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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-15
SPRING WEATHER HERE
Indications That the Temperature Will
Continue to Rise.

Real spring weather is the program
for today and tomorrow at Topeka.
The bill calls for continued fair wealth
err Prospects for losing all of the
ice that remains on the ground were
good this morning. The Kaw river
fell three tenths of a foot since Mon
day. The ice is on the river but there
is practically no danger of jam. The
wind is in the northwest. but seems to
have little effect on the temperature.
The forecast calls for fair weather
tonight and Wednesday: moderate
temperatures. The minimum at To-
peka tonight will be between 25 and
80 degrees. The shippers forecast in
dicates 25 degree temperatures for 36
hour shipments north and west: east
and south. 25 to 80 degrees. Tomor-
row afternoon will be just as warm
and possibly warmer than today. ac
cording to S. D. Flora. local weather
observer.
The lowest temperature of the twen-
ty-four hours occurred during the
hour from to o'clock, when the
reading was 26 degrees. This is 1 8 de-
grees higher than on Monday morn
ing. and is degrees above normal for
the date.
The wind is blowing at the rate of
S miles an hour. This morning the
Kaw river showed a stage of rs feet
The river is falling after a rise ex-
tending over several days, probably
due to the melting snow and ice.
Temperatures today averaged 2 de-
gress above normal. Following are
hourly readings furnished by the
xroaf b1Iraan-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-15
STORM OF SKIRTS
$4,000 VIII Charge Chicago
National Convention.
To Enforce on Mere Man Need
of Suffrage Plank.

New York, Feb. 15.-Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait expects that more than
$4,000 women will join in a parade to
the convention hall of the national
convention in Chicago next June to
emphasize the demand of the women
for a suffrage plank in the Republi-
can national platform. Mrs. Gait to-
day announced plans also for suf-
frage demonstration during the Dem
ocratic national convention at St
Louis next spring.
THE parade at Chicago will be the
largest demonstration of the kind ever
seen in this country" said Mrs. Gait.
We expect to have more than so, 600
women in line. We shall march on
the convention hall and the expect the
national Republican party to give us a
hearing there.
Women from every state in the
Union will be represented in the Chi
cago demonstration"
Mrs. Gait said the nature of the suf
frage demonstration in St. Louis
would differ somewhat from that at
Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-15
EXPLAINS POISON
Gardener Threw Drug in Ash
Pile at Orpet's Home.
Solution of Mystery Hinges on
the Missing Bottle.

Chicago, Feb. 15.-Search for the
bottle in which was carried the poi
son which caused the death of Mar
ian Frances Lambert. Lake Forest
high school girl was continued today
by detectives who are endeavoring to
establish a connection between the
girls death last Wednesday and the
mysterious absence from Madison of
William H. Orpet, University of Wis
consin junior.
The assertion by the police that a
drug clerk in Madison had admitted
he sold Orpet an empty bottle and the
finding of poison crystals in an ash
heap in the cellar of the Orpet home
are the developments of the past 48
hours in the Lake Forest mystery.
Gardener Spoils CIew.
A gardener on the Mccormick es-
tate of which Orpet's father is care
taker is said to have admitted putting g
the poison in the ash heap. This was
explained by the elder Orpet by the
statement that the poison had been
used to kill insects on shrubbery but
its inferior quality had rendered it
useless. States Attorney Dady of
Lake county said today he regarded
the discovery of the poison and the
clerk who sold the bottle as the last
link IN the chain of circumstantiaI
evidence by which he expects to con-
vict Orpet and said he was ready to
present his evidence to the coroner's
jury. Orpet and his attorneys con-
tinue to reiterate his innocence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-15
John Taylor Calls On and Kills
Guy Morrow, Report.
FALLS. OPENS FIRE
Two Bullets From MOrrOw'S
Gun Pierce TaylOr's Heart.
Both DueIiStS Well known in
Emmett Vicinity.

