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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-23
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BERLIN QUIET
Swinging Canes Laughing or
Shouting Is Prohibited.
Women Must Not Wear Long
Skirts on Street.

New York, Dec. 23.-Police regu-
lations which are to be put into effect
in Berlin, Germany, on April 13, will
bar whistling and cane swinging, and
prohibit persons walking more than
three abreast on the streets. Copies
of the regulations as received here in
clude these and other unusual restric-
tions. as follows:
Persons may not walk more than
three abeast or stop or congregate for
any extended period of time.
Persons with umbrellas or walking
sticks must not carry or swing them
in any manner likely to imperil the
safety of paSsersby.
No windows or doors of houses, flats,
shops or restaurants in which music is
being played, may be kept open.
No whistling, singing, shrieking,
shouting or loud talking of any kind
likely to endanger the quiet of the
streets, is to be permitted.
Teamsters in charge of wagons,
trans, or trucks loaded with reSound-
ing metal of any kind, are forbidden
to drive in a manner calculated to
cuase nerve shattering noises.
No paper, remains of fruit, cigars,
or cigarettes may be thrown into the
streets.
The dragging of clothes of any kind
-women's dresses or anything else
capable of producing dust-is pro-
hibited.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-23
FAT FOR JOHNSON
Negro Fighters Purchase EX-
cites Lake Geneva Men.
johnson May Be Offered Big
Price for Property.

Chicago, Dec. 23.-Tar and feathers
and a horSewhip were suggested today
as a remedy for an offensive situation
when members of the exclusive Lake
Geneva colony learned that Jack John
son, the negro pugilist, has bought a
house and lot there and proposes to re-
side in close proximity of some of the
splendid residences of Chicago million
aires
Yes, 1 have bought a place there"
said Johnson today, "and Lucille and
1 are going to go there to live next
summer. 1 am negotiating for the pur-
chase of a stock farm near there too"
Though the former owner of. the pro-
perty in question could not be. located,
It is admitted that either directly or
indirectly Johnson has obtained pos
session of the house formerly owned
of Chicago but formerly in the grain
business at Lake Geneva.
That drastic measures, will, if neceS-
sary, be utilized to GUST the negro and
his white wife-the former Lucille Cam
eron-waS indicated today by irate
white residents among the summer col
ony.
lit is an outrage" said Mrs. John
J. Mitchell, wife of the president of
the Illinois Trust & Savings bank. 'I
am astonished, astounded that Mr..
Sherman should have sold his property
to a negro" added Mrs. Mitchell.
johnson should be tarred and feath-
cred if he deliberately intrudes himself
in a place where he is not wanted and
where his presence would be most Of
fensive," said Edward F. Bosley, who
owns one of the lake front villas.
Homer A. Stillwen, former president
Of the National Chamber Of Commerce,
was another who was far from pleased
at the news, and intimated that there
may be an Interior purpose in the deal
1T is quite possible that some one
expects to make a lot of money out
of the sale of this property said he.
johnson has probably made a very
wise investment, and I don't doubt for
a minute that he will be offered a good
sum to move out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-23
BOY BLOWN TO SEA
Willie Gee, st. Lucia Island
Boy, Found on Tree.
Floats go Hours on Ocean Be-
fore Rescued.

New York, Dec. 23.-Willie Gee, ten
years old, snatched from the waters
of the Caribbean sea, after 20 hour
float on a cocoanut palm, arrived
here on the steamship FoXton Hall
with a thrilling tale of the Jamaica
hurricane and a providential rescue.
Willie, a colored resident of the
Island, was blown to sea while disport-
ing in the Caribbean on the morning
of November IA. At about the same
time the Foxton Hall was leaving the
Island of St Lucia, bound from Calloa
for New York. Willie spied cocoa
nut tree which had been uprooted by
the terrific gust a short distance away
and after a short swim, pulled himself
astride of it. Twenty hours later the
F'oxton Hall passed through the Wind
ward Passage and at the direction OF
Chief officer Donnelley, was headed
for derelict tree that seemed to be
carrying a lifeIess boy. boat was
put over and Willie, in a state of coma,
was taken aboard.
Willie explained that he eScOnced
himself in the crotch of the tree, said
his prayers and resolved to wait Sew
eral hours later, he said, he fell asleep
to awaken on the Foxton Hall.
Willie became a great faVorite with
the crew and the with the immigra-
ton authorities in Savannah, where
he saw street car for the first time
Under the laws the ship must take him
back to the place from whence he
came and he will therefore remain on
board the Foxton Hall for another six
months and make trip half way
around the world before he reaches
hnT0R
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Head of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford
Is Charged With Violating the
Sherman Antitrust Law.
TWO GRAND TRUNK OFFICERS
Are Included in Findings of
Federal Grand Jury.
Monopoly Agreement Between
the Two Roads Is Alleged.

