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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-07
Automobile for Jake Daubert.
Pipe DREAM
His List of Twenty Murders SINNERS
Down to One.

Chicago, Oct. "A speedy trial for
the murder of Mrs Mildred Allison
Rexroat on Sept 25 was today promised
Henry Spencer, whose confessions of
twenty murders woven by an opium
clouded brain dumbfounded the police.
The authorities@wilI continue to inves-
tigate his fantastic stories in the hope
of establishing further facts.
His admission of the ReXroat crime
is substantiated by evidence and he is
known to have committed many of the
large number of burglaries he has con-
fessed and there is a possibility that
he may have slain Mrs. Annabel Wight
last December. She was beaten to
death with a hammer by a man who
had rented a room, and robbed.
The remainders of Spencer's muir
ders" are belieyed to be the dreams of
a man obsessed by that form of insan-
ity known as stir sirhple,'' al delusion
described as pentt eT1ffary insanity In
a few days Spencer will be turned over
to the authorities of Dupage county,
where Mrs. Rexroat was killed.
Spencer spent a sleepless night in
his cell at the detective bureau and
this morning was extremely nervous.
The fact that he had been without
opium for at least two days and the
many hours questioning to which he
has been subjected since his arrest
oil e DcIlSNeu ny the pOI1Ce 10 De re-
sponsible for his present physical con-
dition.
81 did not sleep a wink last night
and am tired and nervous this morn
ing. Spencer remarked to his guard.
He asked for cigar and nervously
putting at it for some time he said he
felt better. The prisoner ate a light
breakfast and read the newspapers
preparatory to again being questioned
by Captain Halpin and States Attor-
ney Hoyne.
The officials will consider the adj
visibility of sending local detectives to
investigate some of the out of town
murders which Spencer claims to have
committed. The supposed murder at
st. Joseph, Mich, will be investigated
as message was received from the
authorities there confirming the
an killed there recently.
When Spencer was shown kilograms
from Delaven, Wis, and Paw Paw
Lake, Mich, stating no such murders
as he described were ever committed
there, the prisoner smiled at said:
Il kil1e dthose women just as 1 have
told you, don't care what those coun-
try sheriffs say. / am not full of hon.
either, and know what I'm talking
about
. Mrs Sarah Schramm today identi-
ned Spencer as the man who lodged at
her house last winter and attacked her
with hammer. He was frightened
away by the return from school of
Mrs. Schramm'S daughter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-07
The CLERGY MEET
Crowd Baseball Men in New
York Hotel LObbies.
Church Is Too AutOcratic With
Little Time for Plain People.

New York, Oct. Along with the
baseball crowds an unusually large
gathering of men in the garb of clergy
were to be seen in the Hobbies of New
York hotels. The occasion is the forty
fourth general convention of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church of America,
which will be formally opened tomor-
row morning at the Cathedral of ST.
John the Divine continuing in session
three weeks and possibly longer.
Church dignitaries and laymen repre-
senting the dioceses in the United
States and oversee territories have
practically arrived today and taken up
at least in informal discussion issues
vital to the church which will be
threshed out during the convention. 1t
is expected that the church gathering
will include in all nearly 5000 interest
ed persons.
The convention itself will include 115
representative men from all parts of
the world and the legislation which
they pass will be in behalf of nearly
a million communicates
Whether the church is an autocratic
or a democratic body was subject CT
discussion at a pre-convention confer
ence which continued today at St.
Marks church. The Rev John Peters,
rector of ST. MichaePs church, contend
ed that the church was too autocratic,
with little time for plain pecple.'' The
Rev. Charles Lewis Slattery, rector of
Grace church, declared it n church of
pure democracy. The subject on which
both clergymen spoke was "Vitalzing
Our Worship" DIR. Slattery suggested
that the use of psalms at divine wor-
ship should be as voluntary as the Sc
lection of hymns; that hymns should
be sung if desired as substitutes for the
tie deum and the benedicite; that there
be individual choir of scripture lesson
of the day and that special prayers be
permitted to be substituted for the gen.
aral prayers which are now compulsory
The Rev. Lloyd B. Thomas of Carson,
New. suggested that the convention
shohld enforce a study of sociology in
all theological Seminaries Twelve nun
dred members of the women's auxil-
larry, which holds its session coincident
with the general convention, are al
ready in the city for the meeting.
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T0DAY'S MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago, Oct. 7.-WHEAT-Wheat see
sawed today, bullish and bearish news
being nearly balanced. Drought reports
from India were offset by beneficial rains
in Southern Argentina. Then, too, north
western receipts showed falling off, but
Minneapolis stocks nevertheless exhibited
a heavy increase for the last three days,
compared with year ago. The opening
was 1sc lower to shade up. After hard
ening AG3sc, the market lost this gain.
CORN-Fine weather and lower cables
eased corn. Prices opened unchanged to
&c off, rallied a trifle and then declined
with December leading the down turn
OATsEstimates that the French oats
crop was 81. 600 600 bushels short of the
government figures made the oats mar
ket relatively firm. The opening, which
was sixteenth lower to like advance,
was followed by a fractional rise, but
later the market sagged with corn.
PROVISIONS-Weakn at the yards
carried down provisions especially lard.
First sales were a shade to 10c off and
a further setback took place.
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LOOK FOR A NEGRO
Police Believe They Have Dis
covered the Auto
In Which Miss LeegsOn Was
Borne to Her Death.

