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FUNSTON MAY Get IT
Kansas Fighter Is in Line to Succeed
the Late General Grant

Cheyenne. Wyo.. April ia pri-
vate dispatch said to have been sent
by an official of the war department
at Washington has been received at
Fort D. A. Russell, stating that Fred
erick Funston, senior brigadier gen
eral, would succeed Major General
terday, and that Brigadier General
Clarence r. Edwards, chief of the in
sular bureau, would succeed Funston
as brigadier general of the line.
1t Depends ON Taft.
Washington. April 1S.-Brigadier
of his class, will be likely to be ad-
vanced to the rank Of major general,
unless the president should desire to
advance another. Such promotions
have been made, notably in the case
of Major General Leonard Wood, now
chief of staff of the army and the
ranking major general of the present
active list
Brigadier General Edwards. howev-
er, stands eighth in point of rank
among the brigadier generals of whom
there are 27 on the active list. Brig
adler Generals Crozier, Bliss, Hail,
Mills, Sharpe and Allen rank him, in
the order named, and if the success
sions were to be automatic, General
Crozier would succeed General Fun
ston as the senior general.
General Edwards is a close personal
friend of President Taft. No official
General Funston has held the rank
of brigadier general since April /,
1901, and for five years or more has
been the ranking brigadier general.
Because of the shortness of his ser
vice in the regular establishment and
because of the desire to give officers
who had had Civil war service the
benefit of higher rank on retirement
General Funston has regularly been
Jumped by officers of inferior rank.
In this way. more than a dozen Off
ston until now every officer of the
army with Civil war service has been
retired or has died.
The death of Gen eral Grant leaves
a vacancy in the higher rank and it is
now for President Taft to say whether
tinue to Jump him with other OFF,
GERS Funston will not retire for age
until 1929 and there are hundreds OF
officers now on the army list who will
retire before that time so, even If
Funston's promotion is held back five
years longer, he will inevitably, if he
lives, become the ranking officer. of
the army and, very probably, chief OF
staff.
General Funston now is in the Phil
ippines in command Of the Depart
ment of LuZon. He previously was in
command of the army school at Fort
Leavenworth. General Funston is now
At years old. He went into the army
as colonel of the Twentieth Kansas
infantry in 189S was appointed a
brigadier general of volunteers in May,
1899 and after his daring capture of
brigadier general in the regular army.
Previous to the Spanish American war
he saw service with the Cuban army
against the Spaniards in Cuba.
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STICHER DENIES IT.
Stubbs and jackson Are Not Interested
in Usage Paper.

Editor H. c. Sticher, of Usage City
denies a statement printed in the State
Journal this week concerning the con-
solidation of the Usage City Free Press
and Public Opinion under one manage
ment. Mr.. Sticher takes particular ex-
ception tc the inference that either
Governor Stubbs or Congressman Jack
son are financially interested in the
enterprise or that the papers were
consolidated in their interests.
THE article sent in evidently was
done with malicious intent Mr.. Stich-
er writes. The article says that
Stubbs and Jackson are back of these
purchases. The truth is that neither
Stubbs nor Jackson have a dollar In
either plant 1 own both of these pa
pers absolutely.
1.-The Public Opinion has not had a
personal editorial in a single copy
boosting either Stubbs or Jackson and
I send you in this mail all the copies I
have issued since coming to Usage
City If you will kindly look these mat
ters up, you will find my statement
correct
Sticher bought the Public Opinion
several weeks ago. Recently he took
over the Free Press, owned by G. w.
Barnes. The papers will in the future
be issued under one Management and
this arrangement was the basis of
recent story in the State Journal Be
fore going to Usage City, Sticher was
interested in the publication of the
Belleville Telescope. He il president of
the Kansas Editorial association and a
year ago was appointed as private Sec
retary to Congressman ReeS.
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TODAY IN CONGRESS.
Graham and Mann Clash Over Woman
Lobbyist