New York, Dec. 23.-Charles S. Mel
len, president of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad; E. J.
Chamberlin, president of the Grand
Trunk railway of Canada. and Alfred
W. Smithers, chairman of the Grand
Trunk board of directors were indicted
by the federal grand jury here this
afternoon charged with violating the
Sherman antitrust law in the alleged
monopoly agreement between the two
roads.
The second overt alleged embraces
a charge that Chamberlain wrote to
Vice President j. E. Daleymple, of the
Grand Trunk, saying he and Smithers
had had a satisfactory interview with
Mellen ,and it was agreed that Daleym-
pie and Benz. Campbell, of the New
Haven, should meet quietly in Mellen's
Office and discuss new divisions of New
England business.
The third act alleged that the de-
PENDANTS held further meetings in New
York city on September 20 of this year;
the fourth that they held another meet
ing in New York on October L, the fifth
that at this mentioned meeting Mellen
initiated and gave to the defendants a
memorandum of the agreement provid-
ing among other things the Grand
Trunk is "to retain the Central Ver-
continue its existing business as at
present.
Extensions Were Stopped.
The sixth overt act alleged is that
MeIlen caused the withdrawal of a
petition previously filed by his direc
tors with the public service commits
sion of New Hampshire, asking
thority to extend one of the New
Haven lines paral1eHng and competing
with portion of the Central Vermont
railway. The seventh overt act as set
forth is November 10, 1912, Cham
berlin caused the work of construct
to be abandoned.
The railroad situation in New Eng
land was brought to the attention of
the federal department of justice first
by the state officers of Massachusetts,
and Rhode Island who decided the
of certain extension
projects then indicated was due to a
secret traffic and mileage agreement
between the two roads. On Novem-
Der 19, representatives of the states
called on President Taft and Attorney
General WickerSham and pointed out
that the individual states were unable
to cope with the situation and asked
the government to take action. The
state officials asserted that the alleged
agreement between the New Haven
and the Grand Trunk road meant the
of projects for the ex-
tension of the Grand Trunk line
territory now monopolized by
the New Haven.
In it's investigation during the past
month the grand jury examined Off
GERS of both roads and their sub
New England states and cities most
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-23
mail PILED HIGH
Christmas Presents From the
West VIII Be Late.
In Dodge City There Is No Pro-
vision to Handle 1t.

Dodge City, Kan, Dec. 23.-There will
be a lot of disappointed persons Christ
mas morning if postal conditions are
the same other places as in Dodge. Six
hundred sacks of Christmas mail are
piled on the Santa F'e platform here
It is mail from the west transferred
here, that could not be jammed into
the mail coaches.
The postal department runs full
length mail cars as far as Dodge east
bound Here the mail is transferred to
the combination mail and baggage cars
which cost the department less. Until
this time 1t has been possible to crowd
the mail pouches into the half length
mail cars, but the Christmas rush to-
day overtaxed their capacity, although
the cars went out filled to the roof.
Railway officials believe the surplus
mail will continue to accumulate here
until the Christmas rush is over and
that much eastern NAL will not be
delivered on time
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find four SLAVE GIRLS
Officers Fear War Among Frisco
Chinese.

San Francisco, Dec. 23.-After
threading a labyrinth of dark passage
ways, battering down two heavy doors,
and finding themselves blocked by an
impossible steel barrier, Captain
Frank Ainsworth and a squad of Unit
ed States immigration inspectors found
four Chinese slave girls yesterday i'm
INJURED in an improvised prison, form
erly used for a gambling house
The raiders were brought to a
standstill by the steel door, but found
a passageway, entering through two
secret panels, which led them to the
room where the girls were concealed.
10y Yee, a Chinese of local promi-
nence, was arrested on a charge of
having harbored the women.
10y Yee is a leader of the Lui Don
tong, which recently has had trouble
with the Hop Sings, and the police be-
lieVe the girls were being concealed
not only from the inspectors, but
from the watchmen of the rival tong.
To prevent a threatened tong out
break. the Chinese district is being
policed with unusual vigilance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-23
CASTRO IS COMING.
He Has Sailed From Paris for New
York.