Chicago, Oct. 7.-Acting on informa-
ton given by man who saw Miss Ida
Leegson walking in West Seventy-first
street at six o'clock last Saturday even
ing accompanied by a negro instruc-
tions were given the police today as
follows:
ARREST for murder and robbery a
copper skinned negro feet IL inches or
six feet tall, weighing between $50 and
100 pounds. Well dressed; square shoul-
ders; erect carriage. Wore black soft
hat and gray coat"
Chicago, Oct with the finding
of an abandoned automobile in Palos
park, the police today redoubled their
energies in the search for the mys-
ferrous Wilson" whose telephone
promise of a position lured Miss Ida
G. Leegson, an art student to the
prairie, where she was strangled early
Sunday after a terrific struggle. The
o'clock Sunday afternoon from Jack
son park. It was shortly before the
hour that Wilson te1ephoned the
residence where Miss Leegson room
ed. The call was in response to an
advertisement for work which read:
Practical nurse. Maternity cases
preferred"
Miss Leegson was told to take a
car to Seventy-firSt street Western
avenue and to walk west. The street
address she was given does not exist.
The police have ascertained that Miss
Leegson was met by a man in a black
automobile when she alighted from
the Western avenue car.
The tonneau of the automobile re-
covered in Palos park west of the
scene of the murder indicated there
had been a violent struggle. Among
other articles found in it was a piece
of shirt waist. CorOner'S physician,
Joseph Springer, is of the opinion that
Miss Leegson was tortured by the man
from o'clock Saturday night until
O'Clock Sunday morning. He assert
ed the woman had not been dead for
more than four or five hours when the
body was found
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midnight. One aged fan, a teamster,
collapsed on a street corner and was
! taken away in an ambulance.
Despite the plans and protestat1ons
or the New York National League
club officials, the New York ticket
Spectator proved his right to the
title OF king of his craft. Althoug
there were but 8, 900 reserved seats
sold by the club to a selected list of
patrons, a certain percentage of the
coupons quickly found their way into
the hands of the ticket vendors who
over their face value.
Seats for the three New York games
were offered at prices ranging from
Seats for the opening game were quot
ed at $50 each and found ready pur-
chasers even at ten times their
original price.
owner of the Boston National League
club, was one of the first to interview
the spectators. Gaffney applied to
the New York club for forty-six seats,
and member of the select list He
stated that the local club officials told
him that none was available.
Boston Owner Makes Grave Charges.
The Boston club executive there
upon went on the street and pur-
chased sixteen tickets for $500. With
these as evidence. he went before the
national commission and explained
the situation. 1 In "a statement given
out later, the commission said that the
New York club Officers knew the
original holders of the seats, but were
not ready to make the names public.
The members, of the national COM
mission said that with the exception
of this isolated case no other evidence
of specializing had been called to their
attention. 1t was also stated that any
action in the matter would be deferred
until later in the week.
The national commission appeared
to be more interested in the cases of
the players who were supposed to
write special articles on the worlds
series than in the activities of the
spectators. T
Automobile for Jake Daubert.
Before the game an automobile was
presented to Jake Daubert, first base
man of the Brooklyn club, as being the
most valuable player to his club of any
player in the National league. During
batting practice, Wyckoff pitched for
the Athletics and Fromme for the
Giants.
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Reported That McReynOldS Selects
Him to Prosecute Land Cases.