Washington, April 13.-Senate in
session 2 p. m. Senator Williams to
prepare minority report of finance
committee advocating house steel tar
iff revision bill.
House met at noon. Continued de-
bate on postoffice appropriation bill.
Appropriated $4,000 for use of bank
ing committee in its investigation of
money trust"
Thomas F. Cole of Duluth, whose
testim ony probably will conclude steel
trust investigation, testified that Hill
ore lease was taken by steel corpora
tions as an exploration experiment
and not to effect monopoly.
The lie was passed on the floor of
the house today when Representative
Graham (Ill), chairman of the COM
mittee on interior departm ent expen-
ditures branded as absolutely and un-
qualifiedly false" the statement made
yesterday by Mr.. Mann, the minority
leader, that Mr.. Graham had told
Mrs. Helen Pierce Gray, termed a wo-
man lobbyist, not to return fee pro-
tested by an Indian client.
The ensuing debate was intense and
bitter. Mr.. Mann finally demanded
that Mr.. Graham explain the connec-
tion of Mrs. Gray with the committee,
or that the committee should be made
the subject of investigation.
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.SLANnEREO WAGGENEU
Atchison Political Row Results in
Hayes Indictment.

Atchison, Kan, April 13.-An indict
ment for sending defamatory matter
through the United States mails has
been returned against William Hayes, a
hardware merchant here, by the federal
grand jury at Topeka postal card
was sent to ]. P. Adams, probate judge
of this county, and the writer assailed
the character of B. P. Waggener, gen.
eral attorney for the Missouri Pacific.
Hayes has retained James Orr, former
Iv Waggener's law partner. to defend
him. Waggener says he will see that
the government prosecutes the case to
a finish. He asserts Hayes confessed to
him several weeks ago while in his law
office that he wrote the postcard. as
well as many others.
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POURING over LAND.
The Mississippi Is Making Its Way
Through Two Gaps.

Greenville, Miss. April 13.-The
Mississippi is taking it's tithe in south
ern Arkansas and northern LOUISIANA
TODAY. The flood is pouring through
+1,,o cams in the Ievee-at Panther For
est. in Arkansas an6 near Roosevelt.
Ta.-over fertile fiat lands of the
Louisiana-ArkanSa deIta- BeIore
nightfall it is estimated thousand
square miles in East Carroll and Madi-
son parishes. Louisiana, and Chicot and
Desha counties, Arkansas, will be
flooded.
Tn the meantime, the river has
1ansed in its assault on it's east banks
and prospects of holding the dikes on
the Mississippi side have frightened.
A. GreenviIIe and as far south as
Vicksburg the water IS falling
The breaks last night are regarded
+be most serious since the food be
gan. The territory which will be in
Undated is populous. villages are nu-
rnerors and Arkarsas City and Lake
village. Ark. and Lake Providence.
TaIlulah and Delhi, La, and other i'm
portant towns are in its path
While the damage will be heavy, it
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is not believed the loss of life will be
large. When the levees collapsed
couriers were sent from every point
reached by telephone to warn those
living in remote sections and special
trains went from .Vicksburg, Green
vile and New Orleans to take aboard
refugees.
All the steamboats, available in the
Vicksburg and Greenville harbor were
dispatched to points along the river to
take off those who held to the levee
and small craft began an exploration
of the territory flooded. Preparations
have been made at Vicksburg and
Weather conditions are not favor
able to the levees. Rain is reported
at several points. Natchez reports all
Ievees holding as far south as Bayou
Sara, Louisiana.
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new DEPOT SURE
Missouri Pacific Has Ordered
the Material.
viii Cost Company Twenty
Five Thousand Dollars.

Topeka is to have a new depot. The
Missouri Pacific has decided to build
a new and modern structure near the
site of their present little station at
Fifth and Adams street in the near
future to cost SIS, 900. The material
for the station has been ordered and
work will be commenced at once.
Supt A DeBernardi is authority
for the news about the new depot, he
having so informed the state utilities
commission today. This newly ac-
quired progressive policy of the Mis-
souri, Pacific started over a year ago
with the change of management of
the road. This is the first material
proof that has reached Topeka. The
company station at the state capital is
nothing more than hovel or shanty
or whistling station and hardly fit
to protect passengers from a rain
storm or the heat of the summer sum-
Few people here even knew that the
road had a depot in town for its Leav-
enworth and Topeka branch line. But
the new station is to be built along
Dretentious lines and will tend to
bring the road into prominence in To-
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Wet Weather Is Reported in
Every Part of State.
FULL TICKET IN The FIELD
Covering Every Office to Be
Filled This Year.
Two Sets of Wilson Candidates
Are Running.

