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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-13
HIGHLAND PARK NOTES

The midweek prayer meeting will be
held Wednesday evening with Mr.. and
Mrs. G. G. Stiles.
afternoon with Mrs. G. W. Moore. A full
attendance is desired as there Is impor-
tant business.
Mcpherson. Kan, this week, where they
will reside in the future.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. 8. Longshore of West
street were Sunday guests at the A. E.
Dunlap home.
Mrs. w. r. Lott. who has been i'll for
several weeks. is somewhat improved.
Mrs. Alice Hicks and children left yes
terday for Harris. Kan, where she will
visit for a couple of weeks with her
brothers. family
The graduating class of the eighth
Bleak1ey, have arranged for very in
tercsting entertainment to be given at
the school house Friday evening, May Is.
The program will consist of a nook trial
Washburn. and several readings by pupils
of Miss Lanham. Refreshments will be
served after the program. .
Mrs. 0. v: Roller and children OF Wat,
days visit with Mrs. Rollers parents, Mr..
AMI Mrs. Peter Eberhardt.
s,, Miss Elsie Case was very pleasantly
the vent being her birthday. The even
ing was spent in games and music after
which refreshments were served. Those
Beatrice Peake. Miss Helen Eberhardt.
Miss Ida Rains Miss Esthex Roller. Miss
Pearl Shaul. Miss Elsie Case, Mr.. Rollin
Kreig, Mr.. Richard Ahlstrom. Mr.. Elmer
Ferguson. Mr.. Frank stiles, Mr.. Floyd
schritchf:eld
The x. K. KS will meet Friday even
in; at the home Of Miss Mabel Cromwell.
All members are urged to be present as
there ia business Of Importance
Mrs. F. NJ. Tuckexman of Chicago is
visiting at the home of w. E. Schichter.
Mrs. c. B. Mitchell spent Tuesday with
Mrs. E. D. Berridge.
Mrs: o. NJ. Sims entertained q few little
friends in honor of her daughter Bernice s
seventh birthday Friday, May II. the
hours being from 4:30 to g. The dining
room was decorated In pink and white.
and place cards were used for each guest.
Miss Vera Crews helped entertain the lit
tie folks. This party included: Leota
Sonwen Ruth sumey. Tiny Flanders.
Berclause. Percita Wassoner. Ethel
Chubb. Lillian Ahlstrom. Marion Bleak
ley. Georgia Johnson, Kenneth johnson,
Cecil Sims. Kenneth Crews, Willis Sims
and Master Harold Sims.
informally at their home on Twenty-sixti'
and Massachusetts streets Saturday even
ing In honor of the X. 8. A. c. alumni;
Tnoss present were: Mr. and Mr. Carl
and Mrs. J. c. Hickman. Mr.. and Mrs E.
g: Gibson, Mr.. Dean Gibson. Master
Theo. Gibson Mr.. and Mrs. Knowles. Af.
ana sl MT. r. " R:aer: NJ NJ. and , H.r p
Miss Lucy Berry. Mr.. J. n Kessler. Mr..
J. H. Whipple, Mr.. and Mrs C. b.
Buehrer. and Miss Bessie Sims were
guests Of the club The evening was
served.
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ABIDES BY CONGRESS
The President Consents to Abandon
Rural Credits Legislation.

Washington, May 13.-President
Wilson will abide by the Democrat
caucus action, in abandoning rural
credits legislation at this session of
congress Representative Glass of
Virginia, chairman Of the banking and
currency committee, conferred with
the president today and explained that
in his opinion the federal reserve bank
act will extend credit, aggregating
$500, OO0. OOO,- on farm lands. This will,
in a measure. cover the ground for
which the rural credits act was de-
signed. Moreover, the rural credits
bill framed by Representative Bulk
ley and the subcommittee was not
broad enough in it's provisions to sat
isfy the full committee.
The president, it is said especially
desires that the rural credit act should
extend credit to the tenant farmer.
Under the measure prepared by the
subcommittee. only the land owners
would have been able to get credit.
In the opinion Of the president it
would take many weeks to discuss and
frame a rural credits measure which
would be broad enough, in it's pro-
visions, to satisfy the fun membership
Of the banking and currency commit
tee. Consequently President Wilson is
willing to accept the caucus action
pending further consideration Of a
rural credit bill. which would meet
with approval Of party leaders.
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LONG LIST OF CRIMES
Charged Against Major Hamr0ck of
Colorado Militia.

