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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-20
Lawn Tennis Net Saves Girl Players
From Bull.

CHESTER, Pa, Sept. 2o.-A fine
game of tennis had reached its
tensest point on the Chester High
School campus yesterday, when a bull
in an adjoining pasture accepted the
implied challenge of fiery red in one
of the girls sweaters. 1t was a great
believing charge. and Catherine
Lewis and Mildred Rhoads fell in
their hasty retreat. Assisted to their
feet by Mary Walters and Edith Pax
son, all beat the bull to the nearest
fence, where some champion vault
ing was done. The bull, with head
down, ran into the tennis net, caught
his horns and boofs, turned an awk-
ward somersault and lay enmeshed
and helpless till men came and cut
the net away. Then the pasture lured
him again. &
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-20

CAMPBELLTOWN, Pa, Sept. 90
A well, recently struck by lightning,
which doubtless opened natural gas
fissure at the bottom, exploded near
here yesterday killing one man and
injuring another and the dead mans
boy. William kaufman, of this place,
is dead and his thirteen-year-old
son, Paul, and George Matterness,
also of this place, are seriously
burned
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-20

3me, was received with the highest
Hillary honors for his courage.
England has been offered all of
Spain's possessions in Africa in ex-
change for the one great sterile rock;
yet nothing will induce her to give VI
that hold'on the gate of the Mediter.
ranean.
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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-20
Oddities i'm Today's News

will be like the town clock that
speaks at the right time, and she will
not be like the town clock heard all
over town. YOUR UNCLE JOHN"
Mr.. Hubbard was puzzled.
II have not been able to figure out
to whom the letter was written" he
said, but it seems to me that 1t
gives in remarkable way the at
mosphere spf those times"
Swallows Half Dollar to Save Its
x-Rays Now Busy.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20.-lThere's a
half-dollar lost inside Miss Mary
Roma, the sixteen-year-o daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Roma. of
South Jamesport, L. l., and doctors
in st. Peters Hospital, Brooklyn. are
trying to find 1t with x-rays. Swal-
lowing half dollars isn't the usual
method for Miss Roma to save her
earnings. She Is employed in a seal
lop Smelling plant in South James
port, and there on Thursday, while
she happened to have half-do1lar in
her hand during the noon recess,
some boys and girls made a rush
toward her. For the better freedom
of her hands in warding them off she
slipped the half dollar into her
mouth. Then as she involuntarily
laughed over the frolic-zip! the half
dollar took a long drop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-09
TO CUT FIRE LOSS.
Prevention Day Is Being Observed in
r. Many Kansas Towns.

In an effort to reduce the fire losses
of the state. fire prevention day is be
ing observed today in many Of the
more important towns of the state. I'm
der request from Harrison Parkman,
state fire marshal. the property owners
are cleaning their rubbish heaps and
renovating their trash cans in ap et-
fort to prevent possible blazes.
Recently Parkman sent out hre
prevention request and urged the fire
chiefs of the various Kansas towns
to order a general clean up day on Oc-
tober 9. the anniversary of the great
Chicago fire. Practically all of the fire
officials responded by issuing an order
for a general cleaning up of the back
yards and rubbish heaps.
Records for five months in the fire
marshaTs office show that of 1,341 fires
in Kansas during that period. at least
one-half of the number were due to
carelessness and could have been pre-
vented with a little care and caution.
OF the 1,347 fires, the state fire marshal
found that only SO of them were in
class known as unpreVentable. These
519 fires did not include 81 fires re-
ported as of incendiary origin.
But with an annual or semi annual
clean up day in Kansas, Parkmam Re
lieves that the cause of fire prevention
will be greatly advanced. And the rec
ord of tOday's work in the state viii,
be watched with interest by the fire
marshars office and the representa-
tiVeS of the big insurance companies
doing business in Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-09
MUST GIVE NOTICE.
New Rule Affecting Students of Law
in Private Offices.

