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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-28
WASHEAvYST0RM
Lightning Glare and Thunder
Shocks for Topeka.
But q Half-Inch of Rain Helped
Like Everything.

The heaviest storm in many months
struck Topeka at 1850 o'clock this
morning and ended at 2:30 o'clock.
netting .48 of an inch Of water in the
companied by a brilliant electrical
display and heavy thunder.
According to the Santa Fe reports.
the rain was heaviest in the southeast
portion of the state, the precipitation
between Burlington and Moline being
two inches. The Santa Fe also states
that the rain from Kansas City to
Emporia was about the same as at
Topeka, but from the latter point to
Dodge City there was but a tenth OF
an inch. Little or no rain fell west
of Dodge City.
The Union Pacific reports that a
light rain fell between Ellis and Hays:
that there was three-tenths of an
inch at Salina, and one-eighth Of an
inch at Junction City.
The forecast indicates that there
will be another instalment of rain. It
reads: Unsettled tonight and Sun
day, with probably showers east por-
ton; Slightly COLDER
The rain early this morning brought
the total precipitation for the month
up to .92 of an inch. Normal for
the month of March is 2.29 inches.
The rain was of great value to the
farmers. The subsoil was in an excep-
tlOnally dry condition as indicated by
the low stage of the Kaw river This
morning the wheat fields fairly
sparkle.
The Topeka streets were given such
cleaning as they have not received
since last December and the roofs
were cleansed of SCOT.
From the local office of the Bell
Telephone company comes the report
that here and there over the city the
service was impaired by the storm, al
though the damage done was not of a
serious nature.
The minimum temperature this
morning was 53 degrees at o'clock.
This was seventeen degrees above nor
NAL for this date-May weather.
The highest temperature recorded
on this date in the last 27 years was
81 degrees; the minimum temperature
was 16 degrees in 1899.
''AprH Showers Fell Today.
There were light April showers
between 10 o'clock and noon today,
but there was not enough moisture to
measure. The sun has broken through
the clouds at intervals. The temper
ature for. the day has been 16 de-
grees above normal. This afternoon
the wind was travelling from the
south at the rate of IL miles an hour
Tho h0ur1v 1i1Oc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-28
WARRANT is REFUSED
U. S. Officials Decline to Prosecute
Alleged 'Whitc Slave'' Case.

Chicago, March Rehabilitation of
the attitude of federal officials here
toward violations of the Mann act. in
which the white slave" motive does
not appear, was given today when
James L. Bruff, superintendent of the
local bureau of investigation of the
United States department of justice,
declined to take action against F. c.
Maston, of Long Island city. New
York
Maston was arrested on complaint
of a 26-year stenographer who
said Maston took her with him to
Kansas City and kept her there four
days. Il have taken no action mas
much as there is no element of COM
mercialism evident in the case" said
Nr. Bruff today. "Maston certainly
meant no good to the girl but appar-
emily she did not object at the time
and she was old enough to know what
she was doing"
Municipal Judge Uhlir refused to is
sue warrant for abduction against
Maston. Maston was detained at the
detective bureau where it was said
that state charge miRht be made
against him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-28

Washington. March 2s.-Mrs Belva
A Lockwood, now in her eighty fourth
year, the first woman admitted to the
bar of the supreme court of the United
states and candidate of the Equal
Rights party for president Of the Unit
ed States in 1884 and 1888, faces dis
possession and ruin Unless she raises
$4,000 at once.
She labored for years as one Of the
attorneys prosecuting the claims of the
Eastern Cherokee Indians Of Oklaho-
ma against the United States, event.
uaiiy obtaining q judgment of $5.-
100000. She was sued by heirs Of an
Indian for half her fee and put up a
bond. secured by a mortgage on her
house. She lost the case and on De-
cember 16 the marshal attached the
house.
Ten thousand five hundred dollars
is the sum needed to satisfy the judg-
ment. A friend, Wade H. Cooper,
president of the Union Savings bank
and the United States Savings bank.
has agreed to assume all but $4,000 Of
the loan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-28
Stubbs Is with Bull Moose
Spirit and Purse. =
He Gives Money to Cause
VIII Support Allen.
". 4. WHITE HAS PROOF
Are Democrats Running Wom.
ems Meeting at EmporiaG
'Good Citizenship" League
Cancelled Aliens Date.

