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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-18
LET WOMAN DOT
Good Government Club Is After
Miles MulrOy's Job.
Believe the Office Can Be Made
Self Sustaining.

One of the women'S clubs interested
itself in the matter of hotel inspection
in Kansas. AS an outcome of the pro-
posal to abolish the office of hotel in
spector the Good Government club,
drew up and unanimously passed the
following resolution at a meeting
Thursday:
Remembering that health com
missions everywhere are now study
ing the housing proposition in rela-
ton to health and the study of con-
tagious and infectious diseases, and
the welfare commission has recognized
the relation of housing to the morals
of the people, and further remem-
boring that good hotels are the best
advertising matter to other states and
other communities, the Good Govern
ment club, in informal session as
sembled, does most respectfully rec
ommend to Governor Capper, that the
office of state hotel inspector be Civ
en- another trial under the manage
ment of a competent economical and
energetic housewife. We urge this
because we believe that the office is
a credit to the state in that 1t can be
made the exponent of the state prog
health and proper housing. We rec
ognize in it the right of the travelling
public to be properly housed and
cared for in the hotels which must be
their temporary homes. We further
believe that under the supervision or
such woman the office could read
lily be made Self-SuSta1n1nS.
THE club submits this resolution
to the governor through a committee,
the members of which are Mrs. Lee
Monroe and Mrs. Lillian Mitchner."
The club has interested itself in the
welfare of the women at the Cr1tten-
ton Home, and they discussed the
matter of asking the city commission
er of water to have the mains extend
ed so that city water can be placed in
the institution. AS the weather be-
comes warmer the need for plenty of
good water is more urgent, as a mat
ter of health and cleanliness.
In response to a request through the
State Journal, nine baby buggieS have
been given for use at the Home These
gifts are making the care of the young
children at the home much easier and
better. 1t enables the babies to be out
of doors in all suitable weather and 1t
makes it possible for the mothers to
care for them when it would be i'm
possible for them to carry the babies
about their work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-18
MAPLE LEAF SUES
Asks for Injunction Against the
Kaw Drainage Board.
Seeks to Prevent the Enforce
ment of Boards Orders.

A bill in equity in a suit to enjoin
the Kaw Valley Drainage board of
Wyandotte county, Kansas, from en-
forcing a number of orders to COM
pei the defendant to remove alleged
bridge Instructions in the Kaw river
at Kansas City, Kan, was filed today
with Mort Albaugh, clerk of the Unit
ed States district court, by the Chicago
and Great Western railway.
The orders were Issued during the
recent flood scare and gave the rail-
road five days tc begin the removal
of the obstructionS, named in the Or
ders as loose rock and other materials
about the east end of the girder span
of the Chicago and Great Western
bridge. The bridge is near the Kaw
river mouth.
The orders state that the obstruc-
lions are within the harbor lines. In
their petition to restrain the orders
the railroad contends that the drain
age board has no right to make the
orders. The Kaw river, contends the
plaintiff, is navigable stream and
jurisdiction over its control and uses.
The railroad also claims that the
crushed stone and other material men
toned in the orders are necessary to
protect the bridge against the waters
of the Kaw.
An order, temporarily restraining
the board from enforcing the orders,
has been issued by Judge Pollock.
The case will come before Judge Pol
lock for hearing June "a.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-18
STATE NEEDS MONEY.
Drafts for $1eS.261 Made on the
County Trcasurers.

With the drawing of s16S.261 from
the county treasurers today, the state
will have used 60 per cent of the
money levied in 1914 for state ex-
penses during the current year The
drafts sent today from the office of
per cent of the total 1914 levy for
state purposes.
Once this year the state lodged the
necessity of monthly drawing on the
county treasurers. That was when
funds from the insurance department
provided almost enough money to
take care of the states business for
thirty days. Previous to this time, the
state had drawn SIS per cent of the
money available for 1915 purposes.
The new taxes will not be at the dis
pOsal of the state until December. I'm
til that time, there will be total fund
of $1,344.0S8 available, independent
of the $168,261 covered in today's
draf frs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-18

