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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-08-14

Weather never worlise the woman in
good Raittoat Because a good rain
coat is more than rain shedder-oth-
erwise it would not be much better than
an umbrella.
1t is on dubious days that the rain
coat scores-days when it may rain be-
fore you return home but You don't
want to carry an umbrella.
The raincoat answers for a light over
coat and a rain protector.
A Raincoat is necessity and not
luxury. We sell Raincoats on clear
days but comparatively few have the
forethought to buy them then
Made of imported fabrics in tan and
olive colors. $40, $3.50, SIS, $21,50.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-08-14
Mother and the
Youngsters

A good mother is constantly looking
after the welfare for her little ones
so are we; displayed in our Children's
Department.
Girls Dresses, age to 6years, special
table lot ................... SOC
Boys and Girls Straw Hats, spec
lal lot at observation-disclosures 1.00
Boys Blouses, very special 49,. Csc
Boys Overalls, well made .... Csc
Play Suits for Boys and Girls, Indian
Cowboy, Scout and Baseball.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-08-14
CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET.

CHICAGO. Aug. 14-september
wheat closed 80. corn 20 49, oats
81 3.s to 1-2.t
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-08-14
. %.j% L. Gardner.

. %ti.'. L. Gardner. .
It would be hard to md a Boston
Fed Sox player this season who isn't
loing good work. Every man ON the
team seems to. be playing a better
Srttcle of ball than ever before.
This is true Of Third Baseman Card
ger. He is playing good all round
Eame, and has a batting average OF
Sl4. laais batting average last year
PAS 'SA -. =.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-08-14

slbIe that better may yet De evolved.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-08-14
BE that as il may, there is NO better clothing

lere IS no more attractive, no more diversified
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-08-14

highest attainment in ready-to-wear clothing is
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-08-14

INC FaII Stocks NOW ait Parsons-Soude1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
A FOOT OF SNOW
More Than 12 Inches in the
Fall Saturday.
Leaves Rapidly Owing to the
Warmth of Sun.

Due to a II mile breeze direct from
the balny southern region and the re-
sistless rays of the sun the thorough
fares of Topeka are a mass of as
mushy a brand of slush as has ever
been trodden underfoot by citizens.
According to sunny Flora, the 10
cal weather observer. who always
looks at things from more or less
philosophical viewpoint, the snow will
have almost completely disappeared
even in the shady places by Wednes-
day evening. 1T is certain that we
must have some change soon,' said
he, ''or well be having snow in July"
A statement that viii be a surprise
to the majority of people who have
been interested in the situation as re-
CARDS the river is that at o'clock this
morning, the Kaw was down to the
14S feet stage as against II feet even
at 2 O'Clock Saturday afternoon.
Not much of the water from the
melted snow reached the river Sun
day. A rise in the river is expected,
due to the heavy snow over Kansas,
but no serious consequences are look
ed for.
Pleasant weather is the prediction
for Tuesday. Also rising temperature
in the southern portion of the state
tonight.
The snow storm which began Friday
evening and continued until Sunday
morning was the heaviest prec1pltat ton
of snow recorded by the government
weather department in the past quar-
ter of a century-12.3 inches. When
melted the measurement was 1.10 in
ches.
This brings the total depth of snow
for March thus far to 26.2 inches. This
constitutes a record for March. The
previous high mark in depth of snow
was reached in March, 1899-14.1 inches.
In fact several records have been
broker. as result of the recent
storm The total depth of snow for the
entire season has been At 9 inches. The
former record was noted in the season
of 1898 SO when the depth of snow was
1916 inches. The period from the first
of December to the present time has
been colder than any corresponding
period in 25 years.
This morning there was 81 inches of
snow on the ground. Sunday morning
the depth was 1872 This constitutes a
record for rapid melting.
At 5 o'clock this morning the mercury
was at the Is degree point. The read
ing at 10 o'clock wa 80.
The shippers forecast: Protect SO
hour shipments in all directions against
temperatures of from 25 to 30"
Reports show that there has been
fall in the stage of all tributaries of the
Kaw river. No rise in the river is con-
sequently expected for at least another
"a hours
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CONTINUED on Page Two.)
CLAUDE ALLEN GONE.
Detectives Still Hope to Capture the
Other Three Outlaws.

