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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-02
Will START A PROBE
Board of Control to Investigate the
Florence Crittenton Home.

An investigation into alleged condi-
tions at the Florence Crittenton res
cue home for girls will be started late
this afternoon, by the state board of
control, according to w. E. Brooks,
chairman of the board. The investi-
cation is the result of charges launch
ed against officials of the home by Mrs.
n. B. Waller, 1923 Union avenue. Four
girls left the home and came to the
residence of Mrs. Waller, several days
ago, and told her that they had been
cruelty treated at that place. Mrs.
Waller, championing their cause,
asked Governor Capper for an investi-
cation. 1t was granted.
I'VE expect to make a thorough in
vestigation of both sides Of the CASE
said w. E. Brooks today. 1--WE will
visit the home, investigate conditions
there and hear the story told by the
four girls that left. A report of the
investigation probably will be an
rounced some time tomorrow"
Members of the board who will
make the investigation are: w. e.
Brooks, Stance Myers and Harry c..
Bowman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-02
VAST FLEET IS FIT
News Writers Visit Britain'S
Grand Armada.
Unite in Paying Tribute to Sea
Efficiency.
BIG NAVAL WORKS SPRING UP
Marshes Transformed Into
Fight Establishments.
Visitors See Map Revealing
Fate of Kaiser's PIungers.

London, Nov 2.-Graphic descrip-
lions of the first visit of British news
paper men to Great Britain's grand
fleet are published in the morning pa
pers. They unite in paying tribute to
the preparedness and efficiency of the
British navy, not only as to the main
fighting units but also to the less
prominent but equally important aux
iliaries
A naval officer aboard one of the
ships told the correspondent that in
addition to the war fleet proper, there
are between 1000 and 5000 ships of
the merchant marine, employed in
transport and supply duty, and as
many more engaged in patrol work or
in foiling the "declih1ng efforts of
enemy submarines"
Meeting Undersea Menace.
The visitors were shown the cele-
brated map on which are marked the
places where German submarines have
been captured, destroyed or sunk, and
methods for meeting the submarine
menace were explained to them.
I'VE actually saw vessels engaged in
this anti-submarine business leaving
port" says one correspondent.
Indeed it is not necessary to go
outside the harbor to understand why
the blockade has failed. Here at an
Choir alongside one another lay the
Bane and the Antidote."
See Great Naval Works.
One full day of the visit was spent
in inspecting large new naval works
at place which a short time ago was
swamp but now is live and busy ma
val establishment which will be large
enough when completed to accommo-
date twenty dreadnaughts. The works
include three dry docks, each of which
is capable of holding any ship afroat.
The party visited the battle cruisers
Lion and Tiger, viewing the patched
tunnels and shell wounds received in
the North sea battle. They also Wis
tied the Australia and New Zealand
colonial contributions to the high seas
fleet One correspondent, touching
one of the devices used in painting, de-
clares a superdreadnaught can be so
disguised that even in daylight the
practiced eye of sailor is likely to
mistake her for a craft a tenth of her
size, while the difficulties of range
finding are increased indefinitely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-02
Economy.

in such condition Economy!
Ratsi"
Then the senator said a few words
that were more emphatic
Why, self-respecting farmers up in
my county wouldn't use this east wing
of the state house for a cow barn"
Senator Mahin told a friend in To-
peka that he would again be can
didate for the senate from the For
1eth district. He made an excellent
record during the 1895 sessions and
was a recognized leader, even in view
of the fact that the upper branch of
the legislature was in control of the
Democrats.
of state house visitors said a man
who heard Senator Mahin's remarks
today, your reelection would be
unanimous
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-02
TAX PAYING BEGINS
Amount Due Is the Highest in His
tory of the County.

Business was good at the office of
E. A. Campbell, county treasurer, to-
day. Shawnee county began to pay
it's taxes. This fall, the county, in
Guiding the city of Topeka will pay a
tax of $1,592,0O0, including special
levies The tax is the highest in the
history of the county. The. school
board tax alone is S394,16S.31. The
fall tax must be paid before December
21 to avoid a penalty of 5 per cent
The public service corporation tax
amounts to $176,277.40. The Santa
Fe will pay SSO.500.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-02
MASONIC NOTICE

There will be a special communica-
ton of Topeka Lodge No. II, Wednes-
day, Nov. 8, at 2:15 p. m, to attend
the funeral of Brother Leonard W.
Davis, a member of Equity Lodge No.
SIS, A. F. and A. NJ. of Chicago, Ill. All
Master Masons are invited to meet
with US.
RALPH W. SQUIRES, Master.
CARL w. NELL1S, Secretary.
advertisement
Combination coal and gas ranges
at Forbes.-Adv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-02
MURDOCH REPORTS WAR
Wichita Publisher To Be Corresponds
ent at French Front.

