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The Topeka state journal., 1911-08-21
NORTH SIDE Ne VS.
Rev. G.. w. Meeker Flags Mayor
Billiard.
Saws His Election Was Shame
to Topeka.
ALSO AFTER STOTTS
Because Park Commissioner
Turned Him Down.
ALSO AFTER STOTTS
Referring to Central Avenue
Park Matter.

Rev. c. W. Meeker, pastor OF the
! SecOrd Presby terian church, in MS ser
mon last night before the union open
air meeting at Park and North liar
rison streets. said that IL was slalIie ,.e
that the capital city of the state among
states in prohibition should have for
its mayor a man who desires resuDlnlS-
sion of the prohibition law ne als9
said that he himself and others had
sinned when voting for the park com
missioner who was opposeu 10 Niii ID
tian people. -,
The last instaHment had reference to
Eugene E. Stctts. city park cIrnills55
sioner. TIE North side ministers hau
asked for the use of the small triansu-
| lar. mark lust south of Morse street on
Central avenue. Stotts has re1useu
Them saving that people in the neigh,
borhocd objected to the meetings, ahe u
because tile park was TOO snall anu -
meetings we're held there it would pc
rt,ined bodv of North side
preachers had waited on the park com
| missioner at his Office to ask Tor the
names of the objectors but MT Stoels
was 0dt. -. ,roo1.ar
residence Mr. Ste it's said. according 70
Rev Mr. Meeker. that he hinlseI Woulu
he the first TO object If he lvec there
since then there has been conslcei-
able feeling against Mr.. Stotts alions
+he church people of the First ward
Rev. Mr. Me sl5er just before the elec-
+ion last spring also preached sermon
in which he asked his people not -
vote for g mayor canuloate VINO was
opposed to Christianity. ,,v,
last night Rev. Mr.. Meeker AGAIN
threw few spears into the camp ol
| the PAilistines al smote theln On tilS
tbiah and jawbone. His sermon III
part follows: -;
s.Tt is a shame that Topeka, the capt
tsl citv of the state among states IN
rrn17ihitinn. should have I IT'S M w
a man who favors the resuDmlSsloH u
the prohibition law, ana VINO ..s+is,,itT
seoret of being opposed TO CnristldiiieS
"It is q shame that Christian peopie
-to7,1d 10 religiC US in church ana tueh
go ont and vote for such people Chlis-
tia1s should stand together Tor Soou-
- is shame that the politicians can
count on the vote of the chutch -, -
DIe tn. certain men because tney Ailo"
- ple 49, ore divided in their opinion.
eayvben the disciples came down lroIn l
+,e rEoInt Of Transformation 10 tne
valley Of Service they found poy pos
sosse5 of n devil. It seems that the
t+1- c.,1,naission also has q lemon 1
-, ,,-self sinned against GOD WheH W
ted for a rark commissioner VINO wac az
,,,,os-d To the church of GOD, Dul ne
opp 'l,- ,.,,,reeented to me as a good man.
ne he refused US the privilege OF WI w,
1NiS,;nc, where we wished saying lhAI
Ssno-,lo in fhe neignborhood had op!eCt-
- a7d when we asked who hao opJeTt
81 he said that he himself Woulo oe ..;o "
49, to object if he lived IN the VI
cinity. ia he toeether
~ 4,-a Cm -,ocd Fv tnis I do not mean
~ oil denominations should De IN
Ina se - roof hut that the church pso-
us uSl eLo,,ld reunite in their vote 1or
p,Sst piS5 thev know is right.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-08-21

