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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-12
FARMERS PAY is HIGH
Produce Brings Them 1=.5 Per Cent
Over 1911 Prices.

Washington, July 12.-Farmers of
this country were being raid more by
17.5 per cent for their produce on July
L this year than they received last year
at that time. according to Victor S.
Holmstead, chief of the bureau of sta
tistics. department of agriculture.
The increases in prices was the
average on crops which represent
about three-fourths of the value of
all crops of the nation.
The increases included: Corn, II
cents; wheat and oats, Is; barley, Il;
rye, 6 u; buckwheat, 6: potatoes Z;
hay, $1.56; hogs, 80 cents beef cattle,
so; veal calves, 81: eggs. II u butter
cents; sheep, %; lambs. 81; mich
cows, s1.9S; milk, az: beans. 43;
sweet potatoes, 16; onions. 21; clover
seed. $3.50; timothy seed $1.44: WOOL
unwashed, 3; cabbage, 21: broom corn,
$40 ton: bran S3.48
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-12
U. S. EATS LESS PIE.
So Taxes on Pie Making Concern Are
Not Boosted.

Chicago. July IA representative
of a pie making concern here succeed
ed in stopping a proposed increase in
his company's taxes yesterday when
he appeared before the board of re-
view and pleaded that pie is losing its
hold on the American people.
There has been no expansion of
the pie making business in the last
year. he told the tax reviewers. cit
has decreased in popularity with the
masses. Its place is being taken by
fruit, ice cream and salad as luncheon
dessert. Despite the poor outlook for
business expansion, we have volun-
tarily increased our tax schedules 500
and we think that the assessment
should be allowed to stand as it is
The reviewers did not raise the
comDany'S taxes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-12
Notes and Personals.

The Epworth and intermediate
Leagues of the Kansas Avenue Afetho-
dist church will hold social at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. R. NJ. Stay
baugh this evening.
Robert Anderson of st. Louis passed
through Topeka this morning on his
way to Salt Lake City, Utah, on a
business trip.
Don't forget the good program that
will be shown at the Princess tonight.
A new program each evening"
Rev. ]. Barrett will go to Alta Vista
tomorrow where he will preach at the
German Baptist church Sunday.
Mrs. R. r. Bear has returned from
a visit with relatives in Salina.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Anderson will
leave tomorrow for visit with rela-
tives in Princeton, Ill.
Mrs. William Larray OF Council
Bluffs. Iowa, is visiting at the Ward
home in Kiro.
Miss Mau6e Burge is working for
the ]. J. King agency.
John Wright has left fer business
trip through western Kansas.
H. II. Bair, who has been on an ex-
cursion to the Pacific coast with the
Knights and Ladies of Security, writes
that he expects to return home Mon
day.
The weeds on North Kansas avenue
opposite the Quincy school have been
cut down and the lot is wonderfully
improved. However, today people on
North Tyler street complain that many
vacant lots in that vicinity need SINH
lar treatment. They say that in some
places the high weeds overhang and
make it almost impossible for two peo-
pie 70 walk abreast.
H. G. Bowen has left for Portland,
Oregon, where he will make his flu
ture home.
Miss Ethel Cochran of Council
Grove is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Minnie
Whitehead of 1414 North Quincy
street.
In honor of the eighteenth birthday,
of their daughter. Miss Lucille Lukens,
Mr. and Mrs. c. w. Lukens entertain
ed number of young people at their
farm, Sunny SLOPE" northwest of To-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-12
MONEY IN FLYING.
Lincoln Beachey's Earnings Estimated
at 100000 Year.

New York. July 1.-THE earnings
of aviators are set forth in an AFFIDAVIT
that May Beachey, wife of Lincoln
Beachey, the aviator, submitted to the
supreme court in her application for
$35O a week alimony. Since then
Mrs. Beachey has withdrawn her suit
for divorce.
She explained to the court that
when she married Lincoln Beachey in
1906 he was receiving $1,000 a year
for operating a dirigible balloon. In
the summer of 1911 she says he earn
ed $4,000 for flying aeroplanes. From
January L, 1911, to January 1, 1912,
she estimated his earnings at 500, 900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-12
KEEP SOLDIERS IN TOWN
New Army Plan Would Do Away With
Posts.

