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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-30
CONVICTSSAWOUT
Believed to Have Escaped With
COnfederates in Auto.
Left Dummies in CeIl-MOst
Daring Escape in Years.

Leavenworth, Kan, June 30-An all
day search for Richard Osborne and
Walter Layman, convicts, who made a
daring escape from the federal prison
early Sunday was unavailing and the
men still are at large. Osborne, serving
eighteen years for robbery in Wash
ington, D. c., had made three previous
efforts to escape, in one of which he
had already scaled the prison wall be-
fore apprehended. Layman his cell
mate, serving three years for counter
feiting in California, also had made
previous effort to get away while here.
He escaped once from a government
prison on the Pacific coast, but was
recaptured.
Osborne was the chief shoe maker of
the prison. He was a perfect workman.
and his good humor had earned him
the confidence of prison officials.
Saturday night the guard walked by
the cell of Osborne and Layman time
and time again. He was called to at
tend convict in a nearby cell. Pass
ing Osborne'S cell, he discovered the
cell bars had been sawed Inside in
the cots of the convicts lay dummies.
The escaped men had sawed the bars
in their cell door and in the cell house
window, ten feet away. To complete the
latter work they had to stand in the
corridor in view of the other cells.
Crawling through small hole in the
window. the men lifted themselves to
the roof of the cell house by means
of an ingenious contrivance, resembling
a mechanics rule. 1t was made of
Stats Of wood, riveted together and on
the end was a hook, with which the
men could draw themselves up. The
affair was found the prison wall,
where the convicts had placed it to
lower themselves to a road beside the
prison and liberty.
A guard remembers hearing a motor
a dTiO ie,
presumed it was in this the men made
their escape through the aid of
friends waiting for them.
TT was the most daring escape L
remember since I've been in prison
work-thfrty- y-nine years." said r. w.
McClaughry, warden. Osborne ranks
with Dick Turpin and other dangerous
men of prison history. 1 cannot under
stand, however. how the pair could
have cut the bars of both their dollhouse
and the window without discovery un-
less there was 'drowsiness' in the cell
house,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-30
MERCURY FALLS
Lower Temperature Brings Re-
lief to Suffering Kansans.
Rain Falls i'm Several Sections
of the State.

Relief from the sizzling weather of
the last week came today, after the
hottest night of the year. At $50
O'Clock this morning the wind shifted
from the south to a northerly direction
and the mercury Immediately started
to tumble. When the change came
the temperature was IS degrees; at
$3.50 o'clock this morning it was
but II.
Rain began falling at Topeka at
S:55 o'clock this morning. The show
er which lasted but a few minutes net
ted L of an inch of moisture. 1t was
refreshing and was of benefit to the
vegetation. A trace of rain fell at 4
o'clock this morning. Light showers
have fallen in north eastern and south
western Kansas.
The weekly forecast issued at Wash
ington calls for cooler temperatures
there will be much precipitation. The
forecast indicates that there will be
fair weather tonight and Tuesday with
lower temperature.
Up to this morning there was a
shortage in rainfall for the period be-
ginning March 1 and ending today of
3.28 inches or about 25 per cent of the
normal amount.
According to Sunny" Flora, the To-
cal government weather observer, the
month of June with but one exec ption
has been the windiest month in the
fifteen years that the wind records
nave Deen Inc velocity 1Or the
month has averaged ten ard one-half
miles an hour. And this wind has
made the recent hot weather more
bearablc. The month has been a
warm one, too, but the cool weather
of the forepart of June brought down
the average to a marked degree. The
temperature has averaged but one de-
gree above normal for the month.
There has been three inches of rain
this month; the normal 1ount is 4:S5
inches.
inch of rain has fallen at Manchester
in north central Kansas, a fourth of
an inch at Concordia and vicinity, a
light rain between Atchison and Val
ley Falls, light showers between Gar
net and Chanute and a light shower
at Wichita. There has been rain in
the Texas Panhandle.
Day of Showers.
This has been a day of showers.
Just before noon another one fell,
making the total precipitation up to
2 o'clock this afternoon 20 of an inch.
The temperature has avera ged nearly
twenty degrees below that of Sun
day.
The local weather bureau reports
that 80 of an inch of rain fell at
Dresden Sunday night. A Topekan
who came in over the Rock Island
today from the northwestern portion
of the state reports heavy rain all the
way from Colby to Belleville. The
government report covering the "a
hours ending at o'clock this morn
ing shows that Horton received 10
and Macksville .O1.
The bOnriV readings
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-30
GOVERNORS SPECIAL.
From Council Grove to McPhersOn
Celebration July 4.