4. =. cf ne M W. A. camp No. 227o
~ NeuSman twelve miles northeast u
Tonelxa. aSturday. Several huiiui GU
neople attended the picnic. ..,,.
rr5,o relatives of the Cones fanny
held an ali day picnic at Garfield park
Wednesday. Mrs. Nancy Brldge1o[u
a,d Mrs w. w. Stout were the only
one sof the older original cones lanilly ny
present. Those present Weie -.
George r. Hume of Auburn, Kansas
M and Mrs. Frank Bridgeford Mr'
ana Mrs. Clarence Henry and fanny,
M and Mrs. E. n. Martin, Mr. aha
Mrs. Albert Reicherter and fanny Of
silver Lake. Kansas; MRS. nancy
d. I.idaford Mr.. and Mrs w. w Stout,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Fowler, MI anu
Mrs. q. E. Hubbard, Mr. and mrs L.
I ETrantz. Mr and Mrs. Harry Zarker
and family, Miss Grace Frantz' MISS
Mr., Jesse F'rantz. Mr.. Andrew franz
Mr.. Earl F'rantz, Mr.. DINA franz MI
Mrlo Hubbard, Mr.. Charles Martin
Mr.. Merrill Fowler of Topeka, kahsas
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H Zarker MI anu anu
Mrs IrI Royce Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus
Snod1rass. Mrs. A. J. Snodgrass, MISS
Mar15 Zarker, Mr. Ralph Zarker, Mr..
Russell Zarker. North Topeka, Kansas;
Miss Coda Meade, Eddy, Okla; MISS
Ruth Paronta, Miss Lean Paronta'
shawnee. Okla. Invited guests were;
Mrs. e. J. Mowery, Mrs. E. l.: Gray
and DAUGHTERS Indianapolis, Ind. Mr.
and Mrs w. H. Fowler, Miss Eva F.ow-
Ter. Mr. Lester Fowler, Topeka, Kan
sas. Miss Florence Fulton of Hayes
City, Kansas.
T.innonf camp M. w. A. No. 1916 will
hold an all day picnic at the Earl
Wendell grove saturday
Mrs. Harry Nathanson has returned
from a visit in Kansas City
Miss Sophia Roehrig is visiting IN
Miss Irene Orr is visiting in New
man. =
visiting North side relatives
Merit French is visiting friends in
Mr.. ana Mrs. NJ D. Smith of Wame-
go are visiting at the home of their
son. L. W. Smith of 1908 Central ave
Mrs. Mary WelIman and daughter,
Miss Helen Wellman, and son, Don
wellman, court reporter' vii leaXe ave
Springs and Manitou-
Mrs. George Palmer and Roy Pal
mer of 1925 North Topeka avenue will
leave this week for visit in Denver.
A. E. Finney has returned from a
visit in Beloit.
Rev. T. J. Pearson. pastor of the
North Side Congregational church, is
recovering from a severe illness.
Dr. L. c. Leinbach is in Berryton on
Dennis Ferguson has returned from
a visit in St Marys-
Miss Florence and Miss Martha
KimbaIl have gone to Arkansas to visit
relatives.
NJ Petro. druggist
Miss Leah Shirley. daughter of NJ
NJ. Shirley. a ranchman living two and
one-haf miles northeast of Granville
died Saturday morning from smallpox.
She was buried Sunday morning. Miss
Shirley had been seriously Ill only
about FIVE days and not until the
morning Of her death was the disease
The Washington times., 1911-07-02
ACCIDENT DELAYS
AEROPLANE TRIALS
At COLLEGE PARK
Rex Smith Machine Smash
ed and Trip to City
Abandoned.

