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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
JUDGES ARE HAPPY
Judicial ReappOrtionment Bills
Are Killed by House.
Bird Substitute Measure Failed
to Meet General Approval.

Judicial reapportionment is dead
so far as this session of the legisla-
ture is concerned. The bill (which
passed the senate a week ago was
killed Friday night by the house jul
dicia1 apportionment committeeman
today the Kansas judges returned
home happy.
For two hours the house committee
fought over the provisions of the SEN
ate bill. Bird of Shawnee offered
substitute measure, providing for the
apportionment of the state into five
judicial districts. with % circuit
judges. But the Bird bill was not in
good standing and the committee re-
turned to the consideration of the
senate bill. The bill was voted down
and the committee today recommend
ed that the judicial apportionment
plan be forgotten so far as this ses-
sion is concerned.
A cutting down of the number of
district judges was recommended by
the governor in his message. It was
one of the vital administration meas
ures before the present legislature
and passed the senate with but little
opposition. In the house, however
there was much opposition to the bill
and the measure was defeated Friday
night when considered by 30 members
of the judicial apportionment COM
r1iftRa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
HIS wife NOW FREE.
Denver Man Who Broke Up Home for
Friend Gets Divorce.

Concordia, Kan, March 6.-An hour
after the news was received here that
a divorce had been granted to her
husband, John H. Bartleson, promi-
nent club man of Denver, who gave
up his wife that she might marry his
best friend with whom she had fallen
in love. Mrs. Bartleson, the wife, pur-
chased a ticket for Omaha, Neb., and
it is generally thought that she has
gone to meet the man with whom she
has fallen in love.
Bartleson. according to reports,
first learned of his wife's love for his
friend, Claude e. Griffey, at Denver
ball Both his wife and Griffey are
alleged to have made a full confession
to him, and thinking more of his wife
and friend than of his own happiness,
Bartleson decided to step down and
out and allow them to take up their
life together. His divorce was grant
ed on the grounds of infelicity.
Since the divorce proceedings began,
Griffey has denied the whole affair
and is quoted as saying: "Bartleson
might have wished his wife on anyone
of half dozen men. Why he picked
me, I do not know"
Mrs. Bartleson and her husband
both were former residents of Con-
cordia. After moving to Denver, Mrs.
Bartleson became affiliated with what
is known as 1.-The Sixty-Horse Power
society set
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
STARvE IN MEXICO
America Hears of Terrible Con-
ditiOnS in the South.
Appeal for Aid May Be Sent Out
Immediately.
PROTECT LIVES OF OTHERS
Action VIII Be Taken for Care
of Foreigners.
Washington Pessimistic Over
Outlook in Mexico City.

Washington, March 6.-Administra-
ton officials today awaited with tense
interest further development in the
grave situation in Mexico City where
starvation threatens.
Urgent representations by the Amer
lean government have been made to
General CarranZa through American
Consul Silliman that he direct his
commander, General Obregon. to &C
cept the proffer of aid to Mexico City
needy from the international relief
committee composed of foreign resi-
dents.
General Obregon, who had refused
to accept the proffer, is reported to
have declared that Mexico was in no
need of such aid.
Foreign diplomats here, however,
are pessimistic over the situation in
the Mexican capital. The American
government has appealed to Carranza
to instruct ObregOn to adopt meas
ures for the protection of lives and
property of foreigners if Mexico City
is evacuated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
LESS FOR BONDS.
Kansas Will Donate Less to Guaranty
Companies in East.

Kansas has departed from it's prac-
tice of giving substantial chunks of
business to the fidelity and guaranty
companies by assuming the expense
of the bonds of certain officials and
reducing the amounts of the bonds
The two principal cases to which this
applies are the wardenships of the
penitentiary and state reformatOry.
The bond of the warden at the peni-
tertiary, which has been maintained
at 100000 a year since the establish
ment of the state binding Irvine plant
there, has been reduced to $4,000. A
similar bond will be required of the
superintendent of the refOrmatory at
Hutchinson, who will have charge of
the Irvine plant to be set up there. The
warden and superintendent handle
the product sold to Kansas farmers
and considerable money passes
through their hands in harvest sea-
son.
The house Friday concurred in the
senate amendment to the penitentiary
budget which for the next biennium
is $380,240, where two years ago it
was 3S8,S32. The senate amend
ment had reference to the bonding
proposition which came up for a gem
eral discussion week ago in connec-
ton with the new reformatory Irvine
plant bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
SEARCH FOR MONEY.
Detectives in Chicago Believe They
Have Clue of Hidden 100000.

