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The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-20

the conference. in his closing speech
summarized the principal provisions
of the convention. He said:
IAN International service fs to be
established by the nations chiefly in
terested, for the purpose of an ice
patrol and ice observation as well as
the destruction Of derelicts in the
north Atlantic. 1t is to be under the
control of the United States. This
service Is to take over and continue
the work by the two vessels employed
by the United States in 1g12-13, in
locating ice. in determining it's limits
to the south, the east and west and
keeping in touch with it as 1t moves
southwark in order that vessels may
be kept informed by wireless tele-
graph of it's position.
1.-The service will also continue the
ice observation work started last year
by Great Britain with the object OF
determining before the ice becomes a
peril, the fundamental conditions
which govern its movements.
"Great Britain will continue the
duty of dealing with. dangerous dere-
licts east of a line drawn from Cape
Sable to latitude "a north, longitude
20 west. The waters to the west Of
this line will be watched by the United
States.
THE duty is also imposed on all
shipmasters to report the presence Of
dangerous ice and derelicts and a
code has been prepared to facilitate
this reporting"
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ROBBED ON A TRAIN.
Man IL Made to Give Up Membership
Roll of Labor Union.

Clarlzsburg, w. Va. Jan. -20.-J. r.
Olden, who said he was a union laborer
organizer Of Hagerstown, Md, on his
way to the convention of the United
Mine Workers of America, at Indian
apolis, was robbed OF valuable papers
on Baltimore & Ohio railway train No.
near Morgantown and Kingwood rail-
road junction today. His assaiIants
escaped and Olden, guarded by a rail-
road detective continued his journey.
Olden told the railroad men that he
was knocked down from behind as he
was playing cards in a coach with q
man whose acquaintance he had Just
made. When he recovered conscious
ness three men, one of them his COM
panion, were bending over him, each
armed with pistol. They told him
they wanted no money, but they want
ed his valise which contained valuable
union organization papers. Persons in
the car attempted to interfere. but
were held back by the men until they
gained the vestibule. There they re-
mained until the train was stopped by
hot box. The men then jumped from
the car and escaped.
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The State Will Have to Pull
Through This Year.
Only IS Per Cent of 1913 Taxes
Be Available Now.
COST S35O,OOO 4 MONTH
Collection of Fees May Keep
Black Stamp on Warrants.

Twenty-Five per cent OF the taxes
Tor running the expenses OF the state
for 1914 have been drawn from the
county treasurers Of Kansas, and as
Stunning that every dollar of tax levied
In 1913 was collected in December or
will be realized in June, there is now
but Is per cent Of the total levy avail
able for meeting the states bills dur
ing the next eleven months Drafts
for ten per cent of the new tax were
drawn in December and these drafts
have been followed this month by a
fifteen per cent drawing. or total
absorption of $842,821.9O of the new
tax.
Last fall it was reported that there
would be a close squeeze to prevent
the state stamping it's warrants not
paid for want of funds. BY a tremen-
dous struggle the state pulled through
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FREE MEAT AFAILURE.
A Blow to Domestic Producer But
Does Not Reduce the Price.

Denver, Jan. 2O.-Placing of meat
on the free list under the new tariff
has not only failed to reduce the cost
to the consumer but has administered
to the domestic meat producing indus
try the severest blow 1t has received
in many years. said J. E. Poole. editor
of the Chicago Live Stock World. in
an address today before the American
Live Stock association, which began its
annual convention here.
''Alarmed at the prospect of an in
undation of Argentina and Australian
beef and mutton and Canadian cattle,
timid growers unloaded precipitously, -
said Poole. "Au through the summer
Chicago and other markets were
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slutted with stock. At moment
when confidence was asserting itsen
and growers, desiring profit in rais-
ing cattle and sheep were stocking up.
faith was routed by fear and demoral-
ixatiOn ensueiE Breeding enterprises
by the hundred were abandoned.
Thus the very measure designed
by Washington theorists to relieve the
consumer defeated the object for
which it was Intended. Had the com
fidence enEendered by the high tat
cattle market Of 1912 and the conse-
Quent advance in stockers not been
destroyed by the menace OF free trade
beef. and also mutton, production in
the United States would by this time
have made q long stride along the path
of recuperation. whereas actual de-
pletion has resulted.
so far foreign beef has failed to
reduce cost to consumers and much
of the stuff reaching Atlantic ports
has not been suited for shop trade.
The beef is aged and decidedly deficient
In quality. However, it must be recog-
niyed AZ q competitor and every ton
Of 1t entering the United States dis
places 20 much domestic product"
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GAS EXPLOSION FATAL
Burns Merriam Baker and Wrecks
Building-Loss $500.

