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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-16
Cooperative Club From Mis-
souri, Visits Local Body.
Fifty-FOur Members in Two
Coaches Guests Today.
IN KANSAS AVENUE PARADE
Headed by Apprentice Band,
They March ON the Streets.
Topeka Club First Since Or
ganizatiOn at Kansas City.

Keep Your Acquaintance in Re-
pair
With this motto ever paramount
fifty-four members of the Kansas City,
Mo, Cooperative club came to Topeka
today to meet with the Topeka CO.
operative club. Luncheon for the
visitors was served in the assembly
room Of the Commercial club this
noon.
The Kansas City men came in two
special cars. One car was fitted as a
reception room with a grafanola and
player piano, easy chairs and divans.
After the luncheon this noon the To-
Santa Fe depot where they were en-
tertained by the Kansas City men.
In Other Cities, Too.
A parent interest in the local club
is being taken by the Kansas City men
because Topeka has the first club to
e. J. Hess, chairman of the national
organization. stated today tffat a club
would be formed in Omaha soon.
Similar organizations willsbe started
In Lincoln, Neb., and Wichita, Kan, it
was said.
eve have builded better outside our
home town." said r. l., Mehornay of
the North -Mehornay Furniture com
pany, land 1 just wanted to bring
these men from Kansas City to see the
first of thousand organizations that
will soon exist throughout the United
States"
w. C. somervilIe. the first president
of the Kansas City Cooperative club;
z. I. Briggs, the second president, and
Cliff c. Jones, the present president,
were called on for short talks by
Charles S. Moore, president of the To-
peka club. Each man praised the To-
cal organization and spoke a good
word for cooperation. w. o. Ander-
son, the vice president of the local
club was the only other speaker.
Parade ON Kansas Avenue
The Kansas City men arrived in To-
peka at L o'clock this morning and
headed by the Santa Fe Apprentice
band.
The officers of the Kansas club
who were here today are: Cliff c.
Jones, president; w. r. Rowe, secre-
tary; E. j. Hess, third vice president.
The following Kansas City men at
tended the luncheon this noon:
j. T. Someville, u. T. Briggs. r. L.
Mehornay. Cliff c. Jones, w. r. Rowe,
McMurty, Nicholas Hunter, c. e. Shep-
ard, E. J. Hess, Ray w. Grimes. wal
ter Van Stone, DR.. G. w. Smith, e. L.
Martin, c. i. ChristInan, Virgil n.
Baldwin, w. T. Grant, A. j. Pray, Roy
Nafziger, d. r. Christie. c. F.
Downey. "A. B. Lewis. Earl s. Voorhis.
=. j. Heman, w. M Teter. J. H. Baird.
?. c. Crago, J. S. Adsit. w. M. Hand.
2. G. Freed, Press J. Kennedy, J.. A.
Marnes. L. G. Griffin, e. F. Morton, @.
Kenyon, Carl H. Langknecht, Leo
McGuleny, L. Fletcher. Arthur II.
1elder. J. F. Weber, F. l.. Cotton, j.
4. Brandimore, n. j. Hinshaw. Thorn
Is F. Hickey, o. ID. Stewart, DR. A. F.
Musgrabe, w. G. Riggs, ]. S. Hexter,
4. f. Barker, E. b. Wright.
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ANOTHER STRIKE PLOT
Native Hungarian Utters Charges
Against Austro-H o-Hungarian Embassy.

Cleveland, Nov. 16.-H. Louis
Loebl, a native Hungarian serving as
city immigration officer. today
charged activity by the Austro-H Hun
garian embassy at Washington in the
strike of machinists at the Theodore
Kundtz factory, here. The Kundtz
plant has been manufacturing bodies
for automobiles to fill war orders for
the entente allies and has been tied
up several weeks by a strike.
LoebPs charges came in connec-
ton with his defense before Mayor
Newton. in answering informal
charges that he had been unduly ac-
tive in his connection with the strike.
He told the mayor that one of the
chief advisers of the strikers, whom
he was convinced was in the pay Of
the Austro-H Hungarian government,
had offered. in his hearing. to sell
out" the strikers for $4,000. He told
the mayor he became suspicious that
this adviser was disloyal to the Aus
tro-Hungarian embassy, at Washing
ton, and desired to test him out
to see if he would sell out to the other
side. Loebl offered in proof of his
charges a record taken by a private
detective in an adjoining room in a 10
cal hotel, by means of a telephone
device, when the Sc, 600 bribe was al
legged to have been solicited Octo-
ber 81.
A majority of the Kundtz strikers
are Austro- Hunga rians.
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the Philippine bill will

