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The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
WHEAT SENSATION
Violent Fluctuations Unparal-
leIed in History of Market.
Warlike Utterances Prevail and
Price Goes Bp 10 Gents. ~

Chicago, Dec 23-Weekly Grain
and Provisions. )-Warlike utterances
from spokesmen of the entente allies
have lifted the price of wheat with
vigor in the last week. and so. too,
have big export sales. Net advances
ranged from 5% cents to 16as cents
bushel Corn gained 4S to 49s
cents and oats 2 q cents to. cents.
Provisions as a rule suffered de-
clines varying from to 80 cents.
1t was a week that for continued
violent fluctuations in the wheat mar
ket has rarely, if ever, been equalled.
The first sensational change in values
was an excited bulge of 10A cents,
accompanying the Russian dumas re-
lection of peace. Skyrocketing of
prices to a further amazing extent
both preceded and followed Lloyd
Georges memorable initial address as
premier, but was suddenly succeeded
by a downslide of 715 cents owing
to assertions that the door to a peace
conference had not been wholly
closed.
Wilson's Note Causes Decline
Prospects of new efforts to end hos
tilities resulted on Wednesday in fur
ed almost panicky proportions during
whirlwind selling that knocked the
market down cents as a result of
President Wilson's note, calling on the
Delllgerent powers to specify their
terms. Rebounds to higher level in
the wheat market Thursday yester-
day were ascribed in the main to i'm
mense purchases for European gov
ernment, chiefly Great Britain. No ac-
curate figures regarding the aggre-
gate of export sales could be obtained
but current estimates placed the total
we'll up in millions of bushels. Corn
and oats rose by reason of sympa thy
with wheat Car scarcity shutting off
receipts was also a bu1lish factor.
Doubts that a peace conference was
yet in sight weakened provisions.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
PUZZLES PRESS
Mixed JubilatiOn and Suspicion
in German Capital.
Wonder if America Making
PrO-British Move.

Berlin, Dec 23.-Keenest interest
mixed with jubila Ion over the reviv-
ing prospects of peace, was aroused
here by news of President Wilson's
peace note. Newspapers subordinated
as to what the British premier meant
in his speech of Tuesday, to the Wash
ington endeavor.
The move came when editorial COM
ment reflected the public view that
peace was far off, in view of the
Lloyd-George speech. The Tageblatt
had aptly expressed the general belief
in its editorial concluding "the abyss
between Lloyd-George's standpoint
and that which Germany has desig-
mated as her peace basis is very
great"
Probe for Underlying Motive.
The Lokal Anzeiger. tho admitting
that President Wilson's proposal has
gr eat political significance wonders
whether it comes an aftermath of
the German proposal to the entente or
is Independent of it. The Lokal An
zeiger declares that Germany and her
allies cannot take a stand until the
entente answer is received, which from
advance reports it considers gives no
cS use for optimism.
Count Won Reventlow. commenting
in the Deutsche Tages Zeitung. de-
clares that the character of the en-
tente is obvious from the headline,
THE U. s. Are Mixing In" Count
Reventlow devotes the greater part of
his editorial o the statement of Sec
retary Lansi--g, which he terms a
threat again It Germany that America
will enter the war on the side of Ger
many's opponents should the emperor
use her naval weapons against Eng
land and damage what he terms the
Anglo-American cause.
Wilson's step" Count Won Revent-
low says. lis nothing but an effort to
save England from catastrophe
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
.SWITCHMEN WIN
Grant S-HOur Day
and Increased Pay.
Neither Side Willing to Sign
Boards Compromise Verdict.

