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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-02
END OF PATIENCE
President Wilson's Reason for
Sending Note to England.
Forbearance Reached Breaking
Point at Washington.

Washington, Jan. 2-"Exhausted pa
tience'' of this country with Great
Britain precipitated the presentation of
the note protesting against interference
with American shipping. The presi-
dents forbearance reached the break
ing point. Reluctant, the president felt
compelled by England's inaction on for
mer shipping protests to forward the
note
This, according to official sources
today was the actual situation from
an administration viewpoint. The
formal note was the eliminating i'm
cident in a series Of formal and iHfor-
NAL protests against the sea policy OF
Great Britain. The British foreign
Office has disregarded, temporarixq
and even has completely ignored coits
famous complaiHte, verbal and writ
tfefr. The only @tfefnative., 1t was de-
cfded, was 10 present en- bloc the
American cases in such fashion that
further temporizing and disregard OF
serious injury to Americas commerce
would be impossible.
A high official declared today that
of a score of complaints made in
cases Of individual American ships
only few apparently had received
official consideration by the British
foreign office.
Expressions Of regret for the situa-
only informally through British Am
bassador Spring-Rice to the state de-
partment it is reported. Most OF the
individual cases were ignored COM
p1etely as far as the London office was
officially concerned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-02
RUSSIAN Horde.
Is Pouring Through Carpathian
Passes Into IsxaxAry.
Much Nervousness Both in
Vienna and Buda- Pest.

Vienna. Jan. 2.-There is no doubt
that the main Russian attack is being
directed against Hungary instead Of
Germany or Western Galicia. Official
dispatches from the front say that en-
ormOus forces of Russians have been
sent through the passes of the Car
pathians, advancing in four, columns
from Nysykow, Skyi. Turda and Cor
lice. The vanguard of the invaders
Is the crack Eighth Russian corps and
behind it is declared to be the front
line Russian troops apparently with
drawn from the Polish front.
There is much nervousness both
here and in Budapest at the news al
though the military authorities say
that everything possible is being un-
dertaken to stop this drive. Officials
are, now convinced that unlike the
previous raiding Russian expeditions,
this one represents Grand Duke Mich
GLASS long cherished plan for a real
invasion of Hungary. Checked by
General Won Hindenberg in the north
and with Warsaw threatened, 1t is be-
lieved here that the Russian comman-
der in chief has undertaken the pres
ent move in the expectation that 1t
will force Germany to withdraw part
of her forces from Poland and aid
Austro- Hungary in withstanding the
present assault. Many refugees from
the threatened territory are reaching
Budapest. The newspapers unite in
a demand that the Austrian govern
ment call upon Germany for all need
ed assistance in repelling the invasion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-02
ALL ARE LOYAL.
Man in Tragedy Love Case Kept
Three Women
And All of Them Stick by Him
in His Trouble.

New York, Jan. 2.-Larlys Elton
Rogers. the "man in the case" for
love of whom Ida Sniffen poisoned
her two children and herself, today
stands forth as the most remarkable
figure in the strangest and most COM
plex love tragedy in this city's his
tory. Instead of sharing his affections
between two women as first supposed,
it developed today that the lawyer for
the past few years apparently has
been on terms of the utmost friend
ship with three women-his first wife.
who obtained divorce; the woman
who now bears his name. and the wo-
man who lies dying in a hospital.
And tOday-when they are all being
subjected to the scrutiny of relent-
less and curious public-these three
women all remain staunch in their
loyalty to the man. So far not one
of them has let fall from her lips q
word of reproach against him.
Rogers, it is learned. himself main
tained two homes. He contributed to
the upkeep Of third. Mrs, Caroline
Giddens Rogers. the legal wife OF
Rogers and the one with whom he
spent most of his time, lived in q
fashionable apartment on West End
aveune. The woman dying in the hos
pital, who bore two children by the
lawyer, lived in a modest little flat
up in the Bronx. The third woman
now going by the name of Mrs. Anna
Roquemore, who was Rogers's first
wife. had an eight room apartment In
the Corinseca on West Ninety seventh
street, and she received paftial sup
| port from Rogers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-02
MATERIAL IS READY.
Work on Bonner Springs-LawFence
Interurban VIII Be Begun Soon.