Denver, May 13.-Charges Of arson.
murder. manslaughter and larceny
against Major Patrick J. Hammock of
the First regiment, Colorado National
Guard, were filed before a general
today. The charges grew out of the
the coal mine strikers at Ludlow on
April 20, and the fire which destroyed
the strikers tent colony.
The arson, murder and manslaughter
charges were brought under the fifty
eighth article of war and larceny
charges under the sixty-secOnd article.
The arson article deals with the burn
ing of the strikers tent colony and
charges the tents were fired 'wflfully
and maliciously by the defendant or
persons under his authority, in VIOLA
ton of the laws of Colorado"
The murder article contains twenty
seven specifications and charges Ham
rock with responsibility for the deaths
OF two women and eleven children
which resulted from the burning of the
strikers tents.
The manslaughter article, with TWEEN
ty specifications. charges responsible
ity for the death of five strikers, one
II year old boy and one non-combatant,
in the all day battle between strikers
name of Luis Tfkas, leader of the
Greek strikers, and who was in charge
of the tent colony; James Flyer and
Gallo Costa. union leaders at Ludlow
and Aguilar.
Three specifications under the
'oren,v article charge that $3.50, in
- ~-n--, the person OF
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mixhty nice set OF lumbermen- Last
year at the camp q dog destroyed
$3.50 worth OF bacon. We want q
small building in which we can keep
our supplies"
There will be q mass meeting OF the
I:oy Scouts of Topeka a week from
Friday-not next Friday. 1t will be
held for the purpose Of making final
ARRANGEMENTS for the Scout camp, and
, to talk over the work the boys will
be expected to do while the q. A. r.
reunion is in progress the last Of this
month. One hunderd Scouts will be
furnished the Commercial club to
serve as guides to visitors in the city
and to make themselves generally
useful.
1--WE are ready to handle the last
half Of the 1913 tax" said County
Treasurer Mat Weightman today, land
1 hope that the property owners will
begin coming in at once SO 4s to avoid
the usual jam at the last minute
Taxes are due and payable but as the
custom usually is to walt until just
before June 20, when the penalty goes
on, the treasurer's office is always
swamped with the rush OF late Corners
Treasurer Weightman has established
an enviable record for the handling OF
tax business rapidly and now that he
has his decks cleared for action wants
to get busy.
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English Women's
Beautiful Compilations

There is no nation in which the wo-
men live as sanely as do the English
and there is no nation in which the
skins are as fair and clear. Under
perfect, natural conditions a we'll bal
anced life would guarantee a beauti-
full and healthy skin. But the ordin-
airy social and economic American life
of today forces the system to furnish
so much vital force for action that
nerves. eyes and complexi>1s all suf-
fer. In addition to this strain many
women further abuse their skin by
covering 1t with pore-clogging pow
der instead of doing the wise thing
that Is, using q lotion which protects
and smoothes, without choking the
pores.
The reason compilations suffer go
much in summer is because powder
does not offer sufficient protection
against the hot sun. A plain spurmax
lotion not only safeguards the skin
from the elements, but in itself is a
beautifier Of great worth. To prepare
this lotion at home, dissolve ounces
spurmax from druggists in u pint
hot water Cor witch hazeD and add 2
teaspoonfuls glycerine. This applied
to the skin becomes invisible and inn
parts a velvety softness and dainty tint
to q rough. faded skin. relieving that
shiny, oily appearances. and its use
will insure . clear. lovely complexion
ADV.
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IT IS THE ST0Rk'S DAY
Eleven Births, Including Twins, Re-
ported to City Clerk.

The stOrk, instead of the robin, il
the bird Of spring, according to C. b.
Burge. city clerk. who filed notices OF
eleven new Topeka babies this morn
ing. The parents OF one small boy
live in Emporia but were staying in
Topeka when the baby arrived; the
son OF James F. Worley must claim
the capital city as his birthplace.
Charles A. HOLLAND, 213 Van Buren,.
is the daddy of twins-two girls,
pretty ones. The following births
were reported at the city building to-
day:
To Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Campbell,
927 Western avenue, at st. Francis
hospital. girl.
To Mr.. and Mrs. George H. Bards-
ley. r. r. D. No. 5. North Topeka, a
boy.
To Mr.. and Mrs. Harry M. salyer,
1919 North Monroe. a girl.
To Mr.. and Mrs. M. Tilford Huey,
Menoken township, a boy. ~
To Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Hoe
land, 213 Van Buren,, twin girls.
To Mr.. and Mrs. william Clasper
Vardy. 227 Branner street, a boy.
To Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Lowman
Carter, 524 West Gordon street, a girl
To Mr.. and Mrs. L. L. Bybee. 2045
Lincoln street. a girl.
To Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett Rison, 900
North Monroe, a girl. -
To Mr.. and Mrs. James Francis
Worley. Emporia, at st. Francis hos
pital. boy.
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WILL HEAR OIL men.
President Wilson Has Promised Them
an Audience Today.