There is new hope in the breast Of
the Kansas Bull Moosers. Stubbs will
not support Arthur Capper for COVER
nor and has made a $50 contribution
for the Bull Moose campaign fund In
While Stubbs has not made a public
statement as to the attitude he will
assume In tie governorship fight this
fali. his contribution to the Progressive
cause Is regarded by William Allen
white, Progressive national commit
teeman for Kansas, as the best evidence
tnat the former governor will stand
with the Progressives. Recently Stubbs
and White held a lengthy conference
on Wind Hill. Stubs Douglas county
country home. Following this con-
ference. White gave as his judgment
the statement that Stubbs would not go
to Capper. but would stay with MUIR
dock and Allen.
"Stubbs will be in the party council
this year II he is physically able to
De there" said White, land he will
have some decided views as to the
things that should be advocated by the
Kansas Progressives. He is just as
strong for the government ownership
planks as he was several months ago.
What is more, Murdock u with him in
this fight and look for them to make
the fight together
AT present Stubbs is a very sick man.
While he is not confined to his bed,
family physicians have told the for
fContfnnad ~, Do -,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-28
AS UNCLE JOE SEESIT.
Former Speaker Discusses Adoption Of
Gag Rule.

Washington. March %. = Former
Speaker Joseph G. Cannon was asked
today whether in his day there was
ever gag rule" put through the
house like that which was introduced
to enforce the canal tolls repeal bill.
His reply was an emphatic negative.
How could there be a stronger gag
ruler" asked the former speaker.
There was no chance to amend. 1t
was either the rule as it stood or moth
ing.
However, the party in power has a
right to legislate. 1t Is the duty of the
party in power to legislate. Should q
rule be required for this purpose it is
all right for it to be sufficiently drastic
to meet the needs of the situation.
But" continued Mr. Cannon, tax
ing the whole transaction, the dicta-
ton from the White House, President
Wilson'S Endorsement Of his party's
platform when he was a candidate and
his complete reversal now-so far as 1
know there has never been anything.
either in my own experience or in the
legislative. history of the civilized world
which quite compares with it"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-28
Did Foster Steward, wellington
Millionaire, Travel
And Then His eo-H. p. Auto
HIT . Lamp Post.
PRETTY OLLIE ClRTER'S Pant
Left Her Husband for Stewart
Now She's State witness.
The Story Reads Like . Broad.
way Thrill.

Junction City. Kansas, March aS-
Foster Stewart Of Wellington. KAnsaa,
who was indicted ON q white slave
charge by grand jury at Amarillo,
Texas. had his preliminary hearing
here before U. 8. Commissioners Chase
last night. and was placed under bond
of $4,000 which he furnished. He
will be tried April 20 at Amarillo.
Wellington. Kan. March b. -stor-
les of gay, high life and holes that
were burned in tho night are told to-
day in the, strets and in the homes Of
Wellington in connection with the ar
day ehs home. the Of 'trsSts ws;,n.to6 aoa in in
connection with the arrest Of Foster
Stewart. son of the late Kansas multi
millionaire. who il being held by the
federal government on charges of
Stewards alleged associations with Oh
lie Carter. the beautiful and dashing
young grass widow, and tho stories Of
Stewards extravagant parties ana the
joy rides in his big sixty horse power
touring car. read like pages of rO-
nance rather than the record Of the
life of a very rich young man In q Kan
sas country town.
Son Of the late John c. Stewart who
left four million dollar estate for his
=
never exactly learned the value of
money and he was too busy spending
1t to take lessons as to the worth OF
ready cold cash. Stewart IL now In
his twenty-fifth year. He was Just be-
ginning to card index and catalogue
the number of joys and thrills to bo
found in a country town. when Ollie
Carter moved to Wellington and added
a new bliss that young Stewart had
known not of. That was something
more than year ago. At that time
pretty Ollie Carter was the wife OF ].
II. Carter, q train dispatcher for the
Santa Fe.
From Love to Federal Jury.
Just what right a meek and humble
train dispatcher might have in laying
claim to this fair young woman. Ste
wart was unable to understand. And
there began the opening pages OF =
story of love and romance that wound
it's way through the dockets OF the
divorce courts. was echoed in sensa-
tional damage suits and eliminated
when a federal grand jury in Fort
Worth, Texas, said that Stewart had
violated the Mann act in five distinct
places when he transported the
pretty young woman to Texas.
It was while Carter was living hap
PLY with his attractive young wife
and drawing his monthly pay check
from the Santa Fe, that Stewart be-
gan to enter into the life of the young
couple. If the gossip in Wellington II
true-and there is all manner Of gos-
sip since the arrest of the heir to mill
lions-Stewart found opportunities to
take Mrs. Carter for little pleasure
trips in the big Stewart touring car.
He Was Speed Bug.
Stewart was a real speed bug. He
opened his machine and cut holes In
CONTINUED on Page Six.I
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-28

