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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-28
Big DAY TOMORROW


vance crowds that has attended a po-
litical gathering in Topeka in years.
Both standpatters and conservatives
were in the hotel crowds today. For
mer Progressives will attend the din
uer this year in large numbers. Since
the fight against the Stubs rule in
1910, the Progressives within the Re
publican party have stayed at home on
Kansas Day. This year, however.
there is a general tendency among
leaders of both factions to get togeth
err and to lay aside the factional strifes
of former campaigns. Unless there
should be a fight concerning the
method of selecting national delegates,
the display of brotherly love and fell
lowship will be more generous than at
any Republican dinner in years
Many Candidates Here.
Many candidates were in the crowd
which came to Topeka today. Among
the early arrivals were a number of
county chairmen, candidates for dis
trict delegates to the Chicago conven-
ton and men who want places on the
Big Four" Daniel B. Dyer. Smith
Center. and Fred Knapp. Beloit, can
didates for auditor, came early. Max
Anderson, 3eloit. and Otis L. Benton.
Oberlin. candidates for congress in the
Sixth district. came early to meet the
Kansas Day banqueters.
Candidates Hero.
Candidates Tor congress VINO ar
rived today were: G. H Lamb, Clyde
Miller, Howard Martindale and Will
liam Mathews. Fourth district,
Charles NJ Harger, Fifth district;
John Simmons. Seventh district, and
Fred +. Stanley. Eighth district.
None of the members of the Kansas
delegation in Washington will come to
Topeka for the banquet. Senator
Charles Curtis and Congressman
Campbell and Anthony had planned to
return for the party dinner. None of
the members, though, will be able to
leave Washington at this time.
Chief interest among tOday's visitors
concerns the approaching meeting of
the state committee. Many of the Wis
itors today declared for an early state
convention to select delegates at large
to the national convention.
Plans have been made for enter
tainment of crowd of more than 500
men and women at the banquet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-28
STILL HAD The CHECK
H. f. Taylor Arrested on Charge of
Crookedness in a Hay Deal.

On a warrant charging them with
attempting to collect $1,000 from the
Dibble Grocery company for load of
hay which, it is claimed. was never
delivered. H. E. Taylor, 1907 Lincoln
street, and Frank Langdon, an en-
ployee of the Dibble barns, have been
arrested by George Frost, marshal of
the court of Topeka Both men are
out on bond.
According to allegations made by
the Dibble company, Taylor contract
ed to deliver them a load of hay.
Later it is alleged, ne made arrange
ments with Langdon for the latter to
report that the hay had been deliv-
cred. Then, officials claim, Taylor
was given a check for the s1O.5O on
the strength of Langdon's report.
County officials say that Taylor had
not cashed the check when arrested.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-28

which she did not know of almost i'm
mediately. There VIC many Indica-
tions that this was no idle boast. In
throwing the expedition upon the
newspaper correspondents mercy at
Stockholm. the Rev. DIR. Charles +.
Aked admitted that the press repre-
sentatives had many legitimate griev
ances but insisted his own grounds for
complaint were even better than
theirs. He had made heavy financial
sacrifices to accompany the expedi-
ton, he said and had been assured
he was to have cons. -erable voice in
directing its policies. He had never
he declared, seen Ford for more than
ten minutes at a time am had had
practically no influence.
Herman Bernstein, the New York
Jewish editor, gave up his peace dele
gateship at Christiania and continued
the journey merely as a chronicler, at
his own expense. Mrs. Inez Miihol-
land Boissevain resigned from the
party at Stockholm because she felt,
she said, all attempts at democratic
control of the party had been aban-
doned. Governor Mamma of North Da-
kota, though protesting to have left
the expedition at Christiania for per
sonal reasons, said confidentially that
1t would cost him thousands of dol
lars to explain to his constituents his
connection with such a party of
"nutS''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-28
SAY HE HELD The SACK
Chicken Thieves Charge Richard
Blackwell With Being Confederate.

