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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
LONG SUIT ENDS COLLINS CLIMBING
Chicago Star Is Second A. L..
Hitter Now.
Cobb Keeps Detroit i'm Lead i'm
Club Batting.

Chicago, ILL.,. July 24.-Eddie Col
Inns, Chicago. has climbed into second
place among the American League
batters with an average of .33s but Ty
Cobb is far in front of all with per-
centage of -40S for the season, accord
ing to averages published here today.
including records OF wednesday. The
three leading batters are: Cobb, De-
troit. -4OS; E. Collins, Chicago .33S;
Veach. Detroit. 1913.
Detroit leads in club batting with
-212. and Chicago is second. with .265.
Cobb still reigns as leading base steal
er, with 90 and as run setter with So
Crawford leads in total bases with
40. while with -Our home runs,
apiece seven players. Ruth. Boston;
Fourier, Chicago; Kavanaugh. De-
troit; Oldring, Philadelphia; and
Boone, Caldwell ana Peckinpaugh.
New York. are tied for honors in
round trip hits
Pitchers who have attained the
highest average are: Wood Boston,
SIS; Foster, Boston 1888; Faber. Chi
cago. 727 John Daubert. the Brook
lyn slugger, continues at the head of
the batters in the National League
with a percentage of -337; Larry
Doyle, OF New York, Is next with -325-
while Merkle, New York. has 1928 Vic
Safer is the leading run getter with
"a He also holds the honors for to-
tai bases. with 1874 and is leading the
league with stolen bases having % 10
MS ASoie- CEdNdln- EElIauelpnla- mas
the honor of being the best home run
clouter with 1 to his credit
Chicago leads in club batting with
256, while New York and St Louis
are second and third with 255 and
253.
Pierce. Chicago. is the leading
pitcher with a record of nine wins and
one defeat.
Magee, Brooklyn, leads the Federal
Leagu batters with 1852
Evans, Baltimore. leads as a run
getter. with So. while Konetchy. Pitts
burg. has the greatest number of total
bases, 15S. and is also tied with Flack
OF Chicago for home run honors with
eight apiece. Kauff. Brooklyn. con-
tinues at the head of the base steaIers
with % Brooklyn. with 274 leads in
club batting with Pittsburg second
with 263. The leading pitcher is Nc
Connel, Chicago, who won Is and
lost 6.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
COPS AFTER Them
Police Ordered to Arrest Driv-
erS of Unlicensed Cars.
Crusade to Compel Immediate
Purchase of Tags.

Under directions from Curtis Myers
in charge of the automobile depart
ment in the secretary of states office
police departments were today urged
to pick up all motorcycles which did
not carry a new state license tag.
The crusade to compel the imme-
diate purchase of license tags by au-
tomobiIe and motorcycle owners is be-
ing waged in every section of the
state. In Topeka, Kansas City, Wich-
tia and the larger towns of the state,
the police departments have been
urged to take immediate action when
they find a car without a new tag.
Automobile owners are to be stopped
and taken to the police station and
motorcycles are to be held by the po
lice until new tags are purchased.
Although applications for new tags
should have been made July I, there
have been but few demands for mo-
torcycle licenses. Automobile license
applications today reached total of
45,500. According to Myers, between
$4,000 and 10000 motor license own
ers have not as yet paid their license
fees.
Our chief trouble right now is with
the motorcycle owners said Myers.
To-day 1 instructed the police to pick
up all motorcycles which do not carry
new tags These machines will be
taken to the station and held for ac-
ton by the owners. Thirty days
grace ought TO be sufficient for the
average owner of cycle or car"
Today Myers received but I5 appli-
cations for new tags in Shawnee
county.
Il dare say there are several hun
have not as yet paid their license fee
said Myers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
RAMSEY IS ANGRY
City Sanitary Sergeant Is After
''the Mysterious Stranger"
Declares Conditions in Topeka
Have Been Misrepresented.

