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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28
48 PERISH IN FIRE
Flames Destroy Missouri Attn
letic Club Building in
ST. Louis.
sEARcHERs FIND TEN BODIES
Guests Trapped on Upper Floors Leap
to SidewsIk-Many Serious
iy injured.

St. Louis, Mo.-Secretary Bornmuel
Ter of the Missouri Athletic Club has
raised his estimate of the dead in the
recent fire from thirty-one to forty
eight There is a record of thirty-one
known dead, and in questioning the
clerks Bornmueller discovered that of
the twenty-seven rooms in the build
ing reserved for transients seventeen
were occupied. Who these seventeen
extra guests were there is no means
of ascertaining because the register
was destroyed.
Three more bodies have been re-
covered, bringing the total found up
to ten. It may be several days before
the other bodies are dug out of the
tons of debris.
Though a committee opened head
quarters at the Press Club and asked
all who were guests of the Missouri
Athletic Club to report thirty to th-r-
ty-fve did not register, and hourly
the feeling grew that all these were
lost
The blaze was the fourth serious
fire in the downtown district of St.
Louis in eight days and the most Sc
rious as to fatalities of any fire in
the city's history. This blaze which
started at 1:50 a. m, completely
wrecked the seven-story building oc-
cupied jointly by the Missouri Ath-
letic Club and the Boatmen's Bank
caused a property loss estimated at
$466,000, and by destroying the list
of entries and other club records,
forced the abandonment of the inter-
collegiate track meet that was to
Tave been held in ST. Louis under the
auspices of the club.
In the vaults of the Boatmen's Bank,
which occupied part Of the first floor
of the building, were more than
s1,300,000 in currency and more than
$4,000 in coin. The vaults were I'M
harmed by the fire, the bank officials
reported and the money is intact.
Dramatic escapes during the fire
were numerous. One of the most
spectacular was that of twelve or
thirteen men who descended from
fifth floor window to the roof of an
adjoining four-story building by means
of an improvised rope made out OF
two sheets. One guest escaped by
leaping over chasm ten feet wide
and six stories deep to the roof of
an adjoining building.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28
WELCOME BASEBALL STARS
National and American League Rep
resentatives Board Lusitania to
Greet Returning Players.

New York.-Tris Speaker, Boston's
great outfielder, was the storm CEN
ter of the tussle between the Feoerals
and organized baseball for the posses
sion of players returning from the
world tour here. Speaker conferred
with President Gilmore of the Fed
erals.
While thousands damned the pier
of the Cunard line in North River,
cheering, waving flags, banners and
handkerchiefs, the liner Lusitania
was warped into dock at 1926 o'clock
bringing the world-touring Giants and
White Sox baseball teams back home.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28
NEW SERUM KILLS SEVEN
Blood Disease Patients at Los Angeles
Die Soon After incubation
With Neo-SaIvarsan.

Los Angeles-Seven persons are
dead and another is dying from the
effects of neo-salvarsan, with which
all were inoculated in the Los Angeles
County Hospital.
The toxin was delivered to the hos
pitalr in the usual sealed tubes, hav-
ing come direct from d. Paul Erich,
originator of the treatment, at Frank
fort, Germany.
Eight persons who were suffering
from specific blood diseases were in
oculated. Four died before midgnight,
three died the next day and the eighth
cannot survive long. The hospital Of
licials believe the toxin experienced
some basic charge after rit was sealed
in Frankfort.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28
PRISON FOR "a IRONWORKERS
Supreme Court Refuses to Re-
view Dynamite Cases.