Washington, Dec. 2S.-whether
Cipriano Castro, former president of
Venezuela, will be permitted to land
in the United States is being consider
ed by government officials. 1t is re-
ported that he has started from Paris
to New York, Officials confess they
have not yet reached a decision.
Technically there is no charge against
Castro, though the treatment he
meted out to the members of the
diplomatic corps in Caracas, while he
was the practical dictator of Vene-
zueIa and his disregard for every rep
resentation made by the American
minister in the interest of Americans
who held valuable concessions, in
censed the state department against
him.
Furthermore, there has been a tacit
understanding that American inf1u-
ence should be used to prevent Castro
from returning to Venezuela and de-
Stroying the peaceful conditions and
relations with foreign countries which
the government of President Gomez
now enjoys.
Officials of the immigration service,
who it has been suggested might pre-
vent the landing of the ex-president
as an undesirable alien, have so far
no request from the state department
to act in that manner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-23
THIEVES GET $4,000.
Wichita Pawn Broker, Gagged. Bound
and Robbed.

Wichita, Dec. 23-Max Wolkow,
pawnbroker and Jeweler, was gagged
and bound by two men this morning
and his store robbed of jewelry and
diamonds valued at $1,000 The rob-
bers were dressed as working men and
entered the store to pawn a revolver
and buy an overcoat. While WoIkow
was helping one of the men put on an
overcoat the other man grabbed VOL
kow from behind and stuffed a hand
kerchief into his mouth.
They then tied the pawn brokers
arms and legs and buried him under a
pile of clothing.
When Wolkow heard them leave the
store he rolled out of the pile of
clothes and yelled for help. The rob-
bers escaped with their booty
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-23
FAVOR ROBINSON
Railway Circles Talk of To-
pekan for Utilities Board.
His Name Will Be Submitted to
GOvernOr-EIect Hodges.

1t is learned in Topeka railroad cir
cles today that A. A. Robinson, former
president of the Mexican Central rail-
way and for many years connected
Fe, is being pushed by Topekans for a
position on the state public utilities
board. An effort will be made, it is
said, to petition GoVernOr-elect Hodges
in favor of Mr.. Robinson. Mr.. Robin
son has not been consulted in the
matter and Topekans are not promis-
ing that he would serve if aSked-but
he is being supported by a large num-
Der of admirers and friends in this
city.
1t is believed in Topeka that Hodges
will consider seriously the appoint
ment of A. A. Robinson as the Repub-
lican member of the utilities commits
sion.
AS a man experienced in railway
affairs, a man who is acquainted with
the ups and downs of the railway
game in Kansas and the west and as
man who can give the commission the
fruits of his years of toiling in the
ranks and officiating in the executive
offices of railway, Mr.. Robinson un-
state.
Began Career as an Axeman.
A A. Robinson started his railway
work in May, 1859. He was an axe
man in the engineering corps of the
st. Joseph & Denver City railroad. In
two years with this ROAD he rose from
axeman to levelman, transitman, Office
engineer and assistant engineer. In
these two years he was out continually
in the engineering work of the road
and acquired valuable insight into this
feature of railway construction.
It was in April, 1871, that Mr.. Rob-
inson took a position as assistant en-
gineer on the Santa Fe. His work had
been watched by Santa F'e officers and
they took him from the ST. Joseph &
Denver engineering corps. 1t took only
two years for him to make good with
the Santa Fe. In 1878 he was made
chief engineer in charge of the entire
early construction work of the road in
this part of the country.
In 1880 he was made division super
intendent on the district between Las
Vegas and Santa Fe, Deming and E1
Paso. From 1881 until 1888 he was
superintendent of buildings and water
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-23
JOLTS SAVE LIFE.
Neck Broken, Hand Riding Am@
buIance Reduces DisIOcatiOn.
Most Remarkable Cure Follows
Leap for Death.