Charges of deliberate misrepre-
sentation" are to be filed with the
state board of administration against
Professor Floyd Lee. the mysterious
stranger who has been visiting vari-
Gus cities in the state in search of con-
ditions which are as they should not
be. J. \. Ramsey, city sanitary ser
geant of Topeka, said today he would
tile charges with the state board.
I'VE have evidence that Lee was not
satisfied to represent conditions as he
found them, but doctored up the
scenes preparatory to taking the pic
lures which have been published" he
said.
Lee is at present employed as an
Instructor in the summer school at
Washburn college. He has been Civ
en- a position in the Hays City State
Normal by the state board of admin
istration and it is against the states
giving him employment as an educa-
tor that Ramsey will protest.
Topeka's sanitary sergeant was an
angry man today He received a let
ter reading as follows:
Some interesting facts were
brought to my notice today relative to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
D. & M. BALL TO FRONT

Tho following B. B. leagues have
adopted the official D. & NJ ball as
their official pail for 1915:
Topeka City league, Topeka
intermediate Church league, Tope-
ka
Senior Church league, Topeka.
jefferson County Sunday School
league.
Santa Fe Apprentice league, A. T
& s z. System
Shawnee County Baseball league.
This is the ball which is adopted
its merit No freebaIls COR adop-
ton. much less does this company or
its agents pay airy club in tne world
anything for adoption or use So if
you want the best demand the D. &
NJ. ball and rest assured you are get
ting the king bee in base ball.
For sale with full line of d. & NJ.
athletic goods at the H 3. Howard
new store at 716 Kansas avenue, To-
peka, Kan
Write for catalogue and prices to
clubs if your dealer does not carry
the D. & NJ. Hne--Adv-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24

the pictures printed by The Mysteri-
GUS Stranger.
"One Of the pictures was of my
laundreSS'S back yard and was taken
when she was not at home and right
after the yard had been flooded by
the creek. leaving it piled with debris
and presenting a bad appearance She
always kept a neat yard, flowers, etc
but the stranger took this oppor-
tunity to show it off.
And to make it as bad as possible
he took the straw hat belonging to
one of the little boys playing there,
tore the crown and put if down around
the boys neck.
IF you want to corroborate this.
see Mrs. Pearl Warrington. 42S Law
renee street I love 20 see fair play
and this is my only reason for writing
this
W. L. Porter. city commissioner of
parks, and Ramsey, went to the ad-
dress named which was the scene of
the picture.
They found Mrs. Warrington, a COL
ored woman who makes her living
over a washtub. The woman was
much Inundated by having her little
home 'bawled OUT in the newspapers
and told the city officials of her at
temptS to keep things neat and at
tractive. But frequent floods of
Shunganunga creek had rendered her
work useless Water had been waist
deep in that part of her yard just a
week before the pictures were taken.
And just a week before the high wa
ter came her husband. who had been
names of persons who she said had
seen the stranger tear the boys hat
and pull it down over his head and
then take a picture.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
LIVING ON The STATE
Some Inmates of the Dodge City Home
Have No Right There.

Several complaints have been re-
ceived at the office of the board of
managers for the state soldiers home
at Fort Dodge. that certain persons at
une home are living there without au-
thority. 1t is asserted that some rela-
tiVeS and friends of the old soldiers
nave visited at the home and then have
taken up permanent quarters under
various excuses. 1t is said also that
there are in the home some soldiers
who have no legal right to live at
the expense of the state.
These complaints are being inVeSti-
gated and it is proba BILE that deci-
sion regarding them will be reached
at the next meeting of the board to
be held here early in August.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
TOpekaaS Awarded Judgment
in Judge WhitcOmb's Court.
History of the Case Dates Back
to 1865.