Mcpherson, June 3o.-The rood roads ad-
vocates and Ocean to Ocean boosters are
invited to join the Governor Hodges spe-
cial from Council Grove to McPherson-
The governor will be the principal speak
er at the old time celebration which has
been promoted by the travelling statesmen
The program of the celebration viii con-
sist of a parade, with six bands, foot
races, motorcycle, automobile, novelty
races, baby shows. baseball games, bal
loon ascension, and fireworks. Special
trains have been advertised from the
nearby cities.
Governor Hodges will make the trip over
the Santa Fe railroad from the historic
point of Council Grove to Mcpherson. A
number of boosters Will make the trip
and everybody is invited to join in.
The party will leave Council Grove at
$50 O'Clock in the morning and are due to
arrive in Mcpherson at 9;48 o'clock The
cars will go through the following towns
after leaving Council Grove: Wilsey, De
Iaven, Herington, Lost Springs, Lincoln
Vile, Marion, Hillsboro, Lehigh, Canton.
Galva and Mcpherson. Three minute
stops will be made at each place en- route.
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sonable that will benefit our patrons" B"
Mr.. Patten said.
The commissioners declared they
are only anxious that parts of the city
where the car service is not available
now, be placed on the companys map,
especial interest being taken in the
extensions into Melrose addition and
in South Topeka as we'll, of course, as
the Gage park line.
A positive offer practically the
same as the tentative offer made this
morning is expected to be presented
to the city ommission tomorrow
morning, and everyone on both sides
believe that an agreement that will be
satisfactory to everyone will be reach
ed at that time, Except for minor
differences that may easily be ironed
out, and the approval of Mr.. Chub-
buck to the Eighth street extension
offer there remains almost no differ
ences between Mr.. Patten and the
commission
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MORGAN ON JOB
Ottawa Man Now Head of
Federal Penitentiary.
McClaughrey, Noted
CriminOlOgist.

Leavenworth. June 3O.-Thomas w.
Morgan. formerly a newspaper editor
of ottawa, today took the oath of Of
fee and assumed the duties of warden
of the federal prison here, succeeding
Major Robert w. McC1aughry, re-
signed, who for IA years had been
head of the institution.
Major McC1aughreY was made war
den of the newly established federal
penitentiary here under the admins
tration of Mckinley and assigned the
duty of constructing the prison build
ings with the labor of convicts under
his charge. During his term as war
den the construction practically was
completed.
Major McClaughrey is "A years old
and authority of note on criminology,
being one of the first to apply the Tive
and let live principle to the care of
prisoners. Before coming here in 1899
Major McClaughrey was successfully
warden of the Illinois state prison at
Joliet head of the Pennsylvania in
dustrial reformatory at Huntington,
chief of police of Chicago and super
intendent of the Illinois state reforma
tory AT Pontiac
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CHINESE CATHOLICS.
Bishop in Quest of Teachers rs-Tartars
Unpopular.

New York, June sO.-Mgr. Modesto
Evaerts bishop of Catholic diocese in
China, is starting here a quest for teach
ers and supplies for industrial schools
which he believes to be the hope of the
republic. He will journey from here by
easy stages to San Francisco. AS one of
the eleven Franciscan bishops of China,
he is the titular head of a diocese in the
central portion of the republic having
Jurisdiction over 5000 Roman Catholics
among population of 10000, 900 natives.
He says it would take four years steady
travel to visit every town in his diocese
by the only means of locomotion avail
able. The Chinese hatred of the Tartars
has had such full swing since the recent
revolution that Bishop Evaerts, beloved
he is, dares no longer to wear his Tar
tar robes. He tells of the conversion of
a whole city of Tartars and how five
thousand of this aristocratic congregation
came to him. bringing their idols in
clothes baskets to have their heads
knocked off.
The Tartars have long been accus-
toned to the leisure of the aristocracy
that they won't work, according to Bishop
Evaerts, and since the revolution they
have been SO generally ostracised by the
Chinese that they are now practically
starving. In the industrial schools the
bishop sees hope of some day making
them self supporting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-30
JUST GO CRAB HIM
Girl Declares That's Way to
Get Husband.
''Any Old Man VIII DO-The
Older the Better"

