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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10
HIT WRONG MAN
Washington Note to Carranza
Brings Pacific Reply.
Responsibility for Conditions
Is Shifted to Villa.

Vera Cruz, March 10.@CarranZa Is
ready to meet the United States half
way and probably more. He is will
ing to give all possible protection 20
foreigners.
This is to be Carranza's s answer to-
day to the sharp and almost peremp-
tory note recently received from
Washington, said in some quarters to
amount almost to an ultimatum. 1t
was stated that Carranza's reply will
be given out today and that it's tone
will be most pacific.
News that more American war ves-
sells were speeding here caused little
public excitement. The city was quiet.
DOdges the Issue.
Washington, March 10.-General
Carranza is reported to have agreed
to meet the demands of the United
States. His formal reply to the latest
note from this government is on its
way to Washington. A preliminary
message from Consul SiIliman says
that it is favorable.
But whether the concession comes
in time to make the Carranza con-
cession a victory for the administra-
tion's Mexican policy is problematicaI
Unofficial reports say that Obregon
already has evacuated Mexico City.
And they say that Zapata now con-
trolls the capital If this is so. re-
sponsibility for protecting foreigners
there now rests with Villa.
Officials We're hopeful that Zapata
actually had entered the capital He
had been there before and had en-
forced law and order Villas influ-
ence with him is SO strong that Off
cials belize he will be able to do the
same thing if given the chance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10
H0L DOWN N-212-CENT-FARE
BILL BY M'MILLAN IS PASSED
All Railroads Entering Kansas City
Affected by Measure.
Requires Station for Ticket Sale OF
Kansas Side of Line.
JUST LIKE CUSTOM HOUSE
Trains Must Stop Long Enough for
Passengers to Buy Ticket.
Attorney General Says Bill Is Entirely
Constitutional.

senator Mcmillan called to the top
OF the calendar and got through the
senate this morning the Carter bill
from the house which is intended to
| mead off the application of a ? II cent
railroad fare on tickets which Kansas
people buy to points outside this state
Dy way of Kansas City, Mo. The re-
cent Missouri state law increasing the
legal fare in that state to a half cent
over the rate now effective in Kansas
would, believe supporters of the bill,
cost Kansas travellers a lot of money
but for the provisions of the Carter
act.
l. This requires the utilities commits
sion to order all interstate railroads
entering Kansas City to provide a
ticket office on the Kansas side of the
line and tC stop their trains long
enough there TO permit passengers to
BUY tickets. 1t will be like going
through the custom house on an inter-
national boundary. The law will ap-
ply to all the Missouri Kansas bound
airy points.
AS stated in the senate today by
Senator Mcmillan the Missouri law
would make it possible to collect an
additional half cent a mile from a
passenger who had travelled clear
across kansas even though he was go
ing not farther than to the station on
the Missouri side, fraction of a mile
out of Kansas territory. The new
measure will make it compulsory that
kansans be permitted to buy a ticket
to a point just inside the state and
there purchase a new ticket subject
to the higher rate for the mile or so
crossing. Senator Mcmillan says the
attorney general has given an opinion
that the proposed law would be en-
tirely constitutional
Its practical effect is expected to be
to dissuade railroads doing business
here to take advantage of the inter-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10

actual danger of falling before the al
lies. Should Constantinople fall, it is
feared the Moslems will run amuck
throughout interior Turkey.
Ambassador Morgenthau and his
staff have been told to keep in close
touch with the situation. For weeks
they have been pressing upon the high
Turkish officials that no matter what
happened in war. foreigners must be
protected. Up to the present they have
been uniformly successful
This feature of the international
situation was today occupying the at
tention of the administration. So far
as the AngIo-F'rench blockade against
Germany is concerned, the president
must wait until the allies act Up to
the present time they have not molest
ed American shipping in any way.
The order explaining how the block
ade is to be enforced remains unis-
sued.
Germany's latest raid may hasten
it. The sinking of three merchantmen
in one day, with the loss of 81 lives, is
expected to enrage the English against
the Germans to such an extent that
the SeVereSt reDriSalS will be taken.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10

