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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
MAY URGE ELIOT
President Wilson Wants Him
to Accept Post.
Reported That College Presi-
dent Says He VIII Decline.

Washington, March 20.-At the
White House today it was said the re-
ported declaration of Charles w. Eliot,
president emeritus of Harvard, that
he would decline a diplomatic appoint
ment if one were offered might not
deter President Wilson from urging
DR.. Eliot to reconsider and take un-
der Amusement an offer of a foreign
post.
The appointment to London was
thought to be the most likely offer,
II one were made. 1t has been re-
ported that DR.. Eliot declined a SINH
lar offer from Mr.. Taft.
John R. Mott of Montclaire, N. J.,
1t was said today, has declined an of
fer of appointment to be minister to
China.
Mr.. Mott is Y NJ c. A. official
who has been identified with the mis-
slonary movement, especially in the
Far East.
1t was said Mr.. Mott had been asked
to reconsider his declination.
1t was also intimated that with the
selection of a minister to China for
NAL recognition of the republic might
be announced by the United States.
The subject is now under discussion by
President Wilson
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
TODAY'S MARKET REPORT,

chicago March .-wHEAT-Much
Colder weather in the west and southvest
with predictions of still lower temneraN
lures sent wheat up today after an easv
opening. Buying on the part of the lead,
ing houses was strongly in evidence. Ma
opened unchanged to Nc lower at S75kc to
ofAc and quickly advanced to $50 6SSSSc
The market went a little higher oncov-
rows holiday. 'ioi
The close was strong with May %c net
higher at 9014c. "so Nee
CORN-The trade seemingly isnoreo
prospects for liberal worlds shinments
Rough weather interfering with field
operations sent corn up. May started m
changed to sc lower at 52s40527Sc and
mounted to 53Ac - |eo eNiio
On profit taking sales the market do.
en fr /. The close was firm at 5sHc, a net
OATS-Oats bulged with other grains
may began shade lower to a shade
S31aG335sc. -u iose 20
Professionalism prices ne boes
sent the provision list off at tho onenjns
put grain strength brought about a ralIS'
FIRST prices were 1212915c lower to PIC
advance. The earliest quotations on NAV
were: Pork, s20.S713 to 500. 421A. lard
SO. SPY; ribs, So. 721k. ~
RYE-No. 2, Coo.
BARLEY-6d6Sc
TIMOTHY SEED-s2 5O03 RI
CLOVER SEED-$12 OOG0lOOO
PORk-S20. go.
LARD-$10 775a.
RlBS-$10. 50d11.25
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
LAW WILL STAND.
No One Likely to Test the Irrigation
Law.

There will probably be no suit to
test the constitutiDnality of the new ir-
rigation law and the $125,00O appro-
priation which was carried in the bill.
That the question as to the validity
of the law will never reach the courts,
now seems reasonably certain. In the
language of Governor Stubs, the new
law is in the hands of mot unfriendly
justices"
Looking oyer the persons who might
be expected to contest the irrigation
law, it is found that none of them are
from a territory hostile to the meas
ure. State Auditor Davis is from
Dodge City, State Treasurer AkerS is
from Stafford a not unfriendly terri
tory. Then there is Attorney General
Dawson. He comes from the big Sixth
district which gets some of the bene-
fits. Members of the irrigation COM
mission won't bring the suit. They are
all friends of the law None of the
county attorneys in the western coun-
ties will bring this action. They realize
the benefits of the law. County attor-
neys in territory not affected, cannot
bring the action. So it is entirely i'm
probable that there will be any action
to block the operation of this new law.
In the oil refinery case it was quite
different. That law was in the hands
of persons who didn't see the real
benefits of the state entering the oil
refinery business. They promptly
Jumped onto the law and the supreme
court with equal promptness put out
of the business the law which per-
mitted the state to compete with John
d Rockefeller,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
CONDITIONS Are BAD
Report Made on Little Falls Textile
Investigation.

