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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
IN DEMAND
State Librarian Sends Out Call for
Aid in Session Law Distribution.

Owing to the unusual interest taken
in two of the important laws enacted
by the last legislature, the state
librarian is unable to keep up with
orders for copies of the session laws
of 1913. The regular appropriation
of 700 copies has been exhausted and
100 additional copies donated by
Charles Sessions, secretary of state,
are sold. The state receives 81 a copy
for the session laws
The wide interest taken in the cor
poration tax and textbook laws Is re-
sponsible for the demand, according
to state house officials. The corpora
ton bill affected hundreds of firms
and industries in Kansas. Nearly all
of the corporations sent for copies.
The textbook law also created de-
mand from publishing houses from
over the country
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
NOW HE MUST PAY.
Ed Harris Faces Many Grave Charges
Made by Widow.

Ed Harris, who is charged with tam
pering with the tender affections of a
widow of % falls. to the extent OF
securing her complete bodily surren-
der. and team of horses under prom
Use of marriage. was arrested yeSter-
day in Emporia and returned to To-
peka last night and is now in the
county Jail awaiting trial
1t is claimed by Mrs Tack. his &C
cuser. that under promise of marriage,
the two started overland with a wagon
and team to point in Arkansas, Mrs.
Tack insisting all the time that the
promised marriage ceremony be per-
formed. and Harris constantly making
excuses. until Fort Scott was reached
and that there he eluded her, repre-
scented the team to be his own, SOLD
it and ran away. 1t is also charged
that Harris was married man at the
time he proposed to marry the widow
Just what specific charge Will be
placed against Harris, or how many
of them, the prosecuting attorney has
not yet decided. If all the charges
made by Mrs. Tack can be proven
Harris might be prosecuted for viola
ton of the Kansas white slave law,
breach of promise. wife desertion, and
obtaining property under false pre-
lenses, or disposing of stolen property.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
HOME GARDENS.
What the DrOuth Left Will Be
Shown
October 1, 2 and 3 at the Fari-
Gus School Houses.

Exhibits in the home garden con-
tests of the city schools will be held
at the individual school buildings
which participated in the contests on
October l, and 8. This announce
ment was made today by c. H. With
ington, the supervisor. There will be
no central exhibit as was the case last
year, individual contests having been
arranged for the respective schools.
The announcement OF the prize
winners viii not be made until the
exhibits open. There were fifteen
hundred contestants in the race for
prizes the first of the season and the
announcement of winners will be
watched with interest by the young
sters. Between three and four hun
dred dollars will be distributed in
prizes.
The Clearinghouse Realty company
offered 500 in prizes for the children
having the best gardens 25X5O feet in
size. Mr.. Wilmington stated today
that were a prize offered in this con-
test for the best garden of this size
in the entire city colored boy at
tic for the first premium with a
white boy attending the Quincy school.
The coIored children have taken much
interest in gardening this season.
1t is probable that next year prize
will be offered for the best vacant lot
garden. In that way many unsightly
weed patches would be transformed
;nto attrac tive garden spots. 1t is
hoped that some individual or firm
will offer such a prize at an early date
SO the contest can be arranged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
WOES OF SMITH FAMILY
They Live on Lime Street and Their
Troubles Are Legion.

Somebody in the Smith family, SO
Lime street. must have dropped a
looking glass, seen a full moon over
their left shoulder or dropped salt
on the table. Ill luck has pursued
them for years. They say it's a long
road that has turning-but the
Smith road doesn't turn. 1t seems to
lead straight to desolation and woe.
A succession of mishaps has pursued
them. Tomorrow night, unless help
is received, most of their goods and
chattels will be seized by the INSTALL
ment house that sold it to them
They need only SIS. They're poor
SIS looks as big $3.50 to others
Good health is the biggest blessing
in the world+the Smiths haven't it.
Money may count. but health is every
thing. Three Smiths live on Lime
street.-the old man, who is suffering
from diabetes. and is ~ years old;
his wife, ten years younger, also fee
BILE; their daughter. Il widow, and a
smallpox wreck. The widow has two
children-because of them local char
liable associations are prevented from
Offering aid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
WILL TAKE UP BODY.
Death of Miss Warfield to Be Investi-
gated Further.

