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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-25
MOTORMEN STRIKE
The JopIin-Pi ttsburg lnterurban
Lines Tied UP by En-
pl0yes' Walkout.
MEN HAVE MANY GRIEVANCES
Company Declares No Attempt Will
Be Made to Run Cars With
Srikebreakers.

Joplin, Mo.-One hundred and fifty
carmen and shopmen employed by
the Joplin & Pittsburg Railway Com
pany completed their days work at
midnight not to return to duty at 4
o'clock the next morning. The strike
ties up more than 100 miles of electric
lines in Southeast Kansas and South
west Missouri.
The company's contract with local
Division No. 492 of the Amalgamated
Association of Street and Electric
Railway Employees of America, 10
which the strikers belong, expired
June 21. Whether the discharge of
employees by the company shall be
subject to arbitration is the main
point of disagreement now, although
a wage scale and duration of the COL
tract are disputed
The company announced that it
would not attempt to run cars. Thou
sands of printed notices of the inten-
ton of the union to call the strike
were distributed among miners of
Southwest Kansas, who probably will
suffer the most inconvenience
1t is the contention of the strikers
that elimination of arbitration over
discharge of employees would mean
disruption of the union because the
company would be empowered to dis
charge, arbitrarily, men who are the
backbone of the organization. The
company is holding out for a three
year contract while the union would
limit to one year.
The strikers have been receiving 25
and 20 cent san hour, the latter sum
after being employed one year. They
now ask 1913 cents an hour, which
the company has refused to grant.
Trackmen employed by the COM
pany have been on a strike nearly a
month, holding out for increased
wages. w. A Satterlee, general man
ager of the company, said they arc
asking for an increase so per cent
higher than the scale on electric or
steam roads in the Middle West A
IL per cent raise on that basis has
been offered and refused
The lines of the railway connect
Pittsburg and Joplin, Columbus, Gil
rard and numerous other towns in
Southeast Kansas.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-25
RAILROAD MEN MAY STRIKE
Representatives Of $4,000 Employees
Go on Record for an Eight-Hour
Day at Same Pay.

Chicago.-Eighty thousand railway
employees, through their representa-
tives, have gone on record as deter
mined to strike if they do not get the
railroads to change the working day
from ten to eight hours, without re-
duction of pay.
The unions represented are the rail-
way clerks, freight handlers and
warehouse men, locomotive iremen
and engineers, engineers, maintenance
of way men, oilers, engine wipers and
trainmen.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-25
BONDHOLDERS GET ORIENT
Receivership of Railroad Ends When
Court Commissioner Accepts
Bid at Wichita.

Wichita, Kan.-The receivership of
the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient
Railroad came to an end here when
the Rev. Bernard Kelley, once chap
lain of the Kansas legislature and a
boyhood friend Of Judge Pollock of
the federal court, by whom he was
appointed master in chancery, piloted
the road out of the receivership at 10
o'clock in the morning. He stood on
the courthouse steps and knocked
it down to- a committee representing
the bondholders for 100000.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-25
Constituti0naIists to Refuse
Mediators' Invitation for
Informal Conference.
To CAPTURE CAPITAL FIRST
Carranza Will Not Negotiate With
Huerta Until After Conquest of
City of Mexico.-Bryan Is
Silent.

