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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-13

OF newly elected officers by Tribe No 395, of
Chambershurg. Tribal menbers trailed TO the
wigwom from various sections of the Cum
beTland Valley and listened attentYely TO short
talks by Great Prophet Charles p. Pass and
Great Sachcm s. II Walker.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-13

In picturesque Indian costume. Satur-
days sleep, the newly elected officers of Pecos
Tribe, OF Schuylkill Haven. were duly raised
by a team from Washite Tribe. OF Consho-
h9cken The event attracted the attendance
ing tribes. who were rewarded by listening TO
Walker
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-13

Friday last District Deputy Harry G.. Ely
Installed the following newly chosen officers
Of PEACE and Love Lodge. No Ss7 Pagt srand, md
grand, p. D, Pritchardi warden. Ernest Scott:
r. $. S. p. Lesuring; L.; s. s.. s. g. Mac
phsrsoni r. S. n. @, :, L Pennel; L. $. n G.,
" G.. w. e. Edwards: inside guardian. spen-
Ger Scott, and outside guardian, Frank Hay.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-13

and onas Interesting addresses were made
y DEPUTY Great sachem Mckee and others.
nfter which n supper was served,
raisng-up team, will tran to Ienni's wiswan
on April 20 and raise their chiefs,
hontas, last week raised tho CHIEFS OF Chat
tahoochee Council Among the many visitors
was 9 large delegation from Saraneck Coun-
ell. Of Camden. Tomorrow night Joske Coun-
cn viii visit the tepee OF Itaske Council, 62a0
Market street, and install the recently elected
officers. Lille Christie, Of Itaske Council,
last week Installed with tho assistance OF
Lizzie Geisler the officers fthe Past Chiefs
League.
The 25th anniversary OF Tribe No. 302 Of
Bethlehem. pleasantly celebrated Monday
the enjoyment OF members and their wives
n varied concert program was provided, which
was followed by REFRESHMENTS. Great Sachem
> ~ walker was cordially received and in
2 graceful address told OF the beauties OF
hedman9hip and its accomplishments In the
fraternal field of labor.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-13

Anna NJ. Ross Rebekah Lodge last week
gave an ENJOYABLE evenings entertainment for
the lodge. Mrs. s.. Schelcher, presided in
capable manner. An excellent musical enter
ates Of the Philadelphia Institution for the
Blind. after which refreshments were served.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-13

A smoker and banquet last week served to
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-13

Under the auspices of Siloam Encampment,
noon in the odd Fellows Home l7th and an.
choir OF Marlners' Presbyterian Church, Solos
were rendered by Miss Ethel Goldraith Miss
Father Sistron and Franklin S. Ford. Jr. A
brief address was made by President Thomas
Sipps and an interesting sermon preached by
the Rev. II. Preston McHenry.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-13

d. D. g., NJ. Frank Fisher, and ss. stan last
week Installed the newly elected r, 9ineers ,d 9a
lodge has II approved candidates Itnh waiting TO
intiatory degree will be conferred by the
capable degree team under the direction Or
Degree Master w. Siegmann. assisted by Will
lam J. King and Frank Sanders.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-13

The new officers Of Mile Lodge, No 1000;
were, duly installed last week by a team of OF
of Merchants Lodge, directed by
special Deputy Grand Master WilIsm Ip Bunt'
j. r. Smith, William Britton. c. Il, Martin,
Frank Sherman. Forest Latham and u; 3.
Morton The ceremonies were witnessed by
over $50 members, including many visitors.
Tonight the lodge will be visited by the Active
odd Fellows Association and will signalize the
event by initiating a class OF 20 candidates
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-13
ROOSEVELT TO MINERS
Ex- President Will AssaiI Adamson
Law in Home of Arbitration.

