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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-10-13

i THE MISSING TREASURE
i Mr.. Timmins considered himself
i the ideal husband" Mrs. Timnlins
I didn't agree with him. The trouble
was that her husband had an entirely
Exaggerated idea of his capabilities
TO run the house-in his spare time!
One morning, just as he was leav-
ing for the city, large female sailed
UP to the front door. Mr.. Timnlins
informed his wife that this was new
A cook he had engaged the previous
night.
/ When he arrived home in the even
Il ing he found his wife peacefully read.
i ing magazine, and exclaimed:
n "There, my dear! See what a
I blessing it is to have capable hus-
band! Here you are able to read a
book while the cook does the work.
No fuss, no worry! And how quiet
she ist No one could tell she was in
the house."
1 "She isn't" she said. "She left
/ this afternOonI"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
CAUGHT IN FRISCO.
Curtis Little Charged With Stealing
$1,000 Diamond From A. b. Mullen.

Curtis Little, the man who is alleg-
ed to have stolen a diamond stud
from A. b. Mullen, in November, 1911
mas been arrested by the police of San
francisco. Chief of Police Morris C.
Jenkins received word of the arrest
last night. A warrant may be issued
for the arrest of Little, and in that
event, Sheriff L. L. Kiene will go to
San Francisco to bring him to Topeka
The evidence in the case is not as
strong as the police officers desire to
show, but they are satisfied, in their
own mind, that he is the man who is
wanted.
Curtis Little's home is in New York,
where his father is engaged in run
nlng horse market, The boy was an
advance man for the Lion and
Mouse" theatrical company, when it
is alleged that he stole the valua Bile
stone He was working in a similar
capacity for the Barnum and Bailey
circus people last summer and is low
employed in the same capacity with
the Mutt and Jeff Theatrical troupe,
which appeared at the Grand in To-
peka several weeks ago.
The diamond was Va;ued at $1,000
by Mr.. Mullen.
Little was located on Grand Island,
Nebr., shortly after the gem was stol-
en- and Detective Otto Anderson was
sent to get him but the man made his
escape and Officer Anderson lad to
return without him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

Burks, and wife appeared as witnesses
against the officer.
The evidence of the witnesses show
ed that the officer had been aggra-
waited by the Burks people, but Mayor
Billiard decided that the officer should
have used legal methods instead of
reSorting to violence. 1naSmuch as
he was an officer of the city was ad-
ditional cause for his adopting legal
methods as considered by the mayor.
The latter asserted the officer used
poor Judgment and should have con-
trolled his temper better even though
he had been aggravated.
BurkS and his wife and brother and
wife lived in rooms rented from Of
ficer Wilt and wife. The latter were
not satisfied with the conduct of the
roomers and asked them to leave.
OFFICER Wilt contended that w. J.
Burks called him vile names as he was
leaving the house in company with his
slster-1n-law, but the Burks denied
this and claimed that Wilt used vile
names. The evidence conflicted and
1nasmuch as there were no witnesses
excepting those who took part the
question was difficult to decide. Off
Ger Wilt made statements regarding
the conduct and character of the
Burks brothers and their wives which
led up to the trouble. Part of this
information was confirmed by other
officers who did not attend the in
vestgation and knew nothing about
what had been said in the investiga-
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
RESTORE YOUNG MANS FEET.
Peculiar Operation Performed BY
Wichita Doctors.

Wichita, Kan, Feb. 15.-What is
claimed to have been a most unusual
operation, so surgeons state, was per-
formed this week in the ST. Francis
hospital by Drs. r. c. Fisher and A.
D. Updegraff upon George Wiend of
Denver, Col. The operation, if success
full, will restore to Wiend the use of
his feet.
Wiend came to Wichita several
months ago with what is known as
one kind of fiat feet. The arch in
each foot had been broken and his
foot had spread out. The insteps had
become weakened by rheumatism and
the weight of his body had caused
them to break. Wiend was. hardly
able to walk and when he did, it caused
him great pain.
The operation consisted of taking a
section of the bone, forming the arch,
out and drawing the two ends togeth-
err The Hgaments were also subject
ed to the same operation, thus form
ing an arch to his instep. The opera
ton upon the right foot was made six
weeks ago and was successful The
operation upon the left foot was made
Tuesday and his foot was placed in
a plaster cast. When the cast is re-
moved, the physicians will be able to
tell whether it was successful or not.
While Mr.. Wiend's feet will not be
as good as new they will serve him,
and the surgeons say it will be diff
cult to tell that he ever had an oper-
alton performed. The joints may be
a bit stiff.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
BREAKS A COLD
In A FEW HOURS
First dose of Pape's Gold Compound
relieves all grippe misery
Contains no Quinine

