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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-29

and violation of the principles of our
government. 1t is not the peoples
rule. To be sure, the convention syS-
tenn was sometimes violated, but if 1T
were given the same consideration as
the primary, the best results would be
secured. Under your primary 1t is the
rule of money through excessive and
often vicious publicity that becomes
deception upon the people.
Dodge Big Issue.
Neither the Republicans nor the
Democrats will declare for national
prohibition or national suffrage in
1916, Taft believes.
Il cannot see how they will become
issues next year, although much has
been said concerning prohibition in
the last few years. In 1912 the Pro-
gressives declared for national prohi-
bition, but I do not expect to see
either policy in either the Republican
or Democratic platforms next year
Might any condition arise which
would induce the reporter started.
But Taft was a mind reader.
mo, now, can't do that said Taft:
Il really cannot, must not and Will
not discuss candidates.
In that Taft included both the gem
era1 field of Republican possibilities
and himself.
Il think there is a strong chance for
Republican success next year." he
said. I'm Washington and Oregon
conditions have been badly crippled
because of the tariff. The business
increase in manufacturing centerS is
fever-it is not permanent. 1t is
condition based on the war and tenn
porary. Because of conditions, the
tariff must naturally be a big issue in
1916 and on that the argument is all
with the Republicans. The first year
under the Democratic program dem
onstrated that"
Rather Favors Loan.
Taft was asked concerning the bill
lion dollar loan.
ct am not a banker and I don't
know the details of it, was the reply.
"But there is no reason why a neu-
trail nation cannot loan money to a ma
ton at war. 1t all depends on the Sc
curity. 1t might be said in behalf of
the loan, which is really the establish
ment of a credit, that it will mean the
our country. For a nation, as an in
dividual, buys where it has credit
An uncompromising stand by the
Republicans will determine the future
of the Republican party in the nation,
Taft declares.
"a compromise with any party on
issues for the mere winning of an cleo
ton. is party suicide Taft urged.
why, if our party is to merit con-
fidence, it must show courage and eX-
press its convictions. A mere single
election is nothing. If we are to re-
main in control, though, we must
preach sound doctrine"
Little About Candidacy.
Would Taft take hand in the fight
next year?
Il don't know just what 1 will do,
although [ will most likely make
testim onial of faith and conviction"
That was as near as Taft would permit
a remark as to his plans or his own
possible candidacy.
With his daughter, Miss Helen Taft,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-29
Health and Happiness Depend Upon
Your Liver.

That sluggish liver with its sluggish
flow of bile is what makes the world look
so dark at times. DR.. Kings New Life
Pills go straight to the root of the diff
Guilty by waking up the action of the liver
and increasing the bile. DIR. Kings New
Life Pills cause the bowels to act more
freely and drive away those moody
DAVIS" 25c a bottle-Ady
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-29
KANSAS Q. B. IN CONFERENCE.
Annual Meeting Opens Today in Law.
ence for Five Days Session.

Lawrence, Kan, Sept. 29.-Several
hundred persons from throughout
Kansas are here to attend the annual
conference of the United Brethren
church, which began today.
Bishop c. J. Kephart, of Kansas
City, presided at the conference,
which is a joint meeting of the four
conferences into which Kansas for
merly was divided.
Que IONS relating to the home and
foreign mission fields and other
branches of the church's activity will
be discussed during the session, which
will continue until next Monday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-29

city, is now one on whom they can
call when all other help fails.
When the Kansas WOman'S Press
association was organized in 1890 Mrs.
z. B. Aldrich was ma de president and
Mrs. NJ. L. Rupe treasurer and these
two of all the number of them are
the only ones left Ito tell the tale
Mrs. Aldrich new being an 'all around
hand in the Record office every day
and also in her seVentv-first year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-29
HIGH SCHOOL BOYS IN KHAKI.
Forty Students Enter Protest Against
Snobbery in Schools.

Pittsburg. Kan, Sept. 29.-Wearing
khaki trousers and blue flannel shirts
forty boys of the Pittsburg high school
took their places in class room Tues
day. The plan is a silent protest
against snobbery and as one boy put
it, t"They are mighty comfortable and
don't cost much. We concluded it was
a lot more sensible than to try to keep
pace with the wDuldbe swell dressers"
1t is understood the faculty had en-
couraged the movement. The attitude
of the girls in the school has not been
learned.
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ICo--'rued from Page One.l
But in the national issues, on the tar
if, and especially on the Philippine
policy, the former president takes is
sue with the man in the White House.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-29
SHE is OLDEST WOMAN PRINTER.
Mrs. Nj. L. Rupe Works in Clyde Of
flee at Age of II.