New York, Oct. 13.-Ex-President
Roosevelt, who appointed the Anthra-
cite Coal Strike commission and
forced the owners of the Pennsylvania
coal mines to accept arbitration of
their controversy with their employees,
has decided to go to Wilkesbarre to-
morrow, and there will declare to the
very miners who were the benefit
ciaries of his insistence on arbitration,
that President Wilson sacrificed the
principle of arbitration when he took
his stand against arbitrating the de-
mands of the railway brotherhoods,
that he has injured the cause of or
ganized labor. with the possible ex-
erhoods, and that their advantage is
merely temporary, because Mr.. Wilson
has by his course taken negotiations
regarding all questions affecting the
conditions of labor from the unions
and the employers and established the
precedent for fixing them by legisla-
tive enactment.
He will claim that the inevitable
tendency of Mr.. Wilson's course is to
reduce the labor unions to mere in
surance agencies and that this is
backward step for organized labor. As
Mr.. Roosevelts friendship for labor
has been substantially demonstrated
his Interpretation of the Adamson
bill in what may be regarded as the
home of arbitration of labor contro-
verSies is bound to be awaited with
the utmost interest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-13
WHILE THEY NAP
'Medical Burglars" HOldup
Weapon Is Sleep Lotion.
COnfesSes and Identifies More
Than $4,000 of Jewels.

Chicago, Oct. 13.-Chicago police
today were investigating the alleged
confession Of Adam Prochowski, that
much of his success in burglaries of
diamonds and jewelry, amounting to
thousands of dollars, has been due to
his impersonation OF a physician. He
told the police that he often chloro-
formed his victims when making a
burglarious call Prochowsld, who is
called the medical burglar" by the
police was arrested yesterday with ST.
900 in stolen diamonds in his pockets.
In Prochcwskis trunk at his room
ing house, the police say was found
more than $4,000 in jewelry. There
was also quantity of soporific drugs
which he explained that he used to
produce sleep for his victims while
he made thoro search for jewelry
He identified more than $4,000
worth of jewelry he confessed to have
stolen and paWned during operations
in Chicago covering the last eighteen
months and in which he made pro
fessionar' calls at $50 residences.
He is said to have been graduated
from the University of Warsaw in Po-
land.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-13
Do WE GET MORE GAS?
Kansas Natural Files Schedule of
Rates for Boilers.

Atter bringing mandamuS action
IN the state supreme court to force
the Kansas Natural Gas company to
file a schedule of rates for boiler and
industrial gas sold in the state, the
pubic utilities commission found to-
day 1t didn't have a leg to stand on.
In fact, when by mutual agreement
OF the gas company officials and util-
tiles commission, the schedule was
filed with the commission TODAY it was
discovered that the rates charged bv
the Kansas Natural for boiler and in
dustrial gas are exactly the same as
those established by the commission
December 10, when it established the
alleged confiscatory 2S-cent gas rate
The commission urged in rrandalnus
proceedings that the supreme court
compel the Kansas Natural to file a
Schedule of rates for boiler and in
dustrial gas The gas company didn't
appear to give a great many impoIite
words whether it filed a schedule or
not.
We didn't intend to furnish indus
ira! and boiler gas. anyway, as long
as II 1nterfered with supplying the
consumers, said Robert Stone attor-
ney Tor the company, today. Nor do
we intend to furnish it nov that the
rate is filed. The consumer will re-
celve the first consideration"
But the commission insisted and
hurried to the supreme court for help.
by ming the schedule the gas ccm-
pany Is cutting short some of the
yards of red tape and litigation sur
rounding the gas case
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-13
Charles Savage Lived Here An
Summer, Officers Say.
Federal Inspectors Go Thru
His Belongings Today.
may RUN TO THOUSANDS
Loss and Date VIII Not Be DIE
vuIged by the Officers.
Savage Stages Most Successful
Robbery in History in 1906.

