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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
The Number of Injured Is Near
ly One Hundred.
SLOWED DOWN ON A CURVE
The Coaches Are Ripped Open
From the Rear.
Many Victims Too Badly Man.
gled for Identification.

New Orleans, La. Nov. IA wreck,
In which IA or more persons were killed
and AZ seriously injured and at least 80
more We're hurt, occurred on the Yazoo
& Mississippi Valley railroad near
Montzla, 81 miles north of New Orleans,
early today when a through freight
train crashed into the rear of an ex-
cursion train of ten coaches.
Five of the coaches of the passenger
train were burned, and many of the
wreck victims are believed to have been
cremated, though IA bodies have been
recovered
OF the IA bodies recovered, nine were
negroes and five white persons. OF the
wounded, the majority, it is said, are
Whlte An official statement issued by
the railroad company placed the blame
OF the wreck on a brakeman named
cunningham, who was charged with
failure to signal the freight train
The excursion train left New Orleans
at IL o'clock last night, carrying sew
eral hundred people who had spent
Sunday in New Orleans 1t slowed
down on approaching a sharp curve
near Montz soon after midnight and
the freight train crashed into the rear
coaches. Many of the victims were
so badly mangled as to make identifi-
cation impossible.
The majority of the excursfonists
were from points south of Woodville,
Miss. which is 3 miles north of Baton
Rouge.
The scene at the union station when
the relief train bearing the dead and
injured arrived in New Orleans, was
one of confusion. Practically every
ambulance in. the city had been sum-
moned to take the injured to hospitals
and police patrol wagons were used to
move many of the dead to undertake
ing establis 1ments. The rear coach of
the excursion train was demolished
Practically every occupant of this car
was either killed or seriously injured.
One of the badly wounded passengers
said two women and several small
children in the rear coach were killed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
Kansas Cityan Nearly Starves
in Topeka Yards.
At Last Attracts Help by
Pounding on Car Door.

Weakened by being without food for
four days, julius Muraskis newsboy
of Kansas City was found in a box
car in the Santa F'e yards this morn
ing. The young man was on his way
to Kansas City from Strong City and
had been locked in a boxcar at Usage
City since last Wednesday or Thurs
day.
Muraski attracted the attention of
George Helwig who is employed as a
yard clerk. Mr.. Helwig broke the
seal on one of the doors, and with
the assistance of other yardmen, the
young man was assisted out of the
car. He was turned over to the po-
lice who furnished him with a light
lunch and then took him to the police
station.
The traveller is the son of Julius
Muraski, and the family lives at 23S
East Sixteenth street, Kansas City,
Mo. He has a brother in Usage City
and another in Strong City. His father
is employed as a miner in Leaven-
worth and he has a sister who lives
in Emporia.
He left home ten days or two weeks
ago and went to Strong City to work
for his brother. he left there and
went to Emporia to visit his sister BIZ.
failed to find her. He then went to
Usage City to visit his brother. After
a short visit there, he decided to star
for his home in Kansas City and
crawled into the boxcar which was in
the yards.
The car was sealed and billed east.
He stated this morning that he had
been in the car since Wednesday or
Thursday and did not know that he
was in Topeka even after being releas-
ed from his solitary prison. He claim
ed that he had not tasted food nor wa
ter since he entered the car. He was
shouting, to the best of his ability,
and beating on the sides of the car
with his fists when heard by Helwig.
The young man was so weak that he
could not get in the police buggy with
out assistance and could hardly walk.
He was quite pale and nervous and
spoke with some difficulty
He seemed refreshed after given a
light lunch of bread and milk. He
was taken to the emergency ward at
the police station where he Iapsed into
deep sleep until noon. He was then
given a full meal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
WAYLA AND IS DEAD i'm CAR four DAYS ARE Wives LAZY?
Washington Officials Say
excepting House" Is Lost Art.
Women in Country 'Panned" in
Government Report.

