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The Harlowton news., 1913-06-20
wouLD.BE BAD MEN

The killing of Jesse Lockhart by
Albert Yantz last week is only an
other bit of evidence of the seri-
business of carrying deadly weap-
ons in time of peace. Regard
less of the stringent laws now in
effect. making this act penal
offence, there are far too many
young men carrying fire. arms, not
only in this locality, but in the
state at large. There is absolutely
no reasonable excuse to be offered
by any one for having on his per
son, at any time of the day or
night, gattling gun. There are
no wild animals running at large,
the days of the blood thirsty red
man are gone, and only the perfer-
vid Imagination of votaries of Nick
Garter literature can be found, as
a reason by thinking men, for the
very criminal habit of going around
the street loaded for bear.
There was probably a time, when
this country was in chaotic con
dition, and the law was on the side
of the man who pulled first, that
gun toting was polite, if not ex.
cusable. And usually the unworthy
among those days were the ones
who proved the victims of theil
The Harlowton news., 1913-06-20

judges. "A little more time spent
in rehearsing the Golden Rule and
a little less studying the newest
inventions in destructiveness would
have salutary effect on the men
who are now afraid~to appear in
public unless loaded down with
fire arms.
Some one wrote this little bit Of
wisdom: Who taught me to hate
my fellow-mang man; who taught
me to love my fellow manf a dog"
Also, Mans inhumanity to man
makes countless thousands mourn. ;"
Oh, for few more Of the Sunday
School boys and less Of the wild
and wooly-west kind.
The writer has twice been told
by officers that the Montana boys
are not the gun men as rule but
the eastern chaps that come west
with the idea that this is an awful
bad country for tenderfeet and
armed accordingly.
Let us hope that those who have
been in the habit Of carrying fire
arms will see the error of their way
and dispose of their artillery as
soon as possible. To paraphrase
old man David we might say Once
| was young but now / am old, yet
have never seen the gun1ess killed
nor his seed spending their sub
stance to clear him"
The Harlowton news., 1913-06-20
BARBER NEWS

Miss Laura Skordahl returned
from Harlowto last Friday.
Mr.. Robert Erickson from Min
nesota is visiting at A. NJ. Erick
sons.
A very pleasant surprise was
rendered Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Pril-
lurtz last Thursday evening. About
Is were present. A rug was left as
a memory from their many frie nds
who wish them success and happi-
ness.
Miss Clara Broten of Willmar,
Mimi. is visiting with her sister,
Mrs. Alfred Erickson.
The Harlowton news., 1913-06-20
Nl.hILl NEWS

Fifty N. p. surveyors are work
ing east Of Nihill and q little north
of preliminary sur vey Of last spring
Session Bros. Of Hobson will give
a free dance at Nihill 9une 21st.
Come and bring your girls and
basket.
Mr.. Labrie Of Harlowton was q
pleasant caller Tuesday, and while.
here he told us that he noticed
many changes Of material benefit
to the country during the past
three years.
Don't forget the free dance at
Nihill June 21st. Every one is in
vited.
Mr. G. Il. Ewing formerly Of
Hobson. will look after the inter
ests Of Sisson Bros. at Nihill. Mr..
Sisson has valuable ranch two
miles north Of town and is we'll
known to the people as strictly
honest and upright in all his deal
irrc.
The Harlowton news., 1913-06-20
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-24
HIS FIRST BRIEF
U. s. Solicitor General Davis
AsSails the Injunction
Issued by Commerce Court
Against the /. C. c.
C0NSTITUTIONALITY INVOLVED
Seeks to Make
Pipe Lines File Tariffs
On the Ground That They Are
Common Carriers.
CONSTITUTIONALITY INVOLVED