Washington. May 13.-President
Wilson will give audience today to a
delegation of oil men representing the
various American oil companies inter-
ested in the Tampico oil fields. The
delegation will be headed by Rich
mond lowering and company. No. %
William street, New York city. On
May Z the American oil men interested
in the Tampico fields held a mass
meeting in New York at which reso-
buttons were adopted urging that this
government take steps to protect the
oil interests threatened by revolution.
The committee was then appointed to
visit President Wilson.
Richmond lowering was named
chairman and other members are
George S. Dawson, president of the
Gulf Refining company, Pittsburgh;
w. A. Thompson, vice president of the
Texas company, New York; Thomas
A. O'DonneIl, director Mexican PetrO-
leum company, Los Angeles; Joseph
Trees, president of the Penn-MeXico
Fuel company. Pittsburg.
The members of this committee rep
resent practically every American con-
Germ having extensive interests in the
vicinity of TampicO.
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SNA.p SHOTS

Creamery butter has taken a junT
In price of two cents a. pound.
Cherries from California are selling
at local stores today at the rate of 81
cents a pound.
Clarence o. Price and Beatrice v
license to marry.
Wednesday, May 90, has practically
been decided upon as the date for the
annual meeting of the Topeka Traffic
association.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Kientz have
gone to Oklahoma to attend a con-
vention of master bakers. Mr.. Kientz
IL the proprietor Of the Avalon bakery
Bids for the addition to the high
school building will be received within
q few days and a special meeting OF
the school board held to consider
them.
Tomatoes imported from Florida
nary working man. They are selling
In Topeka stores at the rate Of 70
cents pound.
Clarence Jordan, secretary of the
Kansas State Automobile association,
spoke at q meeting Of the jackson
County Automobile association neIo at
Soldier Tuesday night.
Strawberries shipped to Topeka
from Texas have come down in price.
They are being sold in the residence
districts at the rate of four boxes Tor
25 cents and sometimes 5 cents each
A local downtown store Is specializing
in good berries today at cents box
There was a light frost in the ex-
posed places in and around Topeka
this morning. The frost was not
heavy enough to cause any serious
damage. 1t was just heavy enough In
the exposed places to curl the leaves
Of beans and other tender vegetation
slightly.
Officers of the Kansas State Fair
association plan to attend a grange
meeting at Berryton tonight. They
expect to go to a grange meeting at
son. May 20. Tuesday night they at
tended a meeting Of the Highland
Park grange. At these meetings they
speak in the interests Of the state fair.
Topeka.
officers of the Home Mutual Life
late Tuesday They are: President.
]. n. Dolley: secretary and manager.
II. NJ Leonard; first vice president. +.
r. Metzger; second vice president and
assistant secretary. Edwin Locke;
counselor. F, s. jackson: treasurer, j.
G.. Gafford; medical director. DR.. L. A.
Ryder; superintendent of agents, W.
C. West.
Topeka lumber dealers have present.
ed John H. Fazel. Boy Scout commits
sioner for Topeka, with one hundred
dollars worth of lumber for the con-
struction OF a cook shack at the Scout
camp on the John Carter farm. twelve
miles south of Topeka, on the Bur-
lingame road. John Carter this after
noon gave the Scouts a twenty-year
lease on the camp, and didn't charge
a cent for it. The boys will get to
work on the cook shack which they
will construct themselves under the
supervision Of the scout commissioner.
Mr. Fazel said today: Topeka has q |
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tations on account Of his hitting. He
batted 1902 last year and was drafted
for the Topeka club for that reason,
but he has made a poor showing in
the Western League.
His fielding has been all that could
be expected, and he has come up to
the scratch in every department ex-
cepting hitting. Dowd will leave to-
day to join the Syracuse team Friday
in Scranton, Pa.
French will continue to play at Sec
ond and MCGEE will play in the short
field at least for time. Manager
Gear cannot forecast the future but
does not expect any other changes.
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The Standard Bearers class of the Oak
land NJ E. church will have it's REGULAR
noon with Mrs. Willard on kellam ave-
nue.. debate between the teacher of the
class. Mrs. G. H. Ensign, and the MEM
esting afternoon is expected and all menu
bers are urged to be present.
Comrade George Ralstin will entertain
the members OF the Oakland Veteran
club Friday evening at his home, f!s
birthday anniversary. All members of
the club are cordially invited to attend.
The Win One class of the Oakland NJ.
f. church viii have Its regular monthly
business meeting Thursday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. Effie McCaslin, 299 Oak
land avenue.
c. r. Cole OF Oakland avenue spent the
day yesterday in Perry on business.
The s. O. D. H. club will have it's regu-
lar meeting Thursday evening with Miss
Mona Bell at her home on Reno street.
Mrs: Fanny Beardsley. MIS-. NJ. Scott.
Miss Lillian Scott, Mrs. Fred Scott Of To-
reka: and Mrs. Q; y. Keats we're dinner cs.
AFTER avenue
The Missionary society. OF the Oakland
Presbyterian church give an entertain
ment THURSDAY evening a. the enusca, a
freshments will be served There IS no
admission but a silver offering will be
taken.
Mrs C. r. Cole of Oakland avenue was
the guest Tuesday OF Mrs Peebler Rice,
PIG Western avenue
The Ladies Aid society of the Oakland
Presbyterian church will meet Thursday
afternoon with Mrs Reese In Winfield
avenue.
The 1. O. o. F. of Oakland viii have
dedication services next Tuesday evening.
May ., at their new hall. corner Thomas
and Wabash avenues. The AFFAIR. which
will h. elaborate In for the Oakland l. O.
o. F. and Rebekah members only.
Mrs. Will Hawkins of Keilam avenue
will leave within few days for Florence.
Kan, where she will visit her mother,
and from there she will go to saltwater,
Okla, for a visit to her sister. She will
be gone two months
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Luis Tikas, that the ruins OF the tent
colony were looted and pillaged and
that officers and militiamen permitted
the looting OF the ruins. 1913
The courtmartial was convened with
Colonel w. A. Davis as president and
Captain Edwin Smith acting Judge adj
vocate. The members of the court
were sworn in by Judge Advocate
Smith, who in turn took the oath adj
ministered by President Colonel Davis.
present except Captain Ralph Dorm,
who was absent in Routt county, on
militia duty. Major Williams was SUBJ
stituted as a member Of the court in
place Of Colonel George NJ. Lee. Colo
mel A. c. Sharpe, u. s. A., inspector
instructor, attended as spectator.
Major Hammock announced he did
not care for counsel and was ready to
proceed to trial at once The charges
were read by Judge Advocate Smith.
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BELIEVE HE IS CRAZY
Man Taken from Train Hero Has Hal
luCinatdOns.

