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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
System Is Being
Installed.
LARGE NUMBER OF ENTRIES
All Live Stock Departments
VIII Have Fine Display.
Be Is Acres of Machinery and
Great Lot of Farm Products.

1t is already beginning to look like
real State fair on. the. local fair
grounds. 1t is anticipated that by next
Monday the greatest display of live
stock and agricultural products ever
assembled in Kansas will be in place.
Seven rloads of machinery are be-
ing unloaded on the grounds When
all displays are in place the machin-
cry exhibits will cover fifteen acres
Of ground, and scores of machines
Will be in actual operation.
An electric light system is being
installed on the grounds that will be
permanent in its nature. There will be
blaze of light down the main road
TO the grandstand. Walks have been
made so that in case of rain the mud
will not keep the people away.
-Four dining halls are in course of
construction on the fair grounds, and
two or three of these will be per-
maEent.
Wednesday the fair Office will be
moved to the grounds, when all busi-
ness will be transacted there.
Ine management reports that al
ready there have been enough entries
in the cattle department to more than
fill the big concrete barn which has
a capacity of $50 head. This will ne
cessitate arranging for additional
quarters which will be temporary in
nature. The large horse barns will
also be taxed to their utmost capa-
city.
Tho agricultural hall is proving al
together inadequate to Accommodate
the displays. This will be a real pump
kin show. There will be eleven county
collective exhibits in all Among the
counties that will be represented will
be Shawnee, Franklin, Leavenworth
Wyandotte and Wabaunsee. Aside
from this number of western coun-
ties will have smaller exhibits. Shaw
nee county is barred from competing
for prize.
There are 1900 entries thus far in
the Kansas State fair poultry depart
ment." said Russell f. Palmer the
superintendent. There should he a
thousand additional entries before the
opening day of the show
''It is probable that the display viii
not be larger than last year, but the
quality will be better, and almost
every district of the state will be
The entries that nave
come in, of course, are mainly from
Kansas, but they include high class
birds from Nebraska, Missouri and
Texas. Other states will undoubtedly
be represented before the entries
close"
One reason that the quality of the
show will be better this season than
ever before is the fact that an en-
trance fee is being charged-twenty-
five cents for single birds, and one
dollar for display pen. This will keep
out ordinary scrub fowls that the
owners hope to sell at the close of the
shw for dollar or two.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
BOY TAKES Dive
PlungeS From EadS Bridge Pier
Into Mississippi.
Lands in Perfect Position and
SWimS to Boat.

ST Louis, Sept. 3.-Diving 90 feet
and turning two somersauIts in the
air, Richard S. King, IS years old,
made good yesterday afternoon a
boast of two weeks ago when he said
he would plunge into the Mississippi
river from the highest span of Eads
bridge. He performed the feat before
a large Labor day crowd which
thronged the structure.
Working his way through the
crowd, King climbed out on the pier
and before spectators could stop him,
removed his street clothes and, at
tired in a bathing suit he wore under
meath, leaped into space.
He turned twice, as he said after
ward, to break the force of his fall.
The youth landed in perfect position,
was under water several seconds and
then swain to a skiff which was await
ing him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
Kansas EIectOr Case VIII Not
End With SanbOrn'S Decision.
After Hearing Arguments He
Takes 1t Under Amusement,

Denver, Sept. 3-Judge W. H San
born, of the United States court OF
appeals here, sitting as United States
district Judge, took under advisement
the case in which an attempt is being
made 10 enjoin Charles Sessions. sec
retary Of state of Kansas, from certf-
fying to the county clerks of Kansas
the names of eight national electors of
Kansas, who have expressed determine
ton to vote for Roosevelt.
Chester I. Long, ex-United States
senator; Fred Stanley, national Re-
publican committeeman of Kansas, and
D. r. Hite represented the plaintiffs
while the defense was represented by
John Dawson, attorney general of Kan
sas and L. w. Keplinger.
Both sides declared a determination
to appeal regardless of Judge Sanborn's
decision
The case originally was brought be-
fore Judge Smith Mcpherson, of the
Sixth federal district, who issued an
order temporarily restraining the secre-
tary of state from certifying to the
names of these electors and setting
the case for hearing in this district.
The plaintiffs commended the regular
Republican party of Kansas was that
uartv recognized as such at the Chi
cago national convention. and the
names of the electors who would not
the candida tes named at that
had no right on the regular
Republican ticket.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
UNDER MARTIAL LAW.
West Virginia Mining District fll
Hands of the Militia.