New York, Dec. 23.-The eight hour
day with straight pro-rata time for
overtime is granted to the Switch
mems union by, the federal arbitration
board in a decision today IN the
switchmen's controversy with the rail-
roads The award gives an increase
of 5 cents per hour for both forer1en
and helpers.
1t was said here today on behalf of
the railroads that the award was in
terpreted by them as Not giving an
o. K. to the Adamson law"
The award affects thirteen eastern
railroads.
Much emphas sis has been laid upon
the TACT that the hours of work of the
switchmen are often long,, says
statement by arbitrators, Howry and
jerks "Altho the standard WORK day
has been ten hours, frequently the men
have worked from IL to II and some
times even longer
More Time With Families.
"One of the reasons urged for the
shorter work days." continues the
statement, lis that men need more
time to visit with their famllles' 10
take recreation and to secure the oth-
er advantages of leisure
"a second argument is that the ions
hours result in physical eHnauslioi,,
often to a degree seriously injurious
TO health. The evidence shows clearly
that owing to the nature OF the Wor
there are frequent opportunities lor
intervals of rest and that the long
hours testified to are due very iargely,
almost invariably, indeed, to delays
caused by trains and similar reasons
beyond the control of the railway
managers or of the switchmen-
During these delays the swltchmen
must usually be idle, so that the long
hours do not always imply excessive
physical labor
Can Work Extra Two Hours or Not.
at seems to be clearly established,
the statement says, that under exist
ing conditions and probably even un-
der conditions of traffic less strenuous
than the present, it will not be possible
to make the actual working eight-hour
day effective in the case of more than
small percentage of the switching
crews. not more than 10 per cent, dur
ing the first year.
sMoreover, owing to the increase IN
nav awarded to the switchmen those
who seriously desire to shorten thei1
work CAV two hours for the purpose
of employing the added hours of leis-
ure in way distinctly beneficial to
themselves, will be able to secure this
leisure by the exercise of their senior
ity rights Those who prefer the add
ed wage will generally be able to Sc
cure that"
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
BRIDE A FIRE VICTIM
Rushes in to Save Wedding Gown and
Is Burned to Death.

Wichita, Kan, Dec. 23.-F'ive in
mates of the three hundred thousand
dollar Kansas Masonic home which
burned here yesterday morning, were
known to be dead today. A score or
more others are injured. but it is not
believed seriously.
1t has been impossible to identify
any of the bodies which have been
recovered, so badly were they burned
Only by checking up on the ones who
escaped can officials identify them
One of the bodies is supposed to be
that of Miss Gertrude Weigle, twenty
two years old. waitress, who was to
have been married on Christmas day.
Miss Weigle escaped from the fire,
but remembering that she had left
her wedding dress in her room, rush
ed into the burning building after it.
She is believed to have been trapped
in her room.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
OFF ON RESCUE TRIP
ShacIeIton Sails for Antarctic Search
ing Lost Comrades.

Dunedin. N. T., Dec. %, via London.
Sir Ernest Shackelton, the explorer,
sailed today from Port Chalmers for
the Antarctic on board his auxiliary
ship, the Aurora, in an effort to res
cue the members of his Antarctic ex-
pedition marooned near the Ross Bar
rier- There are ten men in the party
which the explorer will attempt to
reach-Captain Macintosh and nine
of the crew of the Aurora. They had
only a scanty supply of provisions
when the Aurora broke away in a
blizzard twenty-one months ago. leav-
ing them stranded, and nothing has
been heard from them since.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
9,166 Needy Cared For During
the Last Fiscal Year.
Howe Issues Annual Report of
the Board of Control.

Eighty-two Kansas charitable insti-
tutions. under supervision of the state
board of control, cared for 9,166 needy
men, women and children during the
year ending June 80. In a special re-
port issued today Senator j. w. Howe,
secretary of the board of control tells
in detail of the work by state chari-
ties. OF the gross expense of $780,
1914, the state distributed $4,000
among 81 of the 80 institutions under
it's supervision
Sixteen children's homes in Kansas
make reports to the state board. OF
these institutions, thirteen receive state
aid. The sixteen institutions cared for
1908 during the twelve months, or an
average of 100 children a month. The
expense as reported to the state was
$65, ,553.36.
Hospital Reports.
Forty hospitals, private and charity.
sent reports to the state board They
reported the care of 1889 charity pa
tients during the year. The expense
was given at $974443S
Five rescue homes sent renorts
Three of the homes cared for 95 wo-
men and girls at an expense of $4,000
while two other homes received 81 ma
tients during the year at an expense of
$4,000.
The Masonic home at Wichita,
NAiaNAi buIheu lnIS week; and the Odd
Fellows home at Eureka Lake. which
burned recently; sent reports to the
state The Masonic home cared for 5
| children and 81 adults during the wear.
The odd Fellows home cared for as
cnlldren and 100 adults. Neither of
the homes received state aid.
Aid to Private Charities.
Expense of charity work is given in
the report at $166,797-74. During each
| legislative session an approximation OF
$14,O 900 year is made for the care
of private charities. These charities
are designated in the appropriation bill
/ and during the biennium ending June
| 80, included 81 of the 50 institutions
which make reports to the state board
of control. The distribution of funds
as well as inspection of institutions is
| under direction of the state board
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
Secretary Lansing Invites In
vestigatiOn Threatened.
Will Guard Advance InfOrma-
ton More Carefully.
SUSPECT NEWSPAPER men?
Reached Curb Brokers Ahead
of Publication.
Were Relatives of Government
In on Big Cleanup?

