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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-13
COME OUT FOR SUFFRAGE
Justices Johnston and Porter and
Prof. BIacknar Declare Themselves.

Kansas City. Kan, Dec. 13-The Mer-
camille club of this place gave dinner
last night to commemorate the Wyan-
dotte constitutional convention Incl
dentally the banquet brought out strong
suffrage and good roads sentiment.
Two hundred and fifty men and wo-
men attended the dinner in the Scottish
Rite temple.
BIaclInar for Suffrage.
Prof Frank w. Blackmar of Kansas
university, in his address, The Rela-
ton of Higher Education to Public
Life depressed to speak for an amend
ment granting women the right to vote.
I'VE have opened the schools to Wo-
men and it is the natural course OF
events and of social evolution that wo-
men should have the privilege of vot-
carry and settle the question now" he
said.
This sentiment brought prolonged
applause.
bel, members of the Kansas supreme
court, and residents of Kansas City.
Kan.
Justices Favor Votes for Women.
Chief Justice Johnson and Justice
Silas Porter. of the Kansas supreme
that the women of Kansas should have
the right to vote Justice Johnson
said:
I'VE will have an ideal constitution
next November, when our wives and
daughters are allowed to vote on all
occasions. In the constitution women
are given the right to hold property
but not the hight to vote. |, for one,
hope that this amendment will carry
next November"
Faxon for Good Roads.
Ralph H. Faxon, of Garden City,
president of the Kansas conservation
commission, was one of the speakers.
There is ne amendment to our con-
stitution badly needed he said. This
is enc multiplying the section that pro-
hibits the state engaging in internal i'm
provement work. With this stricken
out, we can do in Kansas as they do in
other states, and build state roads with
out the necessity of consulting a dozen
or more counties through which the
dads na IS -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-13
GAGE PARK MONKEY CAGE
One With % Inhabitants VIII BE Put
in Next Summer.

Twenty monkeys of four vari-
cites Will be the main attraction at
Gage Park next spring A monkey
house IS now assured. o. L. Walker
is at the head of the movement for
this drawing feature for the park and
already prominent citizens have prom
is, q to donate sufficient money to pur-
chase II monkeys at an average cost
Of S25 each.
There will be four varieties" said
Mr.. Walker at the Commercial club
this noon. Including balloons and
manga hey black MONKEYS from Afric.l.
] have received a letter from firm IN
New York City and they offer the
balloons at S35 each and some of the
monkeys considerably cheaper. We
Will get them when the weather be-
comes warm one man has promised
$50 towards the purchase of the mon
Keys while others have told me that
they would give So"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-13
FALLS AT DANCE, DIES
Broken Nose Proves Fatal to Well
known Kansan.

Wichita. Kan. Dec 1S.-Injuries sus-
tanned during the annual social of the
Wichita United Commercial Travellers
lodge No 80, Saturday night, November
., caused the death of Herbert Porter,
40 years old. While participating in the
annual dance given by the lodge at its
hall. III South st. Francis avenue. Mr.
Porter stepped a piece of paraffin,
with which the floor had been waxed
and fell heavily breaking his nose and
injuring the ligaments and nerves of his
right arm. He was removed to his home
and was given medical and surgical aid
Under the care of a trained nurse, he i'm
proved and hopes were entertained for
his recovery.
A few days later fever set in and blood
poison developed and infected his entire
system.
When a resident of Larned he took a
prominent part in politics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-13
FOWLER EVIDENCE IN
Drainage Board Will Take a week to
Present Evidence.

The Fowler Packing company today
completed it's introduction of evidence
in the S1,500.O00 damage suit against
the Kaw Valley Drainage district. For
the taking of testimony of large
mum Der of witnesses, the defense will
probably occupy not less than a week
or ten days.
A jury which is hearing the case in
the United States circuit court has
a number of Witnesses were called by
the plaintiff company in an effort to
establish values of property and land
alleged to have been arbitrarily de-
strOYed by the drainage board An
even greater NUM- Der of witnesses will
probably be summoned for the de-
fensc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-13
MEET IN MANHATTAN
Registers of Deeds Will Talk Shop
Early Next Year.