Philadelphia, April 13.-The voters
or pennsylvania who take part today
in the most important primary cleo
tion since the uniform primary law
was enacted in 1906 were disappoint-
ed when they found that rain was fall
ing. Wet weather is reported from
all parts of the state.
The primary calls for the election
by all parties having national tickets
of candidates for delegates to the re-
spective national conventions. The
delegates will be elected by congress
sional districts
There will also be elected delegates
to the state conventions of each party
which, in addition to naming presiden-
tial electors and candidates for state
offices. will elect IL delegates at large
to the national conventions and four
candidates for congressman at large.
In each of the 80 congressional dis
tricts all parties will nominate candi-
dates for congress. Candidates for
state senator, who will participate in
the election of a United States senator
in 1915 when Senator Penrose's term
expires, also will be nominated in 25
of the so senatorial districts and can
didates for the 2O7 seats In the house
of representatives will be nominated
by all parties. Thousands of candi-
dates are in the field for election TO
minor offices.
The chief interest is the contest for
Pennsylvania rs delegates to the na-
tional convention. The regular Repub-
lican organization is backing Presi-
dent Taft and it claims the president
will have a very large majority Of the
delegates. The Roosevelt faction, in
spired by the visit of Colonel Roose-
Welt to the state last Wednesday and
Thursday, claim they Will elect a
large number Of delegates in opposi-
tion to President Taft.
All the Roosevelt delegates to the ma
tional and state conventions have their
presidential preference printed on the
ballot after their names. The candi-
dates for national and state delegates
placed on the ticket by the regular Re
publicans, while favoring President
Taft, have no presidential preference
printed along with their names.
The Democratic party in Pennsyi-
vania is split. there being two state
committees, but both have declared
for Woodrow Wilson for president and
their candidates have the Wilson pref
erence added to their names on the
ballot.
Candidates favoring Champ Clark are
on the ballot in many congressional
districts. Candidates who favor Judson
Harmon are not so numerous.
The polls will open at . p. m and
close at 8 p. m.
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Court Attaches Gasp as Judge
Hutchings Talks.
TO ASK new TRIAL JUDGE
Packing Company to Demand
Change of Venue.
Violation of Agreement Is
Charged Against Board.

In one of the most scathing arraign-
ments ever heard in the federal court
room in Kansas, Judge c. F. Hutch
ings, of Kansas City, today charged
Judge Van Valkenberg with yielding tc
newspaper sentiment in his decisions
in the $1,5OO,O0O damage suit of the
Fowler Packing company against the
Kaw drainage board. Hutchings train
ed his artillery on the court and op-
posing counsel when Judge Van Walk
enberg granted a continuance in the
case.
Since the big damage suit has been
before the courts, Kansas City news
papers have taken a lively hand in
the discussion of the merits of the
case. In one paper has appeared fire.
quent terse remarks directed at the
federal bench. 1t was after three
months of this discussion that Judge
VanValkenberg last Saturday set asidC
the $462,00O judgment which a jury
gave the Fowlers last December.
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FLOOR GIVES WAY.
Party of Students Hurt While Inspect
ing DistilIery.

Peoria, Ill. April 13.-Twenty-five
male and female students of Bradley
Polytechnic institute were injured to-
day when the second floor of the big
Woolner distrillery, which they wer=
inspecting, gave way under the weight
of 75 members of the party.
The accident occurred while the
young people We're standing around a
big fermenting vat, the workings of
which were being explained by the
superintendent of the plant.
The party was completing their tour
and the fermenting room was the last
to be inspected.
Word was Immediately sent to tho
police department and every ambu-
lance in the city was hurried to the
scene. 1t is not believed that fatali-
ties will result.
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FOR La TOILETTE
He Will Have a Solid Delegation From
Wisconsin.