Atchison, Kan, Oct. IA report is
current in AtchiSOn that j. w. Orr
will accept an offer from U. S. Attor-
ney General McReynolds to become
special prosecutor for the government
in the land fraud cases against the
Southern Pacific. Mr.. Orr left Atchi-
son hastily on the receipt of the tele-
gram from Washington. He showed
the telegram to several persons, but
those who saw it have refused to give
out it's full contents.
Orr has been expected to become
candidate for the Democratic nom
ination for senator, and it is not
known whether special service in the
department of justice would sidetrack
his senatorial ambition.
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8333&& &&&

Market slow. SC to 10c under yesterdays
average. Bulk of sales $S.05QS.55; light,
sS.05GS.70; mixed, $7.S5GS.75; heavy, $1,000
S.65; rough, $7.S0ds.O0; pigs, $4.50Q7.60.
CATTLE-Receipts $500. Market steady
to strong. Beeves, $7.20Q9.50; Texas steers.
$7.00@S. 90; western steers, $6.20@S.60; stock
ers and feeders, s5.2507.S5; cows and heif-
ers, S3.65QS60; calves, $7.50@11.50
SHEEP-Receipts 10000 Market steady
to 1Oc lower. Native, $3.90q5.O0; western,
81. 1Od5.1O; yearlings, $5.0096.O0; lambs, ma
tive. S. 9O@7. 40: western. s. 9OQ745.
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Kansas City Produce Market.

Kansas City, Oct. 7.-WHEAT-Cash !:
Market unchanged. No. hard, $40
9O1zc; No. 3, s3Qs91kc; No. red, 91Qs2c;
No 8, S7@91c.
CORN-Market unchanged to 1zc lower.
No. mixed, 721ac; No. 8, Tic; No. white,
731zc; No. 3, 721ac.
OATS-Market nc lower. No. white,
411kc; No. mixed. 40Q40a4c.
RYE-Market unchanged
HAY-Market unchanged.
BUTTER-Market unchanged.
EGGS-Market unchanged.
POULTRY-Market unchanged.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., % cars.
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New York Produce Market.

New York, Oct 7.-BUTTER-Market
barely steady. Creamery firsts, 2S1aQ31c
CHEESE-Market steady. State whole
milk, white or colored specials, 1611@164c.
EGGS-Market steady. Fresh gathered
extra firsts. 31@32c.
POULTRY-Live. weak; chickens, 14c;
fowls, 15c; turkeys, lie.
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Windsor VT, Oct. Maxwell
Evarts, general counsel for the South
ern Pacific died at his home here this
afternoon, aged 81 years.
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Kansas City, Oct. T
Liyerpool Grain Market.

Liverpool, Oct. 7.-WHEAT-Spot, dull;
No. 1 Manitoba, new, rs Sd; No. old,
CORN-Spot, quiet; American mixed,
Is SID. Futures, easy.
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Kansas City Live Stock Market.

Kansas City, Oct. 7.-HOGS-Receipts
1900. Market SC lower. Bulk of sales,
butchers, sS.1OdS42; light, $S.0OdS.35; pigs.
Sc. O007. %.
CTTLE-Receipts 10000, including 1000
steers, ssoOas.5o; dressed beef steers, $500
@S.90; western steers, $7.OOa9,OO; southern
steers. s5.5O@7.OO; cows s4.25@7.25; heifers,
S.. 00q9 rs; stockers and feeders. $5.50QS Is;
bulls, s4.50Q6.50; calves. $6.O0a10.00.
SHEEP-Receipts $4,000 Market steady
to loc lower. lambs; s. 75G7. 80; yeariings,
4.50; stockers and feeders, SS.O0d6.60.
Kansas City Stock Yards, Oct 6-SelIers
had nothing to complain of in the cattle
market here last week, all classes show
ing an advance of 10 to 25 cents. Receipts
week, and as there was no reduction in
the demand from any source, advances
were natural. Some apprehension was
felt for today's market, account of the
opening of the free trade era in cattle
and meats but the 2S,0O0 cattle received
today are moving at steady to strong
prices. Cattle waiting on the Mexican
border for free entry will cut no figure in
market quotations, but there said to
be n lot of Canadian cattle, both fat and
stock grades, held in Toronto last week
that was expected to appear at Buffalo
today, which might cut down eastern de-
mand. Another adverse feature at mar
small Kosher demand account of series
of Jewish holidays now in celebration.
These circumstances have produced a
minimum effect on the market here, part
ly because Kansas City packers do not
depend nearly SO much on the eastern
outlet for beef as Chicago and other east
ern packers, and also because the phe-
nomena1 demand for stock cattle and
feeders here absorbs enough of the total
cattle receipts to leave only a moderate
number for killers. Heavy cattle sold at
1925 today and yearlings made 1886 here
last week. Heifers might reachh 1925
Kansas pasture cattle sold stronger today
sales of good ones at $3.50 and $3.50. The
Panhandle cattle today included cows at
$3.50 to 1925. yearlngs at $3.50 to s7.75,
ings included feeders at s7.2O to $7.65. cows
at $5.75 to $3.50, heifers $3.50 to $500, kill
ing steers 800 to $500. Quarantine offer
ings today were II car loads. cows at
one lot at $3.50, quality medium to COM
mon.
and the market declined slightly at the
end of the week. Prices today are steady
receipts 5000 Packers are more willing
buyers than formerly, and shippers con-
tinue to take one-fourth the total supply
Receipts at nine markets in September
were 35S.OOO head greater than in Septem-
crease of 1870.
Sheep sold strong last week. and lambs
gained % cents. Receipts are moderate,
and conditions here are firm. Run TODAY
is 15,o0O market strong and active IsuIIx
OF the Utahs today sold at $40 to S725
Some Colorado lambs will be here tornor-
row with quality sufficient to bring ~ N
Demand for feeders exceeds the sI,nnIy
j. A. RICkART, Market Correspondent
Kansas City Live Stock Sales.
Tine following sales were made tbt.
morning at the Stock Yards, Kansas
telephone direct to the Stare journal bv
Clay: Robinson & Co.. live stock corr.
mission merchants. with offices at an
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Chicago Produce Market.