CharIestown, w. Va, Sept. 3.-Martial
law was proclaimed in the strike af-
fected district along Vacant and Cabin
creeks today. The move was precip-
itated by the destruction of railroad
property by the striking miners who
tore up tracks in an attempt to stop
the shipment of coal. There are more
than 5000 of the strikers all of whom
are declared to be armed with rifles.
The express office at Cabin creek
was broken into and boxes of ammun-
ition and rifles were broken open by
the strikers but before they could get
away with them the militia put in an
appearance and captured the loot.
Two machine guns, $4,000 rounds of
ammunition and more than a hundred
rifles consigned to a coal company
were confiScated.
All wires from the strike zone have
been cut and communication between
the various military posts is impoS-
ell
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
FORTY ARE DEAD
Seven Towns Contribute to
Flood Death List.
Property Damage Estimated
Now at Over 2 Millions.

Pittsburg, Scot. 3.-The number of
fatalities arising from the floods of
Monday morning in western Pennsyl-
vania, the Panhandle of West Virginia
and eastern Ohio was increased to 40
today when it became known that
John Demstel, his wife and two chill
dren were missing from the ruins of
their home on CHARTERS creek near
Canonsburg, Pa.
Food in some sections is scarce be-
cause railroad communication has been
cut off, but caravans of loaded wag
ons are making their way over badly
washed roads, bearing needed sup
plies.
Sanitary officers in western Penn
sylvania are already at work and large
forces of men are cleaning streets and
buildings. In some villages entire fam
lies are shoveling mud out of their
houses.
The Charters valley from Washing
tom Pa, to McKees Rocks, Pa, where
the little stream empties into the Ohio
river is a scene of devastation. Ten
thousand acres of growing corn has
been ruined. Thousands of tons of hay
hoated away on the muddy torrent.
The damage to manufacturing plants
will be very heavy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
CONVICT IS SHOT.
A Mutiny Is Started IN the Michigan
state Prison.

Jackson, Mich. Sept. 3.-Rioting
convscts of Jackson prison, overcom-
ing all restraint today entered the
prison bull pens and liberated about
rs fellow prisoners. IN hour later
the prison authorities had the
Convicts apparently cowed by the pres
ence of jackson militia companies and
f1remen and special officers who hur-
ried to the scene Immediately after
the outbreak.
One fleeing convict failing to halt
when ordered was shot down by a
guard on duty. The prisoner was run
ming across the yard when told to
stop and refusing he was dropped with
a bullet from the gun in the hands of
a special deputy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
TAFT HURTS HIS FOOT.
The President Will Not Play Golf for
a Few Days.

Beverly, Sept. 3.-President Taft
leaves Beverly late today for Wash
ington where tomorrow he will make
the opening address to the Interna-
tional congress of applied chemistry.
On his way south the president will
stop in Boston long enough to address
a national convention of postoffice
clerks in Faneuil hall. He will stay III
Washington over night Wednesday
and leave Thursday in time to board
the presidents yacht, MayfIower, at
New York that afternoon
Mr.. Taft's right foot injured slightly
several years ago was wrenched yes
terday and the president decided to
stop playing goh for a few days. The
convenience. He expects to go out on
the Myopia links when he returns
from Washington.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

therefore, did not know whether he
would ask for a speedy trial.
1t was expected that two other men
indicted in connection with the case.
Denny Collins, Cambridge, dog fancier
and prominent Boston merchant
ed by the district attorney would be
brought into court later in the day.
The identity of the third man indict-
ed on the conspiracy charge became
known today when Fred E. Atteaux
surrendered at police headquarters.
He is a member of F. z. Atteau d
Ce., dye and color manufactur-
ers of this city.
Atteaux was taken into court short
" after his surrender
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03

have reached a conclusion after the
most careful study and reelection. And
thus the will of a tremendous majority
was defeated by the power of a bad
sy stem and the Vaccinations of a COM
mittee.
things for I would like to support
Republican candidate for president.
There is but one way, however, to make
sure that the system of the Chicago
convention will be abolished and its
scenes never repeated, and that is to
make it plain that the candidate who IS
the product of the system and the bene-
fciary of the methods cannot reach
the office to which he aspIres. There
fore, I cannot support Mr.. Taft"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
CUMMINS FOR T.R.
But He Is Opposed to Formation of a
New Party.