Another chapter was added TO the
legal fight of the Misses Georgian1
Sawyer and Electa Sawyer. two To-
peka women to retain possession OF
property in this city, when judgment
in favor of the defendants was handed
down in a statement of facts and de-
cision by Judge Whitcomb III the
Shawnee county district court IN the
suit OF Charles Page. OF Kansas CITY,
against the two Topeka women and
Emma and Lemuel Sawyer.
Judge Whitcomb's decision bars
ing any claims on the prop
erty and holds that there was
no fraud in the defendants pro-
ceedings to clear and quiet title on the
property in 1904. The property af-
fected by the litigation is located par
TALLY on jefferson street. partially on
Twiss avenue and the rest on North
Central avenue. The property on
Jefferson street is leased by the Pier
son Transmitter company. The Saw
yer sisters live in the Veale block be-
tween Sixth and Seventh streets on
Quincy.
Dates Back to 1865
The statement of facts handed
down by he court recites story
which dates back TO 1865 when George
B. Sawyer died in Richmond, InGIana.
leaving widow and four children,
the defendants in the Page suit Maria
sawyer. the widow, married a man
named John Irving in Indiana in 1857
and was given guardianship Of the
four children. Irving had one daugh-
ter, Matilda. who was married 10
Joseph Pollock in 1867 ana was d.
Torced later and married Joseph Page
Her child. Charles A. Page, plaintiff
in the present suit, was then five years
old and was placed in an orphans
home in Cincinnati. The Irvings came
to Kansas in 1859 and purchased $50
acres of land in Chase county which
they sold to E. Hicks. of Topeka, i'll
1889 and purchased property in To-
peka. Irving and his wife were d.
vorced in 1890. Both are now dead.
The four heirs were left considerable
property in Topeka. including that af-
fected by the litigation.
suit started in 1904.
In 1904 the heirs brought suit
against the unknown heirs of the Irv-
ing-Sawyer estate and cleared the title
TO the aforementioned property.
Page was adopted from the orphans
home by a man in Missouri and finally
settled and married in Kansas City. +
In 1913 Page undertook to find out
something about his parents and made ,
a search through newspapers and pub f
lie officials. The two Sawyer sisters /
saw Pages advertisement in news I
paper and answered it. He came to ,
Topeka The trip resulted in his .
action for the property claim .
ing that he was an heir through his .
grandfather and that the property
was being illegally held by the Saw
yerS The case consumed several .
days in the district court before Judge
Whitcomb. In addition to a share of
the property. Page asked a judgment b
Of $3.50 against the defendants for
the real estate from him.
The property is valued at several thou
sand dollars The law firm of Hazen
& Cav represented the Sawyers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
new ELECTRIC SIGN.
I. \ Galitzy Installs Large One at
Eighth and Kansas Avenues.

An electric sign that Will loom up
very prominently on the avenue at
night Is the one which has Just been
put in place by I. :. Galitzky at his
store-the New Toggery-at Eighth
and Kansas avenues. The sign hangs
diagonally from the building. and the
word .'Toggery" is in Illuminated let
ters- 1t will add to the brilliancy of
the avenue AT night and its lines
are graceful and artistic.
This sign was installed under the
new Edison fiat rate plan giving. if
sired. Is months in which to pay
for it, The sign will burn until II
each night and 1870 Saturday night
ADV.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
TEXAS BANK IS CLOSED
Receiver Is Named for Feet Worth
Savings and Trust Company.

Fort Worth, Tex, July 24.-The
Fort Worth Savings Bank and Trust
company. capital 100000. deposits
approximately $4,000 has closed its
doors. w. d. Paddock has been named
receiver in the district court by Judge
Young.
The receivership was the result of
petition filed by Horace Wilson, de-
positor- At the office Of the banks
attorneys il was stated that the suit
is a friendly one
Novel combination coal and gas
ranges at orbes'-Adv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
l.. o. Moose March.

San Francisco, July 24.-"Howdy
Pap" echoed through San Francisco
when approximately $4,000 members
of the Loyal Order of Moose marched
through the main streets to the Pana-
ma Pacific exposition grounds where
Moose Day" was celebrated. The
annual convention of the organizat ton
held at San Diego, was cut short in
order to allow the delegates to visit
the exposition
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
Jaws Broken i'm Runaway.

Emporia. Kan. July 24-Howard
Thompson, il years old. was thrown
beneath a hay buck here Friday when
the team which he was driving ran
away. Both jaws We're broken several
teeth Knocked out and he received
painful body bruises
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
Another Missouri Town DIV.

Clinton. Mo-, July 24-Clinton vot-
ed dry in a special local option cleo
ton The vote was SIS to 451 The
town has been wet for five years
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
Children's Wash
Dresses

Neat little Bingham Dresses up
to S1.00 value. IN sizes to IA
years, tonight at 55c. Save al
most half on account of small lot
of a kind but a good assortment
of every size is here. The ma
terial is far better than is usually
found in ready made dresses.
Styles Of the best SIC
Tonight, each .
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
In the Bargain Basement
Ladies' Vests, sc Ea.

