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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08

Pacifists Argue Against Big
Army and Navy.
Do Not Admit "Peace at Any
Price," However.

Washington, May S.-A committee
representing the American Union
Against Militarism, formerly known as
the anti-preparedness committee, Wis
tied President Wilson today. They
presented arguments against big army
and navy programs and asked him to
declare against militarism. They de-
clared the preparedness propaganda
lis a dangerous expression of class
and national aggression
The committee explained it did not
advocate peace at any price" but
urged the president to express a be-
lief that much of the so-called pre-
paredness movement is rooted in mo-
tives sinister and sordid."
Among the speakers were Miss Lii
liam Wald, Rabbi Wise and Amos r.
PinchOt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
COUNTY WINS A POINT
Banks Outside Topeka Pay ; Per Cent
on Daily Balances.

The plea that Topeka bankers made
to the effect that they could not af-
ford to pay more than two per cent
not long ago, received a hard jolt
Saturday when the county commits
sioners, through the county treasurer
placed on deposit with county banks
the sum of $4,000 and are to receive
three per cent on average daily bal
ances
This fact was not given % To .,ek :.
bankers from distant county but the
blow was delivered them right here at
home. The money was all placed in
Shawnee county banks forty thou
sand dollars being placed in two banks
at Rossville and fifteen thousand dol
lars in the bank at Silver Lake.
Not long ago Topeka bankers united
in telling city and county officials they
could not pay either city or county
more than two per cent for the use
of city or county money on average
daily balances. This statement was
made in spite of the fact that they pay
the state over three per cent and the
school board three per cent on all
average daily balances. Just how they
reconcile the fact that state dollar
is worth more than one owned by the
city or county, as to interest. the
county commissioners could not figure
so they began casting about for bet
ter rates for the use of county money,
with the above results.
This means clear gain of fifty per
cent on daily balances these three
banks may have of county funds
over and above the amount the To-
peka bankers say thes viii pay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
UNDULY SCARED
German Raider Fleet Not Seen
in North Atlantic.
Were Only Allies Cruisers at
Target Practice.

New York, May S--The report that
the Fabre line steamship Venezia was
attacked and chased by two German
commerce raiders and submarines in
midsea on May !. was denied today by
Captain Bonita clio. the ship master in
ma king his report to the Fabre line
office, and to Captain Gaunt. British
naval attache.
Captain Gaunt in reporting to the
British admiralty stated his belief that
the two ships sighted were either
French or British converted cruisers
guarding the stea mship lane and were
evidently engaged in target practice,
employing the tenders in observing
and placing the target
Neither of the steamers attempted
to chase me although | altered my
course. as 1 was suspicious of the yes
sells and several flashes of gunfire
which however. was at targets not
visible to me or my officers" said
Bonifacio
II saw no submarines and not being
pursued, believe it was only vessels at
targat practice
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
.ST0CKMEN Will
CONDUCT PRnRE
MARKETS HERE
Kansas Investigation of COndi-
tiOns in This State.
Fluctuations of Prices Cause
of Immediate Action.
GIVE EVIDENCE To WASHINGTON
Department of Justice Will Re-
ceive Result of Probe.
No Charge of Violations and
Observation-Disclosures
Fluctuations of Prices Cause
of Immediate Action.
GIVE EVIDENCE TO WASHINGTON

