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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-01
cessful operation for three consecu-
tive years.

cessful operation for three consecu-
tive years.
Senator Stavely of Usage county is
the largest contributor of bills in the
senate affecting cities of the third
class. Hardly a day passes that the
Republican does not suggest some new
method of operating cities of this
class in the state. His latest attempt
is to give them power to construct and
maintain pipe lines, electric light and
telephone plants and waterworks and
sewer systems. He also has provided
for strict police regulations beyond the
city limits of third class towns. Stave-
ly halls from Lyndon where he makes
a thorough study of the needs of
smaller cities.
The action of the judicial committee
of the senate in killing the intermar-
rage between whites and blacks bill
was a surprise to most of the senate
onlookers. 1t was figured that this
bill passed by the house would
have little trouble in in sliding
through the senate on account of
it's strictly domestic nature-with
nothing to do directly with the admin
istration platform. The vote in the
committee was unanimous-only one
vote not counted-that of Milton of
Wyandotte, who refused to vote. The
Wyand. tie senator also refused to vote
on the contest case. Apparently Kan
sas City, Kan, is we'll inhabited by
Socialists and members of the coIored
race
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chise and tax, the income tax and the
combination of the labor departments
All these acts have been postponed
for amendment and debate until the
beginning of the grind next week
and the mapped out program will
have no little effect on the future of
the Democratic party in the state.
me Democrats failed last evening
to turn out enough senators to vote
through the bill abolishing the office
of state mine inspector, director of
free employment bureau, and the
commissioner of labor and creating
in lieu thereof a commission of labor
and industry. 1t was planned among
the wise men of the majority to push
this bill through the senate that it
would be passed before the state labor
interests met in Topeka the first of
the week and brought heavy pressure
to bear on Governor Hodges But
when the senate was called to order
last evening, enough Republicans were
there to pass an adjournment until
Monday at o'clock in the afternoon
and the bill held over.
The Democrats have to blame none
other than Senator Lambertson of
Brown county. Lam bertson succeed
ed in deadlocking with a myriad of
parliamentary rules the entire body for
nearly an hour and before the fill
buster could be broken the Brown
county senator had a hog tie on
the labor bill.
Senator Davis of Bourbon is in ia
vor of dividing the revenues that
would be derived from the Wilson of
Jefferson constitutional amendment
on Kansas University taxation. Davis
would take 25 per cent of the one
third mill and give it to the city and
county high schools of the state. An
other 25 per cent would go toward
the maintenance of the public schools
in the state. This would leave for the
maintenance and equipment of Kansas
university, SO per cent of one-third of
one mill tax on each dollars worth of
taxable property in the state. The
Democrats are determined this year
to save money on educational institu-
TONS
To encourage and aid the county
fair movement throughout Kansas,
James Malone has introduced in the
senate a bill requiring the county
commissioners to assist in the pay
ment of premiums given at agricul-
tural fair associations. The only re-
quirement insisted upon by the bill
- that the fair shall have been in sue
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Cbicago Produce Marker.

Chicago, Feb. 1.-BUTTER-Market
steady. Creameries, 27934c
EGGS-Market firm Receipts 4.695
refrigerator firsts, lie; firsts, 23alc.
POTATOES-Marl1et steady. Receipts
As cars. Wisconsin. 42@47c; Michigan, 450
47c; Minnesota, 43647c.
POULTRY-Alive, steady; turkeys, 15c:
chickens, 14c; springs, 14c.
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Topeka Hide .s1.ri.r,