Emmett, Kan, Feb. 15-The climax
of what officials claim was an old Jack
son county school feud was reached
at o'clock Monday night when John
Taylor, prominent Emmett farmer,
called at the home of his neighbor,
Guy Morrow, and shot the latter
through the heart, according to re-
port in the office of the Jackson coun-
ty sheriff. As he was falling, it is
said, Morrow opened fire on Taylor
and shot his alleged assailant twice,
both bullets lodging near the heart.
Taylor died this morning.
According to Investigations made by
the sheriff, Taylor called at the Nor
row home Monday night and was met
by the latter's wife and daughter who,
it is said questioned Taylor's purpose
in calling. Following a reported ex-
change of words, Morrow appeared
and the duel began. Taylor. it is re-
ported fired three shots at Morrow,
one only reaching its mark. Morrow
staggered, clutched his hand over his
heart and whipped a revolver from his
pocket and opened fire, two bullets en-
tering Taylor's chest, according to the
sheriff.
Both men are old Jackson county
farmers and live in the Springdale
school district near the extreme west
end of the county. Morrow was 35
years of age. Taylor was so. Both
men were married and are survived by
their wives and several children.
Five shots were fired during the
battle, Sheriff Charles johnson of
Holton, stated today. Sheriff John
son stated that the alleged feud be-
tween Morrow came to a head Mon
day afternoon when Morrow and Tay-
lor's son met on the road. There was
an argument, it is alleged. Then
Morrow's team ran away and Morrow
went after it. Later Taylor called at
the Morrow home and the battle of
! death began
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-15
NOT IN POLITICS
Robert Stone Talks Before st.
Joe Rotary Meeting.
Organization for Common Good
of All, He Says.

St. Joseph. Mo. Feb. lin short,
terse sentences Robert Stone, presi-
dent Of Topeka Rotary club, outlined
the ideals and aspirations of the Ro-
tarv club in his address before repre-
sentatives of fourteen Rotary clubs
today at the district meeting. Rotary
he declared. is neither a political nor
a religious organization.
Instead he described it, as distinct
" social and highly moral Such an
organization Mr. Stone pointed out,
must unite with all others through
the common means. the government.
to make its city the best, the cleanest
place in all the world in which to rear
children and build a home. Mr..
stones address, in part, follows:
Rotary has no more business with
a party caucus than it has with n
church conference. 1t has no more
place in the executive committee of
the Republican party trying to har-
monize the standpatters and the pro-
gressives than it has in the Woman 5
Federation trying to coax the dove of
peace to hover over the head of the
much advertised field secretary of
the Congressional union
Both these rows are family affairs
and none but members of the family
Is expected to participate. Outsiders
must be neutrals. Intervention will
not be considered friendly act, by
either combatant.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-15
WHY HE JOINED
An Act of Masonic Kindness
Caused John C.. KetcheSOn
Oldest Visiting Mason Here to
Join the Order.

How an act OF Masonic kindness in
the Civil war caused John c. Ketche-
son of Leavenworth, oldest Mason at
the gathering here this week, to de-
termine to join the order at his first
opportunity was told by the veteran
printer, at Masonic temple this morn
ing. Other stories of a Mexican Of
ficer in charge of a firing squad re-
fusing to shoot an American Mason,
of Masonic rescues in Belgium and
other places throughout the world
were related in James Doncyson's Of
flee this morning.
Mr.. Ketcheson Joined the Masons in
Chicago in 1866, attended his first
session of the Grand lodge in Leaven-
worth in 1867 and has been printing
proceedings of that body ever since.
Today, Mr.. Ketcheson is II years old
and appears as active and strong as
many men at 40. A widower for the
(Continued on Page A
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-15
Independent Telephone Men
Gathering for Convention.
HELLO GIRLS HERE TOMORROW
Chief Operator at EmpOria to
Open Instruction School.
Real Program Does Not Begin
Until Late Today.

Goodbye to the good. old days Of
standing at a telephone, on a party
line, for hours and listening to your
business. No more will
Mrs Ruralist tell her husband the de-
tails of the latest birth at the Jones
home a mile up the road, what the
doctor said, when the nurse was sum-
moned and the remainder of the in
teresting details heard daily on the
country line.
That's all a thing of the past if a
demonstration given by a German at
the National hotel to early arrivals at
the annual convention of independent
telephone men proves practicable. He
has appliances whereby Mrs. Green's
conversation with Mrs. Reed may be
entirely private excepting to those
pretty telephone girls and they never.
never tell, you know.
Saves Batteries.
Not only does this German inventor
have an appliance for cutting off
eavesdropping but also has it arranged
by a clever manipulation of wires 50
in case of sudden death or other ca
lamity another farmer on the same
line can call central while others are
talking, get a doctor or an undertaken
and no one else be any the wiser. In
fact, according to the German invent
or's statement, every phone on ia
party line can be busy at the sate
time and each conversation private.
OF course. such appliances cost =
little extra but the inventor declares
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-15
new LAND BANKS
Bill Proposes System Be Han
died by Bureau.
Authorizes String of Banks to
Lend Postal Savings.

