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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-20

leaders who had been given SPECIAL
permission to visit her. She is quoted
as having said that in view of the fact
that her system had been undermined
bv six hunger strikes in prisons
abroad, she did not believe she would
be able to survive a seventh.
Hearing Formally Opened.
Washington, Oct 2O.-Im migration
Commissioner Caminetti again took
up Mrs. Emmeline PankhurSt'S case
early today to decide whether the mil
liant British suffragette should be ad-
mitted to the United States or deported
for the crimes of which she has been
convicted for the cause" in England.
Attorneys for the Suffragist pro-
fessed to view the situation with per-
feet complacency, saying that if the
decision went against their client they
Immediately would sue out writ of
habeas corpus in the United States
courts and hoped at all events to have
Mrs. Pankhurst out of the Ellis island
detention station to speak at Madison
Square Garden tonight.
President Wilson's interest in the
case was viewed with the greatest sat
isfaction at headquarters of the Ma
tional women suffrage association and
by the suffrage supporters in congress.
A White House conference with Sec
retary Wilson of the department of
labor and Commissioner Caminetti was
on the program as part of the days
proceedings. While the president has
no specific authority to decide immi
grafton cases by law, it was pointed
out that in such a case as Mrs. Pank-
hurst's involving to an extent ques
ton of national policy, immigration
officials would not take the response
bility of making a final decision with
out consulting the president. Attor-
neys for Mrs. Pankhurst resumed their
argument before Commissioner Cam
inctti where they left off yesterday.
Todays hearing was more colorful
than yesterdays which was informal.
Acting Secretary Post and Chief Park
er of the law division, sat with Com
missioner Caminetti and the array of
attorneys was drawn up in a battery
at a line of tables. There was a crush
for admission to the small chamber
and it quickly was filled with women
who did not reveal their sympathies.
The Argument.
Herbert Reeves, attorney for the
British leader, first presented q. long
brief, reviewing first the facts and
then contended that the acts of which
Mrs. Pankhurst had been convicted in
were purely political offenses
and did not involve moral turpitude,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-20
over A CAR LOAD
Liquor and Beer to Be De-
strOyed by Sheriff Kiene.
He Garnered 1t From Fields,
Hedges, Cradles and Gardens.

An order to destroy more than a car
load of beer and liquor, some 5000
quarts, will be issued by the Shawnee
county district court in the near fu-
ture. probably this month All liquor
confiscated by the sheriff is destroyed
by order of the law. County Attorney
w E. Atchison will prepare an appn-
cation to be presented to Judge George
H. Whitcomb. The judge will issue the
order, the under sheriff will have the
liquor carted to the sewer and it will
be destroyed.
According to the county attorney. he
has filed no application since his cleo
ton. Judge Whitcomb does not re-
member issuing an order for the de-
struction of the goods. Two years ac-
cumulation of liquor, according to the
sheriff, is stored in the court house.
Opposite the elevator in the basement
of the building is a room Is by 20 feet.
1t is piled with cases, barrels. kegs,
bottles and sacks An overflow is
stored in the sheriff's cellar. L. L.
Kiene estimates that some 1000 quarts
of beer and 1000 quarts of whisky will
be poured down the city sewer when
the date is set by the court.
The liquor has been collected from
all parts of Shawnee county, been
found in gardens, streams, walls. beds,
cradles, ceilings and fields.
Don't you feel conscience stricken
at destroying so much property?'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-20
Big Elevator and Warehouses
Burn in East st. Louis.
Grain Destroyed Reaches a To-
tai of 475,OOO Bushels.
,Aote 6yCeL,M