washington, Nov IA sharp ar
raignment of the farmers wives and
daughters of the country, and, Incl
dentally, their city sisters, is contain
ed in a report made by George *
Holmes, chief of the division of pro-
duction and distribution of the agr!-
cultural department Although wages
have risen steadily during A years,
Mr.. Holmes says that the women OF
the present age have forgotten or are
too proud to indulge in household
work on the farm.
1.-THE lure of society which has
reached out to the farm he says, lis
much to blame for the condition"
which he describes as acute"
Not Like Mother Used to DLO.
Country girls as well as city girls, .
says Mr.. Holmes, in reporting to Sec
retary Wilson, seem to regard house
hold work for hire as undesirable
Joined with this fact is the other one
that the women of the farmers fam
lily are neither able nor willing to re-
peat the manual labor performed by
their grandmothers on the farm
The raising of the standard of liv-
ing on the farm, the report continues,
is responsible in a measure, for the
women of the farm are now engaging
in social functions which the gov
ernment expert holds to be ''incom-
patible with the performance of house
hold labor" The passing of the old
time domestic industries is deplored
and Mr. Holmes adds that "it is rare
that one of the younger women know
how to knit
Depend on the Store Too Much.
Throughout large areas he says,
''the pride of the housewife in great
stores of preserves, dried and picked
fruits, berries and vegetables, exists
chiefly in history and dependence is
placed mostly upon the local store for
the proucts of the cannery and the
evaporater.'
Within the period mentioned Mr..
Holmes reports that wages paid to
men laborers on the farm have risen
as high as 79 per cent and that har-
vest hands are now paid upwards of
$50 a month with board. For the farm
laborer who lives on the farm the year
round, Mr.. Holmes says the money paid
does not represent the real value of
his remuneration, for the ''cost of Iiv-
ing" virtually is solved for him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
DEMOCRATIC SENATE.
Upper House viii Be in Harmony
With the President.

Washington, Nov. 1.-THE positive
announcement of the success of Henry
Lane, the Democratic candidate for
the senate in Oregon, assures Demo-
cratic control of the upper house of
congress and places both branches of
the national legislature and the presi-
dency in their hands for the first time
in eighteen years. The addition of
Oregon to the Democratic list gives
that party forty-nine senators, or a
majority of two.
In addition to the election of sue
cessors to Democratic senators now
sitting, Democrats will dispIace Re
publican senators from Oregon, New
Jersey, Kansas, Colorado, Montana
Delaware and Nevada, and will fill
the vacancy in Colorado with a man
of their choosing.
The contests in Illinois, where two
senators are to be chosen, and in Ten
nessee and Michigan remain to be de-
cided. The Democrats make positive
claims concerning some of these
states, but, whatever the result in any
or all of them, Democratic control of
the senate is assured and the Demo-
Gratis will be able to shape legislation
if harmony prevails among them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
ALL WANT WILSON.
Rivalry Arises Among Presbyterian
Churches of Washington.

Princeton, Nov. 11.-President-eI
Woodrow Wilson has not decided
which one of the Presbyterian n
churches in Washington he will join.
Both the new president and vice presi-
dent are Presbyterians.
'I m glad there are enough churches
to go. around" said the president
elect today with a smile, when he was
told of the rivalry that had arisen
among the churches.
The procession of carriages and
automobiles bringing tourists and
callers down Cleveland lane to the
Wilson bungalow has made the hith-
erto unused road quite a thorough
fare. The hackmen of town have
profited greatly, but none so much as
Charley Quinn, hveryman of many
years, who drove enough hacks to
procure three automobiles and now
has a monopoly on the for hire" ma
chimes of the town. Quinn has driven
Woodrow Wilson for nearly fifteen
years.
And all the time I've driven him. l."
said Quinn, 'as professor in the uni
versity, as president of it, as governor
and as president-eIect, he's been
mighty nice to me-"
The president-elect has a number of
requests for speaking engagements
If he granted them all he would be
speaking every night from now until
March 4th.
Il have not given a thought to
these things" he remarked today 1t
is not likely that he will tackle them
until he returns from his vacation,
which begins the end of this week and
continues until the middle of Decem-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
JOHNSON BEGINS FIGHT
Blacks Attorney Asks That Bond
Offered Be Accepted.