Richard Blackwell a negro youth,
was bound over to the district court
this morning by Judge Hugh Fisher in
the court of Topeka following pre-
liminary examination on charges of
being too intimate with the chicken
coops of L. p. Stock, of Fairview
During the first part of this month
Stocks henhouse was raided and thir-
ty cacklers were stolen.
Blackwell was pinched and told
county officials that he had nothing
to do with the theft but said that
]. Thaddeus Stewart and Sebath De-
Moss, two negroes, did the job. The
latter two were arrested at Alma and
confessed of the theft but implicated
Blackwell saying "he held the sack"
while they put the chickens in them.
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FIRST MAN IS OUT

CONTINUED from Page One.)
men and women who have returned
from the Progressive party.
When the Republicans split in 1912
following the action of the national
convention, Knapp went with the
Stubs J9ckson-Dolley-B ristow Cap
per crowd In 1914 Knapp worked
side by side with White and Bristow
and Allen and Sartin in an effort to
elect a Progressive state ticket. Knapp
was secretary of the Bull Moose state
committee and spent nearly his entire
time in Topeka In 1905, he was chief
clerk of the house and later served
five years as secretary of the state
board of control.
After the defeat of the Progressives
lican party. He recently declared for
an instructed Hughes delegation from
Kansas. In his fight for the nomina-
ton. Knapp will contest the Sixth dis
trict with Daniel B. Dyer of Smith
Center.
Smith Wants to Go.
T. D. Smith of Hiawatha today an
nounced his candidacy for a place OF
the big Four to the Republican ma
tional convention. Smith was a can
tdidate for delegate TO the Chicago con-
vention in 1912.
81 was up against the slate then"
Smith declared today in explanation
of his shortage of votes in the Roose-
vclt-Taft fight. This time, though,
l will get an early start"
Smith is an attorney in Hiawatha,
Brown county He has been active
in county and district politics for II
number of years and is well known
by many of the party workers.
Mathews Is In to Stay.
William Mathews of Yates Center
came to -ppeka today for the double
barreled purpose of attending the
Kansas Day club dinner and meeting
Fourth district workers. Mathews is
a candidate for the Repul lean NOM
ination for congress in his district
| incidentally he lives in the same coun
/ ty as does G. H. Lamb, also a candi-
date. AS a consequence the congress
sional fiS hit in Woodson county is be-
/ coming intensely warm.
! Il am going to stay in this fight
to the finish" Mathews said in To-
pcka today Right now I feel il
the fight sufficiently far to think that
/ will disturb conditions quite a bit
before the primaries are held"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-28
AMRINE IN HERINGTON
Well Known Council Grove Editor
Buys Into Tho Sum-"

Harrington. Kan, Jan. 2S.-M- F.
Amrine of Council Grove, publisher of
the Council Grove Guard and former
head of the state reformatory at
Hutchinson. has purchased an interest
in the Sun here with William ]. Scott.
Ralph R. Lee, former partner with
Scott, will be in charge of the job de-
partment of the paper
Under the new management the Sun
will be issued as a weekly. The paper
has been enlarged from six to seven
columns and from six to eight pages.
all home print.
The other weekly paper in Herring
ton, the Times, always has been con-
sidered one of the best weekly news
papers in Kansas. The Suns improve
ment will give the town two first class
publications.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-28
in NORTH TOPEKA
Grand MatrOn of Eastern Star
Returns From a Trip.
Two Pastors Will Exchange
Pulpits Sunday Evening.

