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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-11
Serbia Shows Willingness to
Make Important Concessions.
ENTENTE ALLIES find FAVOR
Germany'S Foes Make HeadWay
in Diplomatic Storm.
Greece Declared to Have Adopt
ed COnciIiatOry Attitude.
BY HENRY WOOD.

Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug. 10.-(De-
iayed)-The possibility that Bulgaria
may yet abandon her neutrality and
fall upon the back of Turkey was ma
terially increased today by news
reaching here from other Balkan cap
itals.
The Bulgarian foreign office was
informally told that Serbia is willing
to make important concessions if
Rumania and Greece adopt a more
conciliatory attitude In the present ne
gotiations. The nature of the mes
sage from Athens was not discussed
but representatives of the allies de-
clared it contained representations
from the Grecian government that
aroused the highest hopes that both
Greece and Bulgaria may reach an
agreement and enter the war on the
side of the allies.
The effect of the fall of Warsaw
and the continued retreat of the Rus
slams cannot be Overestimated.
Through the publication of German
statements telling of great German
victories the people are led to believe
that a triumph for Germany in the
end is ineVita BILE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-11
AT. REID is A HERO
TOpekan Rescued Woman I'm
Bath Tub at Fair.
Mrs. Van Tuyl of LeavenWOrth
Para1yzed by Electricity.

San Francisco, Cal. Aug. 11.-Mrs
Effie Van Tuyl. of Leavenworth, Kan.
official hostess to the exposition from
Kansas, barely escaped a freak cleo
trocution while bathing in her suite
at the Kansas building yesterday
morning. Mrs. Van Tuyl was ending
her bath when an unusual thing hap
pened. An electric wire from the
lavatory ceiling. highly charged,
dropped from a hook and landed on
her back The voltage of the wire
was magnified by the short circuit of
water human flesh and current.
The woman, paralyzed by the shock,
screamed. She was absolutely help
less to move. Her frantic efforts to
jerk the wire away Was useless. Sew
eral shouts brought help.
Albert T. Reid of Topeka, commfs-
sioner general of the Kansas commits
sion, broke through the heavy door.
Mrs. Van Tuy1 lay unconscious in the
water. Reid ran to the switch closet
and turned off the wiring current to
the bath.
DR.. Dignan. of the emergency hos
pital, administered an anaesthetic and
diagnosed her case as a near freak
DEATH He said that if Reid had not
found the woman until five minutes
later she would have been dead.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-11
CARRANzA DEFIES u. S:
ATLANTIC FLEET TO GO
MEXICAN TROOPS In TEXAS
SEEK To INCITE UPRISING

Washington, Aug. 11.-Reports
have reached here that more than
I 1000 Carranza troops from the
command of General Navarette, in
the state of" Tamaulipas, have
moved over into Texas in the terri
tory surrounding Brownsville and
have scattered into bands to rally
Mexicans in the state with the an
nounced purpose of beginning an
uprising.
They are reported to be under
command of Juan de Los Santos,
Eincente Davila and Carlos Garcia.
War department officials would not
discuss the report, but it was said
to be in their possession and prob
ably would be one of the CeasOnS
for moving troops to the border.
Laredo, Tex, Aug. IA request
for more troops i'm the Laredo dis
trict because of bitter feeling of
some MeXicanS over the non-rec-
ognition of Carranza was wired to
the state department today by
United States Consul AIOnZo b.
Garrett at Nuevo Laredo, opposite
here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-11
BANDITS ARE CONE
Maple Hill Robbers Have
Dropped From Sight.
Bank Is Open Again and Excite
ment Subsidies.

