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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-16
HAS 49 STEPMOTHERS
A Son of Moro Datto Is Visiting in
Texas.

san Francisco, Feb. IL. B. Kid
well, who went to the Philippines IN
1898 as a volunteer and now is known
as the lumber king" of the ISLANDS.
arrived here today from the Orient
on visit to his old home in Texas.
With him is a young titled Moro
named Abdula Piang, who is the son
of a powerful Datto of Mindanao ana
who has 40 stepmothers and 80 broth-
ers and sisters.
Owing to his friendship with the
Moro chief. KidweI has been able to
go unarmed into the widest parts or
the island where he built up his hard
wood industry The financial arrange
ments. according to KidweH. is both
simple and satisfactory, the CHIEF
talkink whatever is right"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-16
HAD TWO HUSBANDS.
Woman Is Forced by Her First to
Marry Second.

London, Feb. IA remarkable Sc
quel has developed to the marriage be-
tween Horace Field Parshall of Mil
ford. N Y, the American capitalist
engineer who is chairman of the Cen
trail London Tube railway. and Mrs
Deborah Jeffreys, which took place at
Ethan registry Office on May s. last
year
The woman has been arraigned at
the Bows street police court on
charge of bigamy. She is very attrac-
tive and appeared before the maglS-
trate in handsome costume.
In answer to the charges, she said:
81 am deeply sorry for what nave
done. 1 would not have done It II
nv husband had not made me-.
In formal statement made to the
court she declared that she first met
Mr.. Parshall in January, 1871, Wnen
she was presented as a widow. he
afterward proposed marriage to her.
Ter husband, Herbert H JeHreys.
from whom she was separated, urged
her to marry Parshan for his money
and threatened to kill her if she re-
veaIed to Parshall that she was mar
ried.
Mr.. Parshall afterward received an
letter in which his supposed
wife confessed what she had done.
The marriage was annulled by the
taking whatever is right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-16
CARRIED TO DEATH.
Ropes Fail to Reach Man on Ice in
Racing Tide.

Yonkers, n Y. Feb. 16.-Poised on
a six-foot cake of ice in a racing tide
in the Hudson river here last night,
an unidentified man rode to his death
in the icy waters with a squad of
A squad of police and volunteer life
savers rushed with a long coil of rope
to pier just below the point where
the man was struggling to maintain
his balance in the maelstrom of heav
ing ice cakes. Sixty feet out. the man
saw them and shouted The rope was
twice thrown but each time fell short
and the man was swept past. disap-
pearing in the darkness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-16
card of Thanks.

I wish to thank our many friends
for their kind assistance and floral
offerings during the sickness and death
of nv wife. W. H. MECORD.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-16
What a Real
Tonic Does

people are real tonic Thousands of and women
ang today sick in bed but without strength and
bition do full days work No organ seems to be
fault yet the whole system is lacking in health They
sleep get rest always tired out
Many headaches backaches and stomach troubles
The beneficial influence of this medicine reaches the whole
system Dr. Williams Pink Pills do than relieve
or two of the symptoms they remove the cause.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-16

Webster's dictionary de-
fines a tonic as ga medicine
that increases the strength
and gives vigor to the sys-
tenn" That tells why DR..
Williams Pink Pills for Pale
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-16

New crop Kentucky blue grass just
in. Prices right. Zimmerman Seed Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-16
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

At a meeting of the board of directors
Of +he High School World held late
"Wednesday afternoon the staff of the
World was chosen. Leon Holman was
elected editor-in-ehief. and EdWlh
Mennfnger was chosen as his assistant:
LYMAN Malone and James Hesse Will
have charge of managiT$ the Worlo
this wear. The following were also
elected to serve on the paper: Associate
editors. Donald Heath, Glen Glass
Angelus Burch, and Louise Bell me
spectator, Abe Gordon; athletics Ken
meth Lewis: local editor. Marguerite
Kiene. The reporters representing the
classes are as follows: Senior, Frances
Perry. and Hobart Holt; sub-senlor'
Lorraine Sewell and Robert Drum;
iIInior Esther Kleinhans and Frank
Fable; subiunior. Fern Mold and Leigh
charles LYONS; sub-sophomora, Beat
rice Warner and George Crawford;
freshmen. Gladys Neil and Alden
ro1y at the High School, and debate
GatcheIl and Raymond Hemphill-
A meeting of the staff was called this
noon. and work for the first issue of
the World will begin soon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-16

Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People give strength
and vigor in all where tonic is needed They
specific for ansema lack of blood, and chorosis,
sickness After the grip fevers and operations they
UP the entire system.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-16

A valuable booklet, Diseases
of the Blood" containing help
full information will be sent
upon request.
DIR. Williams Pink Pills are
sold by all druggists, or will
be sent, postpaid, on receipt of
price, so cents per box; six
boxes $3.50, by the DR.. Will
liams Medicine Company,
Schenectady, n. Y.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-16

The staff artists of the World are:
Hampton Shirer, Charles Lyon, Pauline
HAYNES, Paul Cooper, and Abe Gordon.
Several of these held the same position
on the staff last year, and because OF
their excellent work were retained The
new artists have shown their ability in
sketching several of the covers Of the
World issued last term.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-16
BIRDS SAVE WOMAN.
scrceching of Parrots Calls Attention
of Neighbors.

Chicago, Feb. 16.-The screeching of two
parrots and the prompt arrival of pull
motor were responsible for saving the
life Of Mrs. Mary Mason in her North
side home last night. Two girls entering
the building heard the cries of the terri
fled birds and opening the door OF the
Mason apartments found the woman I'M
conscious from gas. They gave the alarm
and Mrs. Mason was revived
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-16

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had been suffer
butno
do my
rundo in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-16

The Forensic club held a session
TODAY at th,. high school. and a debate
on the question: Resolved. that the
statute prohibiting the existence of
secret orders in the High Schools of
the state should be repealed" The af-
firmative side of the question was
taken by Charles Lyon and Harlow
price white the opposite side was
handled by Lyman Malone and Charles
johnson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-16
HANG TWO ON ONE TREE
Mob Lunches Negro Man and Woman
in Texas.

I NrsrsbalI Texas. Feb. ia mob
,,,nched George Sanders and Mary
Jackson, negroes. hanging them to the the
same tree Just across the Panola
county line, it was learned here TO-DAY,
The negroes had lived at tne SAN
bonse with Jennie Sneed, the young
negro who shot and killed Paul
e-tav,,. . white man on January ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-16

The Art club held meeting Thurs
dav beginning at o'clock in the
rooms of the art class. The members
of the club brought their lunch with
them, and after lunch the program was
given
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-29

USE STEAM ROLLER To
DEFEAT PEOPLES WILL

The republican state central
committee met here this morning
at the Tacoma hotel. placed the
state convention at Aberdeen May
10, endorsed Taft, gagged the pro-
gressives and provided for hand
picked%delegation to the national
convention.
A resolution presented by Tom
Murphine of Seattle asking Gov
ernor Hay to call special ses-
sion to provide presidential
primary was ruled out of order by
Chairman B. w. Coiner. On APP
peal from the decision of the chair
Coiner was sustained 19 to z.
Murphine introduced II again
after the resolutions report had
been adopted and the chair ruled
it in order but Tom Fisk choked
IL off with a motion to adjourn,
which was voted through II to
12.
Murphine called attention to
the absolute certainty of a hand
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-29
BOOK AGENT SEEKS DIVORCE
/ FROM FASHIONABLE WIFE