Washington, Nov. 11.-Jack John
son, through his attorney, Benjamin
G. Bachrach. today filed a motion in
the supreme court of the United
States asking to be permitted to give
bail pending the hearing before the
United States district court in Chicago
on an indictment charging a violation
of the white slave traffic.
In support of the motion, it was
said the district judge demanded
$4,000 bail, which was declared to
be excessive, and had refused to ac-
cept a certificate of deposit for $780,
600 in lieu of bail. 1t is further set
out that the district judge had stated
he would not accept a surety company
on the bond. The attorney claimed in
his papers filed with the court that
the white slave traffic act was un-
constitutional.
As a final reason why Johnson
should be admitted to bail by the
supreme court the attorney stated
that for several weeks Chicago news
papers had been publishing false re-
ports concerning him whereby he had
been pretudiced in the eyes of the
public to such an extent that he was
unable to induce real estate owners
to become surety for him upon his
bond unless they were indemnified
and that the district judge had stated
he would not accept real estate sure
ties if they were indemnified
The government was given until
Wednesday to file a brief opposing
Johnson's petition.
More Witnesses Heard.
Chicago, Nov. 1.-Two women.
one said to be from New York and the
other Chicagoan, but whose names
were withheld, testified today beford
the federal grand jury, which re-
sumed the investigation of Jack John
sons possible violation of the Mann
law.
Several witnesses who appeared be-
fore the jury last week were recalled
today. Among these was Mrs Kath-
crime Dorsey, at whose home Lucille
Cameron of Minneapolis resided at
the time she met Johnson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
Editor Appeal to Reason Gives
Up the Struggle.
Shoots Himself Early on Day
of Trial.

Gil ard, Kan, Nov. III. A. Way
land, founder and owner Of the Appeal
to Reason, a socialist weekly news
paper published here, snot and killed
himself in his home in Girard early
today. Mr. Wayland was unconscious
after midnight. He died few minutes
later. He had fired a bullet into his
mouth muffjing the sound in the bed
clothes.
Between the leaves of book lying
on the bed the following note was
found:
This struggle under the compet:
tive system isn't worth the effort; let
it pass
Friends of Mr.. Wayland attribute
his act to dependency over the death
of his wife who was killed in an au-
tomobile accident a year ago. Since
her death, they say, he had been af-
ficted with periodical melancholy.
His Case Came Up Today.
Mr.. Wayland was to have appeared
in the federal court in Fort Scott,
Kan. today to answer to a charge
preferred by the government against
the several editors and the owner of
the Appeal to Reason of circulating
through the mails defamatory matter
concerr1ng an official of the federal
prison at Leavenworth. The attacks
upon prison official were printed in Mr..
Wayland's paper last winter.
although 1 alone am responsible
for what appears in the columns of the
paper, Mr.. Wayland of late had seem
ed much disturbed over the pending
case" said Fred Warren, managing ed
itor of the Appeal to Reason today.
Mr. Wayland was 5S years old. He
founded his paper here Is years age.
Previously he had edited papers in
Harrisonville Mo-, Pueblo. Col, and
Greensburg, Ind. He established the
Coming Nation in Greensburg in 1893.
Later he founded a socialist colony at
Ruskin, Tenn. AS a writer and worker
he was we'll known among socialists
throughout the world.
He is survived by two sons and
three daughters.
Probe Still Goes On.
Washington, Nov. 1.-THE suicide of
Julius A. Wayland, owner of the So
cialist paper, Appeal to Reason, will
not affect the action Of the federal gov
ernment in prosecuting the paper for
alleged misuse of the malls. Within
day or two case will be called at
Fort Scott charging the paper with
sending obscene matter through the
mails. The federal grand jury there
also will begin an investigation OF
other matters connected with the pa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
Three Counties Not Yet Report
ed Official Vote.
CAPPER LOSS IN JACKSON
Mistake Saturday in Returns
Corrected Today.
Official Count to Decide and
Possibly a Contest.

