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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
Taft Men in Missouri Hold An
other Convention
And Elect a COntesting DeIega-
tiOn to Chicago.
AFTER ALL NIGHT SESSION
The Roosevelt Supporters Won
Over Administration Forces.
Instructed the State Delegates
for the Colonel.

ST. Louis, April 26-Taft leaders dis
satisfied with the results Of the Re
publican state convention which ad-
journed here at s:3O o'clock this morn
ing met in a hotel at 10 o'clock and
named four delegates at large to the
national convention.
The Taft delegation was announced
as follows:
Joseph E. Black of Richmond. John
A Duncan of st. Joseph, John ]. Lahin
of ST. Louis. and Harry d. Train OF
Kansas City.
Former State Senator Henry L Eads
of Jamesport, presided, while b L
Guffey of Hayti was secretary. Eads
announced that a resolution condemn
ing Governor Hadley for betraying the
Taft men in the pre-conventlon agree
ment was adopted. The resolution also
praised the administration of President
Taft. In the hotel parlor when Chair
man Eads announced the result were
Otto r. Stifel, Taft leader in ST. Louis;
Lib Morse of Excelsior Springs and
seven other Taft adherents.
Other Taft men who were in an ad-
joining room counselled against the
naming of a rival delegation and ad-
vised sending lawyers to the national
convention to plead their cause. Eads
and Stifel, however, said they did not
think a Taft protest would have weight
unless a contesting delegation was on
the ground.
Aside. from the Roosevelt victory In
the convention the colonel now has IA
uncontested delegates from Missouri
and Taft has s. Roosevelt has con-
tested district delegates and at large,
each with half a vote.
Conventions are yet to be held in the
Thirteenth and Sixteenth districts
Roosevelt has carried the First, Second,
Third Contested by Taft. Fourth
Fifth, Sixth. Seventh Contested by
Taft), Eighth, Fourteenth and Fiji
teenth Contested by Taft).
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
Funeral Services Over the
Body Of Gen. Grant
Are Held With Fitting Mill
tary POmp and Ceremony.

New York, April 26.-Military men
and men prominent in public and pri-
vate life gathered here today to pay
the last solemn honors to Major Gen
eral Frederick Dent Grant, who died
here April II. The funeral exercises
were referred until today to await the
arrival of the generals daughter, the
Princess Cantacusene, from her home
in Russia.
The services were held in the chapel
of Cornelius the Centurion on Gov
ernor island. The little chapel was
too small to allow the admittance of
the general public but an opportunity
was given to all New York to pay its
tribute as the long military process
sion made its way to the tap of muf-
fled drums over a five mile line of
march from the battery to the west
shore ferry at Forty-secOnd street At
ders provided for a special train to
take the body to West Point for inter
ment.
President Taft, Vice President Sher-
man and General Leonard Wood were
perhaps the most distinguished per
sons who came to New York for the
funeral. The generals immediate
family was present, including Mrs.
Grant her son, Captain U. S. Grant,
her daughter, the Princess Cantacu-
sene, the generals sister, Mrs. Nellie
Grant Sartoris, and also Mrs. Grants
brother and sister, Judge Lockwood
Honore of Chicago. and Mrs. Potter
Palmer.
The paIlbearers included Senator
Root, Andrew Carnegie, Henry w
Taft, General Tasker, H. Bliss, Cen
eral Horace Porter, General William
Crozier, General T. H. Barry, Gen
eral H. G. Sharpe, Hamilton Fish, H.
H. Kohlsaat, DR.. Robert Able and
others.
Honorary pa1lbearers representing
the military order of the Medal of
Honor were General Daniel E. SickIes
and General Horatio c. King.
Bishop Samuel Fallows of Chicago and
Chaplain B. Smith of Governors Island
had charge of the services in the chapel
and the honor of serving as guard to the
caisson bearing the coffin on the march
through New York city went to an escort
of General Bliss, temporarily in
command of the department of the east,
and his staff; General c. F. Roe of the
New York national guard and his staff,
and the U. S. Grant post of the Grand
Army of the Republic. Places imme-
diately following this guard of honor wei c
assigned to the Third battalion of the
Twenty ninth infantry. to two troops Of
militia cavalry the vetsFaA cerps of ar
tillery and other military organizations
Just behind the cassion bearing the gen
erals body came the generals horse Pet,
in black.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
TRIES TO KILL BABE.
Elephants Fury Causes Panic in Cir
Gus Tent.

