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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-11-30

coaxed him to sign three-year
contract with Chicago. And. be-
fore the season of 1912 passed
Brown was sold toLouisville in
minor league.
Note.-Later the Louisville
club said Brownie was not on its
reserve list, and the great pitcher
is undecided just where he stands.
At any,rate, he is convinced his
contract is worthless if Charley
Murphy wishes to throw him
lover at any time.
Well-Known Players Head Fra
ternity.
President-Dave L. Fultz.
Vice Presidents-M. J. Doolan,
Christy Mathewson, Ty Cobb, E.
]. Sweeney.
Secretary. E. Daubert.
Ali teams but Chicago and
Cleveland are represented on the
board of directors. Their repre-
sentatives, Birming h a m and
Evers, having been appointed
managers, are barred. Crawford |
of Detroit has represented Cleve-
land to date.
Of $50 players in the majors
288 are members.
-o-O-
TELLS OF THIRD MURDER
Buffalo, N. Y, Nov. SOL
Frank J. Hickey, slayer of 7-year-
old Joseph Josephs and 10-year-
old Michael Kruck, has confessed |
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-11-30

ago. murdered Morey by slow
poison. I was employed at that
time in Morey's fathers drug
store.
81 had been drinking, and just
felt that l had to murder him.
The police commissioner today
received pitiful letter from Hen
ry D. Kruck, father of the boy
Hickey strangled to death in Cen
trail Park, New York, in 1902.
Kruck begged commissioners to
let him see and talk to Hickey.
81 will make no trouble when
1 see him, one part of the letter
reads, 81 just want to ask him
about my poor DEAD boy.
Hickey is AZ years old. So, ac-
cording to his confession, he was
only 18 when he murdered Ed
Morey in Lowell.
Lowell, Mass, Nov. 30.-Po-
lice today confirmed ]. Frank
Hickey's confession as to poison
ing of Ed Morey here % years
ago. Morey's death was claimed
due to "apoplexy."
A Poser for the Doctor
A physician was giving an in
formal talk on physiology upon
the balcony of a seaside hotel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-20

that it would require $4,000 to float
the enterprise. Up to the present the
city has only expended $4,657.67 and
will be subject to no further expense
unless the courts award more dam
ages to some few property owners who
have appealed from the awards made
them by the condemnation commits
sion. Nearly $500 of this amount has
been assumed by Ford and Gray
county farmers the city'S expense
will be approximately $4,000. Bonds
to the sum of $4,000 Were voted in
January to cover the expenses. Mr..
Fitzgerald and Mr.. Hoover have paid
all expenses and when the total
amount is definitely ascertained they
will take the requisite amount of bonds
in payment for the money advanced.
More than half of the bonds voted will
never be issued.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-20
IT'S UP TO WOLCAST.
Joe Rivers Wants to Fight Him as
Soon as Possible.

Los Angeles, March 20.--Joe sRi1f-
erss has formally announced himself
as a worlds lightweight champion
ship candidate. He stands ready to
box Ad Wolgast on July 4 for the
1873 pound title and has advised Pro-
moter McCarey that he was ready to
talk business.
''Wolgast picked Rivers as his next
opponent because he knew that my
boy was the greatest lightweight
Manager Joe Levy IF nothing else,
ADS actions saved US the trouble of
challenging him. Under the circum-
stances, Wolgast would scarcely ex-
pect us to chase him after he has
publicly put the tag on Joe, so we
will simply rest our case by saying
that we are ready for Wolgast.'
Unquestionably the quiet little
Mexican boy is the one sensation in
coast boxing circles and with him
matched against the champion on
holiday date nothing short of an
armed guard thrown about the old
Vernon arena would save this his
toric building from being wrecked by
the mob which would storm the en-
frances.
Mexican Is Popular.
When Rivers beat Jack White to
the floor last Saturday afternoon he
finished the twentieth fight of his ca
reer and walked out of the fight shed
fifteen minutes later with five or six
hundred men and boys following at
his heels, the idol of the hour.
All of Saturday night and Sunday
the Rivers VS.. Wolgast arguments
filled the air and Levy's statement
brought a sigh of relief from those
who feared that the careful manager
might keep his protege clear of the
champion for another year.
we might as we'll have it over
WITH added Levy. ''I have offers
of stage work that would net US a
fortune, to say nothing of prospec-
tive matches with Attell, Mandot
Michigan and Wells, but it is WoIgast
that the public wants, so we will close
the match if Wolgast will do his part
We have put the matter squarely up
to McCarey We will rest a couple of
days until the champion is heard
from"
Wolgast is playing a theatrical date
in Seattle this week and has been
wired of Rivers stand. A statement
is expected from him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-20
HANGS HERSELF.
Woman Ties Rope to Radiator
and Her Neck.
Then Jumps From the Window
of Her Room.

