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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
So Secretary of War Garrison
Quit ImprOmptu.
President Wanted to ComprO-
mise Army Plan.
NO SUCCESSOR IN SIGHT YET
Assistant Secretary Also De-
serts Administration.
Woodrow VIII Continue TO
Pilot Preparedness Plan.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 11.-Secretary
Garrison has resigned from the cabi-
net because President Wilson declined
to insist without compromise upon the
adoption of the continental army plan
by congress.
The resignation was rendered and
accepted yesterday and with Mr.. Gar
rison. the assistant secretary of war.
Henry C. Breckenridge. left the SER
vice of the government.
Today the president finds himself
personally in charge of the adminis-
tration's plans for strengthening the
army and working out a definite mill
tary policy He has not selected a
successor to Mr.. Garrison and it is re-
garded as probable that even after
the new head of the war department.
is named. the president, who has made
a careful study of the problem. viii
continue to handle the preparedness
plans to a great extent himself. The
reasons for Secretary Garrison's res
ignation and it's acceptance by the
president are disclosed in lengthy cor
respondence made public between
them.
Extensive Correspondence.
The correspondence revealed that
while the secretary left the cabinet
principally because the president
would not 'irrevocably' support the
continental army plan. his opposition
| to the administrations program for
setting definite time for Filipino in
dependence, as outlined in Senator
| Clarke's amendment to the Philip
pine bill was an important factor.
| Secretary Garrison contended that
only a federal continental army. tn
stead of a recognized national guard.
could be the main military dependence
! of the country. while the president
contended that no one plan could be
forced upon congress. 1t was upon
! these two contentious that the break
| between the president and the secre-
! tary of war came. Assistant Secretary
| Breckenridge. who shared Secretary
! Garrison's views, resigned because OF
| loyalty to his chief. His resignation
| also was accepted.
Major General Scott. chief of staff
| of the army, automatically became
! secretary of war ad interim.
Prospects for Successor.
! There was considerable speculation
here today over a possible successor
to Secretary Garrison. Those talked of
| most prominently in that connection
included Representative Sherley OF
Kentucky. chairman of the house for
| (Continued on Page p
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
FELL OUT CAR WINDOW
So S-Year-OId Walked Rest of Trip,
He Tells Chicago Police.

Chicago. Feb. 11.-Police today be-
gan an investigation of a story told by
Archie Mclean, years old, arrested
at q, suburban station of the Illinois
Central railroad. The lad told the Of
ficers he was the son of Hayworth
Mclean, an engineer of jefferson City,
Mo. He said his father put him on
train in St. Louis to send him to
friends in Chicago and that while
passing through Chicago Heights he
fell out of the window of the coach.
He made the remainder of the trip on
foot.
Chicago Heights is Is miles from
where the. boy was found. 1t required
two days for him to reach the city
and he said he had nothing to eat
during that time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
LIVED NOT IN Vain
Death Comes to Woman so
Years Bedridden.
HELPLESS MOIlie Fancher Gained
Wide Reputation.

New York. Feb. 11.-Miss Mollie
Fancher, who celebrated her Golden
jubilee as an invalid eight days ago
died today at her home in Brooklyn
Miss Fancher was known to thousands
of people all over the world through
the extra aordinary correspondence she
built up during the half century of
her invalidism. Although bedridden
and only able to move her right arm,
she worked increasingly at knitting
and embroidery and is said to have
used up 100, 900 pounds of worsted.
In 1866, when Miss Fancher was
II years old and noted for her beauty,
she was thrown from her horse and
terribly injured. a year later she
was the victim of a street car acci-
dent which deprived her of the use of
all her limbs except her right arm.
For nine years she remained in a
trance-like condition during which
period her friends insisted she was a
clairvoyant. 1t was in these years
that she built up her correspondence,
debating a total of $500 letters. Dur
ing the fifty years of her imprison-
ment in a sick room Miss Fancher's
chief nourishment was the juice of
fT-1Iitc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
U. S. BOWS TO
GERMAN EDICT
ON SUBMARINES
Will Issue Order Not to Travel
on Armed Liners.
Believe TeutOnic Nations Act
ing Within Rights.
SETTLES COMPLI ICATED CASE
Former Absence of Any Ruling
Left Matter Open.
British Expected to Protest
Against e. S. Stand.
SETTLES COMPLICATED CAS-.
Former Absence of Any Ruling
Left Matter Open.
British Expected to Protest
Against c. S. Stand.

