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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-23

FOR SALE
room cottage, cellar. well, barn, pouI-
Try mouse, 8 lots, near Hays green house.
$SVU cash, balance monthly. Price 81, 400
room cottage, cellar, WELL outbuildings
~ lots, fine shade, $500 cash, balance
payments Price 81, 900.
room cottage, cement cellar, walks
Wen and cistern, barn with cement floor
lots, old shade, East 18th st. $500.
room cottage, cellar, well, cisteru
barn, poultry house, lots, West Huntoon
81, 100.
Two nice smooth quarter sections in
Grant Co., Kan, either or both for 81. 100
each.
]. D. MILLER & co.
o5l Kansas ave. Both Phones.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-23
AUTOMOBILES

WE SELL the Regal automobile: dif-
ferent models Kaw Valley Land Co,
Mulvane Bldg.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-23
MONEY.

guns, typewriters, household goods and
personal security. l.. Biscoe, 523 Kan ave
LOANS FOR BUILDING HONESTY
reason of new financial connecticut
we are making loans for building homes
on homes already built and on the best
business property. Lowest rates in the
city II you have maturing mortgage
or wish to change your MORTGAGE write
or call at our Office, first floor. New
England Building.
5 PER CENT MONEY ON FARMS.
BETTER REALTY AND LOAN co
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-23
FOR RENT-FLATS.

FOR RENT-Apartment rooms and bath,
modern Bird floor. 800 Kansas ave-,
steam heat. Jas. C. Wilson, ITO West 9Th
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-23
FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE.

s., 100 NEARLY NEW room cottage. 2
lots, gas. cellar, well, cistern, barn,
chicken house, 1910 West st. Owner leav-
ing city. NJ. Stephenson. Bel 1879.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-23

FOR SALE%A tract of "a lots, well imp,
house, barn and fruits of different kinds,
3 bllxs west Lowman car line. By Owner,
1l57 Randolph st.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-23
CEMENT WORK.

If YOU DON'T GET US to lay your walk
or cement your cellar, we will both Lose
money. The name of Crouch" on your
walk is a guarantee. Ind. phone 26s1-a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-23
MACHINE SHOPS.

GUNS repaired and cleaned by expmr4n
II. B. Howard Supply Co. no kan. ave
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-23

FOR RENT-Four room flat, gas, water,
toilet, sink, $500. 1401 Quincy.
6 ROOM flat, gas, city water. $3.50. 1227a
Monroe. Inquire 9S1 Kansas ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-23

FOR SALE-5 room house and bath. 5l9
Taylor. Inquire II. c. Lang.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-23
FoR sALE on RENT.

VIII sell, easy terms, lots. fensed I'm
two parts with chicken tight fence; lots
in alfalfa a good room house with base
and chicken yard and all kinds of fruit
2050 Lincoln st.
S. sHLNN, Agent, 2OH Lincoln St.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-23

I HAVE a leather trimmed surrey, good
as new. less than half price, Telephone
1916.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-23

Both Phones 2s Day and Night
HAWLEY & STEELE.
Funeral directors and embalmers. lis Eam1
etb ave. Mrs. Roht. steele. assistant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-23

BARGAIN SALE-By owner, two large
houses, West side. 6s5 Morris ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-23
UNDERTAKING.

L. NJ PENWELL. funeral director ana
embalmer. First class service. S0o-Eln
Quincy st. Both pheneA
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J. A. ROSEN, patent attorney, az Kan.
sas ave-. Topeka. Kan.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-29
DRESSMAKERS MAY STRIKE
Union Will Hold Mass Meetings
Monday to Take Final Steps.

The Ladies' Waist and Dress Makers
Union, whose general strike something
more than two years ago enlisted ,hc
sympathies of a number of rich women,
is threatening another general strike. Tine
union has called mass meetings for Mon
day evening TO decide on the practicable
ity OF a strike.
The season for making waists and
dresses for the spring trade is now ne
ginning, and the meetings will be called
on 10 pass upon demands 10 be presented
To the operators
There are about thirty thousand waist
makers and dreSsmakers in the ready
made clothing trades in this city. @ per
cent of whom are women The last strike
was not a success, some of the strikers
gaining their demands, while others re-
turned To work Internationally.
The union practically had declared for n
strife last year. but at the last moment
ID was decided TO postpone action, -
many persons were idle and il was con
cluded that 10 would be- a bad time for a
strike Many thousands of the waistmak-
,rs and drcssmakcrs are in favor Of
strike now, and say that there Is FAR
uora demand for workers this year than
tdat year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-29