Cawker, Kan, Sept. 29.-The
Clyde Republican refers to Mrs NJ L.
Rupe, II years of age, formerly edit
or and an adept in every part of the
mechanical work of the Herald of that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10
Verdict of the Lower Court Is
Upheld at st. Paul.
CONVICTED OF LAND FRAUD
In Connection With Sugar Beet
Scheme in New Mexico.
Their Indictment Was Sus-
tanned on Nine Counts.

An opinion of Judge Garland of the
United States court of appeals at St.
Paul, handed down today affirms the
decision of the United States district
court in the Noun Day land case. The
defendants are ordered to surrender
themselves to the district court in
thirty days from the date of the fill
ing of the mandate.
Don A. MounDay was found guilty
of using the United States mails to
in January, 1914, and was sentenced
to three years in the penitentiary,
and fined $1,000 On each count.
Both fine and sentence was to run
concurrently.
L. D. w. MounDay in the district
court was fined $500 and costs of the
case amounting to $4,000, with a Jail
sentence in default of payment.
The case was taken to the court of
appeals by the defendants. Trouble
for the MounDays began j. the federal
courts in July, 1913, when the two de-
PENDANTS were arrested following an
indictment by grand jury at Leaven-
worth on 10 counts. At the trial in
Kansas City one of the counts was
quashed by the court
Soon after the arrest Don a. Noun
Day sued Fred Robertson, United
States district attorney, who gathered
evidence in the case and caused his
arrest, for $4,000 damages.
This case was dismissed when Rob-
ertson appeared and announced him
self ready for trial.
The MounDays were charged with
using the mails to defraud in the sale
of alleged irrigated lands in the upper
Pecos valley in New Mexico.
They claimed to have purchased the
land from a United States senator.
The only chance left for the Noun
Days is in the United States supreme
court.
MounDay is in southwest Louis
lana. His wife. L D. w. McunDay, is
in Topeka.
The Kansas City trial was held Tn
January, 1914 at Kansas City Fred
and his two assistants, F.
NJ. Brady and L. S. Harvey, prose-
cuted the MounDays through the en-
tire battle for the go.Vernmont.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10
NEGRO KISSES her
st. Louis White Girl Complains
on PiOuS Barber.
Black, Fined, Barely Saved
From Fashionable Lynching.

