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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19
NOT WHIPPED YET.
"Uncle joe Cannon Says Republican
Party Has Not "Taken Count"

Chicago, March 19.-The Republi-
can party has not taken the count.
according to former Speaker Joseph
G.. Cannon, who passed through Chi
cago on his way home to Danville. a
private citizen for the first time since
1891.
Il fully expect the Republican par
ty to be back in the saddle four years
hence" said "Uncle joe
1--WE Republicans will remain Re-
publicans and the doors of the party
always will be open to those who wish
to enter as Republicans, with no ad-
jectives attached to their party label.
"I don't care to discuss the question
of a coalition between Progressives
and Republicans. Such a com bination
would be impossible.
II am not out of politics." he con-
tinued. But that does not mean I'll
ever run for office again am out of
office; but, like the man who got re-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19
MUST WAIT 2 YEARS.
Provident Loan Association Bill Did
Not Pass.

Charitable associations which had
expected to launch provident loan as
sociations in Kansas towns under the
provisions of the BlakIey bill, must
wait another two years. The bill died
on the calander in the senate in the
final hours of the session. This fact
was not discovered until a summary
of the important measures enacted
was compiled this week in the gov
ernor's office.
Following the adjournment of the
1918 session of the legislature, it was
currently reported that the Blakley
bill had become a law and that pro-
vident loan associations might be
organized in Kansas towns for the aid
of loan shark victims. A review of the
work of the legislature. however,
shows that while the bill passed the
house more than two weeks before the
close of the session and was messaged
to the senate. that the measure was
never reached by the senate mem
bers and died on the calendar when
consideration of all bills stopped in
both houses late last Thursday night
The Blakley bill was considered one
of the most meritoriOuS measures pre-
scented during the session. 1t provided
aid for victims of the loan sharks
operating in the larger towns of the
state and practically legislated out of
business the ten per cent a month
man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19
INFLATED NONSENSE"
Such Is Characterization of Bryan
Speech by Newspaper.

London, March 19.-Following up
the Posts attack on William J. Bryan,
the American secretary of state, for
his speech at the st. Patrick's day
banquet at Washington on Saturday
evening, the Standard says:
IF Mr.. Bryan really expresses the
views IF the cabinet and the presi-
dent, the relations between Great
Britain and the United States may en-
ter upon a phase which would be re-
Sarded with extreme regret by a ma
Jority of the sensible, moderate per-
sons of both countries
The Standard describes Secretary
Bryan's speech as "a fine example of
Virulent and inflated nonsense which
the inferior kind of demagogue talks
when he wants toscatch Irish votes" E
The Standard % regrets the speech,
which it says it is impossible to pass
as a mere indiscretion, just as the
Panama bill is coming before the
house, and fears that the Irish cleo
pioneering machinery will be brought
to bear in favor of discriminatory
tolls.
And" adds the paper eff this is
to receive the open support of the ad-
ministration, the prospects of just
and favorable settlement would seem
doubtful
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19
THEIR COMMITTEES.
Kansas Senators Fare Well on
Assignments.

Washington, d. c., March .19.-In
| the Sixty-third congress the two Kan
sas senator's will hold good commit
| tee assignments. Only one of them
Will get committee craftsmanship,
and that will go to Senator Thompson.
Besides being chairman of the COM
m1ttee on expenditures of the depart
ment of commerce and labor, Mr..
Thompson will have the following
committee assignments: agriculture
ana forestry, census, conservation of
national resources, Indian affairs, in
terstate commerce, irrigation and rec
lamation of arid lands, privileges and
elections and public lands.
Being a Progressive Republican,
Senator Bristow was fortunate in be-
ing retained as a member on seven
committees in which he has given SER
vice during the past four years. They
are the committees on claims, ex-
penditures in the postoffice depart
ment, Interoceanic canals, military af-
fairs, the Philippines, postoffices and
postroads, and territories.
In the last congress Mr.. Bristow
was member of nine committees
This congress he will serve on eight
He will be succeeded as chairman of
the committee on expenditures in the
postoffice department by Senator
Nardaman of Mississippi. He will be
eliminated from membership on the
committee of audit and control of the
contingent expenses of the senate and
given place on the committee on
banking and currency
Taking it in all, the two Kansas
senators have Jared unusually well in
committee assignments.
The postmaster general has ordered
the postoffice site at Mankato, Kan,
to be changed on next July L to a site
on the east side of Commercial street,
between Jefferson and Main streets.
Terra Gotta, Kan, postoffice will be
discontinued on March 81. After that
date mail to Carneiro.
L, w THAVTS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19
1T WAS AN ERROR
Reduction of Shawnee Officials
Salaries.
Senator TrOutman Made Mis-
take i'm His Resolution.