Washington. Feb. 15.-The admin
istrations bill to establish a system of
land banks drafted by a joint con
gressiOnaI committee was favorably
reported today to the senate but with
radical alterations by the banking and
currency committee. The joint pro-
posal for a board of five commission
ers to control the system was discard
ed by the committee in favor of control
ny a treasury department bureau, to
be known as the federal farm loan
bureau under the general supervision
of a federal farm loan board, the lat
ter consisting of the secretary of the
treasury and four president ap-
pointees.
New provisions would authorize the
investment of postal savings funds in
farm loan bonds and would permit the
treasury department to Keep up to
1000, 600 on deposit with the land
banks. The committee struck out a
clause giving the land banks authority
to establish savings departments The
general outlines of the joint proposals
which would authorize the establish
ment Of twelve sectional federal land
banks were retained.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-15
SHORT and UGLY
WORD IS USED
DIR. Harding Declares That
Somebody Has Lied.
Calls on Miss Vernon to Say
Who 1t Is.
SERENE AND UNRUFFLEl
The Delaware Woman Sends
Out Her Invitations
For the Meeting Scheduled
Feb. % at Topeka.

IF Miss Vernon wants to know how
charitable Kansas women can be, let
Miss Vernon confess her sins and ad-
nit that someone told lie. Let ner
clear the skirts of Mrs. Monroe and
let's get back to first principles in our
dispute.
Bang! DIR. Eva Harding has thrown
another monkey wrench into the ma
suffrage workers. For just two min
utes today, DR.. Harding expressed her
sentiments regarding the Kansas suf-
frage row and passed the short fight
ing word. Then she walked away.
Look at it from any angle you like.
1t Is an apparently free and open dis
pute. Almost anyone affiliated with
the national suffrage association, the
congressional union, the Good Govern
ment club or the Political Science
club, is eligible TO sit and express
few free and open minded ideas.
Women's clubdom IS more shattered
by factional strife than at any time
since women won the ballot in KAN
sas Expressions-both for publica-
ton and private consumption -indi-
cate that the words love, peace and
harmony have been carefully censored
and removed from the dictionary SO
far as the club women are concerned.
All manner of trouble is being
stored up for the final fight for su-
premacy of the suffrage organizations
in this state. The row which started
among Topeka women, has caused a
clash among the women's clubs of the
state. The suffrage organizations in
Washington are watching tie Kansas
row and Kansas women in the midst
of their internal rows, have substi-
( tuted brick bats and daggerS for the
olive branch and American Beauty
roses.
Short and Ugly Word.
That none of the enthusiasm of the
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-15
Death on Battlefield Russian
Equal Suffrage Argument.
BEHIND EVERY WOUND A STORY
Slaughter Pens of Russia Red
With Feminine Blood.
Girl Leads Regiment to Victory
After Colonel Falls.

Petrograd. Feb. 15.-Russian women
are winning their emancipation on
the battlefield. The same autocratic
Russia that abolished vodka in a night
will think twice about equal suffrage
after the war. it became known to-
day. Inquiry in official circles tends
to the belief that there is an over
whelming sentiment for rewarding the
Russian woman, at least those of the
educated classes, for their valorous
conduct under the guns.
The big war has brought the Rus
sian woman to the fore. The tradf-
tional comradesnip of Russian broth
ers and sisters in home life. the CO.
educational facilities of Russian uni-
versities, the capabilities of Russian
women generally have all combined
to give the female subjects of the car
masculine mentality. 1t took the
nism which already has demonstrated
that the upper classes of Russian
women are ready for the vote
The Russian woman's argument for
suffrage is silent 1t is not based on
street parades and flapping banners
as in America, or more violent demon
strations, as in England, but on a rec
ord of patriotic devotion and heroics
on the battle front. The military reg
ulations of the cars forces on land
and sea decree that no woman NAV
serve. These regulations are not
obeyed. Accounts Of female heroism
come from every Russian battle front
Red With Feminine Blood.
Everywhere Russian women are in
the midst of the struggle. Some of
(Continued on Page ol
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-15
There Are 226 Stores in Kan
saS Bearing the Name.
PROPRIETORS HERE TODAY
To Attend the Annual COnyen-
ton of the Members.
Business Extends Britain and
American Possessions.