The Kansas registers of deeds will hold
their first annual meeting January $40 in
Manhattan. G. I. Winans, register of
deeds of Riley county, is in Topeka to-
day in conference with Robert Tasker
concerning the Manhattan program.
This is the first time that the Kansas
registers of deeds have ever met as an
organization. An effort is being made to
bring all of the los officials in the state
to the Manhattan meeting. Both Tasker
and Winans deny that the organization
will take a hand in either local or state
politics, but that the meetings will be
held to discuss work in the several coun-
ties and perfect better office systems.
Following the two days session. a big
banquet will be held the night of January
10.
everybody read the State Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-13
THEY BUY IOWA DIRT
Butter Firm Surprised When Barrel
Bursts.

EIgin. ILL.,, Dec 1s.-Forty tubs Of black
Iowa soil were purchased at the rate or
SIS a tub by a local butter firm which
supposed it was buying butter.
The dirt i'm place of butter was discov-
cred when the butter was being delivered.
hoop fell off one Of the tubs and the
bottom fell out of il. Instead OF the but
ter which the expressman expected TO see
the dirt fell out. The other tubs were
examined and all found to contain soil.
A member OF the firm said last night
that he did not know whether the Iowa
farmer shipped the dirt purposely Or
whether the butter was stolen "a transit
and the dirt substituted.
An investigation Is being made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-13
BEET SUGAR MEN CALLED
To Testify in the Government Suit
AGAINST the TrIISt

Salt Lake City. Dec. 13-Prominent Of
ficials of the three beet sugar companies
who handle practically the entire beet
production of Utah. Idaho and Oregon,
were subpoenaed today to testify January
in the government dissolution suit
against the American Sugar Refining
company brought in the United States
circuit court of New York under the anti
trust law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-13

He's a gun man, amt hep Gun
man nothin'r" Cant he shoot" Him
He couldn't hit an innocent bystander"'-
Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-13

New York Coffee Market.
New York Dec. 13.-COFFEE-No. 7
Rio, 141sc- Futures closed firm. December,
1882; March, 1890
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-01
STATE BUILDING
TRADES COUNCIL
MEETING TO-DAY
First Session to Be Held In-
dependent OF National
Organization.
Especial to the Newark star.

TRENTON. May 1.-Oue Of the
most important conventions Of the
State Building Trades Councils eyef
held in this State convened this norm
ing in the .Ribsam building. The con-
vention was called to order by Presi-
dent J. r. Cossrove, of Elizabeth.
After the routine business had been
transacted the delegates Immediately
went into the discussion of the most
important feature of the session, that
of foreign interferences or alliances
dangerous to local councils. The con-
vention will arrange for adequate pro-
lection to the building industries Of the
State without these interfcrenees
The convention today is the first
under the new independent State body,
which withdrew from the national or
ganization last year because of a de-
cision. The state body considered tho
decision an uuwarranted interfcrence
and Immediately forwarded its charter
to the national boy at Washington.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-01

revolutionaries attacked and captured
Sam Shut, thirty miles west OF can
ton, and murdered the project. The
troops were put to flight and the rebels
moved on TO Wen-ChoW and Woo
Chow, both of which towns they took
after slight resistance. Lults briGauds,
following in their wake, looted the
shops Of three towns.
while the movement to the west is
being directed by WI Sum, the hrigand
chief LUX has led personally a force to
the north Of Canton. He seized the
market at Chunglok, twenty miles
north Of Canton.
Adviees state that Shuihung. on the
west river, has fallen before the revo-
lutionaries who murdered the project.
The battle at Fatshan was a hard
fought enc. the imperial troops giving
battle at Tung-Shi bridge. Thirty
seven soldiers were killed before the
troops fell back.
The revolutionaries are, cutting the
telegraph wires throughout the scene
of their operations and communication
between Canton with points to the
north and west is generally inter-
rupted.
a report that Shamien, the foreign
concession above Canton, had been in
vaded lacks confirmation. The Amer
lean gunboat Wilmington had the place
under her guns.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-01
RAISING
DEFENSE MONEY
FOR M NAMARAS
Executive Council of American
Federation of Labor to
y Meet Soon.