Westminster Sept. 25.-Upon the
receipt today of the chemists report
stating that a vial found in the bed
upon which Miss Ella Warfie1d died
at her home near SylkeSViue tw D
months ago. contained poison, States
Attorney Weant of Carroll county, an
nounced definitely that he would have
the body eXhumed and an autopsy
performed.
Miss Warfie1d who is 60 years of
age and a relative of former Governor
Edwin Warfield. was ill only a few
hours. The doctors death certificate
stated that she died of acute indiges-
ton but the publication recently of
peculiar circumstances surrounding
her death led to an investigation by
the county authorities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
ANOTHER RESIGNATION
b. G. Baird Leaves Civil Servic,
Commission.

The resignation of B. G. Baird as a
member of the Topeka civil service
commission was rendered to the city
commission this morning and the name
of T. B. Garrett was placed before the
body. The latter was elected unani-
mously.
Mr.. Baird declared his work will keep
him out of the city the greater part
of the time and he will find it impossi-
BILE to continue to serve on the COM
mission. Mr.. Garrett. who has been
appointed to the vacancy. was strong
ly recommended by the Topeka Indus
trial council, and is a member of that
body. He is believed to be qualified in
every way for the position.
Mr.. Garrett is a we'll known union
labor man. He is employed as limo
type operator on the State Journal He
Will participate in the hearing accord
ed Marcus Mason, discharged sanitary
police officer which will be held next
Saturday afternoon, as his first Off
cial act a member of the civil service
commission .aa.r
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
WAIT ON TARIFF BILL.
House Adjourns to Saturday: the
Senate to Monday.

Washington. Sept. 25.-Speaker Clark
today told the house there was little
prospect of an agreement between the
tariff conferees before Saturday. The
speaker was besieged with inquiries
from members who wished to leave the
city and got his information from the
confe-ees.
The house adjourned at 1:45 o'clock to
noon Saturday.
The senate adjourned at 2:09 p. m. until
noon Monday.
The confereees today agreed on s.. geo as
the amount of income of a single man
that shall be free from the income tax.
For a married man the exemption will be
81, eco with further exemption for chill
dren- Only one exemption of 1000 will be
allowed for a family even though the
husband and wife have separate incomes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
A SENSATIONAL CASE.
Is the Cape Divorce Suit Now Being
Tried i'm Court.

He told me that if his wife sued him
for divorce, he would fight the case
and make the trial just as big and
sensational as possible and that she
would not have any reputation left,
and that a doctor would be peni-
tentiaried -
So testified a woman witness in the
divorce trial of Fay Anna Cape against
James c. Cape, which is being tried
before Judge Whitcomb in the second
division of the district court of Shaw
nee county today. The Capes until
recently lived at Wakarusa, where
Cape ran q barber shop. He is now
employed at the Chesterfield barber
shop. Mrs. Cape is now living with
friends in the east part of the city
Her parents live in jefferson county
Whether Cape made the threat
claimed not, the case has certainly
been made vulgar and somewhat sem
sational. DR.. S. A. Boan's name had
been mentioned frequently and this
Afternoon subpoena was issued for
him to appear forthwith in the court
room.
Both parties to the suit testified con-
corning a criminal operation. Mrs.
Cape claimed she was forced to under
go the operation by Cape. Cape claims
he opposed it. Letters read in court
would indicate there was little opposi-
ton from either
Another letter addressed to the ply
stefan alleged to have performed the
operation and signed by James G. Cape,
charged the physician with improper
rela lions with Mrs. Cape and set a date
for him to meet Cape and Cape's at
torneys to consider a settlement
A signed statement by Mrs. Cape
charging the physician with improper
relations with her. was also read in
court. On the witness stand Mrs Cape
testified that her charge in this re-
spect was false and that she was forced
to make it by Cape, who made her
believe she would go to the penitentiary
if she did not make such a statement.
About so persons are attending the
trial, many of them women, rang
ing in age from 16 years to old wom-
en-. Much of the testimony was I'M
Drinta BILE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
TOUR IS MUD BOUND.
Rock Island Highway Trip Keeps
Governor Hodges at Washington