Salaries of County Treasurer Matt
| Weightman and County Clerk Oscar
Swayze will remain at $4,000 a year
under the action of the Kansas legisla-
ture in enacting the new fee and salary
bill. These salaries, the records show,
were lowered from $1,000 to $4,000 on
man, of Shawnee county Subsequent
claims therefore that the decrease in
these salaries was due to an error in
the work of the senate and house clerks
were erroneous. Practical admission of
this fact was made Monday by Senator
Troutman when he sought through a
resolution to correct the salaries.
This is the sena tie record of Monday,
this week, concerning the action on the
fee and salary bill.
Senator Troutman introduced the
following resolution and asked to have
it considered at this time:
Whereas it appears by the Senate
Journal and also by the amendment
attached to house bill No. 57S that
Senator Troutman offered an amend
ment to section 2 thereof as follows:
Strike out five in line IS, section 2,
and insert six; 1879 (a) more than co.
900 and not more than 10000, s., 500; OBJ
strike out five in line 9 and insert
seven and
Whereas it was not intended by Sem
atOr TrOutman to offer such amend
ment or any amendment similar there
to to said section 2;
Now therefore, be it resolved by the
senate, the house of representatives
concurring therein, that the above and
foregoing amendment was enormously
offered. That a copy of this resolution
be spread upon the Journal of the sem
ate and published together with the
original BILL
No action was taken on this resolu-
ton. The senate record shows that
Senator Mcmillan moved a postpone
ment of consideration of this motion
until 4:45 in the afternoon, that the
motion prevailed and that the resolu-
ton was not again called up for con-
sideration before the final adjournment
Thus the salaries of the county clerk
and treasurer of Shawnee county will
be reduced from $4,000 to 81, 900 year in
accordance with Senator Troutman's
amendment to the original bill. This
amendment was probably offered err
roneously and unintentionally, but so
far as this session of the legislature is
concerned, there is no opportunity to
replace the original salaries of the Of
fees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19
ON LONG JOURNEY.
Girl of Seven Year Travels 1000 Miles
UnaccOmpanied.

Chicago, March 19-Leonora Cob
bold, years old, who made a trip
alone from Victoria, B. c., to New
York reached Chicago last night on
the return journey, still unaccom-
panied About month ago her father
started her on a 1000 mile journey to
her grandparents home in England
after the death of her mother. At the
gangplank in New York she was called
back by a cablegram announcing the
death of her grandma other, in Chelms-
ford, England.
On instructions from her father the
society for the prevention of cruelty
to children took her in charge in New
York and after arrangements had been
completed started her on the return
journey to meet her father. She left
shortly after midnight on the long leg
of the trip
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19

as they reached a window and per-
ished in the flames.
The house gained its name because
of the fatalities which have occurred
within the last ten years. A decade
ago Jacob Werner opened a meat mar
ket in the place Within short space
of time his entire family died and
Werner committed suicide. Werner's
clerk, Fred Kuntz, took the market,
but shortly afterward his little daugh-
ter was scalded to death in a picking
vat and a week after this accident
Kuntz was found dead under mysteri-
Gus circumstances. The manner of
his death has never been solved. The
next was a man named Strauss, who
was murdered in the house. A few
weeks after that an unknown Italian
crawled under the porch of the house
and committed suicide. These Incl
dents were recalled by NJ. w. Schroe-
der, an undertaken in the neighbor-
hood. He said there had been others,
but they had passed from his memory
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19
VERDICT FOR $4,000
Miss Nicholas Gets Damages Against
Street Railway.

