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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24
DERNBURC HELD UP
Steamer BergensfjOrd Detained
by the British.
German Granted Safe Conduct;
Incident May Be Trivial.

London, June 24.-The Norwegian
steamer Bergensfjord, with DR.. Bern
hard Dernburg, German propaganda
lst and his wife aboard, has been
detained at Kirkwall, with the Swed-
1Sh steamer Varing, from Savanna h.
The BergenSfjord was due to reach
Bergen today
The government has not made pub
lie its reason for OBTAINING the
steamer.
DR.. Dernburg and mis- wife sailed
from New York June IL under guar
antee OF safe conduct by the allies. 1t
is believed here that the steamer on
which he was passenger may have
been detained because of reports that
German reservists were on board.
The New York Tribune in an early
edition today printed an interview
with DR.. Dernburg, which the latter
granted on condition that It be not
published until after his safe arrival
in Norway. In this interview DIR.
Dernburg expressed n desire to go to
the front. The Tribune withdrew the
interview from it's last edition when a
London cable early today brought
word that the steamec was detained.
The action of the British authorities
in stopping the steamer is not at all
unusual. 1t is understood that Scan
dinavian vessels crossing the war zone
have agreed to enter Kirkwall for in
Spect1On to prevent controversies over
their cargOeS. 1t is possible that I'M
der such an agreement, the steamer
aboard which DR.. Dernburg was a
passenger voluntarily put into port.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24
VARSITY WANTS BRYAN
Nebraskan Is Offered Position by
School in Midwest.

Chicago June 24.-William j.
BRYAN has been offered the chair CT
political economy in a midwestern
university, according to story print
ed in the Evening Post here today.
H. H. Harrison, president of a
teachers lyceum, with offices in Chi
cago. is given as authority for the
story.
rhe position pays $4,000 year and
Mr.. Bryan would be required to live
in the university city and to devote a
reasonable part of his time to his col
lege duties.
Mr. Harrison declined to name the
university, but the Post says the Uni
yersity of Indiana is strongly suggest
ed as the school in question.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24
CUT OUT WASTE
That Is Substance OF Letter
From Governor Capper
Addressed to the States Boards
and Commissions.

Governor Capper today sent to all
state departments, boards and COM
missions, a letter urging cooperation
in a campaign to reduce the number of
useless state employees and to secure
| more efficient service. The letter was
sent in advance of the beginning of
the new fiscal year and is a plea for
| better state service.
While he urges that boards and
commissions appointed by him follow
his suggestions, the governor assumes
none of the responsibility for their ac-
tons. He points out that a growing
public sentiment demands more eff
cient and economical service and urges
the boards and departments of state
to listen to this demand.
The governor said in part:
Although under the law which pro-
vides for boards of control and adj
ministration, 1 am directly responsible
for the conduct of only a small part
of the public service in Kansas L am
in heartiest sympathy with that in
creaS1ngly powerful and rapidly grow
ing public sentiment which demands
that the public business shall be as
efhciently and as economically con.
Quoted as is private business.
I'VE now have 5000 employees on
the states pay rolls. Every year has
seen an increase in their number and
still greater increase in expenditures.
First, l suggest a careful review of
the present years or last quarters ex-
penditures as a means of effecting a
reduction of current expenses wher-
ever possible without crippling the
service Of the state
Second, a careful revision. and rec
concentration of your working force
Win a view or eliminating every
superfluous and time-serving en-
pioyee. In doing this, every admins
trating official should be governed
solely and entirely by records for eff
cheney and good service and not by
political pull. There can be no middle
course.
I hardly need to tell you that lust
as business men can, the state can
Wen aHord to pay liberal compensa-
ton for good service. 1t can afford
to pay good wages to good men-all
the wages they can earn. And it can
not afford to keep on it's payroll the
supernumerary, the useless or the
nearly useless employee; nor the idle
taS-eater whose pernicious presence
and evil Influence discrepancies dis
c1pI1ne and slows up industry"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24

schemes robbing the pockets of an un-
suspecting public, according to post
office reports, of $170,000,000 a year.
Weeds mar the records of some of the
nob1est lives in history. Great men
have been victims of deep and uncon-
trollable passions; illustrious states
men have found their harvest of fame
choked by the weeds of selfishness;
conscience has been stifled by the
weeds of indulgence and even the an
gels have fallen in the midst of the
weeds of ambition. How many weeds
are in yonr garden. good reader? Be
fore you complain of those that are in
your neighbours field, pull up your
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24