Observation-Disclosures Frank NJ.
Ryan and twenty-three members of
the bridge and structural steel work
ers' union, convicted of the dynamite
conspiracy cases at Indianapolis, must
serve their prison sentences, the SUI
preme court has decided.
The court refused to review the con-
victions of the federal court of Indian
apclis and Chicago. Denial of the writ
of review exhausted the last resource
of the defendants.
The men, who were released from
the federal prison at Leavenworth ON
bond, must return now to serve out
their sentences.
May ASK Fer Pardons.
Chicago.-News OF the supreme
courts action in the dynamite cases"
found attorneys for the convicted men
unprepared to take further steps, At
torney E. N. Zoline, who took an ac-
tive part in the proceedings before the
circuit court of appeals here a short
time ago, said the only recourse left
his clients, who include Frank NJ.
Ryan and twenty-three other members
Of the Iron Workers Union, is an ap-
peal to President Wilson for a pardon.
Zoline said he had not sreen any of
the men recently, however, and had
made no plans for such an appeal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28

Although the natives of India do
not operate on the stock market, they
have adopted a unique form of gam
bling for which the cotton market re-
ports are responsible Every day five
quotations are cabled from New York
announcing the cotton situation. The
invitation to them to establish a sim
pie but none the less absorbing form
of gambling. The gambling consists
simply in guessing what the five fig
ures will amount to and the. man get
ting the nearest to the right amount
takes the stakes.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28
Angry Depositors in Failed
Banks Plan Personal At
tack On New Yorker.
300 WAITED IN CORRIDORS
Story of Department Store Mans
Extravaganza Too Much for Losers
Grand Jury Returns Three
Indictments.

New York, n. Y.-Three hundred
angry persons stood in the corridors
of the Federal building here mutter-
ing threats of violence against Henry
Siegel, head of department stores in
New York, Chicago and Boston. They
were the depositors in the banks,
operated in connection with the de-
partment stores. Many of them had
lost the savings of years in the col
lapse of the Siegel stores.
Meanwhile Siegel was telling the
grand jury, which was investigating
the failure, story of extravagance
the story of a man with a wife who
lived to spend.
Siegel testified that he did not in
vest capital in the private bank, which
bore his name. He got about that
far in his testimony when Miss Jessie
Martin rose and announced that she
had right to represent the Deposit
ors in the hearing. Miss Martin is
a young woman, who had accumu-
lated several hundred dollars, with
which she intended buying a home.
When the Siegel banks collapsed her
savings were swept away. She was
urged to remain quiet, but refused.
The United States marshal led her
from the room. Immediately three
hundred other depositors rose and
protested.
I'VE, who have lost our little all
are the most interested in this easel"
shouted one man.
Despite their angry protests, they
also were ordered from the room.
They gathered in front of the mar
shal's Office and shouted threats OF
violence against Siegel. Throughout
the hearing they prowled in the cor
ridors of the Federal building, threat
ching the department store man. One
little gray haired man, accompanied
by two children, climbed On chair
and began to harangue the crowd
Immediately it became a struggling
mob. Only by calling out the police
reserves were they prevented from
forcibly entering the courtroom and
attacking Siegel.
While Siegel was testifying in the
federal court the New York grand
jury returned three joint indictments
against him and Frank E. Vogel.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28
TELEeRAPHIc BRIEFS

Frederick Townsend Martin
wealthy New Yorker, social worker
and author, is dead at the Berkeley
hotel in London from angina pectoris.
Food prices in the United States
reached the highest level in twenty
four years on November Is, 1913.
Since that date there had been slight
decline in prices.
A grand jury has returned to
Judge English in the district court at
Omaha indictments against six well
known attorneys, three charging ex-
tortion and blackmail, two elnbezzle-
ment and one subornation of perjury
"A demand for food was made upon
Sacramento, Cal, by 1,5OO unemployed
men who are there planning to con-
tinue their march to Washington,
D. c. City and county authorities
have definitely decided that no more
food will be supplied the men. The
reunited so-called army OF the unem-
ployed will be shipped back to San
Francisco by special train at the ex-
pense of Sacramento citizens A fund
of $4,000 has been raised for this
purpose.
The Alaska railway bill, provid-
ing for the construction of 1000 miles
of government railroad, and the ex-
penditure of $50, 900. 900. was ready for
the Presidents signature when the
senate adopted the conference report
already adopted by the house
During open discussion of the
Mexican situation in the senate, Sen
ator A. B. Fall. republican, of New
Mexico, urged armed intervention for
the protection of Americans and other
foreigners in the observation-disclosures
republic
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28
Too Good.