INDIANAPOLIS, May SAMUEL
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, was in conference
today with Frank /. Mulholland, Of
Toledo, O., one of the attorneys for the
American Federation of Labor, and
William j. Spencer, secretary of he
building rades department of the fed
Grafton, who accompanied him to In
~dianapolis, relative to the defense Of
John j.. Mcnamara and James b. Nc
Namara, now under arrest in CaliGor-
mia.
Mr.. Gompers said that the question
of raising the defense fund would be
left solely With the members Of the
executive council, and that its disburse-
ment would be in charge and under he
direction of the council The meeting
of the executive council may be held
in indianapolis, Mr.. Gompers said, but
this has not been decided definitely.
This course was decided ON after a
notable secret meeting Of labor leaders
here, which Mr.. Gompers came to In
dianapoiis to attend. His presence lent
an official air to the meeting, and he
is tho first officer Of the federation -
take up the cudgel in defense of the
McNan4aras.
IN edition to the discussion of the
arrest and alleged Illegal removal Of
Mcnamara from Indianapolis, the con-
ference took up the proposition Of for
cling some kind of legal procedure by
which Mcnamara could be brought
back to Indiana. The labor leaders
have not given up this hope, 1t was
said. n there is a probability Of
some steps being taken to force his re
turn to this state by legal process.
1.-THE fund to be expended by the di-
rection of the executive council of the
federation Will be used to defend all
three men now under arrest said Mr..
Gompers. This money is to be used to
insure that these men get n fair trial"
You mean by the three men the two
McNamaras and McAIanigal?" Mr.,
Gompers was asked.
II refuse to turn my back upon any
one until I am satisfied that he has
turned his back upon u.s." was the re-
ply.
"You have no information that Me
Manigal has confessed other than what
you have read?" 1t was suggested.
"Well, yes, 1 have other information
in addition 10 what 1 have read in the
newspapers. but / cannot talk about
that now. In Il ct, I do not care to
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-01
>UHSF
0E<R/UN/xZ2 ENGHII
ZoHHR SC ZURE
HLL MIR RE%HzIIyS
az MTEcHE1 W>HIc
C-~
CANNOT IDENTIFY
WRECK VICTIMS
CHARREO BODIES
1COntinued from First Pnse.)

ton of Parsons revealed the fact that
he was injured internally and his burns
were extensive. His death is momen-
tarily looked for.
f. L. Sheppard. general superintend-
ent of the New Jersey division of the
Pennsylvania railroad. returned to New
York late last night from the scene of
the Martins Greek wreck and issued a
statement denying that the disaster
was caused by spreading rails at a
point where laborers were repairing the
roadbed. He said that h men were
working some distance from the scene
of the accident, Ii hat far from be-
ing in any way responsible for its hap
pening they rendered valuable aid to
the injured. He added that an investi-
CATION would be made today by the
roads experts to determine, If possible,
just what caused the wreck.
The coroner will hold an inquest dur
ing the day, and the funeral party will
start for home tomorrow morning.
Three more watches. making five in
all, have been found in the ruin, to-
gether with a large number of trinkets.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-01
SUES SEC'Y MAC VEAGH
FOR 100000 DAMAGES.

CHICAGO, May 1.-Franklin Mac
Veagh, secretary of the treasury, was
made defendant in a suit Tor $l0o, OjO
damages filed today by Charles f.
Leach, former collector of customs at
Cleveland, o..
MIR. Leach charges that following his
dismissal from office March 10, 1911, by
President Taft, Secretary MacVeagh
in a statement charged that Leach had
turned over to importers thousands of
dollars worth Of woolens before the
customs were paid, that the import
ers had been allowed to store the wool
ems in their own warehouses before
duty payment and had been guilty Of
other breaches of the treasury depart
ment rules.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-01
CHINESE TROOPS
MAY DESERT To
REBEL STANDARD
Sediti0n Preyelant and Sue
cesses of Reyolters May Draw
from EmperOr's Army.