Winsted, Conn, June 3O.-The most
concise, clear and probably the most
efficacious method of securing a hus-
band, is that which Miss Ida Madrah
of this city declares she will use. At
a shower given for Maud Shepard,
who is to marry William A. Twining
of Tacoma Wash, "a of Miss Shep
ards friends gav- their idea of the
best mselner to secure a husband or
wife Miss Madrah's declaration fol-
lows:
ANY old man will do-the older the
better.
HE must be 100 in the shade, have
an automobile and at least $3.50. He
must never sass back, must stay in
nights and take care of the children
and never flirt with a pretty girl
THE best way to get him is to go
out on the street corners and grab the
first man you see. Then you are sure
of getting something.
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AXE is WORKING
Many Kansas POstmaSters Are
Being Displaced.
Congressman Victor Murdoch
Steals a Minister'S Text.

Washington, June 30.-Postmaster
changes in Kansas are now being made
as fast as candidates can be considered
and recommended for appointment.
The following nominations of the presi-
Dental class have been made:
w. A Corrigan to be postmaster at
Haviland, in place of N. H. Menden-
hall.
Charles H. Harvey at Haddam. to
succeed Charles w. Yoder.
F. W. Body at Phillipsburg, in place
of Irwin c. Mcdowell, resigned.
w. B. Ford at Oskaloosa, in place of
]. NJ Gibbs.
place of Charles ]. Nordstrom-
A F. Hamm at Nortonville, in place
of Almond P. Burdick.
Paul A. Jones at CoffeyviIle, to sue
ceed Joseph McCreary, who was re-
moved The charges against Mr.. Nc
Creary are not known.
Owen Mclean at West Mineral, in
place of James D. Smith. who recent
ly died.
R "A Watt at Edna. in place of
Frank w Elliott.
Frank ]. Castle at Norcatur.
Mason V. Dunlap at Osawatomie.
Dora Smith has been designated act
ing postmaster at West Mineral until
owen Mclean is confirmed as post
master.
Fourth class Kansas postmasters ap-
pointed: David s Lentz at Wagstaff;
Grace Elder at Waldo; Mary E. z.
Bentley at Welda.
CONGRESSMAN Vic Murdock and form
er Congressman Frank NJ Nye We're
scheduled to speak one evening re-
Gently on the same program with a
minister As it happened, both Muir
dock and Nye conceived the idea Of
treating their subjects along Biblical
lines, just to show the minister that
they were no heather just because
they have served in congress. And, by
chance, they hit on the very things that
the minister had intended to talk about
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JEWISH TRIBUNAL.
Orthodox Jews in Convention-Up-
hold Judaism.

New York, June 3O.-The establishment
of Beth Din, sort of biblical tribunal for
orthodox Jews, was decided upon here at
a convention of the Jewish congregations
of the United States and Canada yester-
day Nearly 100 congregations, most OF
them from distant cities, were represent
further the work of orthodox congrega-
tions and especially to hold up traditional
Judaism against the reformed and
liberal topics The Beth Din will have
representative Orthodox Jews as it's mem
bers who shall certify to qualifications of
men applying for the rabbinate and espe-
cially to settle controversial questions
Another important matter agreed upon
was the recognition of the United Syna-
cogues of America, which have been
formed in the various cities in the last
five years.
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CONTINUED Page Two.)
REBS And YANkS
Twenty-Five Thousand Gath
cred at Gettysburg Reunion.
Old FOemen Swap Tales and
Gay1y Jibe Each Other.