Davenport. Iowa, Sept. 3.-Senator
Albert B. Cummins, of Iowa in pub
lie statement issued today declares he
expects to vote for Col. Roosevelt for
president but is opposed to the forma-
ton of a third party. He does not be
lice that President Taft was the
choice of the Republicans of the ma
ton.
Taft said Senator Cummins, was op-
posed by an overwhelming majority of
the Republicans throughout the coun-
try simply because in his administra-
ton of the office of president he had not
done nor said the things which the
great body of the people believed ne
should have done and said. A meagre
minority succeeded in renominat ng
him.
The senior Iowa senator then reviewed
the basis of representation by means
of which lie claims states with but
nleagre Republican vote dominate the
conventions and force On the great
mass of the party. men undesirable.
Continuing he said: 1.-The man who
could not see that there would be
rebellion whenever these over repre-
sented states forced nomination
against the strong opposition of the
states in which there is real Repub-
lican party was blind as a bat and the
man who could not hear the rumble Of
the rising storm was deaf as an adder.
If the convention winch nominated Mr.
Taft had changed the system in obedi-
ence to the popular demand we might
have had patience to wait; but as
though wanting to furnish every reason
for revolt il attempted to fasten it still
more firmly upon US. If this were all
we would be amply justified in over
throwing the system by refusing to ac-
cept the nominee. But this is not All.
THE system, indefensfble as 1T is,
was not enough to overcome tie ad-
verse majority in the Republican
states and therefore the complaisant
committee and following them the con-
vention, deliberately seated Taft dele
gates from Washington, California,
Arizona and Texas, who had no shadow
of title to seats in the convention I
speak of these states because L have
examined the record as to them and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
TOO MUCH FOR HIM.
Governor JohnsOn's Topeka Ex-
perience Nearly Laid Him Out.

lincoln Sept. 3.-Governor Johnson
originally was scheduled to make five ad-
dresses in Lincoln. but as he was ex-
hausted from speaking in the rain at To-
peIxa Yesterday and a long night train
ride he was forced to call off some of his
gements.
At noon he retired at Governor Aldrich' s
mansion and requested the ProgressIv
COMMITTEES to confine his addresses to the
convention only If possible. The gov
ernor's condition, however, was not seri-
Gus.
The governor had planned to call on w.
J. BRYAN at Fairview farm, but 1t ap
the day Progressive head
quarters were open at a local hotel and
hundreds of voters called to sign petitions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
Each Party Confident of Poll
ing Its Full Strength.
IS REGARDED AS A STRAW
Showing Which Way the POIiti-
cal Wind Is Set.
The Successful Candidate Must
Have Majority of Votes.

Whlteriver Junction, VT. Sept. a.
Vermont is electing a governor TODAY
aho whichever party wins will accept
the result as 4 harbinger of success at
the presidential contest N November
A three days rain storm still was beat
Ing down on both sides of the Green
mountains. Party leaders, however,
luna some consolation N The pree.lc-
tion on OF clear weather by noon.
me Republfcans maintained that
mere was sufficient party loyalty to
eject Allen NJ. Fletcher of Cavendish
governor, in spite of the storm. The
Progressive managers relied on the
steadfastness of the followers of s3le
new movement to bring out a substan-
Ilal vote for Rev. Frazer Metzger the
party leader, while the Democratic
leaders were confident of polling the
IuIi party strength for Harlan Howe.
Followers of the Prohibition and So
cia1istic parties looked for the Gus
tomary vote for the ticket leaders.
Clement F. Smith for the former and
Fred W. Suitor for the Socialists.
Many politicians pointed out TODAY
that while the total registration in the
state at each election in the last s
seldom that more than 55 or 60 per
cent of those enrolled to vote have
come to the polls.
No political apathy was expected to-
day but to guard against it nearly ev-
cry voting place was well equippC
with cabs and motor cars to bring the
aged and infirm to the polls
The regular Australian voting sys-
tenn obtains in Vermont. Chances for
repeating were said to be minimized,
for nearly all the ballot clerks knew
each voter personally
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
7. R. CARRIES A TANK.
The Colonel Has Supply of Oxygen for
His Throat