| Kansas stockmen will conduct a
probe of market conditions. That was
the announcement in Topeka today by
]. H. Mercer, state livestock sanitary
commissioner. The announcement
was made when Mercer returned from
d trip to Chicago, where he attended
meeting of members of a special
committee appointed by the Kansas
Stockmen's association to investigate
fluctuations of prices on the open mar
ket.
The Chicago meeting devoted much
of it's time to the preparation of
program for gathering evidence. A
number of other meetings will be held
this summer, and a second conference
of the committee will be held in Gar
den City late this month when the
committee meets in conjunction with
the executive committee of the state
association. Should evidence of law
violations be gathered it will be turn
ed over to the department of justice.
The department is now investigating
the conditions under terms of a reso-
by Congressman Dudley DoolittIe of
the Fourth Kansas district.
Have Long Complained.
pers have complained most bitterly
concerning market conditions and the
unexpected and unexplained slump in
prices Usually the stockmen have
met and passed resolutions. That was
as far as the matter went until Con-
gresham Doolittle recently brought
the matter before congress. Now Kan
sas stock shippers are behind the fight
and a real effort will be made to get
to the source of trouble.
Il do not want to charge law viola
tions or manipulationS nor do 1 want
to intimate irregularities in the action
of the packers on the stock markets."
said Mercer. There is one thing GER
tain, though. The investigation will
probably result in something more
than the passage of resolutions. If
there is any real evidence against the
packers. it will be turned over to the
department of Justice
Big Slump Last Fall.
In three days last fall there was a
slump Of $1.50 hundred on cattle on
the open market. No satisfactory ex-
PLANTATION was made At this time
market prices are high and a majority
of the stockmen are now said to be
making money. Losses last year, how
ever, were heavy
The committee which will investi-
gate market conditions for the state
association is composed of George
Plumb, Emporia, chairman; ]. H. Mer-
Ger, Topeka, secretary; W. J. Tod, Ma
pie Hill; W. r. Stubbs, Lawrence, and
Fl. NJ. tonebraker. Kansas City. A
second meeting of the committee viii
be held in Garden City late this month
probably May 27.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
NO FREE PAPERS

Owing to the condition of the adver-
tising situation and the prices going
higher and higher of all materials
such as paper. ink, metals, and labor
entering vitally into the production of
the daily newspaper; and inasmuch as
the State Journal has only two things
to sell: news in the shape of printed
papers and advertising to herald the
wares of the merchants to it's readers
every evening, we can not afford in
these strenuous times to give something
for nothing, neither do we expect to
get something for nothing, so if for
any reason you have been getting a
free copy of the paper in exchange for
some service hereafter you must pay
for that paper, and we will pay for
what we get from you, as we always
have, if it is of service to us. This in
cludes all copies which have hereto
fore been given to employees and to
The most value for the least money
today is the noon edition of the State
Journal for one cent and the other
editions for two cents. or one and two
thirds cents each delivered by car
rier anywhere in Topeka. for ten cents
including big double number Saturday.
When you get your State Journal
tonight remember you are one of ten
thousand in Topeka TO which the State
Journal goes every day; and that you
are one of some forty or fifty thou
sand people in Topeka who are read
ing the same paper about the same
ume-for one copy is estimated to be
read by about four or five people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
L. s. Reply on U-BOats Sent to
Berlin Today.
Supplement to "UItimatum" To
Be Made Public Soon.

Washington, May S.---A note to Ger
many has practically been completed
and proba bly, will go forward to Berlin
today.
1t will be made public soon after
wards.
1t is understood it will he brief, in
forming Germany that as long as the
new instructions to submarine COM
manders are observed, diplomatic re-
lations will be continued but that the
United States cannot allow Germany
to dictate its negotiations with Great
Britain.
Wilson Not Pleased.
The president worked on the pro-
lowing his conference with Secretary
Lansing last night While the German
note has averted. for the present at
least, d break in diplomatic relations
it was said today that the president
was not satisfied with the apparent
conditions attached by Germany
Some of his advisers wanted him to
make no reply to the German note
and only wit developments but he is
understood to have decided to send
the new communication.
Secretary Lansing announced that
the note was about 200 words long
and would be given out today for pub
lication III tomorrow mornings papers
He declined to discuss it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
BIG PLANT
Majority of Westinghouse
WOrkmen Return to Work.
Gates Thrown Open Under
Guard of Militia.

Pittsburg, Pa, May S.-Efforts of
the Westinghouse companies to reopen
their plants in the Turtle Creek val
ley, where a strike for the eight hour
day has been in progress for several
weeks, were only partly successful to-
day. Four thousand of the 4.500 men
employed on the day shift by the
Westinghouse Airbrake company at
Wilmerding, entered the shops while
two companies of infantry guarded all
entrances
No strike was declared against the
company but the plant was closed
when strikers attempted to bring out
the force. The gates of the electric
company in East Pittsburg also were
thrown open under military guard
and few of the men went to work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
PREPAREDNES
State journal First in West TO
Buy Latest Linotype.
Operator Sets Full Page With.
out Leaving Chair.