Wichita. Kan, Nov. 2.-Victor
Murdoch, former congressman from
the Eighth Kansas district and chair
man of the national Progressive COM
mittee, will go to Europe as a war
correspondent. He will report the
war for an eastern publication and
for the Wichita Eagle, his own paper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-02
new BADGE To PRINCE
Iron Cross of First Glass to Heir to
SaxOny's Throne.

Berlin, Nov. EMPEROR William
has awarded the iron cross of the first
class to Crown Prince George of
Saxony, on the recommendation of
the commander-in-chie in recogni-
ton of the services he rendered in the
latest battles
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-02

He will sail for France about the
middle of November, and will go to
the French front.
New-York tribune., 1915-02-15
MAY LINK |. W. W.
WITH DYNAMITERS
Police Think Anarchists
Were Implicated in Los
Angeles Plot.

Matthew A. Schmidt, who was ar
rested on Saturday night on informs-
tion furnished by the Burns Detective
Agency, charging him with being one
Of the plotters who blew up the plant
of "The Les Angeles Times" for which
the Mcnamara brothers were convict
ed, spent yesterday in Jail. Attempts
to obtain statement from him were
unsuccessful.
According to William J. Burns, there
were no new developments in the case.
Acting Captain of Detectives William
Deevy declared at Police Hesdquar-
ters that the police were working TO
conect the bomb explosion at Lex
ington Avenue and lO4th Street last
July, in which Arthur Caron, the an
the California dynsmiters.
The police, il is said, believe they
will implicate the Industrial Workers
of the World before their investigation
is finished. II they are successful
there may be difficulty in extraditing
Schmidt TO California, New York hav-
ing the first call on him as q violator
of the law.
It was thought yesterday that the
names of Olaf Tveitmoe and Antoine
Johansen. who were indicted with the
McNamaras but later released, might
be brought into the light again with
the arrest of Schmidt.
New-York tribune., 1915-02-15
PUT ECONOMY
UP TO WILSON
House Leaders Decide to Cut
Appropriations Only as Di-
rected by President.
From The Tribune Bureau. J

Washington, Feb. 1!.-On the as
sumption that the executive branch OF
the government failed two months ago
to economic in appropriations when
the opportunity was pointed out Demo-
cratic leaders Of the House declared to-
day that they would not voluntarily
make cuts in appropriation bills If they
had to be re-psssed at an extra session.
Unless President Wilson in most spe-
cific terms directs economies 1t Is the
nlan of the House leaders to put the
bills through the extra session, II one
is held. in the shape they have passed
the lower body at this session.
Before the appropriation bills were
nassed by the House the majority
leader. Mr.. Underwood, and Chairman
Fitzgerald of the Appropriations Com
mittee it is understood, went to the
White House with suggestions that
would save S5O,000,000 in approprl-
atoms. The administration would not
agree TO stand behind the radical re-
ductions proposed.
Postmaster General Burleson is said
70 have advanced informally the sug.
pestion of the Presidents approval OF
q $50. .OOO. 900 cut without specifications
Of the items to be eliminated, but the
House leaders declined TO put up to
Congress the unpopular task of cutting
out appropriations.
The sweeping cuts suggested to the
White House are understood to have
been in part as follows: ,,
From the rivers and harbors Dill,
s1s OOO, 900; from public buildings in
the sundry civil bill, s9,00o,OOO; for an
New-York tribune., 1915-02-15
ROME FLOODED
BY RISING TIBER
Quarters Around Vatican Under
Water-Soldiers Using Boats
i'm Rescue Work.

Rome, Feb. 14-Owing TO the con
tinuous rains, the foods throughout
Italy are. assuming alarming proper
tions. The River Tiber is more than
fifty feet out of its normal banks and
has flooded the lower parts of the town,
cspecially the quarters around the Vat
lean.
The military authorities have taken
up the rescue work and the task OF
providing food for the people who are
cut of from supplies. Rome has been
divided into four zones, and soldiers
in boats are going about the flooded
districts taking food to marooned per
sons.
Ladders, ropes and other parapher-
MALTA TO be used in rescue work, and
timbers for snoring up the walls OF
houses that are in danger OF falling,
also arc being transported about the
city in boats. From buildings that
have been inundated the families are
being removed.
King Victor Emmanuel to-day visited
the barracks of the engineers TO in
ouire into the measures that had been
adopted to give succor to the people
isolated by the foods.
The food recalls that of 1907, short
IL after the fall of the temporal power,
when the great Victor Emmanuel came
for the first time TO Rome as King OF
united Italy to visit the inundated dis
tricts.
New-York tribune., 1915-02-15
SECURITY LEAGUE ACTIVE
President Reports Big Plans
for Establishing Branches.

