will invite repre-
sentative number of the ministers of
Topeka to witness the great play as
the guests of this newspaper. They
will be asked to write brief review of
the play for publication.
A number of labor men will also at
tend as guests of the State Journal.
The play tells a powerful story of the
worth and merit of labor and numerous
leading labor leaders have called it a
wonderful argument in the cause of
the workingman.
Socialists declare that the author of
this play is without doubt a student of
the higher socialism and that the play
fairly breathes the theme of real in
asked to see it.
There are others who will be invited.
Men active in political life can discuss
this play from the standpoint of the
general public welfare; owing to the
fact that there runs through the course
of the plays story 9, suggestion strong
ly indicating the occult and mysterious
faith of the Buddhists. TheosophiSts
have openly declared that Mr.. Kennedy
gained his idea from a study Of their
creed.
While the State Journal does not ex-
act a promise on this score, it would
appreciate it if it's guests write a brief
criticism on the play and it's moods
and dreams of brotherhood These lay
OF amateur criticisms must not be long
about 200 words being sufficient 20
tell ones views-as the State Journal
wishes to print these.
The play is to be presented here on
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings with
a popular priced matinee on Wednes-
day afternoon. The very best Of seats
will be furnished to all its guests by
the State Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03
THEY ENDORSE GREEN.
w. c. t. U. Members Tell Mayor They
Are for Him.

The Women's Christian Temperance
Union OF Topeka has written letter to
Mayor William Green endorsing his ad-
ministration and complimenting him on
his actions in the enforcement of the pro-
hibitory laws.
In their congratulatory and complimen-
tary letter to the mayor the w. c. 7. U.
makes the statement that Topeka is un-
doubtedly the cleanest city In the United
States today and a large amount of this
cleanliness has been due to the rigid en-
forcement of the law under Mayor Green.
The mayor was more than pleased with
they say he said. They have always
been intensely interested in the enforce
ment of the liquor laws and their in
fIuence has been extremely beneficial. To
receive an endorsement of this kind makes
me feel as though our efforts have been
worth while after ALL"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03
MOB OF 5000 MEN.
Members Throw Negro From Jail
Window and Break His Neck.

Dallas, Tex, March 3.-Allan
Brooks, a negro charged with assault
ing a 3-year-old girl last week. was
lynched here today by a mob of 5000
men.
Brooks was in the court room await
ing trial when the mob Surged past
the officers of the guard and threw
the negro from the second story win
dow, breaking his neck. A rope was
then placed around the mans neck
and the body was dragged down Main
street, 10 blocks to the Elks' arch,
where it was strung up. The police
succeeded in preventing the body of
the negro from being burned.
When the attack was made the mill
tia and extra police were ordered out,
but before they could reach the scene
the mob had seized the negro.
Following the lynching, the mob
marched to the Jail and it was feared
an attempt to lynch two other negro
alleged murderers, Burrel Oates and
Sol Aronoff, will be made
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03
FELT SOMETHING GIVE.
Desdemona's Appendix Bursts When
OthelIO StrangIes Her.

New York, March 3.-Othello stran-
gled Desdemona so hard at the Brook
lyn Academy of Music that he broke
her vermiform appendix.
That is why Miss Frances Aida, So
prano of the Metropolitan Opera com
pany, is conValescing at her apartments
N an uptown hotel from an operation
for appendicitis that promises to come
out most successfully.
1T was in the fourth act" Miss Aida
said, just before the anaesthetic was
administered. "Mr. Slozak was Othello,
and he is something of Moor, you
know. He is six feet four inches tall
and weighs in proportion.
Il had been suffering considerable
pain all through the opera, but hoped to
get through all right / did, too but
when he grabbed me to straEgle me
I felt something give down in my side
I almost swooned with the pain, but
finally it grew less and I was able to
finish the piece
Miss Aida is the fiancee of Giulio
Gatti- Casa zza. the director of the Met
ropolitan opera house. After the per-
fcrmance last night she started back to
New York in the subway. With her
were Mr.. Scotti and Nine Toscanini
On the trip over from Brooklyn Miss
Aida told Mr.. Scott that she was in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03
DR.. HULL GRANTED BAIL
His Bond Is Fixed at $4,000 by the
Court.

Kirksville, Mo, March s-The bail of
DR.. James R. Hull of Monroe City, in
dicted with Mrs. Alma Proctor Vaughn,
on the charge of numbering Prof. T.
Vaughn, was fixed at $4,000 by Judge
Shelton today.
Mrs. Vaughn was released on $25, 900
bail last wNek. She is now in Texas
Hull was refused bail Monday when
the Indictment was presented to the
court. Habeas corpus proceedings had
been started by his attorneys and the
hearing was set for today. The case
was Withdrawn, however as Prosecutor
Reiger withdrew his opposition to the
release of DR. Hull on bail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03
CALLED TO GUTHRIE.
Subpoenas Issued for Sixteen of the
Biggest Railroad Men.

