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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16
HAIL men IN ROW
Insurance Companies Hatch
Out State House Trouble.
Wide Difference of Opinion
Over Payment of Losses.

One Of the warmest insurance rows
in Kansas in some months is being
Matched by the mutual hail insurance
companies doing business in the big
wheat producing counties. They have
carried their troubles to the office of
Carey Wilson, state superintendent of
insurance. Now they have sought
solace and comfort in the rulings of
S. NJ. Brewster, attorney general.
Trouble started in the ranks of the
mutual hail insurance companies re-
Gently when the Mcpherson Mutual
paid losses in the field. Several COM
panies made a ruling in the case. But
the matter didn't seem to stop there.
This morning petition was filed by
representatives of the Grain Growers
and Sterling companies asking that
the field payment plan be stopped.
Rulings of state departments have
been against payment of mutual losses
in the field. 1t is claimed that by
this system some of the policyholders
collect 100 per cent on their losses.
losses are compelled to accept a COM
promise since there is not always suf-
ficient money available to pay out.
Now a ruling has gone out to the
effect that losses should not be paid
by the mutual companies before Au-
gust l.. At that time losses can be
apportioned and a proper assessment
levied against all stockholders in the
company. Whether this ruling will
stop the practice, however, is yet an
other thing Already there is a lively
fight among the companies and those
which have not paid losses in the field
claim they have suffered a loss of
business through the operations of
competing com pa MES
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16
IN 4 NIGHT SCHOOL
City Commissioner Porter Plans
Course for Employees.
One Mean Man Suggests a Col
lege for Policemen.

A night school for city employees
Is a plan under consideration by w.
l.. Porter. city commissioner of parks:
Il have been thinking about it for
some time. The plan is followed in
some cities and I believe it might be
well for Topeka" said Porter.
ANYWAY there is going to be some
studying done in the sanitary depart
ment. I have outlined a course of
reading for the sanitary policemen. 1
have selected a list of books on city
sanitation and have ordered their pur-
chase and they are to be read by the
sanitary officers and then 1 shall ask
them questions to see whether they
have digested what they have read
This course of reading is not alone
for the sanitary policemen. 1 have
read part of the books myself and
shall read the others. If we decide
upon a night school, there will be five
in the class-myself, j. A. Ramsey,
sanitary sergeant and three sanitary
policemen"
Porter ordered Ramsey to purchase
the books today and also to notify the
sanitary policemen to busy themselves
studying the books.
Il think a night school for police
men would be a good thing" spoke
up A. c. Bartel, assistant city attor-
ney. "Some of the lawyers of the
city might lecture before the police
men, explaining the laws and the
duties and authority of policemen.
am willing to give my services to the
police department in explaining what
policemen need to know
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16
THE woRLD's MARKET PLACE

Some idea of the vast upheaval in
the shipping world and of the new
trade routes being marked out to and
from this country. may be gathered
from the movement of vessels in our
harbors says THE Bache Review
The shipping news OF New York har-
Dor reads like a tale of good old days
before the Civil war. when the United
States merchant marine rode the seas
of the whole world and brought car
goes here from the fartheSt regions. A
cruise around the harbor brings one
in contact with flags of many nations
and ships and crews from nearly all
the shipping countries. One day this
week. according to the Herald ship
news, shipping in New York reached
the highest mark in years and the rec
ords showed that 29S steamships and
la sailing vessels of MANY types were
at anchor in the harbor. They repre-
scented an enormous tonnage and were
registered under 4 score of different
flags. including the Japanese, whose
merchant fleets are doing transatlan-
tic service to meet the enormous de-
mand- In forty-eight hours this week
fifty vessels cleared for ports in all
parts of the world and seventy ght
vessels arrived from western and far
eastern ports. In one day thirty-seven
vessels passed Quarantine empty to
take on cargoes from Now York So
high are the freight rates that it is
profitable to come here in ballast and
carry a cargo only one way Because
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16
TAKES A SHOT AT HIM
officer Lyle Adopts Strenuous Means
to Halt a Fugitive.