Federal, county and city officials
are searching the Union Pacific
freight depot today for loot stolen
from seven sacks of registered mail in
Kansas City.
Charles Savage, alias Charles Stew
ems. alias Charles Stevenson. the same
negro who staged successfully the
greatest mail robbery Kansas City had
ever known about ten years ago and
who served time IN the federal prison
for it, is charged with the present rob-
berry. He is said to be under arrest in
California.
1t developed today that Savage has
been living in North Topeka nearly all
summer; that he went to California
only short time ago. Altho officials
decline to go into details the impress
sion has been given out that when
government secret service men began
to get close to Savage in California he
shipped his belongings to Topeka
No one here will state the value Of
the registered mail Savage is charged
with stealing. It may run into the
hundreds of thousands of dollars. Fol-
lowing the big robbery for which Saw
age served time, ten or twelve years
ago it was stated that he made away
with money and valuables worth $780,
000. The money was never recovered
His Strong Box
In the search made thru Savage's
belongings today no money was found.
A great deal of plunder of different
kinds was disclosed, as box after box
was opened, but little of it could have
been sent thru the mails as registered
matter. One box of an intricate de-
sign with a lock which has defied all
KEYS to date, may contain something
for which the officers are searching
Because of the value of the box the
officers today hesitated about break
ing it open. They believe some other
method will be found for opening it,
Federal officials will not disclose
when the robbery occurred in Kansas
City. The search and seizure warrant
secured in order to search Savage's
effects at the freight depot states that
seven sacks of mail matter were taken.
1t is said that the sacks were rified
and left in an out -of-the-way place
as was done by Savage on the former
occasion when the $4,000 dtsap-
peared. On that occasion the regis
tered mail taken contained "A lot OF
new money, some of it so new that 1t
had never been signed, hence was of
no value.
May Break 1t Open.
! J. c. Lindlade, federal officer. Sc
cured the search and seizure warrant.
He and l.. L. Kiene, sheriff, and
George Frost, marshal of the court
of Topeka, made the search today
1t is being continued this afternoon
Unless other matter is found and
identified as having been taken from
the mails, the strong box secured to-
| day will be broken open
Among the plunder found in Saw
ages boxes and trunks were several
high-priced cameras and guns of var
! ious descriptions. Local officials say
they did not know that Savage was
/ in Topeka during the summer. Many
other negroes, police characters, say
they did not see him. But federal
officers say he lived in North Topeka
for several months.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-13
Find Man Who Offered Strik-
erS Bonus Dead.
Bloody Friday the Thirteenth
at Bayonne, n. J.
SEND ULTIMATUM TO POLICE
Decree Death if Officers Invade
Riot Zone Again.
"Fighting Dan" Cady Replies
There'n Be a Cleanup Soon.

Bayonne, N J., Oct. 13-Tho fear
ing Friday the 13th might prove to be
bloody Friday, police and citizens tried
today to quell the oil mems strike
without calling militia.
The growing list of casualties, in
Guiding another death reported today
in fearful riots, however, made it un-
certain that this could be accom-
plished. The strikers were in an ugly
mood today; while police and special
deputies under Fighting Dan" Cady,
six-foot police inspector were ready
for anything.
The police claimed to have better
control than heretofore. in view of
their invasion of the strikers territory
and their closing of saloons. But, de-
spite headlines and gunp1ay, the ter
ritory actually controlled by strikers
was a block broader today than pre-
viously. Strikers heavily armed pa
ther fighting. Riots of the afternoon
yesterday, when a bystander was
killed and many injured. were not re-
peated late at night, but the city was
nervous about the future.
Urged Strikers to Return to Jobs.
Early today the body of an uniden-
titled man, apparently a Slav, the
West Nineteenth street with a bullet
wound over the right eye. Investiga-
ton revealed that the man was a
worker of the General Chemical COM
pany who had tried to get strikers to
return to their labors for a bonus. A
salooEkeeper reported the man had
been IN for a drink about midnight,
that he heard a shot soon after that,
and that ten men ran away directly
afterwaFd. s~~7
Sheriff Eugene Kinkead. the man
who ended a previous strike in the
bloody Hook" and "Gridiron'' sec
tions-within sight of New York
said today he would keep hands off
the strike unless it got beyond control.
Then, he said. he would send in about
200 picked men for a cleanup cam
paign. The strikers have decreed
death to the police if they invade the
heart of the strike section again. And
Fighting Dan" says he'll disregard
any ultimatum.
The cleanup of saloons in the strike
district had somewhat of a quieting
effect. The squad battered down
doors, destroyed bottles and turned on
spigotS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-13
MAC DONALD FUNERAL
Veteran Editor Will Be Buried in
Topeka Sunday.