washington. Dec. 23.-Administra-
ton men said today Secretary Lansing
will welcome the investigation by
which Representative Wood proposes
to ascertain whether any high govern
ment officials or their relatives proflt-
ed by the Wall street upset attendant
upon Iansing's two interpretive state
ments Thursday and the Wilson peace
note.
II was stated exceptional care will
be taken hereafter to guard against
possible leaks of advance information
from Washington that might tend TO
cause price fluctuation.
Government then indicated they
apparent fact that a tip as to the
peace note Wednesday reached the
street ahead of publication
The information that the note had
gone was given in the strictest contl-
dence to newspaper men wednesday
in more or less definite form, was in
Wall street.
Will Weed Out Tipstcrs.
Because of this, the government is
anxious to weed out any newspaper
men, or any one posing as newspaper
men. who may have been serving as
''tiDsters" for the street 1t also real
in making the confidential announce
ment
Four men not in the newspaper
business were in Secretary Lansing S
conference room when he pledged the
reporters to secrecy and gave them the
information.
The whole note proposition was
more or less an open secret. The peace
note went thru several hands in the
state department. before being put on
the cables Monday night and Tuesday
morning 1t was then sent to the pub
lie printer.
When confidential information con-
cerning it was given to the newspaper
men. there was no attempt to lock the
doors of the big reception room, and
there was no bar against visitors.
The Lansing verge of war" state
ment next day was ELECTED by news
paper mems questioning, tho whether
1t had been planned in advance is not
known.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
HOltOn Brothers Sold Cigars
Under a Return Guarantee.
Would Refund Money il Smokes
Were Unsatisfactory.
BUT ALL HAD TO Be RETURNED
Therefore Sales Were Made
When Goods Were Sampled.
Both Boys Held in Jail Here
for Federal Authorities.

Francis c. and Burr P. Hollings-
county Jail, held for federal authori
ties and charged with using the mails
to defraud. Their individual bonds
have been fixed at $500 and to date
they have been unable to raise them
and obtain thir release. The young
men were employed in a general store
at Holton at the time of their arrest
1t was not their connection with the
store but their plan to earn some side
money that got the men into trouble
According to government officials
they had a system that was sure
winner while it lasted.
According to the federal charges
the brothers styled themselves the
Royal Cigar company of Holton
They advertised to send a box of 100
cigars to any one who would send
them $3.50; the cigars to be placed in
the buyers hands merely upon ap-
ing them and obtaining a refund of
the $3.50 if the cigars were not salts
factory.
A Cheap Brand.
Every box sent out stuck for the
reason that the Royal Cigar company
agreed to refund only when all the
cigars were returned. The buyer did
whether or not the cigars were salts
factory and after he had done that he
could return only ninety-nine.
The cigars, federal authorities say,
could easily be sold with a profit at
$3.50 a hundred. The Royal Cigar
company saw to that.
The Royal Cigar company also
sought to employ agents over the
country, the government charging
! that the company agreed to pay $25
a week salary with an expense ac-
count of 81 day. The charge in the
suit brought is that the two men were
not equipped to fulfill that sort of a
contract; that they had neither the
money to finance such plan nor the
| cigars to fill any quantity of orders.
1t is said that the parents of the
! two Hollingsworths live in Kansas
City. The men say they have an au-
tomobile in Kansas City and have
| been trying to have it brought TO To-
! peka in order to secure some one on
two S3O0 bonds
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
A WHITE XMAS?
The Weather Man Expects
Snow Here by Monday.
Sunday To Be a Sunless Day
Mercury Will Climb.