Maple Hill is again the quiet town
that it was thirty-five hours ago be-
fore six bold bandits robbed the
Stockgrowers State bank of $4,000. ac-
cording to information received here
today. The bank was opened for busi-
ness today, Sheriff William Addie did
not go over from Alma, and the
routine activities of the town were re-
sumed.
No clue of any kind has been found
or heard of as to the whereabouts cf
the robbers. They disappeared as mys-
teriously as they came, leaving a
blown" safe, a battered bank build
ing, and 800 wildly excited citizens.
1t is believed by some that the
bank was looted by a gang of Okla
homa robbers, who have made raids
recently into other small towns i'll
Kansas. w. E. Atchison, adjustor for
a burglar insurance company, stated
that the work showed clearly that
the men were professionals.
The authorities think that there IS
little chance of catching the bandits
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-11
ENTENTE ALLIES THROW
so, 900 FRESH TROOPS into
new DRIVE ON PENINSULA

COnstantinople, Aug. 8, via Ber-
lin, Aug. 11.-(By wireless to Say
vile. )-Enver PaSha. the Turkish
minister of war declared today that
the entente allies in their latest
operations at the DardanelIes had
landed three divisions of troops,
comprising about $4,000 men. The
losses among them, however, he
asserted, already had been very
heavy.
EnVer PaSha'S statement was
made in an interview with a cor
respondent of the Associated Press.
The Turkish war minister said:
81 am fully confident that we
will be able to keep the allies in
check on the Gallipol peninsula.
even if other large reinforccm.nts
are coming. We knew that the
allies action of two days ago was
due and we prepared for it. with
the result that we Were not caught
mapping.
"Accor1ing to my Information
the allies landed three divisions,
about $4,000 men.
mo doubt part of them no
longer count, considering the heavy
losses sustained in attacks incl
dent to the new offensive"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-11
SIX ARE INDICTED
Four Company Officers Held in
EastIand Horror.
True Bills Against Captain and
Boats Engineer.

Chicago. Aug. 11.-Indictments
charging manslaughter and criminal
carelessness were returned before
Judge Kersten in the criminal court
today in connection with the East
land disaster.
The captain and engineer and four
officers of the st. JOseph-ChicagO
steamship company, owners of the
boat, are named follows:
George 7. Arnold, president of the
company.
William H. Hull, vice president and
general manager.
w. C. Steele, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Ray w. Davis, assistant secretary
treasurer.
Harry Pedersen, captain of the
Eastland.
John NJ. Erickson, engineer.
Bonds were fixed at $4,000 each
for the company officials and $40. 600
each for Pedersen and Erickson. The
two last named are charged with
criminal carelessness, and the officials
with manslaughter.
Separate bills were returned against
the captain and the engineer while the
four officials were named in a joint
Indictment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-11
MEXICO AV0LCAN0
Washington Waits Eruption,
With Keenest Anxiety.
Navy and War Departments
Prepared to Act Quickly.
WATCH TWO TROUBLE SPOTS
Outbreaks Possible at Vera
Cruz and at Capital.
Two Warships on Way; More
May Go From Haiti.
TWO TROUBLE SPOTS
BY CHARLES p. STEWART.

Washington Aug I1.-Mexican de-
velopments were awaited here today
with intense anxiety.
Navy and war department officials
were prarit7.ssS - act with the shortaSt
notice, according to advices from Vera
Cruz. New York and directly from the
president at Cornish.
A sudden alarm was deemed likeli-
est from Vera Cruz.
There or at Mexico City an anti-for-
eign outbreak of violence was con-
sidered a possibility.
Protection for foreigners, it was said
at the navy department, could reach
Vera Crus most quickly from Haitien
waters, where a number of warShipS
are concentrated as II result of the re-
cent disorders at Cape Haitien and
Port au Prince. Orders, it was un-
derstood, have been sent to Admiral
Caperton to hold an adequate naval
force in readiness to make the run to
the Mexican coast without delay in re-
sponse to possible emergency sum-
mons.
The battleships New Hampshire and
Louisiana, which sailed from Newport
Tuesday, were believed to be steaming
to the same destination, but owing to
the great distance could not reach it
as speedily, even with their present
start as the vessels in Hitien waters.
In effect the navy department de-
clared at a. m. today that no an
nouncement will be made concerning
the destination of the battleships New
Hampshire and Louisiana until that
destination has been reached. This
was considered as meaning that Vera
Cruz was an absolute certainty, as
there could be no possible reason for
secrecy were they bound for any other
port.
Attack Delays Minister.
The Brazilian minister's train on it's
way from Mexico City to Vera Cruz
was delayed by a ZapatiSta attack on
a train which preceded it, according
to state department dispatches from
Consul Silliman, Vera Cruz, today
The message was dated just before
midnight.
A later dispatch. dated 1 a. M, said
lister to arrive in Vera Cruz before
noon today.
The Brazilian minister was report
ed to be bringing to the United States
a strongly worded appeal from Amer
leans In Mexico City to send Amer1-
can relief from conditions declared to
have become intolerab BILE.
All accounts agree that every con-
Slderatlon was shown to the minister
by Carranzista authorities in the cap
ital.
Four Americans to Prison.
Laredo, Aug. 11.-Passengers ar
irving from Tampico today reported
that four American residents of that
city have been sentenced to long peni-
tentiary terms charged with counter
felt1ng- 1t was reported that these
Americans had been placed aboard the
Mexican gunboat Bravo and sent to
Vera Cruz.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-11
Fifty-TwO Million Dollar Ship
ment Reaches New York.
Precious Cargo Carried Across
in Conveyed BattIeship.
ALL SEA RECORDS BROKEN
Wealth Conveyed In ArmOred
Train From Halifax.
Greatest Precautions Taken
German Plot to Wreck.