For injuries which are said to be of
a permanent nature, Miss Gertrude
Nicholas has been awarded a verdict
in the sum of $4,000 against the To-
peka Railway company by a jury in
the first division of the district court.
The award is one of the highest for
personal injuries ever awarded in a
Shawnee county district court.
Miss Nicholas says that she tripped
and fell over a rail of the defendant
company at the Green street crossing
of Sardou avenue in Oakland in No
vember, 1911 Injuries received re-
suited in the stiffening of her hip,
which will be permanently stiff, the
physicians declared. She sued for $25.-
900. The jury decided she was en-
tiled to $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19
PLEA FOR CORSETS.
Women in Penitentiaries Should Be
Allowed to Wear Them.

Chicago, March ia stand was
made for the right of women impri-
soned in penitentiaries to wear corsets
by Mrs Minona S. Jones at a meeting
yesterday of the women's reforma tory
committee of the Illinois Women's Dem
ocratic League.
when a woman loses her waistline,
her seIf-respect goes also said Mrs
Jones. Forbidden the corset, she takes
a step downward in the moral scale.
She can't be good. One reason why
women inmates of our jails are hard to
reclaim is that they are not allowed to
wear corSets. Give them pretty clothes
and the surrounding of a reformatory,
instead of a penitentiary, and they will
make better wives for average men
than the girls met in society"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19
Potteries Are Crippled.

East Liverpool, Ohio, March 10
The strike of seven hundred girls en-
ployed in the finishing departments
of potteries in this city, Wellsville, O.,
and Chester, and Newell, w. Va, to-
day crippled the operations of thirty
clay products manufactures of this
district. Operators say that a two
day continuance of the strike will
mean the closing down of the pot
teries- This would throw 5000 men
out of employment. The girls struck
because they were refused an increase
from $1.05 and S1.10 to $3.50 per day
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19
Pope Attends Celebration.

Rome, March 19.-Pope Plus today
for the first time since his indisposi-
ton was present at a celebration of
the mass outside of his bedroom. His
sisters and niece also attended the
ceremony. Among the numerous mes
sages received by the pope in connec-
ton with his name-day today, were
many from the United States, includ-
ing the kilograms from Cardinals Glib
bonS, Farley and O'COnnelI.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19
HOUSE OF DEATH.
Famous Structure in Chicago De-
strOyed by Fire.

Chicago, March 19.-The tragic eX-
istence of the house of DEATH at
1859 Wentworth avenue, closed early
today with its destruction by an in
cendiary fire in which three lives were
lost. Frank Pustella and his brother
in-law, Joseph Cavelieri, escaped with
severe burns by jumping from a sec
ond story window, but Mrs. Pustella
and her daughters, aged 3 and years,
respectively, were overcome by smoke
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19

ligion, don't feel any different than
did before
The former congressman sauntered
ABOUT the railroad station and talked
with newspaper men until train time
Then just as he was being questioned
about his health, he saw his train
pulling out He made dash for the
last coach, which he Tipped grip
in hand and cigar in teeth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19

London, March 19.-Judgment was
given today in the kings bench di-
vision for Attorney General Sir Rufus
Isaacs and Postmaster General Her
bert L. Simon against the French
newspaper, LIE Matin, for libel in con-
nection with the contract between the
British government and the Marconi
Wireless company. The newspaper was
ordered to pay all the costs. The Matin
imputed gross corruption to the
cabinet mem bers but later withdrew
its charges and apologized.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19
Shellac Is Food.

Boston, March 19.-That shellac is
food is the contention of the United
States government in a suit for alleged
violation of the pure food law, brought
against Boston company, which
shipped shellac to a Knoxville, Tenn,
candy concern United States pure
food officials alleged that the shellac
contained arsenic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19
Rooues, Gallery Abolished.