The. atmosphere OF fashionable
suntmer resorts of Washington.
D. g., society, of jewels, fashions
and thigh life, was brought into
divofce court today when a worn
looAing man of 40 sued his wife,
Mra Sophie D'Antignac Aspinwall,
of Washington, ID. c., for divorce
in Easterday'se court.
Mrs. Aspin WALL. daughter OF a
rich Episcopal clergyman, is de-
Tending the suit by long distance
dispositions, on grounds that the
church frowns on divorce.
Woolsey Aspinwall, the man, is
an Episcopal minister's son, and
hefr to 100000 estate, tied up
for, number of years yet.
They were married in Washing
ton in 1890.
Earned $50 Month.
The man had studied for the
ministry, but had a position IN
Columbia college at Washington,
earning $50 a month.
His wife, he says, insisted on
having three or four servants, not
Including the butler, on going to
the summer resorts every year as
soon as 1t got warm enough, was
fond of travel and very jealous.
In 1893, he says, she made him
takeN her and two friends to the
Chicago worlds fair.
At the end of the first year, he
says, he was 81 400 In debt.
sPawned Wedding Presents.
z The wife says that he pawned
her wedding presents and some
heiflooms during this period for
.$47a. Also that he got money on
her property. worth SIS, 700,
which he has never repaid.
The couple have been separated
foR:some years. In 1906 when her
sister married, Aspinwall, then in
Navada, sought a reconciliation
Mrs. Aspinwall turned him down,
he says.
Several times, the man says,
the wife has threatened to kill
herself when he refused TO ODE,
her wishes. She threatened t,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-29

Miss Esther Allstrum, pure
food inspector, did not get Off
cial notification she was to be in
vestigated by the mayor this
morning, so she did not go near
the trial.
Mrs. j. @. Mason and other
Women's club leaders insisted
that Miss Allstrum did not write
the article in the magazine which
lauded her work and quoted her
as attacking Asst. City Atty. Bak-
er for failure to back her up in
pure food cases.
Harry Nash, meat dealer, was
present, and absolutely denied the
statements concerning his case in
court in the article.
Mrs. Mason said Miss Allstrum
reviewed the article before 1t was
published and approved 1t.
Another hearing will probably
be held tomorrow, and the mayor
will have Miss Allstrum present.
II don't care whether Miss ALL
strum wrote the article or not"
said Baker. "She is quoted as
attacking me, and has made the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-29

picked convention and hand-pick-
ed delegates to the national con-
vention unless the primary 10 se-
cured.
The committee paid no atten-
tion.
The committee order provided
that three delegates at large and
one for each 200 votes for Cos
grove be sent to the state conven-
tion by county conventions held
May 4.
Endorse President Taft.
The committee endorsed Taft
and the last platform. eight men
voting against 1t to 10 for 1t.
The progressives were sat upon
effectually by the state political
machine. So smoothly was the
steam roller running that when
one standpatter forgot and voted
wrong. Chairman Coiner ejaculat-
ed "What?" and the committee
man promptly came back to earth
and changed his vote.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-29

Taft"
have been wondering just how
many good honest voters were at
that dollar dinner at the Tacoma
hotel last evening.
And ! wonder II the few that
were there really believe that the
real voters of this state will ac-
cept the vote as taken last night
as expressing the real sentiment
of the republican party.
AS a matter of fact In getting
up that little party special efforts
were made to get out only Taft
men. but in spite of their efforts
to make 1t Taft dinner the vote
showed that there a goodly num-
ber opposed to Taft.
OF course the corporations con-
trolled by those that can buy dol
lar dinners are for Taft, but in the
coming election the corporations
are not going to win.
G. II. M.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-29
WiNIFRED ANKERs, FROM PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN AFTER
ARREST

Brought up as kitchen drudge,
kicked about the world, betrayed.
Winifred Ankers, found in her
baby boy the first treasure she
had in life, and then-strange
freak Of disordered mentality
she murdered eight babies like
her own to have revenge" ac-
eording to her confession, later
repadiated.
This is the Brooklyn, N. Y,
woman who confessed to the kill
Ing sof the eight. little children in
the Brooklyn Nursery and Infants
Home. She put oxalic acid in
theta milk. She worked in the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-29
COAL STRIKE
PARALLELS
ENGLAND
(By United Press Leased Wire }