Why policewomen should be re-
quired to make monthly reports of
their work. all nicely written out on
a typewriter, while policemen do moth
ing of the sort can be given only a
Colonel Ruggles'' explanation-it
isn't done, you know.
But should policemen be required to
make reports of this kind they would
probably read something like this:
Nothing doing this month. The
chiefs report shows the number of
arrests 1 made during the month";" and
let it go at that.
But policewomen are different Miss
Eva Corning, policewoman,- does not
report having made any arrests dur
ing the month of February ard yet
her report contains seventeen type
written pages, and when r. L. Cofra n,
mayor, got through reading IL, he eX-
scientious work and work worth
WHILE
young woman, a stranger in the
city, with a little boy to support, her
husband having recently died was the
first to receive Miss Corning's atten-
ton. She placed the woman at the
Y. w. c. A. and work was found for
her.
Settle NeighbOrhood Row.
A neighborhood row in the vicinity
of Nineteenth and Lane streets in
which parents had taken up the
scraps of their children, was,straight-
ened out by visits to all parties CON
cerned.
Complaint that a mother, separated
from her husband, was conducting
herself in a manner damaging to her
T(FODtinued Page
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10
PUSH TURKS BACK
Russians Are Progressing Slow
ly but Surely i'm Persia.
They Have Come Into Possess
sion of Several Villages.

Tiflis, March 10.-The Turkish
forces and the Kurds. who have been
concentrated in the district of Khoi.
in northwestern Persia, are slowly be-
ing forced by the Russians to retreat
to the southwark. Russian forces al
ready have come into possession of
several villages in which Turkish
troops had been quartered.
Information reaching here from the
south is that a large number of Ar
menianS who remain in Urumiah. a
city in Persian Armenia-sixty miles
from TabrfZ-were placed under the
protection of American consular Off
GERS.
There is a consulate at Tabriz Two
thousand Armenians were locked in a
church at Urumiah for safety. They
were ill-supplied with food and many
died from Starvation and disease.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10

it is today. Confident opinions of this
nature are finding constant expression
in London
Slowly but surely, it is argued, the
allied fleet is creeping toward Con-
stantinople and thus opening another
road to Berlin; the retirement of Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg army from
North Poland is said to be imminent
by many British observers of affairs;
in the west the allies claim the aScen-
dency all along the line, although no
decisive engagements are being fought
while in the Balkans and Italy, &C
cording to British Interpretation of the
political news from these countries,
the majority is clamoring for inter
vention on the side of Great Britain,
France and Russia. This is said to
mania in spite of the fact that the
governments of these countries still
cling outwardly to the policy of neu-
trality.
The crisis in Greece seems tempor-
arily to have been bridgeL with the
formation of new cabinet, but
whether the premier can control the
cham mber of deputies is causing much
speculation here. Though officially
denied reports insist that a minister
;al crisis has arisen in Bulgaria where
the premier favoring intervention was
opposed by King Ferdinand 1t is said
that the Bulgarian prime minister
stenned from office at the time that
Greece's leading statesman retired.
Paris officially confirmed today
what London heard unofficially last
night namely, that the superdread-
nought Queen Eliza beth slipped into
the DardanelIes proper on Monday
and bonn barded the Turkish forts, an
other one of which on the European
side has been partly demolished. Cor
respondents at Petrograd of English
newspa pers say the German failure to
reduce the Russian fortress of Osso-
wetz, together with the reported Ger
man defeat at GrOdnO and PrzaSnySz.
means the definite abandonment of
the German offensive. in North Po-
land, thus making. in the opinion of
these correspondents, Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg's rush over the from
tier another costly failure.
The Germans though unable to ad-
vance in Russia, are reported to be
holding a line some thirty miles be-
hind the extreme limit of their for
ward dash of month ago. In Cen
trail Poland both the Russians and the
Germans are attacking alternately
with no appreciable change in the
situation being made.
The same is true in the Carpathian
mountains and generally along the
western front in France and Belgium.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10
HELPED ONE WAY
Bad Weather Has Pointed Out
Value of Good Roads.
Commercial Club and County
Commissioners 20 Act,

The Commercial club and the coun-
ty commissioners are going to cooper
ate in an effort to get better roads in
Shawnee county. A meeting was held
this noon by the roads committee of
the club.
A this meeting it was decided to
study the condition of the roads at the
clears off, men will go over roads in
all parts of the county and if any sim
gle stretch has withstood the wear and
tear of winter. then they will profit by
it in building and repairing other
roads.
The campaign for better roads is
now we'll under way and it will wax
warm as soon as spring opens up. H.
S Putney is chairman of the good
roads committee
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10
RAIN OF SHELLS
Six British Warships Pounding
Away at One Fort.
Which Commands the NarrOWS
of the DardanelIeS.