Madison, Wis, April 13.-With official
returns from all but one small county,
Oneida, from the recent presidential
primary and election in Wisconsin for
delegates to the national conventions,
Senator LaFollette is shown to have
received 49, ,e2O and President Taft A.
2e1. LaFollettes majority being "a ,291.
LaFollette gained the solid Republi-
can delegation.
was 81 755, of which Wilson received
45,5o4; Clark o6,251; Wilson's majority
e.253.
OF the 10 delegates to the Baltimore
convention Wilson gets 1e and Clark
g. One unpledged delegate. Thomas J.
Fleming. was elected in the Fourth
district.
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WILL LIE in STATE.
Body of General Grant VIII Not Be
Inferred for 10 Days.

New York. April 13.-The body of
Major General Friedrich Dent Grant
Will lie for 10 days in the chapel Of
Cornelius the Centurian at Governors
Island, where for the last few years.
General Grant had made his head
quarters as commander of the depart
ment of the east. 1t was planned to
remove the body there today.
The funeral will be delayed 10 or
2 days until the arrival of the Prin-
cess Michael Cantacuzene-Speran
from Russia. In the meantime, the
body will lie in state under military
guard.
1t was announced that General
Grant would be buried at West Point
Military funeral services will be held
here and at the grave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-13
BAKER WINS RACE
Defeats WaShburn in Half Mile
Relay Contest.
High School Wins $50 Yard
Relay in Fast Time.

Baker won the half mile race from
Washburn in the relay meet this after
noon, easily making the distance in
1875. Only the two schools were en-
tered. The Baker runner finished IL
yards ahead of the Washburn man.
The Baker team winning the half
mile chase was composed of Kirby
Redman, Parker, and Martin. Wash
burn: Low, Emons, Nye and Berger.
The Topeka high school team won
the half mile race over lola, Scranton.
and Holton. The race was run in two
heats and Topeka won in the second,
time 1 al 1-5- The time of the first
heat in which lola and Scranton won
was :43 3-5. The winning gteam was
composed of Evers, Jones. Zercher
and Glass.
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Win Spend Two Days in State
Next Week.
TOUCH DOUBTFUL DISTRICTS
One Speech at Marysville-
Others i'm Seventh and Third.
Scott and Bailey on Stump for
Regulars.

Theodore Roosevelt, candidate for
president, will enter Kansas Friday
morning. April 10, from Nebraska and
spend two days making speeches in the
Fifth, Seventh or Eighth and Third dis
tricts He will leave the state Saturday
night from Parsons. The colonel will
travel through the state on a special
train. The route of this train, its
schedule and the places he will speak
have not yet been worked out by the
state committee, but it is expected that
the itinerary will be announced soon.
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KILL The CHINCH BUG.
Hunter Says Farmers Should Burn
Dead Grass.

Lawrence, Kan. April 13.-Look out
for the chinch bugs! This is the warn
ing sent out by Prof 8. J. Hunter,
head of the state entomology depart
ment at the University of Kansas
Professor Hunter has been making
thorough investigation of the insect life
of the state and he believes that the
chinch bugs are the only things that
stand in the way of unprecedented
crops throughout Kansas during the
coming season.
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TODAY'S BALL GAMES.

New York at Brooklyn, threatening.
p. m.
Philadelphia at Boston, clear. Z. m.
Pittsburg at st. Louis, clear, 3 p. m.
American League.
Boston at New York, threatening,
$3.50 D. m
Detroit at Cleveland. cloudy. 3 p. m.
st. Louis at Chicago, cloudy, p. m
American Association.
Kansas City at Columbus, rain. 3
p. m.
Milwaukee at Toledo, cloudy. 3
p. m.
st. Paul at Indianapolis. cloudy.
3:15 y. m.
Minneapolis at Louisville. rain. ais
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SCOLDS MOTORNEER
Boy Struck by Car Unhtrt After
Rolling Under Fender.

Chicago, April 13.-Leslie TraIey,
years old, twice startled scores OF
persons last night within one minute.
The child was knocked down by a
West Madison street car and when
many persons saw him rolled beneath
the fender, they believed he had been
killed. A moment later he crawIed
from beneath the car and said harsh
things to the motorman for being SO
careless. He was unhurt.
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strong Wind Today.

Anyhow the wind which today is
blowing 25 miles an hour will be past
by tomorrow and the breeze waited in
will be from the north. Considerably
cooler weather is anticipated. The
temperature here will likely be about
so degrees in the morning according
to sunny Flora. The frost will likely
be confined to central Kansas. Show
ers are expected tonight. Following
are the hourly temperature records:
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POSTPONED GAMES.