ST Louis, March 19.-Chief of De-
tectiyes Allen has abolished the
rogues' gallery, which has been con-
spicuous institution at police quarters
since 1902. The seven thousand
photographs in the gallery were
placed in the files wnere sixty thous-
and other photographs are kept Chief
Allen thought it unfair to former
prisoners to have their photos on
public exhibition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19
Ban on Violence Pictures,

Boston, March 19.-Posters depict
ing robberies, murder, suicide and 9TH
er scenes of crime or violence must
be removed from the entrance to mo-
ton picture houses in this city by an
edict just issued by Mayor Fitzgerald.
The mayor declares that minds of
passersby, particularly children, are
unduly excited by the pictures.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-19
Governor Signs Bill.

Denver, March 19.@Governor Am
mons has signed the bill providing
registration of tuberculosis cases with
health authorities and fumigation of
premises occupied by them.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-09
Malvern Man Tried to Make Gas
With Disastrous Results.

A. Peterson, who runs the indepen-
dent oil line at this place met with
a serious accident last Friday even
ing while experimenting with new
sort of acetyline gas tank. He had
made it from a piece of gas pipe
about five or six feet long we'll stop
ped at the ends. He had put in the
carbide and poured in the water and
was carrying it inside the Tyler
garage when it suddenly exploded
with terrific effect. Fortunately the
full force of the explosion passed to
one side of him and he escaped in
jury except for one eye. 1t Jared
the whole block however, blowing
out all the glass from the front of
the building. DR.. Parsons dressed
the wounded eye which seems to be
getting along all right now. 1t was a
mighty close call for Mr.. Peterson
though and he will not care to re-
peat that part of the experiment
soon.-Malvern Leader.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-09
Death of G. N. Sprague.

Clarence N. Sprague, the well
known jeWeler of Sequim, died at his
home here early on Monday morning
Of typhoid fever after several weeks
illness.
He was taken sick while out on a
camping trip in the mountains last
month, and was brought home with
considerable difficulty. Although he
had the best of medical care and
nursing during his illness he sue
cumbed to the disease after a hard
struggle against death.
The funeral took place in the
Methodist church here on Tuesday,
impressive services being conducted
by Seattle minister, Rev. j. A. Hen
ry, a friend of the family.
The funeral was largely attended.
The local l. O. O. F. lodge, of which
Mr.. Sprague was Noble Grand, at
tended, as did also the Rebekah
lodge. The church choir sang appro-
pirate hymns and the casket was
heaped with boquets of flowers, the
gifts of numerous neighbOrs and
friends. Burial took place in the
Dungenness cemetery owing to the
fact that the new Sequim cemetery is
not in shape yet for use as burial
ground.
The death of Mr.. Sprague removes
a good and useful citizen from Sc
quinn. known as an enterprising and
public spirited business man of
splendid character he was we'll
thought of and universally respected
in this community and had been Sc
lected last week by the citizens as
their candidate for mayor at the
election held next month.
Mr.. Sprague was 80 years old and
was born in Illinois. He was engag-
ed in business in Iowa and Illinois
and eastern Washington before NOV
ing here in 1911. He invested in
land here and built nice home and
established a jewelry business
Surviving him here he leaves a
widow and two children, his father,
mother and several other relatives.
Clarence Newell Sprague was the
only son of Mr.. and Mrs. S. A.
Sprague, of Sequim; was born in
Bureau county, Illinois, June 20,
1881, and died September %, 1913,
aged 80 years, months and 2 days.
In 1883 his parents came west and
settled in Leon, Decatur county,
Iowa. He finished school at that
place at the age of 10 years. He at
tended college at Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
and also at Iowa City, Iowa.
He was married to Laura Edith
Hamilton, of Leon, Iowa, in 1900. To
this union were born, Audrey and
Newell. He was converted and join
ed the Presbyterian church in 1896.
He has always been an unselfish
character; always thinking of the
good of others He moved with his
family from Chicago to Sequim in
1911 and followed his profession as
a jeWeler till the time of his death.
He was loved and respected by all
who knew him and leaves a host of
relatives and friends to mourn his
departure.-Sequim, WASH, Press.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-09
Notice of appointment of Executor.

