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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12
LINE is TIED UP
Joplin and Pittsburg Railroad
in Trouble With Men.
Employees Walk Out When
Demands Are Refused.

joplin. Mo, Sept. 12-The day brought
no change in the strike situation on the
Joplin & Pittsburg railroad whose lines
in Crawford and Cherokee counties,
Kan, and Jasper county, Mo-, were
tied up at midnight Tuesday by an or
der from the president of the Inter
national Association of Street Railway
workers. No attempt has been made to
operate cars over any of the company
lines The striking employees, most of
whom who live in Joplin, Pittsburg,
kan, and Girard, Kan, held meetings
in their respective cities but took no
new action.
The grievances of the men were
formulated in a statement issued by
the executive committee of the local
union. The union demands the rein
statement of the Pittsburg barn man
who was discharged for refusing to
take a car beyond the limit prescrib
ed by the union. The committee re-
fuses to arbitrate this demand. The
other demands include the granting of
was recently ordered by the union
to cease his work of car cleaning for
which he received six hours pay and
the employment of another for ten
hours per day in the armature room.
This employee has been working four
room and six hours at pit work.
The fourth demand is that the ex-
ecutive committee of the union be
given an audience by W. A. Satterlee,
general manager. between the hours of
and .. m. Mr.. Satterlee said that
he would adhere to his refusal to con-
fer with these committees after p. m,
but would receive the men at any time
in business hours.
Sim A. Bramlette, president of the
Kansas State Federation of Labor, is
expected in Pittsburg today and will
take charge of the situation for the
striking railway employees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12
FOR FINGERS $1,000.
Wyandotte Boy Wants Damages From
Packing Company.

Row Rank, minor. is bringing a
damage suit of $1,000 in the federal
court against the Kansas City Packing
Box company, Kansas City, Kansas
The plaintiff alleges that, while
operating a circular saw, a splinter
became wedged between the saw and
the frame; in attempting to remove
the piece of wood Rank injured his
right hand so severely that three
fingers were amputated.
The box company will undoubtedly
maintain that the boy was personally
careless in removing the obstruction
while the saw was in motion Rank
will retaliate by declaring that he was
not properly warned owing to the
negligence of the department mana
ger; the company, under the provision
of the safety law, should have equip
ped the saw with sliding belt. This,
however, was not done.
The Packing Box company removed
the case from the Wyandotte county
court; the company operate under the
laws of Missouri, while Ranks home
is in Hutchinson, Kansas. As the suit
is between citizens of two states, and
the amount involved exceeds $4,000,
the company has asked that the mat
ter be referred to the federal court.
The case will be laid before Judge
Pollock and discussed in April.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12
Now York Stuck Market.

Wall ST., New York, Sept. 12.-STOCKS-
Money continued to be the overshadow-
ing feature of the stock market opening
today at 5H per cent; dealings on ex-
change were much restricted with nominal
price changes in the better known issues.
American Tobacco and Harvester gained
between 1 and points. Illinois Central
declined Ia.
Receivership proceedings against a
motor mandatory holding company
whose securities recently suffered severe
declines in the industrial side evoked no
surprise.
Bonds were easy.
The stock market developed an irregular
tone almost at the outset of today's deal
ings. Reading, which opened with frac-
tional gain, soon lost its advantage. Slight
advances by Steel, Smelling, Amalgamat-
ed, Union Pacific and Great Northern
were partly offset by losses in Atchison,
Louisville and Nashville and few other
issues.
During the noon hour money again went
to yesterdays high rate of 512 per cent,
which resulted in further weakness in
stocks, especially amalgamated and Read
ing.
General weakness followed the opening,
especially in Steel, Reading and Union
Pacific. The decline was checked, how
ever, before it had much Roadway.
Concern over monetary conditions slim
ulated more active selling. Practically all
of the favorite stocks ruled under yester-
days closing.
The market closed firm. General re-
covery was made in the final hour when
money rates realized to the lowest of
the day. A feature was Colorado Fuel,
which rose over two points
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12
SEE FLY DANCER
Hessian Pest Numerous in
Eastern Section This Year.
Farmers Must Fight Them Now
or Have Trouble.