Law students who in the future study
law in private Offices, must notify the
clerk of the state supreme court of
the date when they entered the study
of law and declare their intentions
to at some future time apply to the
bar examining board for certificate to
admission to the state bar. This rul-
ing was sent today to D. A Valentine,
clerk of the supreme court, and comes
as a direct ruling from the supreme
court.
Clerks or students who are now
reading law and expect to become
active in the practice, may receive
credit for the time they have already
spent in private study if they notify
the supreme court clerk before July
1, 1914. After next July, however.
no credit will be given for time spent
in private study before the court
clerk was notified.
The ruling does not affect students
in the several law schools of the state.
Records of time spent in the study of
law is desired by the examining board
in passing on applications for admis-
sion to the state bar and by observing
the new ruling this information will
at all times be in the hands of the SUI
preme court clerk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-09
THE old, OLD FELLOW


Poor ole Matty: he's all in
Can't do nawthin'-'ceptin win.
His feeble form was bent with years:
His eyes were duh and dim.
The inroads Of advancing age had made a
He slowly hobbled to the box. while forty
thousand men
In pity murmured. Poor old guy; he'll
never pitch again.
Tell John McGraw to take him out; John
ought a have heart.
A broken down old chap like that should
never even start.
We want TO beat live one SOS We'll know
we've earned the game.
To knock about that doddering wreck is
just crying shame
his wrinkled brow
The dank wind swept through his thin
He cIinked his loose and scanty teeth, he
flexed his palsied arm
And smiled a space at Connie Mack to
show he meant no harm.
one pleading glance at John McGraw he
cast. as if to say.
He read no pity in that face, no mercy. no
compassion,
So he proceeded to blow up in this dis
tressing fashion:
A spiral ball he wound around the end of
Bakers bat
And when that Titan savagely upon his
digitS Spat
And swung 70 drive the pellet toward the
cloud-spangled blue,
The umpire in a thin. small voice observed
these words: Strike two"
Tom crfbbed classic. one more bell; "Ah.
somewhere children shout,
But here in Phil delight is nil-great
Baker has struck out"
For nine long rounds he let EN- hit. pro-
vided they would drop EN-,
Around those localities where sundry
Giants could stop EN-.
For nine long rounds. when dawned the
hope that some one d make run
He added just pinch of dope and famed
EN-. one by one.
hunt: again he'd let EN- clout;
But they cantered forth from third he
paused and put 'em out.
And even Weakened quakertown repressed
its thirst for rage
And owned that he'd done fairly well,
considering his age.
Now in the books which we have read we
oft have noted that
One thing is true beyond dispute: A
pitcher cannot bat.
And so when our poor senile friend. nine
innings being Ger.
Stepped to the rubber in the tenth, We
shuddered to the core.
McGraw should spare him this, we walled;
he's kept alive somehow;
He's even fiuffed e Collins twice so why
disgrace him now?
But ere this tense and troubled trial or
thought had well begun
He slugged a sizzling single and brought
in the winning run.
Poor. senile. broken down old man.
knew he couldn't last.
His part should be to sit and mourn the
misty vanished past.
To pipe in shriH and trembling tones about
that ancient day
When he and Arson used to teach the
Youngsters how to play
We thought he'd sit upon the bench and
watch with rneumy eye
The game and tell US of the curves he
pitched in times gone by
But now our eyes turn forward and we
wonder with thrill
# in the fall of SO Wen see him winning
still.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-09
TO STUDY new RATES.
Henderson Martin and Judge Helm
Will Go to Washington.