Quotations furnished by James q ex,.S
Hide Co.. los East Third SUI ts
s cf1RrD I9Pska. Kan. Feb. 1.
l. 14c; No 2. 13c; Side Brands. idiS,MTse
Bulls and Stages. s1z0105zc; Horses ILL.,.
No. ], $3-OoQ3-50: No. 2, $50, 1sA
TALLOW-4zQ 5Ac-
DRY. HIDEs-Butchers heavy. zooz..
dry salt. 13Q16c-
Skunk fblack). s40oal50; skunk $50;
STRIPED. s30od1 90; Sunk marrow strir.1
81 35q15c; Skunk (broad STRIPED. 81 25nsJc:
Muskrat. large. 75@3oc; Muskrat, mediun,
50d25c: Muskrat- small. s5410c. The aboxc
prices are for prime fura
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New York, Feb. 1-BUTTER-AIar
firm. Creamery extras, 36c.
CHEESE-Market steady: unchanged.
EGGS-Market firmer. Fresh gathered
extra firsts. 25G25%c; firsts. 231k6241kc
POULTRY-Dressed steady; fresh kill
ed western chickens, 12G20c; fowls, 13G17c:
turkeys, 14G24c.
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b Topeka Kan Feb
APPLES-Per box, $I.10Q1.75; per bbl..
s3.25Q4.75
COCOANUTS-Per doz., soc.
FIGS-Per box, 75c.
DATES-Per h., sac.
HICKORY NUTS-Per bu. sI&
BLACK WALNUTS-Per bu., 75c
NAVEL ORANGES-Per box, s27563 Ii.
FLORIDA GRAPE FRUIT-Per Dor.
49, 75d4.O0.
LEadONS-Per box, $7.75.
CRANBERRIES-Per box So q
TABLE POTATOES-R r. e.. O.. Tar
bu., CSC.
BANANAS-Medium sized bunche. -,
bunch, s2.NG2.2 Is; large punches. per buncs
50 5Oar2.75; per lb., 3lac. es
ROOT VEGETABLES-Beets. ne, H.,
bu., 75c Turnips, per bu., lOc SeT
ONIONS-Red Globe, SOC; Yellow 7oc
SPANISH ONIONS-Per crate. 81 a.
RUTABAGAS-Per lb., 1Ac.
SWEET POTATOES-Per bu, a m
HOT HOUSE LETTUCE-Per bSsk.,
CELERY-Mammoth, $Ll5
HONEY-Per case <3.7s.
CHEESE-Per h., 191x@3kc
OYSTERS-Per can. 56@S0c; pe- raj,
s1.6oQ2-3o.
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ton.
Members of the educational COM
mittees both of the house and SEN
ate gave the boards of regents and
heads of state educational institutions
three lively hours Friday night when
they had under consideration the
Keene bill for a consolidation of the
boards of regents of the various state
educational institutions and the crea-
ton of a state board of adm1n1stra-
ton. No definite action concerning
the reporting of the bill was taken
at the Joint session of the two COM
mittees, but the measure will prob
ably be reported in both houses early
next week.
President H. J. Waters of the State
Agricultural college discussed the
Keene bill at length and explained to
the law makers his objections to the
measure. The Manhattan man de-
clared that the state educational in
situations had no objection to the adj
ministration bill further than it de-
stroyed the various boards of regents
and threatened to impair the individu-
atty of the several state schools. He
admitted that an administration board
to control in a general way all of the
state educational institutions and to
prepare the budgets and make legis-
lative recommendation concerning
the several schools would probably
prove of some benefit and merit not
only to the schools but to the state
as well. But President Waters want
ed the various boards of regents left
just where they are and their gen.
eral work undisturbed.
President J. H. Hill of the Emporia
State Normal told his views of the
proposed administration bill and
thought that the passage of such an
act would work a real hardship on
the schools. A NJ. Keene, member
of the house from Bourbon county
and author of the bill, defended his
measure before the joint committee
and urged a favorable report on the
bill. He urged that the schools would
not suffer, but that the state would
save thousands of dollars annually in
useless appropriations to schools I'M
der a strict supervision of the eduea-
ton work.
Three members of the several
boards of regents also appeared be-
fore the committees. They were Scott
Hopkins, representing Kansas univer-
sity; W. r. Blackburn, representing
the State Agricultural college, and
Lieutenant Governor Sheffield In
gals, who appeared as one of the re-
gents for the state normal Each of
the three men urged upon the MEM
bers of the educational committees
that the usefulness of the state schools
would be hindered and blocked by
the creation of the administration
board without safeguards that would
require radical amendments to the
Keene document.
1t is probable that the two COM
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New York Money Market.

New York. Feb. 1.-MONEY-Money on
call nominal. No loans. Time loans
strong. 60 days, 3AG315 per cent, and 80
days. 9slQ4 per cent; months, 4q41z
per cent
CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper, AZ to
per cent.
Sterling exchange steady with actual
business in bankers bills at $4.S3.10 for 60
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Fair Division.