Washington Sept. 24.-The federal
government today began its fight in the
United States supreme court to eStab-
lish the constitutionality of the provi-
sion of the interstate commerce act
making pipe lines common carriers. In
his first brief as solicitor general of the
United States John w. Davis vigorous
ly assails the preliminary injunction
issued on the ground of unconstitution-
ality by the commerce court, against
the order of the interstate commerce
commission in directing pipe lines to
file rate tariffs as common carriers.
Control of pipe lines by large inter-
ests with power to compel small pro-
ducers to sell their oil or wells to pipe
line owners, at the latter's price, is the
source of monopoly at which congress
aimed to strike by opening the pipe
lines to the reasonable and equitable
use of all, contends the solicitor gen.
eral.
1.-The due process" clause of the leg
islation is not violated, he declares, be-
cause it does not prevent congress from
regulating commerce. nor does such
legislation violate the constitutional
prohibition against taking property for
public use without compensation be-
cause the users of the pipe lines as
common carriers must pay a reason
aDle rate
1T is indisputably clear" he contin-
ues, that the evil aimed at by con-
gress in making pipe lines common car
riers was the monopoly of the oil busi-
ness by the Standard Oil company, a
monopoly largely if not chiefly due to
the ownership or control by that cor
poration of ninety per cent of the pipe
lines"
1T is idle to suggest" argues Mr..
Davis, that individual well owners or
refiners ought to build pipe lines of
their own. Every farmer might equally
as well construct railroad and every
cottage have it's private gas plant
1t is largely the use of the potent in
strument of transportation he says,
that has built up these enormous cap
italizations.
''The evidence in the Standard Oil
case proves 1t. Congress has struck
down the monopoly full grown. 1t now
seeks to destroy the source from which
it sprang."
Pipe lines against which the proceed
ings are directed are the Standard Oil
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-24

charged in the articles of impeachment
1t is conservatively estimated that,
in addition to the expense of the pres
ent trial and the expenses of the F'raW-
ley committee. another quarter of a
million has been spent so far to sus-
tain the conflict between Governor Sui
ger and Tammany Boss Murphy.
When the cost of the extraordinary
session of the legislature with it's at
tendant charges for mileage, postage,
telephone, telegraph and other neces-
saries is taken into consideration, the
Sulzer-Murphy row and it's consequent
Impeachment probably will hit the
state treasury to the extent of at least
81, 100000
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-24
Population of Charitable InSti-
tutiOnS Increase.
More Than 1900 Persons Con-
fined in Nine Places.
GAIN OF 633 IN SIX YEARS
Expense for Maintenance Has
Been on Decrease.
Annual Report Shows Cost of
S994,OO6 for 1918.

Despite the fact that the average pop
ulation in the nine state charitable in
stitutions has increased by 633 inmates
since 1907, the expenses for the main
tenance of these institutions has de-
creased, according to the report made
by the state board of control today.
The appropriation allowed by the leg
islature in 1907 was $1,969.517. In 1913
it was SLIPS, $50.
This decrease is due to three
things says the report, less has been
appropriated for new buildings; more
money has been collected for the care
of insane persons at the state hospl-
tai, and more efficient business methods
have been adopted. In 1907 there were
1888 inmates in state institutions and
in 1913 the population had increased
to 1872, an increase of 655.
For the fiscal year, 1913, 1921, ,456 was
expended from the salary funds; $780,
09S from the maintenance funds; $751;
from the special appropriations to the
institutions and $51, 767 from the fuel
fund-a total Of 1894 ,006. This is an
increase of 10000 over 1912 and $4,000
over 1911.
Some of the time of the members of
the state board of control. which, at
the end of the last fiscal year was
composed of Harry C. Bowman, chair
man, Sherman G. Elliott of Lawrence
and W. f. Brooks, is spent in attend
ing national gatherings devoted to the
study of progressive methods of the
care of public dependents. On July 1,
last the school for the deaf at Olathe,
and the school of the blind at Kan
sas City went under the management of
the state board of educational admin
istration, while the girls industrial
school and the boys industrial school
at Belolt and Topeka. respectively,
were transferred to the board of cor
rection. The board of control, how
ever, take charge of the Kansas Sol
diers' Home and the Mother Bicker-
dyke Home at Ellsworth as well as Of
the. new hospital for the insane at
Larned and the tuberculosis sanitariun,
to be built at Norton. The Bickerdyke
home is managed by a distinct board
of which two members of the board
of control are eX-officio members.
The board has charge of a fund of
SIG, ,344.74 in money and securities be-
queathed by the late William S. Dell
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-24
W0MEN'S WAGES FIXED
In Oregon They Will Receive 1925
for so Hours.