Washington, Feb. 1.-THE United
States, it was stated on the highest
authority today, cannot protest the
announced sea policy of the Teutonic
powers to sink armed merchantmen
without warning.
That this government, believing the
Teutonic nations to be within their
rights in this respect, shortly will issue
warning to all its nationals not to
travel on belligerent ships that carry
guns of any kind, seems certain.
This position must be taken, many
Officials declared today, if Americas S
attitude is to continue to be logically
followed out. The American attitude
regarding arming of merchantmen. it
became known for the first time to-
day, was clearly set forth in the in
formal suggestion it recently made to
the entente powers concerning the
/ absence of conditions now which in
earlier times WAS the excuse for arm
ing of merchantmen"
How About Privates?
These reasons were, presence of
privateers and pirates on the high
None of the powers addressed. Sec
retary Lansing said today, have replied
to those suggestions. He said he as
sumed their delay was caused by OBJ
NlOuS necessity OF JOINT dellDerdt1On OF
the question. The English, however,
unofficially have expressed them
selves unalterably opposed to any sug-
gestion that would put their merchant
men at the mercy of the submarines.
In informal statements. high officials
of the British embassy have indicated
their belief that England and Ler
allies would never consent to this
Despite this known opposition it
was admitted at the state department
today one of the effects of the Teu-
tonic decree will be announced that
this government will abandon it's re-
cent temporary ruling regarding arm
ed merchantmen, even in the event it
is known a few German commerce
| raiders are at large on the high seas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
MOHR HAD BIG PRACTICE
Slain Doctors Receipts for Last Eight
Months Were $4,000.

Providence, r. L, Feb. 1.-THE ex-
tensive practice of the late DR.. Charles
Franklin Mohr, netted him 2,225.8S
from January 1. 1915, to August 81,
1915, when he was ambushed and
mortally shot in Washington road,
Darlington, while on his way to his
Middletown estate with Miss Emily G.
Burger, who was also shot and ser
iously injured.
An examination of the only two
books in existence, a red book" con-
tanning entries for 1914. and black
book containing the receipts for 1915,
up to the time of his death, showed
that Doctor Mohr kept no record of
names of his patients and entered only
tho amounts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
SANTA FE WILL
BUILD ADDITION
topeka SHOPS
Railway ApprOpriates $4,000
for New Buildings.
Machinery for Construction of
Heavy Steel FOrgings.
new MACHINE is IN PLACE
1t Weighs $50 Tons and Cost
$4,000 Set Up.
Largest Used in Amy Railway
Shop in the Country.
new MACHINE IS IN PLACE
1t Weighs $50 Tons and Cost
$4,000 Set Up.

Plans have been completed by the
Santa Fe for the erection of a 162-foot
addition to the present blacksmith
shops in Topeka. The new structure
will be added to the north side of
the old building and when equipped
will cost $4,000. 1t Will conform to
the present shop in construction and
appearance. The frame work will be
of heavy steel, the walls of brick and
the roof of red tile.
The new shop will be devoted ex-
clusively to the making OF heavy forg-
ings and will contain besides five large
steam hammers, a forging machine,
said to be the largest used in any
railway shop in the country.
The machine which Will cost 81 s.
900 when set up is already on the
ground and has been placed in the
location it will occupy in the new
building: 1t is thirty feet lorg, fifteen
feet wide and twelve feet high and
weighs approximately $50 tons. A
special car used for shipping guns was
chartered to transport the machine to
Topeka.
The new 'six-inch' forging machine
will be used principally to reclaim
material that is now finding its way
into the scrap piles.
4 contract <or the steel to be used
in constructing the new shop has al
ready been let. The material will cost
the Santa Fe just twice as much as
the steel used in the old shop, it is
said.
Work on the new building will COM
mence just as soon as the weather
will permit, according to M j. Drury,
superintendent of the Topeka shops.
1t will be completed before summer,
although the new forging machine
will be pressed into service while the
F1rI1Iinp iG n of con ST ct ion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
RAILROADS in PROTEST
Officials of Missouri Lines Before
State Service Commission Today.