Washington, July 12.-Conferences
were continued today by the army
council at the war department on pro-
posed methods of army reorganization.
One of the important matters taken up
by the council is the method of quar-
tering troops. 1t has been proposed
that the expensive army posts now
maintained be abolished, and the
army quartered, by regiments, in the
various cities of the country. This, it
was pointed out, would leave the men
discharged after serving a single term
in the immediate vicinity CT their regi-
ments and would operate to establish
an effective reserve.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-12
HE TAKES WIFE'S NAME
Man Doesn't Want Her to Lose Share
in Estate.

St. Louis. July 12--Rather than see
his wife disqualified from inheriting
$50. 900. DR.. Robert P. Prewitt today
assumed her maiden name, Gregg The
change was sanctioned by the courts
and they will henceforth be known as
mr. and Mrs. Robert Prewitt Gregg.
Daniel Hopkins Gregg, who died at
Richmond, Va, in 1885, specified in
his will that his daughter, after her
marriage, must continue to bear the
name of Gregg.
Mrs. Gregg's former husband re-
tanned his own name but permitted her
to comply with the mandates of the
will.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-12
NORTH SIDE news
C. b. Scott Will Build Cottages
on North Side.
Erect Modern Homes on Har-
risOn and Quincy Streets.
IMPROVE OTHER PROPERTY
Real Estate Active in Spite of
Hot Weather.
Shawnee County Gains in Fruit
Crop, Says WelIhOuse.

c. B. Scott, of the Topeka Motor Car
Co., is another man who believes in the
North side. He is preparing to pulld
two modern five-room cottages IN the
First ward, and improve the houses ne
has already built
One of the new houses will be num-
bered 919 North Harrison street. The
other will be at 1881 North Quincy
street He owns the lots indicated.
He is also improving his property at
916 North Harrison street and at 1885
North Quincy street.
Although this season is usually dull
real estate men say that they con-
stantly receive inquiries about locating
and building on the North side. Indi-
cations are that 1912 will be ahead of
any year for building and improving in
the First ward.
The members of the Christian En-
deavor society of the Second Presby-
terrain church are practicing hot wealth
er Christianity. They are determined
to keep up the attendance and interest
in the society clear through the sum-
mer They have individually and COL
1ectively, backed by the urging of the
new officers, who are too modest to -et
their names be published, resolved not
to stay away from the meeting which is
held at o'clock Sunday. Not the lure
of the cool breeze on a front porch, the
soothing swing or the siren voice W
the graphaphone will tempt the En-
deavorers to stay away from the
church, according to their recent VOW.
And to spend an hour in a church every
Sunday evening in hot weather requires
some sacrifice. but they believe it Is
well worth while.
Shawnee county has gained over
every county in Kansas in amount OF
fruit raised except peaches, pears and
apples This is according to the report
of Walter Wellhouse at the Shawnee
County Horticulture society meeting at
Garfield park Thursday afternoon.
Blackberries show a gain of per cent.
raspberries 81 per cent, strawberries 6!
per cent, grapes 8 per cent, cherries %
pei cent and plurns per cent. Peaches
and apples have lost p per cent and
pears 6 per cent, compared with the
ether counties in the state.
The next meeting of the society will
he held the second Thursday in August
at the home of Edwin Snyder, 1869
Western avenue.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
Mrs. Pepys' Temper.

Being at supper my wife did say
something that caused me TO oppose
her In. She used the word devil, which
yexed me, and, among other things,
said l would not have her to use that
word, upon which she took me up most
scornfully. which, before Ashwell and
the rest of the world, l know not now
adays how to check, as / would here
tofore, for less than that would have
made me strike her. So that / fear
without great discretion I shall go near
TO lose, too, my command over her. and
nothing do 1t more than giving her this
occasion Of dancing and other pleas
ures. whereby her mind Is taken up
from her business and finds other
sweets besides pleasing OF me. and so
makes her that she begins not at all
30 take pleasure In me or study to
please me as heretofore. - Diary of
Samuel Pepys.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
REPORTER AND FARMER
THURSDAY. AUGUST IS. 1912
Mission Weddinos.


Within two minutes after the cab
stopped at the mission door the report
spread up and down the street that q
wedding was taking place inside.
Within another two minutes the room
was packed to the very doors. That
sudden rush of the crowd to the sane
tuary pleased the mission superintend-
emit
IF I had money to spare" he said.
81 would pay a bonus to young cou-
pies for getting married In a mission.
The moral effect Of one wedding Is
worth a dozen m To get the
best effect the ceremony ought to be
performed In the middle OF the serv-
Ice. No innovation that l have ever
introduced has had such a SOLDERING
effect on the congregation. The ex-
ample of a man once as far down in
the social scale as themselves having
become sufficiently regenerated to as
sume the responsibilities Of life stirs
every bit of manhood there Is In them.
'The trouble Is, l al persuade very
few couples to be married In a mission.
The bridegrooms do not mind. but the
brides want something more exclu-
sive."-New York Times.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
TRUST STEAMSHIPS
CANNOT USE CANAL
Senate Passes Panama Bill BY
Vote Of Al to IS.