Chicago, March 6.-Search for the
hiding place of a sum supposed to be
$4,000, part of the loot in the S317,--
900 robbery of the branch Bank of
Montreal, at New Westminster, B. c.,
September Is, 1911, was begun here
today by a score of detectives as a
result of the arrest yesterday of two
men believed to be the ring leaders in
the robbery.
The men under arrest, George Web
ster and John Bingham, were caught
when the appeared at a private bank
and attempted to change Canadian
money into United States currency.
They had been trailed for several
months by private detectiXes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
DISCOVER A TENOR.
CoIored y. NJ. c. \. NIinstrels Reveals
Rare Musical Talent.

A wonderful tenor and yodeler of
Topeka was discovered last night at
the Colored Y. NJ. c. a. minstrels in
the person of Chauncey Jackson, the
son of Mrs. Della Jackson, 1853 Lin
coin street. The little cOlored boy,
he was only fourteen. fifteen, or there
abouts, and in knee pants, is possessed
with clear and almost flawless
voice, pitched high and accurate, and
he was encored and encOred repeated
" in his solo last night. His interpre-
tation of "Sleep, Baby Sleep" was far
better than that of the average
yodeler who appears at local vaude-
Vile houses. In the chorus, Chauncey
Jackson's voice rose above the rest.
His work was of a higher order than
that of any other home talent star in
recent years.
The MINISTRIES played to big house
at the Grand last night Hobart Nc
Afee and Grover Starns took the lead
ing comedy roles and did the end men
parts well. Albert Lacy sang a par
ticularIy comic song. The Silvsg.ISeaf
quartet harmonized on seveIH Ee1ec-
lions. "OId Hoss'' Martin ana Miss
Alice Murdoch gave a NaadeViile
sketch that was enjoyed. ksass til e
least. The well known bal rfsear-
ed in .hree different chaNWWWc% Gus
tune. The funds derived from the
entertainment will go to the Young
Mems Christian association. SJ
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
KILL PURE COFFIN" BILL
Senator VOLTS Suggestion Was Too
Much for Measure in Senate.

The pure coffin bill, as it was
dubbed in the course of its discussion
in the senate last night by Senator
c. B. Huffman of Cherokee, who OPP
posed it, finally failed by an almost
unanimous vote after the upper house
had had a lot of fun with it.
The bill was written by Senator
Lacey NJ. Simpson of Mcpherson
county with the idea of compelling
undertakes to keep their prices down
to a moderate level through the force
of publicity. He would require every
undertaken and embalmer to file
statement of his expenses and charges
in the care and burial of every body
handled by him.
After Senator Wolf of Franklin had
proposed a resolution that the under
takers report be enclosed in the casket
and buried with it, the senate killed
the bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
Wheat and flour combined were e1s, 900

Wheat and flour combined were 613,Ooo
bushels.
The Argentina visible supply of wheat
increased 1,656,000 bushels this week and
corn stocks decreased 391, 900 bushels. Total
wheat stocks are 6,992,000 bushels, com
pared with 100000 bushels a year ago !;
corn, 3. 715,000 bushels; a year ago $4,000
bushels.
Exports of wheat and flour from the
United States and Canada this week ac-
cording to Rradstreet's were s, 432 600 bush
els, compared with 1855. 600 bushels last
week and 3,5T,000 bushels a year ago
corn, 3, 715000 bushels a year ago Corn
shipments were 2,615,000 bushels oats g.
265, 600 bushels.
A cable from Argentina said sudden
abatement of export demand has caused
serious apprehension among holders of
the market at 71ad to Sd lower prices
Weather appears settled. Freight rates
are unchanged, but more boats are avail
able.
Argentina exported 5,193,oO0 bushels of
wheat this week, compared with 1872. 900
bushels last week and 2,736OO0 bushels
year ago. Shipments since January 1 ag-
gregate 1875, 900 bushels year ago IA
$4,000 bushels. Corn shipments this week
were 1,242,OO0 bushels, against 1878, 900
bushels last week and $4,000 bushels a
year ago. Total corn shipments since Jan
nary l are 24.079, 900 bushels; year ago,
- AS, 900 bushels. Oats exports were l.
$4,000 bushels.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
WAR IS TOO FAR AWAY
John r. Mott Says We Are Missing
Benefits of 1t.