With a loss of 1872 votes in Craw-
ford county, Senator George H Hodges
this afternoon holds a lead of 81 votes
over Arthur Capper in the kans'N
eubernatoriaI contest Pluralities as
tabuIated by the State Journal she
12.1S3 for Hodges and 12,151 for Capper-
There are still several disputes as "
rnaiorities in various counties and Cap
nar's own table-which gives $40 Ior I
Hodges in Crawford-shoWs he Is %
votes behind. Figures at the Demo
cratic headquarters favor Hodges oS
276. This claim is extravagant.
The big shakeup of the day was /"
Jackson county, which went to HooSeS
nv IL after reporting S5 majority for
CAMPER in it's first Official returns
Chairman Henderson S. Martin, or the
Democratic state committee, conceue'
a loss for Hodges in Crawford couuIS
as early as Saturday night but actudI
figures were lacking. At noon todaJ
the Crawford county clerk advised the
State Journal that Hodges is leadlns
by S1e The official canvass in that
county is not completed.
several changes were made in other
counties. These Included a gam oL
eight for Hodges in Crawford, re-
port that Atchison had given Capper
five majority after an earlier official
report that it had given Hodges Two
majority. Douglas gained four Tor
Capper, changing from 4O9 to 41S.
Pratt on its second official report gave
Capper $50 majority as against 1a0
on Saturdays report, or gain OF ~
for Hodges.
Al noon today the Associated Press
reported Capper as stating:
II am not giving up the fight by all
means, however. snati coIltest tIlg
case and have every confidence that l
will win by close to three thousand
Several thousand ballots We're thrown
out through a misunderstanding over
the marking. Most of these were Tor
me and I am quite sure the election
commission will permit them to be
Later when asked by the State Jour
nal concerning the probability OF
contest in event he lost in the official
canvass Capper declared that he had
not decided as to his course and de-
MED the making of a statement that
he proposed to contest on the grounds
that a number of ballots had been IL
legally rejected.
It is quite clear, however, that the
Democrats will contest in event
Hodges is nosed out in the official
count. With the possibility of a
Democratic senate to hear the case,
they are quite confident that they will
be given a ready hearing and on the
face of reports from various counties
believe that a number of rejected bal
lots VIII De counted +Or lne JOhhSOA
county senator.
At o'clock this afternoon the in
dependent tabulated returns from the
various counties showed Hodges lead
ing by 80. Official returns from
crawford. Cherokee and Montgomery
counties are still lacking, although the
Crawford county vote is carried at the
latest official report of $50 for Hodges. |
These are the figures from the various !
counties:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
FOR WIRE men
Benefits Will Extend to a Total of
175,OOO Employees.

Chicago, Nov. 11-Ten million dollars,
1t is announced, will be appropriated Jan
uary l. 1913 by the associated interests
controlling the Bell telephone system, the
Western Union Telegraph company and
the Western Electric company, as a per-
manent pension fund for their la, 900 en-
ployees. Sick benefits and life insurance
will be a feature of the pension system.
Annual appropriations from the treasur-
les of the allied companies will keep the
fund up to S1000o,000. Details of the plan
We're made public by President Vail OF
the Western Union Telegraph company
Male employees who have reached the
age of 50 and have been 20 years or m re
in the service of the companies will be per-
Initted to retire on pensions. They may
be retired at the option of the companies
at So years of age after % years service.
The pension age for women employees is
in each case five years younger than male
employees.
The amount of the pension is auto
maticaIly based on the years of service
and the amount of pay and will be one
per cent of the average annual pay for
ten years, multiplied by the number OF
years of service
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
F. JONES TO YANKEES?

Chicago. Nov. 11.-Fielder Jones
was mentioned in gossip about base
ball headquarters here today as pos
sible manager of the New York Amer
leans and as president of the North
west league. However, when asked
about the report he said:
How can 1 acceT anything that has
not been offered me?" Jones was one
of 1000 baseball men who passed
through Chicago today enroute to MIL
waukee to attend the annual meeting
OF the National association tomorrow
With more than fifty cases left to
be decided, the board of arbitration
resumed deliberations here today. It
was planned to dispose of all cases be-
fore the close of the afternoon session.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
ASK HELP FOR JEWS.
Schif VIII Be Asked to Spend Money
ON Hand

New York Nov. 11-Delegates
from sixteen national societies of ORR
entail Jews will this week call upon
Jacob H. Schif to ask his aid in allie
waiting the suferings of their brethren
in Turkey. Mr.. Schiff was the treasur-
er of the society for the aid of the
Russian Jews at the time of the Kish-
inef massacres and it is now urged
that he use the several hundred thou
sand dollars left over from that sub
scription for the help of the Oriental
Jews.
There are more than 100000 Jews in
Turkey and it is declared that their
state is pitiable at this time when
feeling against the non -Moslem popu-
lation is running so high. AS a furth-
er means of aiding these people, ma
uonal conference has been called by
the Federation of Oriental Jews in
America for Sunday. November "A.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
STEAL ANTIQUE Cash.
Bank Notes Aged 1900 Years Stolen
Worth $4,000.