Ono hundred Rexall druggists from
all parts of Kansas gathered here this
morning to attend the annual RexaH
convention. Meetings will be held in
the Commercial club rooms The con-
vention will be in session today and
tomorrow and besides an attendance
of Kansas Rexall druggists. heads of
various departments of the United
Drug company will be present.
An address Of welcome by Governor
Capper at $50 o'clock opened the
convention and from then until noon
a business session occupied the time.
In the afternoon another business
session was held and in the evening the
Rexan druggists steered by w. Lee
Tully and James Mcfarland of the
TuIly- Mcfarland Drug company, Rex
all distributors in Topeka, will at
tend the Novelty theater, where a
special reel will be shown.
1000 in United States.
At present there are 226 RexaH
druggists in Kansas, 1000 in the
United States, while products owned
and controlled by the ReXan drug
gists are sold in ali provinces of Can
ada, in Cuba. Hawaii, the Philippines,
and throughout Great Britain. 1t re-
quires more than 100000 square feet
of floor space-or over 25 acres-to
manufacture this enormous quantity
of goods
Eleven years ago there were no
Rexall stores Back of The ReXall
Idt of cooperation stands man
Louis K. Liggett, formerly of Detroit.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-15
SAFETY IN SCHOOL
Students to Take Courses in
Accident Prevention.
Order Issued on Complaint to
Labor Department.

Safety attachments are to be placed
on all machinery used in the state
higher educational institutions and
students in engineering are to be Civ
en- scientific courses in the causes
and prevention of accidents, it was
announced today from the offices of
the Kansas department of labor here.
1t was stated that the announcement
was made with the approval of the
state board of educational administra-
ton, who have issued instructions to
the engineering faculties of the insti-
tutions.
Complaint has been made to the la
Dor department that in some of the
schools of the state. especially those
in which manual training is offered,
mechanical safeguards, such as the
department requires in industrial
plants had not been installed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-15
DYNAMITE And
POISON IN PLOT
OF ANARCHISTS
To SIay Clergy and Laity in
Dozen u. s. Cities.
Trace Many Chicago Church
Fires to Band.
TO WRECK OFFICE BUILDINGS
Union League Club, Federal
Building Are on List.
of Fifteen" Sought
One Now in Jail.

Chicago, Feb. 15.-Search was
started today for the principals in
what was believed by the police to
have been a plot to destroy buildings
and kill numbers of the clergy and
laity in a dozen cities in all sections
of the United States. Discovery of
the alleged plot according to the po-
lice resulted from examination of the
personal effects OF John Allegrini,
confident of Jean Crones, who is
charged by the authorities with put
ting poison ir soup at the banquet
given Archbishop Mundelein and
causing the illness of 100 of the
guests.
Chief of Police Healy, Nicholas
Hunt, chief of detectives and Deputy
Chief of Police Herman Schuettler an
pounced today after studying tranS1a-
tions of letters found in Allegrini's s
rooms that they regarded as estab-
orga ganization of "destroyers'' headed
by the committee of fifteen of
which Crones and Allegrini are be-
lieved to have been members.
Jail Crones' Pal.
Police are searching for Crones,
who is a former assistant chef at the
Chicago university club. Allegrini is
in Jail charged with conspiracy to
commit murder. The police were
guarded in making public the contents
of Allegrinis correspondence but it
was stated that plans and specifica-
tions were given for several huge
downtown buildings in Chicago which
it is said had been marked for de-
struction by he committee. These
included the Peoples Gas Light &
Coke company building, one of the
largest office buildings in the down
town district, the Union league club
the federal building, and the Grace
hotel.
The attempt to wreck ST. Patrick's
Roman Catholic church in New York
recently is believed by Captain Hunt
to have been a part of the alleged plot
According to the detective who did the
translation, certain ringleaders in 6
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-15
LEvEE Goes OUT
Mississippi Torrent Through
Dyke in Louisiana.
Large Area of Rich Farm Land
Being Devastated.

