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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
JOKER IN new LAW
Somebody Slipped One Over on
the Last Legislature.
The InquisitiOn Statute Is De-
cIared To Be Worthless.

Again the legislative jokesmiths
pie of Kansas in the guise of j benefit
cent state law which in reality is a
worthless piece OF legislation that cost
something to print and may cost a
little more in the time of the attor-
ney generals department in proving
that it is worthless before the courts.
1t is the new inquisition law under
which it was expected that the artor-
ney general, his assistan mt, or Il county
attorney, could summon witnesses and
take testimony for the establishment
crime when in his belief it were desir-
able. 1t was an application of the
Kansas liquor inquisition law to all
forms OF crime. 1t gave the public
prosecutor means for the invests CATION
of his suspicious of a murder or other
crime which he may now use for the
investigation Of n supposed violation
of the prohibitory law.
But somebody put joker into the
new law After laying it out in the
form proposed and recommended by
the attorney generals department in
its latest report published just be-
fore the legislature convened, the new
inquisition law contains n provision
limiting the application of the act to
cases of fugitiVeS from justice where
the county attorney requires informa-
ton as to the fugitive's location.
THAT act means absolutely moth
ing" declared S. NJ. Brewster, attor-
ney general, today ut defeats its own
end and the provision limiting it's ap-
plicati probably defeats it's utility
for any purpose. There's nothing TO
do but tc work up a test case for the
object of trying it out by actual use.
iS OrfH HloSS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
j. r.. KOOntz Has Just Com
pIeted an Exhaustive Inquiry.
DAMAGE IN EAST PORTION
Ranges All the Way From Five
to 40 Per Cent.
Less Than Million Acres Is a
Total Loss.

The Kansas wheat prospects still
are encouraging, Notwithstanding the
Hessian fly and chinch bug ScareS
which have for several days occupied
prominent positions in the newspa-
pers, according to J. r. Koontz, gen.
eral freight agent of the Santa F'e
railway company, who has just COM
pleted an exhaustive inquiry into the
situation. The following statement,
prepared by Mr.. Koontz for the State
Journal, tells the story:
There is foundation for the many
rumors which have prevailed during
the last five days, regarding damage
to growing wheat by fly, bug and
other causes. An analysis of the Kan
sas situation, predicated upon over a
thousand telegraphic reports, togeth-
er with personal Investigations made
by competent field representatives,
justifies, at this writing, these con-
clusions:
ION the east of a line from Super
ior, Neb., south through Salina, New
ton and Wichita, thence southwest
through Wellington to Caldwell, the
a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
Reds Sent to Relief by Villa Not
Likely to Fight Brothers.
THREE YANKEES ALREADY DEAD
Navy Department Gets Confir-
nation of Fatalities.
Washington Plans to Land Men
From Battleships.

Los Angeles, Cal, May 15.-Fifty
American men are surrounded near
Esperanza, Sonora, today by over
whelming numbers of Yaqui Indians.
This was made known by advices
received here by Charles F. O'Brien,
owner of a ranch in the Yaqui valley.
According to reliable Information
the force under General Sosa, Villa
commander, sent TO aid the Americans,
is composed mostly of Yaquis and can
not expected to fight their brothers
besieging the Americans
Jose Maytorena, governor of Sonora,
is said to have gained the support of
the Yaquis in his fight against the
the lands originally belonging to the
Yaquis and now held by foreigners.
The unrest of the Indians began when
they came to believe the Mexican
leaders would not and could not re-
deem their promises
z. o. Stocker, one of the men report
ed injured, telegraphed his wife here
he was well. William Stocker is
wounded.
Three Known Dead.
Washington, May 15.-That three
Americans had been killed by Yaqui
Indians near Esperanza, Mexico, was
confirmed in a message received by
the navy department today from Ad-
m1ral Howard, IN naval command On
the Pacific coast.
Late dispatches from American
Consul Simpich at Nogales, Sonora,
says his information of the casualties
in the attack of Yaqui Indians on the
American colony near EsperanZa in
dicated that J. j. Donovan was among
the killed.
A report from Admiral Howard,
commanding the Pacific fleet, said a
band of five hundred Yaquis, well
armed, began the attack on American
ranchers May IL and that Donovan
and Jack Wilson were killed that day.
In the fighting the next day w. A.
Fay was killed.
Naval officials are today awaiting a
further report from Admiral Howard,
and if conditions warrant, he will be
ordered to send landing parties from
the cruisers Raleigh and New Orleans,
now off Guaymas, into the Yaqui val
ley to rescue the Americans.
Yacht Wrecked Off Mexico.
Washington, May 15.-The Ameri-
can yacht Ramona has been wrecked
off the Mexican west coast north of
Guaymas, without loss of life, accord
ing to a report of Admiral Howard,
who sent the cruiser Raleigh to pick
up the rescued crew. The cause was
not cepOrted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
DUTY TO F|CHT!''
Mrs. PankhurSt Addresses Great
Crowds in England.
Former Militant Now Pleads for
British Recruits.