st. Louis Oct 2O.-With water to
the right of it, water to the left of it,
and water pouring down on it the Ad-
vance grain elevator at Front street
and Missouri avenue, East st. Louis,
Ill, burned to the ground early this
morning with a loss of half million
dollars in grain. The blaze crawling
up and down the strip of land between
the Mississippi river and Capoka
creek did another half million dollars
damage to the warehouses of the Chi
cago & Alton, the Baltimore & Ohio
and the Glover Leaf railway COM
panies- The few citizens of East st.
Louis who were not kept up all night
protecting their homes from flying
emberS, awOke this morning to find
on the banks of the Mississippi a burn
ing mound of food that might have
been.''
the unoffered sacrifice of 25O,O00
bushels of wheat, $50, 900 bushels of
oats and $4,000 bushels of barley
enough to have fed the entire popula
ton of the city throughout the winter.
Officials of the company predicted it
would take several weeks for the mass
of grain to burn itself out. Meanwhile
there is no hope of saving any of it.
A rain that began early yesterday
afternoon and continued into today
saved the city from a general fire.
From the moment it was discovered at
10 o'clock last night until dawn today
the fire was probably the most spec
tacular ever seen in st. Louis or East
st. Louis. The skies were fired as far
as the eye could see. For a radius of
half mile from the burning elevator
the rain of water was accompanied by
an equally heavy rain of burning en-
bers as large as baseballs. Every
householder within that radius was
on the roof of his home with garden
hose in hand, fighting the flying fire
as fast as it fell.
Both the Missouri and Illinois sides
of the river were lined with thousands
of spectators, while the Eads bridge,
connecting the two cities, was a buster
thoroughfare at midnight than at mid
day. The spectacle was capped at the
stroke of twelve by the collapse of the
elevator which stood on the brink of
the Mississippi. Reduced to a shell
of ashes it popped open, hurting forth
half million bushels of burning
grain. Half of this slid into the Mis-
sissippi, sizzled and f1oated away, the
remainder spread out on the bank and
is still afire. The grain belonged to
Illinois farmers, for whom it was be-
ing held in storage. The loss is COW
cred by insurance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-20
Big CHURCH COUNCIL.
CongregationaliSts Gather for Their
TrienniaI Convention.

Kansas City, Oct 2O.-Three candi-
dates for moderator were mentioned
prominently by delegates to the ma
tional council of Congregational
church who arrived here today The
council together with the various mis-
sionary societies, of the church will
open its triennial convention here
Wednesday. While most of the dele
gates were reticent about their per-
sonal choices, the Rev. Warren F.
Day of Los Angeles, the Rev. Charles
S. Mills of Mount Clair, y. J., and
Charles r. Brown, D. D., dean of Yale
divinity school of New Haven. Conn,
were said to have large followings and
it was predicted one of them would
succeed the Rev. Nehemiah Boynton,
of Brooklyn, n. Y, the present mod
orator, who is not a candidate for re-
election.
Exhibits from the American board
of commissioners for foreign mission,
the Sunday school and the book de-
partments will be shown during the
convention. These are said to be more
extensive than in previous years. The
local reception committee expects two
thousand visitors from out of town to
attend the meetings although there
are but six hundred delegates to the
national council.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-20
WAS DOWN TO 27 LOSS A MILLION
A Frost-a Killing Frost Last
Night.
Ice on the POndS-Winter Ar
riveS a Month Early.

There was a killing frost this morn
ing. The minimum temperature was
27.5 degrees-at 6 o'clock this morn
ing. There was a crust of ice on the
pools in and about Topeka. With one
exception this is the coolest October
20 on record in Topeka. The mercury
was down to the 27 degree mark on
this date in 1883.
Delicate vegetation was frozen stiff
this morning. Farmers who had not
cut their alfalfa are making hay today,
and by the way, big fork full of al
falfa has a value equal to a sack OF
sugar. 1t was forty days ago that the
drought was broken. In that time the
majority of the farmers of Kansas
have made one cutting of alfalfa. The
pastures are in good condition.
Sunday night hundreds of TOpekanS
covered their Towering plants with
sheets blankets or newspapers as they
anticipated the freeze.
The killing frost came 20 days later
than last year and five days after the
normal date for the first killing frost
of the season.
All Sunday night there was a brisk
northwest breeze; the average pace
was 5 miles an hour. There was no
change in the wind velocity or d1rec-
ton this morning. At o'clock the
temperature was 33 degrees.
The first snow of the season fell on
Sunday. It was light and melted al
most as soon as it touched the ground.
The snow began falling at noon and
continued internationally until 2:30
o'clock.
Generally fair weather is slated for
tonight and Tuesday with rising tenn
perature. Frost is predicted for to-
night.
Freezing Temperatures in States.
ty
temperatures the first of the season,
prevailed over Missouri, Kansas and
strip of northern Oklahoma early to-
day, and a light frost extended into
northern Texas Ice formed all over
western Missouri
The thermometer stood at 27 de-
grees above zero for nearly an hour
in Kansas City, St Joe, Springfield
and Sedalia. The lowest temperature
reported from the three states to the
weather bureau was "a at Concordia,
Kan. Snow fell this morning in east
ern Missouri.
Other temperatures reported were:
Dodge City, Kan, 80; Wichita, 80;
Oklahoma City, "a; Dallas, Tex, 36.
The United States weather observer
here forecasted pronounced rise in
temperature for tomorrow.
Is Nineteen Below Normal.
The weather today is of the Decem-
Der variety, the temperature having
averaged 10 degrees below normal for
this date. There is a piercing north
west wind blowing at the rate of 20
miles an hour.
The weather bureau reports that the
mercury was below the freezing point
in the eastern and northern portions
of the state Killing frost was report
ed as far south as Oklahoma City.
The weather is moderating in the
northwestern part of the country and
consequently a rise in temperature is
due in Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-20
FOOTBALL VICTIM.
kankakee Player Suffers Fractured
SkuIl-DieS.