Kansas City, Jan. 20.-A gas explosion
wrecked the bakery of Bowers Broth
ers at Merriam. Kan, and severely
burned David Bowers, one OF the part
ners. today.
Bowers went to the bakery to begin
the days work. AS he stepped inside
he lighted a match. Instantly the in
side became sheet of flame and there
was a crash Of rending timbers. Mr..
Bowers was thrown some distance and
his face and hands badly burned.
The entire north side of the building
which Is IS feet long, was pushed out
The loss was about $500. The shock
was felt for a half mile.
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The start was made at the great Olive
bridge dam where the party entered
the II foot tube. through which hum
dreds Of millions of gallons of water
win be supplied to New York City.
aquedpct can be obtained from the
figures:
Length 127 miles: cost $177, 900, 900
capacity of water supply 77O,0OO 900
gallons; diameter OF tube II feet. The
aqueduct crosses four rivers and New
York harbor, passing 1900 feet under
the Hudson below Breakneck Noun
tain
Seventeen thousand two hundred
and forty men were employed seven
years on the work; seven village sites
were submerged and one railroad
moved: water takes three days to COM
plete the trip.
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THE DAY IN CONGRESS
Houses Meet in Joint Session to Hear
Presidents Message.

Washington, Jan. 20.-Senate met at
noon and recessed to sit in joint session
with the house to hear President Wilson's
message on trust legislation. judiciary
committee amended the workmen's COM
pensation bill to provide that it should
not curtail the rights of railroad en-
ployees under present laws.
Commerce committee heard advocates
of the Townsend bill to consolidate the
revenue cutter and life saving services
House met at noon. Recessed and re-
assembled at 1880 o'clock in joint session
with the senate to hear President Will
sons address. Naval committee heard a
delegation of churchmen advocating Sec
retary Daniels plan for more chaplains
Representative Borland urged the rivers
and harbors committee to authorize fur
ther surveys for improvement of the Mis-
aouri river.
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TURNED DOWN BY |. c. c,
Lamar Had Information About RE-
bates to Trade.

Washington, Jan. r21.-That David
Lamar. the Wall street operator. un-
der indictment for impersonating
congressman in telephone talks with
New York financierf. had offered to
the interstate commerce commission
certain evidence to support charge
that the United States Steel corpora
ton had received illegal rebates from
railroads. with the specific condition
that the commission employ an attor-
ney of his selection, was disclosed to-
day in report Of the interstate COM
merce committee of the senate.
The commission declined to accede to
Lamar's conditions. Lamar did not
name the attorney. Before the senate
lobby committee last summer he testi-
fed that he had asked certain financiers
to employ Edward Lauterbach of New
York. in the steel corporation inquiry.
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CUT ESTATE IN TWO.
I4ankford Divided Between F1ancee
and His Mother.

New York, Jan 20.-Nearly half
the estate OF the Richard D. Lank
ford, vice president of the Southern
railway, who was asphyxiated by gas
last week at his home in Brooklyn,
goes to Miss Nellie B. Patterson, the
Brooklyn girl to whom he was en-
gagged.
The will, dated May II, 1918. and
filed for probate today, divides the
property equally between Miss Pat
terson and Landlords mother after
giving the testator's home in Princess
Anne to Mrs. Lankford and leaving
his brother, Columbus, $1,000. Miss
Patterson also will receive the books
and photographs in the apartment
where her fiance died. The will does
not give the value of the estate.
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.ERCAD0 IS GRATEFUL
With HIS Army and Other Refugees
He Reaches E PAso. =