st. Louis. Mo, July 10.-For kissing
and hugging a white girl. Grant Ed
ward, a negro minister and barber,
was fined 500 here yesterday and
sentenced to serve six months in Jail.
Although the nature of the charge
against Edwards was kept secret and
the trial conducted in private, resi-
dents of Ferguson, a fashionable sub
urb, where the affair occurred, last
night learned the details and threat
ened to lynch the negro. A marshal
stood watch at Edwards's home, how
over, until the crowd dispersed.
At the trial the plaintiff, Miss
Genevieve Boyce, a nineteen-year-o -old
stenogra pher testified that Edwards.
the only barber in the suburb, clipped
her hair, after recent attack of scar
let fever.
Last Wednesday when she went to
his shop for scalp treatment, she testi-
fled the negro hugged and kissed her.
Edwards was found guilty on a charge
of common assault
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the association will be i'll Topeka in
the future, department officials say
keep the encanpment here from now
on. Manhattan, Hutchinson and
Kansas City want the encampment.
! A. ]. Reno of Leavenworth, retir-
/ ing department commander, said to-
day that he was in favor of such a
plan. Il believe that a motion to that
effect will carry" he said, land 1 be-
lieve it is the logical thing to do"
| 1t is also reported that Major w. l..
Brown of Kingman, the new depart
ment commander, is backing the prop
osition.
officers Appointed.
At the session this afternoon, Major
Brown announced the appointment of
the following officers: Chief of staff,
S. E. Brick of Salina; adjutant,
Charles c. Church of Leavenworth;
quartermaster, R. j. Miller of Hutch
inson; historian, Captain E. P. Green;
patriotic instructor, Captain Ezra
Beard, Wichita.
Installation Today.
The installation of the officers took
place this afternoon. Those elected
Friday afternoon and installed today
included Major W. L. Brown, King
man, department commander; c. P.
White. Leavenworth, senior vice com
mander; r. F. Tasker, Topeka, Junior
vice commander; William H. Bishop,
Salina. udge-advocate; H. L. Robin
son, Topeka, inspector; Rev. G. w.
Marlin, Topeka, chaplain; C. S. Davis.
Kansas City. marshal.
At late hour today it was believed
that Kansas City will get next years
reunion, but that will not affect To-
peka as permanent encampment.
There were only two candidates
for department commander-Major
Brown and S. E. Brick of Salina. C.
P. White of Leavenworth withdrew
from the race. Major Browns cleo
ton was declared unanimous upon a
motion by Brick. The latter was i'm
mediately appointed chief of staff by
his successful opponent.
Senator Huffman of Columbus, who
was a surgeon in the Twentieth Kan
sas. was elected department surgeon.
This morning the veterans assem-
bled at the state house and large
photograph was taken. Then they
marched in a body to a local motion
picture theater where a special mill
tary program was presented
This evening the warriors will wind
up their encampment here with an
initiatory service at the Odd Fellows
hall for the Military Order of the
Serpent. There will be 80 candidates
who are doomed to run the gauntlet
of that organization tonight Follow
ing the festivities, a smoker will be
given and at late hour this evening
the reunion will be over and the men
who served in the Spanish, Filipino
and Boxer wars will leave for their
homes in various parts of the state.
ParadeS Tonight
The Spanish war veterans want it
distinctly understood that there will
be two parades. The first will be at
o. m and the second at S:45 o'clock
The second will be the "SnaIx," and it
will be a fantastic pageant. Several
live serpents were loaned for the oc-
casion from the Gage Park zoo.
Last night a dozen eggs were found
at the encampment. laid by the lady
snakes for the benefit of their friends.
the members Of the Military Order of
the Serpent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10
DUTCH WITH u. S.
Rely on Wilson to Establish
Rights of Neutrality.
Holland, Apprehensive, Has
Army of $4,000 Ready.

New York, July 10.-Holland is re-
lying on the United States firmly to
establish the rights of neutrality in
war, according to the Rev. Tertius Van
Dyke, who for six months acted as
secretary to his father, DR.. Henry Van
Dyke, American minister to Hol-
land and Luxembourg. In his first
public address since his return from
Holland, delivered here last night, the
Rev. Mr.. Van Dyke said that the
Dutch government is in accord with
President Wilson's policy as outlined
in the American note to Germany.
Holland is still apprehensive," he
said. ''She is ready for any eventual
ity. Her army, modified at full war
strength. is, 1 believe, a factor to be
reckcned with 1 do not think that
$4,000 is too high an estimate of the
number of men the kingdom can
mobilize.
THE Dutch adopted neutrality of
their own accord and are ready to de-
fend it. I think they would fight no
matter who violated their neutrality
Dutch shipping is suffering from two
causes: German submarines sink
their ships and British patrols delay
Them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10
MRS, MACLENNAN DEAD

Mrs. Adelia NJ. MacLennan, age 81.
widow of Kenneth MacLennan, died
suddenly at 10 o'clock this morning
at Cascade, Colo. Her home has been
at 416 West Tenth street, Topeka, for
many years. Mrs. MacLennan was
taken to Cascade in June by her son,
Frank P MacLennan, editor of the
State Journal, where she intended
spending the summer with another
son. E. c. MacLennan. These two
sons survive her.
Mrs. MacLennan was born March
10, 1928, and came to Kansas from
Springfield, Ohio, in 1870, settling in
Lyon county.
Frank P. MacLennan and family left
Topeka only a week ago for Cedar
Vile, Mich, in Les Cheneaux islands,
to spend the summer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10
zEPPELINS To RAID ROME;
POPE SECRETES TREASURES