New York, March 20.-Mrs. Blanche
Carson of San. Francisco, who was ar
rested here for smuggling several
thousand dollars worth of jewelry on
her arrival from India, committed sui
eide early today by hanging herself out
of the window of her home
The body of Mrs. Carson was seen
by a pedestrian, swinging from win
dow on the eighth floor of the Hotel
Rrozteu The clerk was notified and
the door of Mrs. Carson's room was
forced. A rope, tied to a radiator passed
out of the window and at the end
dangled the body of the woman. The
body was warm. Two notes were found
in the room. one of which was adj
dressed to her attorney, Harrison Os-
born. Their contents were not mace
public.
Mrs. Carson reached here day before
yesterday on the steamship George
Washington. She was arrested on the
charge of gross undervaluation and
smuggling after having confessed that
she had smuggled jewelry which the
authorities valued at $4,000. On her ar
rival Mrs. Carson had declared a pack
age of unstrung pearls but had under
valued them.
she broke down and told of the large
amount of jewelry she had brought into
the country concealed in her hat and in
her baggage. Released on $4,000 bail
Tor 1urther examination. MRS. carson
went up town presumably to her home.
She registered at the hotel as Mrs. Ed
win Carson of Paris. 1t was under
stood that her home was in San Fran
cisco, but the hotel manager said this
morning that he thought Mrs. Carson
resided in Los Angeles. She was about
so years old and was making a trip
around the world alone.
Mrs. Carson evidently sat up all night
and some time after 5 o'clock she I'M
tied a rope from a large package in her
room and, fastening one end to a ra-
diator, slipped the moose around her
neck and dropped out the window. The
body was discovered at $50.
The second note left by Mrs. Car
son was addressed to Paul r. May
berry, No. 919 West Twenty-eighth
street, Los angeles, Cal. In her stat :
1nent before the customs officials Mrs.
Carson SAID:
Il will confess that these @unstrung
pearls are rot the only gems 1 have
have also u pair of diamond ear
rings which 1 cor cealed in the lining
of my hat. 1 was told that the duties
collected here were excessive. I thought
I ought not to pay excessive duties.
regret what I have done. 1 am will
ing to tell all and give up everything
have purchased for fair valuation.
4 am willing to pay the duty"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-20
DISTRESS ACUTE
Over 100000 WOrkmen Are
Idle i'm England.
Thousands Are Being Fed
From Charitable Funds.
MANY WITHOUT STRIKE PAY
Pupils of the Schools Provided
for by Teachers.
Cotton Mills Are Closing Grad
ualIy in Lancashire.