Manhattan, kan, Sept. 12-Unless
farmers in the eastern part of the
state take measures against the Hes
sian flies this fall there is likely to be
an outbreak of that pest next spring
Early fall is the time to combat these
insects; in fact the only time that
measures are effective. Investigations
made by field men for the entomology
department of the agricultural college
show that the fly invested area this
fall is in the extreme eastern part
of the state, particularly in the south
east and northeast sections.
If land to be seeded to wheat has
not already been plowed a plowing
at this time will be effective in turning
under fiaxseeds from which flies soon
will hatch. The furrow slice should be
six inches thick and should be turned
in such a way that all stubble and
trash will be thrown in the bottom OF
the furrow and covered completely.
Farmers also should observe the safe
dates for sowing wheat that have been
found by agricultural college entomo-
logists. From four years of expert
menting in various sections of the
state it has been found that wheat
sown in eastern Kansas at the north
line of the state on or Immediately
after October 1 is free or practically
free from flies the next year, and that
wheat sown at the south line on or i'm
media tely after October Il, likewise is
free or practically free from the pest.
So the hy-free date for any locality
between would be one day later than
October 1 for every IA miles south of
the north line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12
AFTER REWARD
of Cures Suggested
for Horse Disease.
Checked i'm Some Counties
Nebraska Fighting Epidemic.

Every mail is flooded with letters to
Governor Stubs and State Live Stock
Sanitary Commissioner Mercer, in
which unheard of specialists present
their theories for a cure of the horse
scourge in Kansas ard tinidly suggest
that if their remedy is successful they
will appreciate the governors check
for $1,000 to cover the reward offered.
Already these hundreds of letters have
caused grief and sorrow in the state
house and many near specialists will
have their praises unsung because
their communications went to the
scrap heap.
Last night Governor Stubs, tired of
it all, announced that the State Agri-
cultural college would establish a
laboratory somewhere in the affected
counties and begin a scientific and
systematic study of the disease. The
experts to be sent to Kansas by the
federal officials will be kept busy and
as many high class specialists as can
be secured will be kept on the job.
At the present time the spread of
the disease appears to have been par
TALLY checked. The death rate in the
affected counties is also smaller than
followed the advice to take their stock
from the pastures, are reporting sue
cess It is believed by many of the
experts that if the stock is not permit
ted to enter the pastures again this
fall, that the disease in Kansas will
be blocked.
In Nebraska, Too.
Yesterday nearly 100 veterinarians
met in Lincoln, Neb., where they dis
cussed the disease. In Nebraska the
disease is causing almost as much
trouble as in Kansas. While the Ne
braska veterinarians were in session,
Governor Aldrich received this cable
from q London surgeon:
1.-The same epidemic was in South
Africa a year ago, just as it is now
ravaging Nebraska. 1t can be cured
and prevented by not using grain and
by feeding only alfalfa or wild hay
grown in an altitude of over 5000 feet.
Germ only lives in damp climate and
enters the horses system through the
nose"
Reports received b5- the State Jour
nal today from Greeley county, indi-
cate that the disease is checked in
that locality and the death rate among
horses is decreasing. Similar reports
have been received by Commissioner
Mercer from several of the counties in
the midst of the disease zone
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12
USED The TELEPHONE
Kansas Suffragettes Called Big Meet
ing at Minneapolis.

Minneapolis. Sept. ian emerg-
ency telephone call notified everyone
in this city that the suffragists had
arrived and were beginning street
campaigns. over six hundred per-
sons, at least half of them voters.
signified their interest in the amend
ment by attending an out of door rail-
" which was held. Four automobiles
have been canvassing Ottawa county,
making stops in six of the larger
towns. Mrs. Frost, in behalf of the
county, presented Mrs. Lucy B. Johns
ton, state president. with an enor-
nous bouquet.
Mrs. w. r. Stubs car, which car
ried the party to Enterprise, has re-
turned home, and Mrs. c. A. Hoffman
has given her machine and chauffeur
to the cause. The ten counties in the
Fifth district will be covered in this
automobile. The pilot car, running
from Dickinson county to Ottawa, was
furnished by Mrs. Alice H. Baker. Suf-
fragists with machines have been ex-
ceedingly generous. The cars are
decorated with yellow streamers and
banners, then handed over to Mrs.
Johnston to use as she sees fit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12
cooler at WaKeeney.