man Mcdonald Of the assembly ways
and means committee said the franz
ers of the senate bill had cut out
about 100000 for hospital and other
necessary departments in order to get
money for carrying on two depart
ments which the assembly wished 40
abolish-the state fire. marshaTs bu-
reau and the department OF efficiency
and economy.
!. 1t was contended that some of the
alterations were intended to cripple So
called republican departments in the
way of reprisal
Harry X. Thaw figured prominently
In the later proceedings of the session.
A resolution condemning the state auth
critics for their activity in seeking to
extradite him narrowly failed of pas
sage while bills incurred by the state
in this matter shared the fate of the
other items in the rejected appropria-
ton bill. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-28
LET OUT $4,000 men
New York Central Dismissed That
Many Since December I.

New York, March 2S.-Dismissal Of
z, 900 men by the New York Central
railway since December l. said A. T.
Hardin, vice president OF the road. is
only barometer Of the company's bus
mess.
"The reduction Of forces was not ar
bitrary,' he added 1T. came about
gradually AZ traffic. mainly freight de-
cIined and while do not want to be
q pessimist. cannot see any immedi-
ate prospect that business win pick up
and these men come hack to work..
Mr.. Hardin said this condition Affect
ed most of the eastern railroads
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-28
THE DAY IN CONGRESS
Striking Out Pooling Amendment Sen
ate Repasses Cotton Futures Bill.

Washington, March 2S.-Senate met
a. noon. Senator Lewis introduced a
bill to vitalize his resolution for pro-
mitigating a policy Of treating all ma
ticns alike on Panama canal, and then
discussed tolls issue.
House met at noon and resumed
debate on Panama canal tolls exemp-
ton bill.
Representative Harrison spoke
against exemption bill.
Public lands committee held hear
ing on federal coal and oil lands leas-
ing bill.
others advocated before judiciary
committee bill permitting appeals
from customs court to supreme court.
After striking out the amendment
legalizing pooling the senate repassed
the bill to regulate trading in cotton
futures.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-28
Herrera Has Cut His Way to
the Bull Ring.
They Are Driven to the West
Side of the Town.
Rumor Says Cerro de Ia Cruz
Has Been Taken.

Juarez. March 28.-Heavy fightine
continued in Torreon today according
to a telegram just received from Gen.
eral Villa Villa expected to have the
city by tonight. He gave no details
trainload Of merchandise fol-
Gomez Palacio was made up today
Stocks in that city are depleted, and
General Villa instructed that duties
on fmportations be suspended.
Juarex. March 2&-It was with the
expectation that Torreon would crum-
ble. under the rebel attack today, that
officials here resumed their tasks this
morning. The last reports yesterda.,
were that General Monclovio Herrera
had cut his way from the eastern side
of the city through the business sec
tton to the bull ring on the north; that
General Villa had set out with raore
troops from Gomez Palacio to Join him
and take supreme command and that
the federals were making a final stand
in the defenses on the west side.
An unconfirmed rumor at midnight
had it that the rebels had taken the hill
known as "Cerro de La Cruz an i'm
portant defense, but veriflcation was
still lacking early today.
Villa Becomes Hero.
Latest advices from both Villa and
newspaper correspondents indicated
that the rebels had carried their assault
into the very heart of Torreon and that
the federals were hard pressed. At that
time it was General Herrera's force of
1000 men who were reported to have
entered the town from the east and
the counter march of General Villa into
Torreon from the north was expected
to throw the federals under General
Refugio Velasco into utter rout.
No military official in Juarez today
doubts that the battle which General
Villa has waged against Gomez Pala-
clio. now his, and Torreon has been the
most desperate Of any engagement of
this or any other revolutionary move
ment in Mexico. General Villa went
to the front with 1900 seasoned men
we'll equipped for a vigorous. smash
ing assault against any resistance the
federals might offer.
News dispatches indicate that the
federals- fought f1ercely and that the
loss in dead and wounded to both
sides was enormous. Lack of hospital
facilities, from the four days of strenu-
Dus, practically. constant fighting un-
der the virile and tenacious leader
ship Of .'Pancho'' Villa were believed to
have amassed a large casualty list.
Villa himself, has become a hero.
Everywhere in Juarez his praises were
being sung today. BY Maderistas and
constitutionalists he Is looked upon as
the greatest military genius in the
southern republic and great confidence
is expressed that he will push his tri-
umphant way with his rebel army to
the very doors Of the national palace
in Mexico City.
With "vivas'' for Villa and ''vivas'
for Carranza, the supreme chief of the
rovolufion rebels svmDat hiZera gather.
Continued on Page Six.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-28
REVISE SCHOOL LAWS