When in New York few days ago,
Mr.. Mac Lehman purchased for the
State Journal the latest new multiple
ma agazine linotype. with two full size
magazines, either one instantly
brought into operation by the touch
of a key.
II will set a department store page
advertisement. or will compose an en-
tire news page of the State Journal.
with ali the body type and the big and
little heads The operator does this
without rising from his chair; 9per-
ates the different magazines instantly
by push buttons.
The machine is known as "Model
II" and with the exception of the
Model O." which the State Journal
was the first TO install of any of the
newspaper offices between st. Louis
and Denver. this new model Is the
most expensive. 1t is the best and
latest model made by the Mergen-
thaler Linotype company
This paper was fortunate in securing
almost the first machine. A few of
this model have been sold in the
neighborhocd of New York. The State
Journal is promised for the first ship
ments. The cost of this model 10
$4,000. 1t will replace machine of
lHc type WHICH, Has De+H III uSo
in the State Journal for twenty years.
This will give this paper a battery of
eight inotypes, all of them multiple
ma chimes excepting one.
One thousand dollars additional ma
chinery was also purchased The lat
ter known as the National Electric
Bulletin board. by which a bulletin
may be placed instantly at the lower
front window of the State journal
building. operated by keyboard from
the office of the telegraph editor up
stairs at whose elbow is the Associated
Press leased wires. This is a marvel
ous machine.
All of this ma acfinery will lie in
stalled next month. The electric bull
letin board is promised in time for
the Republican ana Democratic ma
tioDal conventions, meeting in Chicago
and st. Louis early in June.
All of the above is in the interest of
preparedness of which the State
Journal is an exponent for the nation
and the newspaper. This paper entici-
sates big business in Kansas late this
spring. in the summer and the fall.
Kansas is probably the state best pre-
pared today for big business; not .
dollar of debt; big crops promised; the
greatest per capita of any state in the
Union. S1.45o.0O. and only needing q
little more looscning of the purse
strings to secure permanent hard sur
face roads fireproof modern hotels
a nd a few other necessities and facili-
ties for modern comfort and expan-
sion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
Fighting Along Meuse Fierc-
est Since March.
Try NapOIeOnic Strategy to Die
vert Enemy's Strength.
BATTLE FOR VERDUK IT DAYS
Drive Wedge Between Hill 3O4
and Dead Man Hill.
TeutOns Advance East of MeuSe
i'm Four Assaults.

Paris, May S-Fighting of great
violence continued last night on the
Verdun front. furious German attacks
near Hill 3O4 were broken by the
French, the war office announced to-
day.
The losses of the Germans are de-
scribed as extremely heavy. The
French attacked east of Hill 304 and
drove the Germans from a communi
cation trench which they penetrated
yesterday. East of the Meuse there
was a series of night engagements.
The Germans were driven from a
trench south of Haudromont which
they occupied today. and thirty men,
including two officers, were captured.
The offensive movement yesterday
covered a front of two kiloD etres be-
tween Haudromont Wood and Fort
Douaumont costing the Germans i'm
portant losses.
Violent Fighting i'm Progress.
Paris, May 8.-After seventy-seven
days of battle the Germans are maxi
ing a new attack before Verdun with
another formidable army. Fighting
almost equal in violence to that of the
beginning of March is in progress on
both banks of the Meuse.
The principal effort of the Germans
is against Dead Man Hill. Following
the Napoleonic policy of attempting to
turn what cannot be carried by frontal
attack. the Germans, with a whole
army corps made the assault bEs way
of the ravine between Hill 304- and
Dead Man Hill seeking to crush in the
French line along a front of one ana
one-half miles.
The ground there is favorable for
attack nd E-raneh Il
aware of the weakness of the position
placed one of his best trained army
corps at that place. This corps dis
lC,an n iIii,ci I,..s.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
RELEASE U. S. PACKAGES
America, Importers Win Preliminary
Bout in British Prize Court.

Londo Ma S--Hearings haze
been resumed in the prize court in
regard to parcels post packages seized
by the British authorities and a deci-
sion was rendered today releasing 10
American in,rOrters represented by A
q. Hays consignments of jewelry and
garden seed ts1en from the Danish
liner United States The coaIt fol-
lowed the recent decision under which
it released gloves for America on the
deposit of their invoice price pending
final determination of the facts con-
cerning their purchase.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
Not Time to Talk Treaty Yet.
Thinks Wilson.
Must Await Grand Offensive of
Allies, Is Belief.
ROBERT BENEf1R.