delays. Among some of the delays
were the deaths of Overmeyer, of the
railroad attorney, the claim agent who
handled the case for the railroad and
the railroad physician.
Many of those who were connected
with the suit are now dead. The suit
was again held up by a fire which
destroyed records of the case when
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad offices
were destroyed at Baltimore. With
the death of Overmeyer, Major A. M.
Harvey, another Topeka. lawyer, as
sumed charge of the case for the
plaintiff. The case was briefed and
argued in the court of appeals at Gin
cinnati last Decem ber.
Thursday afternoon Major Harvey
received a telegram stating that the
court of appeals had handed down
judgment against the plaintiff. Her
prayer for damages, the court of APP
peals held, was barred by the statute
of limitations
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-18
THROWS UP HIS HANDS
Hoffsette Is Ready to Plead Guilty to
Wife DeSertiOn.

Facing the county prosecutor, w.
E Atchison, in his office at the coun-
ty court house today, John Hoffsette
shed copious tears as he pleaded for
leniency in the prosecution of the
charge of desertion of his wife and
family. Hoffsette has waived pre-
liminary examination and is ready to
plead guilty, he told Atchison today,
If he can be paroled and permitted to
pay money for the support of the fam
lily from which he has lived separated
for three years or longer.
Sheriff L. l. Kiene returned from
Missouri with Hoffsette last night,
having brought his prisoner from JEFF
ferson City, Mo, after presenting his
requisition to Governor Majors. Hoff-
settle hired attorneys to resist his ex-
tradition, but since he has been turned
over to the Shawnee county authori-
ties he has thrown up his hands. He
offers to furnish an adequate bond to
guarantee that he will support the
three children in whose behalf the
prosecution was started.
In appearance Hoffsette makes a
favorable impression. The sheriff and
county attorney are frank to confess
that they are reluctant to urge the
penitentiary sentence which the man
faces if he is arrested. provided he
proves able to assure them of payment
of a reasonable allowance for his fam
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-18
CONSTANTINE vERYLOW
Greatest Anxiety Felt in Official Cir
cleS for King.

Athens June 1s.-King Constan-
tines condition was worse today. An
official bulletin stated the king was
very weak"
The greatest anxiAtv is felt in Off
cial circles. - ~ss.Ak7
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-18
BACK TO ALMA MATER
Justice Burch Will Deliver Com
mencement Address at Ann ArbOr.

Justice r. A. Burch of the Kansas
supreme court will deliver the COM
mencement address before the law
graduating class at Ann ArbOr next
Monday. Justice Burch graduated
from the Ann Arbor law school thirty
years ago
In his address before the law grad
yates, the Kansas judge will talk
about Law Reform One of the
largest classes graduated from the
Michigan law school in recent years
will receive diplomas next week.
Harry B. Hutchins, president of the
law school, was an instructor in the
school thirty years ago when Justice
Burch was a student.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-18

sending the camera men and hunters
into the wilds of Africa to secure this
picture, and the results they secured
are truly wonderful.
At the CoZy.
Today and tomorrow the Cozy is
showing the third of it's two-reel com
edy features in which Charles Chaplin
is the star. Chaplin puts the audience
in such a good humor over his
escapades that many people are be-
coming Chaplin fans and have come
to depend on him for hearty laughs.
At the Iris.
Howard Estabrook, the noted stage
star, in -Four Feathers" is the bill at
the Iris today and tonight, supported
by Irene Warfield, Hal Clarendon and
other well known stars. The story is
powerfully screened. Tomorrow the
Iris will offer the sensa tional Tolstoi
drama, "a Woman's Resurrection"
made famous by Blanch Walsh.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-18
vI0LATEPASSLAW
Robertson Fighting Violations
I.C. G.. Rules i'm Kansas.
E. L. Bradley and Woman Ar
rested on Charge.