Portland, Ore, Sept. 24.-The In
dustrial welfare commission of Ore
gon has adopted a ruling made public
today which will become a law No
Vember % fixing a minimum wage of
1925 a week for adult women clerks
who are not apprentices; defining
eight hours and twenty minutes as the
maximum days work and fifty hours
as the maximum for a week; and
making p. m. the latest hour at
which any woman may be employed
on any day of the year in a mercan-
tile eSta bliShment
The order automatically eliminates
Saturday night shopping and Christ
mas holiday night shopping in such
esta blishments. Some department
store proprietors protested vigorously
but in vain. One department store
owner contested it warmly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-24
ROBBERY AT EMMETT.
Store Broken Into and Jewelry and
Hardware Taken.

Emmett, Kan, Sept. 24.-A general
store was broken into here last night
and several articles of value were
stolen. Among them were two dozen
rings, one gold watch, seven ladies'
coats, a quantity of cigars and tobacco
and other items of clothing and hard
ware. 1t is believed that the thieves
did their work before midnight and
took a train for Topeka about 4
o'clock. The police department in
Topeka has been notified.
On account of picking only merchan-
disc that was not heavy and of large
value it is thought that this burglary
was committed by the organized auto
mobile bandits that have been operat-
ing in Kansas recently.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-24
INSURANCE CASE
States Attorneys Want Perma-
nent Restraining Order.
To Keep 20 Insurance Com
panies From Raising Rates.

Arguments on the motion of the
state of Kansas to dismiss the case
brought by the seventy insurance COM
panies who brought suit in the dis
trict court of Shawnee county to COM
pei Ike S. Lewis, state superintendent
of insurance to put aside the rates put
in force by Charles Barnes, superin-
tendent of insurance in 1909, began
this morning before Judge Dana, and
at noon when adjournment was taken,
had not been concluded.
Attorney General Dawson, repres-
enting the state, based his motion for
dismissal on the grounds of a prior
suit pending. This alleged prior suit
was one Dawson filed in the district
court of LeaVenworth county last
June twelve hours before the suit
filed here by the insurance compan-
les. Dawson there sought and secured
a restraining order against the insur-
ance companies, alleging a conspiracy
to raise insurance rates.
Thomas f. Bates, general counsel
for the insurance companies, argued
that the two cases did not involve the
same points at issue, that what was
sought in the suit filed here is not to
increase insurance rates, but to get the
present rates out of the way, so that
new and higher rates can then be put
in force by the insurance commission
er. He tOld the court tndt on the
class of business involved, mercantile
risks, the companies have been losing
a half-million dollars every year for
the last four years, or since the reduc-
tionS ordered by Barnes went into
force. He claimed that the two
Barnes orders, which cut rates four
teen per cent, were illegal.
At the conclusion of the arguments
today, Judge Dana. will take the case
under advisement.
The insurance companies are repre-
sented by Thomas F. Bates, of Chi
cago, who also conducted the insur-
ance company's fight in Missouri, and
Robert Stone and George McDermott
of Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-24
CAUCUS
Speaker Clark Quits His Desk
to Make a Speech.
Remarks Call Forth a Reply
From Vic. MurdOck.

Washington Sept. 24.-Speaker
Clark quit his gavel today to take the
floor to defend the caucus against the
Republican attack.
This continual howl about the
caucus is the most idiotic thing that
has ascended to heaven in the last
generation shouted the speaker.
1.-The country wants to know what
congress does, it does not care three
whoops how it did it. We have re-
vised the tariff and put through a bill
changing the banking and currency
system. If these measures are not
good we will be the ones to suffer, if
they are we will gain, but we do not
propose to let you Republicans bring
up other subjects on the floor while
they were under consideration and
distract the attention of members and
of the country from the great issues
involved
Speaker Clark said he would not
answer Republican attacks by calling
attention to the way former Speakers
Reed and Cannon put through impor-
tant legislation. That would be a
case of pot calling the kettle black,
he said "A lot of you fellows have
been talking too much for your own
good, anyhow concluded the speak
er, to the accompaniment of pro-
longed outburst of applause from the
Democrats.
Progressive Leader Murdock took
issue with Speaker Clark over his
statement that the country did not
care how congress did things so long
as they are done MIR. Murdock said
the caucus resulted in lack of de-
corum, brought about a small attend
ance and ended in gag rule. He said
cry committee room should not be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-24
THE DAY in CONGRESS
Favorable Report on Agricultural
Education Bill Ordered.