When you an yer wife separated.
Josh, was they any trouble ABOUT di-
Vldin' the proppu1ty?''-
'Nope--we was friendly about it.
she took the child an the canned
1rult, an took the cow an the per-
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Don't you think it would be a good
idea for you to give away a few million
dollars?" asked Mr.. CaSsiuS. Yes re-
piled Mr.. Dustin Stax- But it's a serious
problem to give away a million dollars
in manner that will bring the moneys
worth in undyiDg fame"-Washington
Star.
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day bills and at s4s7.25 for demand. Com
mercial bills, $4.S3.
SILvER-Bar silver. 61Nc; Mexican dol
lars, 4S1zc.
BONDS-Government bonds steady, rail-
road bonds irregular.
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Furnished by 7. a. Beck. 21z-"l4 n eth
Topeka, Kan, Feb ~
PRAIRIE HAT-No. l. 5000; No
$500.
g12.0O.
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ST. joe Feb. 1.-CATTLE-Recelpt
cows and heifers, $3.75G7.5O; calves, $500
1000.
HOGS-Receipts 5000. Market steady.
Top, $3.50; bulk of sales, $7-SO0l 4O.
SHEEP-No sheep. Market steady.
Lambs S6.50QS-35.
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Topeka Markets.

Furnished by the Chas. Violin Packins
Co Yards close at noon Saturday. we
cannot use pigs, thin sows or hoxs
weighing less than ITO lbs. Do not mar
ket hogs unless same are well finisned
a. we cannot use half fat stun. We givs
below prices effective at once. until furs
Their notice.l
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IVPtkd. fAdn., Feb. 4
EGGS-Fresh country, 2ON =
POULTRY-Hens, all sizes, 1Oc. snrir..
over lbs, lie; broilers, 2 lbs. ana Iindsr
l4c; over lbs, lie; old cocks, sc; duck
&c; geese, &c; stays, SC.
TURKEYS-Hen turkeys over lbs. 11c.
young Toms over IL lbs, lac; old Toms
12c.
BUTTER-wAeIkIng stock. 1sc.
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New York Sugar Market.
New York, Feb. 1.-SUGAR-Raw,
steady; Muscovado. 50 test, 2.9S; Centri-
fugal. e6 test 34s; molasses, 50 test. 2.73.
Refined quiet.
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Chicago Live Stock Market.

Chicago, FEB. 1.-HOGS = Receipts
14OOO Market strong to a shade higher.
Light, S7.4oa7.671k mixed. $7.45477 20; heavy,
s7.30d7. TO- rough. $7.30@7.45; pigs, $6oO1I.4S;
bulk Of sales, $7.60G7.65.
CATTI.E-Receipts 200 Market steady.
Beeves, Sc. 2569. 20; Texas steers. S4S047.6o:
western steers, $5.6oD7. 30; stockers and
feeders s4.756D7.6O cows and heifers, $50
@D7.45; calves, S6.5061o.25.
SHEEP-Receipts 1000. Market steady
Native, $4.60d5. 30; western, $475Q6S5; year
lings, Sc. 35017.75: lambs, native, $66OqSfO;
western, $6.60q8-75.
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kansas City Live Stock Marked.

Kansas City, Feb. 1.-CATTI1E-Receip
400 including 100 southerns. Market
steady. Native steers, s7.O0dS.75; southern
steers $57507.75; southern cows and heif-
ers, So. 75q6.25; native cows and helfers.
$4.O01750; stockers and feeders, $S.ISql-i0'
steers. S. SOFAS. 90: western cows. $3.75q6-S0.
HOGS-Receipts $500. Market strong.
Bulk of sales $735@7.50; heavy, $7.3097:4o;
@752h; pigs, 81. 25q6.75.
SHEEP-Receipts none Market stea1y:
Mutto1s 81 O06I5.50; Colorado lambs, xI.I3Q
$40; range wethers and yearlingS, $o-VcV
750; range ewes, IS. 2545.00.
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Grain Mark.

furnished by J. b. Billiard. corner Kan.
sas ave- and Curtis st.l
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Topeka. Kan, Feb. 1.
CHICAGO EGGS-22Q221kc %
NEW YORK EGGS-23Q24c
CREAMERY BUTTER-Chicapo eoSa
331Hc: n. Y, S41k@35c; Elgin, 33c; Topeka
wholesale, &c.
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Topeka, Kan. Feb. L
wHEAT-75q7sc.
NEW CORN-45c.
OATS-34c.
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entirely. His assistants are to receive
s., 900 a year apiece. Dawson told the
house that 1400 cases in two years
melted fees in the sum of $4,000 to S.
OOo Using this for the basis of his
argument, Orr put Riddle and his plea
of cutting down expenses and keeping
salaries down to rout. He showed a
profit for the state from the transac-
ton
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Topeka, Kan. Feb. 1.