Henderson s. Martin. chairman of
the public utilities commission, and
Judge A. E. Helm, attorney for the
commission, will leave Friday night
for Washington, where they will spend
a week studying the new rates and
schedules esta blished in the MISSISSIPPI
pi river rate case under the recent
ruling of the interstate commerce
commission. The new rates become
operative November ID and a careful
study of the various schedules and
classifications will be made by Kansas
commission before the commerce
commissions order is effective.
When the Mississippi river freight
rate case was decided by the interstate
CONNIE cree commission, that body re-
duced the class freight rates to Kan
Sas towns from Mississippi river points
and also issued an order placing com
modify rates on the same basis with
class rates This change in rates
meant a reduction of nine cents on
the first class rates to Kansas towns
from Mississippi river towns and on
this rate was based a sliding scale of
reduction on all other classifications.
Topeka. Emporia, Wichita. Hutchin-
son. Newton, Kinsley and Dodge City
were the towns more directly affected
by the order and the ruling meant a
big drop in Mississippi river freight
rates to these points
1t is probable that the conference
regarding the new rates will continue
for a week and that Martin and Helm
will not return to Kansas before
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-09
PRAISE FROM REDF|ELD
For Wireless Operator Who Lost His
Life on the California.

Washington, Oct. 9.-Praise of the
heroic sacrifice of life made by Donald
c. Perkins, the wireless operator in
the vessel State of California, sunk in
Alaskan waters some time ago, was
contained today in letters from Secre-
tary Redfield to Miss Mary r. Per-
kins, sister of the young man, and to
the secretary of the Y. NJ. c. A, at Los
Angeles, where Perkins learned his
profession.
The evidence shows" says the sec
rotary, that Mr.. Perkins was off duty
when the vessel struck and presum-
ably in a position where he might
have saved his own life. He went, in
stead, back to his post and relieved his
subordinate, whom he sent to help
clear away the boats. Your brothers
life was all too brief but in the heroic
act which marked it's close he spoke
a fine devotion that 1 trust may long
stand for the inspirations of his fell
lows"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-09
CROOKED DEALING
1t Is Charged Against Three
Citizens of Wichita.
Conspiracy to Deprive Govern
ment of It's Lands.

Warrants have been issued for the
arrest of three prominent men of
wichita charging them with conspir-
acy against the federal government to
deprive the government of posses
sion and use of it's public lands. The
arrest of one of them, H. p. Coney,
was made late Wednesday afternoon
by Dave Leahy, deputy United States
marshal. G. NJ. Carr and j. Frank
Bellew, defendants on the same
charge, are out of the state and will
be arrested when they return. Covey
was released on a bond of $1,000.
1t is said that Bellew, Carr and
CoVey organized a company called
the Colorado Land company of Wich-
tia, whose business was the selling of
large tracts of land to homesteaders
In eastern Colorado. For over
year the company has been in opera
ton and it is believed that the land
company cleared enormous profits
during the time it was in operation.
The specific charge is that old SOL
diers made declaratory statements to
the government in order to get
homeSteadS on government lands
cheaply. This is a privilege accorded
veterans and it is alleged that the land
company took advantage of this and
persuaded old soldiers to acquire large
homesteads in eastern Colorado and
then relinquish the land to the Colo
RADIO Land company. In several
cases it is reported that the men gave
the old soldiers small sums of money
for signing REIMBURSEMENT papers.
After getting possession of the land,
the company advertised widely for
prospective settlers and sold the for
mer government lands at a good prof
fit.
According to law after an old SOL
der receives the land he can have it
for six months without living on it be-
fore the homestead lapses. After that
time he may renew it. Most of the |
time it is said that the lands were
sold by the company to settlers after
the REIMBURSEMENT.
A large number of affidavits signed |
by the soldiers are now in the posses |
Iaon of District Attorney Fred Robert !
son. These will be important papers !
in the prosecution before the federal /
court.
The lands sold by Bellew. Covey |
and Carr are located near the Kansas
line in Bacca county, Colorado. Most |
of the papers were filed at Lamar, |
Colo. where Bellew is now looking |
after his interests. Carr is reported |
to be in Enid, Okla. The two men |
are expected to return to Wichita this |
week where warrants have been made |
out for their arrest. 1t is prOba BILE |
that they will be able to furnish bond |
s COVey did.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-09
ORIENTAL REVENGE.
Verdict of Police on Murder of a
Wealthy Chinaman.