session. meets Thursday. Banking
committee heard witnesses from north
west on the administration currency
bill. Appropriations committee .Shears
protests against abolishing the COM
merce court. Public lands committee
took up Hetch Hetchy bill for San
Franciscos water supply.
House met at noon. Mayor Grace
of Charleston, S. c., petitioned Speaker
Clark to investigate the election of
Representative Whaley and alleged ir-
regularities in the primaries. Favor
able report on the Lever agricultural
education extension bill ordered by
committee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-24
INQUEST BEGINS
Body of Mrs. Little Disinterred
and Physicians Examine 1t.
Methodist Church Officers Will
Investigate Rev. LittIetOn.

Edna, Kan, Sept. 24.-The coro-
ner's inquest to determine the manner
| in which Mrs. c. B. Littleton, wife of
| the former Methodist minister here,
| came to her death began here today.
AT an inquest held Immediately after
Mrs. Littleton's death, June % last,
| it was decided she had committed
suicide by hanging, but since then per-
sistent gossip caused the authorities
to order another inquiry.
Shortly before the inquest began an
undertaken was served with an order
for disinterment for Mrs. Littleton's s
body and two medical experts were
named to examine it.
DIR. A. S. Freed, presiding elder of
the Methodist church for this district
said today the church would soon be-
gin an investigation of the conduct of
LittIeton, the woman's husband who is
missing.
THE church must protect ITSELF
DR.. Freed said. II understand charges
are to be made by the church members
discretion but whether formal
charges are made or not, the church
will make a full investigation and
either clear Brother Littletons name
or drop him from the church rolls
The exhumation of the body of
Mrs. Littleton failed to throw any
light upon the manner of her death
save to settle definitely that it was
the result OF StranSuIat1On. whether
the StrangulatiOn was caused by sui
eide by hanging or not the two medi-
cal experts who performed the autopsy
said they were unable to determine.
Much of the time of the inquest was
taken up in the testing of hooks
similar to that upon which the Rev.
Littleton said his wife hanged herself
to see if they would support the
weight of a person. 1t was found
that the hooks would not support a
one hundred pound bag of wheat.
Thirteen pounds of wheat were re-
moved so that the weight would cor
respond to that of Mrs. Littleton. The
hook then sustained the bag. A meas
ure of the distance from where the
hooks had been fixed in the wall to
the floor showed that the woman's
feet could have cleared the floor by
several inches. This development was
in contradiction of gossip that had
spread that the hooks were not suffi-
GENTLY high to have permitted the
suspension of Mrs. Littleton's body.
The inquest at 1 o'clock this afternoon
adjourned to the town fire hall where
the autopsy upon Mrs. Littletons body
was performed. There they viewed
the body and heard the testimony of
the experts to the effect that there
was no evidence as to what had pro-
duced the strangulation which re-
suited in the death.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-24

Senator Joe Bristow of Kansas, near
his home in this city several weeks ago,
will surrender himself at the proper
time. according to a statement given
out by a sister of the fugitive at the
Schultz home in Laporte, Ind, a few
days ago.
The Washington police were consid-
erably surprised when shown the dis
patch telling of the sisters statement,
as detectives working on the case had
not had any intimation that Schultz
was in communication with his reIa-
tives. In spite of the drag net that
reaches from end of the continent to
the other. the police have failed to get
a single clue to Schultzs wherea bouts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-24
new EXPORT RECORD.
August Surpassed the Same Month in
Any Previous Year.

Washington, Sept 24.-Although i'm
ports for the month of August fell off
when compared with figures for the
same month last year, exports in
creased to such an extent that they
surpassed figures of any other August
on record, according to the department
of commerce, which today made pub
lie statistics of the general trade in
the United States during the last
month. The imports for the month to-
tailed S137 704, 1876, while exports aggre-
gated s1S7, ,S12, ,636 The figures for the
same month last year were S154. 1855, TO
and $167, ,S44, 81. For the eight months
ending with August imports to this
country were valued at $1156, $40 $40;
its exports amounted to 81. .515. .O85. .773.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-24

Albany, n. Y, Sept. 24-The i'm
parchment trial of Governor William
Sulzer, if it lasts one month, will cost
New York state more than a quarter
of million dollars. And if the trial
continues longer than a month. $4,000
expense must be added for every addi-
tional week.
This means that if the trial runs for
two months-and there are many SEN
ators who predict that it villa half
million dollars of the tax payers mon
ey will be spent in determining if Mr..
Sulzer is innocent or guilty of the
high crimes and misdemeanors',
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-24
A FAIR APPLE CROP.
1t Is Expected in Kansas in Spite of
the DrOuth.