Washington, D. C-Border dis
patches stating that the Constitution
alists will not accept the invitation
of the mediators for informal peace
conferences with representatives Of
General Huerta were confirmed par
TALLY here by persons in close touch
with General Carranza.
Rafael Zubaran and Luis Cabrera,
the two most prominent representa-
tives of General Carranza, had moth
ing to say on the subject, but word
that a majority of the Constitutional
list generals to whom the plan for con-
fefences had been submitted had dis
approved it came from well informed
sources.
Minister Naon of Argentina, the
only one of the mediators in Wash
ington, read the dispatches with evil
dent surprise. He indicated that the
mediators will take no action until
the attitude of the Constitutionalists
is conveyed to them officially.
Secretary Bryan on behalf Of the
Washington government said it would
be improper for him to discuss the
situation in advance of the arrival OF
Carranza's formal answer to the pend
ing proposal for peace conferences.
He declined to reveal what intima-
tons he had received as to the char
acter of the reply.
The present purpose of the Consti-
tutionalists, it is understood, is to fol-
low the plan of Guadalupe to the let
ter, calling a conference of generals
when the conquest of Mexico City is
accomplished.
A new first chief then may be
designated. 1t is at this stage that
the Carranza-Villa split is expected
to come to head, the disaffection
probably leading to an effort to have
Carranza superseded. Reports from
Torreon that the differences between
the two chieftains had been composed
were verified by agents of both, but
there was an undertone of comment
indicating that it was but a temper
airy truce.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-25
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

Formal announcement of the
resignation of George Fred Williams
as minister to Greece and Montenegro
has been made at the State Depart
ment.
Foreign manufacturers sent into
the United States during the first
eight months of the new tariff sys-
tenn Just S.S per cent more of their
finished product than they did under
the old. This was pointed to by
Secretary Redfield as ample demon
stration that there is no ground for
the fears of American factory owners
that they would be driven from bust
ness by the new tariff.
I'm the ruins of a New York tene-
ment house, wrecked by the prema-
ture explosion of a powerful bomb
which killed Arthur Caron and three
other persons, the authorities found
evidence that Caron's apartment was
a center for the distribution of htera-
ture which was printed there and that
at the time of the explosion it was
apparently a bomb factory. fitted with
the ingredients of death dealing mis-
siles-
Z The Rev Henry Barton, Capin,
retired Presbyterian clergyman, wide
ly known in educational work, is
dead at his summer home in White
Plains, n. Y. He was 81 years of age
The bodies of the murdered Arch
duke Francis Ferdinand and his wife,
the Duchess of Hohenberg, have ar
rived at Vienna on board a special
train from Trieste. A funeral pro
cession was Immediately formed and
the bodies we're escorted to the Hof-
burg chapel
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-25
Plumbers Plead Not Guilty.

Des Moines, Ia--Pleas of not gull
ty were entered in federal court be-
fore Judge Smith Mcpherson for each
of the thirty-six officials and members
of the National Association of Master
Plumbers, recently indicted on
charges OF conspiracy in restraint of
trade in violation of the Sherman
Antitrust Law.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-25
Nine Injured in Interurban Crash.

Elyria, O.-Forty persons were
shaken up, nine injured, one probably
fatally, when a work train on the
Graftos division, Cleveland South
western Electric Railroad, failed to
take a switch and crashed into
coach
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-25
Expert to Feed PupiIs.

Pittsburgh, Pa--Mrs. Cornelius Gid
dings of St. Louis has been engaged
as director of lunches in the public
schools She will receive $4,000 a year
to see that pupils get good noon-time
leafs" at eight cents.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-25
Fourth of July Death Toll Is Ten.

Chicago. m.-Revised figures an
nounced by the sane Fourth commit
tee, Chicago organization, show a
total of ten deaths caused by fire.
works throughout the nation in this
years celebration.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-25
Johns Hopkins Gets Big Gift.

Baltimore.-Delivery has been made
of $1,50O,OOO of securities by the gen.
eral education board to the medical
school of Johns Hopkins University.
This gift is to be known as the Will
lam H. WEIGH endowment for clinical
education and research.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-25
TWO Dead Under . car.

Patchogue, N Y.-Edwin Bailey, a
former Democratic state senator, and
John Brooks, both of this place, were
found dead under the hood of Bailey's
wrecked motor car on the outskirts
OF the village
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-25
Mayors Shot Kills Miner.

Butte, Mont--Eric Lantala, the Fin
nish miner who attacked Mayor Louis
J. Duncan in the latter's office and
who was shot by the mayor, is dead
of the wound. The bullet penetrated
the liver.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-25
Ministers urae cIean-up.

