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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-20
SEA BACK TO NORMAL.
Galveston Uttered With Debris; Dead
Fewer Than Twenty.

Galveston, Aug. 2O-(by boat to
Houston) The sea has returned to
normal here. The last rain storm fol-
lowing the hurricane stopped yester-
day afternoon. The number of dead
here was not known exactly, but was
estimated at less than twenty. Eight
bodies were seen floating in the bay
yesterday but it was not known wheth-
er they came from Galveston or were
washed out from the mainland with
the outflow of the tide.
The city is under martial law, with
soldiers patroling the streets and on
guard in hotels. Galveston appears to
have suffered outwardly much more
from wind than from water. The hur-
ricane ripped loose all manner of
debris, littering it everywhere. The
tial destruction of the $2,000,0OO
causeway, four miles long, connecting
the city with the mainland, and the in
terruption of the water supply. The
causeway was the only regular means
of communication by rail, wire or We
hicle.
Only small boats ran to the main
land, so that the city temporarily is en-
barrassed for an adequate ferry SER
vice.
There is no evidence that there was
panic during the storm In the Galvez
hotel, which stands practically on the
seawall the guests the night of the
hurricane danced until midnight.
Then the lights failed and the dance
stopped.
Some of the troops of the Fifth bri-
gade from Fort Crockett have been
quartered on the army transport
Buford.
Officers and soldiers of the Fifth
brigade stationed on Galveston Island
did magnificent work throughout the
night of the storm in helping to per-
feet a system of rescue work. Citi-
zens worked with the soldiers with
practically military form.
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/ ings of any kind. A large number OF
the survivors were suffering from in
| juries to their heads and other wounds
! or from shock and the effects of being
forced to take to open beats scantiiy
attired.
Many of the women were in theiI
berths when the liner was torpedoed
/ and ran to the deck in their night
/ clothing. These were provided with
blankets wher they were taken from
1 boats and RATS by the crews of tbs
rescue ships. a number of those
saved were picked out of the water
and arrived here in their sea-soaked
clothing. The people of Queenstown
gave them every possible attention and
provided fresh outfits for many OF
them.
Tribute to Crew.
A H. Nebeker of Logan, Utah, who,
when he arrived here, had on only a
bath robe, said that the crew worked
splendidly under Captain Finch's di-
rection in the short ten minutes which
they had to get the passengers into
the boats, and but for the fine disci-
pline maintained and the excellent
work of the rescuing tug officers, at
least a couple of hundred persons
would have been lost. The submarine,
according to Mr.. Nebeker, was seen
before it launched the torpedo, but
there was not time enough to es-
cape it.
The American vice consul here as
sisted the local authorities in aiding
the survivors.
Captain Finch, who is suffering
from injuries to his leg, said last
night that he did not see the SUBJ
marine, but distinctly observed the
torpedo approaching through the wa
ter.
1T was then impossible to escape"
the captain said. I'VE had only eight
minutes to get the boats away and
save all on board"
Making for Torpedoed Dunsley.
George L. Money of Stratford, Ont,
who, with his daughter and brother,
were returning home, said the pas
sengers in large numbers were enjoy
ing the beautiful weather about decks
after breakfast.
The Arabic, Mr.. Money added, was
making toward the steamer Dunsley,
which was seen putting off boats when
the streak of a torpedo fired from a
submarine lying in the wake of the
DunSley was seen making for the
Arabic There were cries of alarm
and ell hands made for life belts and
nfeboats.
Fortunately" continued Mr. Mon
ey, "all precautions had been taken,
the life belts being in readiness on
deck and the boats in position for
launching. The torpedo struck the
ship and there was a terrible explo-
sion. The ship began to settle imme-
diately and sank in a few minutes"
A member of the crew of the Arabic
said when the steamer was struck she
was going at sixteen knots, making
for the Dunsley. When the torpedo
struck a portion of the ship was torn
away and the bodies of coal trimmerS
and of five engir GERS whose watch was
below blown to pieces and into the
sea.
Although the steamer was torpedoed
in the forenoon, it was 8 O'Clock in the
afternoon before the last of the sur
vivors were picked up by the Primrose
and Monaghan.
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TWO AMERICANS LOST?
Wisconsin Surgeon and Wealthy Wild
ow Are Reported Missing.