hands ~ her husband. The servants Of
the house bad instructions from johns
she declares, not TO heed the orders OF his
wife. 1t was last winter. she says, when
his cruelty and oppression passed all
bounds" According 10 her story, he beat
her. refused 10 let her see their children
alone and would not permit her 10 have
heat i'm her room. Then, on July 20 last
she saws. Johns told her that story had
been circulated that he had beaten her.
He was sure Mrs Johns had circulated
the report about his conduct, and threat
,uod that unless she wrote their friends
d,nv.ug the truth OF the story he would
ryfrt her from their home.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-29
THREE HELD IN SHIRT THEFT
Manhattan Dealers and Employe of
Factory in the Tolls.

The police arrested yesterday Michael
Markson, employed In the Brooklyn Shirt
Waist factory. at North 9Th street and
briggs avenue, Williamsburg, and ar
ralgned him in the Manhattan avenue
court on the charge Of larceny. He was
held in $1,000 bail The police also took 10
the Essex Market court. Manhattan, Sam
rel and Ruben Gold. haberdashers, Of No.
g2 East Houston street, and had them
held in $1,000 bail OF charges of receiving
stolen goods.
The shirt waist company has been sys-
tcmaticaily robbed. -Four detectives were
pGt ON IN, case and they picked out
Alarkson but members OF the concern
could not believe him guilty. They said
n" vas a trusted omploye.
Wednesday night the detectives saw
Narksou 80 into the factory anu take
away iu puaucart forty dozen shirts.
Ic was followed to Manhattan. where,
an, polio. say. o." sold the shirts 90 the
cold brothers juT 81 y q dozen. When
NarEsoE returned o. his home so. Il
SeGcI street, he was arrested.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-29
DINNER FOR Or. BERNSTEIN.

The Society OF Jewish Social Workers
will give " dinner At the Hotel Brevoort
tomorrow evening for DR.. Ludwig Il
Bernstein, superintendent of the Hebrew
Shcltering Guardian Society. as a testi'
monial OF their regard for him person
ally and for his distinguished services II
chid-caring work. The speakers will he
Professor II. l.. Sabsovich. POSTMASTER;
Morris u. Waldman, the Rev. Brother
Barnabas, DIR. Bertha Lubltz. Adolph
Lewisohn. the Rev. Or. stephen s. Wise,
DR.. Hastings B. Hart, Louis $. Posner
and Thomas w. Hynes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-29
Grabbed Wife By Throat.

III. -. r,gI,F.I
Mrs. johns pane, ~ w -. ,,.,,I,
asking tlihs 10 TAIN a.. ,,.t,,
her mother ina. n'b''" -,
her husodhu s.aoO'u NC 81, .F,a
and thie" het '",o '''V .',,,'., 49,, a.
occupied Later johns 'ol''''-,'' -.
sauIt by rls"ins mo '''' lgo''' ,',,
inE ana c""NI"e 80 ,t.s
Alter ne h"u oo'o'''' -. -,
johns T"Teateu " an -
and locked 'he uoo'' ','' 80 - ,I,o
seris' p"iSu'' me- ",'p ,,,.,,,,,,t Ina.
door. J. ea'.nE '''' ~ -, f,,,r,
band "ould NIL "'', W =. ~ sIs,,.,.
the house III h'' MS -
WI" HN'' "Ppo'','
ing ana '""N ','' ' O., r.r
MIS- 'o"'a ~. n.,I,b
nome aver "''' ,,.,.,,,.,.,,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-29
SHOOTS HERSELF WHILE
HUSBAND SITS NEAR BY
Mrs Frederick H. Pollock Tries
to Commit Suicide at the
Breakfast Table.
WOUND IS PROBABLY FATAL
Her Act Is Inspired by Fit OF
Dependency Following the
Death of Her Children
and Brother.