Mrs. Myrtle w. Suit, grand matron
of the state of Kansas of the Eastern
Star, returned to her home in North
Topeka last night from a trip to Hor
ton, Hiawatha and Sabetha, where she
has been making official visits On
account of the bad weather and sick
ness in the other chapters, she will be
at home until Monday
Pastors Exchange PuIpits.
Next Sunday evening the Rev. ]. c.
Scheer, pastor of the Kansas Avenue
Methodist church, and the Rev. w.
Garnett Handley, pastor of the North
Topeka Baptist church, will exchange
pulpits. Mr.. Handley is a former
Methodist minister, but there is no
thought of his returning to the Metho-
dist ministry, nor is there a suspicion
that Mr.. Scheer has any thought of
joining the Baptists. The exchange
of pulpits is only proof of the fact that
friendship and cooperation exist be-
tween the two denominations. Mr..
Scheer will speak on "Our Heritage"
at the Baptist church at 1880, and Mr..
Handley at the same hour at the Meth
odist church on "A Soul Christ FaileG
to VIM
Raised $500 for Jews.
jamin, E. P. Elmore of the Citizens
State bank. and Ben Williamson. work
ing in North Topeka yesterday for the
benefit of the Jewish relief fund, was
well pleased with the success which
they attained in soliciting aid
About three hundred dollars was
raised yesterday afternoon, and a very
generous spirit was shown among the
business firms.
Notes and Personals.
Friends of Miss Gertrude Thomp-
son, were very pleasantly entertained
at her home in North Topeka,
Wednesday evening. They were given
the music from the opera, Faust,
played on the photograph.
The. Willing Worker class of the
/ Wednesday evening at the home of
their teacher, Mrs. d. NJ. Foltz in
! Shorey. Those present were: Miss
| Florence Barker, Miss Grace Carlson,
Miss Nettie Watson, Miss Phoebe Will
son, Miss Agnes Carlson, Miss Frieda
Hirschberg, and Mr.. and Mrs. Foltz.
Mrs. Albert Hirschberg, 61S Harri-
son street was called to Mission Center
yesterday on account of the sickness
of her mother, Mrs. H. Natsell, a for
mer resident of Hoyt, Kansas.
J. S. Jackson, who has been visiting
friends in South Dakota. passed
through Topeka on his return to Ell
mont, his home Mr.. Jackson says
that the weather is very mild in To
peka compared with that in South Da-
kota, as the thermometer read AZ be-
low zero when he left there.
Mrs. Ike Benjamin, who has beer
sick since the first of the week is re-
ported very much improved thi:
morning.
The Redmen Lodge will meet a
their hall this evening, Sachcm Of
No. 81, from Lawrence, Kansas, will
be a guest.
Miss Myrtle McGrew, 1871 Harrison
/ street will entertain the Tsuneo TAX
Hashia, Embroidery club Tuesda,
afternoon.
w. H. Austin, a member of tn
clothing firm of Austin nedickeI
was in North Topeka Thursday OIL
business. He returned this mornin!
to Concordia, Kan, where they oper
ate a store.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-28
TEACHERS QUIZ HELD
Twenty-Five Applicants for Certifi-
Gates Are Taking Examination.

Examinations for first, second and
third grade teachers certificates are
being held today in the office CT John
F. Eby. county superintendent. The
quiz will continue tomorrow.
Twenty-Five candidates were at the
offices today. Their names follow:
John Ausherman, Gertrude Bigbee,
Elliott Cariger, Robert Deveney,
Davenna Ersl1ine, Hester F'razee, T.
V Heron. Claude Leonard, Mar
guerite NJ. Long, Hettie Markley. Hell
en- Mitchell, Mayme Mitchell, George
S. Nyce, Josephine Pezac, Martha
Shaler Henrietta Stewart, F. e.
Strimple, Ethyl Turner. Elsie F. Wen
dell, Lila Faye West. Edith d. WIKI
hire and Marie Moodside.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-28
MADE BABY DRINK ACID
Unidentified Man Forces Fatal Potion
Down ChiId's Throat.

New York. Jan. 2S.-Four weeks
old julius Clemens died today from
acid forced down his throat by an I'M
identified man while the child was sit
ting in a go-cart outside of a candy
shop in the Bronx yesterday. Mrs.
Charles Clemens, the childs mo- her.
had stepped into the shop, leaving her
four-year-old daughter Leonia to
watch julius. When the mother
rushed to the street in response to the
girls screams she found the baby's
mouth, chin and neck had been
burned by u strong acid, and the child
was crying.
"A man did it," said Leonia. He
gave baby something"
The police have been unable to OBJ
tain a clue to the identity of the per-
son and also ere at loss as to his
motive.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-28
BURTON IN topeka