New York, Aug. 2O.-Two Ameri-
cans were still unaccOunted for today
in the lists received here today giving
the lists of those saved from the Ara
bic, torpedoed and sunk yesterday
morning by q German submarine off
the south coast of Ireland. They
We're Ed nund +. Wood of GAINESVILLE,
Wis, and Mrs. Josephine S. Bruguiere,
a wealthy American widow, who has
been living IN Europe for some years,
but who is we'll known in New York.
Newport and San Francisco.
Reports Are Incomplete.
The local office of the White Star
line had 40 record of the safety of two
other Americans, James Houlihan Of
Philadelphia and Thomas Gilmore of
New York, but the names of Houli-
han and Gilmore appeared on a list of
sixteen American survivors received
by the state department at Washing
ton from Lewis c. Thompson, the
United States consul at Queenstown,
Ireland.
Reports to the White Star line here
showed shat twenty persons in all of
those aboard the lost liner had not
been accounted for. Eight of these
were passengers.
The Arabic carried 423 persons
when she left Liverpool Wednesday,
ISL passengers and PAP in her crew
Twenty-One Americans Aboard.
A dispatch from Queenstown this
morning said, on the authority of Con-
sui Thompson, that there were only
p American citizens among the Ara
bic's passengers. Advices received
last night placed the number of
Americans on board at &c.
DIR. Wood one of the Americans I'M
accounted for, is a leading Wisconsin
surgeon. He was on mis- way home
after completing a tour of duty for
the Red Cross with the British hospi-
tai corps in Flanders. Mrs. Bruguiere
before her marriage was Miss Jose
phine l. Sather. Her step-mother,
Mrs. James X. Sather of San Fran
cisco. left $780, GOO to the University
of California. She married the late
Emil A. BrucuieTe.
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AABIC TORPEDOED
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should have been saved in the short
time available for the work of rescue,
is regarded as better fortune than
might have been expected under the
to the GOODNESS and courage of the
officers and crew. Fine weather and
a calm sea also contributed to the
outcome.
What VIII q. S. Do?
In Queenstown everything possible
many of whom were without clothes
or money. A number of the sur
Vivors are suffering from minor in
juries, but so far as is known, none
is in a serious condition.
With the main facts of the disaster
established, the English public turned
its attention to the possible effect
upon relations between the United
States and Germany.
Struck Without Warning.
United States Consul Frost of
Queenstown reported to the American
embassy today that all American sur
vivors are unanimous in their declara-
ton that the Arabic was torpedoed
without warning.
That the loss of life was not greater
doubtless was due to the fact that the
weather was fine and that steamers
plying the German submarine war
zone now keep their boats swung out
and otherwise prepared for emerSen-
cies. The torpedo that sank the
Ara bic struck her on the StarDOaru
side 100 feet from her stern. The
vessel had left Liverpool Wednesday
afternoon and taken a southerly
course, we'll off the Irish coast, doubt
less with view of avoiding the sub
marines which frequent the waters
nearer the shore.
When some fifty miles west of
where the Lusitania was sung in May,
the German underwater boat rose to
the surface and launched a torpe do.
no r = Germans.
as in the case of the Lusitaia, was
deadly accurate, and, like the Lusi-
tania, the big liner quickly settled
down and shortly disappeared from
view.
DunsIey Also Torpedoed.
Some of the survivors, according to
reports received here, say that they
had just witnessed the torpedoing Of
a British steamer, the Dunsley, and
that this had caused great alarm on
board the Arabic. In their fright the
passengers had rushed for life pre-
servers and had barely adjusted them
when the German submarine turned
its torpedo against the vessels side.
Ten lifeboats and a number of life
RATS We're quickly got over the side of
the steamer and into these a large
number of the passengers and mem
bers of the crew scrambled.
Many of the passengers, however,
fell into the water, but got hold of
the RATS and later were rescued. One
woman who fell into the sea screamed
for help. Two sailors swan to her as
sistance and succeeded in lifting her
upon a raft.
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TODAY'S MARKET REPORT

Chicago, Aug. DECENTRALIZATION 9Th
wheat showed some tendency to dclin to-
day, the depression soon wor off. Misgfv-
ings in regard to possibl complications
from the sinking of the Arabic Id to a
good deal of selling at TIL start and so,
spring crop belt. Incessant rains, how
ever, in the winter wheat states, brought
about n subsequent upturn in prices,
especially for the September delivery.
Opening quotations which ranged from
&c to 1850 lower, with September at 81. %
TO 81 .05H and December at $1.033s to $40
were followed by a decided general rally
that carried September well abov ystr-
days clos.
The close was steady at 1c to 15sc net
decline with September at $1.04as and De-
cember at $1.02A.