Washington. May S.-President Will
son will make no move in the direc-
ton of European peace at thi-: time
The -veiled suggestions that the time
for such a move might he opportune
conveyed i'll the German note will not
be needed by the White House.
1t was ascertained cn highest au-
thority today that acting on advice of
the ambassa dors at London and Paris
the administration Will make no move
in the direction of his proposals un-
til the prom iscd grand offensive of the
lies Shall have been made
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
South Side River Topeka to
Granville Is Latest Plan.
BRIDGE BUILT BY z COUNTIES
Shawnee and Jefferson t
Share i'm New Structure.
Line on North Side of kaw as
Far as Granville.

Following an agreement which it
is understood here has been entered
into by the Helm railway and the
county commissioners of Shawnee and
jefferson counties by which the three
parties are to share equally the cost
of erecting a bridge over Kaw river
at Granville, hackers of the Kansas
City kaw Valley & Western railway
have abandoned their scheme to build
on the south side of the river from
Lawrence. Engineers for the railway
have already completed plans for the
extension of the line on the north side
of the river to Granville. From that
point the road will follow the south
side of the stream.
After crossing the Kaw at Grant
Vile. seven miles northeast of the city,
the line will be built into Oakland,
where it probably will connect with
the Topeka Street Railway company's
line No arrangements have been
made so far, however, for the use of
the street car company's tracks, ac-
cording to Howard Patten, superin-
tendent of company. Surveyors for
the Helm line are now working out of
Oakland and will continue to lay out
the line to Granville.
Under the present scheme. the main
line of the K. C. K. V. & w. will not
enter Lawrence. A branch, however,
will take passengers to the city where
a station is now being erected. The
main line already has entered North
Lawrence
Along Better Grade.
Several reasons are responsible for
the sudden change in plans of the rail-
way The principal factors, however,
are the greater number of towns on
the north side and the more conven-
lent grade From North Lawrence to
Granville, the country is practically
without a hill and a line can be built
through it at considerably lower cost
than is possible on the south side of
the river.
By building on the north side to
Granville the line will take in Will
Jamestown, Perry, Newman, Regina
and a number of other small towns. All
of these towns are desirous of having
the road
For Years, the county commission
ers of Shawnee and Jefferson counties
have been trying to get together on
the erection of bridge over the Kaw
at Granville is said. A structure
swept out during the flood of 1903 has
never been replaced.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
APPOINTS POLICE HEAD
Governor Major Names Norman
Vaughn for st. Louis Commissioner.

St Louis, May S.-Governor Major
of Missouri. announced today he would
appoint Norman Vaughan a member
of the board of police commissioners
of st. Louis. Norman Vaughan
served six months of two-year peni-
tentiary term for killing a man. but
was pardoned by Governor Folk in
1906.
The appointment will be made to
fill the vacancy caused by the resigna-
ton of Charles Z. Williams, which was
announced last Saturday Vaughan
was a member and secretary of the
Missouri commission to the Panama
Pacific exposition.
Vaughan IS editor Of the National
Elkhorn, and is one of the most widely
known members of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of E1ks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
SUMNER HAS ARRIVED
Temperatures Above Normal With
Promise of Rise

Temperaturcs today averaged 3 de-
grees above normal The wind blew
at the rate of 10 miles an hour from
the northeast
summer weather conditions have
prevailed over the entire state of Kan
sas for the last two days and no ap-
prec!able rain has fallen in that time.
Temperatures today are :.bove normal
although last night was slightly cool
er than the two preceding nights The
wind is in the north and this is re-
sponsible for the lower temperatures
The sky was clear over the state this
morning Warmer weather is expect
TContinued from Page Twol
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
KILL NONCOMBATANTS
Belgian Men. Women and Children
slain in Attacks by Allies

Berlin. May Slight men. ten
women and nine children. all civilians,
were killed in April in the occupied
portions of Belgium and FRINGE Ey
artillery and aeroplanes of the ere
my" the Overseas News agency says
';Twenty-three men, 29 women and
% children were wounded. The eztoiaI
number of victims since September,
1915. is 1,313."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08