Albany, N Y, March 20.'The re-
port of the state labor department on
it's investigation of conditions among
the Little Falls textile workers
brought to public attention by the re-
cent strike-has been made public.
Certainly it is a matter of grave
public concern" the report says
s'when a considerable body of wage
earners are found in such living con-
ditions syare revealed by this report.
There is reason to suppose that more
or less similar conditions are not to be
found elsewhere.
The investigators state that prior to
the strike half of the men workers
received a weekly wage of SO or less,
while half the women received less
than $3.50.
sThe settlement of the strike" the
report adds, made but little if any
change from conditions as to wages"
Monthly rents for space occupied by a
single family or group run from Sc
20
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
FIGHT IN RECTOR'S.
Trouble in Fashionable Dining Hall
May Result in Death.

New York, March 20.-A party among
a group of men and women diners, all
in evening clothes, in the Hotel Rector,
on Broadway, early today may cost the
life of Eugene Bozonizzi, a young
waiter. The dining room, well filled
with late supper parties, was the scene
of intense excitement when two men
were seen to engage in a fist fight while
their women companions tried to sep
arate them. One of the men, however
received several blows in the face and
was about to bolt for the door when he
seized a heavy cut glass water bottle
and with a long swing let it go at the
man who had struck him. The bottle
went wild and struck Bozonizzi whose
tray of dishes was upset as he dropped
to the floor unconscious. At the hos
pital it was said his skull was broken
and that he probably would die.
The party in the fight had escaped
without their identity becoming known.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
HAS REFORMED.
Abe Buzzard, Notorious Bandit, Leaves
Prison With a Bible.

Philadelphia, March 2o-Abe Buzzard,
once notorious as the leader of the
"Buzzard gang of outlaws, who terri
fled Lancaster county for years, is
planning to start west and begin life
anew Forty of his sixty years he has
spent in prison, but when released yes
terday from the eastern penitentiary he
carried a Bible with him and declared
he had reformed His last sentence was
for ten years for robbing
chicken roosts. He formerly had been
a. leader of highwaymen in the WEIGH
mountains, where from stronghold
they descended upon the country
around robbing farmers and villagers.
When Buzzard was released from pri-
son in 1901 he declared he had re-
formed, and went through the state lee
turing on Ruin and Reformation"
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KING is IN ATHENS.
CONTINUED from Page one.)

ciates, and denouncing kings and gov
ernmentS.
He stated a number of times that
his enlightened country men in Greece,
with the noble and glorious history
that she possessed. should permit them
selves to be ruled by :. king. He also
said that some day he would return
to his native country and convert the
people in his ideas"
Body Borne to Palace.
Saloniki, March 20.-Prince Nicholas,
son of the murdered King George, as
sisted by several of the superior Off
of his father from the hospital to the
lying in state with a mounted guard
of honor watching over it.
In the procession that followed the
body to the palace were subjects of the
late king from every walk of life. High
officers in the army rubbed shoulders
with members of the clergy and SOL
diers of the Greek light infantry,
dressed in their quaint kits in which
they had followed King George and
Prince Constantine in the victorious
Janina campaign with civilians, and
Musselmans pressed around the humble
bier. Grief was apparent on every
hand and in many cases the grizzled
soldiers were weeping unrestrainedly
and openly.
On the arrival at the palace the
body was received with military hon
ors and then laid in the main cham
Der. Priests, chanting psalms took
their place beside the guard of honor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
FOR HELP
DIR. friedman Hemmed in by
tuberculosis Sufferers.
Police Called to EXtricate Sci
enlist From Crush.

New York, March 2O.-Four hum
dred women and children hemmed
around the automobile of Dr. Fried
rich Franz Friedman late yesterday,
begging him to treat them for tuber-
culosis. The crowd surrounded the
German physician outside the hospital
for deformities and joint diseases and
a squad of police reserves had to be
called to make a path for him to the
hospital door.
Physicians from all parts of the
United States earlier in the day gath
cred at Mount Sinai hospital to watch
DR.. friedman administer his vaccine,
but were refused admission. The only
other medical men at the clinic were
three representatives of the govern
ment, at whose request other physi-
clans were excluded. The hospital
auth critics explained that the govern
ment physicians feared that premature
reports of the clinic would be made
before they presented their official
report to the government. DR.. Fried
mann, it was said, had not made any
request to have the others excluded.
Sixteen patients were treated at
Mount Sinia hospital After the de-
m onstration, DR.. John w. Anderson,
one of the government physicians, left
geon General Blue, of the United
States public health and marine hos
pital, will issue bulletin Friday re-
garding the Friedman vaccine and
results OF us use on pdIlenlS mere.
DR.. William L. Sirovitch, state
superintendent of hospitals, said to-
night that he has recommended to
Governor Sulzer that if DR.. Fried
manns claim of the value of his vac
cine is borne out by results, the Ger
man physician be granted special
license by the board of regents.
DIR. Friedman plans to treat 35
cases of bone and knee tuberculosis
today, mainly among children at the
hospital for deformities and joint dis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
Cotton Crop Report.