temperatures To-Day averaged ten
degrees below normal The wind is
blowing at the rate of twelve miles
an hour from the east
Moderate weather with a chance for
a white Christmas is promised by the
local weather bureau. The sky was
cloudy this morning and the wind had
shifted back to northeast. and unset
tied conditions in the northern and
eastern portions of the United States
is expected to cullninate in snow
here, probably before Christmas.
Unsettled weather with rising tenn
peratures is forecast for tonight and
Sunday. There is no chance for any
sunshine tomorrow, tho temperatures
probably will hover close to the
freezing point. No snow was reported
in Kansas Friday night. but the sky
was cloudy at practically all places.
and conditions are exceedingly favor
able for snow.
Shippers forecast.
The shippers forecast reads to pro-
tect SO hour shipments north against
temperatures of from to 10: west. 10
to 20, east and SOUTH 20. The lowest
temperature here tonight probably
will not be below Is degrees. accord
ing to s. D. Flora. local weather OBJ
server Tomorrow the mercury will
climb probably to 80 degrees, Mr..
Flora said.
Storms In the East.
A heavy storm occurred last night
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
TROUSER HOLDUP
TO SPEND Is YRS.
BEHIND THE BARS

Dallas. Tex. Dec. 23.-Charles J.
Garner today forfeited fifteen years
liberty for wearing a pair of pants he
fancied. The pants belonged to o.
NJ Hayden. of Tulsa, Okla. Garner
took them after tapping Hayden on
the head with a gas pipe few nights
ago.
The next day Hayden saw his pants
going down Main street and had them
arrested. Garner was inside Today
Garner pleaded guilty to robbery with
a deadly weapon. Lee Bredwell, who
was with Garner and who took a
fancy to Hayden's hat, will be tried
on the same charge.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
IN A FOOD RIOT STATE CHARITIES
Dresden in ThrOes of Revolt
Lasting Three Days.
Feminine Mob Stones Shops,
Wounds Policemen.

London, Dec. 23-Serious food riots
at Dresden in which police and mill
tary forces were used by the German
authorities to quell the attack of
hundred women were reported in
Rotterdam dispatches today to the
Exchange Telegraph company. The
riots occurred on Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday, it was asserted. On Tues
day three policemen were seriously
wounded by the rioters.
The Rotterdam dispatch asserted
that the women joined in a procession
which stoned shops and marched
past the palace shouting for food
The sharpest fighting occurred Tues
day when the authorities sought to
suppress the demonstration which at
that time was Joined in by a hun
dred women.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
SNOWSLIDE FATAL
Colorado Avalanche Buries Christmas
Pleasure .-aFty.

Ouray, Colo, Dec. 23.-One man
is dead and ten others are suffering
from minor injuries toGay as the result
of an avalanche on the famous YAM
kee Girl Slide, near this city yester-
day.
Paul Siebach. IT. was killed The
injured men We're rescued by miners
nearby who saw the slide and sum-
moned assistance.
Siebach was the driver of a wagon
carrying party to this city to cele-
brate Christmas. As the wagon
crossed the danger zone under the
Yankee Girl Slide mass of snow
ran down the mountain side, enguIf-
ing them.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
STAYS GUARD COMRADE
Military Police Search for Minnesota
Artilleryman On Border.

Brownsville, Tex, Dec. 23.-Military
police at all camps on the lower bor-
der today continued on the lookout
for a Minnesota artilleryman, wanted
in connection with the killing of Pri-
vate John Natohests in the Llano
Grande camp, Wednesday night, after
a quarrel over the possession of a dol
lar. Natchests was from Virginia,
MINI.
Another man is being held on sus-
picion at San Benito. He will be taken
to Llano Grande for Identification.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
Republican ''Friends'' Term Late Ef-
fort CLUMSY and Ill Considered"

Washington, Dec 23.-The Republi-
can Publicity association, thru its
president, Jonathan Bourne, today
bitterly attacked Secretary Lansing for
what it termed his clumsy and ILL
considered utterances' regarding
President Wilson's peace note to
Europe.
Mr. Lansing may be acquitted of
any intention of wreaking the havoc
he has wrought, but surely he should
have had enough sense to have meas
ured the effect his words would have"
Bourne declared.
Statements which require explana-
tions or retractions within TWENTY
four hours can not inspire confidence
at home or respect abroad"
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
MEMORY OF SUFFRAGIST
Services as Tribute to Inez NIilholIand
Roissevain at National Capitol,

services for the late Inez Milholland
Boissevain, noted suffrage leader will
be held in Statuary hall at the capitol
on Monday. 1t will be the first time
that woman to whom no monument
has been erected in the hall has been
so honored there.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
STORM WRECKS YACHT
The America. Only Months Old Was
Premier of Pleasure Crafts.