Market price paid for dry lot cattle.
advising number of head. quality. age
and length of time on feed. we Will 'maEs
TO call on you.
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Gilman of Leavenworth county to-
day introduced a state election regis
tration bill. The registration list
would be made up from the vote cast
in the August primaries. Persons
failing to vote in the primaries would
be disqualified for voting in the No
Vember election under the Gilman bill
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Butter ann Err.


FURNISHED by The Continental Cream.
Co.. Topeka, Kan.J
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Topeka Fruit and Produce Market.
ISeIiing price by SamI E. Lux, wholesaI.
Fruits and PRODUCED
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Topeka Butter. Eggs and PouIsr,

iFurnlshed D me TOPEKA Packing Co
Topeka Kan E-ah
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mittees will hold a second session ear
" next week before taking final ac-
ton on the bill.
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STORIES OF DEATH
Descriptions of How Some
Flood Victims Met Fate.
"SailOr Jack" Willis Does No
BILE and Heroic Work.

Dayton, O., March 2S.-Here is how
some of the flood victims in Dayton
died:
When the Axline residence on Water
street was picked up by the food and
started careening down the river,
watchers saw Axline and his wife
standing in the window of the second
story. Her head was pillowed on his
shoulder. The cries of the wife could
be heard above the rushing waters.
Axline patted his wife on the back
and kissed her. A moment later the
house crashed into the Baltimore K
Ohio bridge. 1t was splintered like a
bundle of sticks. With their arms about
each other, husband and wife disap-
peared beneath the racing water.
When the home of Jacob Kenecht
was swept away, Mrs. Kenecht and
her five children were in the dwelling.
Kenecht was outside. When he was
picked up by the current, he grabbed
the limb of a tree He held on for Is
minutes. Rescuers attempted to throw
him a line. Each time the wildly rum
ming water held the rope within a few
inches of his Outstretched arms.
Finally, exhausted and numbed by
the cold, Kenecht gave up the fight
aaginst death.
Thanks: goodby, boys; I'm -"
his last words were swallowed by the
water that engulfed him.
Until Monday morning "Sailor Jack"
Willis was an inconspicuous character
here. Today he is the city's hero. He
took charge of the rescue work. The
lifesaVing baskets and cables were
made and operated under his orders
BY stretching cables to a water-sur-
one, were brought to places of safety.
Sailor jack personally saved ten
people. And after 60 hours of work
with no rest, he dropped exhausted. A
movement has already been started to
obtain for him Carnegie medal.
Four Women Rescued.
Four women two of whom were Mrs. A.
w Knott and daughter, were rescued
from the roof of a barn on Water street
by the telephone linemen, who chung to
the tops of the poles and swung lines to
the women. The four were hauled to
safety, hand over hand.
Regina Moltrie, schoolteacher, climbed a
telephone pole when the flood struck her
home. On her lands and knees she
crawled across heavy cables to linemen,
fifty feet above the rushing water, ,,3
wife and three children, were taken out
of their home in the huge basket suspend
block and half to save County Surveyor
Charles Peters, his wife and child Inc
family relayed from building to building.
Sixteen people marooned in the Bonette
hotel were taken out in baskets, as were
10 girls, employees a mitten factory
The bodies of four children, three boys
a
Wagon works. 1t is believed they were
washed down from Upper Sandusky.
Mrs. Josephine Wagner, 81, laughed at
warnings of a flood. She refused to move.
An hour later firemen carried her down
a ladder from the story of her home.
A relief train that was run to Ffndlay,
Ohio. from Fostoria with a supply of
provisions came as Godsend to hundreds
of people actually suffering. Many people
We're at the depot and took what they
could get alternating their immediate
wants.
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IMMENSE LOSSES BARRED FROM JAIL
American Woman Denied Ad-
mission to Daughters Prison.
Girl Was Sentenced With
Sylvia Pankhurst.