,,..so,oo,a. Long Island Nov 2S.-
,irs Frederick II. Pollock, wife OF
en-. manager of Saks & Co. OF
,,a,nattan. shot herself to-day IN
a., og despondency which followed the
death Of her twin babies and her
nrotber a few months ago, Her condi-
,iop is very serious and she is not ex-
pected to live.
She had seemed greatly depressed
for some time and. despite the efforts
~ her husband and her many irehus
here 10 cheer her up, she would not De
ro,sed ont Of her state. After eating
breakfast this morning she went up
,o bar room and then it is supposed
she got the revolver. She came oe"h
again shortly after, and when she sat
At the other side of the table her nus
hand noticed nothing unusual in her
demeapor. lie was reading news
raner when ne was startled to near
the report Of the revolver and see his
wife fall from her chair TO the moor
He pjcked her up and placed her on a
couch and then telephoned for Dr.
Murphy. of Amityville.
The doctor found that the bullet
which was 80 calibre, had come out on
the left side of her head, just above the
owe He summoned Justice OF 'he
Peace Norton.
When the justice, who is also the
Coroner, arrived at the house Dr. NUT
rhv had succeeded in reviVing MIS-
pollock The Coroner took a statement
from her. in which she said that she
had shot herself in a fit Of despoh-
denCy.
She refused to go to a hospital, even
when told that she probably had only
few hours to live.
Mrs Pollock was married ten years
aga. She was formerly Miss Laura
Rice. Of oxford, Penn. Her brother
was editor OF "The Iron Age
As far as can be learned from neigh
bors. she became respondent some
months ago, when her twin babies died.
shortly after the death Of her brother.
She had no children except the two
who died.
The Pollocks are among the most
prominent residents of this place.
They have a beautiful summer home
on ocean avenue, and It had been GUS
romary for them to remain here every
wear until about December /. They
had been packing up some Of the fur
niture and siverware preparatory to
taking their departure in a couple II
days.
Mrs. Pollock, before the deaths in her
family had been one of the livelest Of
the colonists this summer, and had
taken part in all the social events of
the season.
The Rev. William Wyley, pastor OF
Grace Episcopal Church here, where
lhe Pollocks attended service. said to-
night that the couple seemed devoted
70 each other, but that since the death
" her twin children Mrs. Pollock had
appeared utterly respondent. He said
there was nothing to indicate that she
ever contemplated trying to take her
own life"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-29

Nothing'S eScaped'us.
The smallest items of men S
and boys clothing are well
looked after.
Every requisite for evening
dress at a moments notice.
Everything for College men
here over Thanksgiving
, mackinawS in the most UNI
usual color combinations.
Everything for schoolboys'
Quitting for the Winter term.
Everything for w in e +
sport-indoor and outdoor.
Fur lined coats $50 to
$500.
Fur outside coats SIS to
$40.
Fur gauntletS, fur foot
mufflers, fur caps, fur robes
and rugs.
ROGERS PET COMPANY.
Three Broadway Stores
at at II
Warren ST. 18th ST. Saith st.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-29
Two Special Offerings
of unusual and timely interest in
Mems Winter Clothes
Garment the Embodiment OF style

handsome materials may not give you iota OF Style
And it's equally that he who asks you to choose
among some sixty styles" of readyforservce garments
not offering you Style but only styes-a word WHICH
means simply ways" of cutting the garments
When Paouin of Paris designs gown for women it is
Stvle itself When modstes have copied this gown
and is sold countless Shops then Style is no more popu
tv has taken its place and speedily degenerates to the Com
monplace.
True Style has naught do with that which is Common
Here at Smith Gray & Co, where we personally make
cur clothes and only need them and where the
average time bolt recently selected fabric to your
back is but week. have the opportunity seldom achieved
elsewhere to produce garments that Style itself
This matter of artists skill applied at almost the pre-
else moment when Style declares itself
Special price paid will be forgotten when supreme salts
faction in vollr purchase is still yours
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-13
LAS CRUCES MAN
STRUCK BY AUTO
H. c. Strong's Arm Broken
and Body Bruised by
De ShaZO Car.

H. c. Strong Of Las Cruces, \. NJ, was
struck BY an automobile belonging to
T. /. De ShazO Wednesday evening while
he was standing in the transfer plaza
and his right arm was broken, and he
was bruised on the body and the right
leg.
Mr.. Strong, who Is an undertaken at
Las Cruces, came down on the delayed
Santa Fe Wednesday afternoon. He was
standing in the plaza waiting for a car
when the De Shazo auto drove across
Mills street. As he had his back to the
car. he started to walk in the direction
of the Sheldon hotel and was struck by
the car and thrown under the wheels.
Mr.. De Shazo saws that he did not see
GIr. Strong until his car struck him and
that he was not driving fast at the time.
De ShaZO says that he had stopped his
car to talk to a man on the FL PasO
bank corner of the Shield and that he
had started to run across the street and
stop in front of the Mills building. where
he has his office. He took Mr.. Strong
in the car and drove him to Hotel Dieu,
where he was given medical treatment.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-13
REMONSTRANCE IS
FOLLOWED BY ATTACK
William Matthews Asks Ne
groeS to Move On and
Gets Slashed.