The opening gun in a war recently
inaugurated against viO1ators of inter-
state commerce commission rules gov
erning the issuance and obtaining of
railroad passes was fired Thursday
evening when e. L. Bradley, rail-
road fireman, and Miss EfTie Nicha1-
inc were arrested at Parsons, Kan,
by federal authorities on a charge of
conspiracy to illegally obtain a rail-
road pass from the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railway.
Complaints made against Bradley
anG others who it is expected will be
arrested soon caused Fred Robertson,
United States distrlst attorney, and his
assista hts to launch the crusade. Ac-
cording to federal officials, Bradley is
a married man with wife living in St.
Louis. On April IL he appeared in the
offices of the railroad and made req
uisition for a pass from ST. Louis to
Parsons for himself and his wife, Mrs.
E. L. Bradley. Federal officials claim
that Bradley did not transport his wife
on the pass but took the other wo-
man. Miss Effie Nichalino, from St.
Louis to Parsons. When IL obtained
the pass from the railroad ne had been
in the company's employ about
month.
According to a telegram received
this morning by Fred Robertson, both
the man and the woman have given
their confession of the violation of law
in writing. They face a maximum
penalty of two years in the federal
penitentiary or fine of $1,000 each
or both fine and imprisonment. The
minimum penalty under federal con-
Spiracy statutes is left to the diScre
ton of the court.
In addition to the Bradley case 9TH
er similar complaints are being inves
tigated. One of the complaints is very
much like the one at Parsons. In
this case the pass was fraudulently
he rfa "a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-18
WHITMAN ON TOUR.
New York Governor Returning East
on Speech Making Trip.

Governor Charles H. Whitman of
New York passed through Kansas to-
day and will speak this afternoon at a
meeting of Republican leaders in the
Baltimore hotel at Kansas City. Gov
ernor Whitman, regarded as a presi-
dental proba ability, will discuss ma
tiona1 issues. according to q letter
sent to Charles Curtis, United States
senator.
The Whitman party will arrive in
Kansas City this afternoon over the
Santa Fe. A delegation of Missouri
Republicans met his party at North
Ottawa. Senator Curtis is in ST. Louis
and will not be able to attend the
meeting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-18

A film that gives a wonderful lesson
in natural history, and that furnishes
many thrills, is the five-reel Pathe
feature, Hunting Wild Game in Cen
trail Africa which the Best theater is
showing today. the Pathe people
spent many thousands of dollars in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-18
MRS. REED LOSES
Widow of Col. Geo. w. Reed Is
Defeated at Law.
Judgment for $4,000 Reversed
by Z. S. Court of Appeals.
ACTION AGAINST The B. & O.
Was Injured i'm a Railroad
Wreck in 1901.
The Defendant Pleads the
Statute of Limitation.

Another chapter was added to years
of bitter litigation in Missouri, In
diana, Kentucky Illinois and Ohio
federal courts Thursday afternoon in
the damage suit of Mrs George w.
Reed, 1913 Harrison street, widow of
the late Col. George w. Reed, against
the Baltimore and Ohio Railway
company, when the United States
court of appeals at Cincinnati refused
to uphold judgment obtained by Mrs.
Reed for $4,000 against the railroad
in the Ohio district court.
Trouble began between the plaintiff
and defendant in the suit in 1901.
Mrs. Reed, accompanied by her hus-
band. was enrOute from Chicago to
Boston on a Baltimore and Ohio train.
The train was wrecked at Milford
Junction, Ind, the petition claimed as
the result OF running too heavy a train
over a fresh track. Both Colonel
Reed and his wife were injured-Mrs.
Reed the worse. Her shoulder was
badly hurt and it was claimed that
she was permanently injured. Shc
was taken TO a hospital and the rail-
road, she claimed. promised to pay her
expenses and damages. Recovering
sufficiently to be able to travel she
went to Maine and spent several
months there. The matter ran along
for several months without any settle
ment.
Finally Mrs Reed retained David
Overmeyer formerly a local attorney
and now dead. The original petition
was filed in st. Louis and was for
S25,000 damages. Overmeyer failed
to obtain service on the railroad COM
pany in ST. Louis and he was forced
TO withdraw the petition. Similar at
tempts in Indiana, Kentucky and I'LL
nois failed, owing to the fact that the
attorney could not obtain service.
Four Years to Obtain Service.
Finally four years after the acct
dent Overmeyer. with his corps of as
sistGnts managed to obtain service on
the railroad company in the Cincinnati
federal district court. By that time
the case was successfully filed in
June. 19O5-the Indiana limitation
statutes covering the time that suit
must be filed after cause of action
had outlawed the case. Damage suits
in Indiana must be filed within two
years after the cause of action.
Overmeyer undertook to avoid the
limitation statute by bringing allega-
tionS of a breach of contract on the
part of the railroad. The petition con-
tended that when a railroad sold a
ticket to a person it contracted to
conduct him or her to~the- destination
without injury.
Case Is Appealed.
meyers contentious and returned a
verdict in favor of Mrs. Reed for S10,-
600. The railroad carried the case to
the court of appeals. Before the ap-
peal could be heard there were several
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-18
BURGLARS TAKE FLEAS
Hartford, Conn.,, Has Most Unusual
Robbery on Record.