HONG KONG, China, May Re
bellion, %brigandage and anarchy are
stalking through the western half of
Kwangtung province numbering. pill
Laying and burning. The loyal troops
are fighting desperately to crush the
uprising, the seriousness of which is
revealed in further dispatches from
Canton today.
WI Sum, a Chinese who was edu-
Gated in Japan and ,has adopted the
dress of western countries, is the
leader of the revolt against the Manchu
dynasty. The brigand chief. LUX, of
Shuntak, is at the head of a horde Of
outlaws whose object is robbery and
murder.
Following the standards of these
two men are anarchist groups, to
whose purpose the present outbreak
lends itself most advantageously.
These combined forces have thrown
themselves with fanatical disregard Of
their own lives against the troops.
sedItIon Among Troops.
Sedition is rife among certain of the
troops and it is feared that the dis
affected soldiers will desert their OIL
GERS If the revolters appear to have the
upper hand.
Official advices from the refugees ar
irving from Canton today confirm the
sinister reports of yesterday. Bodies
of with slain lie in the streets of the
city. Famine prices are asked for food
stuffs and the shops generally are
closed. In the city there have been few
efforts to bury the dead and the stencil
from the decomposed bodies fills the
air. Many of the reYolters in Canton
escaped. but thirty OF more died in the
flames while others killed themselves
to aYoid capture.
While the fighting was progressing in
the streets Chinese gunboats %patrolling
the west river fired into several parties
of rebels, slaughtering 200 Of them.
Retreating to the countryside the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-01
WOULD PURCHASE LEG FOR
HOMELESS SYRIAN SAHOR

to amputate the limb. Then a second
amputation became imperative and the
stump was removed close to the mans
hip.
Until mis- Illness Yaghin regularly
sent money to his wife and children in
Syria. He has no friends or relatives in
this country. He has been in h city
Hospital six months and the time APP
proaches when he must be discharged.
Yaghin is an intelligent man and his
case attracted interest and sympathy at
the hospital The authorities were I'M
willing that he should be sent out-a
stranger in a strange land-so seriously
handicapped. They called the attention
of the Bureau of Associated Charities
to the case and a special appeal is now
being made to raise the $40 necessary
for the artificial leg.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-01
FIRE PREVENTION NOTICES.

Fire prevention notices i'm the
moving picture houses ana theatres
have worked out so well that Captain
G. Albert Gasser. of the bureau Of CONF
bustibles and fire risks, is today send-
ing out notices to all garages. These
notices contain extracts from the fire
laws and are meant as a guidance FOR
all concerned in the maintaining or
garages.
Captain Gasser said today that pro-
prietors will not always familiarize
themselves with the fire prevention
code and often violate the ordinances.
But when the notice is before them
they nave no excuse for Vio'atIng mo
laws. BY order of the department u
copy of the regulations must be kept
in a conspicuous place and every n OF
the regulations strictly observed. The
penalty for each offense is $25.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-01
SAW MARY jacob,
MICHAEL DELLA SAYS.

According to information received
today by the mother Of Mary Jacobie,
the girl who has been missing from her
home at 2ss Fairmount venue for a
week, she was seen on the streets here
and is believed to be in the city. Mich
ael Della, of 241 Bergen street, declares
he met the girl yesterday at Bergen
street and South Orange avenue, and
stopped her. He says he entreated her
to return to her home but she refused.
The girl ran toward Thirteenth avenue
and has not been seen since. The po-
lice say they expect to locate her hid
ing place in a short time.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-01
NEWARK TRADE BOARD ON LIST.

Through the efforts of Senator Frank
o. Briggs, the Newark Board of Trade
has been placed on the list of those or
g%anizations entitled 10 the benefits of
the Federal census bureau. a report
Of all industries throughout the country
is arranged in book form by the bureau
in fifteen large volumes. When the
next number is completed a set will be
sent here to the headquarters of the
trade board. at 800 Broad street, where
it will be at the disposal of the business
men Of Newark,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-01
MYSTERIOUS CASE OF
ASSAULT is REPORTED.

A mysterious case Of assault was
brought to the attention of the police,
when they were informed that August
Eckahl, As years old, of 1873 Belmont
avenue, was struck on the head with a
coupling iron by an unknown man at
an early hour today.
Eckahl is in the employ of the Ledge
wood Manufacturing Company on
lower Frelinghuysen venue At 5 a.
M. today as he was oiling a small
hosting engine, he says he was struck
on the head. He was knocked un-
conscious, and when he revived he
'phoned to the Emergency Hospital, TO
which place he was removed in their
ambulance. After his wounds were
dressed he was taken home.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-01
BEGIN $4,000 LIBEL TRIAL
AGAINST PATENT LAWYER.