HillsviIe, March 25.-Another
days hunt for the Aliens is on, with
the hunters stfl1 confident that by
Wednesday they will have run down
at least three of the four men want
ed. A nights sleep in the foothills.
badly needed after yesterdays siren
uous tramping through mountain
brush in a drizzling rain, put the de-
tectives in shape for todays work and
the whole force made for the noun
tains again soon after daylight.
One of the outlaws still at large,
Claude Swanson Allen, son of Floyd
Allen, is now believed to have dis
tanced his pursuers and to have left
the region. His uncle, Sidna Allen,
and his cousins Wesley Edwards and
Friel Allen, are still supposed to be
hemmed in in the narrow space on,
the south side of the Blue ridge
against which the detectives are CEN
tering their efforts. Sidna Edwards,
Hillsville Jail Friday, is now safe in
Jail at Roanoke with the other three
prisoners.
Detective Feltz says that while they
were going down on the train last
night Edwards admitted that he
passed a pistol to his uncle, Floyd
Allen, at the door of the court house
on the day of the shooting. The pris-
oner insisted, however, that he did
not fire a shot himself. Heretofore
ne cIdlIned IndI ne went INTO Hills
Vile that day unarmed.
Claude Aliens Escape.
GalaX. Va, March 25.-Claude
Swanson Allen, the 22-year-old son of
Floyd Allen, and one of those indict-
ed for the Hillsville court house MUIR
ders, has cleanly eluded all pursuers,
but his uncle, Sidna Allen, and
cousins, Wesley Edwards and Friel
Allen, are SO closely pressed on the
south side of the Blue ridge that they
probably will be captured within
three days.
This information came from lead
ers of the hunt for the gang.
Claude Allen, who once attended a
school at Raleigh, n. c., and
knows more of the outside world than
the average mountaineer, it was
took a pocketful of gold from
the family cash drawer on the night
of the tragedy, put on his best clothes
and vanished on horseback beyond
the North Carolina line. Hope of find
ing him in the mountain region has
been abandoned
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25

cials. It was thought the automobile
bandits had been captured February
90, when two anarchists were arrested
at Pontoise, about 8 miles northwest
of Paris, after attempting to asssas-
sinate a wealthy lawyer and rob his
residence, but these evidently were at
most only a part of the gang.
In February the bandits shot down
and robbed a bank messenger by day
light in the streets of Paris and also
killed a policeman in front of the
Saint Lazare terminus, shooting him
from the window of their automobile
Brigands, bearing all the appear
ances of being tho sGfhors of this
mornings ho1dUp, arrived in an auto
mobile at Chantillys the racing center.
Four of the men armed with revolverS
entered the branch of Paris bank,
where they shot the cashier and an
other employee dead, dangerously
wounded. third man and escaped
with $4,000 in notes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
LOOKS GOOD FOR TAFT
He VIII Have Majority of $50 in
Indiana Convention.

Indianapolis. March 25.-Four dis
trict conventions this afternoon and a
state convention in this city tomorrow
will go far toward deciding the close
contest between the Taft and Roose-
velt factions for majority of the In
diana delegation of thirty to the ma
tional Republican convention. The
Third, Fourth, Fifth and Eleventh dis
tricts today are to elect two delegates
each and at tOmorroWS state conven-
ton where delegates at large will be
chosen. Other district conventions
are to follow.
Unofficial returns from ward and
township primaries or meetings show
the Taft faction will have a majority
of about $50 in the state convention
and will carry eight of the thirteen
districts. But margins are so narrow
in many districts certain decision must
wait on the result of the conventions
The Roosevelt managers claim eight
districts and the state convention
In the Third district convention at
New Albany today AZ Taft delegates
and As Roosevelt delegates will fight
for control of the district delegation.
In the Fourth district convention at
North Vernon. the Taft element is
credited with 57,29-42 and its opponents
with 48, 1912.
In the Fifth district convention az
Terre Haute Taft followers have 65 del
egates to Roosevelt 81.
In the Eleventh district convention at
Wabas sh Roosevelt will have 64 2-3 votes
to SO 1-3 for Taft.
District meetings are to be held in
Indianapolis to choose members of the
credentials and resolutions committee
for the state convention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
REFUSED
Fifty Railroads Unite in Re-
jecting Wage Increase.
Asked for by Their Locomotive
Engineers in January.