Gettysburg, June 3O.-Twenty- five
thousand veterans in blue and gray.
the biggest army of its kind that has
been gathered together in fifty years,
woke today on the field of Gettysburg
to the call of reveille and the warlike
rattle of pots and pans in a score of
mess tents.
Veterans who sat about camp fires
until late at night, were up long be-
fore the sun climbed over the hills of
the Blue Ridge.
Before the electric lights of this
modern camp were turned out to make
way for the sun, the veterans were
singing the songs of waC time, and the
wide. streets of the tented city echoed
with the "Ki-yi' of the Johnny Reb"
and hoarse yell of his "Yank'' brother
from the north. The regular army
men in charge of the camp expected
900 veterans to come into Gettys-
burg today and by tonight they will
be prepared to tent and mess more
than 10000 men without hitch or de-
lay. There was no set program today
and the veterans were left free to look
up old friends and old enemies, swap
stories of '63 and enjoy themselves in
any way they saw fit.
Just as soon as the rationS of ba-
con and eggs and coffee, fruit of the
season." fresh bread and butter,
were disposed of in the way all good
soldiers dispose of them, the real in
spection of the battlefield and the re-
telling of the story of Gettysburg be-
gan, with all the pointed criticism that
the private soldier knows so well how
to make.
"I amt seen a Reb yet who didn't
charge Round Top and take it all by
himself" said a lanky Southerner as
he wandered into the quarters of the
Pennsylvania contingent. mo, and L
amt seen a Yank who did not break
up Pickett's charge by his own SELF
said a smiling Pennsylvania as they
GbooIr hands
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Grain Traffic on Kansas Lines
Opens This Week.
Topeka Officials Say There Is
Ample Equipment.
NORTHWEST IN GOOD SHAPE
Brighter Prospects in This Sec
ton of the State.
Rock Islands Weekly Crop Re-
port Issued Today.

The two largest railroad systems IN
Kansas are preparing their lines to-
day for the opening of the summer
grain traffic. At the offices OF c. w.
Kouns, general manager of the Santa
Fe, and A. E. Sweet, general manager
of the Rock Island, it is stated that
already the side tracks in all sections
of the state are filed with empty box
cars waiting for the farmers to bring
their grain to the elevators and to the
loading points.
pating the record harvest this year. On
the other hand, they are not anticipat-
ing another car shortage similar to the
trouble experienced last year when the
market called for the hauling of grain
In short space of time.
Both the Rock Island and Santa Fe
railroads have been storing empty cars
in the grain sections of the state for
weeks. Today they announce that the
roads are ready to take care of the
opening movement which will begin
in few days.
Beginning July 1 the harvest will
call for the preliminary loadings- AZ
ter July 1 8 the heavy traffic will be-
gin in earnest.
The Santa Fe has been rushing hun
dreds Of bad order cars through the
Topeka shops preparing them for the
loadings following harvest. The Rock
equally pushed to take care of the
equipment for grain movement SER
vice.
Conditions Have Improved.
The Rock Island Lines, in the week
ly crop report issued this morning re-
veals greatly improved and brighter
conditions in Kansas fields. The big
gest improvement is evident in the
northwestern sections along the line
near Belleville. Mankato. Smith Cen
I,sIJ
Conditions are IDEAL" reads the re-
port. Wheat will run as high as As
bushels to the acre. Oats are standing
up good. Corn is growing well. AL
falfa is heavv and the second cutting
will be large. Hay is heavy the pas
lures are good and small fruit is pIenti-
full
The Union Pacific railroad reports
similar conditions in their north and
western territory.
Rain is needed on the Kansas di-
vision, according to the Rock Island re-
port. This includes the territory from
Topeka to Herington and south to
Caldwell The cutting of wheat is
practically completed, threshing is on
in all sections except in the north. Tho
yield is better than first anticipated.
In part of the northeastern section
of the state, according to this report
the wheat will run 20 bushels to the
acre with ''very fair quality Con-
siderable anxiety over the corn--rain is
needed. The chinch bugs have been do
ing damage and the oats crop is practi-
cally a failure, the farmers cutting the
growth for hay.
Today's rain will improve these con-
ditions.
In many parts of northeastern Kan
sas, however, the farmers report the
best wheat and oats in history.
The railroads, beginning this week
will open their grain movement in
earnest All empty box cars and all
available freight locomotive power will
be brought into use that the farmers
will not lose the benefits of the i'm
mediate markets.
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Federal Judges Receive Nc
Reynolds Dissolution Plan.
Is Agreed Upon by All Parties
Involved in Suit.
The COURT CAN VOTE SHARES
Pending Final Sale of Diverted
Stock, Judges Control.
Three Years Allowed, Then
Court Can Order Shares Sold.

st. Paul, June 3O-The plan for dis
solving the Union Pacif1c-Southern
Pacific merger, which Attorney General
McReynoIds, with the approval of
President Wilson has agreed upon with
officials of the railway, was taken un-
der advisement today by Judges San
born, Hook and Smith, sitting as the
district court of the United States for
the district of Utah.
G. Carroll Todd, special assistant to
the attorney general represented the
government at the hearing at which
the plan was presented and N. H.
Loornis and H. w. Clarke represented
the road.
The plan presented today allows un-
til January 1, 1916 for the complete dis
solution of the combination adjudged
illegal by the supreme court
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TODAY'S GAMES.
Western.