Wa4eeney. kan, Sept. 12.-Light
showers which fell here on Tuesday
and Wednesday have put an end to
the hot, dry and windy weather of the
last twenty days during which the
daily maximum temperatures ranged
from 90 to 1O4 degrees
The cornerstone of the new county
high school building will be laid with
Masonic ceremonies Thursday, Sep
TENDER 10. Grand Master William E.
Hutchinson of Garden City and Grand
Secretary A. K. Wilson of Topeka and
other grand officers will be present and
have charge. State superintendent E.
T. Fairchild will be grand orator by
Invitation of the high school trustees.
invitations have been sent to neighbor-
ing towns and it is expected that there
will be a large attendance of visiting
Masons and others. The school is just
entering on its eighth year of sue
cessfu1 work and has graduates in re-
sponsible positions in many parts of
the state. all of whom have been in
vited to be present at the laying of the
cornerstone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12
Kansas City Live ctoc.r nIarke,

ceipts 1900 including 600 southerns Mar
ket steady. Native steers, S6.50910. 80;
southern steers, $4.OO66.25; southern cows
and heifers, SS.2oq5.00; native cows and
heifers, So. 25dS.50; stockers and feeders.
$4:0Oa735; bulls, s3.75q5.0O calves, 5000
800; western steers, $5.50QS. so; western
cows, $3.25Gs600.
HOGS-Receipts $500. Market shade
higher. Bulk of sales $8.50dSS5; heavy.
$S.4OQS.7O; packers and butchers, $500
Ss5; lights, Ss.601S9O; pigs s6.2597.25.
SHEEP-Recefpts 1000. Market steady
to 1Oc higher. Muttons. $3.75a460; lambs.
$6.2597.50; range wethers and yearlings,
$4.O0M5.75; range ewes. S2.50Q4.25.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12
Child Is Burned to Death.

Council Grove, kan, Sept 12.-The
z year old daughter of Walter Gillas-
pie, living seven miles northwest Of
this city, is dead from burns received
when a can of kerosene with which she
was starting fire in the stove exploded.
The child's mother had gone to assist
a neighbor who was going to attend
a brothers -uneral and the child had
gone to the house to start the fire for
her father to prepare their supper
when the accident occurred.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12
MAKING A RECORD
Hutchinson Reform School
Makes improvements.
Supt. Amrine'S Report Shows
Progress and Economy.

In his biennial report to, the state
penal board, M r. Amrine, superin-
tendent of the Hutchinson reforma-
tory, shows that in two years the in
stitution has completed $21 600 worth of
permanent improvements without one
dollar of additional appropriations from
the legislature. And this winter the
request of the Hutchinson institution
will be for a smaller appropriation than
was asked of the 1911 legislature.
Since making his 1910 report, Amrine
has established at the school a COM
plete Bertillon or finger print system
and every inmate of the reformatory is
properly listed and recorded in the
Bertillon record. Population at the
school is growing steadily and in the
last "a months an even 500 new men
we're received at the reformatory. The
Mexican population at the school is in
creasipg rapidly. Amrine reports, and
% per cent colored and Mexican.
Health among the inmates is univer-
sally good. Amrine reports, and among
the nearly 400 inmates there have been
comparatively few deaths and little
sickness.
Discussing the 1918 appropriation fol
the reformatory, Amrine intimates that
the schools request next year will pc
even smaller than in 1911 and that
The institution is more nearly on a seII-
sustaining basis than at any time IN
the past. Then he reviews the speclaI
permanent improvements, winch were
installed without special appropriation
from the legislature. These improve
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12

Chicago, Sept. 12-CATTLE-Rec
500. Market slow. Beeves, S5.75a1O.7O;
Texas steers, $4.7596 $40; western steers
IS. 1893 30; stoclzers and feeders $4.9557.O0;
COWS and heifers, $3O0a7.75; calves, $500
1890.
HOGS-Receipts 10000. Market steady.
Light, $S-35Q90o; mixed, $S.0599.0o; heavy,
ST. S5QS.sO; rough, S7.s5dS05; pigs, $5.50QS.z5;
bulk of sales So 25d8. rs. =
SHEEP-Receipts q, 900. Market steady.
Native, $3.5004.75; western, s36OQ4. 20;
yearlings, $470Q5.S0; lambs, native, 1850
7.65; western, $5.O0d7.70.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12
Kansas City Live Stock Sale.