New York, March 25-Fifty rail-
roads comprising practically all the
lines east of Chicago and north of the
Norfolk & Western today refused to
grant an increase in wages demanded
by their locomotive engineers.
The engineers demand presented on
January %, was for an increase
amounting to about 19 per cent a year.
The railroads refusal is based on the
able to bear the increased expense.
The railroads, in their reply, pointed
out that the proposed increase will
amount to $7,553,792 annually which
would be equivalent to placing on
their property a lien of $1S8, ,844,81S of
4 per cent securities which would have
preference over first mortgage bonds
'and to just that extent would lessen
the ability of the roads to make the
improvement necessary to increase the
efficiency of their service and to in
sure greater safety to the public and
employees"
The reply was presented at a joint
meeting Of a committee representing
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers and u presidents and general
managers from the railroads. The rail
roads point out that the wage advance
to engineers and other employees since
1910 was made in expectation of "a
much needed advance in freight rates
which the interstate commerce com
mission declined to allow. Since that
period, they say enforced reductions Of
rates have been more or less continu-
Gus and other rate reductions are pend
ing. The railroads declare the fixing of
standard wage for the conductors
and trainmen was the result of a crisis
developed in connection with their de-
mands and should not be taken as a
precendert.
Figures are presented to show that
while the gross earnings of the road
concerned increased $1S,559.659 in 1911
there was a decrease in net earnings
of $27, $50, 200; and while 7,197 less men
were employed, the total wages increas-
ed $39, ,418, ,S02.
The reply is signed by the conference
committee of managers, J. c. Stuart.
chairman. Grand Chief Stone, when
told the demands of the engineers had
been refused and asked what the en-
gineers would do, said he had no pre-
dictionS to make.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
SHOOT A CHAUFFEUR
Automobile Bandits of Paris Continue
Series of Crimes.

Paris, March 25.-The automobile
bandits who in February terrorized
many districts of France by carrying
out extraordinary series of crimes have
perpetrated during the last few days
other daring crimes which reached
their climax this morning in a murder
on the public highway between Vile
nuve-St. George and Paris. A gang
of four bandits who occupied an au-
tomobile ordered the chauffeur of a
private motor car to stop. When the
chauffeur refused the highwaymen
shot him dead and wounded the oc-
cupant of the car. After throwing the
body of the chauffeur into a ditch the
bandits entered the automobile and
drove to- ard Paris.
Public opinion is greatly aroused on
account of these audacious attacks in
the vicinity of the capital. The ban
dts in the meantime are employing
most impudent tactics. The police
today received a sheet of paper on
which was stamped what purported to
be copies of their finger prints. These
were naturally fictitious and it was
declared in some quarters that the
bandits would soon visit police head
quarters and shoot several of the Off
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
SANTA FE SOUTH
Road Plans to Tap Southern
Country Soon.
Control of Joplin Union De-
pot Tells the Story.
TOPEKA OFFICIALS CHOSEN
C. w. KOunS New President OF
Terminal.
May Purchase Arkansas North
ern as s'Feeder."

A move on the railroad checker
board that will make the railroad
world sit up and take notice was COM
pleted today when the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe railway took active
management of the new union depot
at Joplin, Mo. This move tells stu
dents of railway conditions in this
country, that the Santa Fe has made
its first open action in gaining control
of the Arkansas Northern railroad
and entering the New Orleans terri
tory of the gulf through Arkansas and
Mississippi.
The new union depot at Joplin was
built at a big expense by the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe, the Frisco and the
Kansas City Southern roads. The
Santa Fe at the completion of the
station owned AZ per cent of the stock
of the Union Depot Terminal company.
AT the time the depot was finished
and it was known the Santa F'e owned
considerable stock it was wondered
what the road was doing in Joplin, Mo-.
when OF a rail owned by the Santa Fe
was in Joplin territory. Only a traffic
agreement with the Kansas City
Southern brought the Santa Fe into the
Missouri town.
After Arkansas Northern.
But it is reported on good authority
IN IOpeka today Ihat the Santa re is
preparing to purchase the Northern
Arkansas railroad that leads through
Arkansas down into Mississippi. With
a few feeders at the terminal of the
Northern Arkansas the Santa Fe will
be able to get into New Orleans with
ease.
The Santa Fe in Arkansas and Mis-
sissippi and in a rich southern coun-
try with valuable outlet on the gulf
will cause a stir among other gulf
roads. Tapping the Pacific coast, the
Chicago market, the st. Louis advan-
tages with a Frisco agreement and
with a net work of trackage all over
the southwest, the Santa Fe will be a
dangerous rival in New Orleans and
southern central states.
The move in the management of TIE
Joplin union depot and the traffic agree
ments together with the grip on the Ar
kansas Northern is enough to make local
r0ilroad men believe that the Santa Ese
has its hooks out for southern business.
Three officials of the Santa Fe in To-
pel1a have charge of the management OF
the Joplin union terminal c. w. Kouns, |
general manager in Topeka, is made pres |
ident of the station company. E. L. |
Copeland, treasurer, is made treasurer !
E. H. Bunnen, auditor, is appointed audi
tor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
TODAY IN CONGRESS.
The House AdjOurns After a Session
Lasting 20 Minutes.