Chicago, Oct. neutrality-suspicious. I'M
changed.
EGGS-Market unchanged.
POTATOES-Market unchanged.
POULTRY-Market irregular. Alive,
springs, 1870; fowls, 13c.
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lClose of prices for the leading stocks
on the New York Stock Exchange as re-
ported by Thos. J. Myers. Broker. Column
bian Bldg.1
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New York Stock Market.

Wall St. New York, Oct 7.-STOCKS-
A pause in the liquidation OF iron ano
steel stocks which had been in force Tor
nearly a week gave the market Detter
tone today. The buying came princlpalIy
from shorts whose profits on the recent
slump were large enough TO prompt re-
tirement of their contracts Standing call
loans were marked up to per cent, near
ly i per cent over YESTERDAY TeneMal li. :,
Aside from Reading, Can and CANADIAN
Pacific none of the well known snares
varied as much as a point in the Tore
noon.
Bonds were steady.
Prices reacted at the opening from yes
terday's decline, Steel the recent weak
feature. advanced Y on the i9i.iai .ra aifSo
rose IL and Reading, Union Pac1fic and
Amalgamated advanced large fractions
- the general movement, declining a
point.
New York Sugar Market.
s. New M hnEa 2ss. Centrifugal 8.4s;
molasses, 273 Refined quiet
wichita Live Stock Market.
wichita, Oct 7.-CATTLE-Receipt 300.
Market steady. Native steers, y6.7oqs-5e;
cows and heifers, A-75g7.0O; stockers ana
feeders, Sc. 0OG7.25: stockers ana heiIers;
s4.5Oae.25; bulls. s42S@6oo; calves >''oo@
~ HsoGs-Receipts 1000. Market lower.
Top, $s.25; bulk of sales. s4-soas-lS.
ST. Joseph Live Stock Market.
ST. Joseph Oct. 7-CATTLE-Receipt
go Market steady Steers, so5ogs;0 90:
cows and heifers. s4oo9s.5O; calves, 5000
io HgIoGsReceipts 5000. Market SC lower.
Top. S. 40; bulk of sales. s8.15GS30
sHEEP-Receipts 5000. Market steady.
Lambs, s500G7.S5.
Chicago Live Stock Market.
Chicago. Oct. z.-HoGS-Receipts 1900.
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Chicago Grain Market.

1.-THE range of prices for grain futures on
the Chicago Board of Trade as reported
by Thos. J. Myers. Broker. Columbian
Bldg.1
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EARLY MORNING.

fContinued from PsS. One-)
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The WEATHER RECORD

following is list of maximum temper
atureS al government stations for the |
twenty-four hours ending at o'clock this |
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Kansas city Live Stock sa,es

- hansaS CITY live STOCK Sales,
Tine following sales were made tbt.
morning at the Stock Yards. Kansas
lily, and reported over long distance
telephone direct to the STATE journal nv
Gay: Robinson & Co., live stock corr
mission merchants, with Offices a. "a,
markets. ~
Kansas City, Oct. 7-CATTLE-Re-
celptS 20OOO head. Market steady
HOGS-Receipts 1900 head Market e
70 loc lower. Bulk of sales sS.OoaS. as: Ton
SHEEP-Receipts 1900 head. Markat
strong. Lambs S750 net
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Kansas City Grain Market.

the Kansas City Board of Trade as re-
ported by Thos. J. Myers. Broker, Co
lumbar Bldg.l
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New york Sugar Market

New York, Oct: 1-SUGARI,Ksas%S
steady: Muscovado, 2.9S: Centrifugal, 5-4s'
mo1asses 273. Refined, quiet
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Nichita Live Stock Marked.
Ct Joseph Live Stock Market.