Ell Paso, Jan. 20.-The $500 Mexi-
can federal soldiers, six Mexican gem
erals and 1859 women and children.
who sought asylum In the United
States after they were driven out Of
Ojinaga, Mexico. by General Francisco
today and were formally interned at
Fort Bliss military reservation. They
are to be held by this government in
definitely on the footing Of prisoners
of war.
The first Of the refugees to step on
the train was General Mercado. II
am completely dumbfounded by the
unusual position we are in." said Gen.
eral Mercado. ut is something un-
precedented to have q whole army di-
vision interned on foreign soil.
I'VE are grateful to the United
States for the asylum afforded US and
for the attention shown my soldiers. ]
hope the world will understand our
flight to this country was on grounds
OF humanity to save the lives Of wom-
en- and children as well as of soldiers
rebels would have killed us. What is
to become of us, don't know. We
shall wait and see."
OrOzc0 Is Heard From.
Alpine, Tex, Jan. 20.-General
Orozco. one of the Mexican federal
commanders who escaped from Oil
naga, when 1t was occupied by the
rebels. is near San Carlos, Mexico,
with a small number of followers, ac-
cording to three Americans who re-
turned here today from Mexico. They
claim to have talked to the federal
leader.
Orozco is believed to be attempting
to reach the Mexican federal garri-
son opposite Del Rio, Tex.
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OIL PRICES FIXED.
Oklahoma Commission Makes Figure
for Kerosene 8 Cents.

Oklahoma City, Jan. 20.-The Okla
homa corporation commission has is
sued an order fixing the retail price Of
kerosene at 8 cents gallon. in GER
tain territory in western Oklahoma.
This action was taken following a
hearing attended by many oil produc-
ers and refiners. The retail price for
merly ranged from Is to 20 cents
gallon.
This is said to be the first time in
the history of the oil business in the
United States that state officials have
ever fixed the price at which kerosene
should be sold to the public. The pen
atty for the violation of the commits
sion's orders Is fine of $500 and a Jail
sentence. both of which are provided
by statute.
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WARRANT. FOR WOMAN
Coroner's Jury Holds Her Responsible
for q Mans Death.

st. Louis. Jan. 20-Mrs. Pearl john
son. a society woman of st. Louis. was
charged with manslaughter. in war
rant issued by the assistant circuit att
torney today The warrant was issued
after the assistant prosecutor had read
the testimony before the coroner's
jury which held Mrs. johnson respon-
sible for the death of Andrew Freeman.
a street cleaner, who was struck by
Mrs. Johnson's automobile while she
was going to q bridge party.
This Is the first time in Missouri that
a woman has been charged in a war
rant with manslaughter as result Of
an automobile accident
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S. P. TRAINS LATE.
Snow Plows Have Buried the Sidings
in the Mountains.

San Francisco. Jan. 20.-An South
ern Pacific trains, bound overland,
are from one to five hours late, due
to the fact that rotary plows in clear
ing the. main line through the Sierra
Nevada have buried their passing sid
ing between ten and fifteen deep with
snow.
at Truckee six feet six inches. and In
Blue Canyon a few inches less than
five feet. In the Siskiyou mountains.
on the Shasta route to Oregon, be-
tween Sission and Weed, two feet OF
snow fell last night and more IL fall
ing. Trains are late but the company
has been able to keep the tracks open.
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THROUGH Big TUBE.
Newspaper Men Are Inspecting New
York AQueduct ON Foot.

New York, Jan. 20.-Through thir-
teen miles of darkness relieved only by
the lanterns they carried, seven New
York newspaper men plodded In water
and ice on the first leg of their in
spection trip of the 127 miles of the
new water supply aQueduct, from
Ashokan reservoir in the Catskill
mountains to Brooklyn. Today the
party will traverse the Bonticon tun-
mel running under the Shawangunk
mountains.
Engineers, who have been engaged
in the aqueduct construction since it
was started several years ago, explain
ed its wonders to the newspaper men.
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Hodges Runs for Senate
Brooks for Governor.
Board Of Control Chairman IN
Administration Man.
But HODGES NAY not RUN
Governor viii Not Decide ON
ONCE TIL Feb. g.
Little for Attorney General IL
Late Announcement