Roderick Macdonald, son of John
Macdonald, veteran publisher and
educator, who died Thursday, is on
his way to Topeka from his home in
Lowell, Mass, according to word re-
ceived here. News of his father's
death was wired to Mr.. Macdonald
yesterday morning and he started i'm
mediately for Topeka.
The funeral will be held al 3 O'Clock
Sunday afternoon at the First Pres
byterian church, Harrison street be-
tween Eighth avenue and Ninth
street. The burial will take place in
Topeka cemetery.
The body of Mr.. Macdonald is be-
ing kept at the home of Mrs. w. C.
Webb, S27 Quincy street, where he
lived for twenty years, Mrs. David
Chandler, Mr.. MacDonalds daughter,
lives at Lowell. but it is not known
whether she is coming with her broth
er. A sister of John Macdonald lives
in Scotland.
The following resolution has been
adopted by a committee of the To-
peka Teachers association:
THE members of the Topeka
Teachers association feel a deep per-
sonal sorrow in the passing of their
friend, adviser and fellow worker,
John Macdonald, editor of the West
ern School Journal. 1t is not too
much to say that every teacher in
Kansas was his friend and that every
school was his personal interest.
The city of Topeka, the state of
Kansas and the National Education
association are the richer that he
lived"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-13
Relief Must Come or Shutdown
VIII Be Result.
Output viii Be Decreased Un-
der Present Conditions.
Topeka MILLERS ARE WORRIED
StOrehouses COngested With
Flour in This City.
Situation Worse Than YeSter-
day, Say Railway Men.

Unless afforded relief from the car
shortage situation, several millers in
southern and western Kansas assert
they will be forced to shut down or
materially decrease the output of their
mills shortly. Millers in Topeka say
the car shortage is hitting them hard.
While they believe there is little dan
ger of any of the local plants suspend
ing or decreasing their output, pro-
viding relief is obtained in reason
able time, practically all mill and ele-
vator men here say their storehouSeS
are congested. They are obtaining
enough cars to operate but that is
about all, officials of the plants assert.
Freight officials today reported the
car situation slightly worse than on
Thursday.
I'VE are short a few more domestic
cars than yesterday" is the way one
official reported the situation. Despite
the increase today after railroad men
admitted Thursday that the crisis had
apparently been reached, freight Off
cials today were inclined to take an
optimistic view of the outcome. They
believe they will be able to afford
shippers some relief by the first of
next week. Some of the Topeka mills
reported today they had received that
promise from the roads. Today, how
ever, it is admitted by practically all
concerned, that the shortage is as seri-
Shortage Is General.
Railroad men said today the short
age is not caused by congestion in any
one part of the country. altho thou
sands of loaded cars are being held in
the more important marts and ship
ping centers. In the east, where thou
sands of western cars are being held,
the shortage is reported as serious as
it is here. The situation is general all
over the country. The condition of
things today caused railroad men to
put new impetus into urging shippers
to unload and return cars quickly
thereby cooperating with the roads
in easing up the shortage.
None of the Kansas roads has yet
declared any kind of an embargo. All
deny contemplating any such move.
The majority of the Topeka millers
today were inclined to give the rail-
ter's power to relieve conditions.
What the MiIIers Say.
David Page, manager of the Mid
Continent mills, today reported that
the warehouses of his plant are full
However" he said. 'T believe the
railroads are doing as much as they
can to give us relief. We could use
thirty more cars today than we are
able to obtain"
S. B. Kramer, manager of the To-
peka Milling company, also reported
congested warehouses He said he
looked for relief the first part of next
week. "a
]. C. Fulton of the Inter-Ocean
Mills reported his plant found the
car situation tighter today ''altho it
has not been easy sailing at any time -
Occicials of the Kaw Milling com
pany reported difficulties in getting
as many cars as they need.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-13
PORTER IS NAMED
TOpekan Again Heads League
of Kansas municipalities.
Vote to Ask Amendment to
State Constitution.

independence, Kan, Oct. 13.-The
Kansas league of municipal cities, the
members of which are in annual ses-
sion here today thru it's legislative
committee agreed upon a lengthy pro-
gram of legislation to be asked at the
next session of the state legislature
and urged the submission of constitu-
tional amendments embracing home
rule and the initiative and referendum.
Officers were elected and Wichita
chosen as the 1917 meeting place.
The league will be headed for the
next year by W. L. Porter, of Topeka
as president; Richard j. Hopkins, of
Garden City, as vice president, and
Homer Talbot, of Lawrence, as secre-
tary-treasurer.
In addition to the constitutional
amendment the legislative program
seeks laws to exempt from the pres
ent limitation o 3s f debt-making DOW
er of cities all bonds for revenue pro-
duclng utilities, permitting cities own
ing water and lightp lants to buy or
construct ice plants, providing for re-
vision of the present legislation con-
cernlng sewage and its disposal per-
mlttlng cities of the first and second
class to levy tayes for garbage dis
posal, permitting assessments for the
cost or water main extensions, and to
permit cities to pay the expenses of
industrial commissions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-13
Immense Advance Enrolment
of State Teachers.
Seven Thousand Will Attend
Meeting, Says Pinet.
400 FROM KANSAS CITY ALONE
Southeastern Kansas, Too, Is
Coming in Heavily.
Great Interest From Small
Towns and RuraIS.