Washington, March 25.-Senate in
session 2 D. m. Final consideration
begun of Stephenson election case.
Vote probable by Wednesday.
House met at noon and adjourned
at 1920 p. m. out of respect for the
memory of the late Representative
Bingham of Pennsylvania.
Representative Jackson urged be-
fore interstate commerce committee
his resolution for investigation of all
fire insurance companies, declaring
they had the country 'by the throat
Attorney General Wickersham in
letter refused to supply information
called for by resolution on reorganiza-
tion of International Harvester COM
pany.
House Democrats called to caucus
Wednesday night on naval and public
buildings programs.
Representative Taggart offered reso-
luton calling for an investigation cf
Western Newspaper Union.
Interior department expenditures
decided to investigate the Indian bu-
reau, haring to begin next week.
Shipping trust committee is gather
ing evidence from all government de-
partments and hearings will not begin
for a month
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
FLOODS ARE IMMINENT
The Mississippi River Continues to
Rise at st. Louis.

St. Louis. March 25.-Further floods
along the Mississippi river were i'm
rninent this morning because of rising
temperature which followed yester-
days heavy fall of snow in this state,
Kansas and Illinois. The river was
rising slowly here and stages were ad-
vancing rapidly at points above st.
Louis while the rivers are bank full
everywhere
The Illinois is at flood stage for
most of it's length and serious over
flows are expected. The Missouri is
rising rapidly at Fulton, Mo-, and there
is anxiety over the stage as far as
Omaha. 1t is feared that the whole
of New Madrid county may be over
flowed within a day or two
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
CLAN AGAINST CLAN.
The HatfeIds Offer to Hunt Down the
Aliens.

Bluefield March 25.-The Hatfields
of West Virginia are willing to go into
Virginia and assist in the search for
the Aliens who shot up the Carroll
county court, according to Captain
Hatfield, oldest son of Ans" Hatfield.
leader of the clan. He said today ne
would organize a dozen West Virginia
men, and trail the Aliens if Governor
Mann desired his assistance.
Captain Hatfield denounced the AL
len outrage at Hillsville and pointed
to the peaceful termination Of the trial
of his brother, William Hatfield, who
was sentenced a few weeks ago to
serve seven years on a charge of sec
ond degree murder. Ten of the Hat
fields were in court when the sentence
was pronounced but made no demon
stratiOn-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
Ninety Years Since Calhoun
Urged Cape Cod Ditch.
TO ASK FOR FORT SITE
Governors Island to Be Sought
for Terminals.
Impossible to Forecast Effect
of Canals, Holland Says.