II Governor Hodges should next
month announce his candidacy for
the United States senate-an an
nouncement that il not expected by
state house Democratic il probable
that the administrator following win
push w. e. Brooks Of Fort Scott into
the race for governor. Brooks is at
present chairman OF the state board
Of control and regarded as one of the
strongest Of the Hodges appointees.
There will be q big mix up in the
gubernatOrial fight il Governor
Hodges decides to ;eek his party's
senatorial nomination. The bars will
be let down for a free for all fight on
the governorship and 1t Is probable
that Hodges will be far too busy with
his own troubles to play q favorite for
his successor. Rrooks. however,
would be the most likely favorite OF
Dn
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Convention Is Signed by Nearly All
the Maritime Powers.

drawn up by the International con-
ference on safety at sea was signed
at the foreign office this afternoon
with considerable formality The text
contains "a articles. Together with
the annexed rules" it covers go
printed pages. The only delegation
which failed to sign the convention
today was Austria, which will sign to-
morrow.
The representatives of Great Britain.
the United States, Canada, Australia. a.
New Zealand. Germany, France.
Italy. Spain. Sweden. Norway. Hol-
land, Belgium and Denmark were all
present. Lord Mersey. president Of
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THREE ROB 4 BANK.


Pittsburg, Okla, >Jan 30-
Three men on wiry cow ponies
galloped into this town today,
drew up in front of the Bank
of Pittsburg. left the ponies
while they held up John Nc
Bride, cashier of the bank, gathered
in $500 in coin and currency,
mounted again and rode away before
any one else in town save Mcbride
knew what had happened. Each man
carried two revolvers and kept the
lower half Of his face covered with a
red cotton handkerchief.
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FREE SKATERS DEAD.


Ottawa, Kan, Jan. 2O.-Wm. Clark
and Mrs, Helen Pennock. two Of the
earliest Kansas pioneers, died today
within q few hours OF each other near
here. Mr.. Clark had lived for 50 years
on q claim ut Centropolts, where he
moved from Westport ins1S55. Mrs.
Pennock was the widow of VIM. PEN
mock, who was member OF the first
free state territorial legislature and
afterward an Indian agent at Ottawa
She and her husband came to Kansas
In 1855.
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Embezzler Gives Himself Up.

White Plains, N. J., JAN 20-1en-
ry M. Merritt of Tuckahoe, former sup
ervisor of East Chester, who disap-
peared on October 2S, last leaving q
$50, 900 shortage in his accounts, walk
ed into the office of the district at
tOrney today and surrendered He ID
under indictment charged with grand
larceny.
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GIRL. ELECTROCUTED.


Wichita, Jan. 20.-Laura A. Price, II
years old. a telephone operator at Lone
Wolf. Okla. was killed at her switch
board early today. She was caught in a
short circuit while answering call. She
formerly lived in Derby. Kansas.
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The Alaska daily empire., 1914-08-10
YUKON PRESBYTERY
 HOLDING AT SEWARD

SEWARD, Aug. 1.--Rey. James H. condit, superintendent of missions of the Presbyterian church in Alaska, has arrived in Seward to take part in the Presbytery of the Yukon which will be held here in the first week of August. Only three clergymen will be able to attend. The other two are Rev. J. P. Howard of Knik and Rev. J. c. Mcbride who is temporarily sta toned at Cordova.
 Mir. Condit has returned from trip of investigation in the Bristol Bay re- zion and will recommend the estab- lishment of a mission there.
 He came out by way of Iliamna and saw Katmai smoking but says that 1t was doing no more than smoke. He found 23 cannerles in Bristol bay and declares that the catch of fish there is nothing short of extraordinary. It will be as great as last year and last years catch was a record one. In one case Mir. Condlt saw thousand red salmon caught in one cast of gill net. In all respects he considers the resources in that and other lines as much greater than people can imagine without seeing the country them. selves.-Seward Gateway.
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WESTWARD FOX
 FARMER IN SEATTLE