Muncie. Ind, Sept. 5.-"We're going
to win this fight" said Col Roosevelt
today. The opening of his months trip
yesterday, he said, he regarded as sig
n.fcant, in view of the demonstration
which marked his journey through
Connecticut and massachusetts, Col
Roosevelt was due in st. Louis at 3
p. m.
Members of his party were fearful
that his voice would give way under
the strain of the next few weeks but
this morning the colonel was in better
trim. He brought with him from New
York a tank of oxygen to be used in
treating his throat and will be under
the care of specialist during his trip
AS soon as he was up this morning
Roosevelt read Wilson's speech in Buff
falo yesterday, in which the governor
spoke of the attitude of the new party
toward the tariff and trusts. The col
onel 1ntimated that he would reply to
the governor shortly
At Muncie a crowd of several hundred
persons was at the railway station but
re osevelt declined to address them.
Gives Up Illinois Tour
Terre Haute. Sept. S.-Op account
OF the condition of his throat Colonel
Roosevelt was obliged to give up a
speaking tour through southern Iili-
nois which had been planned for him.
He was expected to speak at Paris.
Mattoon, Pana, ShelbyvilIe and Hills
boro- The colonel said tha1 he could
not undertake the trip, out would
speak at Nation.
The colonel was greeted by a crowd
when his train arrived here. He
shook hands with many put said he
was too hoarse to attempt 20 speak
Raising a large bouquet of flowers tire
present of a woman in the crowd the
former president elected cheers which
continued until bis train moved away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
ELECTION IN OHIO.
Voters Are Passing on A Constitu-
tiOnaI Amendments.

UOIldl amendments.
Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 3-The fate
of AZ proposed amendments to Ohio's
constitution is being decided today at
special election. By nfghtfall the ini-
tiative and referendu woman suf-
frage, LIQUOR license, municipal horn e
rule. the change in the judicial sys-
tenn, good roads and the remaining
proposed amendm ents will be realities
or still unsettled issues before the vot-
erS of the state.
Because of the unusual ltrgth of the
ballot, and because each of the AZ
amendments had to be marked. the
voting was slow. A majority of the
voters required at least five minutes
to mark their ballots and many voters
consumed ten or fifteen minutes.
Secretary of state Graves said today
the returns of the election would be
slow in coming in and that the result
on many of the less important propos-
ais probably would not be known until
tomorrow. At least the proba bilitles
are the first returns will not be receiv
ed until late tonight, according to MT.
Graves. Early voting in the larger
cities of the state was fairly heavy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
rs death IN BOTTLE WILL BE APPEAL
Policeman Picks Up 12O Million
Disease Germs.
Lost From Train, 1t Would
Have Infected City.

Binghamton, N. Y, Sept. "a bottle
containing 12O0OO.0O0 disease germs,
enough to infect an entire city, is
awaiting claimant at the police sta
ton here. 1t was lost from a train
probably from arrexpress car. The bot
tie was being shipped from the New
Jersey state laboratory, probably for
experimental purposes in some other
laboratory. 1t was found lying near
the track by Patrolman John McGin-
mis-
What would have happened had some
person found the package and opened
it is matter of much Speculation here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
HE PLEADS NOT GUILTY
Head of Wooden Mil Trust Is Ar
raigned in Court.

Boston, Sept. S.-William Wood.
president of the American Woolen
company pleaded not guilty in the su
perfor- SQUIRT today to an indictment
charging him with conspiring to dis
tribute dynamite in Lawrence during
the textile strike in that city last win
ter.
Assistant District Attorney Lavelle
told the court that the bail of $4,000
had been fixed by a commissioner last
week and was satisfactory.
Samuel L. Powers, attorney for Mr.
Wood. said that he had no time to
become acquainted with the case and,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
FARMER LOSES Cash.
Peter Schaman, HeringtOn Farmer,
Bit on 'LOst Pocketbook'' Game.