Think Of having all the money there
is, yet remaining -humani
A glance at his wife barbed the dart
A strange gladness was growing in heT
heart-she had SO dreaded this min
ute. 1t was showing her Fate had
been wholly kind
II think we agreed at the very first
it was not the love but the lack OF
money that was the root of evil" she
said Eayly. Being thus early wise.
OF course We are safe. You also ap-
pear to be quite human"
TOO human" he whispered "Why
did you let me do it, Carolyn
she left him precipitately, darling al
most straight back to her husbands
side. She elung to the old mans arm
openly, even proudly, although he was
decanting to Mrs. A1ban upon Caro-
lyn's wonderful achievements in home
furnishing-to the utter rout and con-
fusion OF grammar, rhetoric and
periods. Empire, Queen Anne, Louis
Quatorze, Renaissance, whatnot, fell
trippingly from his tongue-and al
ways in the wrongest possible connec-
ton.
Yet Mrs. A1ban was listening SYM
pathetically-her face was even as
near wiStful as her new complexion
permitted.
she whispered audibly: MY dear, I'm
so glad for you-you're as wise as you
were always good and beautiful. Lord!
How I'd love to be an old mans
darling!"
''It really isn't half bad" Carolyn
returned amiably, with a satisfied
nod at her husband, who was devour-
right, 1915, by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24
WEEDS,

There is no garden without its:
weeds. writes John A. Sleicher, in Les
lies, and he goes on: No one plants
them. and every one seeks to destroy
them. But the weeds persist The
only way to eXterminate them is to
dig them up by the roots. Weeds
abound everywhere. We have them
in the public serVice-sensation low
ers. like Chairman Walsh of the in
dustrial commission. legislators seek
ing the iimelight. demagogues posing
as statesmen. grafters in the disguise
of reformers. and ballot-boX suffers
pretending to be the guardians of
elections. In our social system, weeds
abound. Dynamiters betray the cause
of honest labor; black-sheep bring
anguish to the family circle; an occa-
sional hypocrite defiles the church and
Quacks lower the professional stand
ard, as yellow newspapers curse the
press and muckrakers the magazines.
In finance. we have the gold brick
takers and promoters of bogus
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24
Hines Lumber Company
Close Twenty Yards.
Illinois Brick Yard Company 10
Lay OFF Forces.
big SHUTDOWN IN LABOR WAR
Crisis Declared Due to Failure
of Arbitration.
Building Material Men Say
Strike Forces Action.

Chicago, June 24.-Taking the lead
in an action which it is estimated will
throw 10000 men out of employ
ment in this city, the Edward Hines
Lumber company, the largest in Chi
cago, announced today that on Mon
day it will close it's twenty yards.
The crisis is due to the rejection of
arbitration by the carpenters, who
have been on strike for nearly two
months. The building material men
say that they have been operating at
a loss during the strike and the shut
down is a natural consequence.
The Hines company employs TO-
900 men.
william Schlake, president Of the
Illinois Brick company, predicted all
manufacturers would follow Illness
lead,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24
PLOT OF JER0ME'S
Sensational Revelations Prom.
Used by Thaw's Attorney.
Court Admits Testimony Over
Protest of State.
Tn Tell cTnDV
CANADIANS TO TELL STORY
SherbrOOke Man Says Plan Was
to Rush Over Border.
Prosecution to Call Defendant
as Witness Against Self.