New Orleans, La--Congregations of
New Orleans churches were urged by
their pastors to cooperate with
health authorities in the general
cleanup campaign being waged for
the eradication of bubonic plague
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-25
MAY Teach Baby Care.

Seattle.-The Seattle school board
is considering a petition that course
for girls in the care and treatment
of babies be added to the local public
school curriculum.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-25
eernhardt Gives Up STAGE.

Chicago.-A message from London
says Nine Bernhardt's physical con-
dition will prevent her from fulfilling
her engagement to play in America
next season.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-25
Shown Up.

Senator La Toilette was talking
about the lodges and squirms of a
certain corrupt railroad official
For all his lodges and squirms,"
said the senator, the man was shown
up It's like the case of Smith.
"A dun entered Smiths fiat, pushed
into the parlor and said to Smiths
little son:
Where's your father?'
leone away the urchin answered,
according to orders
"'Gone away? Humph! Where
tor
That closet there was the reply"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-25

The best thing with which to feather
your own nest is cash down.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-25

The perfect husband always belongs
to another woman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-30
ITS new DEPOT
Kansas City Celebrates Compile
ton of Handsome Station.
Thousands Will Witness Big
Fireworks Display Tonight.

Kansas City. Mo-. Oct. 30-After
years OF liberation Of the old union sta
ton. Kansas City and invited guests.
are today celebrating the opening of
the new Sc, 900 900 terminal, the third
largest in the world. Tonight Kansas
Citians are to get their first glimpse
Of the grandest piece of architecture in
this part of the country. Only a lucky
few have 50 far been admitted as sight
seers.
While the city is waiting for p. m.
when the edifice will be thrown open
to the general public for a promenade
and concert, the city celebrated with a
manufacturers' parade of 105 floats.
which stretched fr a mile and a quar-
ter along the downtown Streets This
was followed by a civic parade of four
thousand men. President Wilson, by
message, then declared the station
formally opened while Battery fired
railroad heads the formal dedicatory
service was performed with all due
ceremony, many officials having had "a
hand in 1t. Then the promenade be-
gan.
Big Fireworks.
Visiting officials and city dignitaries
will be the guests Of the Commercial
club at the Hotel Baltimore this even
ing and at 8 p. m. the grand prom
enade and concert to which MI are in
vited win open. At II p. m. fireworks
will burst forth from the station bluffs
and the burning in effigy of the old
union station will end the days re-
joicing.
Visitors were here from all over
Kansas and many heaved sigh Of re-
lief to think that they had made their
last entrance into Kansas City through
the old ruins in the bottoms The
next time Kansas comes to town she
will feel like she had been somewhere.
For first Impressions count.
No trains run into the new station
today. The terminal was thrown open
to the public almost two days before it
was actually used as a station so that
the visitors would not swamp the trav-
elers in their attempts to see 1t first
From midnight Saturday-or in the
first few minutes of November 1.-The
first regular passenger train will pull
into the new sheds and the old depot
will go by the discard.
Visiting railroad officials will be EN-
tertained by various city organizations
tomorrow and the public is again in
vited to an all day reception with music
at the new station. Es-
Thousands are expected to get their
first look Sunday.
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TWO GOOD MEN.

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tion. If the legislature does not want
these officers to have these fees it
must establish it's position or the Of
ficers will he entitled to them.
Auditor Davis by training for the
work. ability and conscience. has been
able to serve the state well.
Efficiency" has been the watchword
in the Office of the state treasurer since
Earl Akers took charge Of that office
less than two years ago.
Mark Tulley-the immediate prede-
cessor of Mr.. Akers-during his six
years incumbency Of the office had
brought the office up to such a high
degree of efficiency that Mr.. Akers
realized that it would be no slight task
to maintain that high standard. Yet
during the year and a half in Office he
has not only done SO but has instituted
new forms and innovations that have
not only lightened the detail work but
have added to its efficiency.
From the organization of the depart
ment until Mr.. Akers took charge all
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-30
Keep Your Lungs Strong