London, March 10.-SiX British
warships, headed by the superdread-
naught Queen Elizabeth, are concen-
trating their fire upon the batteries
of Fort Namazieh, overlooking the
DardanelleS narrOws, according to
Athens dispatches today. A deter
mined effort is being made to silence
the guns of Namazieh, which have so
far swept -he strait for a distance of
several miles and blocked the advance
of mine sWeepers.
The newt st monster of tn seas, the
Superdreadnaught Warspite. is be-
lieved to J ave Joined the allied fleet.
Admiralty officials have virtually ad-
mitted that another big battleship of
the Queen Elizabeth type is in action.
The Warspite was laid down five days
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10
SMASHING RECORDS.
Successive Days of Snow Ties Showing
of % Years.

The twenty-eight year record for
number of successive days with snow
was tied today. This is the eighth
day on which there has been at least
a trace of snow. There were eight
successive days of snow in February,
1905. OF the last % days, 19 have
been cloudy and three partly cloudy:
this constitutes the worst % day
gloom period on record.
And there is not much relief offered
by the government weather prophet.
The forecast calls for partly cloudy
weather with little change in tempera-
ture.
The shippers forecast: Protect
36 hour shipments north against tenn
perature of % degrees: east, west and
south against "a to 2S degrees
The minimum temperature Of 81
degrees at O'Clock this morning was
/ degree below normal
S d. (Sunny) Flora. the local
weather observer, looks for some sun
shine Thursday This afternoon the
wind was five miles an hour from the
north.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10
WHEAT IS UNSTEADY.
Declines on Strength of Peace Rumors
in Europe.

Chicago, March 10.-Niolent down
ward swings in the price Of wheat to-
day resulted from London reports that
an official announcement of Ger
many's terms of peace was about to
be made, as much as 5 Z cents
busheI was cut from values in some
cases, May wheat selling at Il
as against S1.55 last night
Feeling at the close was decidedly
unsettled, with the market as whole
? Il cents to Il cents lower, COM
pared with "a hours before.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10

The senate late this afternoon con-
CURED in the house amendments to
the resolution calling for new con-
ference committee on appropriations
Senate confcrees are: Senators Howe
of Dickinson, Davis of Bourbon. and
Huffman of Cherokee. A. Nj. keene,
chairman of the house ways and
means committee, will head the five
cenferees from the house. The house
Taylor and PuIIoff.
After having fought for two days
over the wording of resolution fer
the appointment of a new conference
committee on appropriations, the
.lsssls's,, -4-sssis-.4-s a. more securels
deadIocked this afternoon than at any
time in the session. From such high
authority as the governor and speaker,
it is claimed, has come an ultimatum
to house members not to compromise
nickel. The senate in obstinate self
defense has hurled back the challenge
that it is willing to spend the summer
in Topeka before it will yield in its de-
mands.
With the breach between the house
and senate being widened by i'll will
at each move, all spirit of compromise
has vanished. With bull dog tenacity,
each house defends its own appropria-
tions. The senate resolution for a new
conference was amended Tuesday
night in the house. This morning the
house amended the house amendment.
At noon the house amended the sem
ate'S amendment ~ the Senate'S
amendment to the houses amendment
to the senate resolution.
Clear. isn't it?
But that is the situation. true, con-
else and right to the point.
Won't Yield One Penny.
Then with it all came the report
today that Governor Capper told
house members not to yield one penny
Added to this was the reported Stone
keene ultimatum that the house
ICout1n4eu OF, Page Two.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10
Drys Win 80 Towns.