Hearing on the libel suit of the Wes-
ton Electrical Instrument Company
against Louis M. Sanders. a patent at
torney, is in progress before Judge
Frederick Adams, in the Circuit Court.
The action. which is for $50, 600 dam
ages. is one of a series brought by the
electric company and Edward Weston,
president of the company. and arises
out of the publication on September 90,
1907. of articles which, it is alleged,
Sanders and +. e. Fischer caused to be
published.
McLear & Fort and Alfred +. Skin
ner are representing the Weston in
terests, while Sommer, Colby & Whit
ing appear f. Mr.. Sanders.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-01
CHARGED WITH ROBBING
PHONE PAY STATIONS.
Especial to the Newark star.

YOUNGSTOWN. May Frank Fitz-
patrick and Michael Rivers were
brought to the county Jail here from
Boonton this morning by Assistant
Marshal Lewis Nanderhoof. The men
are charged with robbing pay stations
Of the New York Telephone Company in
Boonton. Rockaway and Dover. The
authorities believe hat with these ar
rests they have secured the gang that
has been operating in this section for
several months past, robbing the tele-
phone pay stations in Morristowu and
other points ia Morris county.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-01
DR.. HYDE CASE POSTPONED.

KANSAS CITY, May DIR. b. G
Hyde. under indictment on the charge
of numbering Colonel Thomas H. Swope,
appeared In the criminal court here to-
day to be arraigned for his second trial
buc on account Of the illness of Virgil
Conkling, the county prosecutor, the
case was postponed until May IL.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-01
FNTERTAINS FOR GUEST

Entertaining for her guest. Miss Ethel
c. Grief, of New York, Miss Dorothy
Dunn, of So Elizabeth avenue, gave a
card party Saturday afternoon. The
game was hearts and four tables were
in play. The guests were Miss Myrtle
Morton, Miss Elsie Miller, Miss Mildred
Perkins, Miss Ethel Case, Miss Ida
Schiffenhaus. Miss Charlotte Freeman,
Miss Florence Hauller. Miss Norma
Gruber, Miss Martha Olds, Miss Laura
Osborne. Miss Helen Edsall. Miss Lillian
Schaller. Miss Gertrude Melcher. Miss
Anna Ward. and Miss Doris Metzger.
Roses and firms formed the decorations.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-01
Associated Charities Bureau
Raising Fund for Worthy
Object.

The Bureau of Associated Charities
is seeking to raise $40 with which to
purchase an artificial leg for Paul
Yaghln, a frlendless Syrian now In the
City Hospital.
Yaghin, a sailor. came to Newark
seeking employment seven months ago.
He worked for a time for the Newark
Lunch Club, but as his leg became
seriously affected he was forced to
give up work and so to the City Hos
pitai. The mans ailment bafiied the
physicians and il was found necessary
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-01
talk further about the McManigal
case"

Los ANGELES. May although
important legal developments were ex-
peeted soon in the cas- of John J.
Mcnamara, secretary Of the Interna-
tional Association Of Bridge and Struc-
tural Iron Workers, and his brother.
james b. Mcnamara, charged with
dynamiting outrages, the week opened
quietly so far as outward appearances
were concerned.
District Attorney Fredericks is not
expected to ask for the arraignment q
the men before the arrival about the
middle of the week of his assistant.
Joseph Ford. from indianapolis.
The defense has opened extensive
headquarters. Andrew j.. Gallagher
and b. d. Rosenthal, labor leaders of
San Francisco, have come here to con-
fer with the union men of Los Angeles
regarding charges against the Nc
Namaras.
Ortie r. McAIanigal. who is said to
have confessed, maintains his air Of
joviality. It is said his wife will be
brought here as a witness for the
prosecution.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-01
ECHOES OF WoMAN's JUBILEE.

Echoes of the womeL's jubilee mis-
sionary meeting. held recently in New
York will be given In the parlors of
the First Presbyterian Church on
Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock by
Mrs. Joseph Fl. Knowles. president OF
the NewarlE Female Charitable Society.
All women interested are invited to at
tend.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-01
MARRIAGE BARGAIN DAY.

WOODBURY., May lie. L. Cloud, a
resident of the Second ward, became a
fun hedged magistrate today, and Of
fers as an inducement to pairs contem-
plating marriage to perform the first
ceremony entirely free.