Kankakee Ill, Oct. 2O-A. J. Kramer. q
years old. died today as a result of in
1uries in a football game Saturday when
his skull was fractured, neck broken and
several ribs dislodged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-20
RALPH ROSE BURIED.
Famous Athlete Buried in Family Lot
at HeaIdsburg.

Healdsburg, Cal, Oct 20.-In the
family plot in Oak Mound cemetery
here the body of Ralph Rose, Cali
fornia's famous athlete, who died of
typhoid fever in San Francisco last
Thursday, was buried Yesterday.
Twelve pail bearers were required to
support the caSket
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-20

asked an economical individual, when
Mr.. Kiene unlocked the storeroom to-
day.
Not bit of it, responded the sher
-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-20
Postmaster Nominated.

Washington Oct. N.-Lenora Maude
McFlhaney was nominated for postmas-
ter at T4ouisburg, Kan, today by Presi-
dent Wilson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-20

Weather Forecast for Kansas.
Fair and warmer tonight and Tuesday
frost tonight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-20
National Bank Closed.

Oct. D.-The Traders
this city was closed to-
the comptroller of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-20

Lowell. Mass,
National bank of
day by order of
currency.
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The hourly readings:
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-23
YOUR HAIR MAY BE-
YOUR FORTUNE

Beautiful hair has made the fortune
of many woman, by adding charm and
loneliness to an otherwise plain face.
Nothing means more to good looks than
beautiful hair. 1t adds to the attrac-
tiveness of every feature. Without it
you can't be beautiful; with it you will
be at least pretty.
To have beautiful hair, use Harmony
Hair Beautifier. 1t will improve the
beauty of your hair, taking away the
dull harshness and stringiness, softening
and polishing every hair in your head
and making it soft. silky, glossy, easier
to put up and keep in place, and at the
same time giving it rich and lasting
rose fragrance that will delight both you
and those around you.
Very easy to apply-simply sprinkle a
little on your hair each time before
brushing t. 1t contains no oil and will not
change the color of hair, nor darken
gray hair.
To keep your hair and scalp dandrufr-
free and clean, use Harmony Shampoo.
This pure liquid shampoo gives an in
Simultaneous rich lather that immediate
Nv penetrates to every part of hair and
scalp. Washed of just as quickly, the
entire operation takes only few mo-
ments.
Both preparations come in odd-shapd,
very ornamental bottles. with sprinkler
tops. Harmony Hair Beautifier, Sl.0O.
Harmony Shampoo, soc. Both guaran-
teed to satisfy you in every way, or
your money back. Sold in this COM
munity only at our store-The Rexall
Store-one of the more than 1000 lead
ing drug stores of the United States,
Canada and Great Britain. which own
the big Harmony laboratories in Boston,
where the many celebrated Harmony
Perfumes and Toilet Preparations are
made. The Red Cross Pharmacy. Floyd
G. Russell. Prop. 100 North Main street,
Barre, Yermont.-Advt.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-23