Salinas, Cal, April 26.-The heavi-
est baby ever born in America saw
the light here today in a circus tent.
He is a baby elephant, two feet tall,
three feet long and weighs $50 pounds.
His godparents say nothing like him
was ever bred and born in captivity
on this continent.
Alice, the mother, tried to kill her
baby. She tried with such fury that
a panic started among the other ami
mails and her trainer, in saving the
calf, was hurled twenty feet Unless
Alice reIents, her baby will have to be
brought up on a demijohn. He is un-
hurt, pink and healthy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
TODAY'S BALL GAMES.

Western League.
Denver at Wichita, clear. 3:30 D. m.
Topeka at Lincoln, clear, 3:30 D. m
st. Joseph at Sioux City, cloudy,
$3.50 p. m.
Omaha at Des Moines. clear, s:45
p. m.
National.
Boston at New York, clear. 4 .. m.
Brooklyn at Philadelphia, clear, 3:15
p. m.
Cincinnati at Pittsburg, rain, $3.50
p. m
st. Louis at Chicago, clear, 3 D. m.
American.
Philadelphia at Boston, clear, AIS
p. m.
New York at Washington, cloudy,
$3.50 p. m.
Detroit at ST. Louis, rain. BIS p. m.
American Association.
Toledo at Milwaukee, cloudy, 3 D. n.
Columbus at Kansas City, clear
d. H..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26

The wireless dispatch which came
to the company from the cable ship
NIackay Bennett gives the additional
Identification of forty nine of the here
tOfore unknown recovered dead on the
cable ship. Among others the bodies of
Colonel John Jacob Astor, c. NJ. Hays
and Isador Straus have been en-
balmed. OF the 2O5 dead on board
the Mackay Bennett the names of
uinety-one have been sent ashore by
wireless The dispatch which came
through the steamer Caledonia and
the Cape Race station reads:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
TONICHT'S POSTSCRIPT

Watch for this evenings State
Journal baseball postscript edition
giving detailed account of today s
Topeka-Lincoln game; also scores by
innings Of other Western League
games and the runs, hits, errors and
batteries of the big league games
Get a postscript of newsboys, or
from your nearest news stands as
listed on page 16 of this issue.
Where They Play Tomorrow.
Denver at Topeka
Wichita at Lincoln.
Omaha at St. Joseph.
j Sioux City at Des Mcines-
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Body of Millionaire Lost on
Titanic Recovered.
Also That of ISadOr Straus and
G. NJ. Hays.
OTHER NAMES ARE SENT IN
The Mackey-Bennett Returning
With 2O5 Bodies.
AStOr Yacht Norma viii Meet
Vessel at Halifax.

New York, April 26.-The bodies of
Colonel John Jacob Astor and Isador
Straus, the millionaire merchant of
this city, who lost their lives in the
Titanic disaster. have been recovered
and are on board the cable ship Mack
ay Bennett News of the recovery of
the bodies was contained in dispatch
to the White Star line company today.
The body of c. NJ. Hays, president of
the Grand Trunk railway, also was
recovered
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
Sinks Steamer, Wrecks Dock
and Injuries Several.
Captains Warming Saves Lives
of Many Passengers.

Seattle, Wash, April 26.-Severa-
persons were injured, the sound steam
er Telegraph was sunk and the Cole
man dock, one of the finest passenger
piers on the Pacific coast, was wreck
ed late last night when the Alaska
Steamship company's big steel steam
ship AImeda got beyond control as
she was being taken into her berth at
pier NO. 2 and plowed through the
Coleman dock. As far as known no
lives were lost.
The Alameda, in command of Cap
tain John A. OBrien, sound pilot for
the Alaska Steamship company, was
returning to her berth on the south
side of pier No. 2 from the Standard
Oil wharf, whence she had gone to
take on fuel oil.
AS the big steamship approached the
pier, Captain O'Brien signaled the en-
gine room for slow speed to enable
the vessel to make the sharp turn into
the slip. Either through a misunder-
standing of signals or because of the
failure of the engine room telegraph,
the Almeda started full speed ahead
toward the Coleman dock.
Captain O'Brien saw that the crash
could not be averted and tied down
the whistle to warn the people in the
waiting room on the end of the pier
of their danger
The long blast brought men and
women to the windows who immedi-
ately turned and fled for shore.
Three women who were among the in
jured were crushed in the panic
stricken throng that struggled at the
doors leading from the waiting room
to the exit gallery. By the time the
Alameda struck the pier, the waiting
room was empty
CAPTAIN O'Brien dropped both port
and starboard anchors in an effort to
stop his vessel but she poked her nose
into the wooden structure and ploWed
through. slicing off 100 feet of the
end of the pier and emerging on the
other side with her deck covered with
wreckage.
The Telegraph, which had just dis
charged her passengers from Everett
was in the path of the Alaska liner
and was cut in two. The little vessel
sank slowly and the crew had time
to escape by jumping into the water.
It is believed that all were picked up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
THEY TIRE OF DROUTH
Eighteen Ohio Counties Change From
Dry to ''Wet."