New York Aug. 11.--A special train
carrying s52,000,000 worth of gold
and securities which had been ship
ped by the Bank of England from
London, by the way of Halifax, N. s.,
to this city, arrived here today. The
train was composed of several steel
cars and was guarded by forty armed
men.
American Double Eagles
Of the total shipment, $35, 900, 900
was in gold and was believed to be in
the form of American double eagles.
The weight of the gold shipment was
to be the largest shipment of gold ever
sent across the Atlantic ocean in one
vessel. 1t was brought over in a
British battleship, which was con-
voyed through the war zone and
across the ocean by a cruiser and a
flotilla of torpedo boat destroyers, to
guard against an attack of German
submarines.
The cost of transferring it from Lon
don to New York was estimated today
to have been $250,000.
1t was said the British battleship
brought over not only the $4,000, 600
in gold and securities for New York,
but also a shipment of gold destined
sent gold amounting to $135 ,000,0 600 to
New York.
Greatest Secrecy Maintained.
Secrecy was maintained in sending
this great shipment of gold and pre-
cautions were taken to prevent the
German secret service from discover
ing the plan or route of forwarding it.
AT Halifax it was delivered into the
custody of the American Express
company and when the armed train
left that city it was preceded by a
pilot engine for the purpose OF testing
bridges, and to Illustrate any attempt
to wreck the train by the use of dyna-
mite.
This precaution was suggested by
the exploit of Werner Horn, the Ger
man reservist, who attempted TO blow
up the St. Croix river bridge on Feb
ruary 2, to stop shipments of muni-
tionS to the allies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-11
DAWSON PAID 1T BACK
Returned to State Expense Money
Collected in Gas Case.

John S. Dawson, as attorney, last
year returned to the state treasury
S610.21 collected as expenses in the
Kansas Natural Gas company cases.
The return of the money to the state
is presumed to have followed the re-
tention of Dawson as a private attor-
ney for the receivers in the gas litiga-
ton.
Records in the office of Earl Akers,
state treasurer, show that Dawson last
year made two returns to the state of
expenses collected in the gas suits
April 3, 1914. he returned to the state
a total of $323.71, while on November
- he returned to the treasury
S2S6.50. Recently the public utilities
commission learned from an investi-
CATION of the gas company records
that Dawson had been allowed sS,S25
as attorney for the receivers The
claim was allowed by Judge Flannelly
of the Montgomery county district
court.
At present Dawson is in California
with members of his ramily.
This week Governor Capper re-
quested a legal opinion in the case in
a formal letter to S. NJ. Brewster at
torney general. Brewster stated to-
day that he had not as yet investi-
gated the matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-11
TO KEEP BELGIUM
German Professors Outline
Ideas of Peace Terms.
Want More Than Poland From
Gar: Wide SWath in France.