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
LONDON, Feb. 20. Several
hundred thousand miners employ
ed in the coal mines throughout
the British Islands quit work at
O'Clock this afternoon, accord
ing to reports received here by
Premier Asquith. 1t is predicted
that a million men will be out by
midnight.
Orders for the strike followed
negotiations by government Off
cials, mine owners and the men
which had been pending for a
week. To stave off the threatened
strike the British cabinet met in a
last effort today to induce the coal
operators to grant the men the
minimum wage scale for each dis
trict.
Reports received up to late
hour show that the walkout of the
miners Is complete. Strike lead
ers declare that the tieup of the
coal industry will affect other in
dustries to such an extent that 1t
will throw at least another million
men in other lines out OF employ
ment.
The price of coal is already
soaring, the operators refusing alb
solutely to fill any orders outside
government needs.
LONDON, Feb. 29.-Little hope
is held out today by the govern
ment for an amicable adjustment
OF the difficulties between the coal
miners and the owners. About
800,001 men employed in the col
lieries throughout England and
Wales most likely will quit work
tonight, when the strike order be-
comes effective.
Alarmed over the situation the
British cabinet Is meeting. The
men are standing pat on their
original demand, having wired
Premier Asquith today that they
will walk out unless granted a
minimum wage scale in each dis
trict. The government is trying
to induce the coal operators to
meet the strikers demands.
Compulsory parliamentary leg
islation putting in force a mini
mum wage scale seems to be the
only hope of settling the dispute.
Realizing the crisis which con-
fronts the country, the govern
ment Is holding troops in readi-
ness for instant service.
Many OF the miners quit ahead
of time today and many others
gave notice of quitting when their
notices to their employers became
effective.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-29

home for a pittance so that she
might not be separated from her
own little one, confined in the
home. She alleges that the nurses
and other attendants treated her
cruelty and to cause trouble for
them she poisoned the infants.
She said she wanted to make them
sick, but didn't intend they should
die.
The confession was made after
two-hours' third degree examina-
tion, In which detectives tortured
the woman by telling her that
they would carry her child away
so she would never see it again.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-29

girls, attracted them.
There was a long family confer
ence and the girls visited the thea
ter. The mother went with them.
She has been with them ever since.
In musical comedy the three trav-
eled all over the country.
A vaudeville manager saw the
girls and advised them to enter
the variety game. They arranged
an act, simple enough one
neither of the girls ever took a
singing or dancing lesson-and
went around to the agents. 1t
was hard work. One day, how
ever, a "temperamental" actress
quit her place on the bill at the
Majestic theater in Chicago.
The agent sent for the Farber
girls and caught them in pho
tographer's studio being took"
in their stage clothes. 1t was a
hurry-up taxicab trip to the the
ater and breathless entrance.
After IT was through
Well, the critics still talk about
,"the Farber girls"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-29
Novelist Scores
Officials
(By United Press Leased wire. y

(By United Press Leased Wire. J.
NEW YORK, Feb. 29.-Wil-
liam Dean Howells, the noted
novelist. in statement to the
United Press today, scathingly de-
nounced the action of the an
thorities at Lawrence, Mass. in
preventing children of the strik-
ing textile workers from leaving
for other cities, where they could
be better cared for.
The action of the Lawrence
authorities" said HowelIs, was
an outrage. l can think of MOTH
ing more outrageous than the ac-
tion of the police in preventing
innocent sufferers being sent
where they could be properly
cared for while their parents
fought out the battle for better
living and working conditions.
There was no possible excuse for
such treatment, of the poor par
ents and their children"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-29
DAY LEAVES
YOUNG BRIDE

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. %.
The police today are searching
for John A. Day, whose BRIDE of a
week alleges that he deserted her,
carrying with him her jewels and
her savings of about $1,000.
Day, who was publicity agent
for the Astoria Centennial and the
Oregon state fair. met Miss Char
lotte Atkins, an assistant In the
office OF dentist, February l..
February II they were married.
Four days later, the bride alleges,
Day disappeared.
The police say the man cashed
several bogus checks before de.
parting.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-29

1.-Two young New York girls
have made one big hit"
New York's highest praise,
claiming an actress as It's very
own, was thus accorded by a Goth
am paper to Constance and Irene
Farber, known in vaudeville as the
Farber girls.
AS a matter of fact the young
women came from Moline, Ill.
Down Moline way they were also
known as the Farber girls, as
they might have been known as
the Jones girls or the Jiggs girls.
Even as little tots they showed a
fondness for the stage. No Elk 8
entertainment, no Church sociable
was complete without "the Farber
girls"
Then the father died. The girls
and Mrs. Farber came to Chicago.
Constance and Irene were still in
high school at John A. Drake. The
mother sold cloaks. The girls
were restless with their mother
laboring for them. A theatrical
advertisement, asking for chorus
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-29
CO|NER SAYS HIS STANDPAT
DINNER WAS A TAFT VICTORY