Springfield. Ohio. April 26.-Clark
county in a county local option election,
changed from the dry to the wet
ranks by majority estimated at LOO
by the vets
The "drys" conceded that the liquor
forces won by 700 or more. Twenty
seven counties which went dry three
years ago have held local option cleo
tions and 1S of them have changed to
wet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
BIG JUMP IN WHEAT.
Rise of Three Cents Follows Bad Crop
News From Kansas.

Chicago, April 26.-Excited buying
of wheat today put up the price 2 9s
above the figures current "a hours
before. The market closed strong and
within a shape of the top point of the
session, with the July option at Slip
5s a u a rise of cents a bushel from
the low level.
What caused the advance was the
receipt of the worst reports of the
week on the Kansas wheat crop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
CYCLONE KILLS ONE.
Other Fatalities May Result From
Sedan Storm.

Sedan, April 26.-Joseph Borland.
an oil worker, died today of injuries
received last night in a tornado which
swept a section of country six miles
west of here. Six other persons We're
seriously injured. two probably fatally
Three school houses and five farm
houses were destroyed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
GAMES POSTPONED.

Minneapolis, April 6.-AssociatioA
Indianapolis Minneapolis game post
poned. Wet grounds.
st. Paul, April 26.-Americ Asso-
citation st. Paul-Louisville game post
poned. Wet grounds.
Chicago at Cleveland. postponed.
rain.
Pittsburg, April 26-C -Cr1ationaI)-P
burg-Cincinnati postponed; threatening
weather.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
OFFER BIG REWARD.
City to Pay $500 for Arrest of Mrs
Sommers' AsSailant.

Pittsburg, Kan, April 26.-Three
hundred dollars reward was offered to-
day by the city commission for the ar
rest and conviction of the slayer of
Mrs. Clara Sommers, whose body was
found in a creek near here two weeks
ago.
Mrs. Sommers had disappeared from
her home several weeks previously,
leaving the night her husband was
found dead from poisoning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
TODAY In CONGRESS.
Congressman Stanley Attacks the
Roosevelt Administration.

Washington. April 26.-Senate in
session > p. m. Titanic disaster in
vestigation continued, P. A. S. Frank
lin of White Star, testifying.
House met at noon. Considered pri-
vate pension bills.
Representative Stanley attacked the
Roosevelt administration for alleged
favoritism Harvester trust.
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Not Her First Trouble.

steamship Alameda for a time was on
the Honolulu run from this port. On
September 80, 1905, she ran ashore In
a fog at Fort Point, one of the projec-
tions which form the Golden Gate, and
stuck there three or four days. Her
passengers were taken off.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
A ChaSm q Yard Wide Between
the LifebOatS
And the Deck of the Titanic to
Be Spanned.
BABIES WERE THROWN |
Women So Terrified They Re-
fused to Attempt 1t.
Several Were Hurled Bodily
Across the Gap.

Washington, April 26.-Members of
! the senate committee of inquiry into
| the Titanic disaster who examined in
dividually the British sailors and stew
ards of the Titanic crew gathered early
today in the office of Senator Smith to
prepare a report of their Investigations
for the full committee.
Only a few members of the crew
were found who could offer anything
of value that had not been elected
from the surviving officers and passen-
gers. Though no announcement has
been made it was reported about the
committee room that those of the crew
whose testimony is not to be taken in
open session will be permitted to leave
for their homes in England at once,
and that some of the officers also will
be dismissed. Those retained will be
examined as rapidly as possible.
1t was necessary for women and
children on the sinking Titanic to
jump a three foot chasm from the
deck to the lifeboats and babies were
tossed into the boats, according to
testimony given to Senator William
Alden Smith, chairman of the senate
committee by F. o. Evans, one of the
Titanic crew Evans credited this
method of loading the boats with the
heavy loss of life among the women
and children. Evans was examined
by Senator Smith last night and the
puIpOTL OI HIS lGSIlIIOiy was IIlduS
public today.
Women Feared to Jump.
Evans said the height was so terri
flying that women refused to attempt
the jump. Several were thrown bodily
across the gap, Evans said, and one
was propelled with such force she went
over the far side of the boat and was
saved from plunging into the sea only
by her shoe which caught in an oar
lock.
Senator Smith further announced that
a lamp trimmer on the Titanic whom he |
examined last night said there were no
lights in the lifebOats. He said that
after four boats had cleared the ship |
he went to the store room and discov- |
cred the lamps, flares and oil there. !
By orders from the captain he said, |
he hurriedly equipped as many of the |
remaining boats as he could. The |
other senators of the committee put in
a strenuous right with their quotas of
witnesses but none finished with his
share of the work of elimination.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26
Weather Is Warmer.