London, March 2O.-The distress
throughout the industrial districts of
the United Kingdom because of the
national coal strike which has thrown
one million miners and over 100000
other workmen out of employment,
is acute. While the delegates of the
miners and mine owners are discuss
ing with politicians the minimum
wage bill, women, children and the
workers themselves in many places
are suffering extreme poverty and ap-
peals for assistance constantly are
reaching London which appears to be
the least affected of the large cities.
The Earl of narrowly, who has
just toured the Potter districts in
Staffordshire in asking for funds, says
thousands Of children in the district
are being fed from charitable funds.
In this region alone, 10000 miners
has thrown out of work $4,000 pot
tiers, to whose numbers must be add
ed thousands of general 1aborers, por-
tiers, railroad men and bargemen
whose livelihood depends on the out
put of the potteries.
The prevailing conditions in the Err
wash valley, the great hive of indus
try stretching from Nottingham 20
Chesterfield serve as an example Of
the conditions elsewhere. Here rs per
cent of the workers in all trades are
idle and, unlike the miners, as these
men have no strike pay, the families
are thrown on charity. The mayor Of
the largest town in the val
ley, yesterday received applications
from no fewer than 400 families for
aid and in one of the elementary schools
out of 600 pupils, 400 are being fed by
the teachers. Wales is suffering equal
ly with England. Only three tin plate
mills are working in the whole country
and every other industry is affected.
The cotton mills are closing gradI
ally throughout Lancashire. and the
last cargo of coal has now been ship
ped from Newcastle to the south Of
England.
What railway traffic returns are
available for the past week show a
decline of receipts amounting to $780,
600 in addition to 81, 100000 in the pre-
ViOuS week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-20
He HAD AGREED TO QUIT
Tommy Murphy Slips Double Gross
to Abe AtteIl.

Chicago. March 20.---That Harlem
Tommy Murphy, through Manager
Buckley, agreed to FLOP" for Abe
AtteII in their recent fight on the
coast, then double crossed the former
featherweight champion, is the state
ment of Willie Rftcf1ie in a letter TO
his manager, Emil sThfry. Richie is
about as clean and square fellow
as they make themsfi1 the boxing line
and his word should go a long ways.
From the way the letter reads Willie
knows whereof he speaks. 1t goes
something like this:
Buckley and Murphy sure double-
crossed AttelI in their fight here.
Buckley agreed to have Murphy lose
on a foul. Then he wagered a big
chunk of money on Murphy and sent
him out to win. Another man here
in San Francisco that l know won
thousands on the fight Attel1. fa1l-
ing for the trickerys made one bet of
$4,000 on himself Most of the box
ing followers here's know about the
doublecross and it has done the game
no good. Attell took an awful beat
ing and Buckley and Murphy got the
money"
Buckley when in Chicago the other
day told Thirty that he cleaned up
about $4,000 on the fight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-20
BIG TAFT MEETING.
One Will Be Held in This City
Soon.

In both the Second and Fourth wards,
Taft meetings were held last night by
members of the new Taft clubs. Taft
supporters in the Second ward met in the
A. o. U. w. band hall, 40 East Fifth
street, while the Fourth ward rooters
were guests of A F. Colson at the Throop
hotel annex.
Plans were laid at both meetings for
general Taft meeting to be held in To-
peka in the next two weeks. This meet
ing will follow the membership campaign
in every ward and precinct in the city
and several prominent Republican speak
ers will be invited to speak at the meet
ing.
meeting for next Tuesday night and has
the assurance of obtaining some out of
town speakers. Their names will be an
nounced in a few days. Fourth ward
members of the Taft club will also meet
next Tuesday night. Their meeting will
be held in the court house. Clubs In
several other wards will meet next week
and plans for the union love feast will be
discussed
Reports from the workers in the Sec
ond ward. showed that many former Re
publicans on the East side expect to de-
clare their allegiance to Democracy this
year and will enter the Democratic pri-
maries that they may vote for Mayor J.
B. Billiard for governor Plans for holding
other party organization in the ward were
discussed but it was decided not to mix
the work of the Taft club with the inter
ests of other candidates. Under the de-
cision last night, the Second Ward cluo
will continue it's efforts to aiding in the
success of President Taft in the city
caucuSeS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-20

Fix up the lawn for spring. Time
now to SOW Kentucky blue grass and
white clover. Zimmerman Seed Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-20
FREAKS MUST GO.
They VIII Be Barred From the State
Fairs.