Lawrence, Kan, March 6.-John r.
Mott, leader Of the great religious
campaign at the University of Kan
sas told seventeen hundred students,
plowed through knee-deep snow drifts
to hear him, that the people of the
United States were at a handicap by
being more than three thousand miles
from the seat of the great European
war. "Other nations are learning
what true fellowship really is and are
getting what little good is to be de-
rived from this deplorable struggle,
but we are too far removed to enter
into the spirit of the situation said
Mott.
'"The other neutral nations, espe-
cially Holland and Switzerland, are
learning to be really unselfish, and
their people cannot but be better men
and women for what they have done,
said Mott in explaining this point.
They have made every conceivable
sacrifice and have shown themselves
to be true Christians in the fullest
sense OF the word. In Holland, many
villages for time supported twice as
many Belgians as the original popula-
ton of the towns. The entire popula-
ton of Holland, originally six million,
is now supporting one million Belgian
refugees.
These people are doing this with
a real Christian spirit and are TAX
ing no advantage of the visiting wan
derers. For example, in many small
places in Holland, 1 saw the Dutch
women carrying their entire supply
of bread and milk, the staple foods,
to the public places so that the refu-
gees could obtain it more easily. Ev-
cry Dutch family has at least one out
cast in these frontier towns"
Mott thinks that this is entirely
holy war nd that it will occupy
more important place in religious his
tory than even the Thirty Years War.
He pointed out the fact that more
battles had been fought in a few
months in Europe than were fought
in four years of the Civil war, and
gives this as a reason for the terminal
ton of the struggle within one year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
WITH A BIG FLEET
Russia Soon VIII Be Hammer
ing at Turks Back Door.
New Dreadnaughts Garry Thir-
ty TWelve-Inch Guns.
TBy Ed. L. Keen.1

London, March 6.-That three new
Russian dreadnaughts, rushed to
completion at the Black sea ship
yards, have Joined the Russian fleet
in it's descent upon COnStantinOp1e
was the report in admiralty circles
today. The admiralty fatty refused
confirmation and declined to COM
ment on Bucharest dispatches that
the cars naval forces in the east are
steaming southwark to attack the OF
toman capital through the Bosphorus.
Before tomorrow night, according
to Bucharest dispatches, the Russian
Black sea fleet will be pounding at
the Bosphorus forts, less than Is
miles from Constantinople. The new
dreadnaughts, if they have been COM
pleted, will batter away at the east
ern approach to Islam'S capital with
thirty twelve-inch guns.
Supporting them in the battle are
believed to be six smaller Russian bat
tleShips.
The new Russian dreadnaughts are
the Ekaterina II, the Imperatriza
Maria and the Alexander III. Each
has a displacement of 22,500 tons.
They were laid down in the Russian
Black sea yards at Sevastapol and
Nekalaieff in 1911 and were launched
several months ago. From various
sources it was reported less than a
completed and had joined the Black
sea squadron.
If these reports are true, nine Rus
sian battleships, two protected CRUZ
sers and at least 20 smaller warcraft
are approaching ConStantinOple. In
armament the Russian fleet is vastly
superior to the Turkish naval forces
the BOSphOruS for a final defense of
the Turkish capital.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06

FURNISHED by s. f Lux.1
NAVEL oRANGEs@Pe,r box, $2.25@2'65.
FLORIDA GRAPEFRUIT = Per box,
1fMERfA GRAPEis@iPser bOl., 5000
LEMONs-Per box, s25O@4Oo.
APPLES-Jonathan, fancy, per box, $1.65.
Winesaps, per box, $1.5O; Gano, per box,
CRANBERRIEs-Pe Dbl, 500; per lb..
51ac:
SEED hbs SWEET PoTAToEs% o" fdT Jer-
seys,, per abbggs SIPS; Yellow Nansemonds.
II LETTUGE@Fancy hot house. soc.
HOLLAND CABBAGE-Crated. per Id /.
BEETs-Per bu, 75c
PPA ABSHns Pc , bu.' S 55c
SPANISH oNfoNs, Per. crate. s1so
6 REo& GL S4s ONIONS NC S By s. 10
r. EA FTI GSTdSEt d$9z:' q, 4oe. 4oa
NEW BEETS-Per doz., 40c
FANCY FLORIDA TOMAToEs-Per
er FSNG 8 % FLORIDA roMAroEs-choice.
ULfFEoWER-Per crate. $3.50; per
y M fTSls' sIi5f BURBANK POTATOES
GENUINE RED RIvERs-Per bu.. s1oo.
NORTHERN RURALS-Per bu., csc.
CELERY-Per bunch, S5c.
OYsTERs-35@4Oc per can; s1.5O61.sO
COCOANUTS-Per doz., Soc; per sack,
original, soc.
HoNBY..,NSo. 1 White Comb, Colorado,
P P9 G G8RNPer oI ID az: Sack. contain
ing 100 lbs, per h., 315c.
BULK DATES-SAc per ID; package
dates, box, $2.75
HORSE RADTsH-Doz. bottles. 9oc
Topeka Hay Market.
furnished by A Beck -I2-21t f stnl
Topeka. Kan. March g,
PRAIRIE HAY-S10.Oh
ALFA IF s12W
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
Pure SMELL BILL FAILS
Senate Wouldn't Legislate Against
Kansas City Stockyards.