According to the weather man there
is the possibility of a light frost to-
night. The weather today has been
pleasant The wind is blowing miles
an hour from the northwest. The hour
Iy readings:
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Chicago, April 26.-F'orecast for Kan
sas: Fair and cooler tonight and Sat
urday. Probably frost.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-26

.'Ismay, care White Star line, New
York:
Further names:
william Ale; T. Dutton; J. Stone;
Philip J. Stokes; Edwin H. Petty;
William Eastwood; w. HantOn;
Thomas Anderson; A. Laurence; j.
Adams; A Boothy Bagozzy; Abel J..
Butterworth; a. Robins; Charles
I.ouch: Olsen F. Penny; Charles Chap
man; Albert Wirz; Achille Waitens;
carl AspIande; ]. F. Johnson; J. AL
len: w Y. Anderson; H. P. Hodges;
G. Talbot; J. NJ. Robinson; J. c. Bell;
] W. Gill: Eric Johansen; a. Lilly;
F. T. Barker; c.. F. Bailey; 0. S.
Woody; T Hewitt; P. Connors.
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GContinued from Page Two.l
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Continued on Page rwo.)
The Brinkley argus., 1912-08-16
''Front Line Class" Holds
 Meeting.

Monday night was the regular meeting of the Front Line Class" The meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Thos. Dun- lap. Eleven members and four visitors were present. A good interest was shown in work of class. 70 cents free will offer ing was given.
 The class intends to have a Sample Party" Wednesday eve ming, Aug. 2lst, from 8 to Il o'clock at the home of Mrs. Thos. Dunlap. Each member or friend of the class is expected to bring a sample of her own work, such as a glass of jelly, plate of cook ies, loaf of bread, etc. These good things are to tbe bought by members and friends.
 All who are interested are urged to be present.
 REPORTER.
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FOUHD HIS MULE 20nILES
 AWAY.
Another Instance ofCettine
 Results in Advertising.

Several months ago a colored man living near Wheatley in St. Francis county came to the ARGUS office to advertise for a lost mule. The ARGUS man af- ter taking his ad asked him why he came to the ARGUS as he was not subscriber and lived in a different county St. Francis. He said, Because they say that if there is any way on earth of finding lost stock it is thro' the ARGUS paper. One of my neigh bors found his mule the same way" The ad was run and in less than three weeks Tom Wat son had his mule. Not long af- ter that Tom made 8 special trip over from St. Francis county to thank the ARGUS for finding his mule. He reported that after advertising in the ARGUS he didn't do any more riding in search for the animal but left it to the ARGUS. In a short while he got word that Jesse Weaver of near Palestine had the mule. Sure nuf, boss, it was my mule. The ad did the work and l don't know how to thank you, sir, " said Tom to the ARGUS man.
 Thus it is every time alike. During the past few years the ARGUS has found more than S8O, GOO. co of lost stock and has not failed to find in but two in- stances. Gan there be a more positive proof that the people read and heed the ARGUS? It shows that if a person really has anything to say that is of inter- est to the people that they can always get results in their ads.
 How about you?
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Married.

On last Sunday morning. Aug. II, at 10 o'clock, Mir. Conner Autrey and Miss Geneva Fisher, who live six miles south of Brinkley, were united in marri- age at the home of the brides mother, Mrs. Brack Forbess, Rev. T. J. Brickell, officiating.
 This makes 145 couples that Bro. Brickell has married.
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Goes To County Farm

On Tuesday evening of this week George Wilson, a negro porter at the Brinkley House. stole a suit of clothes, a grip and hat from one of the rooms and left that night.
 He was caught Wednesday morning at Stuttgart and brought before Mayor A. K. Cameron and was fined $50 Wilson failing to pay this was sent to the county farm to work the fine out.
The Brinkley argus., 1912-08-16
Athletic Club Elects Officers.

