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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13
IT MAKES FOR WAR in HANDS OF JURY
Fate of Harry Grumbine De.
ponds Upon the Verdict.
He Is Charged With Statutory
Crime Against Helen Taylor.

The fate of Harry Grumbine,
charged with statutory crime against
fourteen-year-o Helen Taylor. is i'll
the hands of jury IN the second divi-
sion of the district court. The jury
took the case at 1880 o'clock this aft
ernoon after a hearing that began a.
noon yesterday.
Grumbine is charged with assault
ing Helen Taylor while she was in his
room at 2O9 Kansas avenue, February
2. The case began yesterday. The
Taylor girl was on the stand most of
the afternoon but told her story only
after repeated questions put by w. L.
Atchison- county attorney, and his as
SiStants.
The story of the case as outlined by
the prosecution is that Helen Taylor
and another girl who mas since left
town went to the room occupied by
Harry Grumbine, that the other girl
left and that during her absence
Grumbine committed an assault on
Helen Taylor. The Taylor girl testi-
fled to that. She told a broken story
but when asked to look the jury in
the face and tell whether or not
Grumbine did assault her, she aroused
from her apathy, looked the jurymen
in the face and said with spirit:
He did assault me-
OOlllLtIy " the expectations OF the
prosecution, Harry Grumbine was
plached on the stand in mis- own de-
Tense this morning. He made a good
witness for his own case until w. e
Atchison, county attorney, started on
his cross-eXa mination.
His Court Record.
The county attorney pulled Grum-
bine's court record on the defense and
Grum bine admitted his numerous ar
rests and the fact that he had served
two terms in the state reformatory.
He admitted that he had been arrest
ed for being found in disorderIy
houses and for fighting
Helen Taylor, the complaining wit
ness, was on the stand again today
but as at all other times she was more
or less reluctant to testify. Her mem
DRY failed at frequent intervals but
was much better than at the prelim
mary hearing.
Grumbine'S memory was also at
fault during the hearing today.
How old are you?' asked w. E.
Atchison.
Twenty-Five" was the reply.
when were you born?"
"In 1889"
Mr.. Atchison called attention to the
fact that the difference between 1889
and 1916 was twenty-seven years, then
Grumbine declared he didn't know
when he was born. He told the jailer
at the county Jail when he was ar
rested, according to the record, that
he was twenty-seven years of age.
Grumbine served thirteen months in
the state reformatory on the CT arge
of larceny from a residence and was
paroled He violated his parole and
was taken back to serve fifteen
months.
The case went to the jury about 1880
O'Clock
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13
She WAITED TWO YEARS
Mrs. Cannaday Says Husband Claimed
to Be Worth $4,000 When Married.

Because, she alleges, Charles F.
Cannaday represented to her that he
was worth $4,000 when they were
married and that she has been una BILE
to find out how he is worth more than
his wages, since. Mrs. Cannaday today
filed suit for divorce in the district
court of Shawnee county.
The petition states that they were
married March Is, 1914 and that
there are no children.
The fact that the husband did not
have the wealth he represented is used
by Mrs. Cannaday as grounds for
charging a fraudulent contract.
She declares he buys her no clothes
that he declines to pay the bills and
that he chops her no wood nor kin
ding.
One of the grounds set forth for a
divorce by Mrs. Cannaday is that
Cannaday has threatened to draw his
wages and leave her with a lot of gro
Gerry bills to pay. She asks for alimony
and divorce
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13
IT BREAKS OUT AGAIN
IndianoIa School District Row Reaches
the Courts.

Effort to hold the members of the
school board of the East Indianola dis
trict personally responsible for 1900
they spent for ground upon which to
erect the new school building is made
in a suit filed in the district court to-
day by school patrons
The defendants, members of the
school board, are o. F. Whitney.
George Hutton and Frank 2. Rude.
The men bringing the action are resi-
dents and taxpayers of the district.
They are J. A. Hartzell, F. M. Ward,
G.. n. Holmes, George Vetter, r. w.
Howard, George w. Schultz, Ira Vet
ter.
Some of the people living in the In
dianola district, just north of the city,
wanted a new school house. There
was a row as to it's location and fin
ally it was settled when residents
bought and donated to the district a
tract of ground The school board
of a building upon the ground pur-
chased. That was in 1918. The
building was completed and is now in
use.
The compliments now state that at
a school meeting held later a resolu-
ton was passed directing the school
board to pay back to the residents the
money donated for the purchase of the
grounds. The petition states that the
defendant school board drew warrants
against the school funds for $1,000 to
pay the people who donated the land
and that one result is the fact that the
district is in debt and is paying in
terest on borrowed money. The petit
ton requests that the members of the
school board be held responsible per-
sonally for the $1,000 they spent from
the school funds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13
BIG MONTH FOR UNIONS
Over 800 Members Have Been Added
to Local Labor Organization.