Following a chase that terminated
only when Charles Lytle, assistant
marshal of the court of Topeka, took
a shot at the fugitive, Sam Williams,
colored, was arrested this morning by
George Frost, marshal of the court of
Topeka, and Lytle on a charge of lar
ceny from dwelling filed in the
court of Topeka.
The complaint charges the man
with stealing SIS in money and valu-
ables from the house of Anna Will
Hams his stepmother, 1857 Lincoln,
street. When the arrest was attempt -
ed Williams made a dash to escape.
Although the shot did not take effect
he evidently decided that a temper
airy bunk in the county jail was bet
ter than continuing as a target for
the assistant marshal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16
RUSH FOOD TO MEXICO
Red Cross Acts, Armed With Villa
Guarantee of NOn-Interference.

Washington, June 16.-Armed with
General Villas written guarantee
against interference, the Red Cross
was preparing today to rush carloads
of food into Mexico.
Judge Douglass, General Carranza' s
Washington attorney, was leaving for
Vera Cruz. 1t was believed he would
advise Carranza to accept a peace
plan. The latter's approval of Villa
suggestion of Manuel Togle pro-
visional president was thought doubt
full
Nevertheless. officials here were
hopeful the situation would work it
self out without the necessity for eth
er peaceful or armed American inter
yentiOn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16
OTHER SIDE. OF 1T.
John s. Dean Says Kansas EX-
hibit at Frisco Is o. X.
Building Credit to State, De-
clares Former e. S. Attorney.

John S. Dean, former United States
district attorney, and a member of the
law firm of Ferry, Doran & Dean, who
returned today from a trip to the Pa
ciflc coast, stated this afternoon that
the Kansas agricultural exhibit at the
Panama-Pacific exposition is as good
or better than any other similar eX-
hibit on the grounds, and that the
Kansas building while not SO large as
some of the others is we'll located, at
tractive, and a credit to the state.
THE Kansas building is in good
taste and does the state credit" said
Mr.. Dean. II found the building to be
provided with plenty of chairs and
sofas, smoking rooms for men and rest
rooms for women.
Superior to Others.
THE exhibition as a whole is far SUI
perior to either the Chicago or st.
Louis fairs. That is true from the
standpoint of the number, size and
architectural design of the buildings,
as well as from the standpoint of dis
plays. The streets are well paved.
There are no dirt streets or sidewalks
to walk over as was the case at Chi
cago and ST. Louis. The fair is COM
pact and the exhibits easy of access.
THE statements made that San
Francisco restaurant and hotel men
are holding up visitors are misrepre-
sensations. The accommodations are
cheaper than when I was in the city
five years ago. One can get meals at
cheaper rates than those that main
tanned at Chicago and ST.. Louis in fair
times. The hotel accommodations at
Los Angeles are cheaper and better
than L have seen anywhere"
Mr.. Dean spent four days in and
around Los Angeles, four days at
Frisco, and severed days at Salt Lake
City. He has a son, a son-in-law and
L.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16
TO MEET IN CHICAGO.
Kansas and Missouri p. q. C.'s to Talk
Over Gas.

Joseph L. Bristow, chairman of the
public utilities commission, today an
nounced a conference of the Kansas
and Missouri commissions in Chicago
July s to discuss the gas Situation.
Members of both state commissions
will meet in Chicago next month to
attend the passenger rate case before
the interstate commerce commission.
1t was announced earlier in the
week that the two state commissions
would meet soon to discuss the gas
rate question. A meeting was set for
this week, but was cancelled Com
miSsionerS Foley and Kinkle, however.
declined to discuss the meeting until
the return of the chairman who was
at his home in Salina. When he re-
turned to Topeka today, Chairman
Bristow said the meeting would be
held July G.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16
COURT HEARS OF THE WAR.

At trial in a Brooklyn municipal
court in which a young woman was
suing a tourist agency for failure to
deposit her in Germany last August.
notes the New Republic, the defense
plead the European war as justitica-
ton. War; said the attorney for
the plaintiff. ''This court knows moth
ing about this alleged war" The
judge had heard Of the war unoffi-
cialiy, but ruled that it would have
TO be established if it were to be
dragged into the case. After some
delay the defendant obtained from
Washington several volumes of diplo-
matte correspondence so convincing
that even the counsel for the plaintiff
had to admit that there was some
thing in the rumor. Apologies for our
legal system, adds the Republic, say
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16
vAPoRINGs OF ONE SMITH.