The Davis bill for the suppression
of Smells" failed of final passage in
the senate last night. Senator Davis
comes from the county of Bourbon
where the air is fresh and bracing,
but he has to pass through Kansas
City to get here for the legislature
and he is offended by the doors en-
anating from the packing houses and
glue factories of that metropolis.
His idea would be to empower the
board of health to suppress the OBJ
jectionable odors arising from them,
but the senate interfered. So far as
the present session is concerned the
corporations which defile the natural
Iy pure Kansas atmosphere with the
by-prOduct Odors of their activities
need have no alarm on this score.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06

lie mind for it. But those same news
papers were carrying, day after day,
the forceful unresistible advertise
ments prepared by LeBas.
The question of football and sports
came up in the public prints. LeBas
countered with:
Halt! Go into training and help
the boys at the 'front.'
Then arose talk about the neces-
sity for some sort of badge to those
who had been refused on account of
health. 1t was a popular theme. Lee
Bas had his word to say:
IF you cannot join the army, try
to get a recruit
The army council and Kitchener
can almost put their fingers on the
day and hour when the torrent broke.
The battering of advertising had done
its work. Recruits began to come in
faster than they could be equipped.
That was five weeks ago.
The tide has been flowing ever
since.
But LeBas is still at it. For in
stance, there was a spell of peace talk
and everybody began to hopefully
ask: when will the thing be set
tied ?' 1t was a dinner table question,
you heard it everywhere. And LeBas
answered, in glowing advertise
ment:
What in the end will settle this
war? Trained men. 1t is your duty
to become one"
LeBas's job isn't done yet. He's
still on it. incidentally, he works for
nothing. He knew that, if the Eng
lish people knew the true facts and
pondered them long enough, they
would fight without CONSUMPTION. And
what is advertising but letting the
people know? There are plenty of
new features in this war, but LeBas' S
advertising campaign in England is
perhaps the twentieth centuriest
thing that has been done in the great
EInrOnean Struerple
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
TODAY'S MARKET REPORT.

Chicago, March 6.--wHEAT = Wheat
made sharp advance in price today, in
fluenced by firmness of auctions at Liver.
pool and by reports of a continuance of
urgent cash demand this side of the
Atlantic. In addition there were advices
from Petrograd saying the belief here that
immense shipments of wheat from Russia
would be made as soon as the DardanelIes
were opened was unfounded. Unfavorable
weather in Argentina counted also against
the bears. After opening 11sc Ito 31ac
higher, the market scored a moderate fur
Their gain and then steadied at a reaction
of about 1 cent
1t was estimated that exports sales in
the United States today aggregated 1,000,-
600 bushels. The close here was steady at
2Mc to 31sc above last night.
CORN-Lively buying the part of
commission houses carried corn up grade.
Offerings were limited, and in the main
were from pit Spectators. The opening,
which varied from the same as last night
to &c higher, was followed by a decided
general advance.
Strength of wheat formed the chief prop
for corn. The close was firm at A@Nc
net advance.
OATS-Oats ranged higher with other
cereals. Demand from the seaboard was
again in evidence.
PROVISIONS-Stre in the hog mar
ket gave a lift to provisions. There was
unusually free buying in small lots.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06

sues indicating profit taking. Gains were
almost entirely confined to specialties, in
Guiding the Tobacco group, Republic Steel
preferred, California Petroleum preferred,
and local fractions. Harvester corpora
ton rose IA points, the preferred, however,
declining Az. American Locomotive pre-
ferred fell points to its minimum
of 20 and Pressed Steel Car common
and preferred also dropped to new estab-
Hshed prices. The closing was heavy.
Bonds were steady.
Minor recessions from yesterdays close
were recorded in today's early stock mar
ket dealings, the heaviness of American
stocks in London probably contributing
to this result Changes in the active divis-
ion were confined to fractions, Union Pa
cific, Southern Pacific, Reading and Unit
ed States Steel being slightly lower. while
Central Pacific and a few specialties made
nominal gains. The only market variations
were a decline of 41a points in Harvester
corporation preferred adm an advance of
IA points in the common. Pressed Steel Car
broke points.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
BUYERS ARE CAUTIOUS
Retailers Are Purchasing in Il Hand to
Mouth Fashion.