"a boom month for the unions is
the way local labor leaders characterize
the last four weeks of union activi-
ties. over three hundred new mem
bers have been taken into the locals
here in that time and five new unions
have been formed. making a local
record
1.-The Timers and Sheet Metal
Workers" is the name of the latest
local formed. Thirty-seven members
will sign the charter at next Monday
nights meeting. The permanent Of
ficers elected are: ]. NJ. Herman,
president; H. G. Knox, corresponding
secretary: c. Rider. financial secre-
Stewart, warden; Carl Matthews, con-
ductor: Frank McNeely. P. C. Good
and Art Holstrom. trustees.
The largest of the new locals is the
Retail Clerks association which today
numbers over 80 members. 1t is esti-
mated that, outside of the Santa Fe
offices. there are 1000 clerks employ
in short time the association will in
clude the majority of them. ]. w.
Conray, secretary-treasurer of the in
ternational clerks organization, is ex-
pected to arrive this week to assist in
membership campaign.
A 'jitney drivers union is another
organization to be formed, according
to Frank Brown. organizer for the A.
F. of L. This will include all chauf-
feurs, teamsters. stablement and help
ers. Another union to be formed is
an organization of the contract plas-
terers.
The final organization of the Hold
Carriers and Common Laborers' local
will be perfected Saturday night in
Industrial hall
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13
Rabbi Stephen Wise Opposes
Preparedness Program
In an Address Before the Com.
merciaI Club.

That preparedness makes war in
evitable and lasting peace impossible,
was a statement made today noon by
Rabbi Stephen Wise in an address de-
livered to a crowd that filled the
luncheon room of the Commercial
Club. Rabbi Wise is touring America,
making addresses for an anti-prepar-
edness society of Boston. He is one
of the most popular rabbis in New
York and has been a leader in social
and reform work throughout the coun-
try. Present at the noon day luncheon
was a number of Topeka's prominent
Hebrews and their wives.
Governor Arthur Capper, an anti
preparedness advocate, introduced the
! rabbi who proved himself a master of
oratory and won many admirers be-
cause of his personality and oratorical
ability. Amos Pinchot, brother of
Clifford Pinchot who had ben sched-
uled to speak at the same time remain
ed in Kansas City where he delivered
an address.
This War Is Proof.
THE present world war is the
browning disproof of the axiom that
preparedness IS a guarantee against
the evils of war, said Rabbi Wise.
above and beyond all else, what made
| this war inevitable, was the prepared
| HESS OI ill Inc DeOpl0S VI EUROPE
Yet, 1 am not a peace-at-any-pric
man. 1 am an against war-at-every-
price man. The question that faces
us is not disarmament versus pre-
paredness but normal war prepared
ness versus historical and un-Ameri-
can militarism.
BE not deceived by the cry that the
army and navy, which are to be built
up in the name of preparedness are to
represent defensive policies and defen =
sive measures alone. Every defensive
army of the last century has taken the
offensive at one time or another.
Same as of Old.
1.-The policy that ] venture to urge
is to proceed along the lines of the
carefully thought out program of the
last decade, a program which has Civ
en- us an admira BILE army and a truly
great navy. L ask you to bear in mind
that if at the end of the war it be-
comes impossible for our republic to
lift a finger on behalf of the curtail-
ment and limitation OF ornaments, the
fault will lie with us, and we shall in
large part be under the necessity of
accepting the responsibility for cease
less war in the world.
I'VE will have made the reverend
ing renewal of the hell of war inevi-
table, by the acceptance of a military
preparedness program"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13
FIVE PLEAD NOT GUILTY
Germans on Trial in Frisco for Vio-
lation of Neutrality.