Berne Cvia Paris), Aug. 1.-THE
Tagwacht prints the text of a mani
festo issued by a group of German
professors and intellectualS enumer-
ating their ideas of the only accept
able peace terms. These, according
to the manifesto, must insure the
free expansion of German culture, in
dustry and commerce.
Belgium for military and CONNER
cial purposes must be subject to Ger
many.
France must cede to Germany all
territory north of a line from Bel
fort to the mouth of the river Somme
and pay a large indemnity.
Russia must cede Poland and the
greater part of the Baltic provinces
and other territory, in lieu of indem-
nifty which she could not pay.
The manifesto is signed by Pro-
fessors Meincke, Seeberg and Schaefer
of Berlin university; Onoken of Hell
delberg; Schumacher of Reichenau;
Director Kirdolin of the Gelsenkirchen
mines, and Imperial Minister Won
Schwerin, mayor of Frankfort -on-the-
Oder
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-11
TELLER IS Thief
Cedar Rapids Banker COnfesses
He Robbed Vault.
Story of Bold HOIdup by
Stranger a Myth.

Cedar Rapids. Iowa. Aug. 11.-Ac-
'cording to the police, Leo Perrin, pay
ing teller of the Cedar Rapids Ma
tional bank, which was robbed of
S20,070 week ago. today confessed
that he committed the robbery.
At the time of the robbery, Perrin
claimed he had been held up by a rob-
Der, who compelled him to hand over
the money and then locked him in
the bank vault.
Perrin was found in the vault in an
apparently hysterical condition and
taken to a hospital.
Perrin, it is said. admitted he took
the money to settle debts incurred in
land speculation.
Perrin has not been arrested and un-
less the Baltimore company which
furnished his bond decides on prose-
cution, he may not be arrested.
OF the $27, ,070 taken from the bank,
$4,000 was found sewed in a sofa pill
low at the home of Perrin's mother
and $4,000 was turned over by an at
torney to whom he had given it as re-
tainer. No explanation has been made
of the whereabouts of the other
$10.070.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-11
Some Advances Granted in
Western Rate Decision.
Plea for Boost Turned Down in
Half of Cases.
GRAIN TARIFFS NO HIGHER
Charges for Carrying Livestock
Are Unchanged.
Coal, Fruit and Vegetables
Come in for Increase.

Washington, Aug. 1.-THE inter
state commerce commission today
gave its decision in the western freight
rate case, allowing advances in btu
minous coal, coke, fruit and vege-
tables, and denying increases on grain.
live stock, packing house products.
fertilizers and broom corn. The de-
cision allows some of the increases
asked and denies almost an equal
number.
The advances which the roads are
allowed are comparatively small. On
items which would have netted the
greatest revenue, the increases were
denied.
On the ground that their income
was too low, the roads asked for in
creases in carload rates on commodi-
ties, but did not ask for any uniform
advance. Their program would have
increased their income approximately
ten million dollars a year.
The commission summarized it's de-
cision as follows:
Proposed increased carload rates on
grain and grain products considered
a. one modify, not justified.
Proposed increase from 10000
pounds to 10000 pounds in the mini
mum carload weight of grain prod
ucts, justified.
Live Stock Rates the Same.
Proposed increased carload rates
on live stock, not justified.
Proposed increased carload rate on
packing house products and fresh
meats, except as indicated between
TContinued on Page Two.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-11
BATTLE IN HAITITERROR ON BORDER
No Letup on Part of Mexican
Ranch Raiders.
Toll of Ten Dead Reported in
Twenty-FOur Hours.