St. Paul, March 10.-Virtually COM
plete returns today from the elections
held yesterday in about 200 towns and
cities of Minnesota showed the anti
saloon forces had been successful in
more than thirty towns previously in
the wet column. Four towns that had
been without saloons, however, went
over to the wet side, leaving the divi-
sion of towns that voted yesterday at
102 dry and SO wet Rochester, the
largest town voting on the license is
sue, remained with the vets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10
U-2O GOES DOWN
German Submarine Is Sent to
the Bottom.
Rammed by British Torpedo
Boat Destroyer Ariel.

London, March 10.-The German
submarine U-20 has been sent to the
bottom, according to a statement is
sued today by the British admiralty.
The submarine, according to the Of
fetal announcement was rammed by
the British torpedo boat destroyer
Ariel 1t went to the bottom The
members of the submersible' crew
surrendered and were saved
The submarine Tao was built in
1918. She had a displacement of $40
tons and a speed of II knots on the
surface and ? knots submerged. She
was equipped with three torpedo
tubes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10
Tales of Naughty Girls and I'm.
ruly Boys in Unhappy Homes.
ONE MAN SOUGHT BY WOMAN
He Had to Appeal to Lady Cop
to Save Him From Disgrace.
Married Man Called Girl @Little
Baby Sweetheart Wife,"
A POLICEWOMAN'S MONTHS
WORK

Settle neighborhood row over
children.
Find work for widow and child
Saved Mexican girl from fathers
wrath.
Rescue man from woman's
wiies.
Grown girl kept within yard re-
leased.
Stop goo-ey letters from married
man.
Relief of poverty and death in
family.
Personal visits to homeless girls.
Investigate "Home for Working
Girls
Woman stole from blind victim.
Regulation of boys i'm pool halls.
Clearing up bicycle theft mys-
terry.
Probing life of girls without
work.
Dying man leaves money to
"Other wOman."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10
Helen Keller Is Ill.

Austin Texas, March 10.-Miss
Helen Keller, in this city to deliver a
lecture, contracted a severe cold and
was taken to a local infirmary. Nurses
report her resting well. Doctors at
tending Miss Keller said they feared
pneumonia may develop. All lecture
engagements have been cancelled
pending Miss Keller's recovery, it was
said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10
Col. Nelson Much Better.

Kansas City, March 10.-Continued
Improvement in the condition of Will
liam Rockhill Nelson, editor of the
Kansas City Star, was announced by
Mr.. Nelson's physicians today. Mr..
Nelson Tegained consciousness during
the night and today he met and chat
ted with members of his family.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10
APPEAL FOR FOOD
Mexico City Is Starving, Comes
Word From Red Cross.
Famine in Capital Is Rapidly
Growing Worse.

Washington. March 1O.-The Mexi-
can Red Cross today appealed to the
American Red Cross through Secre-
tary Bryan for food for the starving
populace in Mexico City. The appeal
said the famine in the Mexican capital
was rapidly growing worse.
Secretary Bryan said the state de-
partment would cooperate with the
BED Cross as far as possible y :. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10

The Game of See-Saw as Played by
the Legislature.
Senate passes resolution for con-
ference and sends it to the house.
House amends resolution, passes
it and sends it back.
Senate amends resolution. passes
it and sends it back.
House again amends resolution,
passes il and sends it back.
senate receives resolution.
ITO be cOntinued.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10
And SWisheS Out With $500 in
Unpaid-FOr Materials.
MERCHANTS HERE WERE EASY
Stranger Walked Most Profit
ably Along Kansas Avenue.
Young Man Companion Leaped
Into Snow From His Train.

On S1.25 worth of printers ink,
which may not have been paid for,
woman going by the name of Mrs. c..
M. Dawson realized from 500 to $500
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10
Washington Administration Is
Alarmed About Christians.
A MASSACRE is FEARED
Mergenthau Has
Been Busy for Weeks
Insisting That Foreigners Must
Be Protected.

Washington. March 10.-Fears for
and for all Christians in
Turkey were growing here today. It
is admitted that ConstantinopIe is in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10
Allied Fleet Creeps Slowly
Toward COnstantinople.
GERMAN FAILURE IN POLAND
Offensive i'm That Direction
About To Be Abandoned.
kaiser's Troops Have Been
Pushed Back 80 Miles.