Some Boston party by the name of
Smith, wholly disinterested in the
liquor traffic but sufficiently interested
in the subject to deliver an address
before the annual convention of the
National Wholesale Liquor Dealers
association, projects the thought that
the dry wave" which is making such
excellent progress in this country as
well as all over the world, is a sign
of social decadence. Evidently Mr..
Smith has never travelled through
Kansas and noted the vigor and SUBJ
stance of her people. And he prob
ably doesn't read the newspapers and
thereby is unacquainted with the pro-
nouncement of the British statesmen
that liquor is the greatest foe their
nation now has to fight; and also
knows nothing about the REGENERATION
of the Russian peasants that has been
brought about by the prohibition of
vodka drinking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16
WHEAT IS DAMAGED.
Worst Hail and Wind for Years Hits
Rush and PaWnee.

Great Bend, Kan, June 16.-The
heaviest hailstorms that western Kan
sas has experienced in years prevailed
last night in Rush and Pawnee coun-
ties. Thousands of acres of growing
wheat was levelled.
The hail was driven by a terrific
wind. Two strips of territory, twenty
miles long and eight miles wide, bore
the brunt of the storm. The first
struck the Ash valley district of Paw
nee county, one of the richest wheat
sections of Kansas. 1t centered about
Larned, extending to Pawnee Rock,
eight miles, and from the Seamon dis
trict north of Larned twelve miles, to
the neighborhood of Ray. nine miles
south southwest. Practically all wheat
in this district was damaged. In Rush
county the hail covered a district
around Lacrosse. From the Pawnee
county line to a point eighteen miles
north the storm prevailed.
In the district near Liebentha1, Rush
county, growing crops were damaged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16
FOR GOLF TITLE.
A. FassIer of Topeka Loses in First
Flight at Wichita.

Wichita, Kan, June 16.-F. King
Ter of Wichita is the favorite on this,
the second days play in the Kansas
Golf tournament, for the state cham
pionship. The first flight in the cham
pionship round brought some hard
matches.
w. R. Pitts of Wichita put DR..
Sterrett of Hutchinson out of the run
ming this morning when he sank a
four foot put on the eighteenth hole.
o. BarteldeS of Lawrence, defeated j
Petro of Hutchinson, 1 up. T. b
Griffith of Wichita was down on the
first round, to A. Fassler of Topeka.
but made a strong finish winning 2
up.
The play is very slow owing to the
large number of players who are par
ticipating. The tournament may run
into Saturday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16
A NEW BRYAN PARTY, MAYBE.

Mr.. Bryan has another difficult
problem ahead of him. Suppose he
jumps into political arena with
both feet as an avowed aspirant for
the presidential honors which, fortu-
nately, have been denied him so often.
And suppose he might think it neces-
sary to organize party of his own,
when he begins to sense the fact that
his control of the Democratic party
is slipping, or when he has this fact
brought home to him at the next
Democratic national convention. How
is he going to bring about a coalition
between his German-American and
Prohibition friends?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16
FIRST $50 GOLD PIECE.
Initial Fair Coin With Labor's Head
Fetches 500.

San Francisco, Cal, June 16.-The
first fifty dollar gold piece ever
authorized by congress was struck by
the San Francisco mint today and
purchased by President Charles c.
Moore of the Panama-Pacific eXposi-
ton for 500
The new coin commentaries the
exposition. On it's diverse side is
stamped the head of laborer and
on the reverse two dolphins, emble-
matte of the meeting of two oceans
through the Panama canal.
Twenty-Five thousand so-calIed Tex
position coins ranging down to half
dollars will be struck and offered for
sale at double theiE value.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16

