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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-04
COUNTRY OF RUINS.
Russ Retreat Masterpiece of
Terrifying Devastation.
All Towns in Flames; Roads
Indescribably Cut Up.

Geneva, Sept. 4.-The Lausanne
Gazette publishes a letter from an
Austrian officer fighting on the east
ern front in, which he says:
1.-The Russia retreat is a master
piece of terrifying, systematic devas-
tation which recalls the retreat OF
1912. There is an immense sea OF
flames behind the retiring Russian
armies caused by burning houses and
crops. General Mischenko is followed
by we'll organized detachments OF
Cossac.is, whose duty it is to burn
everything behind tie army. They
achie1 G their task inn lacably.
when the Honveds tried to enter
krylow in pursuit of the Russians
every street was aflame. They Were
unable to pass through the huge fur
mace and lost many precious hours IN
going round the town by indirect
roads across fields.
when the o-Hungarians ar
rived at ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS they
found the town burning, and the town
of Verba also was blazing. Every
village on the Volynskyi plain as far
Hungarian troops had no shelter for
days.
The roads are indescribably cut
up and INSTRUCTED. Conveys arrived
day and half late. 1t would take
fifty soldiers to draw one cart out of
a mudhoie.
Thousands Of men worked upon
repairs on the road from Sokl to V1ad-
fmlr-V oiynSkyi, and if the road he'd
not baen repaired in time we would
have met with disaster"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-04
FAIR FREE OF DEBT
Taft Burns Exposition Mort
gage in Notable Ceremony.
Payment Marks Record in His
tory of Worlds Fairs.

San Francisco, Sept. 4.-William
Howard Taft, who, as president of the
United States, broke ground for the
Panama-Pacific exposition four years
ago, last night burned the exposition
mortgage in ceremony which SYM
bOlized payment of all Indebtedness.
The ashes were cast to the winds from
an illuminated aeroplane by Charles
Niles.
"Out of debt day. visualized the
history of the exposition, it's signifi--
canoe and its achievements, in a
series of living pictures.
Charles G. Moore, president of the
exposition. holding in his hand a
check for $11O,159.O2, the payment
which made the exposition debt free,
and a representative of the San Fran
cisco clearing house holding the mort
gage, stood in tie center of a spot
lights glare and exchanged papers.
Mr.. Taft burned the mortgage, drop
ping the ashes int an urn, from
by the aviator.
Figures representing the Indian, the
pioneer, the cavalryman. labor, en-
ergy, genius and imagination ap-
peard in turn as these were mentioned
during a recital of the exposition's his
tory and the events in American prog
reSs which led up to it.
The accomplishment of the EXPOSE
ton company marks record, no 9TH
er exposition ever having been able
to pay off it's indebtedness before it
was half over.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-04
Wholesale Fruit and Produce

D.
ITALIAN PRUNH Hge1f; N crate Sf 9Sc. In
so crate 2, e, lots qtS,r per err er rat 9oe so
VALENCIA ORANGES-96 size per box
SaT is s 1e se ber Sa2 1Sc S o &
gsE 3sT So2 2s ss Ise DeF SS1 c
CALIFORNIA GRAPEs-Per crate $500
IEMoNs1g3oo size per box $425; $50 size
APPLES River, per Dbl, $500;
Pinannicks, per Dbl, $500; Haas, per bbi'
Li% mes, e, s ssStOn sI;25: -.
pack, per crate, $500; Standards. standard
ATERMEIoNs@-P cwt.. $14o; per
thousand weight, $1.25.
Per 20 ID. Climax basket $1.00.
gset Ss.fs s 81
baskets with Slated tops. each Sc;
GA BBAGPfsf ggadPe per 6a. R lc oOc
BEETS- Per blu. basket, 65c.
6SEo Hssfr p eP b SOe' zoe; yellow per
bu. Zoe; white. per blu; soc.
BEANs-Per basket. zoe
GAKR0TSS~cPer bu. 75c
s PSEATo FoTATos g. per bu.. s1s5.
POP CORN-Per lb.. 3 3-4c.
GRAPES-Per basket, 25c.
HOT PEPPERS-Prr h., zoe; in 20 and
more Id. lots, per H., 17c.
COLO. CAULIFLOWER-P Id. Zoe.
REPACKING BASKETS-Original crates
of 200 baskets, $2.25-less than original
crates each nc
PARSNIPS-Per bu., 75c.
OYSTERS-New Cork Counts, per eau,
55c; Extra Selects, per can, SOC; Plain Sc
lects, per can, 45c; Standards, per can, 40c.
BULK OYSTERS-New York Counts, per
gallon, $2.35; Extra Selects, per gallon,
So. Is; Plain Selects, per gallon $215; Bal
timore Standards. per gallon SLIGO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-04
MEXICAN WOMEN KILLED:
Texans. Accidentally Shot Females in
Fight With Men.