Minneapolis, Sept. 3.-In order that
Peter Schaman, a farmer from Her
ington, Kan, With his wife and two
children, might continue their Journey
TO winnipeg, John Dougherty, chief
of detectives for the MINNEAPOLIS di-
vision of the Chicago, Milwaukee 4
st. Paul railway and Joseph Kilgriff.
train caller at the station. led in tax
ing up a collection of S25 which land
ed the Schaman family in Winnipeg
today. Schaman was victim of the
host pocketbook' game, losing SAG
and having left but 81.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
PRIMARY IN CALIFORNIA.
To Determine Which Faction Gets on
Republican Ballot.

San Francisco, Sept. 3.-Taft and
Roosevelt adherents turned out in
force for the state wide primary to-
day since the result of the balloting
will determine which side will be en-
titled to the Republican designation at
the November election. A full list Of
Assem- blymen and half of the state
senators were to be nominated, these,
with the hold over senators, to con-
stitute the nominating convention for
presidential electors.
Should the Roosevelt legislative
should the Taft men win, the Roose-
Velt electors will be compelled to find
q place on the November ballots by
petition as Progressives. A few local
battles were in progress on the Demo-
cratic side but no issue of a state wide
nature was presented.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
RAT KILLS GIRLS
Farmers Daughters Dying,
Bitten by Rodent.
Struggle of Children Awakens
Father Too Late.

Wilkesbarre, Pa. Sept. 3.-The two
small daughters of Arthur Gething, a
farmer living near here, are believed
to be dying from injuries received
when they were attacked in bed by a
large rat, which bit them repeatedly
about the face and chest Gething
was awakened in the middle of the
night by the sounds of the struggle
ana succeeded in killing the rat with
a blow from his shoe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
HUNTER KILLS WOMAN
GIancing Bullet Fatally Wounds Prus-
sian NobIeWOman.

Berlin, Sept. 3.-The Baroness Won
Eckhardstein, a Prussian noblewoman
is dead here, the victim of wild boar
hunt She was accidentally shot and
mortally wounded by her kinsman,
Count Finck Won Ffnckenstein.
The baroness and the count we're
shooting at a boar from adjacent sta
tionS in dense wood when one of the
bullets from the counts rifle was de-
hected by a tree and struck his re-
iatiVe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
SHORT CUT TO DEATH.
Man and Woman Were Hurryfng TO
Meet Train.

Tarrytown, N. Y. Sept. 3.-Anna
Lynch, 90 years old, of Meriden,
Conn, and Thomas Talbot, rs. were
struck and instantly kjl1ed by a New
York Central train here shortly be-
fore midnight.
Miss Lynch came here yesterday to
visit friends. Talbot V7as accompany
ing her to the station when instead OF
taking an overhead bridge they tried
to shortcut across the tracks. The To-
comotive of fast freight hit them,
killing them instantly and carrying
their bodies along Tor q mile or mora.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
HIS RIBS ARE BROKEN.
Miller Wasn't .'StaIIing'' When He
Gave Up Fight.

Miller, the big white hope defeated
yesterday by PueblOtcJim Flynn, is
nursing two broken ribs today-the
ninth and tenth on the left side in
token of the beating he took. Miller
broke two ribs on the same side two
years ago in another fight and will be
laid up for some time. The doctor
who examined him said he was in no
danger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
The WISCONSIN Contest

Milwaukee, Sept. 3.-The main state
wide contest of Wisconsin's primary
election today is between ]. c. Karel
and A. ]. Schmitz seeking the Demo-
crat nomination for governor. Repub-
licans and Democrats have p!lraI car
didates for state treasurer and the
Democrats are voting between two
candidates for Lieutenant governor.
other contests in both parties are en-
braced in six of the eleven congress
sional districts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
Idehtning Fsxplodes Cartridges

Bisbee, Ariz.. Sept 3-Trooper SAD
dler of the Fourth United States cav
airy was struck by lightning and killed
while riding near Fort Huachuca
Eight cartridges in his belt were ex-
ploded. His horse also was killed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
DROWN WHILE BATHING
Girls Get Into Deep Water and Lose
Their Lives.

Princess Anne, Md. Sept. 3.-WhiIe
bathing near here last night Miss An
ME Dickerson and Miss Violet Kemp
got into deep water and were drowned.