Kansas City. Mo-, Jan. 2-J. J..
Helm announced Friday that the ma
terial was on the ground for building
ten miles of the 21-mile gap in the
interurban trolley line between Bon
ner Springs and Lawrence. and work
would start as soon as the weather
permitted on the extension to Law
renee.
The steel and ties have been ordered
and will be on the ground as fast as
needed The work on the line will be-
gin at Bonner Springs and will pro-
ceed west. Cars will be put in opera
ton AZ fast as any considerable part
Of the extension is built.
Mr.. Helm said he expected to have
the entire system in operation to Law
renee by December 1 at the latest and
before then IL conditions for work
were favorable. Car8 are being built.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-02
MORE Than PICS
ChicagOans Resent Hogs Head
as Industrial Emblem.
Everything Not Pigs and Pack.
ing, They Say.

Chicago, ILL.,, Jan. 2.-The head Of a
pig asemblematic of Chicago's industry
would be resented by Chicagoans, ac-
cording to a letter which the commit
tee promoting the international Chris
tian En6eavOr convention to be held
here next July, maihed today to a New
England badge company.
This committee had advertised for
designs and bids for the convention me-
dallions and the eastern concerns de-
sign had in the center of bar on the
badge the head of a pig as emblematie
Of Chicago's industry.
The badge was rejected and letter
sent to the cornpay says:
I'VE take exception to the fact that
you have placed in the center of the
bar on this badge the head Of a pig.
merely because, as you say, Chicago
leads the world in the meat packing in
dustry. We suggest that you learn that
Chicago stands for something besides
pigs and packing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-02
PetrOgrad Announces Another
Victory Won in Galfcia.
Fortified Positions Destroyed
and 5000 Prisoners Taken.
GERMAN ATTACK IN POLAND
Shifts to Southwest With Fight
ing of Particular Intensity.
Austrian Warships Have Been
Bombardfng Servian Capital.

London. Jan. o-The Russian war
office announces that another oeIea'
has been inflicted upon Austrian
forces in Galicia, whose advance from
the Carpathians recently was checked
with serious consequences to them.
1t is asserted that fortified Austrian
positions near Gorlice were destroyed
and that 5000 prisoners were cap
tured. The Russian statement says
that the victory was won only after
hard battle, and that fighting still
continues, indicating that the Aus
trians are still capable of offering de-
termined resistance.
In Poland the German attack ap-
parently has shifted to the southwark.
The Russian statement mentions
fighting Of particular intensity at
Rawa, which is 80 miles south of So
chaczew. the recent center of German
activity German attacks there as well
as in East Prussia, and in the region
of Mlawa in Poland near the East
Prussian border, are said to have been
repuised. ...-...-
Austrian warships have bombarded
Belgrade, the Servian CAPITA from
which the Austrians were driven
shortly after they had occupied it.
Some damage to property was caused
by the mbardment but SO far as is
known no lives were lost.
According to a report current in
Paris, the lost British battleship
Formidable, was sunk Of, Portsmouth,
Englands chief naval 'se. The de-
struction Of the Formidable is be-
lieved to have been the work of Ger
man submarine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-02
|HE C0NFESSES IT
Theodore Wilson Admits Pass
ing Bogus Checks in Topeka.
81 Was Broke and Didn't Want
to Starve," He Said.

That he is responsible for bogus
checks aggregating $3.50, recently
passed in Topeka. was admitted this
morning by Theodore Wilson. alleged
forger, In an interview with a State
Journal reporter. However, Wilson
denied that he passed a number of
other checks which county officials
think he forged in this city
Wilson, who claims that his home
is in Butte, Mont, and that he is a
locomotive engineer, tells a rather re-
markable hard luck story in cOnnec-
ton with his arrest.
Before I went broke in Topeka" :"
said the man. II advertised for three
weeks for q job in the columns OF a
Topeka paper without success. Then
1 went broke. and had to- get money
in some manner. A man couldn't
starve."
Wilson says that he has worked for
the Hartman railway lines for the
last nineteen years and that he is a
member Of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers.
The man was recently brought to
Topeka from Fort Worth, Texas, by
L. l. Kiene. sheriff. He claims that
this is the first time that he has ever
| been arrested.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-02
BRIGHT AND CHILLY.
Ideal Winter Weather for Kansas
Snow Melting Today.