Owing to an accident which happened
last night to the old Rex Smith machine
while Frank Kastory was attempting a
| flight, there were no flights today at
College Park. Mr.. Smith said the acci-
dent was due to Kastory's failure to
follow his instructions.
Kastory took the old Smith aeroplane
| out last night for a trial flight He has
only recently been trying to qualify as
| an aviator, and was told to be particu-
| larly careful about steep climbing. He
got the machine of the ground and few
| to the north end of the field. There he
turned and started back. Almost i'm
mediately he began to climb at a very
steep angle.
The result was that the tail OF the
| machine struck the ground and began
| to drag. resulting in the breaking of the
| outrigger and the tail plane. Both ends
! of the new rudder on the machine were
| damaged.
Kastory was uninjured.
C. A. Dorian. the aviator for E. K.
Fox. of Washington. who has an aero
plane at College Park, has nearly fin
ished assembling the machine and ex-
poets to make his first flight not later
of visitors at the aviation grounds today
were especially anxious to see the Gov
ernment aeroplane in which Lieutenants
! Arnold and Milling made their flight to
Washington yesterday.
At a height of $500 feet, Lieutenant
Arnold, as pilot, with Lieutenant Milling
| as a passenger. flew into Washington
and returned to the field without stop.
/ of he
bArmy Aviation School at College Park
| have been anxious to fly into Washing
ton. At first the intention was to make
/ the trip to Potomac Park speedway,
| but that was changed late in the after
| noon because of the large number OF
people attracted there by the band con-
| cert, The recent accident in France,
where so many were injured was 1resn
/ in the minds Of the officers, and they
| determined TO take no chances.
! After the trial flights yesterday after
noon the officers found the weather
conditions to be unusually good foi ,oi
aviation, and 1t was determined to MAKE
a fight to Washington.
| Lieutenant Arnold took the lever and
| acted as pilot, and Lieutenant Mllnns
| OCCURRED the passenger seat. The latter
which tells the height of the flight.
| II was the first day the barograph has
| been used by the officers. as 1t has 1us'
been purchased by the War DepartmenL
In annearance 1t resembles a small
\ travelling clock in a leather case. II
worked most satisfactorily yesterday
1t was just o'clock when the aeropian1G
| left the ground and mounted upward
| IJeutenant Arnold circled the field, and
| after reaching height Of 1000 feet
| turned westward and made a sh0r'
fight, sailed back to the aviation held
around the grounds, and tnen 20 PONIES fo1,
lowed the Anacostia river to Easter
| branch and reached Shepard's Point
i east of Twining City. There he turned
the machine and flew back to the ava ava
| fion field, making the longest nlgn,
which has been accomplished In thli
part Of the country since Orvtlle wright
fiew 10 Alexandria and returned.
The Washington times., 1911-07-02
DEATHS

ROwIE-On Friday, June 30 1911, at a. M
at his residence near Upper Marlporo, AL
LEN PERRY, husband of Agnes L. Bowie
and son Of the late John Z. and Jane b
RoNie aged ffty-one years.
Interment at Forestvine' No. To-Day at
1890 p. m.
DENTON-On Friday, June 30, 1911. at $50
N M at 800 Thirteenth street northwest
after a severe illness Of three weeks. which
he bore with Christian fortitude, RICHARD
DENTON.
Funeral from his late residence, Monday,
r,,IS at 1 D. m. Friend sand relatives
invited to attend.
r1TZ-On Friday, June 30. 1911, at the home
~ his son, H Hamlin Fitz, 463 Sanford
avenue, Flushing, Long Island, HENRY E.,
husband OF Caroline Campbell Fftz, for
merly Of washington.
Funeral July at $3.50 p. m
t.1ct1MAN-on Thursday. June %. 1911. at
m at her residence. lob Third street
roTtwest. EVA S. HICKMAN, daughter Of
Thomas and MaIlie Hickman.
FUNERAL from Asbury NJ. E. Church to-
day, p. m
oRME-on Saturday. July 1. 1911. at a. m,
AT her residence, Chevy Chase, Nd, MARY
AMELIA, beloved and only daughter OF
WiIIiam and Amelia Orme, age eleven
months and fifteen days.
PIKE-on Saturday. July !. 1911. at 81;
Wife OF Charles A. Pike and mother OF
Funeral from Douglas Memorial N: E
Church, Eleventh and II streets northeast
On Tuesday, July 4, at p m
sI,EMAN-on Saturday, July !, 1911, at 1873
n m, at Clifton Springs, n. Y, JOHN
fSoTTIELI. Jr., eldest son Of John b. anc
Mary E. slenan. Of Sll4 sixteenth street
IN the thirty-eighth year OF his age.
Notice of funeral hereafter.
New York and Boston papers please copy
The Washington times., 1911-07-02
WASHINGTON TIMES BUREAU,