After the very first dose of "Pape's
Cold Compound you distinctly feel
the cold breaking and all the disa-
greeable grippe symptoms leaving
1t is a positive fact that a dose of
Pape's Cold Compound taken every
two hours until three consecutive
doses are taken will cure Grippe or
break up the most severe cold, either
IN the head. chest, back, stomach or
limbs
1t promptly ends the most miserable
headache, dullness. head and nose
stuffed up, feverishness. sneezing, sore
throat, running of the nose, mucous
catarrhal discharges, soreness stiff
ness and rheumatic twinges
Take this wonderful compound with
the knowledge that there is nothing
else in the world which will cure your
cold or end Grippe misery as promptly
and without any other assistance or
bad after-enects as 25-ceut pack
age of Pape's Cold Compound, which
any druggist can supply-it contains
no qufnine-be sure you get what You
ask for-accept no observation-disclosures
In every home. Tastes nice-acts
Kently.-Advs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
Topeka Automobile Dealers Association

border, and traversing Ford, Gray,
Haskell, Stevens and Morton counties.
Ultimately, will come the branch
across Grant and Stanton counties. In
surfaced with gypsum, along the Ok
lahoma border westward to old Point
Rocks, and possibly, beyond into Baca
county, Colorado, and Union county,
New Mexico. This will cover the coun-
try sufficiently for the present. Along
these lines, the towns will be built,
and farmers will come to them to
trade; the rural mail delivery doing
the rest.
On the Direct Route.
Already towns have been laid out
along the main line of the extension
for present needs of trade. Seeking
the most direct route, southwesterly,
to the proposed junction with the
main line of the Santa Fe in New
Mexico, the survey necessarily left
the old wagon-trails, and new town
sites were located.
For the new movement in these
counties is not one of land and town
site speculation, with county seat
fights ahead. These issues practically
have been settled in advance, and, by
of land by the corporation, for sale
at low value, and fair terms to set
tiers, spectators will not be able to
corner the soil. Now settlers are
going in to make homes and till the
soil. In the early sos the scheme was
to build paper towns, sell lots, and
vote city bonds, and get out of the
country with the plumber. Town
companies were organized in a night,
and townsites laid out by moonlight,
or by lantern. The prairies were
covered with surveyors stakes, and
the goal of every town" was the
county seat.
Then Boomers Left.
Then the boom broke, and the
boomers left the country, leaving only
settlers who came with honest pur-
pose, to pay the bills. This now has
been done. The several counties, lit
tie or nothing in debt, are sound fl
nancially. Some counties during a
period when values of lands were
nominal, bought them in for the taxes,
and, selling them for SIS or Sc per
acre, now have money in their vaults.
New settlers are buying the same
lands for $1,000 to $1,000 per quarter.
So the land boom of the SOS was good
for this country after all; good for
the present generation, at least.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
LYNCH" WORTH SITS
Name of Declaration of independence
Signer Sold at Auction.

Philadelphia, Feb. ia tiny
scraD of PAPER containing only the
name @Ivnch" was sold for S175 at
a sale of autographs here last night.
The signature had been written in the
fly leaf of a book by Thomas Lynch,
jr., a signer of the Declaration of In
dependence from South Carolina.
other sales included a letter from
Benedict Arnold, advising against an
intended Canadian expedition in 1878,
$3.50: a letter from Sir John Burgoyne,
British general in the revolution, $3.50 !;
letter from General Henry Dearborn,
recounting the battles of Concord and
Bunker Hill, $40; letter from Thad-
deus Kosciuszko, the Polish patriot,
who served as a brigadier general in
the revolution, S235; letter from Gen
eraI Hugh Meyer, brigadier general in
the revolution and captain in the
French and Indian war, $172; letter
written by General Richard Montgom-
cry, a short time before his death at
Quebec, $3.50; letter written by Cen
eral Israel Putnam of the New Eng
land minute-men, 500, and a letter
from Paul Revere, $95.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

mission will be raised in respect to the
occasion.
AS to the vaudeville show the two
MuIlini sisters, said to be recently
from the Russian court, will present a
musical act The accompanying cut
gives a good idea of the Russian
Huzzar uniforms in which they will
be attired.
Heading the bill will be Herr Won
Ritter" who has been interesting the
crowds at the New York Hippodrome
with a daredevil act Then deserving
of special mention are the Curtis sis
ters-said to be decidedly pretty-will
sing and dance.
The All Star Trio, a musical COM
bination, and the Arnessens, head and
hand balaneers on a slack wire, will
complete the bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
KANSAS PIONEER is DEAD.
Mrs. William Diclxey of Mulberry Dies
of Old Age