Continued from Page One.I
have hoped that national defense
would not be an issue in the cam
paign, yet it seems that the issue can
not be avoided" said Senator Burton.
protection will be one of the big
questions before the people in the
cies and the Mexican question must
also be disposed of.
Same Over Country.
"Indications from every section of
the country indicate that the Progress
sives and Republicans will be together
in the national fight. | believe that is
the general tendency everwhere-just
as l find it here in Kansas
Senator Burton declined to make a
statement as to the underlying policies
and motives of President wilson
western trip to discuss preparedness.
Every president has done it," he
said. LAS to underlying reasons. 1 can
not say" Nor would the Ohioan Ven
ture guess
In Kansas and at this time, Senator
Burton will not discuss the prospects
of his own candidacy for the presiden-
/ tial nomination. Neither is he dis
4 posed to talk of the action of the ma
! tional convention or the candidates. OF
/ his opponents
This is Senator Burton's first visit
/ to Kansas since 1912. At that time he
was selected by the Republican ma
tional convention to follow President
/ Wilson ON mis- western speaking tour.
Senator Burton spoke in Topeka in
! october, 1912, a week following the
/ Wilson address
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-28
MOTION FOR new TRIAL
Is Filed by Ettorncy for Davenport in
Asylum Scandal Case.

Motion for new trial in the case
of the state against Arthur Davenport.
recently found guilty by a jury in the
against Thelma Grant. a 13-year-old
negro girl. was filed today in the dis
trict court by A. ]. Bolinger, Daven-
ports attorney. Davenport is one of
the defendants in the state Hospital
cases.
Misconduct of the jury. erroneous
rulings. failure of the court to instruct
/ the jury as to the law in the case in
writing, newly discovered evidence, i'll
legal testimony at the trial and other
citations are alleged in the motion
which also claims that the verdict was
returned under prejudice. Thelma
Grant, complaining witness in the
case, has been ordered to the Belolt
industrial school.
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HE SPOKE RIGHT UP


the-Main and was on a German vessel
at the time war was declared. Be
cause of wireless orders the vessel put
in at New York and Holstein escaped
internmcnt. He sought work and found
some here and there. Eventually he
reached St. Joseph and worked a
short time there, then was let out.
Last Saturday and Sunday he walked
from st. Joseph to Topeka and was
taken care of by n. H. Wolff, a tailor.
Monday Wolff took the matter up with
the Santa Fe shop officials and Sc
cured work for Holstein. He lasted
until the evangelistic meetings Thurs
day.
This morning Holstein was con-
ferring with his new found friends and
they were trying to help him. Mr..
Wolff, Ike Gilberg and George NJ.
Hammel have taken an interest in his
case and are doing what they can for
him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-28
FEAR 200 LOST

IContinned from Page one.l
painted on the stern reported by the
steamship Tregantle was passed oy
that vessel in latitude 1924 north,
longitude 1872 west
The Appam of IT'S tons gross, 425
feet long and 81 feet beam, was built
in 1913 by Harland & Wolf at Belfast.
ireland. She was owned by the
British and African Steamship NaV-
CATION company.
Wrecked in Storm.
Queenstown, Jan. 2S.-The Amerl-
can line steamship POmeranian ar
rived here yesterday in tow.
A dispatch from Queenstown on
January IS. announced that the Pom
eranian. outward bound from Glasgow
for Canada. had been disabled in a
terrific gale, had lost one of her pro-
pe1lers and her rudders. was making
for Queenstown, escorted by another
vessel. 1t was stated that all on board
were safe The Pomeranian was last
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RESPONSIBLE?
Death of -Four L. 5. Soldiers May Be
Blamed to Three Lieutenants.

Washington, Jan. 2S.-Court martial
of the three American army officers
Lieutenants Payton, Mort and Wal
dron-who led a detachment of SOL
diers into Mexico to rescue the two
comrades who had been captured by
armed MeXicans near Brownsville,
Texas probably will result if an in
vestigation proves that they violated
orders not to cross the international
boundary line.
In that case it was said also that
they probably would be held respon-
sible for the death of the four MEM
bers of the rescue party who were
drowned in the Rio Grande while re-
turning from the expedition.
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RAID $50 QUINCY ST.
officers Find a Small Quantity of
Whisky and Beer.