Guthrie. Ok, March 3.-Sixteen rail-
way officials, including several of the
most prominent in the United States,
will be served with subpoenas issued
today by the corporation commission of
Oklahoma, demanding their presence in
Guthrie, March 15. as witnesses in the
freight rate investigation now in prog
ress here. The list includes George j.
Gould, president St. Louis, Iron Noun
tain & Southern railway, fTew York; J..
A. Edison, president Kansas City South
ern railway, Kansas City; z. p. Rip
ley, president Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railway, Chicago; B. L. Win
chell, president st. Louis & San Fran
cisco railway. st. Louis; H. U. Nudge,
president Rock Island lines Chicago;
George H. Crosby. vice president, sec
retary and treasurer Rock Island lines.
Chicago; F. Hamilton, secretary and
treasurer st. Louis & San Francisco
railway, st. Louis; c. N. Whitehead.
sas & Texas railway. New York; E. L.
copeland, secretary and treasurer Atch-
lson, Topeka & Santa Fe, Topeka; A.
e Tobert, secretary and treasurer Gulf,
colorado & Santa Fe. Galveston; Frank
kell, president Wichita Falls & North
western railway, Wichita Falls, Tex;
A. II. Galley, secretary and treasurer
ST. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern.
New York; G. c. Hand. secretary and
transfer agent Kansas City Southern,
New York; A. A. Allen, president Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas railway, st.
Louis; F. G. Pettibone. vice president
and general manager Gulf, Colorado &
Santa Fe, Galveston: G. A. Morse for
Iner chief engineer Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe, Topeka.
The presence of these officials is de-
manded by Oklahoma in an effort to
get responsible officials on record as
to the valuation of the various proper
ties in Oklahoma, which they represent.
The state wants this information in
perfecting it's refutation of the finding
forming the basis for the recent fed
eral injunction issued by Judge Hook
in st. Louis restraining the Oklahoma
corporation commission from enforcing
the freight rates that have peen estab-
Hshed in Oklahoma during the last two
I1onthS,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03
DEAD NUMBER "a.
Latest Estimate on Result of Great
Northern Disaster.

Everett, Wash. March 3.-It is now
almost certain that the death toll in
the avalanche that carried away two
Great Northern trains and seven steam
and electric locomotives, will total "a.
Few believe that any of the 81 listed
as missing will be found alive for it is
now more than As hours since they
were buried beneath tons of snow and
ice.
The rescuers themselves are in a
perilous position, for the danger from
snow slides is not over.
DR.. Cox, a Great Northern physician,
who returned from Wellington last
night, with three of the survivors, Ray
S. A. Bates, brought the first direct
news of the disaster. According to DR..
Cox, most of the injured were only
slightly hurt. Sixteen of them are now
in a temporary hospital at Wellington.
Men who came from the wreck say
the first intimation the passengers had
of their danger was when the snow
swept down upon them and lifted the
cars bodily into the air and then
dropped them to the bottom of the can
yon, 200 feet below.
A storm was raging and the light
ming f1aring necessarily at the time OF
the catastrophe. The men who sue
ceeded in extricating themselves from
the wreck carried on the relief work by
the electrical flashes.
The exact number of dead will not be
known for weeks, not until the snow,
which is over 40 feet deep in the can
yon, has melted. Workmen digging m
the snow and wreckage report the find
ing of dismembered bodies, severed
arms and hands.
Bodies Terribly Mutilated.
The bodies of the dead are wrapped
in blankets and laid upon the snow
No attempt will be made to bring them
down the mountainside 1t is not un-
likely that the track will be opened
from the eastern side first, in which
case the dead and wounded will be
taken to Spokane. Many of the bodies
are terribly mutilated.
Shortl before o'clock Tuesday
morning when every one on the trains
acres of the mountainside that lowered
above the trains became detached and
taking with 1t snow, trees, earth and
rocks, an avalanche plunged down into
the canyon. The trains were picked up
as if they were trif1es and the whole
mass was piled at the bottom of the
raVine several hundred feet below
Looking down today at the debris of
the avalanche, the cars are not in
sight; they are under 40 or so feet of
snow and trees. One glance at the
ruin explains why so many persons are
and gives no hope that any OF
those buried is alive. The few men
who are working in the snow can not
much and it would take
them months to dig out the cars. 1t is
not practicable, if it were possible, to
send an army of wreSkers to Yelling
them. When the track is opened the
avalanche mass will be attacked by
men equipped with machinery and all
the bodies will be recovered
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03
BELLS TOLL FOR HIM.
Man Who Rang Old Trinity Chimes
for Half Century Is Dead.

