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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-10
Berlin Tageblatt Says Political
Experience Called Halt.
Germania Discerns Change to a
Friendlier Policy.
"U. S. IN UNENVIABLE ROLE"
to "Have No Success
Following England"
Mittag Zeitung Thinks Com
mOner Wanted Sharper Note.

Berlin, June 10.-In discussing the
resignation of Mr.. Bryan as secretary
of state, the Tageb1att, while not i'm
putting to him pro-German sympathies
and declaring that at times he even
has seemed less friendly than Presi-
dent Wilson. assumes that his political
experience "recoiled from sharp ac-
tion.'
Germania, a Catholic organ, thinks
Mr.. Bryan'S retirement means an i'm
portant change in the American pol
icy, which proba bly, will be favorable
to Germany's interests.
the M1ttag Zeitung assumes that
Mr.. Bryan wanted a sharper note
against Germany than President Will
son was willing to sanction, but it does
not expect friendly attitude toward
Germany from rhe president. The
paper concludes:
1T must be growing clear to some
of the leading men in America that
in following in England's wake.
America will certainly have no sue
cess with us by adopting England's s
stalwart tone"
Difference of Opinion.
Cologne, June 10.-The Koelnishne
Zeitung, discussing Mr.. Bryan's resig-
nation, says:
TT would be natural to connect the
event with the diplomatic interchange
of views proceeding between the
United States and Germany regard
ing the sinking of the Lusitania. But
1t were we'll, first, to await express
confirmation of this from Washing
ton.
''It can be assumed that the cause
of the resignation must lie substan-
TALLY in differences of opinion be-
tween President Wilson and Mr.
Bryan, perhaps in the domain of for
eign politics. 1t must not be for
gotten, however, that Mr.. Bryan plays
an important role in the domestic pol
itiCs of America.
THE wishes of German-Americans
will be fulfilled if henceforth America
shows true neutrality and forbids the
export of munitions; they would then
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-10
Prison TWine Plant Is Operated
ON Borrowed Money.
Pays Nearly Double Price for
Raw Material.
ALL DUE To LEGISLATURE
Failed to Make Appropriation
at Proper Time.
Still Output Is Sold Below the
Trust Price.

Nearly three million pounds of
twine is being shipped to the Kansas
wheat belt this week from the state
penitentiary at Lansing The product
this year is being sold to dealers at
$I.75 a hundred pounds, or $1.25 be-
low the price charged for socalled
trust" twine. AS a result of this cut
by the state, wheat producers of Kan
sas will save $37,500.
The Kansas penitentiary output fails
far short of meeting the demand. In
fact it is probable that the three mil
lion pounds of manufactured twine
shipped to Kansas dealers will equal
not more than per cent of the total
required to bind the S,596,300 acres
of wheat soon to be harvested. Yet a
saving of $27,50O on per cent of the
total twine used by the wheat pro-
ducers, would mean a saving of $780,
600 on the sixty million pounds of
twine necessary to handle the crop. To
produce this saving, however, would
require extensive enlargement of the
state plant
At present the state is able to manu-
facture about four million to five mill
TContjDuad nm Pace Two
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-10
SHE R0BS HIS HENS
That Is the Charge Made
Against His Wife
In the Petition of Henry Cau-
der for Divorce.

That disloyalty which permits wife
to steal the eggs from beneath hgr
husbands hens and to convert them to
the use and benefit of an affinity for
whom she openly avowS a preference,
is grounds for divorce, is the con-
tention of Henry Cauder of North To-
peka who, after six months, says he
is no longer willing to be husband to
Marry Poppleton Cauder nor step
father to her children. Cauder says
that prior to their marriage last De-
cember his wife did not bear the best
of regulations and that he was in
weighed into matrimony by persons
who had designs on his property.
In his petition Cauder alleges that
he has been a farmer and requested
the defendant to make garden and
raise chickens or to assist him in the
matter, but she refused and went to
the neighbor'S, Bert Rice'S, and
there made garden for the said John
Rice and set his hens and stole the
eggs from under the plaintiffs hens
and removed thief to the said Bert
Rice's hens for the use and benefit of
the said Rice
Cauder says his bride refuses to let
him go home to visit his parents and
that so recently as yesterday, she pro-
duced a butcher knife and made a
serious endeavor to carve him into
unrecOgniza bility
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-10
Germany's Latest Note on Frye
Makes Sweeping Claims.
Send EN- Down First, InveStl-
gate Afterwards!
INSISTS ON A PRIZE COURT
Turns Down Two Points Urged
by Washington.
Berlin Takes Refuge Behind
extreme Military Case"