Half price on small lot of
good quality, cool, comfortable
fitting vests, fully tapped, in So
sizes and 6. Tonight. each.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
After Supper Sale
Read vhat is offered belorD and come TO
the big store and share in the splendid offerings
offered for Saturday After Supper.
oilet Department


CASTLE Soap for 5c-that usually sell at 1Oc-marked
After Supper for Sc.
Pebeco Toothpaste 35c instead of SOC.
White Rose and Locust Blossom Perfume csc After
Supper Regularly Soc
Liquid Derma Viva 29c-Usuay sold Soc but reduced
to 29c After Supper.
Tooth Brushes Sc each-Seect of these and 15c
values, After Supper for Sc.
Box Stationery for 1880 sheets the box and sells
usually at 19c box Priced After Supper, Csc.
Envelopes to match above stationery pkg
Waists, soc each-Taken from the Third floor
and placed in the After Supper Sale None
less than dollar.
White Lingerie Dresses $1.75-After Supper have
taken lot of higher priced light dresses and marked
them at SITS.
Net Brasseres, with shields soc. These the 81 90
$3.50 sorts regularly, but reduced to soc to close
36-inch Mar9uSette 15c. Largely used for curtains
just but sold regularly for 19c yd After Supper 15c
yard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24

Caloric FireIess Cookers. Forbes
Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
IreekIv Rank Statement.

New York. July 24--Ihe actual eondf-
ton of clearing house banks and trust
companies for the week shows that they
hold SIT. 925. $50 reserve in excess of legal
requirements. This is increase of So
470160 over last week The statement
follows
Actual condition Increase.
Loans, etc. $. 500. o99 900 SIS 104. 600
Reserve in
vaults tbi 444.9S3,0e0 $4,000
Reserve III federal
reserve bank -. 13-S.516000 6.066. 600
depositaries $685. 900 $500. 600
Net demand deposits 2.5s3. o31 eco 14.7sa. 900
Net time deDosits. 1877. 123OO0 2aS 600
Circulation - 1881. 900 5000
(bD-Of which $371, 104 900 is pecie.
Aggregate reserve $611 -O9S, 600
Excess reserve -. 172. 925S90 3.410.1GO
Summary of safe banks and trust com
panies in Greater New York not included
in clearing house statement:
Loans. etc -.-----S J90-1f6-400 S163.9O0
Specie ...- IS 10000 $500
Legal tenders - 9.34S, 700 1892 500
Total deposits - 146.S7S,0O0 61S1. 600
Banks cash reserve in vault 81. POI. 500
Trust companies, cash reserve
IN vault 4bS32-1OO
eDecroa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
Corset Covers

An old lot of broken sizes. some
were Ice each. balance regular
Csc numbers. All in one lot to-
night at a clean up price. Part
are slightly soiIed from handling.
All are excellent bargains at the
close out price. Special 1Ao
tonight, each ...
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24

Net Brassieres, with shields soc. These v
$3.50 sorts regularly, but reduced to soc to
Fourth FLOOR.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24

36nch Marquisette, 15e. Largely used for curtains,
but sold regularly 19c After Supper
yard
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-10-20
Katydids.

The deep green protective color OF
katydids makes II difficult to locate
them on the foliage We hear the
earth full of rasping noises of katydids
at night. but when the sun comes up
and chases the last bit of darkness of
tbe face Of the earth the noise of the
katydids ceases. When we go out TO
observe some of the noisy creatures
we become disgusted with the futile
attempt The trouble is we are likely
TO have dozen katydids under our
eyes and not distinguish their forms
from the deep green leaves. Katydids
belong TO the grasshopper family. They
sometimes make a noise in daytime.
but this Is rather weak ard very dif-
ferent one compared TO the noise made
at night II makes the noise. katy
did" by rubbing the overlapping wing
covers against each other. This noise
can be made even with the wings Of
dead katydid. Our Dumb Animals
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-10-20
Malay Weapons.

The national Malay weapon. the
creese. Is said TO have been invented
by Javanese monarch Of the four
teenth century. its varieties are said
to exceed hundred. and there are In
Javanese no fewer than fifty names
for them. II varies In size from the
two foot wavy blade OF Sulu down to
a mere toothpick. But the peculiarity
Is that the weapon Is never ground, but
Kept rough and sawlike In edge by
securing with lime juice or the Juice
Of an unripe pineapple. sometimes
mixed with arsenic. and 1t Is on this
account that creese wounds are SO dan
gerous. Old specimens are SO eaten
away by this practice that the blade
seems formed from bunch Of wires
roughly welded up. Such creeses are
highly valued. and some Of the ancient
ones, heirlooms of chiefs. with gro
tesquely carved and inlaid hits and
sheaths. are almost unpurchasable.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-10-20