Word has been received at the Of
flee of the governor in the state house
that the executives trip over the Rock
Island highway from St Joseph to
Denver is mud bound at Washington
Heavy rains in northwestern Kansas
have made the roads nearly lmpassa- :
BILE for automobiles and the trip Will
be abandoned as far as Governor
Hodges is concerned.
The governor is due for speech at
Hanover this afternoon. The unveil-
ing of an old settlers monument is the
occasion and the governor of Ne
braska will be guest.
Governor Hodges took advantage of
tho rain at Washington and made 4
ronsing good roads speech at the city
hall last night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
CASH FOR WHEAT FUND
Bank Commissioner Sawyer Receives
$4,000 in Contributions Today.

The mails late this afternoon brought
to Charles NJ. Sawyer. state bank COM
missioner, nearly $500 in contribu-
lions to the Kansas Farmer Seed
Wheat club fund. The money comes
from all parts of the state and brings
the total cash collections to SIC, 600 The
money will be used to buy seed wheat
for the Needy farmers in the western
part of the state.
The largest contribution this after
noon came from the RidenOur-Baker
Wholesale Grocery company of Kansas
City, Mo. Two hanks of Oakley KAN
contributed s300-one bank sent in 5000
and the other 500. The rest of the
money came from all parts of the state
1t will take 100 900 bushels of seed
wheat to SOW from 100 900 to 125, 900
acres in ten western counties in Kan
sas. At least $4,000 is needed for this
work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
FLIES ON HIS BACK.
Acrobatic Pegoud Gives an Exhibition
in London.

London. Sept. 25.-The acrobatic
French aiTman, Alphonse Pegoud,
gave the citizens of London an exhi-
bition of his aerial somersaults and
toysy turvy flying at the Hendon
aerodrome this afternoon. Pegoud's
remarkable maneuvers began when he
mad reached height of 1900 feet
from the ground, where he tilted his
aeroplane so that it was at right
angles to the earth. He then pirouet-
ted on the tip of one wing and did
several dives with the nose of his
machine downward for 100 feet be-
fore he regained his equilibrium.
The aviator then rose to a height of 5000
feet and accomplished his most sensa-
tlonal exploit With a sudden sweep
downward he threw the aeToplane its
back, flew in this manner for some sec
onds, righted his machine and repeated
the performance before reaching the
ground, where he was given an ovation by
an enormous throng.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
SHOWS BROKEN NECK.
X-Ray Reveals Result of Accident
Two Years Ago.

Kansas City. Sept. 25.-Because his
neck was growing stiff. Frank A.
Mitchell. teamster. today went to the
general hospital to have it treated. a
slight bump was noticed. and when he
was placed under the X-ray several
days ago it vas seen that his neck was
broken, the bone being the one that
is snapped when a man is hanged.
Mitchell said two years ago he had
been loading his wagon from a box
car and the car was bumped by an
engine switching in the yards. He
was thrown on his head, but did not
know that anything was wrong. His
neck felt stiff for three or four days,
but the soreness wore away at that
time. 1t was said at the hospital the
man probably would recover.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
TRAILED BY DOGS.
Clipper of Horses Tails Has Been
Captured.

St. Louis Sept. 25-Word was re-
ceived here today that two police dogs
from Springfield, ILL.,, have trailed the
man suspected of clipping the tails of
horses in Madison county and that he
was captured at Staunton, ILL.,, thirty
miles from Alton.
1t is estimated that the tails of 100
horses in Alton have been clipped with
in a week. The prisoner was equipped
with tail clipping tools and it is said
he confessed. duplicating two men in
Litchfield, Ill. For several nights AL
ton citizens have been guarding their
horses with shotgunS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
AT THE THEATERS.