Washington, June 1O.-Ger-
many's latest note to the United
States on the sinking of the
American sailing ship, William
P. Frye by the Prinz Eitel Fried
rich, received today, makes the
far-reaching claim of a right to
destroy and American vessel
carrying contraband, w h e
agreeing to pay damages for the
act.
Two points made by the Unit
ed States are rejected by Ger
many. One was the statement
of the American government in
its note of April %, that prize
court proceedings meant unnec-
essary delay, all matters con-
cerned being susceptible of
prompt settlement through dip
lomatic channels. The other
was that the destruction of the
Frye was "unquestionably vio-
lation of the obligations imposed
upon the imperial government
under existing treaty SClpula-
tions between the United States
and Prussia"
Right to Ship Contraband.
Under the Prussian- American treaty
of 1928, the binding force of which
was admitted by Germany in its note
of April 5, the right of citizens of
eitsses- ceuntfy=sse. ssi4s3 arms AID ann
munitions, as well all other kinds
of contraband, in their own vessels,
was granted in time of war, but each
party had the right to detain such
contraband and make payment for it,
if confiscate ted
The note from Germany today en-
larges on the treaty of 1928, by claim
ing that while the treaty did not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-10
IT is INCRATITUDE
TOpekan Run Over by Auto and
Then Slugged.
Trying to Look at Joy Rider
Number When Hit.

Fred Prout, son of Thomas E.
Prout, secretary of the Railroad Y.
NJ. c. A. today complained to Sheriff
l.. L. Kiene that he was last night
run down by ioy-riders who were driv-
ing automobiles in a reckless manner
on East Fifteenth street, and that he
afterwarG was slugged while endeav-
ing to ascertain the number on the
automobile. Prout stated that a bug
gy he was driving was wrecked by the
collision with the auto.
According to the young mans
statement he was driving toward his
home at Twentieth and Hancock
streets outside the city limits on East
Fifteenth street when he saw a party
of joy-riders bearing down upon him.
He yelled at them but without effect
and their car smashed his rig. He
said ne was trying to see what the
auto tag number was when he was
hit over the head and rendered un-
conscious. When he regained con-
sciousness the joy-riders were gone.
This afternoon the county authorities
are making an investigation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-10
BIG RAINS FELL.
The Precipitation Was General Over
Northeast Kansas.

Heavy rain was general in north
east Kansas early this morning, and
the Republican, Smoky Hill, and Blue
rivers are reported to be close to
bank full stage and still rising. A
rise of several feet in the Kaw at To-
peka may be expected in the next
forty eight hours, but no alarm need
be felt. The stage of the river here
today was 3 feet, rise Of a fraction
of a foot since Wednesday.
The rainfall at Blue Rapids was 2.34
inches. Clay Center got SO of an
inch, Hanover reports 1.94. There
were a few scattered showers in other
portions of the state.
Rain began falling at Topeka at
$3.50 O'Clock this morning and by
8:15, when the sky began to show
signs of clearing. had netted LIS
inches The hardest rain came be-
tween four and five o'clock. There
was a Iull in the storm between five
and six.
The forecast calls for partly cloudy
weather tonight and Friday with a
drop in temperature tonight in west
ern Kansas.
The temperature today was the
highest since May 25-S7 degrees at
2 O'Clock. The wind was 15 miles an
hour from the south this afternoon.
The hourly readings:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-10
WAR ODDITIES.

London-Sir H. II. Raphael,
member of parliament, the only
millionaire serving in the ranks OF
the British army, has been pro-
NOTED from private to corporal.
penhagen-Advices from Aus
tria say art treasures valued at
nearly S5,00O,000 have been moved
from the museum at Vienna and
Budapest to safer places.
London-Practical all British
medical students are serving in the
Royal Army Medical corps and
every community is short of regis
tered doctors.
London--The infant son of a
British soldier was christened
George Kitchener Jellicoe."
Cardiff-Cardiff street railway
workers passed a resolution against
the employment of women conduc-
tors, four of whom the company
allow to replace their husbands
who went to war.
London-Rumors say the war
will mean a reconciliation between
France and the Duke of Orleans
Bourbon King of France-who is
in exile
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-10
CITY IS FLOODED
Arlington Heights and Fort
Worth Are Cut OFF.
aa--1g~-
Many Houses From Poor Quar-.
ters Swept Down Streets.