CORN-Cool weather hindering growth
had bullish effect on corn. The Septem-
Der option was in particular demand. After
opening a shade off to 1sc up, with Sep
TENDER at 1870 to 76c, and December at
G4kc to 64Ac, the market scored q mod
crate advance all around.
The close was steady but &c to A@&c
net lower, with September 75A Q155sc and
December at 63A @1637sc.
OATS-Continued delays to harvest made
oats firm from the outset. Offerings from
the country were small.
PROVISIONS-After a hesitating start,
provisions developed notable strength. The
chief buying was for a Milwaukee packer
who professed a belief that the backward
ness of the corn crop had rendered higher
prices for provisions inevitable.
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NAV Remove Others.

Lansing, Kan. Aug. 20.-That the
commission hearing charges against j.
d. Botkin, warden of the state prison,
might not stop at recommending the
removal of the prison head, but might
urge also that Governor Capper re-
move numerous prison employees
even members of the prison board
was indicated in a rumor today at the
state prison. Since the opening of the
case against the Democratic warden,
testimony has been a maze of uncer-
tainty, speculation and belief. As a
result, the battle for the removal of
Botkin has resolved itself into a fish
ing expedition, a wild search of the
records and wholesale examination of
employees.
Numerous employees called before
the commission have featured their
testimony with declarations of ignor-
ance. In the examination of witness
es. rules of court procedure have been
forgotten and lost sight Of The
strange spectacle of the prosecution
seeking the impeachment of their own
witnesses was observed Two star
witnesses for the prosecution were re-
moved from the commission cham Der
under special guard. One of the wit
nesses. a woman, reeled as she left
the witness chair and fell in a faint
in a corridor of the administration
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tower were able to toss Whittig a
chair tied to a wire, towing him to
safety with the chair. FrederickS was
badly bruised all over.
The most unusual drifting expert
| ence reported thus far was that of a
young girl of about 16, found on CAL
weston beach unconscious. When re-
vived she said she was at Velasco,
nearly sixty miles distant, when the
hurricane hit. She became uncon-
scious again before giving any other
| information.
Sightseers Hamper Relief Work.
Cen J. Franklin Bell, commanding
/ the Second division of the United
States army, at Texas City, has writ
ten to Mayor Ben Campbell of Hous-
| ton, urging that travel of persons
! from Houston to Texas City and Gal
weston be prohibited unless they are
concerned in the welfare of relatives
| in either city General Bell told the
refusing to let persons from the main
| land enter the city unless they had
good excuse for landing.
Texas City, the general said, is ut
terly without dock facilities to handle
| crowds of curiosity seekers. Unless
people cease travelling without urgent
necessity, General Bell wrote to
Mayor Campbell, he will be compelled
to enforce restrictive orders under the
martial law already existing in Texas
| City
The burning of bodies of dead ami
mails already has begun in the county
outside Houston ana in many other
sections of the coast.
The first batch of kilograms out of
Galveston arrived here by courier last
night. There were 1900 of these mes
SageS.
Injured Soldiers to Houston.
Fifty injured soldiers arrived here
today from Texas City and with them
came several hundred women and
children, most of the party being
wives and children of either officers
or enlisted men. Most of the soldiers
were not badly hurt. An lnfirmary
has been leased for the injured SOL
dierS here. 1t also Will quarter some
of the wives and children of the en-
listed men. The remainder of the
party will be scattered over the city.
At present there is lack of accommo-
dations in Texas City, as the buildings
erected COR occupation of families of
the army men there were mostly de-
stroyed.
Bread to Galveston.
Fifty thousand loaves of bread from
Houston were started for Galveston
today along with fifty barrels of sta
pie foodstuffs. Twenty thousand
loaves are expected to pass through
here from San Antonio and Dallas.
Galvestons water supply imme-
diately after the storm was estimated
as sufficient to last until tonight, at
least. Mayor Lewis Fisher of Calves
ton, however, sent word here today
that the city hoped to have a new sup
ply today
Gov. James E. Ferguson returned
to Austin last night, announcing that
he was informed there was no need
of state aid at Galveston. Mayor
Fisher sent a warming for visitors not
to attempt to come to Galveston mere
w for curiosity. A few persons from
Galveston are arriving here, but out
bound passengers from the city are
relatively few, about fifty reaching
here yesterday and last night.
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Wholesale Fruit and Produce.
FURNISHED by s. T.. Lux1

Topeka, Kan, Aug. 20.