Chicago, March 20.-Going to the
county or state fair will lose much of
its charm if state fair officials of eight
central western states carry out the
threat they made at their annual
meeting here. They threaten to bar
all kinds of freaks, including the snake
eater. the fat lady and the old fash
Toned barker with the horse blank eft
vest and dyed mustache whose voice
would carry from the grandstand to
the quarter pole.
All kinds of freaks must CO." said
]. c. Simpson, president of the Min
neSota state fair. Officials from state
fair associations in Minnesota In
diana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Mis-
souri,, Ohio, South Dakota and Mich
igan were present
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-20
Gov. Stubs Is Busy Trying to
Organize State.
VIII Do His Best to Capture
State for Roosevelt.
DEMOCRATS HAVE new ONE
Are Talking of A. NJ. Jackson
for Governor.
Said Brewster May Be in House
Next Year,

Governor Stubs has been busy this
week getting in touch with all the pro-
gressive leaders of the state in regard
to organizing by counties for sRoose-
Welt, He has talked, either personally
or over the phone with a large num-
Der of them and hopes talk to, many
more before the end of the week. He
is sure that the kansas delegation will
be for the colonel.
BY the time the state convention
meets at Independence, May 8. it is
expected that the evelt5erganiza-
ton will be complete The progress
ives do not propose to be asleep then
as they were at the state committee
meeting last week. They will have
their full strength in the field.
Senator Brady of Lawrence, was
here in conference with the governor
today. Brady is candidate for con-
gress in the Second district He can
see nothing to it but victory in Au-
gust.
Since the talk of A. NJ. Jackson OF
Winfield for governor, it is the opin-
ion of Democrats who keep in close
touch with the situation that Jim Orr
of Atchison will run for REPRESENTATIVE
from his county again and try for
speaker of the next house, If the next
house is Democratic.
.eRillv'' FEEDER the Great Bend edi-
tor, will run Tor the senate 4nSledu u
coming back to the house to try for
speaker.
If Orr comes back as house leader
for the Democracy he will have a
worthy opponent on the floor in the
person of Senator Brewster of Doni-
phan county. Brewster is now assist
ant attorney general. He was the
leader of the last senate. He Will like
~ run for representative from hls
county. 1t is not expected that he Will
have opposition, 50 the next house Will
witness the meeting of the two Greeks
from the northwest corner of the
state. 1t ought to be worth the price
of admission.
Leaving the senate for the house.
Brewster ought to enlarge rather than
decrease the sphere of his activity and
influence The house is larger ana
more turbulent body and its delibera-
lions also occupy more attention IN
the public eye. Brewster would APP
pear in the house with the prestige OF
his senate leadership and success of
last session and would occupy the
limelight from the start. With close
division between the parties for con-
troll leadership and statecraft will play
an important part in legislation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-20
Usage CITY HAS WATER.
Famine Ended by Thaw of Last
Week.

Usage City, Kan, March 20.-Osage
City's water famine is at an end. Dur
ing the big thaw of the last week the
big reservoir filled nearly to over
flowing. This caused great rejoicing
in Usage City for the water has been
shut off from the consumers for
month.
Despite the fact that the people had
been warned not to use the sewers
while the water was shut off, a great
many had used them. This caused the
city some trouble to get the seven
miles of sewers in shape before the
water could be turlFed on. The water
was turned on today.
There is not Tnuclf danger of anoth-
er water famine here again as the big
reservoir holds 45,0OO,00O gallons of
water and is full.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-20
TAKE CITY's BONDS AS PAY.
Dodge City Banker Furnishes Funds
for Railroad Land.