This advice IL docbly important with
tie knowledge that every three minutes
some one in the United States 5uo<umbs
to consumption ard many refuse to
realize they are afflicted until i IA too bate.
It Is after colds or sickness, Hon1 ever
work, con6ning duties or when general
weakness exists that tubercular germs
thrive because the resistive powers of
the body are weakened.
Only with fresh abr, sunshine and
abundant rich blood can one hope to
arrest their progress, and the corccn-
trated fats in SCOTS Emulsion furnish
fuel for rich blood, and its rare nourish-
ment helps strengthen the lungs while
it builds up the forces.
If you work indoors. tire easily. feel
1anguid or rundown SCOTS Emulsion IS
the most strengthening food-medicine
known and i free from alcohol Or stupe-
tying drugs. Avoid suhstitutes-
l<-6s oreef Z DuWne. 1lou14e34. n. J..
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ton between the Porte and Great
Britain, France and Russia, should
have been the instrument Of hostility.
which makes war between Turkey and
Russia inevitable.
Petrograd accepts the situation quiet
ly and disclaims any idea of aggres-
sive warfare against the Turks. Rus
tect Russian interests around the Black
sea from attack. It is interesting to
note that the Russian press expresses
the belief that the entry of Turkey into
the field is of more interest to England
than to Russia on account of Eng
lands trade .1oiiteaAf to- India and other
points in the far-,east.
Doomed 10 Extinction.
English newspapers take an equally
philosophical view Of Turkeys action
and express the belief that, while the
military situation will not be greatly
changed, Turkey, in Europe Is doomed
to extinction. Unless Bulgaria joins
the enemies OF Turkey. an invasion of
European Turkey by land is impracti-
and the warfare will be naval.
Turkeys navy assisted by the former
German cruisers Goeben and Breslau, is
considered here to be far more formid
able thar her army. which is said to
be ineficiently equipped and poorly fed.
Greece will jump at the chance OF
again measuring swords with her an
Gent enemy, it is felt in London, and
with the two battleships recently pur-
chased from the United States she will
be in a position to meet the Turkish
ships on equal terms. In the Black sea
the Russian fleet has no single units as
powerful as either the Goeben or the
Breslau, but the number of her vessels,
it Is argued IN London, will give her
command Of this inland sea.
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HUGE ARMIES
IN A DEADLOCK
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confidence that the allies, as hereto
fore. will check them.
Winter has made its presence felt
all along the battle line. The last few
nights have been very cold and in the
Vosges heavy snow has fallen. stop
ping the German operations there
On the rest Of the line the cold has
not interfered with the fighting
which. however, as previously noted,
is OF q desultory nature because Of the
exhaustion of the troops.
Outlook Bad for the Germans.
General Berthaut. a French mill
tary critic, summing up the situation
today in published article, declared
that the outlook for tho Germans is
bad all along the line. He predicts
another effort against the allies left
which will be 4 erious one. The idea
Is advanced by some observers that
the Germans will abandon their effort
to get through to Calais and try in
stead to reach Boulogne, but it is not
believed that this slight change of
route will increase the chances of sue
cess.
Many rumors are circulating in
Paris due in large measure to the lack
Of news from the front For exam
pie. 1t was persistently reported last
night that Ostend had been re-occu-
pied by the allies
A list of promotions issued by the
war Office gives the assignment Of
eight generals to fill the PLACES made
vacant by the death in battle OF Gen.
erals Raffenel, Barbade. Dupuys, ST.
billie. Roques. Bridous, Battesti and
Diou. Thirteen other generals are as
signed to I'LL the places made vacant
by transfers from the active to the
reserve list. Arrangements are being
made for ceremonies in honor of the
dead in the villages of Pantin. Dag
neux and Ivry, in northern France.
Monuments de- ated to the soldiers
of the allies who died for their coun-
try are to be erected in the cemeteries
of these villages
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receipts for payment to the school
funds or other funds were written with
pen and ink. In most instances it re-
Qutfes three and often five copies in
addition to the original. neceasitattng
much labor and time in their prepara-
ton. Mr.. Akers instituted forms that
can be made on the ordinary typewriter
and now the clerk at one writing. by
using carb0ns, completes the set Of re-
ceipts.
: Another innovation was the intro
duction of Identification sheets Of all
items paid through the fiscal agency.
enabling tho treasurer to describe in
case Of the loss of q coupon these
sheets will give the date of payment.
to whom paid. the date, number.
amount. maturity, and number of bond
from which detached. It 10 not only q
time saving but a permanent record.
By the daily balance system in use
by his predecessors, with some i'm
provements introduced by Mr.. Akers.
all balances are kept up to the minute.
There is no profit and loss account In
this Office. and every account must
balance every night or the treasurer
must put up T., money.
During The less than two years Mr..
Akers has served as state treasurer the
increase in receipts and disbursements
-Ae~o
Of interest upon deposits during the
same period has been almost 100000.
an increase of $50. 10000 over the same
period Of his immediate predecessor.
So closely has Mr.. Akers attended to
the collection OF school fund interest
the superintendent OF public instruction
was enabled to distribute sixty cents
per capita to the common schools OF
the state as his last semiannual dis
increase OF about twenty
cents per capita over previous high
marks.
Every department of the treasury
shows a material increase in volume OF
business and. in addition. has been
given a great deal of new clerical work
by reason Of the various new laws en-
acted by the last legislature. notably,
the automobile tax, the sand tax. etc.
all this great increase
In the volume Of business. the greatest
In the history Of the department: the
office today is right up to the minute
with its work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-30