ITO say that honesty is the best pol
icy-to say in other words, that the
more honest you are the richer you
will become-that is a silly and self
evident lie."
The speaker, Harvey Woodruff, the
well-known G. A. r. historian of Hous-
tony had been discussing the honesty
of George Washington He continued:
ITO be virtuous means to be poor
and wretched. Take the case of Auntie
Martha Washington Clay.
'Auntie Martha visited the Office of
a Nola Chucky lawyer and said:
All wants a divorce from nah hus-
band Call
why, auntie, what has Cal been
doi1g?'
He's done got religion, sab, an ah
hain't tasted chicken TO free months ;"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28
REBELS TO DISTRIBUTE LAND
Farm of 90 Acres to DE Given Each
Soldier in Present Revolu-
ton.

Chihuahua-The military govern
ment has issued decree for the dis
tribution of public lands, including
those confiscated, among soldiers of
the present revolution, disabled vet
Grams of the Madero revolt and wild
ows and orphans of the two rebeliions
In advance of a survey by en-
gineers, it is estimated that each bene-
ficiary will receive q farm of sixty
two acres. The decree safeguards the
gifts with provisions that they shall
not be subject to execution for debt
nor can the owner sell the land within
ten years.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28
LIES ROAD
Smoothed by Change of Food.

Worry is a big load to carry and an
unnecessary one. When accompanied
by Indigestion it certainly is cause for
the blues.
But the whole trouble may be easily
thrown off and life's road be made
easy and comfortable by proper eating
and the cultivation of good cheer.
Read what a Troy woman says:
Two years ago made the acquaint-
ance of Grape-Nuts and have used the
food once a day and sometimes twice,
ever since
AT the time I began to use it life
was burden / was for years aff1ict-
ed with bilious sick headache. caused
by indigestion, and nothing seemed to
relieve me.
The trouble became SO severe I
had to leave my work for days at a
time.
My nerves were in such a state I
could not sleep and the doctor said I
was on the verge of nervous prostra-
ton saw an adv. concerning Grape
Nuts and bought a package for trial
What Grape-Nuts has done for me
is certainly marvellous. / can now
sleep like a child, am entirely free,
from the old trouble and have not had
a headache in over a year. 1 feel like
new person have recommended it
to others One man I knew ate priE-.
cipally Grape-Nuts while working en-
the ice all winter. and said he never
felt better in his life"
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Creek, Mich Read THE Road to
MELVILLE in pkgs. There's a Rea-
SON.
Ever read the above letter. A new
one appears from time to tfme. Thev
nre genuine, true, and full of humaD.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28
HiOh Hats.

The enormous height of the mil
linery of 1914 led Jane Cowl to re-
mark:
Z know man whose wife said to
him the other day:
"'Oh, dear, there's that old Christ
mas tree lying in the back yard over
a month now, 1 don't know what on
earth to do with it,
Cant you put it on your new
hat?' her husband asked
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28

Students of the language of the fed
eral income tax law who claim that
the statute is so drawn as to make
the exemptions of a husband and wife
living apart six thousand dollars,
while they are only four thousand dol
lars when the parties live together.
are not convinced by the hasty assur-
ance from different sources that this
cannot be So" They maintain that
it is so. and ask all who doubt it to
read the law
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28
Catch Motor Bandits.

Moline, Ill.-Four motor bandits, be-
Heved to be wanted in several parts
of the country, were caught in Dav-
export twenty minutes after a daring
daylight robbery of an out-of-the-way
grocery store, where they got S45- The
party comprises three men and wo-
man.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28
4. S. GIvLER. Publ
FAMILY RELATIONS.