Washington, Aug. 10.-The Panama
canal administration bill, providing
free passage TO American ships, pro
hibiting railroad owned vessels from
using the waterway and authorizing
the establishment of a one man gov
eminent when the canal is completed
was passed by the senate by a vote
OF az 70 Is.
The provision for free tolls, which
was fought out in the senate Wednes
day. was endorsed again Just before
the passage OF tho measure.
Attached to the bin as 1t passed the
senate we're two important amend.
ments directed at trust or railroad
control of steamship lines. The first.
by Senator Reed. would prohibit ships
owned by an illegal industrial com
bination from using the canal; and the
second. by Senator Bourne. would re-
quire railroads to give up water lines
that might otherwise be their CON-
petitors. II It were proved that by their
ownership they we're sitting compett
ton.
Opponents OF the free tod provision
for American ships. against which
Great Britain made formal protest.
carried their fight up TO the hast mo-
ment of the bffrs consideration
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15

1t Is not always well to strut and
fret ones little hour upon the stage
too realistically. Macready, who threw
himself into his acting heart and soul.
nsed to tell funny stories about the
effect of his easy. eolloquia, manner
upon the players collected for his com
pany in small provincial towns. Once
in the play Of William Tell" he turn
ed to n Of these stupid rustics and
put the question, do you shoot?" so
naturally that the mar was quite
thrown or his guard and, to his hor-
ror. replied, "a little. sir, but I've new
d had a go with one OF them cross
bows" Another time in ''virginius" he
asked. do you wait for me to lead
Virginia In, or win you do soY' only
to be greeted Unexpectedly by the ac-
tor who played Icilius with, why.
really, sir, ! don't care-tust as you
do II In London"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
PAYING Eor ! Bride h Afriea,

In most parts Of Africa the native
bridegroom has to pay the father of
the bride I'm kind for his wife. In the
case OF a regular marriage the amount
due TO the father varies In accordance
with the sex OF the first child born, a
girl being Of less value than a boy.
The payments consist OF cattle, sheep,
hoes. spears, perhaps. and sometimes
other useful articles The final pay
sments are often not completed until
years after the marriage takes place,
and the bridegroom Is considered fair
prey by all the brides relations. This
results in endless disputes Payments
made are often repudiated by the re
cipient. The amount agreed upon Is con-
stantly matter for argument, and ar
gnment ends In lighting. raids on one
another and sometimes a long drawn
sDut feud.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
WILSON TOLD OF
HIS NOMINATION
GOvsrnOr Accepts and Gives
Views on Public Issues.

Seagirt N. J, Aug. 8..Governor
Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey off,
cially was notified that be had been
chosen by the Baltimore convention
as the nominee for the presidency on
the Democratic ticket.
Briefly and simply Governor Wilson
was notified of his nomination by
Senator Elect Ollie James of Ken
lucky, who emphasized, as he said,
that the governor had obtained the
honor "untrammeled by obligations
and unembarrassed by Affiliations OF
any kind" Though the governor
spoke in acceptance theoretically to
the ffty-two members OF the commit
tee, representing each state and terri
tory in the United States. the speech
vas heard by a large crowd Sum-
married., his views on public questions
are as follows:
The tariff should be revised at once,
beginning with schedules which have
most obviously been used to kill com
petition and to raise prices. Revision
should be gradual so as not TO dis.
turb business too violently.
The tariff In the past has been q
matter OF private understanding in
which the people have held no part
nership. Henceforth II must be q
matter of business not politics.
Efficient trust legislation Is needed
to supplement the present antitrust
law.
Waterways should be improved and
q strong merchant marine built up
but not by means of subsidies.
Trusts are the product of the pres
emit system of making the tariff.
Big business is not dangerous be
cause II is big. but because It's big
ness is an unwholesome imitation ere
ated by unjust exemptions and priv
leges.
Legislation for betterment OF wege
earners is urged.
Currency reform Is necessary. but
Il must not be framed by bankers
exclusively.
There can be ND rule Of right with
out rule Of the people. who must BE-
partners In public affairs.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
Over -Four Hundred Persons Arc
Killed or Injured.
PRESIDENT LECONTE IS DEAD
Great ousnttty Of Explosives Stored
In Cellar Explodes, Completely
Wreckine Building.