Washington, March 2e.-The 1912 cot
ton crop amounted to Ia, 259 500, equiva-
lent 500 pound bales, including linters,
the census bureau announced today.
Running bales included 14,076, 430; round
bales, 81 .152 bales; Sea Island, SO, 651
bales; Inter bales, sos, 704. Produc-
ton by states, in 500-pound bales:
Alabama, 1880, 1855: Arkansas, S25, 1853;
Florida, 1854; Georgia, 1,S49,303; Lou
isiana, 1884; Mississippi 1902, $50;
Missouri, 5S,319; North Carolina, $751;
80: Oklahoma. 1,074 ,149; South Caro-
lima, 1,215,973; Tennessee, 299, 5S3: Texas,
5.120 252; Virginia, 24,3s5: all other
states 16,036
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
five DEAD In FIRE.
Many More Injured in Blaze in
Canadian Town.

Medicine Hat, Alberta, March 30
Five are dead and ten badly injured
as the result of the explosion of gas
generated in the burning three-story
building of the Western Canada Cold
Storage and Packing plant here last
night. The loss exceeds 100000.
Fears that many more were buried
in the ruins of the plant practically
were set at rest when searching parties
failed to find bodies.
Many of the injured were spectators,
who, watching the fire, were crushed
when three of the walls were forced
outward by the explosion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
3D3& &&&&S

Prospects of a poor bank statement
were held out by the loss by the banks to
the sub-treasury of s., 100000 this week.
Call money showed firmness and there
was stiffening of other forms of ac-
commodations.
bonds were easier.
cialties at the opening of the stock mar
ket today. Rumeley fell 21s to "a and
Snuff dropped points Changes among
the leading speculative stocks were small
and irregular
Demand was insufficient to absorb light
professional selling of the afternoon.
Reading u P. and Amalgamated sold
point under their best prices, and other
well known shares also were below yes
terdav final figures. Railroad steel
spring was marked up PA on the resu1np-
ton of dividends.
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Vote for PAY Increase.

Jefferson City, Mo, March 2O.-The
RarbervilIe house joint and concur
rent resolution, proposing an amend
ment to the constitution under which
members of the legislature would re-
ceive $1,000 a year in addition to the
nav thew now are entitled to, passed
the senate and will appear as one of
several proposed amendments that will
be submitted to the voters at the next
general election.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
New York Stock Market.

Wall St, New York, March 2O-STOCkS
"A holiday atmosphere pervaded til
principal markets here and abroad, where
preparations were being made for the
suspension of business until after Easter.
Business throughout the morning hour
was perfunctory with only fractional
variations among the leading stocks.
Much of the trading was was of an
evening up character On the part OF
SPECTATORS who did not wish to have
open contracts over the three-day holiday.
The demand from the shorts impaired
firmneSs to the stocks which was i'm
paired at times by the result of liquida
ton in obscure stocks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
N.,v York Money Market

New York, March 20.-MONEY-.Money
on call firm, l2q51A per cent; ruling rate
Az per cent; closing bid ~ per cent OIL
60 and ninety days So per cent; six
months 51z per cent. .-l.- -C.
Prime mercantile paper 8 per cent
Sterling Exchange firm with actual bust
ness in bankers bills at 4S2 per cent for
60 day bills, and at 4.a.SO for demand.
Commercial bills, $4S21a
lars, 4715c.
BONDS - Government bonds stronS'
railroad bonds irregular.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
Wichita live Stock Market.