Chicago Live Stock Market.
Chicago, Oct. Z.-HOGSLReceipts 1900
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The court of impeachment went into
executive session soon after reconven-
ing, and reconsidered the vote by which
Allan A. Ryans testimony was stricken
from the record yesterday. Ryan de-
clared Sulzer had requested him to get
Senator Elihu Root 20 enlist the influ-
ence Of William Barnes in persuading
The Washington times., 1913-09-07
DRAMATIC NOTES.

Four attractive Washington girls, the
Misses Richie Mclean, Josephine Mack,
Margaret Paine and Agnes Whelan,
make the quartet which will sing plan
tation melodies and other songs of the
Old South in Under Southern Skies
at Polls Theater this week
The Washington times., 1913-09-07
Miss Collier to Join
Faversham Company

William Faversham announces the
special engagement Of Miss Constance
Collier, the widely-known English ac-
tress. as a permanent member Of the
Shakespearean company. which he Is
organizing for this season. Miss Col
lier will play the role Of Portia in bis
production Of Julius Caesar" and will
later appear in the other Shakespearean
plays which are to be produced about
the first Of the year. z
Miss Golfers engagement Ii In strict
conformance with Mr.. Faversham's an
nounced determination to surround
himself in all Of his Shakesperean VEN
lures with players Of genuine stellar
quality. His company, after the first
Of the year, will thus include five play
ers who may be classed as real stars,
namely: Mr.. Faversham, Miss Cecilia
LOTUS, Miss Julie Opp, Miss Collier,
and R. d. MacLean-
There is no part for Miss LOTUS in
the spectacular production of Julius
Caesar" which Mr.. Faversham will
take to the Pacific coast in the fall, and
she will not Join the organization, there
fore, until the productions Of Romeo
and Juliet and "Othello' are made
Miss Opp (Mrs. Faversham), who play
ed Portia last season, will not be with
her husband until the new productions
are made. She will rest meantime in
Switzerland. Mr.. Mclean and Miss
Collier, however, will both make the
Pacific coast trip.
The Washington times., 1913-09-07
CASINO.

@As-are offering is promised as the fea-
ture de luxe Of the Casino Theater bill
this week in Visions dart" which will
be presented by Charles di Scorias with
all the elaborate stage settings and
lighting effects used in tie production
at Hammerstein's, New York, fron,
which the act comes to Washington.
The metropolitan press is said to have
given the feature Endorsement in coEi-
plimentary terms. A second feature of
prominence will be the Musical kleises,
q quartet with the Youngest conductor
IN the world"
Other attractions are promised in
Bessie hemple and company, with ,
little sketch of New York theatrical life
Billy Newkirk and the Evans Sisters.
in a dainty offering of songs, dances.
and instrumental music with elaborate
costumes, and the Prince Rountoon, in
Hindoo Illusion and presentation of
Oriental magic. Wednesday evening the
Country Store, from which scores of
Presents will be given to patrons, will
be an acded feature, and Friday even
ing will be amateurs night.
The Washington times., 1913-09-07
COSMOS.

A charming little rural playlet, blend
ing comedy and melodrama, is promised
by Walsh, Lynch and Company. as the
attraction extraordinary at the Cosmos
Theater this week. 1t features some
good characterizations. and ceVles with
press Endorsements from other big cities
throughout the country. 'Huckins s
Run is its name. The second feature
offering will be the Four Dancing
Nymphs, a quartet Of classic dancers
from the ballet of the Metropolitan
Grand Opera House, In a unique roper
toire.
The Tarheel Trio blending voices of
two men and a woman in harmonic
melodies; Morris and Parker, a man
and a woman in black and tan come
dy; the Keliors from Europe. with a
sensational acrobatic novelty. and Paul
F1orus, virtuoso on the Mexican mar
imba, will be additional attractions,
which will be supplemented by the
Pathe Weekly review.