After a success so sweeping and
dazzling as to make it a subject of
comment, We are to have this brilliant
musical piece, Doctor de Luxe
with the original New York produce
ton, with a cast headed by Oscar
Figman, at the Grand on Septem-
ber 80.
Oscar Figman. the star of the piece,
is a real comedian. He has n new
speciality song, What You Want and
What You Get which is one of the
cleverest and most amusing bits Of
fereG in a long time Other well
known members of the cast are:
Ann Tasker. Jessie Stoner Rita
Naughton, Eleanor Burton, Genevieve
Victoria, Mabel Vyvyan, VIM. Naugh-
ton, Bobby Bentley, Rey Kehm and
the wonderful boy tenor, Master
Everett Lehman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
KANSAS FAIR BUILDING
Commission for san Francisco Exhibit
to Meet i'm Topeka Next Week.

The Kansas commission which viii
have charge of the Kansas home eX-
hibit at the Panama exposition at San
Francisco will meet in the office of the
governor at the state house early next
week to arrange details for the con-
struction of the building and the plac-
ing of the exhibits.
Early this winter the commission will
make a trip to San Francisco and Sc
Iect a site for the Kansas building.
Competitive plans for the building will
be asked for at once The announce
ment of the meeting is made by H. E.
Dean, secretary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
Adont civil Service Rules.

Rules which Will govern the hearing
of appeals, etc, by the civil service
commission were adopted this morning
The rules are practically as heretofore
reported in the State Journal. only a
few minor changes having been made
in them Under the terms of the reso-
luton under which the rules were pass
ed they become effective at once, and
Will govern the proceedings to be held
next Saturday afternoon when Marcus
Mason. a discharged sanitary police Of
ficer. appeals to the civil service COM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
New York Money Market.

New York Sept. Money on
call easier. 2s4d3 per cent: ruling rate,
%. per cent; closing bid 2s4l3 per cent.
Time loans. easier; 90 days, 414G4A per
cent 80 days. 415d4$4 per cent; 6 months,
4a4M5 per cent
CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper, 5a4d6
per cent.
Sterling exchange steady. $4.S1.sO for 60
day bills: si.S5.70 for demand. Commercial
bills, s4.S13s-
lars. 4Ic-
BONDS-Governmentb bonds steady rail-
road bonds irregular
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
To Be Another Lottery.

Washington, Sept. 25.-The spectacle
of an old-time land rush at the opening
to settlement of the North Platte for
est reserve in Nebraska. on Oct. 1 went
glimmering today when the senate
passed the house bill empowering the
president to prescribe the lottery meth
cd of parceling out the land. President
Taft restored three hundred thousand
acres of the reserve to the. class of
lands subject to entry effective Oct. I.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25

mission for reinstatement. No charges
need be filed with the civil service
commission when an employee in the
classified service is discharged, under
the new rules, but such charges will
have to be filed with the commission
in case the discharged employee ap-
peals to the commission for a hearing.
The testimony is limited to the charges
preferred and to such defense of them
as may be required. instead of wasting
so much time outside of the case as
has been done in former hearings
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
FOOTBALL VICTIM.
High school Boy Suffers Fractured
Spinal Column.

Minneapolis, Sept. 25.-With his
spinal column fractured in football
practice Allen Weidman, a high
school student, is said by physicians
to be dying at the home of his father,
Oliver T. Weidman.
The boy was playing football yester-
day While running with the ball he
collided with a playmate and was
thrown heavily to the ground. He was
taken to his home but the seriousness
of the accident was not realized until
tOday
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
Conyicts Fight a Fire.

Dixon ILL.,, Sept a5.-The forty-five con-
victs doing road work near Grand Detour
made a hard run of a mile from Camp
Hope to fight a fire on the Charles john
son farm nc-th of Grand Detour early
today. One negro convict was burned
rescIIing property. The fire was kept
from spreading to many nearby farm
buildings by the efforts of the men and
they saved most of the stock and ma
chinery in the johnson barn No guard
accompanied the men and the forty-five
returned to the camp when the fire was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
Good Roads and Dry Farm Delegates

Secretary F. D. Coburn, OF the state
board of agriculture, is authorized to APP
point delegates to the meeting or the
United States Good Roads association at
ST. Louis. November 10 to Is Also i've
delegates to the eighth Interna tional Dry
Farming Congress at Tulsa. Okla. &c
tober q TO 81. Gentlemen who would llhe
to attend either of these meetings as dele.
gates should notify Secretary Coburn. at
Topeka with view to securing appoint
ments. These will be purely honorary ana
the delegates will be permitted to pay d.
their own EXPENSES. Candidates will 90
well to file their applications early ana
avoid the ruSh.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25