New York, June 24.-Sensational
revelations about the alleged plot to
kidnap Harry Thaw by New York
state officials, headed by William T.
White was fugitive in Canada, were
promised by John Stanchfield at the
Thaw sanity trial today.
In fighting for certain testimony of
counsel said their statements would
be sustained by evidence which he
would later divulge.
Court Admits Story.
Despite Assistant Attorney General
Cooks objections, Justice Hendricks
allowed the testimony to be admitted
Robert Ewing, Sherbrooke Canada,
stories he had heard about the al
legged kidnapping plot.
when 1 went into court the first
morning that Thaw was arraigned, -
said Ewing, II saw many strange men.
AS L passed inside the court 1 heard
one of the strangers say to his COM
panion, The best way for US to GET
him is to snap him up and rush him
across the line
Thaw will be called by counsel for
the state as a witness against himself
in the hearing now in progress here
to determine whether he is sane ac-
cording to an announcement today by
Deputy Attorney General Frank *.
Cook.
To Avoid Restrictions.
The states purpose in adopting this
plan, it is understood. is to avoid the
restrictions which would limit his
cross examination and to lay his
story of the killing of Stanford White
before the jury shortly before it re-
tires to consider a verdict.
In explanation of his plan to call
Thaw as state witness Mr.. Cook
said:
I'VE will thus be able to ask Thaw
about anything that has happened
since the day he was born. The only
difference is that our side will be
bound by his answers; that is, we will
not be able to impeach his testimony.
However, that is quite satisfa Glory to
me-"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24
OIL HOUSE AT FAULT.
S. j. HalIOwelI Holds 1t Responsible
for Death of Boy.

That an oil and gasoline house To-
Gated on the southeast corner of
Morse and Kansas avenue was to a
great extent the cause of his car hit
ting and mortally injuring Paul Nc
Pherson, aged 6, last Monday even
ing is the contention of S. J. Halo
we'll.
1.-The oil house is located on the
curbing," said Hallowell today. Il
had to hug the curb to keep the re-
quired distance from a car which was
taking on passengers. Just as 1 went
to pass the small oil house the little
boy darted from behind it and was hit
before L could STOP Had it not been
for the house 1 could have seen him
and avoided the accident
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24
CATCHING CHILD LABOR YOUNG

THE children won't suffer any more
after this, will they?" said small ac-
tor after the child labor pageant given
at the eleventh annual conference on
child labor in San Francisco on May
IS. While this pageant, written by
Mrs. George Hough Perry and staged
on the exposition grounds. may not
have justified in the minds of adults
the optimism of the child, says The
Survey, It cid strike the note of hope
fulness that prevailed throughout the
meetings and it demonstrated tbs
communities interest in the confer
ence An appeal to the west to pro-
hibit child labor before it has a foot
hold there was the main theme of the
address, DIR. Felix Adler of New York
chairman of the national child labor
committee, touched the heart of the
matter when he pointed out that
child labor has always been a by-prod-
yet of the change from an agricultural
to an industrial community. By the
law of recurrence it has appeared in
every part of the world going through
that change. 1t appeared IN England
and our eastern states during such a
time of change; it is now at its height
in the south during a similar change;
and it will appear in the west unless ii
is forestalled, DR.. Adler said. The
west, realizing the national signifi-
canoe OF wasted childhood and the
conmunity's responsibility toward
each individual child, can prevent the
recurrence of child labor here if it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24
THOUSANDS DIE NEEDLESSLY.