San Antonio, Tex, Sept. A spec
ial to the Light from it's correspondent
with the border troops says:
"a posse of citizens led by Sheriff
Vann of San Zenito, in approaching
a small native house at the Aguas
Negras ranch, shot and killed two
Mexicans who ran and refused to halt
and found later that a young daugh-
ter of a Mexican named Ramirez had
been killed by stray bullet and her
mother fatally wounded. The women
were in the house which was in the
line of fire"
The shooting took place about a
quarter of a mile from the scene of
the recent fight between soldiers and
raiders Thursday afternoon. The
Mexicans were identified as local resi-
dents of the neighborhood. The Of
ficers say they had no intention of
harming the women. The correspon-
dent add:
Friday morning a detachment of
the Twelfth cavalry under Lieut.. Matt
Bristol arrested five men near Nebras-
ka station, seven miles southwest of
San Benito. One, mounted upon a
mule, made a dash for liberty, but was
shot down by the troops. The remain
ing four men are held by the soldiers,
pending instructions. They were un-
able to give an account of themselves,
the soldiers say"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-04

Topeka to attend the letting of state
funds, may not decide until next
spring whether he will enter the
Fourth district congressional fight. He
has on several occasions been suggest
ed as a candidate to oppose Congress
man Dudley Doolittle for the Demo-
cratic nomination.
ST have not decided what my
course will be-" said Senator Price.
''It is not probable that I will deter
mine the matter until next spring, or
sometime this winter. Should L de-
eide to run, 1 will make an active
campaign in the district and will fight
to win"
Layton i'm Senatorial Race.
Walter A. Layton, state representa-
tive from Osborne county, doubtless
will be a candidate for the state SEN
ate in the Thirty-fourth district. Lay
ton came to the legislature last win
ter and made an excellent record. He
served as a member of the house ways
and means committee and was close
in the councils of the state administra-
ton. Recently the Osborne man
served as a member of the commits
sion appointed by Governor Capper to
investigate the charges against War
den J. D. Botkin of the state prison.
AT present the Thirty district
is represented by Senator Harry Gray,
Democrat. The district comprises Els
worth, Lincoln, Osborne and Russell
counties.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-04
Went TO KANSAS
l.. l.. Dyche Left Fortune in
Collection to State.
His Children May Have to Quit
the University.

Lawrence, Kan, Sept 4--The late
Prof. L. L. Dyche, who spent his life
making a collection of North Ameri-
can mammals for the University of
Kansas, which is valued at 100000,
left his wife and children without an
income when he died suddenly last
January. Unless she receive financial
support, Mrs. Dyche may be COM
PEELED to cut short her children's edu-
cation and withdraw them from the
university.
Professor Dyche made twenty three
expeditions to various parts of North
America gathering specimens for the
museum of natural history at the Uni
versity of Kansas. While on those
university and received regular pay as
a professor with the understanding
that the specimens gathered were to
be the property of the institution.
Friends have suggested to Mrs.
Dyche that she ought to receive an
GRAFTON of the fact that her husband
spent his best days in it's service and
risked his life numberIess times for
the meager salary of college pro-
fessOr
81 never have said a word about re-
ceiving an income from the speci-
MEMS" Mrs. Dyche said when asked
about the matter. 'I suppose they
belong to the university, and yet it
does seem to me that after he had
children ought not to be forced to cut
their education short. l have often
thought that very small per cent of
the cash value of the collection would
make an income sufficient to enable
me to keep the children in school"
Mrs. Dyche said that she did not feel
1t her place to try to arrange any such
conditions. however
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-04
LOOK TO AMERICA
Warning Nations Admit Conf
dence in United States.
ton, Is War Mad.
TELL US WHAT SANITY IS"
German Leader Says U. s. Must
Remain Cool Through All.
Abraham Lincoln Selected as
Type of Great Men.
TELL us WHAT SANITY IS"
(By william G. shepherd.)