SEATTLE, Aug. 5-Frank E. Whelp- ley, a fox breeder at Unga, an island south of the Alaska peninsula, is stop ping at the Diller on his way back to Alaska from a trip to the East with a consignment of animals to Prince Edward island and New Brunswick.
 q have about eighty pairs of foxes on two islands up there, some blue and some gray" he said.
 "The blue foxes have considerable territory to run in, but they are fed by my men and in spite of their free dom it Is not difficult to catch them for shipment. The gray foxes are kept in a corral and they offer the real problems to the man who raises them, for they are transferred from entire freedom to limited territory, and 1t takes good deal of study to know just how to handle them under those changed conditions. Transshipment Is matter requiring lot of care, and ! always go along with the shipments to see that they get proper attention. l can't get insurance on them and any that die are a total loss" = Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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FALCON JosLIN COMES
 NORTH FOR HEALTH

Falcon Joslin, president of the Ia mana Mines Railroad who, few weeks ago, induced the national Legislature to enact a law eliminating federal taxes on Alaskan railroads, and who has done yeoman service in securing other legislation favorable to the ter ritory, reached Seattle yesterday, sui. fering the first ill-health he has known in twenty years.
 Joslin has the reputation of being one of the hardest workers in the North-a country in which hard work, both physical and mental, Is regarded as a part of the daily lot. His indispo' sition is the result of the first vaca- tion he has taken in twenty years. The experience of having absolutely nothing to do and nothing to worry about was so strange that 1t affected his physical being.
 By the passage of the Alaska rail- road tax elimination bill," said JOS lin, q escaped several millions of dol lars in fines. was being fined at the rate of $1S,5OO a day under the old law. When the bill passed thought I could afford holiday, so wired Mrs. Joslin to meet me with the children in California. l did not do a thing but loaf for a whole week, but 1t endangered my health and beat it back to Seattle"
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FAIRBANKS TO
 HAVE GOOD FAIR


 FAIRBANKS. July 20.-That Fair banks will have one of the most sue. cessful agricultural fairs and exhibit ions ever seen in the Panama valley Is certain, as practically all the ranch CTS, farmers and owners of greenhous- es are nursing along carefully some fine speciments of different vegetables which thrive so well in the North. Although they are working hard, out of sheer patriotism and loyalty to the territory, many of the agrlculturlsts feel that they should be, and claim that the proper encouragement is not given to the farmers.
 In speaking of the proposed fair, one prominent rancher said yester- day: Every year, Fairbanks holds a big Fourth of July celebration, at which considerable money Is given away in prizes for events which require no practice or special train ing. All of these events are pleasing to the public, and we farmers have no objection to them; in fact, we are as anxious to see them as anyone, but we think if prizes can be offered for these things, the club ought certainly to be able to raise money to offer sub stantial prizes to the men who work for months in preparing exhibits for the fair."-Fairbank Times.
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THE LAST GREAT WAR.

The wars which for uncounted ages have drenched the earth with blood, seem destined to culminate in one stupendous tragedy, now beginning in the Balkans.
 For many years the Christian, the civilized nations of the world, have been preparing for this supreme sacri- fee on the altar of the gods.
 Finally the fires have been lighted.
 The high priests of destruction are barring their swords.
 The multitudes stand aghast at what Is to occur.
 No such colossal sacrifice was ever before offered to propritiate the gods of revenge, of jealousy and of hatred.
 Our civilization holds 1t crime for two men to meet in duel with pistols or swords. If one stays the other 1t is murder.
 Two nations meet in a duel with pistols and swords.
 It is a righteous cause" for each.
 In the end the victor robs the other of territory and money and feels its honor has been satisfied.
 But wars are about to end.
 The civilized nations must soon abandon the law of the jungle, for the law of arbitration.
 War is becoming too deadly to be possible much longer.
 The great European war, if 1t is to be fought now, will be the most fright ful in the history of the Nations.
 It will teach them all, however, the necessity of abandoning man-killing.
 Such war must be fought before the Nations, wearied, exhausted and decimated, with their money and cred it,exhausted. will, by common consent, agree for all time to submit their diff ferences to arbitration.
 It may be that the present threaten ing complications in the Balkans will be temporarily relieved, but there can be no permanent peace in the "arm ed camp of Europe" until the final gi ganic embodiment takes place.
 Perhaps it would be as well to have it now and get it over-Seattle Sun.