Kansas City, Oct. 9.-Oriental re-
venge was the only motive to which
the police could aScribe the murder of
Charles Sing, a wealthy naturallzed
Chinese merchant, whose body, with
the head nearly severed from the
trunk. was found in Sings third floor
room on the North side today The ORR
entail apparently had been dead at least
4S hours. The body lay on the floor
covered with a heap of bed clothing.
An eight-inch butcher knife with the
sharp edge of the blade turned up lay
in the gaping wound in the throat. In
the same room two years ago, the body
of Sings American wife, Grace Kohl
Sing was found with bullet in the
head. The coroner pronounced it sui
eide
Sing was paralytic and something
of a recluse His clutches were found
leaning against the wall in the hall
ceiving no answer to his knock this
morning. entered the ROOM which Sing
never kept locked. and found the body.
The police in the beginning disca rded
suicide and robbery theories. Sing.
they said, could not have decapitated
himself, withdrawn the knife and re-
turned it to the wound upside down.
There We're no signs of a struggle or of
the rooms having been ransa cked.
Thick dust lay undisturbed on furni-
ture and castings. Sing kept his money
in banks and much of his property was
in real estate A bank book on the
dresser showed a balance of nearly
S., 900.
Sing, the police say. while he asso-
ciated with few persons was not known
to have enemies unless among his own
race. He had twice married white wo-
men. His association with Americans
and his success in a business way are
said to have aroused jealousy among
the other Chinese of the local colony.
He is survived by two children. Harry,
10 years, and Hazel, II. both of whom
are said to have been estranged from
their father for years. Their mother,
an American woman, died Is years a go
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-09
ARGUMENT BEGINS.
Voting on the Sulzcr Case Is Expected
Next Tuesday.

Albany, Oct. 9.-Final arguments
held the stage in the Sulzer impeach-
ment trial today. Attorneys for each
side were allotted five hours-virtually
full days seSSion-fOr making their
summing up addresses. 1t was be-
lieVed today that at the end of the
arguments on Friday night court will
adjourn over Monday, which will be
observed as Columbus day, until Tues
day. Then voting on the constitution
al objections to the Impeachment ar
ticles, brought by attorneys for the
defense and the Impeachment articles
themselves, will begin.
The voting on the objections to the
articles of impeachment and the tes-
timony will be done in executive ses-
sion The final vote will be taken on
each of the eight articles separately,
if all of them are allowed to stand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-09
THREE COPS LET OUT.
Rosander, Barber and jackson Dis
charged From Police Force.

Three patrolmen were discharged
from service by vote of the city COM
mission this morning. The motions
for their discharges were made by
Mayor COfran and supported by Com
missioners Newland, Tandy and Bone.
Commissioner Porter was absent, be-
ing in Kansas City.
The pS<rolmen discharged are AK
tel Rosander, Jacob w. Barber and
George W. Jackson. Jackson has been
walking a beat in the east part of the
city, and it is claimed he was lax in
his duties.
Mayor Cofran has sworn charges in
his possession against ROsander ard
Barker. The charges state that they
were seen drinking red pop in an
alley, but this was only the least of the
charges. The person making the
charges SwearS to having seen more
serious misbehavior on the part of
the two patrolmen by peeking through
a window in a house in North Topeka.
Unless the patrolmen appeal to the
civil service board, these more serious
charges will not be made public.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-09
BIC KAFFIR CROP
Kansas Produced 100000
Bushels This Year.
Milo Maize Yield Amounts to
100000 Bushels.