Port au Prince, Haiti. Aug. 9.-The
national palace was blown up by a
powder explosion and burned TO the
ground and the president of the repub
lie of Haiti. General C~incinnatus LIE
conte, persisted.
The list of killed and injured in the
terrific explosion will reach more than
400. Many palace attendants were
killed. together with visitors and per
IONS with business in the building.
Members OF the presidents family
who were awakened by the terrific
shock. found themselves almost sur
rounded by flames. but managed TO
make their way to safety. The cause
Of the explosion is not known
The first explosion vas followed by
others when the fire reached the Gel
lars of the palace. where a great
quantity of ammunition was stored,
So great was the force of the explos'
sion that a number OF small cannon,
fragments of iron and shells were
thrown for great distances in all di.
rectiona
For a time a great panic prevailed
and the military authorities immedi.
ately took charge OF the situation. The
explosions occurred soon after
o'clock In the morning and within an
hour when the nre, which was con-
fined to the palace. was extinguished
the structure was a mass of ruins,
from which it will be impossible to re-
cover the body of the president.
At a joint meeting OF the chamber
and senate General Tancrede Auguste.
senator and ex-minister of public
works, was named as president.
He first gained prominence in Hal
tian affairs in 1906. when as minister
of the interior in the cabinet OF Presi-
dent Nord Alexis, he vas credited
with ordering the summary shooting
Of ten prominent revolutionaries at
Port au Prince.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15

Even a brief holiday at the seaside
was to Charles Kingsley too long an
absence from his wife. This place.
st1s perfect" he wrote On occasion.
~but It seems a dream and imperfect
without you. Blessed be God for the
rest, though / eve before felt the
loneliness Of being without the beiosed
being whose every look and word and
motion is the keynote Of my life. Peo-
pie talk Of love ending at the altar.
Boolsrs
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
GREAT LOSS OF
life REPORTED
Severe Earth Shocks Occur
Throughout Turkey.

ConstantfnopaA Aug. lA-rhree re-
newed earthquake shocks were felt
here. II 10 reported thai q volcanic
island u fosming In the Sea OF Mar
mora.
No. aooueaee ngsres q the number
Of victims Of the earthquake OF Aug.
0 car yeA be tabulated. because tele.
graphic oummnnioation y interrupted.
Home estimates place the death HIST
at 1000 and he injured from 5000 to
5000.
In the town o 6hary-Koy. which
was completely destroyed. sixty per
sons were killed and $50 injured
Fires are reported from many cities
In which Q buildings were de
etroyed.
Everywhere In the stricken zone
there Is terrible want and distress
Appeals for doctors and help are con
stantly being received at the capital
and the government is doing its ut
most TO satisfy them. The hospitals
here arc crowded with injured per
| sons.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
STUBS TURNS OUT WINNER
Carries Nearly 100 Of 165 Districts
for Senatorial Nomination.

Topeka, Kan. Aug. 10.-Returns re-
oeived from over the state indicate
that Governor w. r. Stnbbs has car.
ried nearly 100 of the les legislative
districts. The governor issued a
statement in which he declared he
easily has won the senatorial contest.
w. II. Thompson also issued a
statement in which he claims the
Democratic nomination for senator
over Hugh p. Farrelley.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
WOMEN ON THE COMMITTEE
Jane Adams and Three Others to
Serve With Progressives.

Chicago, Aug. 9.-Woman suffrage
was insured voting strength on the
Progressive party national committee
when four women were officially elect
ed members of the committee. They
were:
Miss Jane Adams, noted settle
ment worker, Chicago.
Miss Frances Kellar, chief of the
immigration inspection bureau, New
York.
Mrs. Charles D. Blaney. San Fran
cisco, woman s~uffragist and delegate
to both the Republican national con-
vention and the Progressive party ma
tional convention.
Miss Jean Gordon. New Orleans.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15

South St Paul. Aug. 12.-Cattie-
Steers. s6.00QS.50s cows and heifers.
$3.2507.00; calves. $S.5O0s.75; feed.
ers. $8.5006.25. Hogs57.V0SO0.
Sheep-Lambs. $3.2506.25; wethers.
tS.760&.2S; ewes, u.2503.75.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15