San Francisco, April 13.-Fran=
Bopp, consul general of Germany
here. and four others pleaded not
guilty today in the United States dis
trict court to indictments involving
violations of neutrality.
The others were E. H. Won Setback
vice consul general of Germany here:
Baron George Wilhelm Won Brincken,
a lieutenant of the German army
identified with the consulate: Charles
c. Crowley, a detective in the admit
ted employ of Consul General Bopp.
and Mrs. Margaret Cornell, an investi-
gator employed by Crowley.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13
CACHE IN CHICKEN COOP
Find Bank Robbery Loot on Farm of
Arrested Suspect.

Pittsburg. Pa. April 13.-Detectives
searching the house of Thomas H.
Talbot, the Russellton farmer arrested
last night in connection with the rob-
berry of the First National bank Of
Houston. Pa, last week announced to-
day that they had recovered a large
part of the loot.
Investigation of a chicken coop re-
vealed the presence of a considerable
quantity of mutilated currency which
the detectives say was a part of the
$4,000 stolen from the bank They
also declare that several 500 bills and
many SO bills have been recovered
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13

will not enter Sonora, so 1 am goinG
into Chihuahua to help capture lin
in case he breaks through the ranks
of the Americans"
The statement was obtained by Sc
cret agents of the military authorities
and has been communicated to Cen
eraI Funston at San Antonio
Already there are between 5000 and
5000 Garranza troops in the territory
north of Casas Grandes and east Of
the continental divide, in positions
strategically commanding the Ameri-
can line of communications.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13
LOCAL MENTION.
Glass. Glazing and Paint Miller &
Gillespie. S33 (. A. Phone 355.-Adv.

Mrs. Rose Potter Crist will continue
her evangelistic services at the Wal
nut Grove NJ E. church through next
week. There has been an increasing
ly large attendance.
For Sewer Pipe. Phone S65. ]. B.
Whelan & Co.-Adv.
Nine. Z. Azalia Hackley will appear
at the Topeka Industrial Institute Fri
day, April IA. Jitneys will leave
transfer station at Eighth street, 1880
p. m. Round trip. 5 cents. Admis-
sion, % cents.-Adv.
Sons and Daughters of Justice dan
cling committee will give a dance this
evening at kirkpatrick hall. Admis-
sion 25 cents. Lobach- Doel orchestra
ADV.
Framing and silvering. Coe, S2s
Kansas Ave.-Adv.
Economy Express Co. Phone 1860
ADV.
+. A. Rooster. y. D. s.. ITO Mills
Bldg. Special attention given to pyor-
rhea and oral prophylaXis.-Adv.
Safety razor blades sharpened better than
new. 2Jc-30c doz. Brunt Drug Co.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13

paper, 3M3H per cent. Sterling. 90 day
pills, 4.7:s: demand. 4.T6 ZIG: cables. al.
Francs. demand, 6.07; cables. G.o61i. Marks.
demand. 725s; cables. a. 11-16. kronen. de-
mand, 123s: cables, 12;s. Guilders. demand.
+2@s; cables. 42%- Lires demand, Ga; ca
bles 644 RubIes. demand. Boss cables,
JOS Bar silver &c; Mexican dollars. 4SS4c.
Government bonds, steady: railroad bonds.
easy Time loans, irregular; GO and 80
days. "a 63: O months. .;
Call money. steady: high .: low. 1z4 !;
ruling rate. IL last loan, >; closing bid
~; offered at q
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13
SEND MORE SUPPLIES
shipments Do Not Indicate Prospect
of Early Evacuation by U. 5.

FL Paso. April 13.-Motor truck
shipments of supplies from Column bus,
y. M. to the Casas Grandes base con-
tinued today. it was announced at the
headquarters depot here. General
Pershing's forces are we'll stocked with
hay and grain, it was said.
No word has been received regard
ing the progress of supplies sent over
the Mexican Central railroad yester-
day by private parties to be sold to
the American troops at Chihuahua
Civ
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13
Death and FUNERALS

MRS. CORA SHREDDER, formerly
Miss Cora Stitt of Topeka. died
Wednesday in Albuquerque, n. NJ The
body will be brought to Topeka for
burial Mrs. SHREDDER is survived by a
husband and two children. She was
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Stitt of Kansas City. Arrangements
for the funeral will be made later.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13

Miss Dorcas Surth has been q
prominent figure in the winter colony
at Coronado Beach, California, this
season She has taken part in all
the costume affairs and attracted a
great deal of attention by her ex-
quisite dancing. She is an expert
swimmer and is seen at the beach at
least once every day. j.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13
New Yor Stock

New Yor- Stock Market
tC7ose of prices for the leading stocks IN
The New York Stock Exchange as re-
ported by Thos. J. Myers, Booker, (,olum
bian Bldg.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13
DINNER STORIES.