Liverpool. May 15.-One of the most
enthusiastic and most successful re-
cruiting agents in all England is the
frail little woman who with her band
of militant followers only a year ago
was conducting a veritable reign of
terror. Almost nightly Mrs. Emmeline
PankhurSt addresses great crowds of
men and women in one or another of
the big industrial cities, and officers
say that her efforts are bringing hum
dreds of volunteers daily into Kitch-
ener'S army.
This is the way she put it to her
audience last night:
eff you are able to fight, and you
are of the right age, it is clearly your
duty to come to the help of your coun-
try. How terrible it will seem to you
later when you think of what you
have let other men do for you.
ITO employers of labor 1 would say:
If you are feeling that you cannot
spare the young men because your
business has to go on, it is your duty
to consider seriously whether they
may not be replaced by intelligent
women. You must understand that
before we are women, we are human
beings; we have got brains, you
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
KILLED FIRST GERMAN.

Rushden, England, May 15-This
little Northumberland town claims
the first British soldier to kill
member of the enemy in England's
part of the war.
Private @. Bayes, Northumber-
land Fusiliers, who was in advance
guard at Mons, scene of the first
British-German battle, arrived
from the front wounded today
with the following story:
Il believe / saw the first Ger
man who came into view of the
British troops. Our chaps had bar
ricaded the side of the road.
volunteered. Before long / saw 20
men approaching. They were
crawling along. Their uniform
proved them Germans. / let fly at
the officer who had then reached
point 20 yards from me. He jumped
in the air, dropped his sword and
rolled over.
'I think he was Germany's first
casualty against England"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
LUSITkNIA DEAD HOME
Nine Bodies, Including That of Froh-
man. on Liner New York.

New York, May 15.-Tne bodies of
nine of the Lusitanias dead, including
that of Charles Frohman, are being
brought to New York aboard the
American liner, New York, leaving
Liverpool at 9 o'clock, says a cable
gram received today. The dead are:
Charles Frohman, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Plamon-
don, Chicago.
T. B. King, New York.
c. I. Broderick, Boston.
l. F. Trumbull. Bridgeport, Conn.,
A r. Foley, Trenton, n. J.
Miss H Ellis, st. Thomas, Ont.
Miss McBright. address not given.
The New York is due to reach here
May 23.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
ALL EYES ON ITALY
London Hears Rome Has De.
nOunced Triple Alliance.
Failure to Bulge Austria Cap
ped by Cabinets Resignation.

London, May 15.-After having
been deluded by series of chimericaI
crises the British public is coming to
the belief Italy finally has reached the
point of a momentous decision in the
matter of her relations to the Triple
Alliance.
Early today London was informed
unofficia1ly Italy a week ago had de-
nounced this alliance. When this step
failed to produce further concessions
from Austria, there occurred the resig-
nation of the Italian cabinet. Lon
don is now awaiting breathlessly news
from Rome of the final break.
London observers are of the opin-
ion the Russian situation is percepti-
gly brighter, and this in spite of the
fact that the AuStro-Germany victory
in West Galicia is becoming more and
more obvious and it is certain the Rus
slams have lost heavily in men and
artillery.
Confidence in the strength of the
Russian ally of Great Britain is main
tanned because of their ability to de-
liver a counter attack as has been
shown by their success in East Galicia
and Bukowina, where the Austrians
are reported to have been routed and
to be retreating along a front sixty
miles wide 1t is consequently hoped
in London that the Russians may re-
trieve on the Pruth their failure on
the Dunajec- 1t is reported also that
the Russians have checked the Ger
mans in the Baltimore provinces.
Paris, May 15.-The French war Of
flee this afternoon issued the follow
ing statement on the progress of hos
tilities:
There have been no changes il the
situation since last evening in the sec
ton to the north of Arras. Here the
fighting continues under the condi-
tionS set forth in our last comInunica-
tion. We have progressed 50o yards
in the direction of Souchez. In this
section there have been violent artil-
lery exchanges"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
"UnOfficial Spokesman" of Kai-
Z ser. to Leave County Soon.
Departure Follows on Heels of
Washington Hint.