In the District Court of the State
of Iowa, in and for Decatur county,
in Probate.
In the matter of the estate Of Mary
Fl. Parrish, deceased.
TO Whom 1t May Concern:
Notice is hereby given that the I'M
dersigned has been appointed and
has qualified at executor of the es-
tate of Mary H. Parrish late of Deca-
tur county, Iowa, deceased. All per-
sons in any manner indebted to said
deceased or her estate will make
payment to the undersigned; and
those having claims against said de-
ceased or her estate will present
them in manner and form as by law
required, for allowance and payment.
Dated this 23rd day of September,
A. D. 1913. G. w. HOFFMAN,
6-3t Executor of said estate.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-09
Mrs. ElmOre Markley in Auto Crash
at Centerville.

Ihe Centerv:.le Journal tell of ar
auto crash in that city, one of the
cars being that of Gilmore Markley,
was driving the car at the time Of
the accident:
An automobile accident which
might have had serious if not fatal
results occurred on the east side of
the square last Saturday evening
when the Overland car of Dan Pack
are, and the Studebaker of e. Mark
ley, of the Continental Hotel ran to-
gether in front of the Office of the
Centerville Light and Traction Co.,
with such violence that Miss Edna
Deneen, neice of Mrs. Marley, who
was occupying the front seat of the
Markley car with her aunt who was
driving, was thrown from the car
to the pavement and for time was
thought by spectators to be seriously
injured. She was picked up by F. l..
Holston who assisted by w. B. Hays
carried her into the hotel, where it
was found that she was not serious
ly injured, although quite badly
bruised.
Both cars were somewhat damag-
ed, although neither sufficiently so
as to prevent them being driven from
the scene.
The collision cause quite a little
excitement for that portion of the
Saturday nighters who happened to
be on that side of the square at the
time.
The Packard car was driven by
William Packard, a son Of it's owner.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-09
IOWA'S ARABLE LAND.
Average Size of An Iowa Farm is
1923 Acres.

Iowa has 1886 farms with a
total acreage of 39,914.17S acres.
The average size of an Iowa farm, &C.
cording to the most recent figures
is 1928 acres.
More acreage was devoted to corn
in 1912 than any other grain crop.
The total acreage of corn being g.
42O,434 acres. The total acreage in
pasture was S,968,655. The total
acreage in oats last year was 1874
1852; the total acreage in winter
wheat was 1898 acres and in spring
wheat 3S9,371 acres. The total acre
age in barley was 3S9,41O acres.
There was big acreage in tame hay
the total being 3,635,744 acres. The
wild hay acreage was 754,374 and
the alfalfa acreage 46,644. There
were 120,G35 acres in potatoes.
More than 95 per cent of the land
of Iowa is in cultivation. There is
no other state in the union that has
such large percentage of it's total
area in crops. Not alone is the acre
age large, but from one end of the
state to the other the soil is fertile
and practically all of it adapted to
the growing of varied crops.
The big alfalfa region of the state
is in Monona, Harrison and Potta-
wattamie counties and other coun-
ties which border along the Missouri
river The southern half of Iowa
produces big hay crops while corn is
big crop in every county of the
state These facts revealed by the re-
ports of the county assessors which
have recently come into the office of
the Iowa department of agriculture.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-09
II. A. Shelton.

Robert Alexander Shelton was
born at Decatur, Iowa, March 13
1858, and died at Galena, Kansas
Sept. 1918. In 1893 he moved to
Galena, Kansas, thence to the west
where he engaged in mining for the
past several years. While engaged in
that work his health failed and he
moved back to Galena, where he
was making his home with sister.
He was married in 1880, and had
three daughters, Mrs. W. A. Bobbitt
and Mrs. Bertha Turnbull, both of
Joplin, Mo-, and Miss Retha of Deca-
tur.
He united with the Christian
church at Decatur about twenty years
ago.
y The body was brought to Decatur
for burial. After short service at
the Christian church, conducted by
Rev. James w. johnson, of Leon, the
Odd Fellows took charge of the bur-
al service.