New York, March 25.-It will be a
coincidence certain to be not the least
of the features associated with the
opening of the Panama canal to navi-
cation that at about the time of this
achievement the great barge canal
across New York state and the ship
canal across the neck of Cape Cod will
have been completed and ready for
navigation. These three undertakings,
one national, another state and the
third controlled by private capital
Will, it is thought, have an influence
an American commerce which cannot
now be clearly or fully forecasted. Mr..
August Belmont, who approached the
Cape Cod canal proposition with some
thing of the courage and, many
thought, the recklessness which char
acterized his acceptance of the subway
opportunity in New York, stated in
formally a day or two ago that this
ship canal would, unless unforeseen
obstacles arise, be ready for navigation
by the year 1915. 1t would. in fact.
have been completed a year earlier
had there not been some unexpected
difficulties in the way of excavation.
The construction of a ship canal
stretching from Buzzard's bay to
Massachusetts bay, little over thir
teen miles in length, must have impor-
tant influence upon the commerce of
Boston. 1t may serve to hasten the
development of the opportunities
which lie in Boston's harbor and which
must be accepted and worked out if
Boston is to realize the commercial
possibilities which she possesses. This
canal undoubtedly means the opera
ton of two or three steamship lines
between Boston, New York, Philadel-
phia and possibly Baltimore. in addi-
ton to the lines now operating.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
some time.

Judge Graves retired from the su-
preme bench after the election II
1910. when he, Justice Porter ana j.
s west were candidates for the Two
DIaces in the court He then return
ed to Emporia. His cond1t1on was not
regarded as serious until after the nrSI
of the year although last Iall II was
reported that he was failing rapldY.
Judge Graves had been promlnent
in Kansas since 1880 He was Wei
known as an attorney and a judge
long before his election to the su-
preme bench. He is survived py
wife and several children
He took the oath as memper oI
the supreme court in Topeka Septern-
Der Z 1905, and came to Topeka TO
live a few days later. He was the
t1venty-hfth man to take the oaLh o.
office as a member of the supreme
court of Kansas. He was the hrst
member of a Kansas regiment IN the
civil war to be elected to this bench
Judge Graves served on the district
bench in the Lyon -Chase-C Coffey coun-
ty district for three terms. He was
defeated in 1892 when the Popul1sts
carried everything in the state. He
was a candidate for chief justice ana
vas defeated by David Martin. Before
poinr on the district bench he was
city attorney of Neosho Falls. city at
torney of Burlington and county at
torney of Coffev county.
Born in Indiana.
Judge Graves was porn IN wayne
county. Indiana, in 1S41- He left there
and settled in Fulton county, Illinois,
and in 1859 came to Kansas, locating
at Neosho Falls. When the civil war
broke out he enlisted in the lola bat
TALON of the Kansas artillery, his COM
pany being commanded by Captain
Ross This battalion was part of the
Ninth Kansas cavalry. He was muster
ed out at Leavenworth as non-com-
rnissioned officer and went to Woodson
county, where he lived on a farm for
a year In 1868 he entered the office of
Judge H N. Bent in Burlington as
law student and was admitted to prac-
tice in 1863 He practiced in NeOsho
Falls and was living there when he
married Miss Hattie S. Hawkins. He
moved to Burlington, COffey county, in
1875, and five years later he was elected
district judge. He then moved his
family to Emporia. as that was the
place where most of the cases in the
district were tried. He has lived in
Emporia since that time.
All the seven members of the Kan
sas supreme court will go to Emporia
to attend the Judge Graves funeral
next Thursday. Judge Graves was re-
tired from the Kansas bench in Janu-
ary, 1911.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
ROLL INTO THE RIVER.
Engine and Three Cars Upset by a
Rock Slide.

Standpoint, Idaho, March 25.-Three
of the train crew were killed early to-
day when the westbound limited
freight on the Great Northern plunged
into a rock slide six miles west of
here. The engine and three cars roll
ed over an embankment and into the
Bend D'Oreille river.
The slide is believed to have been
caused by the undermining of the hill
side by a construction crew which is
changing the main line tracks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
Des Moines Is Voting.

Des Moines, March 25.-The regu-
lar city election under the commission
form of municipal government is being
held here today to elect mayor and
four councilmen- Mayor James r.
Hanna, the present incumbent, is op-
posed by DIR. Thomas Duhigg. The
vote in the primary two weeks ago was
8 to l in Hanna's favor. There are no
nartv lines in todays contest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
HOWARD MAYOR DEAD
Heart Failure Causes His Death Early
Today.

Howard, Kan, March 25.-Frank
H. Keifer, mayor of the City of How
ard. died of heart failure at 1920 this
morning. He was up and dressed
when he was stricken without warn
ing. He spoke only few words and
breathed his last a few minutes later.
Mr.. Keifer was 81 years of age and
leaves a wife and three grown chill