Mulberry, Kan, Feb. 15.-Mrs. Will
lam J. hickey, one of the oldest set
tiers of this city and the wife of the
first merchant Of the city died here
yesterday of old age. All the business
houses of the city were closed for two
hours on the day of the funeral. She
and her husband and her sister and her
husband came to this section over forty
years ago and for many years both
families lived in a little two-room
house. They engaged in the mercantile
business, operating a small grocery
store and hauling their goods overland
from Fort Scott, the nearest trading
point.
She is survived by her husband Will
lam Dickey, one son Alex Dickey and
one daughter, Mrs. Ella Worme, of
Beulah, Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

not permit the use of gaSollne IN the
hall However, one OF the interesting
features of the show Will be machinery
in actual operation, put the po"ei
used will be electric.
In all there will be th1rty-flVe ex-
hibitors at the show FIFTY or Sixty
of the latest designs in autos VIII pe
displayed, and anywhere llolll eeA ~
fifteen motorcycles.
For the man who wishes to decloe
what make of machine ne would pre-
fer TO purchase it will be great OPP
nortunity 1t is expected that nun
ddreds will take advantage of this
chance. and others who are not con-
formulating buying at the present time
will be drawn to the snow because II
is the first exhibition OF the klno INA 1lao
has ever been held in this part or the
state and because they take real in
tereSt in AUTOMOBILES.
Tbap the vaudeville show will be a
big drawing card for the topeka peo-
nile particularly. Five big acts nave
been sIated-all foreign acts They
were booked by the management with
the understanding that they were get
ting something different" 1t was de-
sired to get away from Ihe olu Wolh-
out circus acts.
Posters have been placed IN outlying
towns including Horton, Holton, Sa-
betha, Manhattan, Salina and other
places. Everything points to large
out of town attendance.
The actual work of constructing the
booths for the show will be begun
next week Next Tuesday evening the
members of the Topeka Motor Car as
ISOLATION will meet in the main room
of the Commercial club to complete
the details in connection with the
show.
Details of Show.
The vaudeville entertainment will
cost the management thirteen hundred
dollars. No pains will be spared to
make the initial show of its kind for
Topeka an unqualified success. A rest
room for the ladies, and a smoking
room for the men will be popular
features. The Ladies' Guild of Grace
cathedral will have charge of the
check stand, refreshment stands, and
other concessions.
Society night is creating more
md more talk. That Is the occasion
lpon which it will be proper to ap-
pear in full dress. The price of ad-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
NO MORE
County Seat of Haskell Exists
in Name Only.
After Feb. 25 Only Windmill
Will Mark Site.