Philadelphia, April 13.-American:
Washington-Ph game post
poned; rain
Cincinnati. April 13.-National: Chi
cago- Cincinnati game postponed; rain.
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weather Indications.

Chicago, April 13.-Forecast for
Kansas: Unsettled weather and
probably showers tonight or Sunday;
colder; probably frost in west and
central portions tonight
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VOTE IN TWO COUNTIES
Preferential Presidential Primary in
Bourbon and Brown Today.

Kansas City, Mo, April 13.-Presi-
Dental preferential primaries we're held
in Bourbon and Brown counties in
Kansas today. Ideal weather prevailed
and a big early vote was registered.
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IT GOES SKYWARD
May Wheat Shoots Up to S1.1O
a BuSheI.
Close Is but a Quarter Below
the High Mark.

Chicago, April 13.-Wheat today
shot upward. May delivery rose more
than 4c a bushel, to $1.10 and July
more than &c, to $1.061s. It was a
crop scare market. There was rapid
reaction, however, to $1.07 for May
and $1.O5A for July.
The wildness of fluctuations resulted
in the speedy announcement that one
firm, c. E. Clifford & Co., had given
notice to transfer all its trades
c. E. Clifford, head of the suspended
firm, said the transfer of his trades was
made necessary because an employee had
been specializing secretly and that the
transfer was unavoidable till the house
could find out where it stood.
In spite of the extraordinary fluctua-
tions, the actual scene the floor of
the board of trade differed little from
what could be witnessed under ordinary
conditions.
1t was said the liabilities involved in
the Clifford suspension would not exceed
So OOO The firm was said to be fairly
even on the market
A rough estimate of the extent of the
crop damage was made by one expert as
approximating a total of 50,0O0OO bushels
one-third of the expected yield in Illinois,
Indiana and Ohio had gone to ruin
Closing prices of the day were almost
at the topmost level reached on the earlier
swells The market finished strong at
81 .O9N for May and $1057s91-O6 for July
gains respectively, of 37s64c and &c, as
compared with "A hourS pe1ore
Kansas City, April 13.-Following
the upward shoot of wheat in Chicago
today, May and July deliveries on the
board of trade here rose nearly 2 cents,
to $1.05A @1.05T for May and
$50 991sc for July.
Winnipeg. Man, April 13.-With May
wheat at S105 and July at $106, Chicago
and Minneapolis up &c all options,
things went wild in the WfnnjDee Grain
today The bulls are confident of the
strength of the position and are talking
s1.25 wheat now Oats are also strong.
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CONTINUED from Page Two.1
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The Taft men are not idle. Charles
Scott, of lola and W. J. Bailey of Atch
ison. are in the field making speeches
A big rally is planned to be held al
Newton next week where a Taft club
has been organized. From now on Taft
speakers will campaign in the Third
Fifth and Sixth districts.
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ON POWERS

1872, by International News service.l
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1912-02-29
For Sheriff.

desire TO announce to the voters
of Morrow county that am a caudi-
date for the nomination of Sheriff
on the Democratic ticket at the forth
coming primaries. If l am nominated
and elected l will, during the term of
my Office conduct the affairs of the
Office in the future as l have iried TO
do in the past viz: to the interests
of the taxpayers.
! q HAYES.
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For Sheriff..

l hereby announce myself as a
candidate Tor Sheriff on the Republi-
can ticket. subject to the will of the
voters at the primaries to be held
April 19, 1912.
If nominated and elected l promise
to do my full duty as peace officer and
tax collector. and will serve the
people with justice and impsrtiality.
FRED LUCAS.
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For Superintendent.

! am n candidate for the nomination
for County School Suerintendent ut
the Republican Primary Election to
be held ApTil 10. 1912. II nominated
and elected, | shall continue to work
for the advancement of the educa-
tional interests of the county.
S. E. NOTSON.
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For Sheriff.

am candidate for the nomination
for the office of Sheriff on the Repub-
lican tirket, subject to the will of the
voters at the primaries on April 10.
1919.
My record as citizen of Morrow
county for the past 25 years should
be sufficient guarantee that l will
MAKE coed if nominated and elected TO
this important oifics.
MARION EVANS.