| his office and talked to him within a
few feet of where the other woman lay
hiding behind the mysterious door
which Couch would never permit anyone
to open. There were many other Off
ces in the building, but none of their
occupants ever guessed COUGHS secret.
The story is as weird as any OF the
tales of Poe. Hyde, DIR. Jekylls other
self had no more tragic end than that
of Couch. They found him huddled in
a heap on the sofa in the room in which
he had received SO many clients. A few
steps away was the forbidden door.
Word was at once sent to Mrs. Couch,
who hurried with all speed from her
home The lawyer had often slept in
his office. saving that he was troubled
with inson MA and could only sleep
there.
The wife found the undertaken and
several officials about the figure on the
couch. The first shock over, Mrs.
Couch looked about the office, and her
eve lighted on the door in the rear. She
asked that it be opened. The under
taker tried it. 1t was locked He got
upon chair and peered over the small
transom.. In corner of the room
crouched terrified woman peering
up at him through her tangled hair.
Don't break down The door," she
whispered. "Don't hurt me. I'll come
out"
Astounded, the officials forced the
door and led out the woman.
"Who are your" they demanded.
81 am Adelaide NJ. Branee," she an
swered. then broke down weeping Wild
ly and saying that she had come out
of the secret room at 8 O'Clock in the
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-23
WOMAN IN
SECRET ROOM
Is. Revealed by a Lawyers
Death-There Fiji
teen Years
AND NONE EVER
KNEW OF SITUATION
Man in Weird Story Was a
Former District
Attorney

Monticello, N. Y, Dec. 23.--This vii
lage was stunned yesterday by the dis
covery that former District Attorney
Melvin H. Couch, a distinguished law
yer and former associate of Alton B,
Parker, who was found dead in his office
in the Masonic building, had been main
tanning woman in secret room there
for nearly fifteen years.
| The woman, of whose existence the
village had never dreamed, although she
had lived in its very center and stealth
| lily moved about its deserted streets at
night, is Adelaide NJ. Branee, forty
years old, member of an excellent
family. She is held in the county Jail,
strange and pathetic figure, pending
report to the cour. on the death of
the lawyer.
Clad in garments that were frayed
and tattered, and with her haid strog-
Cling over her wildly staring eyes, she
was found in a room in the rear of the
! lawyers office, while on a sofa in his
consulting room lay his body.
In a handsome house in another part
of the village were COUGHS wife and
twenty three-year-old daughter. neither
of whom ever dreamed of that part of
the distinguished lawyers life that was
concealed by the door of the secret
room. The lawyers body was removed
to the Couch residence after an autopsy
performed by the coroner's physician to
determine the cause of death. The au-
topsy showed that Couch had died of a
rupture of the aorta, the great blood
vessel leading up from the heart, and
Sheriff Kinnie, who had COUGHS strange
woman companion in charge. announced
that there was nothing suspicious about
the lawyers death. The end had come
suddenly, with only the woman of the
secret room to minister to him.
"She is a lady" was the way the
sheriff described the strange woman
yesterday. "She is educated and re-
fined, in spite OF the daze she is in after
being hidden all these years.
Some people say they have seen a
strange woman on the street at night
some times, but no one ever knew she
was there in that Office, though good
many people have consulted with Mr..
Couch there
"The woman is held merely on a
technical charge of petty larceny. she
having admitted taking 50 out of
COUGHS pocket. She was arraigned yes
terday before Judge Niven.
COUGHS wife had often visited him in
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-23

morning and found Mr. Couch dead on
the lounge, where he often slept. Mrs.
Couch tainted and was removed to her
home. The woman was led away to be
cared for at the jail.
One story has it that the woman
originally came from Goshen and an.
other that she was a book agent and
met Couch when she entered his Office
to sell him some law volumes. When
the strange secret association began no
one can say, although it is believed it
was at least fifteen years ago
Couch had had a partition built
across the rear of his spacious Office,
and tbs made the room that no one but
himself and the woman ever entered.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-23

yesterday in a message to Secretary
Mc-Adoo from the National Shawmut
bank, the largest in New England. 1t
is declared that the executive commit
tee of the bank voted unanimously to
advise the directors to accept the new
law and to enter the system.
The First National of Boston will
also enter the system
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-23

ask congress to submit constitutional
amendment for the country wide abol-
ishment of the liquor traffic.
The memorial was signed by special
committee named at the anti-saloon
league demonstration in Washington De-
cember 10.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-23
TO COMFORT SICK FOLKS