The progress of family relations to-
ward the ideal of comradeship min
gled with judicious authority, like
every other great development, has
had it's recessions, its backward steps.
when the course of advance was
checked and the procession went of
on a wide path which led to chaos
and unquiet- Throughout the country
the relation between parent and child
has drifted toward improvement in
that it has more nearly approached
the ideal In the course of its ad-
vance, however, it has, like the chill
dren of Israel, wandered much in the
wilderness of false philosophy, hence
is yet far from the promised land.
Within the last century probably the
greatest change has come to pass in
the United States. Observers, espe-
cially foreign observers, are prone to
comment unkindly on the father and
son of the United States. They hold
that the father is an absorbed. aus
tere man, his starkness covered by an
overlap of artificial indulgence to his
son. The boy or the young man, on
the other hand, has been held up to
execration as a cumberer of the earth
To some extent this has been true
There have been many instances.
doubtless. in which nothing more than
the tie of advantage to the son and
of responsibility to the father hold
the two together. This is the most
popular type of the novel, the stage
and of current anecdote. What the
reality has been every man who has
enjoyed the guidance and companion
ship of the best friend he ever knew
his father-can tell and does tell
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28
Entire ticket of Women.

Jacksonville, IH--A surprise was
sprung at the primary election in
Franklin when the citizens ticket
nominated women for the entire ticket,
except police magistrate Mrs Sallie
Wyatt heads the ticket as candidate
for president.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28
Oklahoma Doctor Dies.

Kansas City-.1Dr- n H Gray of
Oklahoma City, Okla, was found dead
in his room at the Blossom House
here by an employee of the hotel. Dr.
Fritz bloomington, deputy county
county coroner, decided he had taken
poison with suicidal intent.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28
Cigarette Kills "a.

Ekater;noslav, Russia.-Twenty-fou
men were killed in an explosion
of gas in a coal mine here The ex-
pIosion was caused by miner open
ing his safety lamp in a gas filed
chamber to light a cigarette
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28
Prominent Missourian Dies

ST. LOUISE. o. Stanard, ex-lieuten-
ant governor CT Missouri. was found
dead in bed at his home here Death
was due to heart disease. Stanard
was elected lieutenant governor in
1865 and q member of congress in
1872 He was 50 years old.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28
One Asiamese Twin" Dies.

Paris.-Madeleine, the Siamese
twin" who was separated recently
from her sister Suzanne by means of
q delicate surgical operation, is dead
OF commissions
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28
British ARMY Filler Killed

London.-Capt- Cyril Downer of the
Army Aviation Corps was killed while
flying at Salisbury Plains in Wilt
shire His aeroplane turned over and
fell from a great height
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28

The spring fashions will be reve-
Iation." says an item from Paris.
They viii have to go some if they ex-
Gel last years fashions in that re-
spect-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28

Observation-Disclosures of the forest
service have discovered that the
waters of the Great Salt Lake act as
preseryative against decay in TIM
bers.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28

A mans capacity for self-sacrifce
never comes to the fore as it does
when he begins to run for a public
Office.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28

Magazine editors complain that the
average story writer is more con-
cerned with the plot of tale than
with the workmanship of it. He will
spend much time and thought to get
a good, logical framework for his
story, and then slight all other parts
of the writer's art SO badly that the
entire product is useless. The case
is quite otherwise with the operate
stage. There it is the plot which suf-
ferS, which is sighted, distorted
smothered under crazy-Quilt of in
consistencies. There are many good
operas. but to get the full enjoyment
of them the spectator must be able to
ignore the impossible plot of the
stage story. Considered merely as a.
story, the average opera is what Mrs.
Malaprop would call mice derange-
ment of murders miracles, poison
conspiracy. intrigue. adultery, cruel
ty; of impossible crimes committed
for unthinkable motives There are
exceptions. La Tosca has all the
swift action and perfect conference of
a story of Maupassant Pagliacci is
less perfect, but still admirable. and
while Tannhauser fills the stage with
miracles. it has a sort of legendary
logic of it's own.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28
Mean.

81 have very thick head of hair
81 guess it's the result of environ
ment."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28

AT any rate. tango tea ia not the
KIND mother used TO make.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-28
Sufficient Proof.