congress, and the Philippine bill will
be endorsed again.
AT today's cabinet meeting each de-
partment head submitted his views
on what important matter should be
urged upon congress at the coming
session.
The president will begin lmme-
diately to write the message, doing
the work himself on his typewriter.
! Because revenue raising legislation
must originate in the house the presi-
dent will confer further with house
leaders before finally deciding on his
recommendations as to how the addi-
tiona1 revenue needed for the defense
plans should be raised.
The annual reports of cabinet men,
bers will not be made public until
after ttV president delivers his mes
sage to congress. Mr.. Wilson will
take into consideration, however the
recomme ndation of his official ad-
Visers.
cabinet meeting revealed that he is
considering recommending amend
ments to the Sherman antitrust law.
so that the federal government can
better proceed in alleged plots to blow
up munitions factories and vessels.
He said at present it was difficult to
find laws covering the cases already
investigated.
Secretary Garrison informed the
president that he thought it advisable
to make public the recommendation
of the general staff of the army on
Strengthening the military branch of
the government. It was decided that
the army general staff report would
be made public, but not until Secre-
tary Garrison's report is given out
after the president delivers his mes
sage to congress.
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MOTOR co. TO MORGAN
White Auto Truck Concern Goes to
Entente Allies Agent.

Cleveland Nov. 16.-Control of the
White company of this city, one of the
largest manufacturers of automobiles
and motor trucks in the world, has
practically passed into the hands of
J. P. Morgan of New York, fiscal agent
for the entente allies, local bankers
admitted today. 1t was stated in bank
ing circles that the arrangements
might be concluded within a week. A
new corporation with $780, 900, 900
capital, it was said, would absorb the
White company.
Since the outbreak of the Euro
pean war sales of White trucks have
amounted 70 between $2O,00O,000 and
$25, 100000 gross, Oh which profits
have been between $7,000,000 and
$40, 100000 it was said
Early in the summer the White
company arranged for an increase in
capitalization sufficient to pay holdS
ers of the then $2,500,000 common
stock a melon consisting of 100 per
cent in preferred and 100 per cent of
common, or $2,500,000 of each class
of stock. In addition, 100000 of old
preferred stock was retired through
the issuance of new, bringing the to-
tai amount of stock outstanding up to
$8,000,000.
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BLOW TO BOOTLECGERS
Liquor Prosecutions to Follow U. S.
Supreme Court Decision.

Kansas City, Mo, Nov. 16.-The de-
cision of the United States supreme
court holding that a man shipping
liquor, without labelling it as such,
from one state to another, may be
prosecuted in either state, was a very
important one to the state of Kansas.
according to statement today by
Fred Robertson, United States attor-
ney for the district of Kansas.
As a result of it, Mr.. Robertson
will bring to trial at Fort Scott, at the
next term of the United States district
court, in May, Joseph Freeman and
Frank w. Potts, alleged to have ship
ped liquor from Joplin, Mo-, to Co
iumbus, Cherokee county, Kansas.
According to the district attorney
the liquor was shipped in trunks as or
binary baggage. When the govern
ment seized the trunks, however, the
district attorney said they were found
to contain whisky A demurrer was
sustained by the lower court on plea
that the men could not be prosecuted
in Kansas, as the alleged shipment did
not originate within that state
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POLITICAL GOSSIPS PICK
BRAND WHITL0CK To run
ON TICKET WITH WILSON

VaShinetOu- Nov. 16.-With
Minister to Belgium Brand Whit
lock now on his way home, fr1enhS
of President Wilson were earnest
Iy discussing today the possibility
of naming him as a running mate
for Wilson. They professed to see
in him an ''ideaI burden bearer
of the campaign.
The president has announced lie
will not campaign He has init
mated that the issue on what the
party will go before the people Is
DreDaredncSs. If Whitlock, direct
from the scene of the devastation
of a nation not prepared is conf
pIete supporter of the prepared
ness program, the presidents ad-
yiserS believe ne would be an ideal
man for the vice presidential NOM
inee. He would do the campaign
ing. they figure, and be "a great
asset.
Moreover Democratic leaders
believe the party would capture
the Progressive party voters II
Wilson has a running mate OF rad
icaIIy progressive views.
WhitIock. they say, is sucn Il
man. He has the further distinc-
tion of being a nationally known
fioure. through his energetic:
forccfuI and diplomatic handling OF
affairs in Belgium.
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WEDDING DIDN'T TAKE
Embryo Bride Saw Future Home and
Got Cold Feet.