London, March 2s-Mrs. Emerson
of Detroit, Mich, who came to Lon
don because of the imprisonment of
her daughter, Miss Zelie Emerson, a
suffragette, was yesterday refused
permission by the prison authorities
to see her.
Miss Zelie Emerson was sentenced
with Miss Sylvia Pankhurst to serve
a two months term for window
smashing. Both went on hunger
strike Miss Pankhurst was released
few days ago ION medical
grounds" In a statement which she
issued, Miss Pankhurst, after describ-
ing her own sufferings, declared that
Miss Emerson was practically a phys
ical wreck.
Mrs. Emerson says she has received
trustw orthy information that her
daughter has been so cruelty treated
that she has been driven mad and that
her body is covered with bruises.
Miss Scott-Troy of San Francisco
announced she would head a deputa-
ton of American women to accom-
pany Mrs Emerson to the American
embassy today to demand the en-
bassy's Intervention in behalf of the
young woman.
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THE BEERS JURY.
Foreman Main Gives Authoritative
Account of Its Sessions.

C. W. Main, foreman of the jury in
the Beers murder case, says he appreci-
ateS the fairness and authenticity of the
State Journals reports of the case and
also of its close and the standing OF the
jury at that time.
1.-The State Journals report was fair
and true he said. The morning paper,
however printed a badly garbled account
of the standing of the jury, and much
of it was entirely untrue. L appreciated
the fairness of the State Journal, and |
am sure the other jurors in the case did
Also
The foreman declared, however, that
the final ballot taken in the case did
not signify the standing of the jurors but
had merely been a last attempt to get to-
gether on something. The jury. he said,
was trying to agree upon compromise
verdict and the actual standing of the
Jury at the time it was discharged was
practically what it had been all the way
through the case, Z to for conviction.
There were at least six of the jurors, "
he said, s'who would have been there yet
rather than to have brought in a verdict
of acquittal. They believed he was gull
ty. On the other hand there was several
who were just as strong for acquittal.-
Mr. Main said that al one time the jury
was within one vote of compromise YER
dict of manslaughter in the fourth de-
gree The one vote held out for acquit-
taI. however, and the jury went back
to the same rut in its regular balloting,
20 Z
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FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS
Topeka Today Sent $4,000 by TeIe-
graph.

Refugees in Dayton received s. 900 this
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS from the Topeka
chapter of the Red Cross, and represents
ing the joint collections made by the
chapter, the Bank of Topeka the Central
National bank, and private contributions
The Capital subscriptions turned in
amounted to S1,694. The rest of the 50 OGO
was turned in from the Bank of Topeka,
the Central National and other sources
over thirty bundles of clothing and a
package of canned food were left at the
Prudential Bank building today: use of
the rooms was donated, a telephone was
installed free of charge, and a large sign
contributed by the Hinkson Sign com.
pany.
The Y. NJ. c. A, the railroad chapter
OF the Y NJ. c. A. and the Y w. G. A.
are receiving donations, but most of the
packages and checks are being brought
to the Prudential and left in charge of
Mrs Smythe. c. E. Skinner has been
busy collecting contributions from various
parts of town.
One youngster tumbled into Red Cross
Headquarters with bundle as big as
himself. 1t contained, among other
things, pair of corduroys with pockets
stuffed with a red tie, a jack knife. a
green top, and assorted marbles to de-
light the heart of a forlorn little refugee
School children are interested in the Dav-
ton kiddies, and assist in packing the
boxes to be sent.
I've been busy every minute" declared
Mrs. Smythe. Were certainly encour-
aged at the enthusiasm with which To-
pekans are responding to our call for
aid"
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THE SYDNOR INQUEST.
Testimony Tends to First Degree
Murder Charge.

Testimony of witnesses to the killing
of Clarence Sydnor by James Mccoy
was heard by coroner's jury in an
inquest held today. The testimony was
to the effect that Mccoy shot Sydnor
as the latter turned back to him at the
door, following a quarrel between the
two men as to the ownership of articles
in the pool hall at 404 Kansas avenue,
where the shooting occurred
''Sydnor said he would move things
out of the hail. said Elisha Steele. one
eyewitness to the shooting land Mccoy
said he wouldn't move nothing Then
Sydnor said. How are you going to
keep me from moving?' and Mccoy said
he would kick him out. Then Sydnor
said he wouldn't do nothing of the kind
and started for the door. At the door
he looked back and Mccoy shot him.
Both principals in the case are ne
groes and most of the witnesses also
are colored. Mccoy is being held
pending the inquest, and is expected to
be charged with murder in the first
degree. Mccoy did not take the witness
stand to tell his own story of the shoot
ing