The depositing by a number Of young
men of collateral last evening at the
Eleventh precinct station in Anacostia
to answer for their appearance in the
Police Court tomorrow followed an in
vestigation made by policemen of the
story of a midnight hold-up and an as
sault on the Wheeler road, in Congress
Heights, a few night ago. John B.
Harold, jr., Of 1735 Kilbourne place.
Washington, deposited $50; Harry N.
Wiesbrod, SO; Thomas Barrett, Paul
Green, and Morris Burgess, s. each.
The first named was charged with car
rying a concealed weapon, while the
charge lodged against each of the
others was disorderly assembly.
The occurrence grew out of a call
made by young Harold upon a Con-
gress Heights girl. He was proceeding
along the Wheeler road on his way
home shortly before midnight, when he
was set upon by a number of youths.
One of them struck him in the jaw.
While the attack was being made, the
young man drew N revolver from his
pocket and discharged 1t, firing twice,
according to the statement made -bY
the police. When his assailants saw
The revolver they took to their heels.
While the young man from the city
was searching around in the darkness
The Washington times., 1911-07-02
YOUTHFUL WIDOW
READS AND SINGS
IN HER JAIL CELL
Mrs. Wilson Apparently
Little Worried Over
Her Fate.

Mrs. Mary J. Wilson is still in jail, no
bondsman having appeared for the
young widow accused of opening a reg
istered letter and taking a money order
out of It. She does not seem to be
worrying She reads and sings.
No member of her family has yet been
to see her, according to officials of the
Jail, and it begins to look. according
to them, as If her relatives were in
earnest when they repudiated her.
JaiIers, attorneys, and others inter-
ested say the girl cannot fully realize
how grave her predicament is. Under
indictment on six counts in New York
for tampering with mail, under indict-
ment for forgery here. and facing an
other possible indictment here on a
charge of opening a registered letter.
Mrs. Wilson will have a hard fight 10
escape a long term in the penitentiary.
If she is aware of this her conduct
in jail does not show 1t.
The Washington times., 1911-07-02
SWAIN ATTACKED;
THEN HE USES GUN
Marches Assalants Down DAD at Pistols Point After
Midnight Battle in Wheeler Road-Trials
In Police Court Tomorrow.

! for a shoe that he had lost In the
struggle, he was attacked by several
others. Young Harold compelled then,
to walk ahead of him at the point OF
the revolver, the police say, until q
lighted road near the town was reached,
when he ordered them to their homes
with a warning.
Residents of the town learned later
that \ Miss Minnie Fadaley had filed
charges with the police department con-
cerning the rowdyism practiced BY
youths of the vicinity upon young men
who come from the city to visit friends
In Congress Heights.
A car Of the Washington Railway and
Electric Company struck Merchants
Transfer Company wagon, driven by
William Jones, at Nichols avenue, near
w street, yesterday. The wagon was
slightly damaged.
Salem Lodge, No. %, Independent Or
der of Odd Fellows, has elected the fol-
lowing officers for the ensuing term /:
William L. Beasley, noble grand /;
Samuel L. Dameron, vice noble grand; 1;
Joseph K, Davidson. recording secre-
tary; James M. England, financial sec
1etary; John w. Payne, treasurer; John
w. Payne, trustee for three years. the
! installation will take place Thursday
night.
After a service Of two years as acting
lieutenant of the Eleventh precinct, at
Anacostia, c. L. Plemmons, formerly a
bicycle inspector In the Police Depart
ment, was yesterday promoted 10 the
position Of lieutenant.
The Washington times., 1911-07-02
Newport Society Woman
Out to Crush Grafters