Washington, May 15.-Dr. Bern
hard Dernburg, often referred to as
the unofficial spokesman of Emperor
William in the United States, has
made plans to leave the country on
his own initiative within a short time
l. became known in official quar-
tiers today that in view of the intima-
tionS that President Wilson and the
cabinet were displeased with DR..
Dernburg's speech justifying the sink
ing of the Lusitania and some of his
other public utterances which they
believed might be calculated to array
sentiment of Germans in the United
States against the Washington govern
ment, friends of DR.. Dernburg here
have persuaded him to leave the Unit
ed States. Just when DR.. Dernburg
would leave or where he would go
was not made known, but it was be-
Heved he would sail for Cuba or South
America
Activity Closely Watched.
DR.. Dernburg's activity in the Unit
ed States since the beginning of the
war has been closely observed by the
president and other high officials
here, who came to believe in the last
week that continuation of his speeches
no.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
Will Gates OPEN?
Voters Are Deciding the Free
Fair Proposition Today.
Short Ballot Indicates Early
Announcement of Result.

An election is being held in Topeka
and Shawnee county today. Two
propositions are Deing voted upon in
the city. One is to authorize the city
commission to adopt voting machines.
The other, which is also being voted
upon in the county, is to decide wheth-
er or not a quarter-mill tax levy is to
be made by the county to pay agricul-
tural, livestock and domestic art
prizes If this levy is authorized no
admission fee will be charged for en-
trance to the Topeka State fair. None
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
CLUNN WORKS TODAY
Third Game of Wichita Series at West
ern League Park This Afternoon.
THE LINEUP TO-DAY.

For the third game of the Wichita
series at Western league park this
afternoon. Manager jackson elected
Lefty Clunn as the slab artist. Wealth
er conditions were ideal just before the
game started. A good crowd turned
out.
Sunday afternoons game will be
called promptly at 5 o'clock and Fire
Bugs Grover will probably work for
the Savages. Monday the team will
open a four-game series at Sioux City.
Ransom Stephens, president of the
Wichita Booster club, superintendent
of the Union Depot Terminal associa-
tion at that place, attended the game
this afternoon, accompanied by E. c.
Heine, ticket agent at the Wichita
Union depot, and Charles Gilhllan,
Santa Fe livestock agent at Wichita
The Topeka Booster club had a box
for the visitors decorated with a large
American flag and in the box was a
large pennant with the inscription,
Welcome to Our City, Steve" George
Godfrey Moore, president of the club.
gave an address of welcome to the vis-
itors from Wichita
At the end of the first half of the
second inning dhe score was to o.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
NOT WAR BUT MURDER.

Kilsyth, Scotland, April 26 -(By
Mail to New rk).-'This is not
war: it's murder all the time" is
the way George McCarroll, Scotland
champion middleweight wrestler.
wrote his wife about narrow
squeak" from death at the front
McCarroli is a lance corporal,
Royal Scots Fusilliers. He says:
L am III the hospital due TO
slight wounds and shock. The Ger
mans SAL ped our trench and blew
it up. 1 shall never forget the sit
uation. L was blown Sky-high
Only four of my, men escaped. The
others were buried alive"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
HUMANE SUNDAY.
BE Kind to Animals Week Begins
i'm Topeka Tomorrow.

Tomorrow is the beginning of BE
Kind to Animals Week" and by some
will be observed as Humane Sunday"
Others will observe the Sunday fol-
lowing, May %.
Chairmen have been appointed to
bring about observances in the various
states and to secure the help of hu-
name workers in a campaign of edu-
cation in behalf of better treatment of
dumb animals.
H. H Jacobs of Kansas City is state
chairman for Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
COOL WAVE COMING.
Last Night Was the Hottest of This
Season.