Jefferson City, Feb. 11.-Traffic Of
ficials of a majority OF Missouri rail-
roads were to appear before the state
public service commission here today
for a conference on the question of
joint rates, schedules of which should
have been filed by the roads on jan
uary % last
The commission recently ruled that
railroads must charge the same rate
for hauling freight to its destination
over two or more lines as is charged
for shipments over one line plus an
arbitrary rate fixed by the commission
to cover the expense of transfer The
railroads have protested the decision.
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INDIANS PROTEST
Send Urgent Message to Kan
sas Men in Congress.
Declare Senate Act Contrary to
Tribal Demand.

Arkansas City, Kan, Feb. IL
Prominent members of the Usage
tribe of this city today sent strong
protest to congressman and senators
of Kansas and Oklahoma at Wash
ington, asking them to take Immediate
steps TO investigate the affairs of the
Usage tribe of Indians, as they are
concerned in the Barnsdall oil leases.
They also asked a probe of the in
fluence behind the legislation passed
by the senate yesterday which al
lowed an extension of the BarnsdaIl
leases contrary to the recommenda-
ton of the Usage tribal council and
the department of the interior
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
1T THAWED ALL NIGHT
Temperature Stayed Above 81 for
First Time in Nearly 3 Weeks.

For the first time in IS nights the
mercury stayed above freezing all
night. The lowest reading of the "a
hours occurred at midnight when the
mercury stood at 1922 degrees This
is 13 degrees above normal for this
date and brings the weather near to
the spring variety The wind is in the
southeast but owing 70 the lack o-
sunshine the temperature rose rather
sluggishly. More warm weather is ex-
pected for the wee',-end.
The forecast calls for partly cloudy
tonight and Saturday: somewhat cold
er Saturday and in the western part
of the state tonight temperature of
about 80 is the prediction for tonight
at Topeka. The shippers forecast in
dicates temperatures of 80 degrees for
36hour shipments .aorth and west
east and south, above freezing.
1t was during this time of the year
in the past when extremely low tenn
peratures have occurred, according to
s. ID. Flora, local weather man. on
this date in 1899, said Mr.. Flora. the
mercury was down to 19 degrees be-
low zero. This is the lowest on rec
ord for this date, but on February IL.
1899, the lowest temperature ever re-
corded was reached with a reading OF
25 below zero. The highest reading
was just one year ago today. On that
day the mercury reached SIS degrees
The Kaw river is still falling slowly.
the stage this morning being 6.4 feet.
one-tenth lower than on Thursday
morning. The ice and snow on the
ground is melting rapidly. but this
does not affect the river. Heavy rains
are required to cause trouble in that
direction, according to previous rec
ords.
Temperatures today averaged De-
gress above normal. The wind blew
from the southeast all day. FoIiow-|
ing are hourly temperature readingn|
I fo,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
BRITAIN'S FLEET READY
Is Unit of Preparedness Awaiting
Germans North Sea Dash.

Somewhere in the North Sea. Via
London, Feb. 11.-Great Britain's
first line offensive fleet, an incom-
parable combination of speed and gun .
power ready for instant action, was in
spected yesterday by party of French
and American correspondents and Il
representative of the Associated Press
was permitted to view from the bridge
of a torpedo boat the naval unit which
is expected to meet the first shock os
a German attack.
In the fleet were virtually all the
veteran fighting craft which have
been in action in this war. but they
showed few scars except an occas asional
dent in their armOr. The pride of
place was held by battle cruisers
which in engagements from the Falk-
land Isles to the Dardanelles have
borne the brunt of the sea fighting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
THREATEN To STRIKE
Immediate Walkout of Clover Leaf
TeIegraphers Is UItimatum.

Toledo, Ohio. Feb. IA strike of
all train dispatchers and telegraphers
on the Glover Leaf railroad is threat
ened within a few hours, unless the
road settles differences with members
of the Order of Railroad Te1egraphers
The strike. it is said, would include
many of the roads agents as well as
operators.
A readjustment of wages to conform
with the scale of other roads is de-
manded.
The general organization, compris-
ing $4,000 men, is back of the Clover
Leaf men. it is said
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
High School Graduation EXer-
ciseS This Evening.
Glass of January rs Consists
of 3S Girls and % Boys.
ELSIE CARTER VALEDICTORIAN
Has Not Failed in a Single
Test in Four Years.
Address VIII Be Made by State
Superintendent Schools.