The weather was pleasant today
with the temperature above normal
for January 2. A maximum of AZ de-
grees was attained at 3 O'Clock Friday
afternoon. which was the highest
temperature recorded at Topeka since
December 4. The minimum tempera-
ture at and o'clock this morning
was 2O-16 is the normal minimum
for this date.
The mornings are now the shortest
of the season. Beginning the first of
the year the sun rose at 7:43 O'Clock.
It will continue to rise at that time
until Thursday. The afternoons on the
other hand are lengthening. The sun
now sets at 5:12 o'clock as against
sol from the first to the fourteenth
Of December. BY the end of this
month it will set at 5:45.
The highest temperature on this
date in the % years that the local
records have been kept was SO degrees
in 1894; the lowest was below zero
in 1911. The stage of the Kaw river
today was 3.4 feet. There will be lit
tie snow left on the ground by tonight.
The shippers forecast indicates
that moderate temperatures will pre-
vail for the next two days.
The forecast: Protect forty-eight
hour shfpl-ents north against temper
ature of Is degrees; west. Is to 20;
east, 20 to Is; south, Is degrees"
The wind was twelve miles an hour
from the southeast this afternoon.
The horrrlv din
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-02
CR0CERS ADMIT IT
Confess That They Bought
Stolen Tobacco From Boys.
Young Men Took Goods From
Dibble Company, Is Charge.

Warrants charging four Topeka
grocerymen, John Heitman. S21 North
Kansas avenue; Tony Jordan, East
Crane street; C. w. Willis, 841 v
North Kansas avenue, and Henry
Meer. who conducts a grocery store at
the end OF the Shorey car line. with
knowingly receiving stolen goods.
have been served by George Frost,
marshal of the court of Topeka. A
warrant was also served on Harold
Smith. one of the three boys who. ac-
cording to county officials, have for
the last six weeks been taking tobacco
from the Dibble grocery store in
South Topeka and selling it to the
grocerymen.
The grocerymen and Smith are out
on bond. Their case will be heard
before Judge Robert Carver In the
court of Topeka January S.
According to county officials, the
grocerymen admit buying the tobacco
Of the boys and one of them practical
ly admitted that he knew that it was
stolen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-02
SET FIRE TO HOUSE
Man and Boy, Alleged COnspir-
atOrs, Shot i'm North Topeka.
b. +. Stephenson Almost Blows
Off Head Of John Briggs.

AS "a result of an alleged attempt
to set fire to the residence of B. F.
stephenson at. 14l6 North Monroe
street, shortly after midnight, John
near the Kaw Valley schoolhouse was
probably fatally shot and his IL year
old boy was slightly wounded.
According to. the statement of
county officials, Briggs and his wife
separated about six weeks ago and
Briggs accused Stephenson Of being
responsible. Fro the purpose of getting
revenge, Briggs went to the Steph-
enson home Friday night about mid
night and attempted to set fire to
the house by lighting a bundle of OIL
soaked waste and throwing it upon
the roof
However. several women happened to
be passing the house a short time after
this and noticing the fire, reused
Stephenson from his bed and he sue
ceeded in extinguishing the flames.
After this Stephenson decided to re-
main on watch and Briggs, accompan-
led by his son. ret led in little while
either to see why the flames had not
spread or to repeat the attempt, it is
alleged. When Stephenson saw them
approaching, he opened fire with a
shotgun.
The biggest part of the charge en-.
tered the head and shoulders OF
Briggs, but few scattering shot also
hit his son, John Briggs, jr. The
wounded man was taken to the police
station for emergency treatment and
then removed to the hospital and il
was stated this morning that he was
In critical condition. His son was
taken to the county Jail and is beins
treated there.
This morning Stephenson swore ou
a complaint against Briggs chargin,
him with attempting to burn hi
house. Briggs hat which was fount
by Sheriff Kiene this morning wa
literally blown to pieces by the dis
charge from the gun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-02
The Filipinos Are Not Ready
for Self Government.
"HAD THE BEAR BY THE TALL
Mckinley Said When Told We
Ought Not To Be There.
Quotes From q Book Written by
President Wilson.