Fort Worth. June 10.-Fort Worth
is facing the most serious flood situa-
ton in its history today. The levee
broke in two places last night, flood
ing the city in two directions. Airing
ton Heights and North Fort Worth
are cut off, many street cars being
marOOned.
Houses are sweeping down stream
this morning, most of them being
small negro shacks in the lowlands.
The only means of communication
between the main part of the city and
the packing houses is over railroad
bridges.
The baseball park is under four feet
of water.
The big power plant at the dam,
which furnishes power for cities 100
miles in two directions, is out of COM
mission and it will be necessary to get
electric power from Waco.
Water is pouring through two big
breaks in the levees.
However, the river has begun to
fall some.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-10
SHOOT IN FRONT
Woman DeniZen of Tennessee
Town Delivers Dissertation.
Never Fire on a Husband From
the Rear, She Says.
HAD EXPERIENCE and KNOWS
She Always Shoots Them Com
ing and Not Going.
Her Method Saves Much
Trouble in the Courts.
HAD EXPERIENCE and KNOWS

When you shoot a husband, shoot
him IN front instead of from the rear
elevation, is the dictum of Mrs. Win
ME Manson, colored, of Lincoln street
in Tennesseetown. Mrs. Manson
shoots all of hers that way, she says,
and recommends it to other wives.
Her friend, Mrs. Carrie Bra dshaw,
who was put to the inconvenience of
a court trial before being acquitted
of causing the death of her own
spouse, made her mistake by shooting
him in the back and it cost her lot
for attorneys fees and new clothes
to wear to court.
Mrs. Manson aired her views on JUS
tifiable homicide during a trip to the
office of w. E. Atchison, county at
tOrney, where she dropped in to leave
a forecast of an execution she pur-
poses committing in her own family If
her brother doesn't leave her alone.
County Attorney w. E. Atchison is
keeping a weather eye out for trouble
bulletins from Lincoln street in Ten
nesseetown, in the vicinity of Mrs.
Winnie Manson, where a high pres :
sure area is said to exist. Mrs. Man
son brought in word of the prospect
i've trouble herself, and when Mrs.
Manson predicts trouble it generally
comes true. say the local officers of
the law.
The expected trouble was scheduled
to take place between Mrs. Manson
and her brother. In her account to
Atchison she reported about as fol-
lows:
''I got a rock an 1 says: Eff you
all don't gwan away fun here I'll
smash dishere rock often yore old
bald head, you blankety-blank, old,
blankety-blank.'
''An' 1 jess come in here, Misto
Atchison, to tell you that I'm goin' to
get a gun an use it on him the next
time he comes foolin' Ground. An
you know dat my word is good when
it comes to dat sort of business. 1
done shot my husban' for pesticatin'
but I shot him easy so ne got well
afterward. 1 tole Carrie Bradshaw,
when she was up for shooting her old
man, that where she made her mis-
take was shootin' him in the back. You
ought to shoot 'em in the front side
every time"
Mrs. Manson did not go home with
out a serious admonition from Atchi-
son who has learned to take her Seri
ously. How deep an impression he
made was doubtful for, as she with
drew, Mrs. Manson declared:
'It amt no use a talkin', Misto
Atchison. If dat niger don't behave,
I'll take my gun an kill him. An
then I'll come right straight down
here an give myself up, an I'll go to
Lansing Cthe state penitentiary) like a
Woman! That's what I'll doi''
And" confesses Atchison, I'm
afraid she is perfectly capable of car
rying out her plan"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-10
COMM BACK TO KANSAS.

They're a-comin' back to Kansas,
They're a-crossin' on the bridge;
You can see their mover wagons
On the top of every ridge.
On the highways and the turnpikes
You can hear their wagons hum,
For they're comm back to Kansas,
And they're comm the run.
Who's a-comin back to Kansas?
Why. the migratory crowd
Who left the state some months ago
With curses long and loud:
And they swore by the Eternal
That they never would return
To this Kansas land internal
Where the hot winds blast and burn
Where the rivers run in riot
When they want it to be dry
Where the sun so fiercely scorches
When they want a cloudy sky.
So they loaded up the children
And they whistled for the dogs;
Tied COW behind the wagon
To the butcher sold the hogs:
Hitched the ponies to the schooner,
Turned her prov toward the East,
Left this beastly state of Kansas
For a land of fat and feast.
Did they find it? Naw-they didn't;
Though they roamed the country DER,
From the lakes up in the Northland
To the far-off ocean shore:
And they found that other sections
Had their tales of woe to sing:
So they're humpin' now for Kansas
At the breakin forth of spring.
HARMON d. WILSON.
Topeka
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-10
Americas Eyes Are Turned
AnxiOusIy Toward Berlin.
Note Expected To Be Delivered
to Gerard Today.
GREAT HOPE FOR CANCELLATION
President Wilson Pins Faith to
Kaiser Wilhelm.
Answer To Be Delayed by Bern
StOrff's Peace Envoy.