From 10000 to 5000 consumptives
go west in search of health every year.
Such is an estimate made by the Ma
| tional Association for the Study and
| Prevention of tuberculosis in a state
ment issued recently based on recent
! investigations of the United States
Public Health Service. The associa-
ton concludes that there are at pres
ent between 100000 and 100000 con-
sumptives in the states of California,
Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and
| Colorado.
Investigations were made during the
past year by Surgeons of the United
States Public Health Service, p. M.
Darlington in California, E. A. Sweet
! in Texas and New Mexico, and A. D.
Foster in North ard South Carolina.
The National Association draws the
! following conclusions from these
studies:
Thousands of consumpt:vcs at
tracted by the climate migrate every
year to the west and southwest. While
no definite figures can be procured,
the facts ascertained would indicate
an annual migration of at least TO-
900 and possibly $4,000 into the states
of California, Arizona, Colorado. New
Mexico and Texas.
From 80 to SO per cent of these con-
sumptives are hopeless cases and die
within six months after their arrival,
the percentage of those dying within
80 days running as high as 10.
A large, but unknown percentage
die in almshouses or are the recipients
CT charity, and the great majority of
these could have been made comfort
in, las if thew had
stayed at home among friends and
relatives.
From 40 to 80 per cent of all deaths
from tuberculosis in the west and
southwest are of natives of other
states, nearly so per cent coming from
Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, Kentucky,
Tennessee and New York.
People who can afford it and who
are not in too far advanced stages of
tuberculosis will find the climate of
the west and southwest an aid in the
treatment of tuberculosis
No eone should think of going west
or southwest for his health unless he
has at least $1,000 above his railroad
fare. and can leave his family in COM
Portable circumstances; and no one
should go who is in an advanced
stage of tuberculosis or who has not
taken careful medical advice.
Tuberculosis can be cured in any
part of the United States, and it is far
better for a consumptive of moderate
means such as the average working
man, to go to a sanatorium near at
home, than to go west and live in
more favorable climate without prop
err food or medical care.
Finally, there may be plenty of jobs
in the west and southwest for able
bodied men, but the consumptive will
find the greatest difficulty in getting
work, and no one should go west
therefore in the hope of getting job.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24
CAPITALS FALL AT HAND
Carranza's Army Under Gonzales in
Suburbs of Mexico City.

Ell Paso, Tex, June PA CarranZa
army under General Pablo Gonzales
mas reached the suburbs of Mexico
City, according to a telegram received
by the Carranza agency here today
from Vera Cruz, dated yesterday.
Gonzales halted in the suburbs, the
MESA ge stated, because the Zapata
forces had entrenched themselves in
the center of the capital and Gonzales
desired to spare the city the horrors
of an attack.
The message stated further that
Carranza had ordered Gonzales Ito eX-
haust every means before taking the
city in the face of resistance"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24


Bldg. Special attention given to pyor-
rhea and oral prophylaxis.-Adv.
That the office of the United states
internal revenue collector may be
moved from Leavenworth to Topeka
is rumOred. The rumor has not been
confirmed. The internal revenue col
lector for the district of Kansas is
w. H. l.. Pepperill. There are TWEEN
ty four deputies en- mis- force. Should
the office be moved to Topeka, it I'M
doubleday will occupy the rooms on
the second floor of the Federal build
United States district attorney when
that office is moved to Kansas City,
Kan.
Safety razor blades sharpened better than
new, 25c-35c doz. Brunt Drug Co.-Ady.
Do not fail to get our estimate on
that lumber bill. j. B. whelan & Co..
I'll E 4th. Phone S65.-Adv.
To whom does the reward offered
for the capture of Porter Patterson
two years ago belong? is the question
before the county commissioners
Queney Weatherly and David WoodaI
are conflicting claimants for the $3.50
offered. Several months ago suit for
the amount was filed for the reward
by the Weatherly woman. In an an
swer to her petition today the county
commissioners ask the courts to de-
eide the question.
DIR. Atwood, Eye, Ear, Nose
Throat. 623 Kansas Ave. Phone 4353
white.-Adv.
Wall paper. ]. X. Jones Paint CO.
Adv.
Window glass. J. X. Jones Paint Co.
ADV.
House paint. ]. K Jones Paint Co.
ADV.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24
FLAG TITLES CUT OUT
Three Well known Magazines Barred
From Circulation in Boston.

Boston, June 23.-Because the
American flag figured in their cover
designs the issues of three magazines
are barred from circulation here under
penalty of a fine.
The July number of the Modern
Priscilla shows the figure of an aged
woman industriously sewing an Amer
lean flag. The Youths Companion
has withdrawn it's entire issue, for its
cover design showed a girl, tin horn
in one hand, firecrackers in the other,
and with two small flags woven in her
hair Leslie's Weekly for June fea-
t;lred large American flag with ex-
cerpts from the United States note to
Germany.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24

house composed the working condi-
ton demands.
At the plant of the Joplin Ore &
manded an increase of 25 cents a day
for each man.
Officials of the companies refused
the demands and the furnace men
walked out.
Approximately 100 men are on
strike. Twice that many other men
will be thrown out of employment I'M
less the strike ends.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24