Kansas this year produced two
million bushels of kaffir corn and
100000 bushels of milo which is
availa BILE for feed and seed purposes,
according to a statement issued to-
day by F. d. Coburn, secretary of
the board of agriculture. Recent
rains may materially increase these
figures, the report says
The kaffir and milo crops will aid
materially in solving the grain
shortage in Kansas this year, the
board of agriculture believes, and
will in the future encourage the rails
ing of a larger acreage of drouth re-
sisting crops. In the production of
kaffir. Bourbon county leads the state
with an average of rs per cent of a
full crop and a total yield of $4,000
bushels. Sumner county produced
about 10000 bushels and Greenwood
about $4,000 bushels. Usage county's
crop amounted to $4,000 bushels and
Chase and Cowley counties each
raised about 10000 bushels.
Speaking of the kaffir and milo
crop. Secretary Coburn in his report
says:
In spite of the dry weather of last
summer there will be in the neigh
borhood of two million bushels of
kafffr and 100000 bushels of milo
raised in Kansas this year suitable
for seed, according to a canvass of
growers, just completed by the states
board of agriculture. But, as with
the corn. it will be wise to early Sc
cure needed seed for next years
planting. for later it may not be
available, owing to the scarcity of
other grains for feeding.
Since the inquiries were made,
however, rains have changed pros
poets considerably throughout as to
these two crops and it is not i'm
probable that, with favorable wealth
er and absence of early frosts, many
fn1G bo too Nf
turing grain month ago may regis
ter in with creditable yields. Belated
replies nearly all indicate possibilities
for grain now, while previous to the
rains it was thought much of the sOr-
ghums could not produce heads of any
consequence even with moisture from
then on-Still another testimonial to
the inherent powers of these plants to
withstand dry weather that Injuries
many other crops beyond recovery.
According to the farmers early
estimates, about u per cent of the
kaffir acreage and s per cent of the
milo would produce suita BILE seed.
Generally speaking, the bulk of this
years kaffir seed is grown south of
line following the Kansas river from
its mouth to its junction with the
Solomon and Republican rivers. and
thence southwest to the extreme cor
ner county Morton. On the other
hand, SO of the 43 counties where it
was thought practically no kaffir for
seed would mature, are north of that
line.
The milo is mostly in the south
western counties, as Stevens, the
leading producer. and Morton, Ham
ilton. Gray, Kearney, Meade and
Seward, all south of or transacted by
the Arkansas river. Thomas and Nor
ton northern counties in the western
third, also report considerable milo
seed. Outside of the western part of
the state, milo is not prominent. al
though kaffir, it's near kin, is grown
in every county,"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-09
GOOD ROADS DAY.
All Nebraska Towns Out to Improve
the Highways.

Lincoln Oct. 9.-Throughout Nebras-
ka today. under the direction of the
officials of each county, work was be-
gun to improve the roads of the state
in accordance with a proclamation of
Governor Morehead, setting aside today
and tomorrow as good roads days.
Governor Morehead. in overalls, di-
rected personally the work on the roads
near the state prison. Thirty-five con-
victs assisted in the work. Over the
state all the equipment that could be
pressed into service was used by farm
ers, business men and men expert
enced in roadmaking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-09
FAMILY FEUD IN COURT
The BIumenstocks and Hugheses Take
Troubles to Judge Mcfarland.

Charging 12-year-old Oscar Blumen-
stock with feloniously assaulting their
young son. Ted, Mr.. and 1Irs. F. NJ
Hughes. 1920 Monroe street, filed COM
plant in the Juvenile court today.
Both Ted and oscar will be tried
tomorrow afternoon. Complaint was
filed by the Blumenstocks against The
Odore. 1t was alleged that the scion
of the house of Hughes used indecent
language in the presence of the Blu
menstock baby.
The Blumenstocks and Hugheses have
dra gged their troubles through the
city. as we'll as the juvenile court. Mr..
and Mrs. Blumenstock were recently
fined SIS each for disturbing the peace.
The fine was placed by Police Judge
Huron on evidence introduced by the
Hugheses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-09

nd to endeavor to strengthen interna,

and to endeavor to strengthen interna-
tional friendship.
with sincerity. I hereby declare that
all treaties, conventions and other en-
gagements entered into by the former
manchu and provisional republican
governments with foreign governments
shall be strictly observed, and that all
contracts duly concluded by former
Chinese governments with foreign COM
panies and individuals shall also be
strictly observed.
Further, l declare that all rights.
privileges and immunities enjoyed by
foreigners in China, by virtue of in
ternational enga gements, national en-
actments and established usages, are
hereby confirmed This declaration. I
make with the view of maintaining in
ternational amity and peace