New York, March 6.-R. G. Dun &
Campany's Review of Trade says:
conditions in business are very
much mixed. Total transactions are
stin below those of recent years.
There is a large attendance of retail
distributors in the textile markets but
as a rule, they buy in comparatively
small lots. for immed date needs and
keep their stocks low. Some improve
ment is noted in the shoe industry.
Large sales are reported of automo-
biles. Comm odity prices generally are
lower. Conditions in anthracite are
better, but the bituminouS coal situa-
ton is unsatiSfa Glory.
Exports continue very heavy. not
withstanding the risks of shipping.
During the last week of February
there was a trade balance for the
United States of nearly 100000 900,
while for the last three months it
amounts to $411,00O,000. Evidence
accumulates of a transference of
financial power and commercial OPP
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
FOR WORLD PEACE.
Senator Burton Predicts Happy Out
come of Present War.

Washington. March 6.-Speaking at
dinner given in their honor by the
American Peace society executive
committee last night, former Senator
Burton of Ohio and Representative
BarthoIdt of Missouri prophesied that
world peace would be the natural re-
suit of the European conflict. Mr..
Bartholdt declared that the pacificists
are holding their own in spite of the
war which is writing an argument for
peace in blood
be written when the times comes by
the war parties. If the kaiser has any
voice in the dictation of the peace
terms I am sure that he will insist
uDOn disarmament
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
TO MARK HIGHWAYS.
Good Roads Bill Passes Senate-Drag
Work.

The senate has finally passed the
Bowman good roads bill and the
Simpson bill providing for the mark
ing of state highways and the regis
tration of names and insignia adopted
by highway associations and has sent
both bills to the house of representa-
tives.
Another bill by Simpson which was
passed by the upper house looks to
the more frequent and general drag
ging of country roads, particularly in
the winter. Particular attention will
be given to keeping mail routes pass
able at all seasons of the year. The
Simpson bill permits the expenditure
of up to SIS a mile a year for drag
ging.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
CENTRAL PARK MEETING
Parent-Teachers' Association Carry
ing Out Interesting Programs.

The Central Park Parent-Teachers
association holds evening meetings
once a month. It has been the prac-
tice to have the principal part of the
program in the hands of some mem
Dor of the supervisors of the city
schools. The February meeting was
in charge of Miss Mildred Hazelrigg,
the supervision of music. The pro-
gram was rendered by one hundred of
the scholars of the Central Park
school. A school victrola was pur-
chased at this meeting.
The program was taken from the
every day work of the school and
children from every grade partici-
pated in it. A large audience attended
the meeting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
Kansas City Produce Market.

Kansas City, March 6.-WHEAT-Cash !:
Market 2Q3c higher. No. hard, 81 800
LAO; No. 3, $1.3s614O; No. 2 red, $i.39; No.
3, $13S.
CORN--Market unchanged to lie higher
No. mixed, zoe; No. 8, 69c; No. white
114@72c; No. 5, 7013@71c; No. yellow,
Tic; No. 3, zoe. 3 -.
OATS-Market unchanged to &c higher
No. white, 5512c; No. mixed, 521a @l53c.
RYE-Market unchanged.
HAY-Market unchanged.
WHEAT-Receipts 20 cars.
BUTTER-Market unchanged.
EGGS-Market unchanged.
POULTRY-Market unchanged.
CLOSE WHEAT-May, 81. 321s; Septem-
Der, $1.015s. =.
Der, 1880.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
Kansas civ Live stock Market.

Kansas City, March 6.-HOGS-Receipts
sales, $6.7o@e.75; heavy. s6.7O@6.75; pack
$50; pigs, $62506.60.
CATTLE-Receipts 300. Market steady
Prime fed steers, SS.25@S.75; dressed beef
steers. $7.00@S.25; western steers, $675@
$50; southern steers, $6.00@7. so; cows,
and feeders, $6,0o@7.so; bulls, $55O@6.75;
SHEEP-Receipts 1000. Market steady
Lambs, $900@9.60; yearlings. $775dS.75;
wethers, $7.O06775; ewes, S6.75Cl7 so stock
ers and feeders, $525@S.50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06

portunities to the United States from
the warning nations across the Allan
tic, and that the International ex-
changes will favor this country to such
an extent there will be heavy bal
ance in our favor, not merely in mer-
chandise, as usual, but in the entire
aggregate of foreign transactions.
Bank -clearings for the week to-
tailed S3,114,331,717, a decrease of LIZ
per cent as compared with the same
week last wear"