The Brinkley Athletic Asso- citation held a business meeting Monday night and elected the following officers: T. w. Allen. President; Herman Glover, Vice Pres. Roy McCreight, Sec. and Treas: Don Grant, Trainer; Louis Wilson, Librarian.
 The Club is now occupying the rooms above the ARGUS office and expects soon to have things in good shape. Boxing gloves, punching bags and dumb bells, have been ordered, and the boys are planning for some good times.
The Brinkley argus., 1912-08-16

It Mrs. Caroline Cloth, the Memphis woman, who died E home a few weeks ago, 1ng an estate valued at nearly ion dollars, had a strong isa matter known to many kley people who had busi- Ielations with her can tes- That Mrs. Cloth had 8 snsity for making up her Mll' is shown by the five lent wills that have been asince her death.
 [the last of Mrs. Cloths wills eln,l990, several Brinkley v ! were named as bene6ci- but as four pages of this gre missing. it was not ed. The action of the e court in Memphis in re-
 to admit the latest will of Caroline Cloth had con- nble bearing on Brinkley in- Eh as MT. and Mrs. A. K. aton and the Brinkley Pres ms were remembered in Wor latest will of Mrs.
 while they are not men,
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in Clarendon.

enday morning at ten N the home of the brides
 MT. and Mrs. w. c.
 Miss Clyde Brown, of 0n' and Mir. Frank Seals,
 'efal years ago was agent Hon Mountain Ky. in
 but now working in TICK, were united in the s'aas of matrimony, Rev. fastor of the Presbyter- a'ch at Clarendon, omci- ~ 'nese young people are OWn In Brinkley and have ,'sn0s here who wish for s,s '0ng and happy journey and Mrs. Seals n.ssod N ~ el'y Monday evening heber for a short
The Brinkley argus., 1912-08-16

tioned in the earlier will of 1898 which was admitted.
 The estate amounts to nearly a million dollars. and according to the provisions of the will ad- mitted to probate by the Mem phis Court on Tuesday, one fourth goes te Bruce Garrett, of Clarendon, one-fourth to Miles Buckingham of Memphis, and the other half to legal heirs. The decission of the court will be fought to the better end and there are those who contend that the 1900 instrument is the one that should direct the dispo- sition of the rich old ladies for tune.
 The kind remembrance in this instrument of MT. and Mrs. Cameron, two old and respected citizens of Brinkley, has been a matter of much satisfaction on the part of nearly every Brink ley citizen. who yet hopeto see them beneficiaries in tke final disnOsition of the estate.
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FOR SALE: Five room cottag e and two lots on Meins Street, 3 blocks south from thd Post Office. Five room cottage <af eight lots on Cedar street. .S blocks west from the Aflingth Hotel. Inquire of Frank Federer, real es- tate office next door to Arlington Hotel.
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he Typewriter
 ! $l!zs zzsz$l

,e |ebios brand new $75 Emerson Typewriter fine
 veal which will sell to any reliable person on $l.0O lbs ssek nstalment plan. knt " oi paying for machine is less than pay- M b.. you had rather have good second hand Under kEmssaaa new Emerson will sell you that and keep
 's Phone or cone to see the machine
The Brinkley argus., 1912-08-16
A Jolly Outing

On Wednesday morning the younger set chaperoned by Mrs.
 Harry Le Fills and Miss Fife Dunlap, went to the Bayou for 3 day of pleasure. All in attend
The Brinkley argus., 1912-08-16

Will you please do me the and your town the ser vice of finding out if you can just why it is that friendly injunction suit filed by the Cotton Belt Ky. against the Brinkley Sewerage
The Brinkley argus., 1912-08-16

"Brinkley people don't want any one to move there,', said a merchant living in a nearby village and who is trying to ar- range to move his family here
The Brinkley argus., 1912-08-16

for the benefit of the schools, etc. If they did, they'd get to- gether and arrange to build houses for the people who want to move here.o
The Brinkley argus., 1912-08-16
Gasoline Engine Cheap.

A new smithE3 horse power air cooled gasoline engine will be sold at a bargain. Apply to J A. Glover.
The Brinkley argus., 1912-08-16

honeymoon, and thence to Little Rock where they will make their home.
The Brinkley argus., 1912-08-16

T thought read in the pro- ceedings of the city council pub- lished in the ARGUS a few weeks