The house of Laura Parker, $50
Quincy street, was raided Thursday
evening by Hugh Larimer, undersher-
iff, and Deputy Charles Hixon. "A
quantity of wet goods was found IN
the place.
Laura was not at home when the Of
ficers entered with a search warrant
Ike Kicker was the only sign of life
around the place when the door was
opened and he, after shifting some
thing alien in the air, disappeared.
Three half pints of whisky were found
on the stairs, a qu of whisky was
found behind the settee and II quarts
of beer were seized
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-28
$4,000 FOOTBALL

Continued from Page One)
boy in the street outside saw paste
board box fall at his feet. He kicked
it and ten and twenty dollar bills
flew out over the sidewalk The boy
called to a policeman nearby and they
picked up the money and replaced it
in the box Then the squad Of de-
tectives appeared with their prisoners
and took charge of the box Of money.
At detective headquarters, the mon
ey was counted and spread out on the
captains desk. 1t totalled $500 and
many of the bills were identified by
the cashier of the bank.
Landlady Furnishes Tip"
Those held by the police are:
Eddie" Mack. Eddie" Burns. alias
Byrnes; Harry Fem, alias 'Pinkic;'
Harry Brandt; Carl Hoffman; Aleck
Brodie; Mrs. Margaret Hogan; Mrs.
Beckie Fem; Julia Costello; Joseph
Friedman and Augusta Friedman, his
wife.
Captain Hunt said that the arrests
were due to a lunch which he had
that pickpockets had turned stick up
men,
Il sent my men out to arrest Eddie
Mack, who was known to them as n
pickpocket and to take also every man
who ever worked with him We sus-
pected those in Southwestern avenue
and the detail that went there got re-
suits
Detectives all night had been watch
ing the house in which the men were
arrested on information furnished by
Mrs. Joseph Friedman. who together
with her husband, was taken into
/ custody. The arrests did not take
/ place until the money was discovered
] Detectives who assisted in making
/ the arrests said they believed the
money was thrown into the street after
it was learned that the house had beer
surrounded.
Identifies the Bunch.
Identification of Eddie Mack and
four of the men arrested this morn
| ing as the robbers who raided the
| Washington Park National pank yes
terday and stole $4,000 was made
today by ]. Garland Stahl, vice presi
dent of the bank, according to Cap
tain Nicholas Hunt. chief of Chica gC
/ detectives. Stahl, who was manager
of the Boston American baseball cIui
when ii won the worlds championship
in 1912, faced two revolvers in tbs
hands of the robbers yesterday. He
was positive in his identification o.
the suspects. Mack, who is said b!
the police, to have a long record as {
pickpocket. sought to esta blish al
alibi through having been arraigneC
yesterday before Municipal Judg'
| Frye one of the bank patrons wit
was forced to watch the looting of tn
tellers cage
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JAPS CAPTURE TRADE
Now Have Monopoly on U. S. Cotton
Goods Sales in China.

Washington, Jan. IS Japanese
manufacturers have captured the
American cotton goods trade in China
in so completely, says a department of
commerce report today. that all hope
of renewed business lies in an entire
change of the class of goods manufac-
tured for oriental exports
Ten years, the report declares have
seen American cotton goods sales
dwindle in China as the japanese bust
ness grew. Now American mills, it
says, hopelessly distanced by the Japa-
nese either must extend their trade by
selling another class of goods at the
expense of England or dismiss hopes
for further Chinese business.
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ASSOCIATION NOTES.

''Cussin' Smith. Hiawatha attor-
ney of football and religion fame,
strayed this morning from his favorite
subject-the gridiron-long enough to
tell of the fights he engaged in during
the Populistic days in Kansas. One
day, Smith declared. he knocked down
nine Populists and was fined nine
times by a Republican judge who in
stead of giving him the limit. fifty-odd
dollars, gave him a fiat rate of 81 a
head and costs fer each 'opuiist
The boom of H. Llewelyyn Jones
Democratic member of the Legislature
from Meade, for Senator Fracis Price