Washington, Feb. 14.-Plsns for es-
tablishing branches Of the National
Security League throughout the coun-
try are making rapid hesdway, sc-
cording to S. Stanvood Menken, its
president, who has been here several
days conferring with Secretary Garri-
son and others on the subject OF ma
tional defence.
A committee on extension has been
appointed, consisting of William Fred
erick Dix, secretary OF the Mutual
Life Insurance Company, chairman;
Lawrence F. Abbott, A. B. Humphrey,
executive secretary of the league;
John II. Iselin. William R. Corwine'
organizer; Rodmsn Glider. simon
Thomson, Frederick A. Stokes, J. Beau
mont Spencer, DR.. Albert r. Ledoux
and John Winthrop Lovelsnd.
This coUmittee will soon send rep
resentative to the large cities in New
York State TO organize strong branches
in Buffalo. Albany, Rochester and Eric.
From these places the organization
will be extended to every city in the
state with a population of 10000. The
details Of the work will be left largely
in the hands Of the state organiza'
tions
New-York tribune., 1915-02-15
FAVORS
STRONGER Army
"Uncle Joe" Would Have Re-
serve of 100000 or 100000
Men Ready for Service.
f.y Telegraph To The Tribune. J

Danville, H., Feb. 14.-"Uncle Joe"
Cannon, ex-Speaker Of the House of
Representatives and a member of the
next Congress, is in favor Of larger
army. He favors reserve army ot
300, 900 or 100000 men, ready to take
the field, fully equipped and armed, at
a moments notice.
~ am not an alarmist and | do not
believe there is a country on earth that
can whip this country" said Mr.. Can
non to-day, but I do believe our small
army invites invasion, and should
foreign power declare war on the
United States it would be several
months before we would be in posi-
ton to combat the invaders. While We
were mobilizing an army our present
small armed force would be cut TO
pieces, and many hundreds Of the
flower Of the regular army would be
killed. We would eventually get to-
retb.r an army that would repel any
INVASION, DuN u Ne"N
time in such an instance would be
most precious.
81 am in favor Of reserve army OF
200. 900 or 100000 men, these to be
fully equipped and armed and drilled
the same as our present army. These
men would be between the ages OF
eighteen and twenty-five years, and
would pursue their usual avocations,
being called out in case they were
needed. They should be taken care OF
the same as other soldiers of the United
States. and should any OF them become
injured in the line of service this
country should take care Of them and
those dependent upon them. =,
I'VE have an army at present OF
fewer than 100000 men. They are
scattered over the United States and
our island possessions and IN those
Islands where We exercise protec-
torate. As matter OF protection
against war we should have an army
ready for call that would make a cred
table showing. We can build war
ships. submarines and flying machines
even though they cost money, but we
cannot mobilize an army to take the
field in q days time ---.----.-
New-York tribune., 1915-02-15
FEARED SHE'D KILL CHILD
Nurse, Fleeing from Baby,
Sent to Observation Ward.

Mrs. John Ingwall, Of 4S6 Fifty
seventh Street, Brooklyn. sent a nurse,
Lizzie Schooner, out with two-year-
old Dorothy Ingwall at 10 o'clock yes
terday morning. Three hours later
the pair entered an Italian restaurant
at 7SO Third Avenue, which is near
Twenty-seventh Street and two miles
from home. Putting the child down,
the nurse fed.
The Italian proprietor picked up
dorothy and ran TO the street, but
iizzie had disappeared. With the help
Of Patrolman Cunningham, she was
snally found in a hallway, from which
sbe shouted: keep away! I'm afraid
I'M kill the child
The nurse was taken 10 Kings Coun-
~ Uospital for observation, and Dor
othy was restored TO her family.
New-York tribune., 1915-02-15
BOYS LOOT STORE
FOR START IN LIFE
Four Young Burglars Are
Caught with Goods
They Stole.