:" CSDCEAIs
Lincoln at Topeka, rain.
Omaha at Sioux City, cloudy.
Des Moines at St Joseph, rain
Denver at Wichita, rain
National.
Pittsburg at Chicago, clear
st. Louis at Cincinnati, clear.
New York at Philadelphia,
clear.
Boston at Brooklyn, clear.
American.
Chicago at Detroit, clear.
Cleveland at st. Louis, clear.
Philadelphia at New York,
clear.
Washington at Boston, clear.
Association.
Columbus at Indianapolis,
clear.
Louisville at Toledo, clear.
Milwaukee at st. Paul, cloudy.
Kansas City at Minneapolis,
cloudy.
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Get TOGETHER
Street Car Co. and City Com
mission See the Light.
A New Plan Proposed by Al
bert Patten.
GO To GAGE PARK ON TENTH
Build West on Eighth to City
Limits.
Extension to Twenty-FirSt on
Kansas Avenue.
GO TO GAGE PARK ON TENTH

An extension to Gage park
on West Tenth.
An extension to the city
limits on West Eighth from
Sixth and West streets, subject
to the approval of Vice Presi-
dent Chubbuck of the Illinois
Traction company.
An extension from E1gh-
teenth to Twenty-first streets
on Kansas avenue IN Soutn
Topeka
Such are the suggested i'm
provements in the railway sys-
tenn that may be accepted by
the city commission in lieu or
the old contract and bond.
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Old Enemies Fraternize.

Chicago, June 3O.-Veterans of the
Grand Army and o fthe Confederates
who were unable to go to Gettysburg,
met in a reunion last night at the
Englewood Baptist church. Despite
the intense heat the several hundred
old soldiers wore their faded uni
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NO GAME TODAY.

Today's ball game between Lincoln
and the Kaws was called off on ac-
count of rain. double-header will
be played tomorrow, first game start
ing at 2 D. m. Gwinn, the new pitch
err will work in one of the games.
No Game at Wichita.
Wichita June 30-No game today. ac
count Denver team unable to reach Wich-
ita on time.
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Color Line Strike.

Bloomington, Ills, June 30.-Several
hundred employees of the Chicago and
Alton car shops struck today when the
company placed four negroes at work
as Iaborers Inability to obtain white
men forced the officials to employ the
colored men, they say.
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Prostration at Cleveland.

Cleveland, June 30.-The heat
claimed one victim here today. Dav-
id Hughley about 60 years old, of
Orangeburg, S. c.. fell in the public
square and died on the way to hos
pital.
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sardy Hook ?; Emmett 1.

Emmett, Kan, June 30.-The
Sandy Hook ball team defeated the
locals Sunday in a pitchers battle by
a score of to 1. Batteries-Sandy
Hook Hook and Emert; Emmett,
Reilly and lima Umpires-Nagle
anC ViuX-
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when it came his turn. Says he:
Il am reminded of the case of the
man who gave the dinner for his three
colored servants, and told each one to
choose what he wanted most to eat.
One took watermelon and another
one 'possum. When the third was ask
ed to choose, he said: g 'Shucks. The
amt nothin' elsep''
Dan r. Anthony is the last of the
giants-so far as the house of repre-
sentatives is concerned. 1t used to be
that there were Anthony and Cy Sui
loway of New Hampshire, and Ollie
James of Kentucky, all of them giants,
and they We're company for one an
other. Then Sulloway was defeated and
James went to work over in the senate,
leaving Anthony to do the giant busi-
ness unassisted. Dan stands about six
and half feet high, with nothing on
his feet but a pair of hole-proof socks.
A star mail route has been estab-
hshed between Logansport and Edith,
Kan, with a delivery of three times a
week Andrew H. Barber of Logans-
port was awarded the contract at $240
per annum.
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Weather Forecast for Kansas.
Fair tonight and Tuesday; cooler to-