10y w SHoPA0IQ-J
Washington, Sept. An wine, it
sometimes is said, there is truth. War
is Intoxicating. and, in the wine of
war there is truth. The nations of
Europe are drunk with war; their
masks are off; you can see them as
man shows his inner self so do the
war-drunk nations of Europe reveal,
to the careful observer, their inner
thoughts and motives.
The revelations of the war in Eu-
rope are not confined to the nations
of Europe, but extend to the United
States. A man who has been in Eu-
rope, knee deep in war, for the past
year, and then returns to the United
States, sees the land of the stars and
covered America.
The first discovery was in Europe.
In all the truthfulness of their war
intoxication, the Europeans showed
me the United States as they saw it,
and 1 was not ashamed, but proud.
THE United States is the conscience
of the world" said a famous German
college professor, now the German
army censor at Munich. THE world
has gone mad, but your land alone is
cool and sane and we. must look to
you, at the finish of this war, to tell
us what sanity is
At the English front. after day
in the trenches, I sat beside a CRATE
fire in a little hotel a few miles out
of shell fire; 1 didn't want to go to
bed, for fear of seeing again, in my
sleep, some of the sights I had wit
messed during the day. Perhaps the
British officers vino were sitting
around felt the same.
Talk of Abraham Lincoln.
Suddenly one of them spoke.
lone of the greatest men this world
ever say" he said, was Abraham
Lincoln. I've read every word 1 could
find about him, and my two little
daughters and two little sons know
everything about Abraham Lincoln
that 1 do
Yes" spoke up another British Of
ficer- do you know, I've heard Lin
coin mentioned ever so many times
lately. Something in this war, it seems,
appears to have turned attention to
Lincoln, though I can't tell why. I've
just read a book about him and
know ever so many people in London
who've done the same. The newspa-
pers keep quoting him all the time,
too
Its because he was always for the
underdog,' SAID the first officer.
He was brave and patient and kind
and honest. You know my children
love that story about him and the six
penny pieces he had in an old sock"
In London, some weeks later, at
several book stores 7 discovered there
had been a growing demand since the
war hogan for hooks on TjncSln
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-04
BerIin's Concessions Made i'm
Stroke Against Blockade.
Editor Slopes" q. s. Will Now
Yank Up John Bull.
WARM AVOWAL OF FRIENDSHIP
Tageblatt Says Differences
Were Only Temporary
Break, However, Nearer Than
TeutOnic People Thought.

Berlin, Sept. 4.-The news of the
settlement of the crisis between Ger
many and the United States by reason
of Germany modifying her submarine
campaign, has as yet evoked compare
lively little comment in the German
press. Public attention has been con-
centrated mainly on the victories in
the east and rumorS of an impending
new campaign, so that little discussion
on the American situation is being
heard.
Happy That Break Is Averted.
The Tageblatt and the Frankfurter
Zeitung, however, print leading edito-
rial articles, which evince hearty sat
United States has been averted and
express the hope that the relations
between the two countries from now
on will continue to improve.
The chief editor of the Tageblatt,
Theodore Wolff, after pointing out
that the situation has been far graver
than was generally assumed in Ger
many, argues that the understanding
with the United States was highly
desira BILE. not only because of the eff
feet which a break would have had on
the Balkan situation with it's delicate
negotiations, but because there could
be nothing more illogical for Germany
lima ENABLE than a conflict with the
United States over such a question.
Ultimate Result Not Affected.
1.-The submarine ISSUE" Herr Wolff
says, (which is capable of exercising
decisive effect upon the final out
come of the war, could scarcely have
been modified, but the concession that
passenger steamers will be torpedoed
only after a warning and after nom
combatants' safety has been assured,
this has not affected vitality the ulti-
mate result
Herr Wolff says he hopes and ex-
poets the American people will accept
the attitude of the German govern
mant as trustworthy proof of it's
peaceful and friendly disposition. He
hopes, too, that the American govern
ment Will take this into consideration
in future steps against England.
ct is further to be hoped" he adds,
chat no one in Germany will fail to
appreciate the motives which influ-
enced the choice of understanding in
stead of conflict. Our friendship
with the American people undeniably
has suffered during the war and
scarcely can be expected to regain it's
former warmth Immediately, but the
differences are of a temporary ma
ture There are no deep rooted con-
flicts of interests to perpetuate them.
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WIN KANSAS G. 0. P.