Man Taken from Train Hero Has Hal
luCinat1OnS.
Because his erratic actions fright
ened passengers on an eastbound
Rock Island train which reached here
last night, Edward Otto was removed
and turned over to the sheriff. I'm
less he can be transferred to some
other Jurisdiction he will probably be
made the subject Of q sanity investi-
cation in the probate court OF this
county
Otto. who is youth Of 20 or there
about, told Sheriff L. L. Kfene that he
had been discharged from the Mis-
souri, penitentiary q few days ago and
was now returning from Alta Vista
where, he said. he had lived with the
family Of Frank Dean. foster parents.
He is under a delusion to the effect
that while in the Missouri prison he
was hypnotized and told the sheriff
that he was on his way back to JEFF
ferson City to have the spell removed.
The local authorities will endeavor to
have him sent either to Missouri or to
Wabaunsee county.
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ANONYMOUS LETTER.
1t Il Sent To Robertson to Absolve
McKanna.

An anonymous letter, typewriter,
and evidently q carbon copy. was re-
ceived by United States District Attor-
ney Fred Robertson this morning,
which purports to absolve Frank Nc
Kama from the charge on which he
has been convicted in the federal
court. of sending poisoned candy to
Mrs. McGill Of Oskaloosa- The author
of the letter claims that he, himself,
put the box OF candy on the train,
having received $25 from a prominent
Oska1Oosa attorney for SO doing. He
claims to have been in ignorance of
the contents of the package which he
was paid for mailing.
While the letter is evidently fake
and Is believed by federal authorities
to have been written by or in the in
terest OF McKanna. with the idea of
dfverting suspicion from him, an in
vestigation by federal agents of the
postal department will be instituted.
J. c. Shearman, deputy clerk Of the
United States district court at Wichita,
who is an expert on such matters, will
Robertson. The letter In question was
mailed in Leavenworth but purports to
have been written in ST. Joseph.
District Attorney Robertson declines
to make public the name or the attor-
ney alleged to have paid for mailing
the candy.
McKanna- after a series of domestic
troubles, sent q box containing some
poisoned chocolates through the mail
to the OskalOOsa woman who, he be-
heved. was responsible for his trou-
bles with his wife. Shearman did
McKanna's handwriting and the rec
ord Of the process OF Identification is
an interesting part of the district at
torney's office files in the case.
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TO QUIT JULY 10.
Congress. Is shaping It's Business To-
ward That End.