London March 10-As England
sees it, not since the war began has
the situation both on land and sea
been more favorable to the allies than
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10
SLEEP ON PLEDGE
Capper's Strong Plank i'm Cam
paign for Governor
IngIoriously DiSregarded by
Legislative Supporters.

II stand for civil service and for
Uncompronlising hostility to the
abominable spoiIs system in the
public business. There is no
more excuse for a partisan admin
istrat tion Of Il rcforE1atory. an eCIu-
cational or charita BILE institution
than for the political administra-
tion of a hospital. school or
bank. When 1 advertise for Il print
ter to work on my newspaper, [
don't say Wanted: Il printer who
can carry the third ward / say.
Wanted: Il printer who can print
And / pick out the best printer who
applies for the job. | would like to
sec the business of the state of
Kansas run just as Mr.. Mills or MIR.
Crosby manages his dry goods
store. just as President Ripley runs
his railroad. .''-GOvernor CapDer III
1914 campaign.
Now the Republican administration
house committee on public welfare
has killed the civil service bill by SEN
atOr Price of Clark county. The
measure was regarded by leaders of
both parties as real genuine civil
service enactment 1t passed the SEN
ate. Now it has been killed in the
house and was not so much as pro-
vided a decent burial None of the
etaunch friends of the Capper admin
iStration in the house came to the res
cue of the bill and no one sought to
set aside the committees report
In the 1914 campaign. the chief
stock in trade was a discussion bv
Governor Capper of what he termed
''the vicious spoils'' system which had
resulted in the Democrats replacing
Republicans Wi men of their own
political faith. 1t is doubtful if Gov
ernor Capper made a speech in the
state in which he did not mention the
evil practice as he saw it. His chief
IConunGed on Page Two.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10
Weather Forecast for Kansas.

Partly cloudy tonight and Thurs
day; not much change in tempera-
ture
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10
SIMPLY A CAME
OF Freeze OUT
Legislative Deadlock Is Just as
Bad as Ever Today.
Senate Would Stay in Topeka
All Summer il Necessary.
PLAYING CONTEST OF SEE SAW

PLAYING CONTEST OF SEE SAW
Amendment to Amendment to
Amendment and So on Today.
"YieId Not One Nickel' Is Spirit
of Both Bodies.
HOUSE EXCLUDES Y SENATORS
Substitute Conference ResOlu-
tiOn Designates COnferees.
OYertureS to Upper Body All
That VIII Close Session.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-12-23
ECONOMY

Simpson Pierce fell Sunday morn
ing striking his head on stick of
wood, making a painful wound.
Miss Fay Hadley was out OF
school four days on account Of
neuralgia and toothache.. .. Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Pierce and Miss Mary
Mumbower were at Richmond Monday
-. Miss Rhea Davidson was hurt Sat
urday evening by slipping and falling
while in the cellar Sunday afternoon,
after potaties. A pair of American
Goldfinches was seen Monday morn
ing Dec. 20, eating weed seed in the
garden at the home of Edwards Bros.
No one of the older citizens ever re-
members of having seen the beauti ul
feathered goldfinch so late in the
season. . . Mrs. Nora Hadley of West
River was over here to visit Mrs. En-
ma Hiatt Thursday. .. Herschel Har-
nish returned from Cambridge Mon
day evening and will be in this local
ity part of this week. Il. .Protracted
meeting is still running at Nettle
Creek Friends church. There has
been twenty conversions up to date.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-12-23
Obtaining an Education.

Many great men attained eminence because
they hungered for knowledge and in seeking it
climbed the ladder to renown. Booker T. Wash
ington is a shining example of the truth of this
observation. We sometimes believe that educa-
ton is possible only when the child is surrounded
with costly establishment, high priced teachers,
and encouraging influences at home. Observa-
ton, however, shows that where the will of the
child is bent on attaining knowledge, these Access
series are not necessary. Lincoln received his
schooling by the light of log fire in an obscure
cabin. - r #H@E. =
The commissioner of education of Brooklyn
in recent report calls attention to the hundreds
of children whose parents are tow boat owners on
the Erie canal. During the season Of navigation
their children accompany them on their trips up
and down the Hudson river and through the Erie
canal, and when the winter months arrive the
children attend the Brooklyn schools. The sup