NEWPORT, r. l.. July 2.-Newport
society women are beginning to fig
ure the high cost of living. Their
first move toward retrenchment has
been to install a system of weighing
and counting and to check off the or
ders as they are filled by the trades
people with whom they deal. The
women say they are doing this to pre-
vent the possibility of being short
weighted or short-measured.
They are anxious to do away with
the old commission basis. by which 1t
is alleged servants in many mansions
have been receiving retainers from
certain shop owners.
The Washington times., 1911-07-02
Anniversary Of
GARFIELD TRAGEDY
GOES BY NEGLECTED.
Assassination Thirty Years
Ago Recalled by DR.. Lamb,
Surviving Surgeon.

Thirty years ago today Washington
and the entire world was thrown into a
state Of wild excitement by the shoot
ing Of President James Abram Garfield.
His death brought condolences from ey-
cry country in the world and saddened
the heart Of every American, but today,
less than a third of century since, his
illIlstrious life has been so far forgot
ten that neither a flag nor tiny
bouquet of flowers was placed on his
statue in front Of the Capitol, only a
few blocks from where he fell.
To those who were in Washington on
July 2. 1881. there will recur stories of
Garfield, arm In arm with the Secretary
of State, James G. Blaine, entering the
old Baltimore and Potomac depot from
the B street side. there to be met by the
ASSASSIN. Charles Jules Guiteau.
Few Witnesses Survive.
But few of the personal friends of
Garfield. who participated in the wild
excitement of that day and waited with
tense interest in the vain hope that he
might live, are alive today. OF the
doctors who attended the President
during the eighty days he fingered be-
tween life and death and were present
at the autopsy performed in Elberon.
N. J., but one is alive. He is DR.. D. 8.
Lamb, 2114 Eighteenth street northwest,
who has been connected with the Army
Medical School since 1865.
According to a statement made by
DR.. Lamb today, the wound which
President Garfield received thirty years
ago might not prove fatal under the
present-day methods Of medical treat
ment Advance in surgery and medical
science has been so marked in the last
three decades that DR.. Lamb, who
gical work at the autopsy, is inclined
to believe that an injury such as the
President received might not now re-
suit in death.
Would Have Lived.
The wound would be treated differ
entity today" said DR.. Lamb. "At that
time asceptic treatment was unknown.
The wound was not given an anttseptic
wash. 1t was just few years later
that the antiseptic was perfected and
came into general use."
DR.. Lamb explained that the assas-
sins bullet passed clear through the
spinal column. But 1t did not touch the
cord. The bullet entered from the
back. In going through the column 1t
spent its force and lodged just beyond
the ribs.
DR.. Lamb is confident President Gar
field received the best medical treat
ment It was possible to give him at
that time, but the chronology Of his life
contains many clippings from newspa-
pers criticising the doctors who attend
ed him.
Even at the inquest, while DR.. Lamb
was using the knife in his endeavor to
locate the bullet and learn the exact
cause of the Presidents death, the
physicians in attendance showed evi-
dence of animosity.
DR., F. J. Hartigan criticised DIR. ]. j.
Woodward in such a way that there
was much bitterness of feeling engen-
The Washington times., 1911-07-02
Rev. E. Hez Sven Will
Make Reply to Critics

Attacks made upon him by people
who objected to the sensational titles
of his sermons when he was pastor OF
tbe second BAPTIST Church are to be
renlied to by the Rev. E. Hez Sven
in his sermon at Typographical Tenn
pie. ..oo,,,
that have been made" said the Kew,
Mr. SVEN. but until the time of my
sermon l will give no intimation of
what | will say. To do so would be
to weaken my sermon"
The Rev. Mr.. Sven was accused OF
having attempted to ALLEVIATE MEM
bers from the church OF when ne was
Formerly pastor, by attempting to get
them to Join the church he has re-
Gently organized. His new church is
known as the Capital Baptist Church,
and the meetings are held In Typo
graphical Temple.
The Washington times., 1911-07-02
STANlPATTER PAID
BY fAFT BOARD
TO RAP REVISION
Expert" Sent Abroad to
Get Facts, Writes. Anti-Re-
duction Letters Back.
By JUDSON C. wELLIvER.