Dodge City. Kan. March 2o.-Dodge
City is, getting off pretty easy on the
EXPENSE connected with the right of
way of the new Santa Fe cutoff known
as the Dodge City and Cimarron Val
lev railroad, according to statements
made by former Lieutenant Governor
w. J. Fitzgerald of this place who to-
gether with G. M. Hoover, a banker
of this. city, is financing the city's part
in the proposition Dodge agreed to
furnish the right of way through Ford
and Gray counties and many eStima tod
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-20
PAwNEE FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE
Women Plan to Convert the One
Third Dissenting Voters.

Larned, Kan, March 20.-The Paw
canvass in this city and the adjoining
country districts for the past few
weeks, the result of which has been
that some two-thirds of the population
have declared themselves in favor of
equal suffrage. The association is not
satisfied with this, however, and has
just decided ito recanvass those who
have expressed themselves as opposed
to womans suffrage and get each to
express the reasons for his objection.
The association will then secure ap-
propriate literature for each dissenter
and deliver it to him personally or by
mail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-20
No Hope for Suffrage.

Albany, n. Y, March 20.-All hopes
for woman suffrage legislation at the
present session have been crushed by
action of both houses of the legisla-
ture. The constitutional amendment
upon which the various suffrage or
CARNATIONS have united, was killed in
the senate by a final vote of 81 to 10.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-20
She is OUT ON BAIL.
Mrs. Grace Released From Prison
Goes to Her Mother.

Atlanta, Ca, March 2o.-Mrs.- Daisy
Opie Grace, charged with shooting her
husband, Eugene H. Grace, who is not
expected to live. was released on
$500 bail from the Jail in this city at
midnight and left at 1929 O'Clock this
morning for Philadelphia. where, it is
stated she will visit her mother.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-20
Picture Shows, Americas
National Indoor Amusement
BY MYRA WILLIAMS JARREL

ing man in the country. A few
years ago, five cents would not
buy anything but drink or a
stick of chewing gum. Now, It
buys an hours clean, wholesome
entertainment For the price
that the working man used to
pay for a seat in the peanut gall
lery to see Paying the Price"
and sundry bits of "rnellerdram-
mer," of like quality, he can
now take his entire family to a
good picture show, where they
not only will be able to have a
. good laugh, but they learn a lot
of things they would never learn
in any other way. Therefore. let
us all with one accord, bless the
man who invented the moving
picture show!
MYRA WILLIAMS FARRELL.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-20

We. are living in what some
one has pertinently called a
Mutt and Jeff" age. We must
have relaxation after the siren
uosity of building a great repub-
lic.- Every nation on the globe
has it's amusement for hours of
leisure. Spain has her bull
fights, Italy and Germany, their
music, France her picture gal
leries, England her House of
Parliament and Mrs. Pankhurst,
and America has her picture
shows.
The time has been, within the
memory of most of US. when
amusement houses were only for
the rich and near-rich. But the
moving picture shows have
brought recreation right down to
the financial level of the most
humble and poorly paid work
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1912-02-29

en time selling at the highest point reached in ten
and lead was selling at figure considerably Of four
and onequarter cents pound Since the principal output Of
this district silver and lead readily be seen that as the
advance in the price of silver has great enough to
cay offset the decline in the price of lead with the
metals selling at the high price they would have but for this
democratic tariff bug boo the dividend paying of this
section could very reasonably be expected to have increased
their dividend disbursements by onequarter And when it
considered what the effect of this would have on the
investing public and the amount of capital that could easily
have been brought in to develop properties that the
ceent showngs of many in this camp the loss will be found
to be far greater than is apparent at glance.
1t is to be hoped that the will remember it in No.
veber and also that they will make their business to do
this districts share in seeing that but republicans who
favor tariff high enough to protect American labor pro-
ducts and industries in charge of affairs the national
capital and when this is accomplished hesates predict
what the Occur Aene district will be enabled to show
the world in the matter of progress and mineral wealth
the ensuing four years of prosperity