Although there was a refreshing
breeze from the west and northwest,
Friday night was the hottest of the
1915 eason, the minimum tempera-
ture at o'clock this morning being
81 degrees. Cooler weather is on the
way. There was a decided change in
parts of western Kansas this morn
ing. The temperature at Scott City
was A degrees, and at Goodland, 4S.
The forecast calls for generally fair
weather tonight and Sunday, with a
drop in temperature tonight
The wind was twelve miles an hour
from the northwest this afternoon.
The hourly readings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
DPH0LDS P. U. C.
Judge Whitcomb Decides Against Rail-
roads i'm Crossing Case.

A decision was handed down by
Judge Whitcomb in the district court
today upho1ding the order of the Pub
lie Utilities commission which requires
railroads to put in and maintain farm
crossings.
The case was brought by the Union
Pacific to test the order. The railroads
objected to the order and made a test
case out of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15

Salandra remaining in power.
Rome, May 15.-To head off a pos
sible civil war, King Victor Emmanuel
today signed a decree convoking the
chamber of deputies early next week.
sources. The king acted on advice of
leaders of both the warning interven-
tion and neutral factions.
Serious rioting by mobs favoring
war broke out afresh today and the
king was told the situation was rapid
ly getting beyond control of the mill
tary.
A strike has been proclaimed at
Milan as a protest against the course
of political events in Italy. Troops
are occupying all strategical points in
the city.
Crisis Hastens King.
Parliament was not scheduled to
meet until next Thursday. Because
of the crisis precipitated by the un-
expected resignation of the Salandra
cabinet, the king, according to au-
thentic reports, has determined to call
the deputies together Monday or Tues
day. The decree has not yet been
made public.
Whole sections of Rome were under
mob control today, the military and
police apparently unable to suppress
the demonstrations.
The entire city was seething with
war excitement. Business was sus-
pended; stores were closed, and, de-
spite the activity of cavalry patrols,
crowds marched through the streets
shouting:
Down with Germany. Down with
the kaiser. Down with Franz Josef"
For the second time within "a
hours, a mob of interventionalists in
vaded the parliament building, smash
ing windows and wrecking furniture.
March on Palace.
From the parliament building the
mob again attempted a march to the
royal palace. Two cavalry squadronS
guarding the approaches rushed the
Irontlnued ON Page TMn.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
ATTACK CABLE STATION
Armed Raiding Party Driven Off by
Military in Canada.

Vancouver, B. C, May 15.-An arm
ed raiding party attacked the Pacific
cable station at Bamfield creek on the
west coast of Vancouver island early
today. Shots were exchanged between
the raiders and a sentry, who reused
the military guard.
The raiders escaped in the darkness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
TContinued on Page Two.l
WILSON ON WAY TO NY.
President scheduled to Reach Metrop-
oils Monday Morning.

Newport, May 15.-The Mayflower,
with President Wilson and his party
aboard, arrived in Hampton Roads at
11:3O a. m. on their way to New York,
where the president will review the
Alta antic fleet next week.
The Mayf1ower is to arrive in New
York early Monday. The return trip
will begin Tuesday night. the presi-
Dental party reaching Washington
early Thursday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
DANISH SHIP TORPEDOED
Ship Martha Is Sunk Off Aberdeen;
Crew Is Saved.

London, May 15.-The Danish
steamer Martha was torpedoed and
sunk off Aberdeen this morning by
German submarine.
Her crew of Is We're saved
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
Southern r.. r.. Directors Meet.

New York, May 15.-A meeting of
the directors of the Southern railroad
was held here today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
DERNBURC TO QUIT NOTE is IN BERLIN
Germany Is Reported i'm Favor
of Arbitration.
Officials Quoted as Wanting
Court in Lusitania Tragedy.