the war has changed the lines of traf-
fic, says the Herald, many of the YES
sells waiting here are going on long
and circuitous journeys with strange
cargoes. The Japanese steamships
and the tramp freight carriers which
have come out of the tropics and the
east bring with them an exotic hint
of other worlds. One may see on the
bridge and in the forecastle of these
vessels, japanese, Malay or Indians in
turbans and flowing lowered trousers.
These Oriental crews are inveterate
users of opium and bring battered
long-stemmed pipes for smoking
opium and hasheesh. Often they are
surprised by the coast guards, who
seize quantities of gum opium and yen
shee. Nearly all of the vessels that
must undergo repairs and the result
is a congestion never before equaled
in the dry docks Pier facilities are
at a premium. Masters anxious to
avoid the delay of waiting for a berth
are being loaded with cargoes brought
by lighters in the upper bay. In one
day a British ship cleared for Arch
angel, Russia; and the biggest bark
in the Standard Oil fleet laden with
case oil sailed for Shanghai, China,
by the Panama canal. Another Brit
ish bark went out with general car
go for Melbourne, Australia, and four
British ships are loading for Australia
and New South Wales. This country
is now virtually the worlds only eX-
tensive market and its export business
is being measured by the capacity of
all the worlds vessels to carry it's prod
ucts. The sad thing is that it is the
war that has brought this about and
not our own enterprise on the ocean,
which for fifty years has been shut
out from a merchant marine by stu
pid navigation laws.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16
"INsPIREDv GERMAN PAPERs.

Another fallacy of the war has been
punctured. 1t has been insisted upon
that whenever the German newspa-
pers have delivered themselves of
comment on any matter of impor-
lance, their utterances have been in
spired by the powers that be in the
FatherIand. But what of their being
INSPIRED" when they take opposite
sides, as is the case in their comment
and proposals relative to our position
concerning the Lusitania affair and as
it is presented in the second note of
President Wilson? Or maybe they re-
fleet a division of opinion in the
premises in Germanys high official
circles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16
BUSINESS IN ARGENTINA.

Argentina, at any rate, doesn't APP
pear TO be one of the South American
countries that has been Frustrated by
the European war and the failure of
the bankers, and business men of the
United States give it credit and other
financial assistance without stint. Ac-
corGing to some statistics in the Re-
view OF River Plata, the liabilities of
commercial failures in Argentina dur
ing April amounted to only $4,S71,0 27,
as contrasted with SS,52S,851 in March
of this year and S10,4SS,2S7 in April,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16
PRIZES ARE OFFERED.
Extra Inducements for Bringing Com
mercial Club Membership.

1t will be we'll worth while for some
of those who will participate in a
Commercial club collection campaign
Thursday afternoon. Several MEM
berS of the ways and means commit
tee, at meeting held this noon, Of
fered to give prizes to the team that
brings in the most money, providing
that a given number of memberships
are represented.
Members of the committee, together
with all who will volunteer for work,
will take luncheon at the club quar-
tiers Thursday noon and will start out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16

A Good Roads Day was celebrated
again in Missouri this year, and in re-
Spouse to proclamation from Cover
nor Major. thousands and thousands
of patriotic Missourians volunteered
for the work. But a good road that
is b1ilt in a day, is likely to be bad
one on the morrow if the right kind
OF a rainstorm hits it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16

in quest of renewals and new mem
bers Immediately afterwards The
men will work in groups.
Harry c. Snyder will give a suit of
clothes to the committee bringing in
the largest amount of cash provided
that q total of at least 100 renewals or
new members is procured in the cam
paign by all the workers. Under the
same conditions S. L. Courtney will
give. a $40 hat. E. L. Overton will
give an electric stand lamp to the
most successful group of workers pro-
viding that so memberships-rene
or otherWiSe-are procured. Overton
is chairman of the committee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16

And the joke seems to be on
Gabrielle D'Annunzio, the Italian poet
of passion and other things. His was
one of the 1oudest and most insistent
voices in Italy that his nation join in
the war, and his nation has recipro-
Gated by politely but firmly inviting
him to take his place in the trenches.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16
FRISCO FAIR DEBATE.
Charles Mitchell and j. S. Dean tC
Take Sides on Kansas Exhibit.