The foreman employed by big
contractor rushed into the office of
the boss. wild-eyed and palpitating.
Boss" said he, lone of them new
houses of our fell down in the nighti'
whats that?" exclaimed the boss
jumping right up. What was the
matter? How did It happen?"
ut was the fault of the workmen,
boss" answered the foreman. "They
made the mistake of taking down the
scaffolding before they put on the wall
paper"
School had begun and the class in
history was in session.
Now, Bobby" said the teacher,
by whom was the Declaration of In
dependence written?''
Thomas Jefferson" said Bobby.
Correct" said the teacher And,
now, Willie, you may tell me where
it was signed
Right at the bottom, ma am" said
Willie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13
AERO AGE is AT HAND
Dr. Bell Says Aircraft Will Superscde
Land and Sea Powers in War.

Washington, April 13.-Dr. Alex
ander Graham Bell declared before
the Navy League of the United States
that the time was almost at hand
when both sea and land power would
be secondary to air power. The
United States, he said, has an oppor-
tunity to become the nation that ul-
timately will control the air, because
the art of aviation originated in this
country.
'Aeroplanes are the war craft of
the future" said DIR. Bell Ion &C
count of their greater speed and other
advantages
The United States, he thought
should build a great fleet to carry
mails. Dirigibles should not be neg
lected, he declared, and added that If
the army had possessed a machine of
this type it could have carried rations
for 10000 men in Mexico at a cost
less than by motor train.
New Orleans Cotton Market.
New Orleans. April 13.-COTTON-Spo
steady; unchanged. Middling, 11.SS.
New York Cotton Market.
New York, April 13.-COTTON-Spot,
quiet: middling uplands. 11.95 No sales.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13
5000 De Factos Near Border.

z Columbus. n. NJ, April 1S.-Here IS
The explanation today from General
Arnulfo Gomez at Aqua Prieta of the
movement of Carranza troops from
Sonora into Chihuahua:
Z II have become convinced that villa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

Jest Putterin' Round.
Now this day is over,
And though I've done a pile,
l cannot think of one thing
That l would call worth while.
NELS YINGLE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13

New York Cotton Market.
New York, April 13.-COTTON-Spot
quiet: middling uplands 11.95. No sales.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-13

New Orleans Cotton Market.
New Orleans. April 13.-COTTON-Spot
steady; unchanged. Middling, Hiss.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-17
THE OCALA BANNER
SETS TRIBUNE RIGHT

The esteemed Tampa Tribune says
that If there is to be recount at all,
it should be a recount of the entire
state. We feel quite sure that Mr..
Knott and his friends would be per-
fectly willing to have the same done,
obut it was never done in any of the
previous contests. So far as this pa
per is concerned, it would ike to
have the recount made by absolutely
impartial non-partisian experts with
adding machines, which would make
mistake almost impossible. It
not defraud Brother Cats out of a
single vote that is justly his for the
nomination. The tribune again says:'
1.-THE supreme court decision sets a
very bad and a very dangerous pre-
cedent in this state" The supreme
court is merely followingg, not set
ting, a precedent-a precedent that
was made when Bloxham contested
the seat Of Day in 1870, now forty.
six years ago. A precendent that
was again followed in the case that
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-17
Club Women To Prevent
Spread Of tuberculosis

Iincipent cases are left in the com
munity.
In Ohio, the problem has been
solved by several counties getting to.
gether and providing sanatorium for
tubercular patients, and in some cas-
es the woman's clubs. supported by
the city council and the county gov.
eminent, have worked out the situa-
ton along similar lines.
Daytona, Miss Foote said, has re-
Gently put on a colored public health
nurse to assist in the care of patients
at Ormond and Daytona. She is sup
ported by the Woman's Club Of Day
tona, the Mary Bethune Industrial
School. the cities of Daytona and Or
monde also contributing.
That one out of every sevent per-
sons in this country has tuberculosis
makes the prevention Of the disease,
long known as the white plague, a
matter of concern to everyone, and,
being infectious, it is only by segre-
cation that its spread can be pre-
vented. The Importance Of taking
some immediate steps along this line
to better local conditions could not
be over-emphasized and Miss Foote
said and she strongly urged that the
club women let no grass grow under
their feet in getting into action.
Mrs. Sherman, president, referred
the matter to the health committee
for consideration. Mrs B. NJ Potter,
chairman, called a meeting of the
committee for this afternoon at her
home on South Olive street when a
definite course of action will be de-
cided upon. Miss Foote, who re-
mains in town a day or two longer,
will meet with them and give them
the benefit of her ten years experience
in the work.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-17
MUST BE SOMETHING
IN A NAME WHEN TOWN
RAISES HOWL