Pittsburg, Kan. March 4S.-3cvernor
George H. Hodges. In an address At
midnight last night at the annual conn
memoration day banquet at the normal.
asserted that an effort would be made
at the next session Of the legislaturo
to repeal the law creating the state
board of administration which - In
stftutions. newspaper campaign
against the board was now In progress
he said. Former Governor Hoch. =
member of the board, folI0wing Cover
nor Hodgess said that m ten years m0oe
Of the state would follow the exampl4
Of KansAe and have All their Stats e.
ucationai institutions under one bong4
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-28
PARD0NED TO Be KILLED
Negro Was Serving q Prison Term Of
115 Years.

Little Rock. Ark. March ga
few minutes after. receiving a pardon
from Governor Hays, which released
hin6 1row q 115 years' sentence. Fred
Pelfon, q negro, was electrocuted to-
day at the state penttentiary here for
the killing of Melvina Hatton, ne
gress, whom he murdered to get fifty
cents. There was question whether
1t would be legal to electrocute Pei
ton with serving Of his lis years SEN
tence incomplete and for this reason
the pardon was granted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-28

Washington, March 2S.-The attitude
of President Wilson and the Washing
ton administration toward the recent
course of General Carranza, leader of
the Mexican constitutionalists. will be
made plain to the latter by Robert
Pasquiera, the rebel confidential agent
here. who has gone to Juarez to meet
him.
Senior Pasquira will tell Carranza that
the Washington officials are not at all
pleased with him, and that they are not
relying on him entirely to solve the sit
uation. It is confidently expected by
other constitutionalists that General
after talking with Senior Pasquiera.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-28
FRED jewell VERY Low
Condition Regarded MS Critical Fol
lowing Operation.

Fred Jewell Of 315 Harrison street
is in serious condition at Stormont
hospital this afternoon. Jewell was
taken to the hospital March 9 and un-
derwent q serious operation two
weeks ago. He was formerly secre-
tary of the Kansas Day club.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-28

night and sunday. Colder tonight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-28

Continued on Page Two.l
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-17
Rebel Artillery
MoWs Down Federals.

JCAREZ MEXICO, March Ii
Constituencies artillery has caused
heavy loss of life to the Federals in
the several days fighting about Es-
Gallon, in the Torreon campaign, and
driven them to flight according to a
code dispatch received here to-day
from Chihuahua. The message was
sent in code by the staff correspond
ent OF the Hearst International News
Service because of the censorship es-
tablished by the ConstitutionaEsts
Only meager details OF the fighting
that marked the opening of the cam
paign could be CLEANED from the dis
patch. but it brought a report that
General Villa, accompan ed by Gen
eral Felipe Angeles. the Constitution
alist Secretary of War, had left for
the front on special train that car
ried their respective stats and an
escort OF 1000 cavalrymen.
According to the dispatch, the two
generals hurried to the front follow
ing the receipts Of news that the
Constitutionalist forces at Escalon
had been caught in trap by a strong
force of Federals that had arrived
suddenly from Torreon
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-17
John Nolan Goes to
Trial as Bandit in
N.,C.&St.L .Holdup

John Nolan, suspected of holding up
an n. G. and st. l.. Railroad train
between Winnings and Bolton on the
night of January 16, will be placed
on trial in the Cobb County Supe-
rior Court at Marietta Tuesday. A
number OF Atlanta witnesses, among
them Chief of the County Police
George Mathieson and Detective John
Black, and other officers who worked
on the case. have been summoned to
testify.
Nolan has been held in the Cobb
County Jail at Marietta since the
night of the robbery. in default of a
$4,000 bond, He was arrested by
county police at Bolton fifteen min
utes after the robbery, and the po-
lice declare he has been identified by
some of the victims Of the bandit.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-17
us. MINER IS
EXECUTED BY
CARRANZA
F. 7, Cromwell, Missing One
Month, Slain by Rebels on
Order of Leader.