Hutchinson. Kan, Feb. 15.-Santa
Fe, county seat of Haskell county,
Kansas, has moved to the railway,
leaving only the courthouse, school
house and church on guard, until af-
ter the county seat election, which has
been set for February rs. The town
was moved bodily, some of it hauled
to Satanic, and the rest to Sublette,
stations on the Dodge City extension
of the Santa Fe. The greater number
of houses and population went to Sub
lette, six miles distant.
F. L. Vandegrift, writing for The
magazine, says of the removal of
Santa Fe:
Nominally, Santa Fe remains the
county seat, but even this prestige
will depart, whenever the people by
vote decide between Sublette and Sa-
tanta. No doubt the town windmill
and tower at Santa Fe will remain,
distinguished landmark of the plain,
until they crumble in decay. The well,
over which this old mill is set, is
more than 200 feet deep, and since
1887 and before, until the windmill
became disabled last summer, it was
reliable source of wholesome water
for man and beast.
Only Well for Miles.
In 1887, when it was the only well
for many miles around, it was unfa1l-
ing in it's abundance. Settlers came
from long distances, standing in line
waiting their TO ODldIn SuppIlSS
for family and farm use, and travellers
joureying across the prairie, follow
ed the trail that way. Before the ex-
odus began, Santa Fe had 800 inhab-
itants comfortable homes, two weekly
newspapers. a bank, good stores, first
rate schools, churches, fraternal
lodges, and the rural telephone.
Santa Fe without a railway, could
not expect to survive in county seat
fight with towns which are on the
line, and so it was decided to move.
Accordingly, the town was put on
wheels, and, drawn by traction en-
gines, the procession headed across
the prairie. The exodus began in
November, but did not become unit
ed movement until Christmas week,
when the local bank was moved to
Sublette. This marked the end.
New Market Centers.
The extension, besides opening a
new country. for settlement, will fix
permanently the market centers. For
in the west it is the railway which
makes the towns, and since the coun-
try has been tired out, following the
land craze which swept over these
plains nearly thirty years ago, the
railway will go only where population
and unoccupied territory invite it.
First, there is the direct line, quarter
ing southwesterly to the Oklahoma
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
TO PREVENT OVERFLOW
Great Bend Men Plan to Stop Yearly
Floods.

Great Bend, Kan, Feb. ia COM
mittee of farmers and business men
today inspected the bend in Walnut
creek. near Great Bend with the in
tention of digging bitches and clean
ing the bed of the stream of trash to
prevent the annual overflow. The
land along Walnut creek is considered
the most valuable in this part of the
state.
The county has been petitioned for
years to create a drainage district of
this section. but now the farmers are
going into a cooperative company and
will pay the bills without help from
the county.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

high school debaters. The schools par
ticipating in the final series for the
championship of the Fifth district were
Solomon, Junction City, and Clay Cen
ter, which formed the triangular de-
bate Junction Citys affirmative
lost to Solomon's negative at Solomon.
Solomon's affirmative won from Clay
Center's negative at Clay Center and
Clay Center's affirmative lost to juno
ton City's negative at Junction City.
This gave Solomon double victory
making them district champions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
MULBERRY BONDS ARE SOLD.
Kansas Town Will Begin Improve
menfS at Once

kanSaS IOWn VIII Be2In IMPROVE
mentS at Once.
Mulberry, Kan, Feb. 15.-Mulberry
has sold her waterworks and electric
light bonds to H. G. Sperr, of Chicag go,
and the erection of both plants will be-
gin in a few days. The contract for
the putting up of the plants was let to
w. H. Miller, of this city, who is the
cashier of the Mulberry State bank and
the oldest of the Miller Bros, who are
known all over southeastern Kansas
in running order by July first
Ten years ago Mulberry had a pop
u1ation of 300 people and today she has
$50 people. It is now in the center of
the best coal belt in the county.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
CHECK FOR sa.o5 GETS $50.
Bankers Second Look at Check Dis
closes Fraud.

Coffeyville, Kan, Feb. 15.-Just after
the doors of the Condor National bank
had ben thrown open for business, a
man walked in and presented a check
to Vice President Charles T. Carpen-
ter, asking that it be cashed. The
check was made payable to William
Rathbone and was drawn by the Ma
tional Refining company Mr.. Carpen-
ter handed the man $50. the amount
called for on the check.
Before he placed the check in the
drawer. Mr.. Carpenter glanced at it a
second time and saw that it had been
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
TOPEKA
Feb. "a to Mar. |
Motor Cycle
Section
Special Display

The Best Motorcycles
made will be displayed at
the Auto Show.
Special arrangements
are being made to give
thorough, practical and ex-
hauStive tests of the two
wheeled motors.
Representatives will tell
you of the usefulness, the
convenience and economy
of the Motorcycle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
WILT is SUSPENDED.
Mayor Took This Action Following
Charges Against Officer.

William H. Wilt, the policeman who
was charged with striking w. j.
Burks, and with other conduct unbe-
coming an officer, was suspended for
fifteen days by Mayor Billiard last
night following an investigation. Mr..
Burks and wife and brother, o. NJ.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
Gasoline Will Be Barred From
Topeka Auto Show.
However, Electricity viii Be
Used to Run Machinery.
SHOW TO OPEN FEBRUARY "a
Construction of Booths VIII
Commence Next Week.
Details of Exhibition VIII Be
Completed Next Tuesday.