ITALIAN PRUNES-Per crate, S1.25
BARTLETT PEARS-Per box, $500; in
box lots, per box, $1.90.
BARTLETT PEARS-Per box, $500.
VALENCIA ORANGES-Per box, 49, 56
BLBERTA PEACHEs-Fancy, per bus.
basket $1.10; in lots of % baskets, per blu.
basket, S1.05.
MALAGA GRAPES-Per crate, s1.75.
Thompson's Seedlings, per crate, s1.5O.
BANANAS-EXtra fancy, per h., 3Nc,
LEMONS-Per box, S4.25.
APPLES-Per Dbl, $3.50.
LIMES-Per box, SI.25
CALIFORNIA CANTALOUPES-W
stock, per crate, 81 Arkansas and Mis-
souri, stock, per crate, $500.
WATERMELONS-Per cwt, S14O: Der
thousand weight. S1.25.
MANGO PEPPERS-Per basket gOc
NEW BEETS-Per bu. basket, O5c
TURNIPS-Per bu., coo.
HOME GROWN TOMATOES-Per bskt
75c.
CUCUMDERS-Per basket s1.25
GREEN CORN-Per doz., he: in 10 mr.
more doz. lots, per doz., 10c.
RHUBARB-Per h.. &c
DIAMOND BASKETS-h blu, baaketa
per doz., 45c: 2-5 blu. baskets Der doz
12hc; sweet corn, per doz, 15c.
NEW CABBAGE-Best grade, per III
ONIONS-Red. per bu., Soc; yellow. per
GHEESE-Per h.. 171@c.
HORSERADISH-Per dog. bottles ooc
BEANS-Pr basket, 81 pa
CARROTS-Per bu., CSC.
NEW POTATOES-Per bu., 6Oe.
SWEET POTATOES-Per hamper 81 e5
POP CoRN-Per Ib., 3zc.
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OFF WITH OLD
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complete fecords of all sup
partments of the prison and
refuted strongly the charges of the
states attorneys that the records were
not complete. FIack,s~ statements
punctured large holes in the argument
of the prosecuting attorneys.
''All supplies are issued on reQuisi-
tions and only the warden's office gets
supplies without a requisition," Fiack
told the attorneys. The records In
my office are complete.
Governor Arthur Capper, who is be-
hind the charges against Botkin, prob
ably will take the stand late today and
testify as to what he knows about the
administration CT the penitentlary. 1t
is expected that the state will con-
cIude its testimony Saturday. Warden
Botkin will not take the stand in his
own behalf until the commission re-
turns to Topeka, it was announced
this morning.
The story of John McGinnis. who
was on the stand yesterday, to the eff
feet that he had rot been properly
clothed, was completely knocked out
this morning when the prison records
were brought, showing that since No
Vember, 1913, McGinnis had received
nine pairs of new shoes and three
pairs of new trousers, besides some
clothing he had received from the
prison tailor shop.
W. K. Washburn of Bonner Springs,
who was an employee for fourteen
years in the prison tailor shop and
who resigned when BOtkin became
warden, told of useless expense of
other prison administrations in buy
ing 10000 pounds of meat as we'll as
some cattle and feed for the cattle
that were kept on the prison farm on
the island. WaShburn couldn't re-
member. on cross examination, just
how and where the feed was bought
ard his testimony did not net much
for Botkin.
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TWO DEAD AT PORT ARTHUR.
Water Recedes Rapidly; Public UtiIi-
ties Out of Commission.

Port Arthur, Texas, Aug. 20.-Two
deaths and considerable property
damage caused by high water was the
dead are one white man and one ne
gro.
Water which began to flood the
streets Monday at midnight was re-
ceding rapidly today. The water had
stood 21a feet deep at the highest
point and IL in the lower district.
Damage was done to electric and tele-
phone wires and the unroofing of sew
eraI houses by the wind. Property
loss is confined to business stocks and
household goods, which were damaged
by the high water.
Telephone and telegraph lines, the
water plant and sewers are out of
commission and communication is
only by boat and rail to Beaumont.
The residents had ample warning of
the approaching storm and left before
it reached here.
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KNOWN DEAD, 115
Continued from Page one.l

Houston. A conservative estimate of
the missing today was less than 100.
Reports from Galveston were op-
timistic for rapid recovery of the
city's routes for food supply and for
early establishment of wire connec-
tiOnS.
Many Injured by Blast.