@. w. Burton, special agent of the
tariff board. now travelling in Europe to
gather exact information for the use
Of the President and Congress, is a
thrifty old gentleman. His thrift-and
some other qualities-are getting him
and the board into lot of hot water
Burton used TO be an employe OF the
ultra-standpat Los Angeles Times. He
is about seventy years old. and the tar
if board picked him to investigate costs
OF production at hcme and abroad. by
touring In Europe at Government ex-
pense. in search for data
Burton. on the side. has been writing
letters back to the Los Angeles Times
for publication; and these have aroused
much amusement This Impartial in
vestigator." gathering exact informa-
tion." in a recent letter declared that:
Your tariff revision demand,
fellow-Americans. Is a fad
And in another letter, eXcoriating the
whole tariff revision suggestion. this i'm
partial investigator made this judicial
and carefully weighed observation:
The merchants of our country who
are so inadvisedly shouting for lower
duties In order 10 get the cost Of living
reduced should stop making SO much
noise until they learn what they are
talking about"
His letter in the Los Angeles paper
Of May q occupied a full page. 1t was
headed:
THE TARIFF PROBLEM
BY George w. Burton.
Production In Spain-No Practical
Method of Learning Accurately
Cost of Production.
The progressive Republicans out in
California, who believe in revision, have
been reading the Burton letters with
keen interest. Finally they got hot un-
der the collar, and they have forwarded
to Senator Works a set of clipping
of these Burton articles. asking II he
can't find out why such an Impartial
investigator" is maintained by the
ia riff board.
The tariff letters in the Los Angeles
paper would be great reading in the
American Economist, the organ of the
Protective Tariff League. But as ema-
Lations from an impartial investiga ton,
they are regarded as at least eccentric
The tariff-revision Senators are going
to have a resolution introduced, and
the opposition to the tariff board Is get
ting ready for a highly amusing ses-
sion when the resolution comes up for
action.
Prediction Is already being ventured
that Burton will have to walk across
the Atlantic II he depends on Uncle
| Sam to pay his way home.
The Washington times., 1911-07-02
wiIling-that everything to the discom.
fort of the President shall be orousn'

willing-that everything to the discom.
fort of the President shall be orouen'
out.
Anxious to Probe Conference.
They propose to know all about that
midnight conference at the White House
between Aldrich and Taft, two nights
before Lorimer was elected. They want
to know whether the agent of the Lum-
Der trust, the partner of the Weyer-
haeusers-whether Hines, in short-was
waiting at Aldrich's home Cor the WORD
from that conference before starting for
Illinois to give Deneen and the Lorimer
forces the word that the White House
would stand for 1t ALL"
These aspects assure that politics OF
the biggest and most uncomfortable
sort is to be associated with the inquiry
all the way through. The Lorimer
crowd seem to have been peculiarly
willing to bring in the name OF the
President. Doing so may prove their
worst mistake; for the best possible
vindication of the President, the best
testimonial in his favor, would be
verdict that Hines did not tell the
truth. That would mean verdict
against Lorimer.
The Washington times., 1911-07-02
Won Der Miller Spends
Day Quietly in Jail

Until tomorrow morning, when his
trial will be resumed, Louis Won der
Miller will remain in his cell at the
Alexandria County Jail. The man who
shot and killed his brother-in-law John
Reeves some weeks ago and who has
been placed on trial for his life. seemed
to find today's rest pleasant variation
of the last few days during which he
has sat in a crowded courtroom and
heard rehashed the details OF the XIII.
inc Although prisoners are allowed to
receive visitorso, none called upon Won
der Miller today.