Washington, June 1o.-America's 8
eyes were anxiously turned toward
Berlin today
The note which forced Secretary
Bryan from President Wilson's cabi-
net was expected to be delivered
there this afternoon. On it's receipt by
the German government and the posi-
ton the kaiser and his advisers
adopt hinges peace or war for the
United States.
Officials here say that even defiance
would not mean actual hostilities, but
there is not single individual in
touch with the inside of the situation
but believes diplomatic relations can
be broken off calmly. Amba ssador
Gerard's recall, under existing condi-
tions, it is agreed, would have to be
followed by steps to maintain this
countrys position That these steps
call for action by Germany is general
ly admitted.
Hope for Cancellation.
The president and his advisers were
hopeful the German government
would be conciliatory. While the note
asks assurances that Germany will
abide by the recognized principles of
international law in the future con-
duct of its submarine warfare, the
president believes the kaiser will be
willing to give such assurances
1t was not expected that tho Ger
man reply would reach this country
for another ten days. Ambe ssador
Bernstorff's communication to his
government, now being carried Berlin
ward by Meyer Gerhard, cannot get
there until the latter part of this week.
Count in Important Role.
Count Won Bernstorff has impressed
upon the German government that the
suggestions he has made are of the
most extreme importance. Because
of this fact the president will not ask
Ambassador Gerard 30 hurry the re-
ply. He will be instructed to deliver
the note and then to keep in touch
with the German government until
the reply is completed.
AS heretofore, Ambassador Gerard
is expected to keep the president we'll
informed of the trend of official opin-
ion. 1t is certain that the reply to the
latest note will be passed on by the
cabinet council, but it is hoped by Of
ficials here that the kaiser personally
will shape the communication.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-10
AMERICANS
QuAKING
IN BERLIN
As Early as June 1 Apprehen-
sion Gripped All.
Embassy Makes Ready to Flee
in Special Train.
GERARD SAID To BE WORRIED
Yankees Tell Carl Alderman
Life Is Unpleasant.
TeutOns Reused Over Report u.
s. Is i'm Pact With Allies.
As Early as June 1 Apprehen-
sion Gripped All.
Makes Ready to Flee
i'm Special Train.
GERARD SAID To BE WORRIED
Yankees Tell Carl Alderman
Life Is Unpleasant.
TeutOns Reused Over Report u.
s. Is i'm Pact With Allies.
BY CARL ACKERMAN.

BY CARL ACKERMAN.
COPYRIGHT 1915 BY THE UNITED
COPYRIGHTED IN GREAT BRI-
TAIN.
Berlin, June by Courier to Dem
mark, Thence via The Hague and
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES here are gener-
ally apprehensive, anticipating a di-
plomatic break between Germany and
the United States. Rumors have been
spreading for several days that all
should be ready to leave on "a hours
notice.
An American dentist here says Con-
sui General Lay informed him it was
unadvisable to make future dates for
patients. The embassy passport staff
is overworked. Practically all pass
ports so far issued have been vised on
request of the holders by Danish.
Swedish, Dutch and Swiss consulates
so any route may be taken in an
emergency.
Gerard Assured of Escape.
L learned that when Ambassador
Gerard asked Foreign Secretary Won
Jagow for formal assurance in the
event that relations be severed that
the entire embassy staff, all Ameri-
can doctors, Red Cross nurses, Polish
relief commissioners, correspondents
and their families be permitted to
leave on a Specldl efnD DaSSy train, tnlS
assurance was smilingly given.
Although government officials con-
tinue optimistic of an adjustment,
Americans say they are finding life
more unpleasant in Berlin each day
especially since the foreign publica-
ton of a widely quoted article from
the Fatherland, of New York, claim
.ag that the United States has a. secret
treaty with the allies. / have heard
many Americans declare their hope
that the president thinks of the en-
bassy's humanitarian work among
the prisoners of war; also of the Bel
gian relief work, before breaking re-
lations.
Agreement Reached.
/ learned from several sources that
it is possible an agreement has al
ready unofficially been considered
W hereby the United States might ac-
complish it's purpose without Ger
many giving up her submarine war
fare at the same time safeguarding
the lives of noncombatantso on the high
seas.
One suggestion is that unarmed
merchantmen, not carrying NUM-
tons, be given a special flag similar
to that of the Belgian relief commits
c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-10
SOME THINGS U. S.
COULD DO TO GERMANY