Natchez, Feb. 15.-Two breaks oc-
Cured early today in the Mississippi
levee at Limerick plantation. about 25
miles above st. Joseph, La. and six
miles from Newellton, on the LOUISE
ana side, according to reports received
here.
1t was stated that a large volume
of water was rushing through the
breaks ard would flood Tensas. Con-
cordia, Franklin. Catahoula and pos
sibi Madison parishes in Louisiana.
Notify People to Flee.
Natchez. Miss. Feb. 15.-The re-
port of the break was received here
by w. c. Barton. one of the govern
ment engineers in charge of levees
in this district, who later started for
the crevices. Mr.. Barton said the
warnings were sent by telephone and
by couriers on horseback to the sec
ton in the path of the flood and he
believed the inhabitants would have
time to escape.
Many thousands of acres would be
inundated, he said, and among the
towns which may be flooded or sur
rounded by the onrushing waters ara
Newellton. st. Joseph, Vidalia, Water
proof and Ferriday. According to
Mr.. Barton's advices, the crevasse oc-
Cured in the basin of Lake St. JOS
eph and he thought the high banks
of the lake probably would hold back
the water for a time and enable resi-
dents on the plantations to reach
places of safety. 4
The back levee around the town of
ST Joseph. he said. might protect the
place from inundaticn.
Memphis, Feb ia long distance
telephone message received here from
Natchez, Miss, says the main levee 80
miles below that city broke early to-
day. The water from this break will
flood j. rye area of rich farming
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-15
Two Die as Heroes Trying Il
Rescue Comrades.
OVERCOME BY GAS FUMES
Fire Started I'm Airshaft in
Copper Mine.
Flames FierceIy Burning Defy
Relief Squads.

Butte. Mont, Feb. 15.-Twen-
tv-One men probably have per-
ished. according to the rescue
workers at the Pennsylvania
mine of the Anaconda Copper
Mining company, in a fire which
broke out in one of the levels
while 22O miners were at work
last night. Nine bodies had been
raised from the mine before noon
and twelve were unaccounted
for.
The fire at the 1900 foot level
of the shaft was still burning at
noon. but was under control.
Two of the dead, William
Mitchell. assistant foreman. and
Neil Brennan, were overcome by
smoke and gas while engaged in
rescue work.
The fire started in an air shaft. cut
TING off the supply of air to a portion
of the workers.
An alarm vas Immediately sent
through the underground WorklIES
and the miners rushed TO saIety' Al
Of the ZLO men were bANN7tAN ~
surface in the mine elevator except
those believed to be dead on the LOU
foot level.
Gas rmed rapidly again and again
driving back the squads of rescuers
although they we're protected with
helmets and respirators. Mitchell ana
Brennan entered the 1900 foot level
and were in the act Of carrying out
prostrate comrades when they were
overcome by the gas. Before they
we're exhausted they had carried sew
eral unconscious men to the elevator
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-15
PLEAD FOR REFUGEES.
viii Appeal to Congressional DeIega-
ton Touring Flood Districts.

Little Rock, Feb. 15.-Residents of
Arkansas City and Lake Village today
planned to lay their grievances and
demands for government rations for
flood refugees before the congression-
al flood control which is to visit Ar
kansas City tomorrow.
Two hundred or more persons In
isolated places in Desha county are
said to be in want. while officials Of
Lake Villa have estimated that ra-
tions for 900 persons for two weeks
must be supplied Immediately. The
Mississippi has fallen four-tenths of q
foot az Arkansas City. and the pressure
against the levees there has dimin-
ished.
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Hero Canine !.
Dies in Fire
With ChiLdrer,

Duluth, Mimi, Feb. 15.-Ade-
line Mackyol, 3 years old. and
Frederick Mackyol, 4, were burn
ed to death, and their mother,
Mrs. Gust Mackyol, was fatally
injured last night N 4 fire which
destroyed their home. Dick" a
white bulldog. sacrificed his life
in an effort to save the children
and his body was found lying on
the bed beside the remains of the
girl.