Berlin, May 15.-(Via London,
1927 p. m.)"James ". Gerard,
the American ambassador to Ger
many, handed to the foreign Of
flee here this morning the note
with reference to the sinking of
the Cunard line steamship, Lusi-
tania.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15

d.
Berlin, via Amsterdam, May 15.-
Germany is willing to submit her side
of the LuSitania case to a board of
arbitration. according to the newspa-
per -Vessiche Zeitung, which today
printed the following statement:
High government circles in
Germany favor submitting the
Lusitania matter and the diff
cultieS with America to a board
of arbitration.
The am bassador may be given i'm
mediate instructions for such arbitra-
ton to America, according to the
Vossiche Zeitung. 1t is believed in
official circles here, the newspaper
said, that Germany would make
prompt answer to the American note
before proceeding with her policy of
torpedoing merchant steamers carry
ing passengers"
Considered at Washington.
Washington May 15.-The sugges-
ton of arbitration contained in dis
patches to London from Berlin by way
of Amsterdam was received among
officials here with the informal COM
ment that such a course was among
the considerations in Washington, but
it was pointed out that it probably
would not be satisfa ctory unless as
suranceS were given in the meantime
and the submarine warfare on mer-
chant ships was suspended.
Officials pointed out that unless
that was done, more lives might be
lost while arbitration was in progress
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15

Weather Forecast for Kansas.
Generally fair tonight and Sunday;
cooler tonight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.

Cleveland at Minneapolis-Post
rain.
Columbus at St. Paul, postponed,
rain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
Civil War Looms as MObS
Surge in Rome.
SOLDIERS HELD POWERLESS
Parliament Building Is Again
Attacked; Move in Palace.
Strike Is Declared at Milan
Against Political Events.

Rome, May 15.-Signor Mar
cora, president of the chamber
of deputies, requested by King
Victor Emmanuel to form a new
cabinet in succession to the Sal
andra ministry. has refused the
commission. 1t is probable that
the king will insist on Premier
Salandra remaining in power.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
Revolutionary Committee Said
to Control Lisbon.
TERROR RULES IN MANY CITIES
Soldiers Said To Be POWerleSS
to Check Uprisings.
Telegraph and Telephone Wires
Said to Have Been Cut.

London, May 15.-(6.5O ID. n.y.
A rebel naval squad has bonn
barded the city of Lisbon from the
river Tagus, according to further
advices from Madrid, received by
the Fabre agency
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-24

a fruitful cause Of wonder and often
Of amusement as we'll IS found in the
names Of hanlets. villages and towns.
/ In many Instances the lack OF originality
IS the feature that attracts the Observers
attention. and visitors to New England
are LED 10 comment, on the lack OF inven-
ton and imagination displayed In the
naming OF towns IN that section Names
| for most of them were brought over from
England and i,.en the fathers varied
these with such additions as New and
/ Old. ard the points Of the compass
For instance. we hear of New Haven.
North Haven, West Haven and East
Haven. ard there are as many kinds or
/ Har-fords There is an old Saybrook
I as well as Saybrook. and an old
! Lyme as we'll as a Lyme. We nave
not or,v Milford, but : New Milford.
and New Canaan as well as a Canaan
| Thus it goes throughout The land Of the
/ Pilgrims and Puri,ans. while journey
through New York state is like taking a
course in ancient Roman and Greek his
tory, with Troy, Rome, Syracuse. Utica,
and so on. These older European names.
as we'll as the Indian names which have
| oeen preserved. show the inclination TO
US. what is ready, at hand, without EN-
| ploying either imagination or invention
In other places is 10 he found the oppo-
site tendency, and il is when TOO much
! imagination or Irisdi-ec;si irlaEina ton
; has had SWAY that nanlss OF localities
often cause amusement. which shows the
early settlers who st,:ck - the eis names
=, displayed better Judgment il : less active
! imagination.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-24
MT. VERNON

The interior Of the Baptist church has
been thoroughly cleaned and re-Gecorat-
ed and will be open for service on Sun
day morning, July ..
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Davis and son will
return Saturday to their home in Collins
willie. Conn They in company with Nj
and Mrs. J. F. Davis recently made AT
automobile trip to Rumford TO visit DR.
and Mrs. c. F. Davis.
The sale under the auspices of Amity
Rebekah Lodge, which was held Wednes.
day afternoon, was a success in every
way. goodly sum was realized.
Ida Porter. a former Mt. Vernon lady.
was recently calling on old friends here
Mrs. A. ". Stanley Of Pawtucket. R.
l.. is at the home of Miss Myrtle Robin
son.
Charles N. Cram of Boston is at the
home of his brother. B. r. Cram.
Rev. Mr. Brokenshire OF Hallowell, with
his young son. has been the guest Of Rev
and Mrs. A. j. Stewart. Master Broken
shire will remain while his mother is
across the water, having gone to return
with her son, who has been seriously in
jured in a recent battle