Among the long established beliefs
which have IN recent years been sadly
disturbed Is that OF the deadly charac.
ter Of the upas tree. The exhalatlons
OF this tree were held TO be 10 deadly
that no animal life could survive with
ia 40 feet Of II. Dr. J. b. Gimlette. an
EngIishman. who has lived among the
hnlnys for eighteen years. cites story
that when the poison from this tree IL
wanted by a Malay witch doctor TWEEN
~ condemned crii,siaIs are sent for II.
Usually only Que or two return alive.
and these are pardoncd. iIe says that
an matter of fact the deadly upas''
Is largely fake; that the tree may be
chopped down In safety By any one
with a strong arm and keen ak. The
Malay smears his creese or arrow.
says the doctor, with the inspissated
Juice OF the tree. and II the wound
ls deep enough the poison produccs a
toxic effect on the heart similar TO that
produced by dlgitalIs or BY strophan-
thus. climbing vine or West Africa.
which yields an arrow poison which
acts directly on the muscles Of the
heart.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-10-20
When You nssa s,ar..n

The man who when struck violently
on the head says he ''saw stars" is not
far from telling the truth. The fact
Is that there Is phosphorescent pow.
er In the eye which does not attract a
persons attention under ordinary con,
ditions. but which is distributed and
reveals itself whenever the head gets
a sudden shock and sometimes 'even
in the act of sneezing. A blow on the
head results In pressure OF the blood
vessels upon the retlna, causing either
total darkness or faint blue light
which aoats before the eyes. and 1t is
In this faint blue light the imagination
dlscerns the thousands Of fantastic
forms and figures that by general &c,
ceptance are termed stars: hence.
while the astronomical display so fire.
quentry mentioned may be said to he
entirely creature of the imagination,
there Is at least some foundation for
the idea.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-10-20
Wooed wi.h biusIo.

Among the Iao MIdos, one Of the
many Rurmesc-'rartar people, the young
men WOO their wives absolutely with.
out words. but 10 the sound OF mu.
sic. On the first dny OF winter they
have n great feast, at which all the
marrlageabc girls gather aud listen to
the music mnde by the bachelors. who
sit under the desire tree" each play.
Ing hls fnvorite instrument As the
maiden he loves passes him the youth
plays louder and more fcellngly, II the
girl Ignores him and passes on he
knows thnt she viii have none OF him.
If she steps M 10 him and lays aow.
or upon the instrument he jumps up.
grasps her by the hand and they 20
away together,
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-10-20

eehsadei by a Volcanic Explosion. II
etiII Towers Up 1a.40e Feot.


Mngit linluief. ~ Washington. coy.
crs ltFi square miles pf territory aud
rites li.}Os feet into the air. In shape
ia * not i siiDplr cone taperlng to a
fieIher pointed summit like sujlyama.
the great volcano Of japan. II Is rafb.
er q brady truhcatcl inass resembling
IN epornlous tree stump with spread.
li;s base tnd IrregIlarly broken top.
~ life history har been varied one.
Like Hl volcanoes. Lainier has bnilt 1p
~ cone with the materials elected by
~ own eruptions- with clnders and
steam shreddel particles and Jumps OF
lasl anil win occasional flows OF liquid
liwi that baye solidifIed into layers OF
hard l,asaiiic rock At one fime II al.
inIIiph au altitude OF not less than TO-.
iha' feet n one may Judge by the steep
lnclllnliivD 0f the lnvg and clnder layers
ylsiltir n rs tanks. Then followed a
grelii expinsion TINT destroyed the top
l,asf ~ the mountain and reduced its
height by some 1000 feet The volcano
was left beieaded. with capacious
hpIlnw crater surrounded by jagged
rim
Later on this great cavity. which
measured nearly three miles across
from south to north. was filled by two
small cinder cones, Successive feeble
eruptlOns added 10 their height untii nj
last they formed together low round.
ed dome-the eminence that now con
stitutes the mountains summit. The
higher portions Of the old crater rim
rise TO elevations within few hundred
feet Of the summit and. especially
when viewed from below. stand out
boldly ms separate peaks that mask and
seem TO oyershadow the central dome