tAaHs-<1S OILy lHVo SLOck SaIe8.
1.-THE following sales were made this
morning at the Stock Yards. Kansas
City, and reported over long distance
telephone direct to the State Journal by
Clay, Robinson & Co., live stock COM
mission merchants, with offices at all
narkets.l
Kansas City, Sept 12.-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts $500 head. Market steady.
HOGS+Receipts $500 head. Market sc
to 10c lower. Bulk of sales, $9.50dS.75; top,
$685.
sHEEP-Receipts 1000 head. Market
steady to strong
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12

st. Joe, Sept. 12.-CATTLE-Receipt
2,1O0. Market steady. Steers, Sc. 100000;
cows and heifers, $S.25Q9.0O; calves, $500
HOGS-Receipts 4, 400. Market SC lower.
Top, $3.50; bulk of sales, $S309S.75.
SHEEP-Receipts, 1900 Market strong.
Lambs S. GOAT So
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12
Kansas city Produce Market.

Kansas City, Sept 12.-WHEAT-C Cash:
Market unchanged. No. 2 hard, S7@Ssc;
No. g, s5QS7c; No. 2 red, 96cG$1. OF ~; No.
8, S9G97c.
CORN-Market 1kc lower. No. 2 mixed,
73c; No. 3, re; No. white, 731zc; No. 8,
73c.
OATS-Market nc to 15c higher. No. 2
white, S415qS51zc; No. mixed, 33GSS1zc.
HAY-Market unchanged
RYE-Market unchanged.
BUTTER-Creamery, 261zc; first 245kc;
seconds, 2215c; packing stock, 201zc.
EGGS-Extras, 2Sc; firsts, 21c; seconds,
Ice.
PoULTRY-Hens, 12c to 1870; ROSTERS,
71zc; broilers, 151ac.
CLOSE: NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. s75sc;
December. S51sc; May, s9ase
CORN-September 6SSs66S19c; December,
47s4 G477sc; May, 475s@47s4c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12
Now york SUGAR Nfarkef.

New York, Sept. 12-SUGAR-Raw, firm;
Muscovado, SO test, 1850; centrifugal, So
test, 4.36c; molasses, SO test, 3.61c; refined,
steady.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12

EGGS-MarIxet steady; unchanged.
POULTRY-Dressed firm; fresh killed
western chickens, 14@24c; fowls, 141kG161sc;
turkeys, 15@1712c. ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12
Cotton Market.
St. Joe Live Stock Ararket.

Galveston, Tex, Sept. 12.-COTTON-
Market unchanged, II 7-16c
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12
Topeka Markets.

FURNISHED by the Chas- WoIn PackInB
Co., yards close at noon Saturday We
cannot use pigs, thin sows or hogJ
weighing less than 40 lbs. DO not mar
ket hogs unless same are well finished
as we cannot use half fat stun. We give
below prices effective at once, until fur
Their notice.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12
Chicago Produce Market.

Chicago, Sept. 12.-BUTTER-Marke
steady. Creameries, 24d2Sc; dairaes, 2215@
4c.
EGGS-Market steady. Receipts, 6,391
cases; at mark, cases included, 171zG1s1kc;
ordinary firsts, 19c; firsts, DC
CHEESEzMarket steady. Daisies, 1910
bic; Twins, 1zsz015c; Young Americas,
151k015Ac; Long Horns, 55zQ151zc-
POTATOES-Market weak Receipts, So
cars
chickens, heavy, 1Sc; light, 121zc; springs,
15c.
VEAL-Market steady. s@141zc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12

New York, Sept. 12.-BUTTER-Mark
steady. Creamery extras, 291z Q291sc.
CHEESEZMarket steady.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12

Charles E. Hubbard won all pre-
miums in the state fair floral display.
The showing was an excellent one, and
according to the Judge, G. S. Holsinger
of Kansas City, was in many respects
as good as found in the Kansas City
show This is the first season tina
much stress has been put on this de-
partment of the fair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12

Harry H. Taylor official pilot of the
New Santa Fe Trail is in Topeka TO-
day to attend the automobile club
meeting. Mr.. Taylor began life in
the newspaper business and was train
ed by W. Y. (BiIly) Morgan. huff
said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12

econtinued from Page 0ne.l
draft and driving horse department Of
the Hutchinson State Fair. is in To-
peka to visit the fair. Mr.. Myers is
one of the real hustlers in the central
part of the state and is interested in
everything for the good of the com
munity or state. He is interested i'll
the automobile meeting which will be
held today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12
THIS The Big DAY.