There will be no gasoline fumes at
the Auditorium February 24-March
while the Topeka Auto show is in
progress to annoy those who are sensi-
lively inclined. The fire marshal will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
solomon Debaters Win.

Solomon. Kan, Feb. 15.-The last
series of the debates which decided the
district championship have been held.
The honors We're won by the Solomon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
BARS TURKEY CALL, NOT TRoT.
The Thanksgiving Gobble Causes
Vacation for One Student.

The Thanksgiving GObble Causes
Vacation for One Student.
Hutchinson, Kan. Feb. 15.-Not the
turkey trot SO much as the turkey
call is worrying the instructors of the
Salt City Business college just now.
So far, the faculty of the school has
had no trouble with the students in
dulging in the forbidden dance, but
there are some young men of the in
stitution who have received several
vacations on account of their pro-
ficiency at the turkey call.
For the greater part of the school
year, classes have been disturbed by
peculiar cluckings, and gobbles, such
as the great American Thanksgiving
bird is said to make when calling to
its mate. All attempts to check the
nuisance by warnings from the facul-
ty members failing, more strenuous
tactics have been resorted to.
Now to sound the turkey call in
business college class room means a
cessation from the duties as a student
for an indefinite period of time-the
length of said period to be determined
by the instructor.
Thursday morning one of the stu
dents of the business college, while
the class was reciting the lesson, emit
ted the forbidden turkey call.
Class work Immediately ceased and
an investigation followed A young
man, who had been caught turkey
calling in the past, was accused by
the instructor and publicly reprimand-
ed When he denied the offense, he
was suspended for the remainder of
the week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15

raised. The man who had cashed it
had disappeared. Mr.. Carpenter then
called up the refinery and ascertained
that the check should have called for
only $2.05. Then the police were no
titled and a suspect at the Missouri
Pacific depot was arrested. The pris-
oner was taken to the bank, where
Mr.. Carpenter immediate identified him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-05

FOR SALE-The following Rock Island
real estate is for sale at reasOna BILE
prices.
Two eight-rcom houses. all modern
SlX-rOom house, modern.
Five-rOOm house, with well and els
tern.
Fine seven--o1m house. all modern.
J. WEEDA,
1911 Twcnt. -.J.r,H-and-a -haIf st.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-05
Burma Paeoda. Arc Reminders.

Eight or nine miles below Manda-
lay, in Burma, the right bank OF the
Irawadi Is billy, and in the neigh
borhood of the old Burmese town OF
Sagaing the hills are dotted all over
with psgodas. These are not temples,
but are built by pious people as offer
ings to the supreme power, it being
generally believed that such acts OF
devotion count to the builders credit
in the next world. The pagodaS are
of all kinds, according to the means
of the builders from primitive white
washed structures to ornate erections
with grotesque gilded lions. The lions
have various meanings, but stand
chiefly as a reminder of unselfish de-
votion. An ancient Burmese legend,
taught to all Burmese children, Is that
of a ioness who nursed and guarded
the baby son Of a king and who died
OF broken heart when the prince
grew up and went away.-Wide World
Magazine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-05
LEGAL.
Publication Notice.

state OF Illinois, Rock Island Coun-
ty-ss
In the Circuit Court of Rock Island
county, Ill May term, 1918. In at
tachment Demand, $3.50.
Volks-zeitung Publishing company VS..
Leroy J. " olfe and Charles L. Bailey.
Notice IL hereby given to you, the
said Leroy ]. Wolfe and Charles L.
Bailey, that q writ of attachment has
been sued out of the ONCE of the clerk
Of the circuit clerk of said county of
Rock Island. at the suit of the said
Volks-Zeitung Publishing company, and
against the estate OF you. the said Lee
roy ]. Wolfe and Charles L. Bailey, six
ty-seven and fifty one-hundredths dol
lars besides interest, directed to the
sheriff of said county to execute.
Now, unless you, the said Leroy J.
Wolfe and Charles L. Bailey, shall per
sonaAy be and appear before the cir
cult court of said county, on the hrst
day of the next term thereof, to be
holden at Rock Island, in said county.
on the first Monday in the month of
May next, give special ball and plead to
said action, Judgment will be entered
against you in favor of the said plain
tiff, and the property attached sold TO
satisfy the same. with costs.
GEORGE w. GAMBLE, Clerk
Rock Island, ILL.,, Jan. s, 1913.
Albert Huber. plaintiffs attorney.