Charles Mitchell and ]. S. Dean
will engage in public debate sunday
morning beginning at $50 o'clock on
the front steps of the Lake View club
house on the question, Resolved,
that the Kansas building at the
Panama-Pacific exposition is a dis
grace to the state.'' The affirmative
will be taken by Mitchell.
The debate was arranged by Morton
Albaugh, clerk of the United States
district court. Frank P. MacLennan
will act as referee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16

Probably the extreme British MILL
tarists are thinking it's a pity that any
of EnSlands horses. regardless of
their blue bloodedness. should be de-
voted to the horse-racing game when
they might be used to advantage for
pulling cannon or supplies in the west
erH arena of the war
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16
COUNT ZEPPELIN IS ILL
Air Wizard Confined to Bed at Stuff
gard With Bronchitis.

London, June 16.-The Exchange
Telegraph company has received a
dispatch from its Amsterdam CORE
spondent, who says a message has
been received in Amsterdam from
Berlin, giving the information that
Count Zeppelin is sick with bronchitis
and confined to his bed at Stuttgart
The count has not been able to keep
an appointment to visit imperial
headquarters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16

Germanys western army is close
enough to Paris so that its big guns
can land shells in a town only As
miles distant from the French capital.
But there seems to be a feeling of
security among the Parisians that the
forces of the Kaiser Will never again
be permitted TO threaten their city
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16
BANKS TAXED
Assessment on Gross Capital to Pay
Boards Expenses.

Washington, June 16.-The federal
reserve board today announced an
assessment of lilo of one per cent on
the gross capital of each federal re-
serve bank to defray the estimated
general expenses of the board for the
six months ending December 81
The assessment amounts to s10S,-
447, half to be paid on July l, the re-
mainder September 1.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16

that judicial progress, though slow, is
sure May we therefore hope that the
decision in the Brooklyn municipal
court will serve as :. precedent and put
the war upon q sound legal footing :?
Unless, of course, it should be re-
VerSed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16

Even the large successes that the
Germans have achieved in the eastern
arena of the war are likely to be of
little strategic Importance on the
eventual outcome of the war. Driving
the Russian forces out of Galicia and
Poland is far from bringing the Rus
sian hear RI his knees
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16

Iowa has won the grand prize at the
Pana ma-PG cific exposition for the
state agricultural exhibit. Possibly al
some worlds fair some day, Kansas
will take the trouble to present an ag-
ricuitural exhibit that will be COM
mensurate with her agricultural ac-
GOmpliShmentS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16

Speaking of the gratuitous, how
about the proposed suggestions of Mr..
Bryan for the ending of the Great
War? And they will probably be re-
ceivcd by the European belligerents
with outlaws of merry laughter. Or
they may take them seriously to the
extent of rebuking Mr.. Bryan for his
imHudencp
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal away
from home during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day to any
address at the rate of ten cents a week or
thirty cents n month (by mail only. Adj
dress changed often as desired. While
out Of town the State journal will be to
you like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on these
short time subscriptions, to save boOkkeep-
ing expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16

Evidence is also accommodating to
prove that when a nation strives dill
gently to maintain 2 neutral position
in respect 10 war between other ma
lions, nothing that it may do, or fail
TO do. is entirely satisfa Glory to any OF
the belEgerentS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16
MEXICAN LEADER DEAD
General IdlefonsO Vasqucz Succumbs
to Wounds Received in Battle.

Laredo, June 16.-General Idle
fonso Vasquez, formerly Carranza
commander at Nuevo Laredo, oppo-
site here died Tuesday near Monterey
of wounds received in the battle Sat-
urday last, at Icamole, according to 4
telegram from Monterey received to-
day in Neuvo Laredo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16
MEDAL FOR SEA HORROR
German Submarine C-21 Sent Lusi-
tania to Bottom.

London. June 1.-THE German
submarine U-21 sank the Lusitania,
according to the Elsinore, Denmark,
correspondent of the Evening Star
1T has been learned here that the
decoration of the order of Pour LIE
Merite. recently vested upon Lieuten-
ant Hersing, commander of the U-21,
by the kaiser, was in recognition of
the torpedoing of the Lusitania," said
the stars correspondent.