IBy special wire to 7. J. Myers.1
Minneapolis wheat stocks have increased
10000 bushels thus far this week.
The Kansas City. Chicago and st. Louis
grain exchanges will be closed November
3. election day.
Elevator stocks Of wheat at Kansas City
have increased II. 25S bushels thus far this
week and corn stocks decreased 1888
bushels.
Exports from the United States and
Canada yesterday were $4,000 bushels Of
wheat. 1900 barrels Of flour. 5000 bushels
OF corn and 5, 900 bushels Of oats
A cable from Argentina reads AZ fol-
lows: Weather Il dry and cool. being
fine FOR corn. but not altogether favor
able for wheat, and some complaints are
heard Freight rates are higher.
message from Liverpool reads az fol-
lows: In the United Kingdom and
France immediate supplies are large,
while other countries have light reserves
and only enough = being allowed 70 b
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BALKANS INTO IT,
Little Doubt Now Of Spread Of
Big War.


Petrograd. Oct 30.-Russia has ac-
cepted Turkeys participation in tho
war In enthusiastic fashion. High
government officials today declared
that the car and his advisers well
como the opportunity to settle for all
time the entire Turkish question. Al
ready steps have been taken to meet
the situation. Orders have been sent
to the Black sea fleet to search out
and destroy tho Turkish squadron
now operating against Crimean and
Caucasian ports. At the same time
the troops which have been held in
readiness for this expected event will
move shortly
No official declaration Of war has
been received here as yet. according to
high officials. Communication with
Constantinople has been interrupted
and no word has been received from
the Russian embassy to tell whether
been handed their passports. Dis
patches from them, however, are mo-
mentarily expected.
At the British embassy here 1t was
stated that there can be little doubt
now that the entire Balkans will be in
volved in the war. Bulgaria and Rou-
mania, 1t 10 stated. must now decide
whether they will attempt to continue
an unpopular neutrality or will seize the
opportunity to once for all end Turkey
in Europe as q nation. Omcials here
believe that both Roumania and Bull
garia will strike against Turkey In the
future.
American Property Destroyed.
Washington. Oct. 30.-Actfng Secre-
tary Lansing today announced receipt
of a telegram from American charge
d affaires at Petrograd saying Odessa
has been bombarded an1 some Ameri-
can property destroyed.