With the date of the Kansas State
Teachers association meeting month
away, F. L. Pinet, secretary of the as
sociation, reported today that nearly
a thousand advance enrollments had
already been sent in. He predicts that
an enrolment of more than 1000 VIII
be made this year and that many of
this number will be from sections OF
the state not represented to any great
extent in past years.
Four hundred enrollments have
been received from Kansas City alone
A heavy enrolment is coming from
southeastern Kansas, such cities as
Independence, ChLnute, Parsons,
PittSburg and Fort Scott enrolling 100
per cent of their teachers. Other cities
that are reported to be planning to
attend in full are: Kansas City, Law
renee, Topeka. Ottawa, Salina, Beloit,
Wichita, Emporia and Hutchinson.
But the interest in the big meeting
is coming from the small towns, vii
lagos and rural schools. In one day
the following counties sent in calls for
programs in quantities as follow: Re-
public, $50; Reno, 100; Crawford, 200 !;
Rice, 130; Russell, 130; Ellsworth, 75:
Usage, 800; Brown, SO; Elk, SO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-13
FOR The FARMERS
Wilson Outlines What His Ad-
ministratiOn Has Done.
Demands G.. o. P. Opponents
"Put Up or Shut Up"

On Board President Wilson's Train.
Altoona, Pa, Oct 13.-Feeling g
pleased over the reception given him
in Indiana yesterday, President Will
son today is swinging along in his
private train en- route back to Long
Branch, n. J. The Democratic leaders
still feel Indiana is an uncertain guam
tity but that in the two addresses the
president made yesterday he carried
home two points:
1. That the president is contempt
uous of such issues as sectionalism
and other contentious raised by his
Republican opponent and is deter
mined to carry on his campaign to
make his adversaries, as he says, put
up or shut up" on what he regards
the real issues.
2. For the first time he has ex-
planned exhaustively to the farmers
of the country what the Democratic
congress has done for them by pass
ing the rural credits bill, federal re-
serve and other acts.
Foreign Policy, Real Issue.
On the latter point his lieutenants
feel he now has this idea well before
the country. They feel the one big
issue upon which the campaign rests
is whether or not the people endorse
the presidents foreign policy. They
point to the enthusiasm accorded his
every utterance on peace yesterday as
strong evidence of approval
The president himself limited in one
of his addresses that the friendly
look of people who lined the streets
encouraged him in the belief that they
believed in his expression of the ma
tional spirit. Hence they feel Indiana
will come into line on the issue peace
with wilson,
Tomorrow the president will talk
turkey to a big delegation of Penn
Sylvania Democrats who are going to
Shadow Lawn TO hear him in the third
of his non-partisan speeches from the
veranda of his home
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-13
ATTEMPT ON BABY
Man of 25 Accused of Assault
on 14-MOnthS Child.
Noble Wiltshire, Who Came
From Manhattan, Held.

Vascillating between embarrass
ment and righteous indignation,
stimulated by visions of the scene she
had witnessed. Mrs. Arthur Hustled of
PIT East Fifth street today charged
Noble Wiltshire, twenty-five year old
white man with an attempted GRIM
inal assau ult upon her fourteen months
old baby daughter. She told her
story to Officer Mcclure and later
the matter was taken up with the
office of the county attorney.
Wiltshire is in the city Jail awaiting
action on thep art of the county. He
is merely held on investigation" He
has been ''sweated' out but the police
have learned nothing bearing directly
upon thee harge made by the frantic
mother.
Wiltshire, according to his own
story, came heref rom Manhattan
about a week ago, with $500 in his
pocket. He engaged a room at PIT
lives and has loafed around town
since. He is small man, almost
boyish in appearance.
Mrs. Hustled stated that she left the
room in which ner baby was lying for
short time and that when she re-
turned Wiltshire was attempting the
things she charges.
City and county officials are inves-
tigating the matter and Wiltshire is
due for the third degree" He is not
known here, except by the acquaint-
anceS he has made during the last
week.
Officer MCGUIRE went to the house
on East to arrest Wiltshire on another
charge. The complaint came from
that house but when he found Mrs.
Hustled he found an entirely different
natter