Brownsville, Aug. 11.-Eorty
or fifty MeXicanS were in a rum
ming fight this afternoon about
twelve miles from Harrington
with a detachment of soldiers re-
inforced by a citizens posse. These
same MeMcanS were seen earlier
in the day trotting their horses
westward toward Mercedes. There
were about forty of them.
Washington, Aug. lin ac-
cordance with Secretary Lansing's
announcement yesterday, that it
might be necessary to strengthen
the forces on the border because
of brigandage, orders probably will
go out soon to army posts to hold
troops i'm readiness if not actually
to move them. Secretary Garri-
son returned today and conferred
with his staff on the subject.
Brownsville. Tex, Aug. 11.-No
lessening of activities on the part of
Mexican ranch raiders in the Rio
Grande valley was indicated in reports
reaching here in the last "a hours.
These told of numerous attacks by
the bandits and of several battles be-
tween the Mexicans and soldiers. Ten
men were reported to have been killed
in the battles yesterday and last night,
bringing the death list since the com
mencement of the outrages by the
raiders up to nearly twenty.
Americans Among Bandits.
The ten dead included one United
States trooper, four Americans, be-
lieved to be members of the bandit
bands, and five MeXicans.
The trooper was killed last night al
Palm Gardens, near Mercedes, Tex
when he with several other cavalry
men was attacked by a party of Mex
lean bandits who appeared suddenly
out of the darkness, shot at the sol
diers and quickly disappeared.
The Mexicans, according to reports
had cut the telephone wires connect
ing Palm Gardens with Mercedes. A
farmer found the break, connected
the wires and reported the shooting
to Mercedes.
Another Battle Expected.
Additional soldiers and a posse OF
citizens Immediately left for Palm
Gardens. News of their possible
with the bandits was awaited
today.
The latest trouble to be reported oc-
CURED at Sebastian, Tex, early today,
where two Mexican bandits, captured
by Texas Rangers last night, attempt
ed to escape and were shot and killed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-11
Won SANDERS OUT
German Officer Withdrawn
From Turkish Command.
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg His
Successor.

London, Aug. 1.-THE grand duke
of Mecklenburg, according to the
Athens correspondent of the Star, has
been appointed -chief
of the Turkish forces in the Darda-
nelles. succeeding Field Marshal
Liman Won Sanders.
Field Marshal Won Sanders has
been one of the leading figures in the
reorganization of the Turkish mill
tary system, brought about in recent
years under German tutelage. With
Field Marshal Won der Goltz, also
German, he has been active in direct
ing the Turkish army during the war,
and for a time was in charge of the
Ottoman forces a the DardanelleS. 1t
seriously wounded in battle on Cal
1ipoli peninsula. Later it was said his
injury was sustained at the hands of
Turkish soldiers. Enver Pasha, the
Turkish minister of war was said to
have assumed command of the forces
of the peninsula, and it was reported.
without confirmation, that Field Mar
shall Won Sanders had been recalled
to Berlin.
The Stars Athens dispatch does not
make it clear whether it was Grand
Duke Frederick Francis of Mecklen-
burg -Schwerin, or Grand Duke Adolph
Frederick of Mecklenburg-S -Strelitz.
who is now said to have been named
as Field Marshal Won Sanders success
sor.
The grand duke OF Mecklenburg-
Schwerin is general of Prussian
cavalry and a brother-in-law of the
German crown prince. Unofficial dis
patch from London last October said
he was a prisoner of the Belgians. The
grand duke of Mecklenburg-Str is
a colonel of the Prussian army and
took the field soon after the outbreak
of the war
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-11
WEATHER IS IDEAL.
Clear Sky and Temperature Below
Normal

The sky was clear today in all sec
tions of the state. The temperature
was below normal for this date, max
ing an ideal weather combination.
The minimum temperature was 81
degrees at Topeka this morning; it
occurred at O'Clock.
The stage of the Kaw river was II
feet even today, a "a hour fall of Ia
feet.
The forecast calls for unsettled
weather tonight and Thursday with
probable showers in the West-central
portion of the state tonight.
The temperature averaged degrees
below normal this afternoon. Clouds
began to form and the barometer to
drop. There is a chance that there
will be a shower tonight; conditions.
at least, will be unsettled. The wind
was four miles an hour from the
northeast this afternoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-11
GIRL STAYS ASSAILANT
Coroner's Jury Quickly Exonerates
Miss Who Shot to Save Honor.

Van Buren, Ark, Aug. 11.-Miss Ethel
Dickerson, Is years old, daughter of
a farmer, near here, shot and killed
Walter Holiday, 80 years old. Ac-
cording to the girl, Holiday attempted
to assault her and she shot to pro-
tect herself
Following the killing a coroner's
jury was summoned, and after hear
ing the girls story returned a verdict
generating her.
Miss Dickerson testified the man
attempted to tie her. She escaped,
she said. and seizing a loaded shotgun
with which he had tried to intimidate
her, shot her assailanu.