As the result OF trying % remon-
strate with two negroes who, il was
said, were using loud and prOfane lar
guage in front his home, 507 II East
Third street, at II o'clock Wednesday
night, William Matthews, a carpenter,
Is in the Providence hospital suffering
with several knife wounds in MS abdo-
men. It was reported Thursday morning
that Matthew's condition was not con-
sidered serious. and that he was ex-
pected to recover
According to the report Matthews
made to the police he had retired for
the night when he was disturbed by
the two negroes who had stopped IN
front of his home. The negroes, he
said. were using pTOfane language and
he went out to demonstrate with them
When he asked them TO move on. Mat
thews said one of the negroes slapped
him. and the other one stabbed him
The wounded man was not able TO
identify his ASSISTANTS, but he gave the
police and detectives a good descrp-
ton Of both, apd arrests in the case are
eyDected
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-13
TROUBLE AT SEWAGE PLANT
BUILDING NEW OUTFALL PIPE

Breaking of a belt in the city sewage
pump house in WoOdlawn addition put
that pump out of commission during
the heavy rain Tuesday night. 1t be-
came necessary to use the pump at the
disposal plant. The sewage poured out
through the galvanized iron pipe which
Is being laid along the ditch and one
section of this was broken because It
had not been clamped before use Tt
was Immediately replaced and the old
pump again put in commission early
Wednesday morning.
Within ten DAYS the new sewer pipe
line from the disposal plant to the river
viii be finished. This line Is Of cal.
vanized iron and win be 100 feet long.
Already 700 feet has been laid and a
gang Of 10 men Is doing the work.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-13
MASONIC BODIES
ELECT OFFICERS

ROYAL Arch Masons and Royal and
Select Master Masons elected officers
Wednesday night at the Masonic temple.
The officers elected by the two orders
follow:
George E. frost, high p. st; Thomas
C. Liddell. king; Col. Lewis, scribe; John
Carpenter, treasurer; Joseph c. Molli-
nary. secretary (reelectedJ. High priest
frost appointed the following: A. L.
sharpe. captain of the host; George F.
Morgan, principal sOjOuTner; l. j. Gil
lett. ROYAL Arch captain; l-ugene s. Par
ham, master of third vail; John R. Rice,
master Of second vail; A. o. Wynn, mas
ter Of first vail; J. C. Ross, guard.
The officers in FL PasO council No. 9S,
ROYAL and Select Masters, are: John
Hughes, thrice illustTious master; Eu-
gene S. Parham, deputy illustr,Ous mas
ter; W W. Click, principal conductor of
the work; John Carpenter, treasurer;
Joseph c. Mollinary, recorder (reelect
ed) Mr.. Hughes appointed the follow
ing: l. Z. Gillett, captain q the guard;
Thomas c. Liddeu. conductor of the
council; Ashley T. Reed, steward; John
c. Ross, sentinel.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-13
RIVER CUTTING BANK
AT WOODLAND PARK
The City Has Force of Men
Fighting It-Current
of River Changes.

Despite the fact that the river has re-
coded somewhat. it is still eating int
the American bank at WOodlawn Park
Land owned by Felix Martinez there
and valued at more than $1,000 per acre
is being swept into the river at a rapid
rate. Since Tuesday afternoon. despite
the efforts of a gang Of city labOerrs.
so square feet of the bank has been
swept into the river
That Mexico has also suffered from
the high water is proved by the fact
that at this point the river is over a
mile wide. However. no damage is be-
ing done on the Mexican side at the
present time. as the current is sweep
ing toward the American bank.
The city has a gang of 10 men under
the direction Of John Collins trying to
stop the erosion. This gang is piling
brush and sand bags along the bank.
and trees have been anchored in the
stream As soon as the flood is stopped
at one place il Immediately seeks a more
vulnerable point and cuts into the bank
again
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-13
TO BUILD MODERN
APARTMENT HOUSE
Four Story Structure, to
Cost $4,000, For Stan
ton and Wyoming.