Rome, July 10, (via Parisl -
German Zeppelin dirigible bal
looms, according to reports received
in Rome. have been transported 10
the Austrian coast of the Adrtatic
sea. Their object, il is said, is to
fly across the Adriatic to Italy, past
the Apennines and to reach Rome
The Italian government has notl-
fled the Vatican and the Pope has
ordered that the lights of the Apos-
toIic palace be d1mmed or extin-
oIIished at an early hour. The Pope
also has given instructions for the
removal of art treasures from
places exposed to damage by pos
sibIe bombs.
Necessary preparations have been
made by the Rome authorities TO
repeI the airships- Special signal
ling posts have been established on
the tops of mountains and also on
the height of Monte Mario, behind
the Vatican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10

Fe Judgment fer damages resulting
from an accide4.
Lynn kiefner of Wichita owns an
automobile. One day his mother went
for ride in his car. Mrs. Kiefner
wanted to stop at the home of a
friend and her son turned his machine
into side street. In making the turn,
the car collided with a buggy and
Mrs. Josie Anthony was killed and
three children who were with her in
the buggy were injured.
Suit for damages was filed against
Mrs. Kiefner, wealthy Wichita wom-
an. The son was also sued. The
court held that the son should pay
any judgment for damages, but that
no cause of action could be lodged
against the mother, since she was
not operating the car and did not
own the machine.
1t is not good form or in keeping
for lawyer from another state to in
vite the trial judge and jury to visit
his home and have a good time while
the lawyer is engaged in the argument
of the case. Such action, however,
does not constitute reversible error,
according to the decision today of the
Kansas supreme court.
Up in Riley county, a suit result
Continued on Page Pr
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STRIKE OF $1,000 union
CARPENTERS is SETTLED

ChlcaSo, July 1O.-The strike of
io'OOO union carpenters which for
TWO months practically has par
alyzed the building industry in
chicago, Is over. The carpenters
were ordered to return to work at
once.
Inc agreement reached provides
that the men shall receive 20 cents
an nour and that they accept what
Is called a uniform agreement, -
which will prevent strikes and
locl<outs. The agreement is for
three years, dating from Nav 81.
1t provides for a closed shoD and
also stipulates that there shall he
no restriction regarding the source
of building material--I,h hether it is
manufactured here or eIsewhere
The settlement was regarded bv
both sides as a compromise. The
carpenters had demanded a sI;do
ing scale of 40 cents for the first
year, 121a cents for the second
and as cents for the third. The
men, previous to the strike. had
been paid 65 cents an hour.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10
WRECKED SHIP FOUND
Russian Steamer at New York Re-
ports Having Seen Plunger Victim.

New York, July 1O.-Officers and
passengers on the Russian steamship
Car that arrived here today from
Archangel, said they had sighted in
the White sea, on June 27, when with
in a day's run of Archangel, a wrecked
steamship floating bottom up in the
sea, surrounded by mass of wreck
age and cargo.
The Gar steamed around the wreck
several times searching for survivors,
but none was found. The identity Of
the ship was not determined, the
name on her stern having been partly
a abIiterated with only the letters
UMLO and beneath the letters ONDO,
showing. The latter were thought to
have been part of the name Of the
sailing port, London.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10
GERMANY DOES
NOT YIELD ONE
JOT OR TITLE
-MORGEN POST
Berlin Newspaper in Praise of
Kaiser's Inflexibility.
Says Reply Shows "CaIm of a
Good Conscience"
AGAIN IS ON ENGLAND
Declares Britain Makes PIunger
Slaughter Necessary.
Holds Wilson Must Meet "New
Feeling" in America.
Says Reply Shows "CaIm of a
Good Conscience"
BLAME AGAIN IS ON ENGLAND
Declares Britain Makes PIunger
Slaughter Necessary.
Holds Wilson Must Meet "New
Feeling" in America.

Berlin. July 1o.-(Via London. y
Commenting on the German reply of
July s to the American note dated
June 9, relative to Germany's subma-
rine warfare and it's effect on Arneri-
can interests, the Morgenpost today
says:
The answer in every way is worthy
of Germany 1t shows the calm of a
good conscience, a willingness to less
en- the fearfulness of war as faI as
possible, and an upright wish to live
in peace with America. But il also
expresses a firm will not to abate one
jot or little of Germanys rights The
answer clearly shows that the respon-
Slbllity of the form of submarine war
fare rests on Great Britain"
The Morgen Post quotes the Ameri-
can note where it declares that the
government of the United States can
not admit that the proclamation of a
war zone from which neutral shfps
have been warned to keep away may
be made to operate as an abbrevia-
ton of the rights either of American
ship masters or American citizens
bound on lawful errands. and says:
This was a point on which Ameri-
can and German conceptions were
opposed to each other. and it must be
pointed out that this difference of
opinion also is not compromised by the
new German note, but that rather It
still exists in its essential features"
The Morgen Post also says:
Feeling in the United States is
of the Lusitania sinking, and Presi-
dent Wilson will have to satisfy this
new feeling in considering and ans
werins the present note That the
at the hands of &1arge part of Amer
leans is certain"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10
Growth of 36 Per Cent for the
Entire State.
ADDITION OF 100 Per Gent
Reported From 21 of the 79
Counties Heard From.
Shawnee County Built S5 New
Ones i'm Past Year.