Washington. May 1.-THE house
today began adjusting itself to the
new legislative program of concen-
tration on antitrust bills and appro-
priation measures. with Adjournment
in contemplation by July 10. The date
is tentative. but administration lead
ers hope to adjourn by that time.
House leaders under the caucus
bound program will insist that the
Covington antitrust bill, the Clayton
antitrust bill and the Rayburn bill
for federal regulation Of railway stocks
and bonds be passed in the order
named, or at least voted upon ana
sent over to the senate. This IN the
fixed program at the insistenco Of
President Wilson, but 1t will not nee
essarily preclude consideration of 9TH
err matters that may be deemed ur-
gent IL there is sufficient time before
the tentative adjournment date.
Majority Leader Underwood made
it clear today that the action Of the
caucus means that the anti-tru4
measures must be passed, but that II
does not necessarily preclude" other
things. Appropriation bills will be ex-'
pedited but will give right of way to
the antitrust bills.
The appropriations committee TO-
day framed an emergency deficiency
bill to provide funds to meet the esti-
mates recently submitted by the war
department. aggrcgating almost So
100000 for expenses. past and immo-
diately in the future on account of a.
tivitieS in Mexico and on the border.
This also will not be ifiterfered with
and the diplomatic and Consular APP
preparation bill probably will be dis
posed of tomorrow. It was declared
in some quarters today efforts would
be made later to bring up the resolu-
ton for q nation wide prohibition
amendment to the constitution.
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AUTOMOBILE STOLEN.
And Kiene Is Trying to Locate the
Thief.

Sheriff L. L. Kiene's sleep was in
Of last night while he telephoned in
every direction from Topeka advising
officers in Kansas City, st. Joseph and
in Kansas towns south. west, north
and east. Of the disappearance of an
automobile belonging to H. H. Wilcox
Of 101 Elliott street, Oakland. The
car was stolen from in front of the
Majestic theater about IL o'clock last
night while is owner was inside the
building. The missing car is an Over
land touring car bearing the number.
kansas 530." 1t has a blue black
body and two spare tires were
strapped on behind.
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At THE MOVIES.


Starting with the matinee today this
theater offers q new series Of the fa-
nous ZiEomar pictures. They will be
remembered an the greatest detective
pictures ever filmed. The one show
ing today is entitled, THE Master
Criminal" Four reels Of sensations
and surprises.
lingo In Africa the fourth Of the
series that has been running ut the
Best, viii be shown here today and
tomorrow.
The Cory.
Fay Tfncher," the Topeka girl In
the movies. viii be starred in . Ma
3estic drama today at the coxy entitled
The Qufcksand4.'' A Royal comedy
concludes the program entitled
"Snookum's Birthday
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|NFIElDER DOWD GONE
Goes to Syracuse in New York League
French on Second.

Infielder Dowd Of the Topeka club
has been sent to the Syracuse team of
the New York State league. He came
here on a draft from the New England
league but has not come up to expec-
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AFine Umbrella or Stylish
Parasol at a Saving

LADIES' and Mems UmbFellas-A special lot
consisting of rs and 2S-nch sizes: all made with
steel frames. Handles in gold, silver, gum
metal and pearl trimmed styles; also plain and
carved mission styles Covers of good quail
ity silk and linen fabric. Worth $500 $3.50.
81. 90 and $3.50 each. Qsl no
ladies' Silk Parasols, 22-inch s-rib frames of
gilt. long mission handles. large silk military tas-
sells to match covers. which a good assert
n M at Of 1s plain shades s,sS Regular S1.85
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At the Ribbon Section are
Reductions Worth While

Plain and Fancy Ribbons-One table contain
ing and 6-inch widths in values 4Oc. %.
Plain and Fancy Ribbons-One table contain
ing and 5-inchswid in values up To-
to soc Now, per yard. 1OC
Black Velvet R1bbon-Satin back. in good quail
ity suitable for millinery purposes, sashes belts
etc. Special priceaS rs follows:
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Extraordinary Coffee Sale Saturday
One pound OF delicious, frn-
grant Coffee free to each buyer
Saturday. Ask our clerks about ii.
or watch our Saturday ad, telling
ell about ii.