[Continued from Page One.l
districts the Republicans hope to win.
Just the particular district in when
there is the most hope for success is
vet uncertain. The Second district
might return to the Republican RANKS
with strong candidate in the field,
but as yet there has been nothing that
indicated more than passing alarm
for Congressman Taggart. The Fourth
district is in a muddle. Figuring Con-
gresham Doolittle OF of the running
is a slow and tedious process contln-
gent on many circumstances and con-
ditions In the Eighth Congressman
Ayers may and may not have serious
trouble. He started on his new job by
landing the revenue collectors office
for his district and he has Tive
following that is to be reckoned with.
Conditions, Republican leaders be-
lieve, will be shaped largely by the
action of the next national convention
Nomination of a Republican who can
enthuse the Kansas voters will, in the
judgment of the leaders, afford an eX
cellent opportunity to place the state
back in the Republican column. But
it is a long, tedious route to the next
election. The presidential preference
difficulties must be settled before the
national convention. The Wilson
strength must be broken in certain
districts. A presidential candidate
with the Kansas viewpoint must be
nominated. Then it is that the lead
ers expect to regain control of the
state. In this battle, it is generally
admitted, the election of a state tick
ct and a state legislature will be
matter of second concern. The battle
will be fought on national issues and
national characters will be relied upon
to win the fight.
Presidential Possibility to Kansas.
Kansas Republicans may have an
opportunity to hear one of the prcsi-
dental possibilities when they come to
Topeka January % for their annual
banquet. Walter Payne of Burlin-
game, candidate for state treasurer
and president of the Kansas Day club,
is hopeful of securing either Root,
Burton of Ohio or Borah of Idaho.
The question of a preference will be
submitted to the vice presidents of
the club at a meeting in Topeka this
fall.
Numerous requests have come 10
PAYNE concerning the selection of a
guest of honor at the 1915 banquet.
A majority of the requests, he stated,
have urged that Elihu Root of New
York be invited. Senator Burton of
Ohio has been second. with Senator
Borah of Idaho, a former Kansan,
third. Because of his age and the
fact that a western trip in mid-.Tinter
might endanger his health, it is doubt
full whether Senator Root can be in
duced to visit Kansas in January.
the presidential prospects will talk 30
dinner.
Price VIII Wait.
Senator w NJ. Price of Emporia, in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-04
SRIKE ON WEST FRONT.
Violent Engagements Believed to Be
Prelude to New Offensive.

London, Sept. 4.-Intense activity
of the artillery continues to be report
ed from the fighting front in France.
Paris alIudes to the last engagements
as of particular violence
Military observers abroad incline to
the belief that the persistent bonn
bardment of German positions pre-
sages an offensive movement by. the
entente allies in the west.
Petrograd in its latest statement ad-
rnits a retirement of the Russians to
the north bank of the Dvina, in the
sector where a desperate struggle to
protect Riga and the road to Petro-
grad is in progress. The German
forces in the region of Riga have APP
parently made little progress of late,
where the Russians claim to have as
sumed offensive operations and claim
to have gained ground against the
Germans, with the capture of more
than dozen machine guns and 800
prisoners.
Near East Still Puzzles
The English press again is showing
a keen interest in the diplomatic sit
uation in the near east ard in rumors
of tentative efforts in the direction of
peace negotiate 0nS-
1t is announced officially at Nish
that the final draft of Serbia's answer
to the note of the quadruple entente
is ready and will be presented shortly
1t is presumed here that the reply on
the whole will be favorable in regard
TO concessions TO bulgaria, alLAOuSn
little hope is entertained that Serbia
will grant her late enemy ali the ter
ritory demanded in Macedonia.
Compliance Means War.
AdviceS from Sofia indicate that I'M
less the whole of Macedonia is con-
coded, there is little chance of re-es-
tabliShment of the Balkan league. 1t
is pointed out in official circles at the
Bulgarian capital that compliance
with the program of the entente allies
means actual participation in the war,
while agreement to the request of the
central powers implies merely friendly
neutrality, expressed in permitting the
shipment through Bulgaria of arms
and other war supplies for the Turks.
Ears Open For Peace News.
Although it has been established
rather definitely that London has no
part in the initiation of informal
peace negotiations, it plain that
British officials ere keenly interested
in the news of activity in this direc-
ton. There are straws in the wind
which indicate that what are desig-
mated as proper peace overtures'' on
the part of Germany would meet with
consideration. However, the general
public, not so we'll informed as is the
government, probably would regard
such ovsrtures as premature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-04
New York stock Market.