Denver. Nov. ia marriage by
proxy, contracted last January by Miss
Eugenia Campbell, of Denver, and
John Peter Scholten, of Java, has
been allowed to remain unconfirmed
because, according to Miss Campbell,
she was not pleased with the tropical
setting of her prospective home in the
Dutch island.
Miss Campbell is back in Denver.
Scholten, an officer in the Dutch
army, met Miss Campbell in Cripple
Creek. Some weeks afterward he was
ordered suddenly to return to his post
in Java. A proxy wedding was ar
ranged. The bride part of the cere-
mony was performed in Denver by the
Rev. David H. Fouse with newspaper
man acting as the proxy bridegroom.
SchOlten participated in a similar cere-
mOny in Batavia. Shortly afterward
the bride sailed for Java, according to
Miss Campbell and when she found
she did not like Java she refused to
confirm the vows-a form required by
the Dutch government to make them
binding.
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BOND FOR GUERINGER
Court Names sum of $4,000 for Al
legged AssaiIant.

Kansas City, Mo-, Nov 16.-Vic
Gueringer was admitted 70 bond in the
sum of $4,000 by Judge Porterfield in
the second division of the criminal
court this morning. He has been SEN
fenced to serve seventy-five years in
the penitentiary as a result of an at
tack on Mrs. Gertrude Shidler.
Gueringer was in court when the
Judge announced the amount of the
bond. He said he believed he could
get SIS, 900 bond, but doubted his abil-
ity to raise $50, 900.
Guering has been in jail almost two
years. He was first sentenced to be
hanged. An appeal from the seventy
five year sentence now is pending in
the supreme court
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and take testimony concerning the
numerous complaints which have
come from inmates of the institution.
To Take Testimony.
Il wouldn't pretend to make
statement as to the complaints which
we have received from inmates of
the home, except that they have been
numerous and covered a multitude OF
conditions said Commander Meek,
following his interview with the gov
ernor. 1T is our intention to make a
thorough, fair and impartial investi-
cation. 1 cont know just how this
inquiry will be conducted. except that
it will cover every complaint. Consid-
erable testimony may be taken and
our finding will be covered in a spe-
cial report to the governor"
Given State Protection.
In his discussion of the complaints
today, Commander Meek asked Gov
ernor Capper for assurance that any
person who should be called upon to
testify would receive the protection
of the state. This assurance was CIV
en- in a written statement.
Recently inmates of the home have
stated that they feared to permit the
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JUST CRAWLING ALONG
Auto Racer Told Judge 10 Miles an
Hour Wasn't Speeding.

New York. Nov. 16.-'I was only
crawling along. Your Honor"
Thus Ralph Mulford the motor car
racing driver, described to Magistrate
Reynolds in the Flatbush court his
trip through Prospect park Saturday
Crawling, hey2" replied the magis-
trate. How fast were you crawl
3ng?"
Little moro than one hundred and
ten" replied milford.
"One hundred and ten what?" de-
manded Reynolds
"One hundred and ten miles an
hour" responded Mulford.
When Magistrate Reynolds recov-
cred his voice he adjourned the case
until Saturday
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BACK ABOVE NORMAL
The Warm Weather Is Playing a
Return Engagement.

Last night was warmer than several
preceding nights, the lowest tempera-
ture being 80 degrees. This Is one de-
gree above normal for this date. The
forecast calls for fair weather with
higher temperature tonight; increas-
ing cloudiness and colder Wednesday.
The wind this morning registered
six miles an hour from the west. The
highest temperature on this date was
rs degrees in 1895. The low record
was Is degrees in 1891.
The Kaw river, after rising for sew
eral days, has finally started to drop.
The stage this morning was feet, a
fall of g of a foot since Monday
morning.
The shippers forecast saws protect
SO hour shipments north and west
against temperatures of between 20
and 80 degrees. South an deast 80 de-
grees. The temperature today aver
aged degrees above normal. The
wind shifted to the southeast this af-
ternoon. The velocity was s miles an
hour.
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Commander Meek and Assist
ants to Dodge City Tonight.
CAPPER PROMISES PROTECTION
Old Soldiers May Testify With
out Fear of Punishment.
Oppression and FavOritism Are
Charged by Many Inmates.