4 modern apartment house costing
81, 900 viii be built at the corner. Of
Stanton and Wyoming street by Mrs
Marguerite Booth and work on the con-
structiOn of the building will be started
ut once. The building is to be four
stories high as the first floor wiz be
sunk about two feet below the walk. but
VIII contain apartments as well as the
remaider of the house. Above this there
viii be three other stories. The build
ING VIII be made of red pressed brick.
and viii contain 10 apartments. II of
which are fOur-rOOm apartments and
four three-rOOm apartments. Each
apartment viii contain built-in refrig-
orators and book cases, disappearing
beds and private baths. The apart
ment house viii be heated by steam.
The work of demolishing the brick
residence which occupies the site of the
apartment house started Thursday. J.
c. W.orthingtOn has the contract for
building the new apartment house.
Building a Bungalow.
A five room California bungalow will
be built at 2509 Montana street. The
house viii cost $4,000 and will be made
of rough sawed timbers ana Greendaie
rug brick. The Perry patrick Realty
company Is building the house.
Work on Cottages Progresses.
Work on two five-rOOm cottages
which are being erected in the $500 block
on Rio Grand street continues and al
ready the foundation and the rock work
has been completed. The cost of the
buildings is $500 each. The Mayfield
Realty company Is erecting the build
ings.
New Building for Broadway.
A two story brick building will be
erected soon at III Broadway. The
building Will be erected by J. 5. Calhoun
and viii cost $1,000. 1t viii be USED as
a store and living rooms.
The New Hotel.
Frames have been erected for the
ninth and final floor Of the hotel Paso
Del Norte, on Fl Paso street The con-
crete viii be poured before the end OF
the week and the roof and the roof
garden and glass enclosed dining room
on the roof will then be erected Tile
partitions are being built on the lower
floors and the window frames are De-
ing put in place.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-13
NEGRO'S WOUNDS
RESULT IN DEATH
Buck Walls Dies at Hospital
and Mike Peters Is
Arrested.

Buck Walls. negro. aged about Is
Years, who was shot through the abdO-
men Wednesday night in front 81 MS
home. Second and Cotton streets. died
Thursday morning at $3.50 o'clock at tire
Providence hospital 10 which place IL
had been removed shortly after TIC
shooting
Mike Peters, another negro. was ar
rested bv the police on a charge of as
saUlt to murder. Both Walls and Peters
lived in the same house, and family
troubles are said TO have played an im-
p0rtant part in the shooting.
Walls had been in the employ Of The
FL Paso foundry as a driver for 10
years.
ConOncr Z. b. McClintOck held the III
quest over the body Thursday morn
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-13
HOME AND ORCHARD
DESTROYED BY RIVER
The Rio Grande Cuts Capers
Around Anthony and Be
xinO: Mexican browns.

Anthony, y NJ, June 13.-The river,
while steadily falling. has not ceased
from damage in heavy erosion along
the banks. Last week saw the home
Of BenignO Telles. with windmill and
pumping plant, go into the river, and
his orchard OF the finest peach trees
in the valley. followed a F. Carpen-
ter has lost several acres of fine wheat
and young alfalfa by a bend which has
formed in his land
At BerinO the river has formed a very
abrupt bend in front Of the lands Of
Gibson and Snyman and is overlooking
crops that have not been under water
all this season 1t is reported that the
La Union ditch head has been left by
the current and the ChamberinO head
is badly damaged The Three Saints
ditch is also pretty badly cut up. The
Santa Fe has managed to hold the
track at VadO, where the cutting has
been especially heavy. but is having
trouble north Of Las Cruces and there
has been no mail here ssnce Monday
night.
Mexican Is Drowned.
Not satisfied with a land diet, the
Flo Grande took a taste OF human life
EmeteriO Redondo. a young Mexican
from Guana1uatO, who has been In this
country for about six months. went in
bathing with a party Of friends on
Sunday evening He grew venturesome
never came up The body has not yet
been found 1t is said that he did not
know how TO swim.
Miss Anna James is home from the
Academy of Loretto, in Las Cruces. for
her vacation
J. C Rishaberger is a visitor in FL
PasO.
The children of J. o. Lips are all
very sick with scarlet fever. The old
est one Of four that are sick has been
very low indeed. but is slowly imprOF-
ing.