Pittsburg, Pa. May Sc. NJ. Herr
president of the Westinghouse Electric
& Mfg. company today agreed to meet
committee of five strikers with
view to reaching a settlement of the
differences that have closed the plant
for almost two weeks and kept an
proximately $1,000 workmen idle with
a wage loss of S1-397.500 The con-
ference will ne held late today, and
Immediately afterward a mass meet
ing of strikers will De held to receive
the committees report.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
ENGLAND BUILDS zEPs
Fact Disclosed in House of Commons
But Number Kept Secret.

London. May S.-That England is
building airships of the Zeppelin type
was disclosed in the house of com
mons today by Thomas James Mac
Namara, financial secretary of the ad-
miralty. in reply to the question of
member. Mr. MacNamara said that
it was not in the public interest to
say how many such aircraft Great
Britain possessed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
EilipinOS i'm No Fever Heat for
independence.
But Ask Congress for Share of
Self-GOyernment.

Washington, May S.-Manuel Quez-
on. Philippine commissioner. who has
been urging Philippine independence
told President Wilson today that he
and his followers had abandoned the
idea of freedom in the near future and
hoped congress would pass the house
bill giving a greater share of self gov
ernment to the islands but setting no
date for independence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
CHILD is DROWNED IN
FOUR INCHES OF WATER

Cherryvale. Kan. May s.-At-
tracted by number of crawfish
which her older brother had con-
lined in a five gallon jar. Thelma.
the Is months old baby of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Mott, fell into the four
inches of water which the jar con-
tanned and was drowned early to-
day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
Gun works Increases Capital.

Vienna. May S.-The Skoda works,
the Krupps of Austria Hungary have
decided to increase their capital by
s650,000 to S9,O00,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08

WEATHER FORECAST for Kansas:
Probably fair tonight and Tues
day; warmer Tuesday and in the
northwest tonighs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08

MANY Ten are also like dogs in
that they do an unnecessary
amount OF barking
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-07-24
HAWTHORNE ENTRIES

First Race - 515 furlongs, 2-year-
old maidens: James, Sleeper, J. Ru-
fus, Johnny Nc, Marion Wilson, 112;
R. H. Anderson, Melia, Ayers, Sal
cora, Velvet, Signorette, Tofa Belle,
100.
Second Race--SeHing, 3-year-Olds
and up, rs miles: Herbert Temple,
100; Miss Fannie, Injury, 10S; Gras-
mere, 1O7; High Horse, 104; Mamie
McDee, 101.
Third Selling, 2-year-Olds,
51b furlongs: lakewood Boy, 1O9;
Blue Grass Boy, 1OS; Lyle, 107; Joe
Ular, 1O6; MeelOgene, 1O4.
Fourth Race-Harlem handicap, g.
year-olds and up, 6 furlongs: Leo
Skolny, 1913; Hawthorn, 124; ssSir
Edgar, 118; 'Casey Jones, 112; I'm
Gle Hart, 10; Bonanza, Skiles Knob,
1O3; e"Anita, SO.
Fifth Race - Selling, 3-year-oIds
and up, 515 furlongs: Tinotson, lis;
Utelus, Mex, Blackthorn, Chenault,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-07-24
roaded into an institution because
somebody wants him out Of the way.
GIRL TURNED OUT BY Y. w. c. A
SICK FROM LACK OF FOOD

A young woman went to the Y. w.
c. A. yesterday. She told the person
at the desk that she had just arrived
in the city, that she was a stranger
here, and, furthermore, she was
without funds. She hoped to BE on
her feet" in a few days.
The Y. w. c. A. would not admit
her, she says, unless she paid so
cents. She didn't have even a penny
to buy a roll to eat.
Last night she stopped a policeman
at State and Adams streets and told
him she felt i'll. At central station
she collapsed. At Iroquois hospital
physicians said she was suffering
from hunger exhaustion and a slight
touch of diphtheTia.
She wouldn't tell her name except
that it was Mary. She wouldn't tell
much of her trip to Chicago or its OBJ
ject, except that she had been turned
out at the Y. W. G. A.