Hartford, Conn, June 18.-They
were curious burglars who broke into
the home of Herbert Randall, artist.
Passing over a quantity of silver, they
stole two fleas, the only ones in the
house. The fleas were dressed in red
uniforms to represent soldiers.
Mr.. Randall bought them from an
old woman in Seattle, who made a
living dressing fleas in martial array.
They reposed in little boxes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-18
Law Not Made for Women.

Gary, Ind, June 1S.-Before wom-
an suffrage is granted in Indiana the
election laws must be revised. A sec
ton of the law reads as follows: The
curtains in front of the booth must
be of sufficient height from the floor
to make the lower limbs of the voter
plainly visible.to the election officers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-18
in GRAPPLE AT CORITz
Battle RACES with Renewed Intensity;
Italians Blast Station.

Rome, June 1S.-The battle for
Goritz IS being waged with renewed
intensity, General Cadorna reported to
the war office today.
Italian artillery has bombarded and
destroyed the railway station at Cor
itz. Nine miles north of the city,
italian forces have seized and forti-
fled the heights surrounding P1ova,
on the east bank of the ISonZo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-18
TEUTONS PLUNGE AHEAD
DnieSter Near StaniSIau;
Thrown Back at Stryj.

Petrograd, June 1S.-Austro-Ger-
man troops have crossed the Dniester,
is miles northeast of Stanislau.
The war office admitted this today
but announced that Russian forces
east of Stryj threw back the enemy,
capturing POP officers and 8,444 men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-18
AT THE THEkTERS.
At Garfield Park.

These evenings, cool and refresh
ing bring out a fine circle of skate
enthusiasts. Tonight the rollers have
right of way at the pavilion. over in
the Casino the program will be a g.
part drama, Isle of Vengeance" and
a comedy, 81 am Crazy to Be Mar
ried''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-18
Case Is AppeaIed.

The district court upheld Over
meyers contentious and returned a
verdict in favor of Mrs. Reed for S10,-
00O. The railroad carried the case to
the court of appeals. Before the ap-
The Dickinson press., 1915-04-03

but the Archduke was compelled to
take a solemn oath that he would
never attempt to place his wife or
her children on the throne This
marriage took place in 1900 and the
Sountess took rank as Fuerstin of
Hohenberg and in 1905 was given the
rank of Duchess.
Francis Ferdinand's early training
was military rather than in the field
of statecraft. He re-organized the
Austrian general staff in 1891 with
great success. He was one of the
country's best shots. His castle walls
were hung with the trophies from his
hunting trips for big game from
India and Ceylon and the Rocky
4 HACKE'S EVEN SERMON =. ......
Mountains. He was a leader among
the group of men that brought his
country through the crisis at the an
nexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
In 1908. And again his diplomacy
was in evidence in the Balkan wars
in 1912 and 1913.
Since Francis Ferdinand's death,
Charles Francis Joseph, the son of
Otto, and nephew Of the late Arch
duke, becomes the heir to the throne.
Religion
With the great complexity of races
1t is very natural that there should be
a wide variety of religious belief.
The ruler of the monarchy must be
a member of the Roman Catholic
church. In the sixteenth century, in
Austria proper, 80 per cent of the
population were Protestant, but in
1900 this had decreased to about two
per cent and the Roman Catholic had
increased to 81 per cent. Although
the Roman Catholic church is the
state church, the emperor has usually
resented the extreme claims of the
papacy, and there is a measure of re-
ligious liberation.
In Hungary the religious complex
ion is more equally divided. About
az per cent Of the population are
Roman Catholic with another 10 per
cent Uniat Greeks, j. e. Catholics of
the Oriental rite in communion with
Rome; 13 per cent Greek Orthodox;
ID per cent Calvinists; 7h per cent
Lutheran and 5 per cent Jews, besides
several other smaller communions.
Religious strife is often involved
in the troublesome political prob
1t is not likely that the present
war will solve many of Austria's
problems. The blood Of her many
races is being mingled on her battle
fields; religious strife may be held in
allegiance in the common struggle, but
after awhile-how long, we know not
the remnants will return, whether
as victors or conquered, it matters
but little. The boundaries of the
monarchy may be changed, but it is
a question whether a struggle like
that now going on will melt the
hatred in the hearts, a hatred bred
bv religious and racial strife. Aus
tria-Hungary's problems will remain.
By some it is questioned whether she
will suffer most in the hands Of her
enemies or her friends.
The Dickinson press., 1915-04-03