Mrs. S. j. Kelsey, trained nurse OF
Barre. VT. saws: "Comfort Powder
cannot be equailed for cooling and com
forting the skin of fevered patients
and for warding off bed sores" The
genuine has the signature OF L. 5.
Sykes on the box.-Adyt.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-23

In this room was plain iron bed, a
table, two chairs and an oil stove.
COUGHS son. Stephen, was killed by
an auto truck in New York several
years ago while acting as secretary to
Frank Hedley of the Interborough. The
lawyer was associated with Alton B.
Parker in the case of John Allen, con-
victed of the murder of Ursula Ulrich.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-23
BOSTON BANKS IN LINE.
National Shawmut and First National
to Eenter System.

Washington, Dec. 23.-What treasury
officials regard as an indication of how
financial circles will receive the new fed
eral currency system came from Boston
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-23
ASK WILSON TO STIR CONGRESS.

Anti-Saloon League Seeks to Abolish
Liquor Traffic.
Columbus, Ohio, Dec 23-President
Wilson was memoralized yesterday to
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1913-03-13
Best Known Remedy.

For forty-threc years DIR. Kings New
has been known throughout
the world as the most reliable cough
remedy. over three million bottles
were used last year. Isn't this proof?
II Will get rid OF your cough, or we
will refund your money. ]. J. Owens.
OF Allendale. s. C.. writes the way
hundreds OF others have done: AFTER
twenty years. I and that DIR. Kings
Now Discovery is the best remedy for
coughs and colds that have ever ls-
ed" For coughs or colds and all
throat and lung troubles, It has no
equal. soc and si.oo at Hunter Palm
ers.-adv.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1913-03-13
NEW BUSINESS MANAGER
At CANON GAS COMPANY

Mr.. F. B. Sweeney. an experienced
gas man from Eau Claire. Wisconsin.
has been made manager OF the new
business department of The Canon
Gas company.
Mr.. Sweeney was connected w.;h
the large gas company at Eau Claire
and made for himself an excellent
record during the six years he was
there. He comes to Canon City highly
recommended and has already started
in with the vim and vigor of 3 natur-
al booster.
The increasing patronage of the
gas company made the establishment
OF the New Business Department nee
essary.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1913-03-13
Beware Of Ointments for Catarrh that
Contain Mercury.

as mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely de-
range the whole system when enter
ing 1t through the mucous surfaces.
Such articles should never be used
except on prescriptions from reput-
able physicians. as the damage they
will do is ten fold to the good you
can possibly derive from them. Halls
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j..
Cheney & Co., Toledo. o.. contains no
mercury, and is taken Internally, act
ting directly upon the blood and muc-
GUS surfaces of the system. In buy
ing Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you
get the genuine. 1t Is taken internal
ly and made in Toledo. Ohio. by =. J..
Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price 75c per
bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
pation.-adv. Sh
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1913-03-13
DENVER LETTER

Denver, March 3-The supreme
court upon inquiries from the senate
has rendered an opinion the effect
OF which will be to largely nuiiify
what was supposed to oe the powers
given the people under the initiative
and referendum. The court holds that
the legislature can repeal any Law
enacted by the people. This gives the
legislature the last say on any Law
which the people propose and adopt
The court also holds that the iegisia-
ture can prevent the submission OF
any law to the people which Il enacts.
BY inserting the following sentence;
at is hereby declared and enacted that
this present act IL q Law necessary
for the immediate preservation OF the
public health and safety With this
sentence in n law enacted by the az
sembiy II cannot be referred The
court did not say whether the sentence
would prevent the people from initia,-
ing a law repeating that section. At
torneys are divided on that point. At
any rate under this opinion the legis-
iature can undo anything the people
dr ana nrawen. sha roonfa frnr,, trao
Ing anything which II does.
The senate has passed and sent over
to the house the Burris Public Unity
BILL Under its provisions a public
utility commission is created with
power to control and regulate all pub
lie utilities In the state. The bill ,s.