Tonight at eight o'clock in the city
auditorium sixty-one high school girls
and boys will receive their diplomas.
AS usual the girls outnumber the boys,
the proportion this time being 3S to
%.
Miss Elsie Carter is the class vale
dictorian. Miss Carter has a remark
able scholarship standing having
never failed in a single test, although
her course of study includes four
years of the students bugaboo, Latin.
She is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
John r. Carter, of 1905 West Six
teenth street She attended Clay
school and Central Park school.
The Program.
Music ...T .Triumphal March
High School Orchestra.
professional March ....- Pipe organ
Miss Mildred Hazelrigg.
Invocation ...... Rev Rooert Gordon
Music La CZarine
High school Orchestra
Music ....ta) Go Long Mule, Go
Long. (b) Come Ger The Sea
Boys Glee Club.
Music ....-....(aJ Doan Yo Cry
Ma Honey. Cb) o Lovely Night
Girls Glee Club.
Presentation of Diplomas ;:..-i.. H.
l... DR.. c. b. Van Horn,
President Of Board of Education
The Graduates.
Those who will receive diplomas To-
night are:
son. OrviIle Herbert Austin, Reba
Hazel Austin, Orrin l. Berrldge, Ed
ward Herman Binger. Willard w.
Bowman, Orfa Mas Brain. Doris Eula-
lie Burdette. Elsie Carter, Mary Chris
tina Christman. Edith Connel, Jennie
Olive Cook, Blanche L. Davis. Bryan
J. Dempsey. Wayland A. Dunham,
Ewing Bradford Fergus, John w. Fer
ris. Ross e. Frisbie, Laura May Gates,
Mildred Margaret Gillett, Lillian Geor-
gia Gleissner, Opal 0retta Glynn,
Fleanore Cameron Goodrich, Frances
Edna Grote, Almeda Beverly Hare,
Genevieve Iddings, Ruth A. Ingham,
Flvera T. Johnson, James F. Lindsay,
James Mccormick, Leeola Henrietta
Mclean. Ethel Lorena Mayberry,
Helen Mitchell. Cynthia Monroe, Law
renee Dewey Myers Fred r. Nelson
Ralph Oman, Ralph c. O'Neill. Edith
Parfitt. Anna Katheryn Parham. Sarah
Parkinson. Elizabeth Clarabelle Pow
ell. Harrison Lee Price, Natalie Twila
Romans. Hazel Elizabeth Rucker, Har-
~ l. Samuel. Elizabeth Rose Schenck
William y. Schick, Dorothy Sproat
Winona a. Stearns, Marie Evelyn
steele. Claude 5. Swendson Car
Thoren, Merle Marion Van Orsdol
Dorothy Louise Wahle, Edna Leeannus
Ware. Charlotte West, Frances Win
CART, Ruth Wood Helen Elizabeth
Wright.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
Thank God for
Enemies, Says
'sSuH'' Leader

st. Louis, Mo-. Feb. 1.-THE
anti-suffraglst is an instrument of
God to speed the doctrine of suf-
frage and democracy in Amer
ica," declared Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Catl, president of the Ma
tional Equal Suffrage associa-
tion, in an address before the St
Louis Equal Suffrage league here
last night
The executive board decided to
organize suffrage clubs in the
home towns Of every Missouri
congressman, ''as a reminder that
the women mean business" The
1916 state convention will be at
Springfield, No, next May.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
HEARS FROM BUNCH
Neutral Conference Holds First Ses-
sion; Wires Henry Greetings.

Stockholm. Feb. 1.-THE neutral
conference for continuous mediation,
the outgrowth of the Henry Ford
peace expedition. held its first regular
meeting today in this city The con-
ference was addressed by its chair
man, Mayor Carl Lindhagen of Stock
holm, who reviewed the work accom-
plished and voiced the hope of future
accomplishments in the cause of
peace.
a message of greeting was cabled to
Henry Ford by the conference Louis
P. Lochner of Chicago was elected
general secretary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
FOR WRITING HIM UP"
New York Magistrate Sues Novelist's
Publishers for 5000 900 Damages.

New York, Feb. 11.-City Magis-
trate Corrigan believes that George
Bronson Howard, novelist, wrote him
up in the novel entitled Gods Man
Because this writeup appears to re-
fleet upon the reputation of Magis-
trate Corrigan, he has filed a su-
prene court action for $4,000 dam
ages against the Bobbs-Merrill com
pany, publishers of the book.
In a complaint filed today, Magis-
trate Corrigan alleges ehe novelist in
cluded in his latest work q descrip-
ton of a city magistrate and the court
proceedings before him which carl
catured the plaintiff to his injury.
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CHAINED UP 6 MONTHS
Convict Who Attacked Leo Frank to
Move to Solitary Cell.