among Lne pOCenLdCeS VI CuTOpe, d
dignity in origin and theory elective
becoming in practice hereditary in
their house. This position they owe
to some extent to the tenacity with
which they have chung to the various
lands and dignities which have passed
into their possession, but they owe it
much more to a series of fortunate
marriages and opportune DEATHS"
Francis Ferdinand
The late Archduke Francis Ferdi-
nand has been called the clark horse
Of Europe" He was born in 1863
but was not in line for the throne un-
til he was twenty-six years of age.
Through the tragic death of Prince
Rudolph in 1889, the only son of the
emperor, and the request of the Arch
duke Charles Ludwig (Father of
Francis Ferdinand) to be excused
from the succession on the account of
his age, it made Francis Ferdinand
the heir to the throne.
Five years later, when Ferdinand
calmly announced that he was not in
love with any of the Archduchesses
of the Imeprial Court but with one
of their companions, an obscure b.
hemian countess, the Emperor was
dumfounded, and the countess was
promptly discharged and the Arch
duke set out on a trip around the
world. He attempted to return
through the United States without
disclosing his identity, but vas rec.
ognized at Chicago and New York
where he received much attention.
Eventually the Emperor gave hi
consent for the morganatic marriage
with the Countess (Sophie ,Chotek.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-15
MILLENNIAL DREAMS
AND ACTUAL FACTS.

Whom the first Great Exhibition
was opened in London in 1901 It's pro-
r,oters asserted that the era OF uni
voreal neace had comlnenced;' ana
that influenced by art and commerce.
nations would see the folly OF war
Thus in so many words it was sug-
oested that what the Gospel had IAN
cd in accomplishing, Mammon "'ula
srccee ed in effecting. But far n" Ii
the Great Exhibition shutting the
Temple of Janus, never has there
been such fierce and successive wars
II,o close of the boastful speeches
q. l,ibition had scarcely d'ed
.t.. 1854, France and Eng
laaa letwgnd war against Russia
: AK aaar England went to war
again,, and the year follow
ing with en-. in the shameless con-
flict which ended in foisting opium
upon the Celestial Empire and the
annexation of Hong Kong to Great
Britain. Then came the alliance OF
France and Sardinia with the OBJECT
of driving the Austrians out OF
Italy. Subsequently Prussia and
Austria united to coerce Denmark
and when they had succeeded lie"
at each Others throats about the Ill
vision of the spoils. After that, IL
1870, France and Germany fought
each other. and the latter annexed
Alsace-Lorrain and made France
pay all the expenses of the war.
A bloody war followed seven years
later between Russia and Turkey arc
when that had closed England at
tackled Egypt. Later France invaded
! Tunis.
The conflict between England anc
the Beers. the war between Italy ant
Turkey and the short but bloody con
flict between Russia and Japan arr
among the events still fresh III thu
minds of the people of the world.
The Hague Conference, notwith
standing all these grim facts, believed
up to about year ago that the ;vor!t
was about to learn war no more am
that arbitration was to take tn
place of the sword in settling interna
tional disputes. The present whole
sale conflagration in Europe is sal
commentary upon the de!usions o
that court. Is EsEsAM SMs$