Chicago. Aug. 12-wheat-Sept.
e2h @a2%c; Dec. 92092Mc; May,
e6Mc. Corn-Sept. 6sxc; Dec. 54xc;
May. 54k @54xc. Oats-Eept., 3fx
031Kc; Dec. S2N 082%c; May s4a
Q34hc. Pork-Sept., $$17.s2; JAM
$1S.45. Butter-Creameries. 22M 025c;
dairies, 20h @2shc. Eggs-l5k01sc
Poultry-Turkeys. lac: chickens. i3c;
springs. 17Q1Sd
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES
Duluth Wheat and Bar

Duluth, Aug. 12-Wheat-To arrive
and on track-No. l hard. s1.0S&;
No. 1 Northern. s1.02&: No. 3 North.
ern. $1.0o& Sept, 92& 093Xo; Dec.
$3.50. Flax-On track and 70 arrive.
$1-S4; Oct. STA; Nov. $1.72-
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
BULGARIANS ARE FOR WAR
Enraged by Massacre Of cootrymen by
TUrka.

EhTaG6d by WassacTt oV OonFymen by
Turka.
Sofia, Bulgaria. Aug. 9.-Enraged by
the massacre OF scores OF their coun-
trymen In Turkey. Gear Ferdinand's
subjects all over Bulgaria are clamor.
Ing for war. A conference OF the min
istry was held and the military au.
thorities' activity was most sugges.
tive OF a contemplated mobilization.
No answer has been received to
Bulgaria's protest against the slaugh.
ter of her subjects b. Turks or the de-
mand for indemnity. The excitement
at Constantinopie Is intense and II is
thought hkely the matter has been
wholly overlooked.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
REACH PARTING OF WAYS
Tast and Roosevelt Forces split Over
Ohio covernorshlp.

Columbus, O.. Aug. 13.-Taft and
Roosevelt men reached the parting Of
the ways In Ohio politics when. fol-
lowing the nomination of General r.
p. Brown Of GAINESVILLE for governor
at 9 meeting OF the Republican state
central committee. eight members Of
that body. led By State Chairman
Walter ,. Brown and Secretary l. N.
Foster. resigned
Walter F. Brown also gave NOTICE o.
biz resignation q member Of the Re-
publican national committee Tor Ohio.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
oRozcO WEARY OF FIGHTING
Makes ovsrtures for Peace and Later
.RepudIates Them.

Mexico City. Aus. 10.-weary Of
lighting PascuaI Orosco Of the Mex
lean rebels In the north made pro-
posais Of peace to the Mexican gov
eminent. but for some unexplained
reason Ate1 Sepudiatsd them
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-05-04
FIRST farmers
AUTOMOBILE TOUR

Dallas. Tex, May 4.-W. r. Mickle
of Plano, Tex, is the first farmer to
enter the first farmers automobile
tour ever nerd In the world. He read
the announcement Of the $1,000 in
prizes offered by The Farm and Ranch
last Sunday and Monday morning
early he motored into Dallas and en-
tered his machine, Chalmers $50"
touring car.
Mr.. Mickle, besides being a general
farmer, and successful one, is an
expere turkey financier who has a habit
Of lifting all the prizes in the turkey
class at state and local fairs in the
southwest. His Chalmers was bought
entirely from the proceeds of his tur-
keys. Last fall his entry won The
Farm and Ranch prize of 81 pound
for the largest turkey raised in Texas,
and the winning gobbler adorned the
table of Geo. w. Coleman, president
of the Ad Leagues of America.
II am g. firm believer in the real
necessity of the automobile for the
farmer" said Mr.. Mickle, and / want
you to count on me to help out in
anything that will help to spread that
belief. OF course / am Chalmers en-
thusiast. / have had my car over .
year now, and the practical use and
pleasure have gotten out Of it have
far more than repaid the original cost
I want to get in this run, and be-
lieve l will win it for have lots OF
confidence in my car"
Mr.. Mickle's entry was quickly fol-
lowed by others, and there is every
promise of a most successful and his
tory making run. The proposed route
takes in all the large cities of Texas
and covers about 1000 miles. The
run will be made in August, when the
farmer Of this section has laid by his
crop and it is still too early for har-
vest. Ali the dealers Of the southwest
are confident it viii bring the auto and
the farmer in g. closer and more
friendly relation. as well as be won.
derful impetus to the good roads
movement.