Officers of the Kansas G.. A. r.
are to investigate conditions at the
state soldiers home at Fort Dodge.
That was the statement today by
Commander c. A. Meek, following d
conference with Governor Capper, at
which time charges from the state
house were discussed. The governor
promised protection for all veterans
and inmates of the home who testi-
fled at the hearing
Commander Meek will leave tonight
for Dodge City. He will be accom-
panied by T. NJ. James, senior vice
commander, and General Bradfield,
adjutant general of the Kansas G.. A
r. These men will inspect the home
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WAR NEWS BOILED DOWN
FOR THE RUSHED READEP

Field Marshal Earl Kitchener
is comforting with British officials
in the Near-EaSt regarding even
tualtieS, should an attack by the
Teutonic allies on Egypt develop.
Earl Kitchener was accom-
panied to MudroS, on the Aegean
sea, by the resident general of
Egypt" by which is probably
meant Major General Julian H. g.
Byng, commander of the British
forces in Egypt.
Definite guarantees regarding
her attitude are sought from
Greece by the entente powers be-
cause they purpose sending large
numbers of troops into the Bal
kans, establishing an entirely new
front, according to an Athens dis
patch forwarded from London
early today.
back in sections of their line in
southern Serbia under attacks by
the reinforced Bulgarians. The
French retirement was at two
points near GradiSce, only twelve
miles north of the Greek border.
On the Cerna river the French
beat off desperate attempts by
the Bulgarian forces to pierce the
French center, the troops of King
Ferdinand being checked along
the whole front in this fighting
zone.
The new Bulgarian movement
at Babuna pass threatens Periepe
and MOnastir, and the diplomatic
corps in Serbia is preparing to
proceed to Scutari instead of to
MOnaStir.
Premier Asquith informed the
British house of commons that he
still hoped and believed that a
resort to coercive measures in
recruiting Great Britain'S forces
VV0IIId nOf he
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KITCHENER IN THE EAST
British War Secretary May Be Pre-
pairing Egypt for War.

Milan, Nov. 16.-Earl Kitchener
British secretary of war, who has ar
rived at Mudros. is accompanied by
the resident general of Egypt, accord
ing to a Saloniki dispatch to the Cor
riere della Sera.
The resident general of Egypt re-
ferred to may be Major General Ju
liam H. G. Byng. who has been com
mander of the British forces in Egyp.
since 1912. It has been assumed that
during his trip to the east Lord
Kitchener would visit Egypt and pre-
pare its defenses to resist a possible
invasion by troops of Germany ana
her allies.
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VUTS UUEnfVEU
BOmbardment of GOrizia Wrecks
Religious Institutions.
TOmbs of Royal Dead Dis
turbed by Explosions.
SERB CAMPAIGN VACILLATES
Kalkandelen Reported Recap
tured by King Peters Army.
Bulgarians Attempt Turning
Movement Against Babuna.

Paris, Nov. 16.-The Serbians have
re-captured Kalkandelen, taking $50
prisoners and large quantities of mu-
nitions, according to the Athens cor
respondent of the Journal, telegraph
ing Sunday
The Bulgarians again have occupied
Tetevo, which already has changed
hands several times, according to re-
ports current at Saloniki, says the
correspondent of the Petit Journal,
who adds that no great significance
is attached to the possession of this
town since the forces engaged ON
either side are small.
The Bulgarians have been reported
to be attempting, a turning move
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WILSON A TYPIS7
President to Write Message
Himself on Typewriter.
Advisers Counsel Him at To-
days Cabinet Meeting.

Washington, Nov. 6.-President
Wilson plans to work all this week on
his message to congress, and expects
to have it finished before Thanksgiv-
ing day. He discussed some features
of it today with the cabinet National
defense will be the principal subject
treated. The message also is expected
to take up recommendation for rails
ing additional revenue.
Conservation measures, which
failed of passage at the last session of
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WENT THROUGH STRAIT
Steamer OIioan Forced to Detour by
Panama Canal Slides.

New York, Nov. 16.-The steamer
Ohioan arrived here today from Seat
tie, being the first of the Pacific fleet
to make the trip by way of the Straits
of Magellan owing to the closing of
the Panama canal by slides. This
Ohioan stopped at Panama but in
stead of sending her passengers anG
cargo across the isthmus as other YES
sells. have done, it was decided to con-
tinue the trip. The steamer made
the trip from Panama to New York in
81 days, without stopping her engines
until she picked up a pilot off the
Scotland lightShip.
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COLONEL BACK IN FOLD?
Illinois Progressives May Ask Him to
Get in G. o. p. Race.