San Francisco, Dec. 23-An unidentified
man on the steamer Sima, coaling here,
disocated the vertebrae of his neck yes
terday by hanging himself and then the
jolting Of an ambulance put them back.
in place again.
The man leaped from a yardarm with
a rope around his neck. He was cut
down and surgeon discovered the dislo-
cation. When he reached the hospital, the
bones were in place.
Dr. Alfred Roncovieri said the case was
one of the most remarkable IN medical an
mails. There was no doubt, he said. that
the jolting ambulanco had set the bones
again
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-23
UHhIV n M1ALEUN
State Banks Make That Show.
ing Since September.
Total Deposits Now Given at
S1O5,57O,314.
OVERDRAFTS ARE CUT DOWN
Business Conditions Excellent,
Says Commissioner.
In His Summary of Bank State
mentS for Dec. 4.

In summary of the showing of the
903 state banks of Kansas in their re-
port of December 4, State Bank Com
missioner j. N. Doney today shows that
financial conditions in this state are
excellent, and that the gain in surplus
and profits of state banking institu-
tions has grown nearly 81, 600 900 since
the September report. Total deposits
in these banks is given at $105, $40, ,314.66,
with loans and discounts at $92, ,425,-
OS2.08 The overdrafts, Dolley shows,
have been cut down more than $1O0, 900
since the September record
Results of the call statement for De-
cember 4, are regarded as very salts
factory by officials in the bank COM
miSsiOner'S office. There was a de-
crease of $475,000 in deposits from Sep
tember to December, but this is COM
paratively small loss. On the other
hand overdrafts have decreased over
100000, the bonds and warrants ac-
count has increased $500 900, surplus
and profits are given at $SSS, 900 in ex-
cess of the September report and the
December reserv is given at thirty
three and one-fourth per cent.
General business conditions in Kan
sas are excellent" says Commissioner
Dolley in his report. Much incon-
venience is being caused on account of
the car shortage and inability of the
railroads to move the wheat and agri-
cultural crops. Winter wheat is going
into the winter season in excellent
condition in the most of the counties
and promises at this time to yield an
immense crop IN 1913. There is a strong
legitimate demand for money"
Those are the financial conditions in
Kansas just as DolIey sees them. And
his calculations seem to be quite well
borne out in the ia bulated report of
the state banking conditions on Decem-
Der 4. This is the condition of the state
banks as shown by the report:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-23
TURNS WRONG WAY
WOman'S Hatpin Is Driven
Through Mans Nose.
Crowd on Car Helps Extract
Pin as Farmer YelIS.

Wooster, Ohio, Dec. 23.-"Ouchr' yelled
Alfred Canancamp, farmer, when in a
crowded car, he grabbed at his nose,
which had become entangled with a wo-
mans hat pin.
The crowd in the car soon grasped the
situation. Canancamp had placed his
nose in the way of the woman's hat pin
as she turned her head and the sharp
point made clean hole through it.
The hat pin was extracted with diff
GUILTY.
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HEAT KILLED "SANTA"
Alderman Dies Soon After Making
Children Happy.

Ottawa, Ont. Dec. 23.-Alderman
James Mackay, manager of one of the
biggest business concerns in Hamilton,
Canada, died today after playing Santa
Claus at a children's entertainment at
st. Joseph church. Hamilton. Becom
ing overheated after wearing a large
fur coat, he took sick suddenly. AS
he reached his home in a cab he said:
81 feel sick and think I am dying"
and in a few minutes he was dead.
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to office has been busy visiting va
rious parts of the country and has
been able to pay only a few flying Wis
its to Delhi to inspect the preparations
for the advent of the government into
the new imperial city.
Baron Hardinge was appointed last
summer to succeed the Earl of Minto.
who was formerly governor-general
of Canada, as viceroy of India. Short
ly after his appointment he was ele-
waited to the peerage. He is So years
old and a graduate of Cambridge. He
entered the diplomatic service in 1881,
and has remained in it continuously
until now. He served successfully at
COnstantinople, Berlin, Washington,
Bucharest, Teheran and st. Peters,
burg in diplomatic positions. In 1904
he was appointed ambassador to Rus
sia and two years later was made un-
der secretary of state for foreign af-
fairs
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service. Then he was appointed as
sistant general superintendent, a year
after, general superintendent and in
1884, general manager.
He was second vice president and
general manager 1888 to 1893. Then he
left the Santa Fe to become president
of the Mexican Central railway. He
resigned from this work a few years
ago
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-23
Two Shot With Empty Gun.