Prisoner-All l want is justicei
Lawyer-Then ! can save you from
it on the grounds of insanity
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-15

took my wife. She liked it. Well, IT
wasn't so bad. Gave me lots or GOOD
ideas for shows
Born fakiTs-the natives-arent
ihey?" smiled the EngliShman easily, IL
being quite evident from his manner tnat
he was sure of his visitor and had sized
him up Tor just what Foe chose to be
considered.
They're the best in the business.
answered Poe enthusiastically, Il came
all the way from Atlantic City TO look up
a troupe. and It's been an awfuliy hot
day. Haven't you got a few TO Spare-a
juggIer or q snake -charmer?"
"Oh. ] might spare one or two I've
quite d number OF them, but | could only
lease them to YOU; might need them next
season. YOU know.
oh, certainly. l understand that. They
don't care who they worl. Tor | guess, .
replied Poe in the same brusque manner.
"Ivc got a friend in the British gov
ernment service i'm Calcutta, He says
you've got to treat the natives as though
they We're dogs. He has bunch of them
working for him. running printing presses
or something; says they're all right II
voN knock en- down once day
Indeed smiled Horton, that's about
right. Sut I'm interested. | have friends
in tho government employ over there.
Perhaps ] know this chap you speak Of;
you say he's in the British engraving
Department.
''Printing or something like that" an
swered Poe. "ills name is Gerver,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-15
THE MISSPELLED WORD.

e.s ELL. hello. Poe, Glad To see
30 AM{ you back from the wilds OF
NM New Orleans and Mexico.
w greeted Mitchell. president OF
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-12-18

II pipe smoker win visit cigor
store or drug store or other places
Of business where pipes are sold and
notice how the prospective custom
er will go through the pipe tray, ae-
lecting this pipe or that pipe. test
ing its draft by placing 1t in his
mouth, then for momen reflect
how many different individuals have
possibly had these pipes in their
mouths, It will probably cause him
to thing for moment Of the ques-
tion of hygiene Of tie mouth.
In the mouth will be found as
many II not more different kinds Of
micro-organisms that will cause dig
ease than anywhere else In the body
You can contract many diseases from
another persons mouth. You can
contract tuberculosis inasmuch rs
there are more people afflicted with
tuberculosis than any other disease.
There Is greater possibility Of you
contracting tuberculosis than most
any other disease from the mouth /;
but again you cannot contract many
diseases that affect the mouth. lungs,
throat and other organs Of the body.
It is also very cas- yto contract syph-
ills from pipe stem that has been
in the mouth OF a sphyilit; and this
disease is mentioned for the reason
that tuberculosis is so common that
many people do not give 1t much
thought. They see 1t every day, pos
sibly have Il in their family and are
Indifferent when they should be eau
tious constantly on guard; but with
syphilis 1t is different. Everyone
has a horror of that disease, nearly
as much SO as they have Of leprosy
yet It requires no stretch Of imagin-
alton to see the dangers Of contract
ing syphilis from the pipe stem that
has been in a syphillitic sore mouth
There is no reason why the legisla
ture should not by legislative enact
ment, require that pipes should not
be offered for sale except when en-
closed in sealed wrapper paper
which carries printed upon 1t "the
draft Of this pipe is guaranteed"
There are many ways for the con
tracing of diseases now known tc
be preventable. The pipe story Is
only one of great many. but they
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-12-18

w. d.. Coleman. familiarly known
as Uncle Dan Coleman. died suddenly
at his home In this city early Mon
day morning Funeral services were
held at the family home at o'clock
Tuseday afternoon. followed by inter
ment in Highland cemetery. Deceas-
ed was born in Alabama December
18th 1853. Had he lived one day
more he would have reached his siA-
ty-first birthday. Mr. Coleman had
been up town Sunday afternoon and
went home feeling badly but retired
for the night apparently alright.
Early In the morning he felt badly
and got up and sat in a chair. and
seemed to be suffering great pain.
Medical aid was summoned but
death came soon. Deceased was well
known over this community and had
many friends.