Ell PASO, TEXAS, March IF.
T. Cromwell, an American employed
as a miner in Mexico, has been muir
dered by Constitutionalists, accord
ing to a dispatch received here to-
day from Nogales, Sonora
The dispatch stating that Cromwell
had been killed said that ne had been
executed by soldiers under the COM
mand of Colonel Plutarco Elias Cal
les, who had acted on orders received
from General Venustiano Carranza in
person
The execution is said to have taken
place near Los Embudos, Sonora.
Cromwell had been missing for 4
month, and efforts OF his friends to
secure some clew as to his where
sbouts resulted in their securing the
information contained in the dispa tch
from Nogales.
United States Consul Simpich, /
Nogales, has begun an investigation
of the death OF Cromwell, and Thorn
as F. Edwards, the United States
Consul at Juarez, is investigating the
death Of Oscar Allen, an American
watchman employed by the MADEIRA
Company at Pearson, Chihuahua. Ed
wards telegraphed to Pearson for a
report on the Allen case
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-17
WELLESLEY
HALL BURNS;
ALL SAVED
Squads Of Rescuers Smash Doors
of Historic Building, Snatch
ing Students From Peril,

WELLESLEY, MASS, March IL
Two hundred and fifty girl students
at Wellesley College fed in their
night clothes early o-day when Col
lege Hall the largest and oldest Of
the Wellesley College group Of build
ings, was destroyed by fire. The
damage was 100000
one fireman was overcome by
smoke and a score of girls had mar
row escapes. After fleeing from the
building, the girl students fought the
flames until the fremen arrived.
The girls We're hurried or assisted
out of the buildings by squads Of res
Cuers, who ran through the halls
smashing in doors.
Dense smoke filled the halls and
stairways as the girls CROPPED their
way to the first floor Most OF them
lost all their effects The fire had
gained great headWay before it was
discovered. One OF the girls awokc
to find her room filed with smoke
and she gave the alarm.
The fact that the fire started near
the roof prevented serious loss Of
life, The building was situated on i
hill overlooking the town. and the
flames leapcd high and were seen eor
miles
College Han was erected in the
early seventies II was FIVE stories
high and AS feet long.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-17
No Naughty Children;
Only Ill, Says Expert

WASHINGTON, March l7-There
are no naughty children nowadays,
according to DR.. Macmillan P.
Groszman chldren's specialist, who
declared so-called naughtiness was
simply a symptom of physical ailing,
He gave out these statistics of an
investigation; Fifty to rs per cent Of
children suffer from decayed teeth,
30 per cent from nasal distractions,
Is per cent from eye strain l. per
cent from some deformity, 4 per cent
from defective hearing, IL per cent
from tuberculosis.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-17
Canal Lecturer Sees
Benefit to Georgia

Rryon l.. Lick Of the lecture bureau
Of the Panama Pacific Exposition, left
Atlanta Tuesday for Chattanooga where
he will speak Tuesday night
In his address at the Tabernacle Au-
ditorlum Monday night on the Panama
Canal, he said Georgia and the South
would be benefited more than amy other
section of the country by the opening
Of the canal His lecture was iilustrat-
ed with motion pictures.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-17
Ship on Ledge in Fog;
All on Board in Peril

HALIFAX, n. s, March 1.-THE
steamer City of Sydney, bound from
New York to ST. Johns, n. F., went
aground on the southwest Lodges of
Sambro, y. s., in a fog early to-day.
She is IN a dangerous position, as
heavy sea is running. A Government
steamer was dispa tched from here to
aid her.
The Sydney struck at about the
same place where the Red Cross liner
Portia was wrecked few years ago.
The vessel carried a crew of As and
dozen passengers.