Four bows with an ambition 10 start
in busine. for themselves decided to
accumulate a stock by taking seventy
eight rolls OF cloth and several cutting
machines from the loft OF Rothstein,
Rothstein & Sslny, 2434 University
Place. Detective. assigned to the case
believed the stolen good. were still in
the vicinity, and their theory was veri-
fed Yesterday when a truck drove up
TO the building next door and the boys
loaded It with their loot.
One of the prisoners said that they
intended TO begin business at 20 Uni
versity Place, right near their source
OF supply, but fear Of detection induced
them to change their minds. They
were about to move when arrested.
They said they were Samuel Katz, Of
1906 Washington Avenue, and Jacob
Forct, of 1889 Boston Road, The Bronx;
Isidor Turner, of 10 Forsyth Street,
and Abraham Miller, of 259 Stanton
Street. All are under twenty.
Four others, all under eighteen years
old. were arrested last night beside a
safe in the Office Of George Callahan,
a dealer in oil at 21S Front Street. The
block had been surrounded when the
police were informed that four men
we're going over roofs in the neighbor-
hood with a ladder.
A crowd watched the policemen as
they surrounded the block, while two
of them descended through an open
skvlight with drawn revolvers. The
capture was easy, the young burglars
being apparently secure IN the belel
that they were safe from detection.
They gave their names as James
Griffin. Of Is Dover Street; Martin
DIVER. of 267 Pearl Street; Thomas
Finan. of 334 Pearl Street, and Joseph
Morris, Of 1856 Pearl Street.
Still another roundup of youthful
criminals occurred last night, when
patrolmen entered Public School Jos,
so Mott Street, in search OF intruders
who had gone in through a broken
window.
Hands up!" said juvenile voice as
the men climbed the stairs. A flash
light revealed two boys, each pointing
a pistol at the patrolmen. The weapons
we're made for caps, and were minus
even that ammunition.
The police found that their prisoners
had obtained a large supply Of pencils,
erasers and other articles peculiar TO
schoolhouses. They were sent to the
Children's Society after they had given
their names as John Benducci, eleven
years old, of 7S Mulberry Street, and
Tony Getroleng, nine, of SO Mulberry
Street.
New-York tribune., 1915-02-15
WOUNDED PILOT
STICKS TO POST
Directs British Ship from Chair
in Turkish Attack on
SueZ.
BY Cable te TIE tribunal

London, Feb. 15.-The Cairo corre-
spondent of "The Daily Chronicle"
telegrsphs as follows:
"A stirring little story Of quiet
heroism displayed during battle
against Turkish invaders the other day
has been told me here. The hero Of the
incident is q pilot named Csrew, who
was on board the Hardinge, one Of the
ships on the canal helping to repel
the Ottoman attack.
"Carew's ship came under the hesvi-
est FIRE and he was severely wounded
in an arm and leg. He would not,
however. leave his post, although suf-
fering terribly.
Bring me a chair and prop me up
he said to one Of the crew. I Will see
YOU through
"The gallant pilot is now in hos
rital. wncre il was found necessary TO
amputate ore Of his legs. Happily, he
is making good progress, and his re.
covery is assured.
New-York tribune., 1915-02-15
AVIATOR TO STAND TRIAL
Armand Deperdussin Declared
Short S5.600,000 to Bank.

Paris. Feb. 14.-The inquiry into the
affairs Of Armand Deperdussin, the
we'll known inventor and manufacturer
Of aeroplanes, who was arrested here
in August, 1918, on the charge OF
forgery and breach Of trust, has been
completed and shows, il is alleged,
that he is shcrt 2s,000.0o0 francs
$500. 900. Paris bank being the
creditor. He has been committed for
trial at the next assizes.
Deperdussin was arrested on com.
plant Of a Paris bank, which alleged
that he mad simulated large orders
for acroplanes 20 obtain money IN ad-
vance for material and used the money
for private purposes. At that time the
inventors debts we're said to be about
S6.600,OOO. Soon after his arrest he
was adiudged a bankrupt by the Tri-
bunal Of Commerce. He was prominent
in business and sporting circles, i
leading member of the Aero Club and
a Chevalier Of the Legion of Honor.
New-York tribune., 1915-02-15
SOLDIERS SHOT
IN PANAMA RIOT
Police and Civilians Also Are
Wounded in Battle in the
TenderlOin District.

Panama, Feb. IA careful investi-
CATION by the Psnaman police and the
American military authorities reveals
that one Panaman civilian was killed
in the rioting here early to-day, but
probably four persons were dangerous
ly wounded, and it is believed the total
number of wounded will reach forty
five.
These casualties resulted from an
encounter between Panaman police,
American soldiers and Panaman and
American civilians in Cocoa Grove,
known as the Tenderloin district.
A joint inquiry by the American
Minister, William J. Price, Brigadier
General Edwards, commander of the
Canal Zone forces, Secretary of For
eign Affairs Lefevre and the Chief of
Police established that both factions
apparently were equally culpable, al
though the Pansman police used their
firearms after the civilians had start
ed the shooting The soldiers were
unarmed until they raided nearby
shooting galleries and obtained three
small rifles.
The appearance of General Edwards
on the scene of the rioting had a
ouieting effect, and he ordered the SOL
diers removed from the district.
New-York tribune., 1915-02-15
RUMANIA DECLARED
ELIGIBLE BORROWER
Alone of European Countries
Can Increase Her Debt With.
out Added Taxation.