Wall St, New York, Sept. .4.-STOCKS-
Today's short market session was more
or less perfunctory with dealings at low
ebb The turnover in the first hour barely
exceeded sixty thousand shares, with Colo
RADIO Fuel the chief feature at a gain, of
1% to 47A. Coal shares and trunk line
were taken up later, Norfolk and Western,
Western Maryland, c. and o. and Virginia
Iron, Coal and Coke, together with others
of that class, scoring advances. Leaders
like United States Steel, Union Pacific and
Reading were comparatively dormant,
though making general improvement. war
shares were yariably moderate, gains pre-
domino ting The close was strong.
Bonds were irregular.
The highest trading of the week attended
today's operations with few changes of i'm
portance. Leading railways were com
pletely neglected, there being no quotations
for Union Pacific or Reading during the
first fifteen minutes. War shares moved
sluggishly with one point gains each for
Bethlehem Steel at 2S5, Crucible Steel at
SO and Goodrich at 81 with a decline OF
as much for Lackawanna Steel at 6S1a.
United States Steel, American Car and
Colorado Fuel rose minor fractions, with
similar declines for Pressed Steel Car and
American Can. London's market for Amer
leans were txeremely dull with Union Pa
cific off Ia at 12S.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-04

Minneapolis wheat stocks decreased 115,-
600 bushels this week
The Armour Grain company estimates
the corn crop at 3 billion bushels.
Shipments of wheat from India this week
ara estimated at 5000 bushels.
Elevator stocks of wheat in Kansas City
have increased 1924 bushels thus far this
week and corn stocks increased LOCI bush
els.
Exports from the United States and Can
ada yesterday were PSI, 900 bushels of
wheat, 10000 barrels of flour and IA, coo
bushels of oats; wheat and flour combined
800 coo bushels.
Exports of wheat and flour from the
cardinp ta Rr rmn a1s2 In,s s1 40
bushels compared with 6.16j,000 bushels
last week and 9,T37 600 bushels year ago.
Corn shipments were 10000 bushels
Argentina exported 100000 bushels of
wheat this week, compared with $4,000
bushels last week and ga, 900 bushels a
year ago. Shipments since January L ag-
gregate 90.905. 600 bushels; a year ago 35.-
70S000 bushels. Corn shipments this week
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-04
kansas city Produce Market.

Kansas City, Sept. 4.-WHEAT-Cash !:
Market unchanged to &c lower No.
red, $1.11@113; No. 5, $1.O0Q11O.
CORN-Market unchanged to 112c lower.
No. 2 white, T01a@71c; No. 5, 70@1019c;
No, yellow, 7319@74c; No; 8, 721a@I3c.
- OATsa ,-.Ni 5se unchanged to lc lower.
@35hc.
RYE-S461S5c.
HAY-Market unchanged to lower. Choice
timothy, $12. 00@13.OO; choice prairie, $3.50;
choice alfalfa, S13. 5OG14.00.
WHEAT-Receipts 1872 cars.
BUTTER-Market unchanged.
EGGS-Market unchanged.
POULTRY-Market unchanged.
CLOSE: WHEAT-September DISC;
December, S6a4c; May, 90ssc.
CORN-SePtember, 6515c; December,
53A @53kc; May, 55Ac.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-04
Kansas city Live stock Market.

Kansas City, Sept. 4.-HOGS-Receipts
800. Market &c higher. Bulk Of sales;
s7.1OaT 65; heavy. S6.904755; packers and
butchers sT.00@7.7o; light, $7.25@770;
pigs. S1.00@7.65.
CATTLESReceipts 200. Market steady.
Prime fed steers. $9.4O0990; dressed beef
steers, S7.90@9.25; western steers, S6.5o@
s.75; southern steers, 59.15gs.Oo; cows,
and feeders. S600@S.35; bulls, $5.25G6.25 /;
SHEEPeMeReceipt 500 Market - steady y
wethers S5.5066.5o; ewes, S5.2506.O0 stock
ers and feeders, $5.O0QS.35.