Washington, Jan. I'm vigorous
terms. Former President Taft today
told the senate Philippine committee
the Filipino people were not as yet
capable of self government. He op-
posed in detail the administration bill
for a greater measure of self govern
ment for the islands, declaring that
mo measure could be framed better
calculated to stir up trouble in the
Philippines.''
The Filipino people do not under
stand Republican self government in
the sense that we know it, said the
former president. What will be the
result if they were given self govern
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-02
Attorney General Would Havs
Simple Statute.
Discrimination Against Deal
ers, Officer Declares.
ISSUES BIENNIAL REPORT
More Inquisitiea Power for the
County Attorneys.
FOur-Year Term of Enforce.
ment Officers q New Plan.

shoe" law and the enactment of a
simple statute in it's place. making 1t
misdemeanor for any merchant to
misrepresent the quality and mater
ials of any merchandise, will be rec
commended in the biennial report of
John S. Dawson, retiring attorney
general.
1T is difficult to see why a shoe
deale-- should be singled out from the
rest of the business world and subject
ed to petty and annoying regulations
not imposed upon other business
men," points out the attorney general
in his report, now in the hands of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-02

where It has ben proven SO useful. Gu
riously enough, previous legislatures
have refused to extend this authority.
but it should be and eventually will be
given"
Other Recommendations made by
General Dawson are for q 4-year term
without reelection for law enforce
ment officers as well az for the modt-
fication of court procedure 30 that the
verdict Of jury may be reached by
three-fourths vote instead Of by unan-
imous agreement. This regulation, he
recommends. be applied to the trial OF
all except cases involving the more se-
riOus offenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-02
ALLIES PLAY
WAITING GAME
Abandon Offensive Pending tho
Arrival Of Reinforcements.
The Germans Continue to
Pound Away in Spots.
FEAR fall Of CONsTlNTlnOpLE
The Sultan and His Court Arc
Preparing to Leave.
Attack ON Egypt Appears to
Have Been Abandoned.
FEAR fall Of CONSTANTln0RLE

London, Jan. 2.-The latest news
available from the western battle front.
shows that little progress Is being made
by the allied forces and rather iu1i-
Gates a sporadic renewal of the German
Offensive. with resultant slight gains
in the Argonne and French Flanders.
These operations can hardly be classed
as a general German offensive move-'
ment in the west, such as il still being
conducted in Poland. but the strength
which the Germans are showing seems
to make it plain that they have not
weakened appreciably their western
army by transfers OF troops to the east.
nor has the pressure OF the allies
broken their grip on Belgium and
France. from the North sea to Metx.
General Joffre is still avoiding gem
eral attack Except for their tactics Of
feeling out the German line by at
tacks here and there the allies are play
ing waiting game, pending the time
when, with the assistance of reinforce
ments. they deliver a concentrated
blow at some strategic point.
The Germans are still attempting to
press forward in Poland, but to the
south the Russians have. driven the
Austrians further back more than sixty
miles in all. 1t is again reported that
the Russians are pouring across the
Carpatn1anS into hungary, causing the
Inhabitants to flee.
Driven out of Servia the Austrians
nevertheless are again attacking Bel
grade. According to dispatches from
that city, four monitors have bonn
barded it.
Sultan Preparing to Leave.
1t is still exceedingly difficult to
obtain any clear idea Of the Turkish
operations, but according to an Athens
dispatch the sultan and his court arc
lprepa1ing. -tQa leeae Constantinopls.
ffeeesne t1ae e1riy TALL Of that city. The
attack on Egypt seems to have been
abandoned indefinitely. s7.-A-----ls =
Various reports concerning the COM
dition OF Emperor Williams throat
are again in circulation. According to
| one version the emp..vr must soon
return to Berlin to uhdergo an opera
ton. With full knowledge that vast
numbers of men. are now being trained
in England. Germany 1t is recognized
here must be preparing to meet their
entry into the war. 1t is agreed that
much depends upon the quality of tho
new formations on both sides. Tho
English view is that Britain's new
troops will bo the cream Of the coun-
try while Germany. having sent in her
finest forces at the outset, must depend
for reinforcements upon those less Mt
| physically.
There are again reports of the
movement Of German troops from the
west to the east. Advices from Am
sterdam state that 100000 Germans
| passed through Cologne on the way
east and it is suggested that they are
being sent to General Won Hindenburg
preparatory to another great effort to
batter through the Russian lines to
Warsaw.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-02
Visit TO War Hospital Breaks
Down the Aged Ruler.
vienna IS IN HARD STRAITS
Coal Supply Is LOw-NO Milk
for Dying Children.
Burlesque of Soldier knitting
for LOng-Legged Nurse.
CBy William G. shepherd.) )