Atlanta. Ga, Feb. 11.-Chained to
the concrete slipping post" at the
state prison at Milledgeville ever since
he made his murderous attack upon
Leo NJ. Frank, William Green will
soon be released and put in a soli-
tary confinement cell.
The prisoner has been fastened to
this post now for more than six
months. After his attack upon Frank
which stirred the country, the prison
authorities were obliged to take steps
to prevent him making attacks upon
other prisoners
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
RIGHT THIS WAY, GENTS,
join BALD HEAD CLUB

Winsted, Conn. Feb. lip
Davis Oakley of Hartland, who is
not only a ngressman, but presi-
dent on the Bald Head Club of
America, is enrolling as members
of the organization the bald head
ed members OF congress, il was
learned today by John Rodemeyer
of Canaan. founder of the club.
Mr. Oakley does not intend that any
member of congress with a three
inch bare spot on his scalp shall es-
cape enrolment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
MeLtS BraUado
of HoLdup Gang
by Stork Plea

Chicago, Feb. 11-Although
they took $40, his watch and his
fur overcoat, four robbers early
today returned to Dr.. A. H. Levi
ton his handbag containing surgi-
cal instruments when he ex-
planned he was on a hurry call to
the bedside of an expectant
mother.
"All right then, go ahead"
said the leader of the bandits
we wish the mother and the
child good luck"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
Poison Sickens
100 Guests at
Church Spread

Chicago, Feb. I1.-More than
100 distinguished persons who
suffered ptomaine poisoning at
the banquet last night at the Uni
versity club given Archbishop
George William Mundelein of the
Chicago archdiocese, today had
fully recovered. Prompt first aid
measures administered by ply
sicians present prevented any aft
er effects
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
ATHLETE HIT BY TRAIN
Star Football Players Leg Amputated
Recovery Is Doubtful.

Fulton, Mo, Feb. 11.-Paul Will
liams, 19 years old. member of the
1915 football team of Westminster col
lege, was probably fatally injured here
last night by being run over by a
passenger engine Williams left leg
was so badly crushed that amputa-
ton was necessar ry. Williams was one
of the main stays N the athletics of
the college and his presence will be
missed in coming athletic events.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
STRAUSS GIVES $3.50. 600
FOR POLAND JEWS RELIEF

Long Beach. Cal. Feb. 11.-An-
nouncement was made today that
Nathan Strauss, the philanthro-
mist. and Mrs. Strauss have con-
tributed s35O.00O to the relief of
the Jews IN Poland since they have
been in southern California The
money is to be handled through
the Cooper union of New York It
is said.
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Major Dies CT Blood Poison.

Oswego, n. Y. Feb. 11.-Major
James E. Normoyle. Third United
States infantry, in command of Fort
Ontario here, died today of blood poi
soning. He was born in Michigan in
1856 and served in Porto Rico, Cuba
and the Philippines. He will be bur
led in Arlington national cemetery,
Washington.
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BOY KILLED BROTHER
Death Was Accidental; Third i'm Year
in Kaspar Family.

jennings. Kan. Feb. 1.-THE
third accidental death within year
in the family of Joe Kaspar occurred
here when his 9-year-old boy shot and
killed his brother, age :.
About a year ago Mrs Kaspar.
mother of the two boys. fell down the
cellar steps at the kaspar home and
died as a result of her injuries. Their
grandfather was run down and killed
by an automobile last Septem Der.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
Pen7asylUaTlia
Sells GalLotOs
For Kindling

Harrisburg. Pa, Feb. l1.-Dau-
phin county had difficulty getting
rid of its discarded gallows, use
less since Pennsylvania has
adopted electrocution for capital
punishment. Finally colored
kindling wood dealer who wasn't
superstitious paid so cents for it
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Chicago, III, Feb. l1.-Jess Willard
said today he expected to leave tonight
for New York to resume training for
his fight with Frank Moran at Rye
Beach. The champion has curtailed
his training schedule owing to slight
attack of CRIME.
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WEATHER forecast for Kansas:
Partly cloudy tonight and Sat
urday; somewhat colder Saturday and
i'm the west tonight.