To the general surprise of apple
raisers, and Notwithstanding the
drouth of the summer, there will prob
ably be a very fair crop of apples of
the fall varieties After hanging on
the trees all summer and attaining a
size not much larger than marbles,
they have taken on an expansion
policy with the coming of the rains
Apples which two weeks ago were
considered worthless have now attain
ed normal size, and are still growing,
so horticulturists report. The cloudy
weather following the rains was ideal
for the apples to grow rapidly without
ripening before gaining their normal
size, or swelling and bursting as would
have been the case had hot suns fol-
lowed the heavy rains.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-24
COLD WAVE COMING.
1t Is Showing Today in Colorado and
Wyoming.

A near cold wave is scheduled to hit
Topeka tonight
The temperature is expected to drop
from 80 degrees to below so by Thurs
day morning. Denver is experiencing
a heavy snow storm today and snow is
also falling in Utah, Nevada and
Wyoming. The storm is moving this
way. No snow is expected here but
there is a probability that it will rain
tonight. The temperature at Denver
at o'clock this morning was 80 de-
grees, 81 degrees lower than at
Topeka at the same hour. There is
below freezing weather at several gov
ernment stations in the storm area.
The weather has been threatening at
Topeka today, and there has been q
trace of rain. At 2 o'clock the wind
was blowing at the rate of Is miles
an hour from the south.
The hourly readings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-24
TEN FIREMEN BURNED
Were Compelled to Drive Over a Via
duct in Flames.

Milwaukee, Sept. 24.-Ten f1remen
were burned three seriously here to-
day during a fire which destroyed
81 600 worth of coal, docks and dock
buildings belonging to the Gross Coal
company.
The men We're burned while on the
over viaduct which was enve1oped
with the flames of the burning coal
They fell from the trucks and were
dragged to safety by comrades. The
huge coal piles are still burning but
there is no danger of the fire spread
ing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-24
CAUGHT IN CANADA.
Ascending Clerk of Milling Company
Is Under Arrest.

New York. Sept. 24.-John C. Schild-
knecht, $40 a week clerk of the Wash
burn-Crosby Milling company, who kept
two automobiles and a retinue of SER
wants and disappeared two weeks ago
when a shortage of more than $4,000
was found in his accounts, is under
arrest at Montreal, according to an
nouncement made here today by a pri-
vate detective agency. Schildknecht
lived in regal style for about four
months. He paid his bills, it is charg-
ed, with money obtained by manipu-
lating checks payable to his employers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-24

of Reno county, for the use of the
state orphans home. With this money
Harry Bowman, as chairman of the
board, proposed to establish a home
finding department by which children
from that institution can be transferr-
ed to private homes.
Following is a statement of the num-
Der of inmates in the various institu-
tionS on July L, 1913:
Men. Women. Total.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-24
Cost of SuIzer Trial.

If the impeachment trial of Gov
ernor Sulzer at Albany continues for
one month, this is the estimated cost:
Compensat tion of 49 senators at
$40 each a day... $50, 900
Compensation of nine assembly
managers at $40 a day.... 10000
Compensation of counsel for
Governor sulzer ........ $4,000
Compensation of counsel for as
sembly $4,000
Stenographers' fees and Incl
dentaIs $4,000
Expense of Frawley committee. SO, 900
Total .................... s27O, 900
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-24
TODAY'S GAMES.


Denver at Omaha, rain
Wichita at st. Joseph, clear.
Des Moines at Topeka, cloudy.
Lincoln at Sioux City, rain.
National.
Chicago at Pittsburg, clear
Boston at Philadelphia, CD
clear.
Brooklyn at New York, clear.
American.
Philadelphia at Boston, clear.
Association.
Kansas City at Indianapolis,
cloudy.
Minneapolis at Louisville,
clear.
Milwaukee at Toledo, CD clear.
ST. Paul at Columbus, clear.