400 Market steady Native steers, 500
GS.75; cows and heifers. s6.0Oas.0o; stock
ers and feeder, $7O0@S.00; bulls, $575q6.5O;
stocl< cows and heifers, IS. T06.75; calves.
s.. O0@9.50.
HOGS-Receipts 200. Market lower.
Top, $3.50; bulk of sales, $S.704S.SO-
SHEEP-Receipts none.
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Chicago live Stock Market.

Chicago, March 20.-HOGS-Receipts 2S,-
600. Market slow to sc lower than yester~
days average. Bulk of sales, $S154S-9o;
light. IS 7OG9.O5; mixed, SS.60q9.O0; heavy,
S. S5GS IS; rough, IS. 35@S50; pigs, s6.S0qS- Is.
CATTLE-Receipts $500 Market SLOW
at yesterdays close. Beeves, N.loq9O'
81. sOGS.15: stockers and feeders, $6.o0d8 20;
cows and heigers, $3.50QS.0o; calves, 500
OILS.
TO shade lower. Native, Sc. $4,000; west
ern. sc. 4OSa7 10: yearlings, $7.20q8.25 lambs,
native, $7.S5@S.50; western, $S.75d9D.
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Kansas City live stock Market .

Kansas City, March 2O.-CATTLE-Re-
CENTS g. 500. Including 200 southerns. Mar
ket steady. Native steers, S.75qe0o;
southern steers, s6.50QS.sO; southern cows
and heifers, S4504S2 Is; native cows and
heifers, s45oQS.5O: stockers and feeders,
Sc. 75aS50; bulls, S6.0OQ7.50; calves, $1,000
1885, western steers, S7-oe9S.95; wesern
cows, 81 SOFAS %.
HOGSGReceipts 5000. Market lower.
Bulk of sales, sS.70aS.S5; heavy, SS.65gS.75;
e 95@s 90. I pigs sf.50as.25.
SHEEP-Receipts 1900. Market lower
Muttons, s5.o0d70O; Colorado lambs, $50
as, 60. range wethers and yearlings, 5000
IT'S; range ewes, $5.5096.60.
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To Ascertain Facts.

Washington, March 20.-A commit
tee to inquire into the actual phys-
tcal and working conditions through
out the postal service, has been Gre
ated by Postmaster General Burleson.
1t was announced that there has been
many conflicting reports as to the
general conditions of the department
the facts o.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
Kansas City Produce Market.

Kansas City, March 20.-BUTTER-Mar-
ket unchanged.
EGGS-Market unchanged.
POULTRY-Market unchanged.
WHEAT-Cash: Market unchanged. No
hard; SS1SaS6zAc; No 3, SSqS5c; No. z
CORN-Market steady. No. mixed. SO
@5O12c; No. 8, 4S1ke; No. white, 50d5Oihc;
No. g. 4904915c
OATS-Market higher. No. white. BAD
35c; No. 2 mixed, 321ad33c.
RYE-Market unchanged.
HAY-Market unchanged.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IL cars.
CLOSE: WHEAT-May, S4A@S4zsc;
July 1914.
CORN-May, 513sc; July, 527sd53c.
OATS-May, 23szc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
No Increase Expected.

Washington, March 2o.-George E.
Roberts, director of the mint, predicts
that the production of gold Will not
materially increase during the next
ten years The importance of this
prediction made in Mr.. Roberts an
nual report for the fiscal year 1912,
lies in its relation to the economic law
that overproduction of gold tends to
increase prices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20

Okey, sitting as q master in chancery.
Allegations involving two former state
treasurers, L B. Cameron and w. H.
McKinnon, several officials of the
bank and Columbus politicians and
business men were made in the testi-
mony of Henry w. Backhus, secretary
and treasurer and others
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
Kansas City I've Stock Sales.

1.-THE following sales were made this
morning at the Stock Yards. Kansas
City and reported over long distance
telephone direct 70 the State Journal by
Clay, Robinson & Co, live stock COM
mission merchants. with offices at all
markets.l
Kansas City, March 2o.-CATTLE-R
ceipts today $500 head. Market weak to
10c higher.
HOGS-Receipts 5000 head Market Sc
to 1Oc lower. Bulk of sales, S. 75QS.65.
top, IS. 1924.
SHEEP@Receipts today 1900 head
Market weak to 10c lower.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
LeMelrx Shipment Lost.