(By WlIIiam g. Shepherd.)
Vienna, Dec. 5.-(By Courier to New
York. via Rotterdam. )-Only pathos
and pity are aroused by the aged en-
peror in the minds of Austro-H -Hunga-
rians. In his court he Is treated almost
as a child Most of his days he spends
In his favOrite room in the palace. The
monotony is broken only by an occa-
sional visitor.
One Of the fa-orite postal photos of
TIE emperor now on sale shows him
sc ted at table. his head bowed in
nj. hands. his face invisible, picture
u le'plessness and age. The picture
Is Zen when the emperor was weep
ng I'D his grief was public one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-02
New Years Greeting to the United

New Years Greeting to the Unfte<
States Of America. Poem by DR.
Robert Bridges, poe- laureate. Copy
righted, 1914. by United Tress)
London, JaE. e.
Ask We what word Of cheer
Hath England's muse to send.
The eve Of this new year
To Britain's free-born folk?
Vain words are vain to spend
We shout the battle cry:
Her dearest children die.
For all that we hold dear
Yet thus the mother spoke.
Ocean that seemed SO wide
When first ye crossed its flood
1t threatened to divide
Even the bond Of blood:
See how 1t shrunken hath
Into a. pleasure path;
While DER and underneath
The light words OF my breath
Flash kindly to your heart.
Oh, well We hear! Ye see!
And our hopes are as one
For peace and liberty
OF all men meath the sun.
For the grace Of mans art,
And the love OF our own kind.
So, this years wishes be
Hand in hand, mind with mind,
That we stand, till We quell,
And in straight limits bind,
Wars rage, the storm Of He'll.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-02
SETTLED AT LAST
Ownership of Gueda Springs
Given to J. L. Tuttle.
Town Doomed Many Times ID
Still q Village.

Arkansas City. Kan. Jan. 2.-Gueda
Springs, the health resort near this
city. which has probably suffered all
Of the vicissitudes known to man. has
Just shaken the sand T. ON her feather
after having been pulled through the
federal court, 1t being the last trying
ordeal with which this little village
Of water fame has had to undergo.
The many different degrees OF uncer-
tainties from which the interests there
have suffered for the past twenty
years have now been displaced by cer-
tainty Of ownership. as the court re-
stored J. L. Tuttle to ownership of tho
springs. the lake and other appurte-
nances.
Gueda Springs is a little town Of
three hundred people regularly estab-
lished there, nevertheless the marks
are still there for a mile or more
about the city. where fond hopes had
dreamed thriving city would
abound. 1t was plated and made
ready many years ago and many of
the marks still remain but for some
reason fate has decreed storm of
uncertainties which regularly inter-
vened and put an end to many town
promoters.
The hope OF this little village of wa
ter cure-where the cure is just as
free as the running waters IN our gov
ernment streams, IL based on five
springs which flnd their way out Of q
bank near the lake, not five feet apart.
and they are SO distinct in effect that
each in it's taste gives the countenaacc
q different pucker.
Cure-why Of course. Every VII
lager will tell you that. However, one
can move about without tripping oyer
abandoned crutches. Nevertheless
the townspeop1e have gold medals
with which the curative powers Of this
water have been decorated and they
all hasten to keep them shining and
presentable. They tell joke on a
Missourian by choice. a German by
birth. who went all the way to noted
Carlsbad. Germany, his Fatherland's
pride, for health, there to be told his
case did not flt and that he zh0uld re-
tusn to Geuda Springs. q. s. A.