New York. Nov. 11.-Somebody has
stolen a package of bank notes print
ed 1 800 years ago by Chinese bankers
of the Tang dynasty. They belonged
in the collection of A. w. Bahr of
Shanghai, which has just been brought
to this country, and their loss was dis
covered when the collection was un-
packed here.
The face value of the missing notes
runs from two cents up and the total
amount called for is less than $50.
They are worth three hundred times
that sum. however, as objects of art
and antiquity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
FIGHT ON SUFFRAGE.
Opponents Will Trv to Wrest Victory
From Michigan Women.

Lansing, Mich, Nov. lin an at
tempt to defeat woman suffrage which
carried Michigan, last Tuesday, the
vote on the amendment will be con-
tested in five counties, it was said
here today, on the ground that the
question was not correctly put in these
counties. 1t is said that if the vote of
the five counties were thrown out the
state majority would be eliminated
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
Farmers Suffer Fire Loss.

Liberal, Kan, Nov. 11.-Word re-
ceived here states that a recent fire on
the farm of William Davis, northeast
of Lorena, Okla, resulted in the death
of six mules, four horses and two hun
dred chickens in the flames. Another
mule escaped but was killed when
found to end its misery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
HANSON LOSES CASE.
Mcpherson Attorneys Case Out of
Courts Jurisdiction.

Washington, Nov. 11.-Holding it
was without jurisdiction to consider
the case, the supreme court of the L.
s. today dismissed an appeal of John
r. Hanson, an attorney from a SEN
tence of contempt, imposed by the
probate court of Mcpherson county
kan, when Hanson refused to answer
question at a probate hearing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11

Chicago. Nov. u.-Three cracksmen
oIeW open the safe in saloon at West
Madison and Halsted streets early today
and escaped with $3.50. after binding the
bartender and porter with ropes The
thieves executed their work so clever.y
that 100 guests in hotel above the saloon
were not awakened.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-11
TAFT LOSES IDAHO.
Late Returns Give the State to
Wilson.

Boise, Nov. 11.-Wilson is leading
on the presidential election returns
now in and two small counties yet OF
report and which are normally Demo-
cratic are expected to give him
plurality of nearly one thousand over
Taft.
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Brown to Fight Rrock.

Cleveland, o., Nov. 11.-Announce-
nent was made here that Knockout
Brown of New York has been matched
to fight Phil Brock of Cleveland here
on Thanksgiving day.
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weather Forecast for Kansas
Local rains tonight and Tuesday. Cold
eT tonight
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fcOntinued on Pase Tvo.a
The Washington times., 1912-01-30
DR.. WILEY SPEAKS
TO GRADUATES At
CENTRAL TONIGHT
Captain Oyster and H. P.
Blair Will Also Attend Fes-
tivities at High School.

Isr. Harvey w. Wiley will deliver
the address TO the graduates at the
exercises at the Central High School
tonight. Twenty-Five members of
the graduating class will receive d.
piomas from Henry i. Blair, memb ar
Of the Board of Education. at the
first mid-w winter graduation ever held
at the school. Capt. James +. oyster,
president of the Board of Education,
viii preside.
Glass night exercises were held at
tho school last night. Clifford Stone
delivered the address of welcome.
Vivian Groom read the class history,
and Misses Louise Rochon and Hazel
Cotton collaborated in giving the
class prophecy. The valedictory was
Emory Wilson made an address to
the graduates. rhe soloists were Miss
Elsa Raner and James Kinsella.
At business. the two-year certit
cate class held it's class night festivi-
ties. The address of welcome was
delivered by John r. Schram, presi
dent Of the graduating class. The
class history was recited by Miss
Katherine Parsons, and Principal AL
Ian Davis addressed tn. graduates in
bchalf of the faculty. Miss Sallie j.
Charlk made the class prophecy. The
valedictcry was delivered by Miss
Phoebe +. Tyrrell