The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-04

modities will be heavy, in exchange
for California fruit and vegetables. So
there is a commercial side Of the prob
lem for Mr.. Reid's commission to con-
slider.
Senator Reed is -practicing law in
San Diego. E. P Sample. formerly
county attorney Of Smith county, il
hie partner. The Sixth district col
ony in San Diego is strong. including
Frank Burrow. vice president OF the
dis, cashier of the same bank, and J.
n. Mollison, who is in the real estate
business. J. r.. Burrow OF Topeka,
father Of Frank Burrow, is president
Of the Union National bank. He has
been visiting his son several days.
The Sixth district men seem to have
interests more or less in common, and
Col. A. b. Ferguson, formerly OF We'll
lirgton, and J.. M. Padgett. formerly
of Topeka, train with them.
Success for Sterne.
"w. e. Sterne still has all the ear
marks Of success. His main business
is manufacturing gasoline engines, but
lately he and C. A. Fellows of Los
Angeles have discovered a nickel mine.
said to be the only nickel deposit in
the United States. They are organic
ing to work it. Mr.. Fellows and the
three Sterne brothers are together In
several enterprises. Fellows lives in
time at San Diego. He owns an ocean
going yacht. which was at the disposal
Of the Topeka contingent at the Santa
Fe less and damage meeting last week.
George H. White. former WASH
burn football player, later with the
State Journal, is reporter on the San
DIEGO Union. He reported the Santa
Fe loss and damage meeting. Mr.. and
Mrs. White have built a beautiful bung-
allow in a part of San Diego overlooking
the ocean. Mrs. Whites people, the
Hotchkiss family, formerly of Topeka,
are in San Diego. Mr.. Hotchkiss il as
ISOLATED with J. w. Going in the real
estate business.
Lawrence Chamberlain. son Of Phil
Chamberlain, il with a San Diego In
vestment company. Former Chief of
Police Eaton still Is in the grocery
business. c. T. Cave, son of Steve
Cave. who drove the prairie dogs out
of Kansas. il q reporter on the San
Diego Union. Young Cave was = page
in the house of representatives. when
his father was a member.
California IL making an experiment
with equal suffrage, the women voting
for the first time at the last general
election. The politicians and newspaper
men with whom talked said that the
attached women vote did not affect
the result. BY attached they meant
fathers, brothers. etc. These women
; generally voted az their men voted.
, But the unattached women-women
who are Independent Of men. both at
home and in business-generally were
i inclined to the Bull Moose cause.
THAT was the lineup in the last
election. but the California politicians
are unable to predict with any degree
Of confidence how the unattached vote
will go in the next election.
"A woman who has to do with the
| work of the national suffrage commit
tee. sojourning in San Diego. told me
that the national association would
spend a great deal Of money in Kansas
for the purpose of getting the women
vote out. She said the ants in several
states where the suffrage movement il
In progress. claimed that q large ma
porfty of the women did not want to
vote. 1t il our aim to overcome that
argument with . heavy vote in Kansas
| where the women will vote for the first
time next fall said the woman men,
| toned. We will have a nonpartisan
| organization Of women voters in every
precinct in Kansas in time for the pri-
maries,' she added"