Impound and seize seventy-two
German and Austrian ships now in
American harbors, valued at $780,
100000.
Confiscate American securities
held by Germans in Germany,
valued at between S50,000,000 and
500, 100000.
Buy and digest huge portion of
the war debt of the allies and lend
credit to the nations of the allies.
Utilize its first class cruisers as
conveys to merchant vessels and to
transports conveying troops of the
allies.
Furnish more ammunition to the
allies by utilizing plants now used
for other purposes.
Furnish vast quantities of food
and clothing and other war ma
terial for the allies.
Send 100000 trained men to
the front in eight months and
100000 in a year, if needed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-10
WILSON SHOWS U. S. NOTE
To BRYAN, IN final FORM

Washington, June 1O.-It be-
came known today that just be-
fore the United States note was
forwarded to Berlin, it was shown
to former Secretary Bryan by Act
ing Secretary Lansing, at the per-
Sonal direction of President Will
son. Some slight changes had
been made and the president want
ed Mr.. Bryan to see it in its final
form.
Pending the publication of the
note tomorrow morning officials
would not discuss its details, but it
was declared that it was no more
in the nature of an ultimatum than
was the last one. 1t makes it very
plain that the United States ex-
poets Germany shall cease attacks
or American ships and citizens.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-10
De WET ON TRIAL
Admits SeditiOn, but COmbats
Charge of Treason.
Long Indictment Covers Many
RebeIliOuS Acts.

London, June 10.-Genera1 Chris
tian de Wet, one of the leaders of the
South African rebellion against Great
Britain, pleaded not guilty to a charge
of high trea son but guilty of a charge
of sedition. at the opening of his trial
at B1oemfontein, says a dispatch to
the Reuter- Telegram company. The
indictment against him is a long one,
covering alleged rebellious acts and
seditious utterances.
General de Wet was captured De-
cember 1, 1914, on farm at Water
burg, British Bechuanaland, whittier
he had been pursued by a motorcar
BRIGADE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-10
BRYAN TO FIRE SECOND
BARREL AT GERMAN NOTE

Washington, June 1O.-FOrmer
Secretary Bryan is preparing an
other statement of his attitude on
the situation between the United
States and Germany. He intends
to issue it for publication with the
appearance of the text Of the
Ameican note tomorrow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-10
GASOLINE AT 8.S CENTS
Standard Oil Announces Reduction
Throughout United States.

Kansas City, June 10.-The Stand
ard Oil company today announced a
gasoline. The price is S.S cents a
gallon.
The reduction is effective through
out the United States.
Last June gasoline sold for IL
cents gallon. Since then the COM
pany has made several reductions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-10
CARA IS THROWN OUT
Vil.a-Zapata Ruler at Mexico City Is
DepOsed.

Washington, June 10.-Roque Con
zales Cara, head of the Villa-Zapata.
government in Mexico City, was de-
posed June 9 by the convention in
session there. Lagos Charo, Villa
delegate from Chihuahua, was elevat-
ed to the provisional presidency. State
department dispatches today told of
the change.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-10
100000 TROOPS
Asquith Gives Figures on Num-
ber of Sanctioned Men.
Premier Puts to Sleep Rumors
of Secret Mobilization.

London, June 1O.-The total num-
Der of men for the army and the navy
sanctioned by parliament for service
''FhiS number will not be exceeded
without authority of parliament" said
Premier Asquith today, thus setting at
rest rumors that other forces had
been modified without public knowl-
edge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-10
GREECE'S KING WORSE
Official Bulletin Says Condition Is
LESS satisfactory"

Athens. June 10.-king Constan-
tine has suffered another slight re-
lapse. An official bulletin issued this
morning said the kings condition lis
less satisfactory
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-10
PLUNGER GETS ANOTHER
British Steamer Erna Boldt Torpedoed
Off HarWich.

London. June 10.-The British
steamer Erna Boldt has been torpe-
doed and sunk off Harwich by a Ger
man submarine. The members of the
crew were saved.