Confined from Page one.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12

Announcement was made at the
Union Pacific headquarters that
the double tracking of the line
from Omaha to Valley was to be
completed in the near future.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12

A. E. Robinson of the Towanda
stock farm of Towanda, Kan, is one
OF the big Percheron breeders who is
not showing in Topeka this season. Mr..
Robinson is the largest Percheron
breeder in the state if not in this sec
tion of the country and usually gets
his share of the prizes when he has
horses in the judging ring.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12
TEN YEARS AGO LAST MONTH

as clipped from the newspapers
of that date.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-12

The judging in all departments viii
be concluded today.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-08

Now again: $45O,OOOOO worth of pump
ing machinery has been sold to Mimbres
Valley farmers within the last u months.
Again: Large tracts around Deming are
giving place to the five and ten and twenty
and forty acre farms. Lester & RaitheI are
selling 480 acres near town out in 4O-acre
farms. The Homeplot Company has sold
seventy-five ten acre farms, and has two
hundred more on the market The Little
Vineyards Company has sold twenty-eight
ten acre farms with water developed and has
thirteen more to sell. E. W. Bauman has
sold five ten acre tracts from his eighty acre
tract that he placed on the market only
few weeks ago. Sam Schwing has sold $50
acres out near town in ten, twenty and forty
acre tracts. From the large tract to the
small tract, from the sparsely settled region
to the thickly settled-that's the safe route
Deming is taking to prosperity.
Take up the points which interest the
homeseeker in one, two, three order: Gil
mate,soil, water, irrigation facilities, railroad
facilities, schools. churches, business ad-
vantages, profitable farming it makes no
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-08

from evaporation within easy pumping
depth of the surface. This gives the MINI
bres Valley the most economic and depend
able supply of water in the southwest for II
rigation. It is a valley of independent water
rights. The individual farmer is boss of his
own ditch, he gets his water just when he
wants it, he knows what to count on, he can
systematic his work, he does not receive the
seeds of noxious weeds from his neighbors
because his supply of water originates on his
own farm, he has no quarrel with his neigh
Dor in times of water shortage-in short, the
pumping system has been demonstrated to
be the most satisfactory and economic
method of irrigation in use in the world
when conditions are practically ideal as IN
the Mimbres Valley.
Deming has the best railroad facilities
of any town in New Mexico. Proximity to
vast mining districts and railroad connec-
ton of the same, gives the Deming farmer
command of the best and highest priced
markets in the southwest.
The schools of Deming are easily among
the first in New Mexico. Courses in man
ual training, domestic science, bookkeeping,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-08

difference what point the homeseeker cen
tiers his attention, Deming is there first and
with the best
New Mexico is famed the world over for
its wonderful climate The air is dry and
balmy, the nights are cool, there is a large
percentage of sunshiny days. The l[imbres
Valley is the sunniest corner of the sunshine
state. If there is an invalid in the family
Of the prospector the climate alone viii
draw the homeseeker to the Mimbres Val
ley.
The soil is Of great depsh and wonderful
richness and fertility. Untroubled by aka
lies or injurious salts, the farmer of the
1[imbres Valley is assured of tremendous
yields. The heavier soil is what is known
as adobe; the lighter soils are sandy loan
with a varying content Of sand. In prox-
unity to the river bed, there is a heavy silt
loan, which is also found in various wide
draws which cross the valley.
Water, the purest in America and
abundant in quantity, is the chief asset of
this remarkable region This water lies in
a tremendous natural reservoir protected
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-08
DEMING AND THE
MIMBRES VALLEY

THERE are now under actual and let for
$1448OOOO worth of buildings in Deming, all Of the most
substantial character Does that sound like the ordinary
ern boosting? Census of Deng 1911 gives the 1864
people, About $15OOOOOO in buildings time for
that year ago had but 1864 people, Deming had
during 1911 and maintaining in 1912 the largest per capita
building average of any in the Southwest.