In the probate Court Of Shawnee County,
Kansas.
In the Matter of the Estate of Sarah E.
easier. Deceased.
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.
All creditors and all others interested
in the aforesaid estate, are hereby notified
that on the Goth day of October, 1873
l shall apply to the Probate Court sitting
al the Court House in the City of Topeka.
Shawnee County. Kansas. for full and
final settlement of said estate and for an
order of the Court finding and adjudging
who are the heirs of Sarah E. easier,
deceased
". E DICKINSON. Administrator.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
NEED ADDING MACHINE
To Tabulate the Liquor Charges
Against Roy Jones.

One of the adding machines at the
court house might well have been used
by William Anderson, stenographer for
the county attorney, in preparing
complaint against Roy Jones. Jones
was taken into custody and released
under bond last night charged with 20
viola lions of the liquor laws. He has
heen clerking at Lakes drug store.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
Oldest Harvard AIuminus Dies.

worcester. Mass. Sept. 25.-WiIIia m
A Smith, Harvard's oldest graduate,
died today from old age. aged SO years
and six months. He was graduated
from Harvard in 1S43. He was a law
.-nr and a SD degree Mason.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
Cuba Dcdicates a Site.

San Francisco. Sept. 25--Major Andrew
:. Rowan, L. S. A. retired. nationally
known as the man who carried the mes
sage to Garcia, took part today in the
dedication of the site which the re-
public of Cuba will erect d pavilion for
the Panana-Pacific international exposi-
ton in 1915.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
GEnRGIA LAWYER
NOW IN CONGRESS-

Ga, is the new representative in con-
gress from the Eleventh Georgia dis
trict. He is native born Georgian
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25

In spite of the rain. goodIy sizet
audience saw THE Grafters' at tn,
Majestic last night. This play has tn,
punch"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25

Under the auspices of the local branch
of the N A A c. p. meeting of pro-
test against the segregation of the white
and colored employees in the departments
a Washington will be held at the COM
mercial club quarters at S o'clock Friday
evening. T. A McNeal and Dr. F. l..
Loveland will be among the speakers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25

Silas Turner. colored. age %. died last
Sunday in Kansas City. His body was
received in Topeka Wednesday and will
be held until the arrival of his mother,
who has been living in California recent
ly. The entire family formerly lived in
North Topeka The funeral arrange
ments Will be announced later.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25

F. \. Adds. III W. 18th St. has an ex.
ceilent line of wall paper and puts in or
right, too. Phone 4014.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
LOCAL MENTION.

Safety razor blades sharpened ba4ter
than new 33-35c. Brunt Drug Co-Adv.
H. b. Wilson. superintendent of city
schools. will speak at the Central Con
gregational church next Sunday morning.
There will be music by a male chorus of
between thirty-five and forty voices un-
der the direction of Dean Horace White
house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25

All new acts to Topeka open fol
the last half of the week today al
the Novelty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25

Decision was made today7-to put off the
Commercial club minstrel show until the
fore part of December. The entertain
ment was scheduled to be given the mid
die of October. The Commercial club will
wage membership campaign on October
Z, and it was the opinion of the commit
tee under w O. Rigby that it would rot
be wise to hold the show SO near that
date
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
DEATHS And FUNERALS.

John Seaman. age IS. died this morning
at one of the local hospitals. His home
was at 323 Harrison street. The funeral
arrangements will be announced later
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25

The funeral of Mrs. Ida Place. who died
Wednesday at her home at 1904 Hoge-
boom street, will be held at 10 O'Clock
Tuesday morning in Shellabarger' chapel
The. body will be shipped to Derby, Conn.,,
for interment-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
Came Postnoned.

St Joe, Sept. 25--Wichita-St. Joe game
postponed; cold weather
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LEGAL.

First published in The Topeka State
journal Thursday, Sept. %, 1919
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25

w. e. jeffrey. Dentist. 7os Kansas ave-
Adv.