Oakland in Orange county, Florida,
has been requested by Oakland in
California to surrender all right and
title to the name of Oakland, SO that
Oakland, Cal, will be the only Oak
land in the U. S. A. Following is a
letter which has been sent out by the
Oakland, Cal, Chamber of Com
merce:
I'VE are, urgently constrained to
seek your kind assistance in a mat
ter of great importance to this city.
1t involves merely simple demon
stration of neighborly friendship that
will be always for us an enduring
monument Of your community's gen.
lerosity.
Briefly, we are going to ask you in
the kindliest spirit to surrender to us
the name OAKLAND" Your willing
and cheerful compliance will facili-
tate greatly the proceedings we are
about to initiate before the proper au-
thorities.
The sign OAKLAND" has been
over our place of business since 1920
and since then our establishment has
grown to be the largest in the world
using that name.
The international fame we have
achieved because of our phenomenal
industrial and business growth must
naturally present perplexing obsta-
Gle to your own deserved recognition.
We take cordial pleasure in sug-
costing this obvious olution for your
problem, and sincerely trust you will
give our request the favorable and
prompt attention we feel it merits.
3 Yours very truly,
OAKLAND CHAMBER OF COM
MERGE,
BY Joseph e. CRANE, Managing Direc-
tor.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-17
O6EYlNG OUR GUIDE

1t is never safe to disobey those
who are wiser than ourselves. A
traveller tells us he once went up a
more than ten thousand
feet high. On the way his guide
pointed out place where a man met
with a severe accident a few years
before.
How did it happen?" asked the
traveller.
The reply was, "He did not obey
his guide. He would go by a way
against which l had warned him."
Even so, we must obey our heaven.
ly Guide, If we would journey safely
on to the promised land.-Selected
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-17
Treatment of Walls.

II molding is liked from which to
hang the pictures that do so much to
make our rooms homelike, the best
neight for the molding is in line with
the top of the doors. The modern idea
seems to be to bring the window wood
work to the floor by using a paneling
beneath the sill, and to carry the tops
OF doors and windows to a fixed line
the molding line. Thus the walls are
divided into rectangular spaces, and
the decorative effect of a good paper
IS enhanced. A plain paper has the
dignity OF panel when so used.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-17
STOP CAL0MEL! TAKE
DODSON'S LIVER TON
New Discovery Takes Place of Dangerous Caoet Puts Your Liver To
Work Without Making You SGk-Ea Anything Can Not
SaINate-Don't Lose a Days Work!

l discovered a vegetable compound that does
the work of dangerous, sickening calome and
want every reader of this paper to try bottle
and if it doesn't straighten you up better and
quicker than salivating calome just go back to
the store and get your money.
l guarantee that one spoonful of Dodson's
Liver Tone will put your sluggish liver to work
and clean your thirty feet of bowels of the sour
bile and constipation poison which is clogging
your system and making you feel miserable
| guarantee that one spoonful of this harmless
liquid liver medicine will relieve the headache, bill
iousness, coated tongue, ague malaria sour stom-
ach or any other distress caused by torpid liver
as quickly as dose of vile, nauseating calomeI,
besides it will not make you sick or keep you from
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-17

days work. want to see bottle of this won.
derful liver medicine in every home here.
Calomel is poison-it's mercury-it attacks the
bones, often causing rheumatism Calomel is dan
gerous. 1t sckens-while my Dodson's Liver
Tone is safe, pleasant and harmless. Eat any,
thing afterwards, because it can not salivate Give
to the children because it doesn't upset the ston
ach or shock the liver. Take a spoonful tonight
and wake up feeling fine and ready for full
days work.
Get bottle! Try i'll If it doesn't do exactly
what say, tell your dealer to hand YOUR money
back Every druggist and store keeper here knows
me and knows of my wonderful discovery of a
vegetable medicine that takes the place of danger
Gus calomeI.