Philadelphia, March 20.-Jewelry in
leather cases valued at 100000 has
mysteriously disappeared on a train
between this city and Boston and the
police of the two cities and also of
New York have been asked to locate
it. The jewelry was the property of
one of the society leaders of the Back
Bay district in Boston, whose identity
is being closely guarded.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20

schools placed in a more friendly at
titude 18th the general public. There
is no doubt but that there is a great
work to be done and expect to devote
my entire time to it,
Hosner Hoch, of Marion, accompanied
his father on the trip to Topeka. He
returned home last night. Ex-Governor
Hoch and his little grandson remained
in Topeka today and will probably re-
turn to their home this evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
Pleased With Air Tests.

Washington, March 20.-Brigadier
George P. Scriven, chief of the United
States signal corps, expressed salts
faction over reports on aviation ex-
periments being conducted by army
officers at San Diego. Cal, Galveston,
Tex. and ordered two more Heuten-
ants to each place to receive instruc-
tons in flying.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
New York Produce Mark.,

New York, March 2o.-BUTTER-Mar-
ket barely steady. Factory held, 231h0
241Ac; factory current make firsts, 24c.
CHEESE-Market irregular. State whole
milk. colored special, TIC.
EGGS-Market easier. Fresh gathered
extras, 1920; firsts, 1S0Is15c.
POULTRY-Live firm. Western chick
ems, Ice; fowls, 19c; turkeys, 21c. Dressed
firm. First killed chickens, 14c; fowls,
1561Tc
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Chicago Produce Market

Chicago, March 20-BUTTER-Mark
easier. Creameries, 2Sc to 3315G35c
EGGS-Market firmer. At mark, cases
included. I7Q171sc; ordinary firsts, 16Ac;
firsts, TIC.
POTATOES-Market steady. Michigan.
45g4Sc; Minnesota, 4Sd4Sc; Wisconsin, 42
G50c.
POULTRY-Market weak. Turkeys
dressed, &c; chickens alive, 14c
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Vetoes Eieht-Hour Riu

Carson City, March 2O.-Governor
Oddie has vetoed the bill establishing
an eight-hour day for working women
IN Nevada He said conditions are
not right at this time for such ao+io,,
This is the first bill he had vetoed this
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Nav.ResuIt i'm War.

Chicago, March 20.-President B. A.
Worthington, of the Chicago & Alton
railroad, predicted in a speech before
the Railroad Engineering association
last night that continued depreciation
of American railway securities may re-
suit in war with other countries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
John Bangs Converted.

Detroit, March 2O.-John Kendrick
Bangs, noted author and humorist,
who arrived in Detroit to visit his
sons, announced that he had been
converted to the cause of womans
suffrage, though until recently he has
been a pronounced "anti"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
Asks Reconsideration

Ulster Yacht club today cabIed to the
New York Yacht club asking for a.
reconsideration of it's refusal of sir
Ihomas Lipton's challenge for the
Americas cup. 'i '1ie
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-20
ST. Joseph Live Stock Marke

st. Joseph, March 2o.-CATTLE-IRRe e.,
CENTS / 500. Market steady Steers, 800
$50: cows and heifers, $4.O06S.25; calves.
$6.OO61050.
HoGs-Receipts $500, 40 n Market ss 90 slow
SiEEP-Receipts 5000 Market slow,
Lambs, S7.004S.90.
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Inrestigating Bank Failure.

Columbus, O.. March 20.-Sensa-
tional disclosures were made in the
investigation of the affairs of the de-
funct Columbus Savings & Trust COM
pany, conducted before judge George
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N.v York Suea- Market.

New York, March 9.-SUGAR-Raw
steady: Museovado SO test, 3OS; centr1-
fural So test, 35S; molasses sugar SO test,
2S3 Refined steady
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Chicago Grain Market.

chicago, March %,
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Open High Low Today Yes