Washington overwhelmingly Taft-and
Hay
Colonel Chairman Beverley sandpat coner makes this
= =
He
poll dollar committeeman
1877
46 voted for Roosevelt with scattering.
it's all settled.
settled until the 1,140,S10 people who didn't
tend the dinner a chance to themfeves.
concerned the election all
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-29
VICTORY IS
WON FOR
STRIKERS

United Press Leased Wire.)
LAWRENCE, Mass, Feb.
29.-Early settlement of the
strike of textile workers ~
expected TO follow a semi-of-
fetal announcement that
President Wood of the
American Wooden mills had
wired from Boston notifying
his associates here that the
strike must be settled at
once. IL is expected the
mill owners will submit to
the strikers some sort of a
compromise agreement be-
fore the end Of the week.
A swift settlement of the Law
renee strike is expected by feder-
al officials today as a. result of the
visit to Lawrence of Labor Com.
Neill and other federal
LAWRENCE, Mass, Feb. 20
That the dynamite found in a
trainload of goods for the Ameri.
can Woolen company was but an
other plant" on the part of the
mill owners to arouse public senti-
ment against the strikers was the
assertion made here today by
strike leaders. Discussing the In
cident William d. Haywood, form
er secretary of the Western Fed
of Miners, WHO is directing
the strike of the textile workers,
said:
THE only dynamite located
thus far is that which has been
planted by detectives IN the en-
ploy of the mill owners. The fed
eral authorities are investigating
the strike and 1t is very likely
that local detectives with dyna-
mite on their hands had to get rid
Of 1t in hurry, so they placed 1t
in the trainioad of goods for the
the 'woolen trust"
How the collapse OF the mill
owners fight against the strikers
Is coming is illustrated by the
scarcity of arrests which daily are
becoming fewer. On Saturday
forty men, women and children
we're dragged to Jail.
On Monday thirty more we're
arrested. On Tuesday AZ were
charged with picketing and OBJ
the sidewalks. Yester-
lay, with the federal government
Investigators here, having come
rs the result Of the publicity given
he outrages by the United Press
only two strikers were arrested
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-29

fake laudanum, carbolic acid and
other poisons, opening the bottles
in his presence.
Would Kill Herself.
She threatened to leap from a
moving train, and once offered TO
jump from a balcony into the hall
where people We're dancing.
If he even spoke to another
woman, Aspinwall says, his wife
would be very angry. Once she
slapped his face in the presence
of guests.
The Aspinwalls have a son,
John Cuthbert, IS, living with his
mother.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-29
CHINESE ARMY
IS IN REVOLT

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
PEKIN, Feb. 30. - Serious
lighting is expected here today as
result of the revolt last night of
hundreds of soldiers who, dfssatis-
fed because they were not paid
and because of Yuan Shi Kai's
surrender to the republicans, par
AIDED through the streets, firing
rifles, threatening officials and
wrecking the native buildings.
Loyal troops are under orders to
suppress the revolt.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-29
MURDER VICTIM BURIED

The funeral of Jack Alden, who
was murdered by Willis Brown at
East Larchmont Sunday night,
was held yesterday afternoon from
the Hoska-Buckley- King parlors,
under the auspices of the Local
Order Of Moose. Rev. Moore of
fieiated. Interment was in Taco
ma. No arrangements have been
made as yet for the burial OF Mrs.
Grown, who was murdered at che
same time.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-29
Charge Taft With Politics
In Exposition Deal

tBy United Press Leased Wire. J
SAN DIEGO, Cal, Feb. 29.-
Col. ID. G. Collier. head of the
San Diego Panama exposition, de-
clared today that he was in the
fight against President Taft to
stay, as the result of what he calls
tTaft's grovelling" to San Fran
ciscans to secure the California
delegation in the coming cam