Evidence of the unusual destruc-
tiveness of Mondays hurricane was
seen in Houston's hospitals to-
day, which house between fifty
and 100 persons, either injured in
the storm or suffering from illness
contracted in long exposure. Most of
these patients came from little towns
along the coast.
Among all the injured, possibly the
most remarkable ailment is snake bite,
a real danger in a coast hurricane be-
cause the water drives snakes upon
the few objects above water available
for keeping afloat-
Bitten by Moccasin.
Marvin Proctor of Lynchburg is in
moccasin bite. With his baby he had
been driven into the water and was
trying to build a raft with boards
blown from his home when the snake
baby until Wednesday morning, al
though one arm was swollen to nearly
twice its normal size. On Wednesday
a launch picked him up.
Walla ceville, a town of about 1 600
inhabitants on the east side of Gal
weston bay, appealed today for aid.
saying that only three houses remain
in their town. This committee esti-
mated that 10000 head of stock
drowned in Chambers county, where
Wallaceville is situated. They said
also there is worry over the fate of
seventy-five inhabitants of Smiths
Point, a peninsula jutting far out into
the bay, which seemed to be sub
merged during the storm.
Washed Away and Back Again.
G. a. Fredericks of Dallas and Z. ].
Whittig of Houston. who were in the
Virginia Point hotel when it collapsed,
were washed out to sea for several
hours and then washed back again by
a change of wind. This hotel is near
the mainland end of the Galveston
causeway. They drifted off on wreck
age when it collapsed. The freaixish
wind returned them almost to the site
of the hotel so that refugees who had
escaped from the hotel to a railway
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chased there Wednesday, 10000 bushels at
f4a4 cents and the balance on private terms.
Exports from the United States and Can
ada yesterday wer $4,000 bushels of wheat,
5000 barrels of flour. 1000 bushels of corn
and 2d3,OO0 bushels of oats; wheat and
A Russian cable says: "All reports con-
firm very favorable crop conditions through
reckoned at fully one-third larger than
last year and wheat will be fully 100 mil
lion bushels greater
The final financial report on the acreage
of crops in Canada shows 1850. 900 acres
OF wheat, nearly Is per cent more than
sown, and 20 per cent more than harvested
last year. The area in Manitoba, Alberta
and Saskatchewan is 11,744,7 700 acres, COM
pared with 9,335,000 acres last year. Oats
area is 11.365,o0o acres; last year. 1o.061. 900
acres.
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Wall St, New York, Aug. 2O.-STOCkS~o s.
Sales of the first hour exceeded 35O,OOO
shares, Steel supplying one-fifth of the
whole. That stock was regarded as the
barometer of the market not merely by
reason of its activity but because of the
heavy selling which preceded yesterdays
late declining movement 1t yielded one
half of it's two point recovery but made
partial improvement from that level Sim
liar irregularity was shown by other in
dustrials and specialties, none of which,
however, repeated their low opening prices.
Railroads became heavy later, Hartman
and Hill issues, together with Reading,
falling under yesterdays minimum quota
lions.
Bonds were lower.
The Arabic incident caused xtreme weak
ness in war specialties at tn opening OF
today's market, losses in that group rang
ing from ) to s points. Genral Motors,
New York Air Brak, Studbakr, Goodrich,
Westinghouse, American Can and Cruc1ble
Stel led the decline, which probably was
assistd by heavy short selling. United
States stel was heaviest of tn favorites, a
lot of 5000 shares being offrd at % to q,
a maximum loss of 2. In tn main railway
shares wre rlatively steady, recession in
that part of the list being limited to a
point or less. Rallies of OF points in
the specialties ensued bfore the EXPIRATION
of the first half hour.
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VICTIM SOCIAL LEADER.
Mrs. Josephine $. Bruguicre Promi-
Ecnt Here and i'll Europe

San Francisco. Cal. Aug. zO.-Mrs.
Josephine 5. BrUGCiere, one of the
Arabic's passengers reported missing,
is the widow of Emil E. Bruguiere,
and mother of DR.. I'edGr 5. Bruguiere
of this city. Mrs. Bruguiere, it is be-
lieved, was returning from Paris to
New York, accompanied by her
youngest son, Louis BrugUiere. Louis
Bruguiere is listed among those saved
when the liner went down.
Mrs. Bruguiere had for several
years maintained a residence in Paris
in addition to her villa, Cas- tiewood at
Newport, r. 1. She was prominent
socially on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Bruguieres made their home in
San Francisco and Monterey, Cal, be-
fore going 20 Newport.