Based on reports from 70 counties
filed with ]. c. Mohler, secretary of
the state board of agriculture, the
state has 300 silos. or an increase of
1923 in one year. This showing means
an increase of SO per cent in one year
and an increase of thousands of tons
storage capacity for silage from the
Kansas farms.
In the opinion of farm experts the
big increase in silo building is one of
the strongest indications of farm ad-
vancement. Twenty-one of the 79
counties which have filed reports.
show an increase of 100 per cent in
the number of silos built last year.
The 1914 report showed four counties
without a silo. Two of these counties
have filed reports this year. Both are
in the silo column.
The greatest increase in the mum Der
of new silos was in Sumner county,
which reports an increase from 143 in
1914 to PA on March 1, this year.
Kingman county reported 106 silos
built last year, while Rocks county
reports an increase of 100; Shawnee,
S5; and Reno, rs. Reports are based
on conditions March 1.
Report by Counties.
eI,o
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10
SUMMER HAS ARRIVED
For First Time Since June 12 Temper
ature Is Above Normal.


Following the warmest night of the
season the temperature today has av-
eraged above normal for the first time
since June IL, which period is a rec
ord for this season of the year for sue
cessive days with temperature below
normal
The minimum temperature early
this morning was 73 degrees. The
temperature at $3.50 O'Clock was 70
degrees, but the ordinary persons
judged it was at least 80 because of
the humidity. The normal minimum
temperature for this date is 81 de-
grees
There have been light scattered
showers in Kansas in the last "a hours,
the heaviest rainfall reported at Con-
cordia-.50 of an inch. The western
portion of the state was clear at
o'clock this morning. There was
trace of rain at Topeka between 7:1O
and S:05 o'clock this morning. The
clouds were dark and threatening in
appearance for a few minutes.
The forecast calls for generally fair
weather in Kansas Sunday with a
slight drop in temperature tonight.
The wind was six miles an hour
from the southeast this afternoon.
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Washington, July 1O.-Al-
though the official text of Ger
many's note of submarine war
fare had not reached here early
today, the press copy which was
read by officials was accepted as
verification of earlier impress
sions that Germany had refused
to give the United States the as
surance asked for in the Ameri-
can note of June 9.
Everywhere in official quart
ers the unsatisfactory character
of the reply was discussed along
with the probable action the
United States would be COM
PEELED to take as a result of Ger
many's unwillingness to concede
to Americans the right to travel
on the high seas on peaceful
merchantmen of any nationality.
Wait on Wilson
Comment in official quarters TODAY
was sparing as to the course that
would be pursued, the general feeling
being that nothing should be said until
the president has spoken. On the
other hand those in official quarters
familiar with diplomatic precederts
and the progressive development of
the American attitude believed that
having stated its position and asked
for assurances which now have been
refused, the only course left open for
the United States seemed to be an
announcement that it intended to as
sert its rights as established under the
rules of international law. This would
mean in effect that the United States
would await reply by Germany be-
tore taking action to compel respect
for the rights asserted.
1t was pointed out that the Ameri-
can government and Germany mad
practically reached a deadlock on the
law IN the case, evidently neither side
being willing to recede from its posi-
ton The situation was now thought
to resolve itself entirely into qucs-
tlon of policy which depends on Pres
1dent Wilson. Opinions varied as %
the presidents probable course, but it
was believed likely that he would
again wait the crystallization of pub
lie sentiment of the country and en-
deaVor in his next move to interpret
the wishes of the American people
To Sever Relations
There was a revival of talk concern
ing the severance of diplomatic rela-
tions, it being recalled in official cir
cles that in the now famous cabi-
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