New York. Nov. 16.-Rumors that
Illinois Progressives will ask Colonel
Roosevelt to enter the race for the
Republican presidential nomination
accompanied Medil1 Mccormack of
Chicago, vice chairman of the Pro-
gressive national committee. into town
today.
Mccormack went at once to Colonel
Roosevelt's home at Oyster Bay. 1t
was reported that he brought a re-
quest from Illinois supporters of
Roosevelt that they be allowed to put
his name before the Illinois state pri-
xuaries in April.
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and GoStlyar, which would bring them
out at Perlepe, south of the Passes.
Converts Destroyed
Vienna, Nov. 15.-The bombardment
of Gorilla, which began October 49,
has lasted ever since, continuing with
varying intensity. An official an
nouncement from the front describ-
ing it says:
"On several days more than 100
projectiles of all ca1ibres but espe-
cially heavy shells, fell on the town.
The bombardment usually begins
early in the morning, reaching its
climax between 8 and o'clock in the
afternoon, and relaxing towards eve
ming.
The convent of Monte Santo has
been burned and its church destroyed.
The Franciscan convent of Castag-
navizza with the burial vault of
Charles x, Henry V, and other mem
bers of the Bourbon family has been
hit by several shells which have dam
aged the roof as well as paintings in
the church and convent.
The convent of the Ursulines, in
the center of the town, has been half
demolished and the church of San
Antonio damaged by aerial bombs
Both railway stations have been
pierced by projectiles. Churches in
the suburbs of Podgora, Grafenberg,
Pedma, Santa Andres and Oelavij
have been destroyed The southern
portion of Gorilla has suffered more
heavily than other parts of the town.
The city frequently is bombarded by
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New York Mayor Under Knife.

New York, Nov 16.-John Purrcy
Mitchell, mayor of New York, under
went a successful operation for acute
appendicitis iE I local hospital last
night. The hospital authorities said
the mayor had passed through the
operation well and that his condition
was satisfactory. Mr.. Mitchell was
taken i'll yesterday, the symptoms ir-
creased in severity and he was re-
moved to the hospital where the op-
Grafton was performed, at once
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OBREGON TRAILS VILLA
Carranza General in Personal Conn
mand Against Rebel.

Nogaies, Nov. 16.-General Alva.ro
Obregon, in charge of the Carranza
campaign against Villa in Sonora, has
taken personal command of troops
preparing to attack Cananea, accord
ing to reports reaching here
Villa, it is said, has looted every
store in Cananea and Magdalena, TAX
ing everything of value.
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ASOUITH STILL BELIEVES
DONSCRIPTION UNNECESSARY

London, Nov. 16.-Premier As
quith is still hopeful that the vol
untary system of recruiting in the
the United Kingdom will succeed
The premier stated in the house
of commons this afternoon it was
his hope and belief that coercive
measures would not have to be re-
sorted to.
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TO MAKE INDIANA DRY
Omni-Partisan Temperance Conven-
ton Opens in indianapolis.

Indianapolis, Nov. 16.-An orani-
partisan state temperance convention,
the purpose of which, as stated in the
CALL is to start a movement to make
Indiana dry in 1917. was opened here
today. Dry leaders of national prom
inence are expected to address the
convention during it's two-day session
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Russian Pianiste ASKS Divore

Reno, New, Nov. 16.-Tina Lerner
Bachner, the Russian pianiste, has
filed suit for divorce in the district
court here, charging cruelty, failure
to provide and desertion- They were
married in New York, March 27, 1899.
The defendant. Louis ]. Bachner, is
in Berlin.
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Bordeaux, Nov 16.-The French
liner Rochambeau arrived here today
with Captain Julian still undecided
concerning the cause of the fire which
broke out in the vessels hold off Hal
flax.
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KILL MILITARY SHOW
English Censor Won't Allow Sllaw's
Play, "O'FTaherty, v. c."

suppressed the new Bernard Shaw
play "O'Flaherty. V. c." announced
for production "a the Abbey theater
in Dublin. The play is a skit on re-
cruiting.
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ConVents Destroyed.

ment against Babuna pass to Tetovo
and Gostiyar, which would bring them
out at Perlepe, south of the Passes