The custom of waging a state cam
paign on national issues is not eXclu-
sive with Mr.. Foss. of Massachusetts.
1t seems to be one of the political
fules in the Bay State. A Mr. Tuck has
just announced that he will run for
governor there as the candidate of a
Bryan Peace Democratic party, and
that his platform will include the poll
cies advocated by the Nebraskan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24

Kansas should also blush to confess
that she hasn't at hand a complete list
of the Incorporated cities within her
confines. And that there should be,
at least, one county in the state, STAN
ton. that hasn't an Incorporated COM
munity in its midst. is also likely to
strike most folk as rather surprising.
There may be more such counties, too,
for all Kansas knows
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24

From the sublime to the ridiculous,
or vice versa. Judge Kenesaw Noun
tain Lands of $29,OOO,OOO Standard
Oil fine memory gets considerable adj
ditional newspaper notoriety by filming
some miscreant two cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24
U. S. VESSEL AS Prize.
Writ Is Issued Against American Tank
Steamer Gargoyle.

London, June PA dispatch from
Alexandria, Egypt, to Lloyd, says a
prize court writ has been issued
against the American steamer Gar
goyle.
The American tank steamer Gar
goyle left New York May IL for Alex
andria. On her way out she was re-
ported at Malta May 81. The steamer
belongs to the Vacuum Oil company
and is of 4433 gross tons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24
U. S. VESSEL IS SEIZED.
Steamer Neches' Cargo to Be Thrown
Into Prize Court. p

London, June 24.-The American
steamer Neches was seized today in
the Downs and ordered to proceed to
London to discharge her cargo, which
is to be thrown into prize court
The contention of the British gov
eminent that the cargo came from a
country hostile to Great Britain is de-
MED by the shippers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24
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 OF
thirty cents n month (by mail only. Ad-
dress changed as often as desired. While
out of town the State journal will be TO
you like n daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested these
short time subscriptions, to save bookleep-
ing expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24
TEUTONSOVERD NIESTER
Won Linsingen in Stroke to Cut SIav
Communication.

Berlin, June 24.-General Won Lin
singen's army has crossed the Dniester
between Halicz (north of Stanislau)
and Zuravano least of StryO.
The Russians were defeated and
thrown back across the river in q
fierce battle, the war office announced
this afternoon. Won Linsingen is
pressing forward in an effort to cut
the line of communication between the
Russian army that retreated from
Lemberg and the forces operating
around StaniSlau
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24
Band Concert Friday Night.

Marshalrs band will give q concert
in Chesney park Friday night. Most
of the program will be new. The pro-
gram is: =
March ..... Little Traveller. Jewell
o-Oyerture. Stabat Mater. Rossini
,-Cornet Solo. When i Was Dreamer
y. L. McComas.
characteristic March. Trombone Smiles
: .slftto
Hammon, Moore, Sage. Vogel, Cochran.
Barnes.
-Waltz. Barcarole. Roberts
6-SeIection The Opera Mirror .Tobani
Medley Selection Remick's Hts
S-March Minstrel Days. Holmes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24

Another important question is as to
whether or not the German emperor
has a sufficient supply of Iron Crosses
on hand to go around among his
heroes in the eastern arena of.the war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24

incidentally, the recent high water
and floods in Kansas have presented
another forceful argument against the
utility of tin" bridges. The bridge
bills that many Kansas counties will
have to pay in the immediate future
are going to assume extensive proper
tions. No doubt about experience, or
lack of foresight and judgment, being
an expensive teacher.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24

From the standpoint of Great
Britain and France, the important
question of the Great War -ow is. Will
Russia have the courage and perse-
yerance to try again?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24
KNOX BOOTH INDICTED

Fort Smith, Ark, June 4.-KnoX
Booth former chief of the govern
ment internal revenue district of
Tennessee and Alabama, with head
quarters at Nashville. John L. Casper,
a Kansas City distiller, and five other
men were indicted by a federal grand
Jury this afternoon in connection with
an alleged conspiracy to defraud the
government by illegal operation of
diStiIlerieS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-24

This is also the season of the year
when the city commissioners exhibit
their modesty in the preparation of
their budgets. But, fortunately. while
an individual commissioner has the
proposing in the budget line, the COM
mission as a whole has the final dis
nOSinC