London, Feb. 4.-Rumanis, which has
just been granted loan of S25, 100000
by the Bank of England, is probably
the most eligible borrower in Europe,
according to London financial experts.
The country has made such enormous
strides since 1890, when i adopted the
gold standard, that there is no state in
Europe that can now show such thriv-
ing condition as regards national
finances, they assert. For the last five
years there has been each year a sub
stsntisl surplus. ranging from $4,000
900 in 1910 TO s22,000,o0 in 1912.
The government of Rumsnis owns a
large amount of productive assets"
including railways, government mo-
nopolies and public service corpora
tions. The revenue from the public
services alone, not including state mo
nopo 'es, is more than sufficient to
meet the interest and sinking fund
charges on the national debt of $780,
100000.
The size OF the annual surplus makes
II evident that Rumsnia-alone among
European countries-can increase its
national debt to q substantial extent
without imposing any additional burden
on the taxpayer.
New-York tribune., 1915-02-15

General Carranzs from Mexico. states
that Carranza alleges as ground for his
act that Caro- associated himself with
political events in the country.
The incident has naturally caused
some excitement here, and is being
made the subject OF statement in
Parliament by the Premier, who. after
declaring that suitable demands ~oulo
be made on Mexico, said that the affair
was less grave, owing TO the fact Of
there being no responsible government
in the country.
The impartial" urges that Spain
should strongly uphold her rights and
interests in Mexico, that the position OF
her nationals in that country be Sc
cure.
New-York tribune., 1915-02-15
TRAIN JUMPER LOSES ARM
Agile Station Agent Takes
Chance Once Too Often.

Peter McCamley, station agent at the
South Orange station Of the Lacka-
wanna, who has local reputation for
his deftness in jumping on and off fast
moving trains. tried to jump from
train which had almost come to a
halt Yesterday at the Broad Street
station, in Newark
He fell and was thrown under the
wheels. His left arm was msngled. and
he was removed TO Newark City Hos
pital. where the arm was amputated.
New-York tribune., 1915-02-15
DEATH FOR TREASON
COMMON IN TRIESTE
ANY sympathy Shown for Italy
Receives Summary Pun
ishment.
fBy Gable TO The Tribune

Berne, Feb. IA private message
from Trieste says the situation there
is daily becoming more serious. Any
one manifesting the slightest sympathy
with Italy is Immediately charged with
high treason, and death sentences are
of daily occurrence.
The new Governor, just appointed, Is
obliged 10 have all official documents
countersigned by two officers OF the
General Staff, one being German and
the other an Austrian.
New-York tribune., 1915-02-15
,,r;cu,turaI census $1,000 900; for the

agricultural census, s3,oOo,Ooo; for the
consolidation of the lifesaving and
revenue cutter service, 100000; from
the navy building programme. s23 .oOo,-
OOO-at least $4,000 000-and the ST.
600 900 for the Alaskan railroad.
The executive officers OF the govern
mcnt said such cuts would be unpopu-
lar in and out Of Congress and that
under no circumstances would the
country stand for a reduction in the
navy estimates
New-York tribune., 1915-02-15
Japan INSISTENT;
CHINA STILL FIRM
Deadlock Over Formers De-
mands-Mikado Building Bar
racks at Railway Stations.

Peking, Feb. 1.-The Chinese Min
lister at Toxic to-day reported to his
government that the japanese Foreign
Minister, Baron Ksto, had declared that
Japan must insist on the acceptance OF
the total demands recently made in the
japanese note TO China.
At the Chinese Foreign Office. how
ever, it was said to be the intention Of
the Peking Government to continue in
IT'S refusal to acquiesce in the Japanese
demands.
New-York tribune., 1915-02-15

Weihsien, Shantung. China, Feb. II.
Wooden barracks are being con-
structed by the Japanese at every rail-
way station. except the smallest. along
the line between Woihsien and Tsinan.
Many of the buildings are nearing COM
pletion.
Tsinsn is the capital OF the Chinese
province of Shsntung, and is connected
by rail through Weihsien with Using
tau, the port at the kiso-Chau conces-
sion recently surrendered by the Ger
mans to Japan.
New-York tribune., 1915-02-15

lBJ Cab. 10 Ths Tribunal
Madrid, Feb. 14.-Senor Caro-. the
ssrish Minister who was expelled by