Marion, Ill, Dec. 23-In playing wild
west, Eugene Goodan. years old. was
shot and killed, and Clarence Yates Z
years old, was seriously wounded by a
charge from a gun fired by Chester Yates
years old, who did not know the gun
was loaded
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-23
OBJECTS TO Being KING
Prince Regent of Bavaria Puts Veto
on Movement.

Munich, Dec. 23.-Prince Ludwig,
the new prince regent of Bavaria, sent
an autograph letter to the Bavarian
premier today vetoing the movement
to place him on the throne as king.
He declares he desires merely to ad-
minister the inheritance bequeathed
him by his father. Therefore, in view
of the popular movement in regard to
the regency, he expresses categorically
his desire that nothing should be done
for the present in the matter.
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Notice to Knights OF Pxthias.

NOTICE. 10 NllIglJs OF yL1las-
All mem bers of Amity lodge 231
are requested to be present at to-
nights meeting. Work in. the third
rank
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-23

Weather Forecast for Kansas.
Fair tonight and Tuesday. Moder
ate emperature.
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-10-03
LILLIAN N0RDICA
TO SING FOR HUGHES
Singer Will Tour New Jersey in In
terest Of Democratic Nominee for
Senate.

New York, Oct. mime. Lillian
Nordica is to spend October in New
Jerseys political arena. according to
a friend of her husband, George w.
Young. She will tour the State, sing
ing Ii the various halls where mass
meetings are held in order to draw
crowds. 1t is said that she will work
in the interests of the Democratic
candidates for the Legislature in the
hope of sending Congressman William
Hughes to the United States senate.
Mr.. Young in a visit to Jersey City
yesterday, announced he would be q
Gubernatorial candidate in 1913. He
was a senatorial candidate but with
drew before the primaries this week.
He i an avowed Wilson man, after
having been estranged from the Gov
ernor for several months.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-10-03

My chief duties were to make cop
les of letters and other documents
run errands, answer the telephone
open letters, etc. Ny salary was in
creased to IS and at the end of the
year | was getting $40. This enabled
me to take a course in shorthand
at night school and it was not long
before | was able to take dictation.
When | had completed my course at
night school | became my employers
stenographer at s12 q week. That
made things easier at home. Mother
didn't have to work so hard and |
was able to occasionally purchase a
book or two.
But didn't give up study. Next
II took a business course at night
school. The nights | didn't go to
school | stayed at home to study.
7 studied and learned all could
about the insurance business. | was
soon able to do work I had never
dreamed of doing. My salary was
raised as my work became more re-
sponsible and at the end of five years
| was getting $50 a week. | then be-
came assistant secretary to my en-
ployer, who had recently been made
vice-president of the company.
helped my employers secretary and
was soon able to do his work as well
as my own. | always took his place
when he was sick or had to go out
Of town on business, which happened
frequently.
held this position for three years.
Then my employers secretary re
signed and | was given his position.
My salary was increased TO $50 a
week. | did my work SO we'll that at
the end Of the year my salary was
raised to s35. | consider myself very
fortunate getting SO good a position
at %, and | would never have got
ten it had | not studied as hard a.
I did. That was four years ago. ]
continue to study the fine points OF
the insurance business, and, although
may never become the president
of the company, l will work as hard
as | can to attain that important
position.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-10-03
RICH NEW WORKERS
ARE DOGDING TAXES
Probably $50, 0O0, 000-Sent Across
River Into New Jersey to Evade
the Tax Assessor.

New York, Oct. Money in great
err amount than ever before has been
transferred from this city to banks
and trust companies in New Jersey
the past week. Probably s50,000,0 900.
has gone away and a good deal more
will go this week.
The money will not be absent long,
but none of it will return before Oct.
1. If it remained here owe Oct. | 1t
would be in dread of the tax
collector.
A law on the statute books for
several years taxes money on depos-
it in the banks and trust companies
of this state and fixes Oct l as the
date on which the assessment is made.
If a depositor has 81. 300. 900 20 his
on that day he must pay taxes
1t, but If the money is in a New
Jersey bank. or even a check is drawn
to the credit Of a Jersey bank, and
that check deposited with 1t the tax
may be avoided.