New York, Dec 23-The America.
the large $4,000 flying yacht of the
America Trans Oceanic company was
wrecked at it's hangar at Port Wash
ington. Long Island, in the seventy
mile gale that swept this section last
night. The yacht was built three
months ago and was said to repre-
sent the highest development of a
pleasure flying yacht in this country.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
CHRISTMAS OVER LINE
Great Preparations for Soldiers in
Mexico.

American Headquarters. Mexico,
Dec. 23-Except for decorating the
great Christmas tree. preparations
have been completed here and the
program settled for the greatest
Christmas celebration the American
army has ever held outside of the
United States Organization will be
relieved from all except necessary
work. beginning with Saturday. so
that the expedition will have three
days of freedom from duties.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
CARS CRASH IN X. C.
Score of Christmas shoppers Injured
on Troost Avenue Line.

Kansas City, Mo, Dec. 23.-More
than twenty persons were injured
here today when three street cars on
the Troost car line crashed together
as the result of the brakes of one of
them failing to hold while going down
hill. According to police announce
ment none was seriously hurt
The three cars were loaded with
Christmas shoppers. City and private
ambulances conveyed those who were
hurt to various hospitals
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
NEWSPAPER SUSPENDS
High Cost of Paper Closes Daily Pub
Iished Since 1867

st. Charles, Mo-, Dec. 23.-The high
cost of print paper was given as rea-
son for the suspension after January
1 of the Demokrat, local German daily.
one of the Oldest in the state. Colonel
J. H. Bode has been publishing the
Demo krat since 1867
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
PRESIDENT GIVES WHITE
HOUSE ATTACHES TURKEYS

Washington, Dec 23.-There'n
he a nice fat Christmas turkey in
the home of every White House
attache.
Following a custom he adopted
when he came to the White House.
President Wilson has ordered a
bird for each of his employes-125
in all.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23
FISH FIGHTS FOUR HOURS
Vanderbilt Lands Biggest Devil Fish
Caught in Florida Waters.

Miami, Fla. Dec. 23-After a four
hours fight in which several harpoons,
two shark hooks and three bullets
were planted in its body, the biggest
devil fish ever caught in these waters
was landed by William K Vanderbilt
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23

GIFT suggestion to gas company
Let's hav. more gas.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-23

WEATHER FORECAST for Kansas:
Unsettled. with rising tempera-
ture tonight ard Sunday.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-07-13
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Elko 0e14.
Carson O7595.

Department Of the Interior, U. s.
Land Office at Elko. Nevada, June 8,
1916.
Notice is hereby given that JOHN
SAVAL, OF Tuscarora, Elko County.
Nevada, who. on January 2. 1913. made
Homestead application. Carson City.
076s5, now Elko. No. O914, for Lots ga.
So. embraced in list 1900, under act OF
6-11-06, Section 81, Township IL North,
Range 53 East, at. Diablo Base and
Meridian, has filed notice of intention
to make final three-year proof, to es
tablish claim 10 the land above de
scribed. before the Register 81 Receiv'
or OF the U. S. Land Office. at Elko
Nevada, on tho 14th day of July, 1916
Claimant names as witnesses
James C. Woodward, OF Tuscarora
Nevada; Rutledge NJ. Woodward. OF
Tuscarora, Nevada; Henry Ralph
Smith, Of Tuscarora, Nevada; Frapl
a. Smith, of Tuscarora, Nevada.
JOHN e. ROBBINS, Register.
First publication, June 10, 1916
Last publication, July ~, 1916.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-07-13
lI.sAh -sGe0n0ANPGARs ~
IN NlaEKlA. srIRRao UP
EXCITEMENT AMONG BLACKS

LONDON. July 13.-Nigeria has
trouble on Its hands in the person OF
n negro who styles himself Elijah the
Second. Ostepsibly a convert TO Chris
tianity. he has cut adrift from the mis-.
sionaries and is running a spurious
form OF Christianity on his own &c
count.
According OF an official who has
reached England from the region
where his converts are most numerous
they already number more than a mil
lion out Of the 1900, 900 natives in
Nigeria.
He claims to work miracles and
does not even draw the line at raising
people from the dead. He finds a par
ticularly profitable source of revenue
In selling water which he pretends Il
have endowed with magic healing
powers.
But what is causing the authorities
most concern is the new doctrine
which the black Elijah Is proclaiming
II Is that the blacks are now the
chosen people,: that they are de
stined TO Dust the whites and inherit
the choice places of the earth.