New York. March 3.-Albert Meis-
lahn, for half century ringer of the
chimes of Old Trinity church here. is
dead at his home in Madison. N. ].
This morning the historic bells were
tolIed for the bell ringer.
Meislahn was born in the shadow Of
the Old Trinity spire. 81 years ago. As
a lad he delighted to climb the belfry
and help the old bell ringer at his task
Then, when only II years old, he was
officially appointed assistant bell ring
er.
Among the occasions on which Meis-
lahn made the bells ring out we're the
unveiling of the statue of liberty. the
opening of the Brooklyn bridge. Queen
Victoria's diamond jubilee, the home
coming of Dewey and the departure Of
Roosevelt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03

great pain. He asked her what the
trouble was. and she replied:
20, l suppose it's appendicitis; II mas
been coming on for a couple of days.
The baritone tried to encourage her
by Laughing at her fears, but Miss Aida
insisted that she knew what allied her,
and that she would have to be operated
on pretty soon.
At O'Clock in the morning, after she
had been in her room for an hour, Miss
Aida had her maid call the hotel physi-
clan, DR.. ]. Martin. DIR. Martin cor
roborated Miss Alda's own diagnosis of
her case and Immediately called DR..
performed the operation at s O'Clock.
The symptoms are favorable for
quick recovery
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03
Thief BEAT A BOY.
Nine-Year- Old Lad Found Strangers in
Hen House.

Wellington, Kan. March 3.-McKin-
ley Silvers. 9 years old. was beaten and
badly injured by chicken thieves yes
terday- The boy accidentally found
three men in his fathers henEouse at
the east end of town. Two of the
thieves ran, but the third struck the
boy on the back of the head and ran,
leaving him unconscious. The boy s
found him lying in the back yard after
the thieves had escaped. This is the
third time chicken thieves has visited
the Silvers henhouse and been disturb
ed in their work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03
STUBS HELPS OUT.
Contributes 1000 Toward River I'm
provement at Kansas City.

Kansas City. March 3.-within five min
utes after Governor Stubbs of Kansas
and officials of the Kansas City Missouri
River Navigation company had finished
their talks before the river navigation
meeting of the Mercantile Club in Kansas
City Kan, twenty-five business and pro-
fessional men of Kansas City, Kan, vol
unteered to carry on the campaign to
raise 100000 in Kansas City, Kan, to help
put boats on the Missouri River. Cover
nor Stubbs volunteered to be a member
of the committee. He subscribed for ST. 900
of stock in the navigation company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03
OFFER IS REJECTED.
b. & o. Trainmen Are Not Willing to
Submit to Arbitration.

Baltimore, March 3.-The result OF
the vote of the conductors and train
men of the Baltimore & Ohio railway
on the acceptance or rejection of the
company's counter proposition to their
demands for wage adjustments was an
almost unanimous rejection of the
offer. The trainmen's general commit
tee will later today determine whether
a strike shall be declared
The trainmen overwhelmingly re-
jected the company's proposition to
submit the differences to arbitration
under the Erdman act.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03
JUDGE FINLEY IS DEAD.
Was the First Probate Judge of Kiowa
County.

Hobart, Okla, March 3.@Judge
Harris Finley. formerly a well known
Kansas politician, died at his home
here last night of Bright's disease. He
was 70 years of age.
Judge Finley, who came here from
Topeka. was the first probate judge of
Kiowa county.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03

that with Mena's soldiers and such de-
pleted insurgent force as could be ral-
lied from the frontier, defense of a new
republic would stand some chance of
success and that there is a possibility
that the United States would recognize
the new government and forbid further
fighting on the ground that the move
ment of the government forces to the
east would be an inrasion of one coun-
try by another.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03
weather Like Summer.

Today bids fair to become the warm
est March on record. At o'clock
the temperature was rs degrees. 1t
was expected to go % 80 degrees before
4 o'clock. Yesterday the temperature
rose six degrees after O'Clock and
conditions for further rise in tenn
perature are ideal again today. The
wind is blowing 5 miles an hour form
the southwest and the weather man
promises that tomorrow shall be today
over again. Following are the hourly
fQrnnera fI1raa ~0daV.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03
DIES OF WOUND.
Edward Conrad, Shot in Quarrel at
Hardy, Okla.

Arkansas City. Kan. March 3.-Ed-
ward Conrad, a ranchman of Hardy,
Ok, who was shot in a quarrel by his
neighbor, Frank B. Rogers, Monday
night, died here yesterday morning. The
men quarreled and fought over the To-
cation of fences on cattle leases in
Usage country. Rogers is out on q
hOnd of IS 600
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03
Drunkenness a Nffsdemeanor.

Washington, March 3.-Henceforth
drunkenness in the District of Column
bia will be treated as a misdemeanor,
if a bill introduced in the senate by
Senator Gallinger today becomes a
law. The. bill provides for fines of $100
or incarceration for two years in homes
for inebriates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03
HE'LL FIGHT BATTLER.
Wolgast Says He Is Ready for Return
Match With Nelson.

CAST, champion lightweight, arrived
here today.
81 certainly will give Battling Nell
son a return match any time he wants
it," said the champion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03
weather Indications.

Chicago, March 3.-Forecast for
Kansas: Fair tonight and Fridays
moderate temperature.