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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-02
ON MAYORS TRAIL
Raid Chicago Executives Club
for Graft Evidence.
Seized Records and Order Sec
rotary to Grand Jury.

Chicago. Oct. 2.-Detectives operat-
ing under the direction of States At
torney Hoyne today raided the Sports
mems Club of America of which May
or William Hale Thompson was for
merly president, seized all records and
served subpoenaas on Charles T. Es-
sig, secretary, and other attaches to
appear before the grand jury.
Assistant States Attorney arber is
sue a statement that the raid followed
Investigations which indicated that of
ficials of the club, including Chief of
Police Charles c. Healey, were con-
nected with the installation of slot
machines in Chicago. The statement
charges specifically that James A.
Pugh, president of the club, and re-
puted financial hacker of Mayor
Thompson in the campaign leading TO
his election. Essig and William B.
Lutha rdt, secretary to Chief of Police
Healey, were directly connected with
the installation of slot machines.
1.-The club was used to drive into its
membership persons doing business
with the city hall-hand book-makers
dive-keepers, saloon-keepers and
keepers of vicious resorts, the state
ment added.
Four police captains were found
guilty last week by the city civil serv-
ice commission on charges of ineffi-
cheney in permitting slot machines to
be operated. They were fined, SuS-
pended and reprimanded.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-02
T. R. TO "SklNEMALlvE"
Four Follow-Up Speeches Planned by
Colonel Roosevelt.

New York, Oct. AT least four
and possibly six more carefully pre-
pared speeches viii be made by Colo
mel Roosevelt within the next two or
three weeks. They will be-so Re-
publican headquarters officials said
today-of the same '-slxinemali-e''
variety as that delivered at Battle
Creek Saturday. Plans tentatively
settled upon today called for a speech
at Chicago, another two days later at
Denver and a third at Louisville on
the way back to New York. The fourth
is to be made here in New York just
a few days before the campaign
close.
Republican leaders took leaf from
President wilson's campaign book in
deciding against any such swing
around the circle as Hughes is taking.
Roosevelt himself suggested the set
speech idea.
Altho Roosevelt told leaders he was
opposed to back platform talks when
he starts out, it was believed he might
be prevailed on to show himself oc-
casiona1Iy on his way to and from
Denver.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-02
In RE GAS RATE
Another Hearing October IL To Be
Held in Kansas City.

Another inning in the gas rate con-
troversy will be played October IL be-
fore Judge Booth of Minneapolis or
Judge Campbell of Oklahoma at a
special hearing in Kansas City. An
nouncement of the assignment of the
case to one of the two federal judges
was received today in Topeka.
The gas rate case concerns the ap-
plication for a permanent injunction
against the ascent gas rate order of
the Kansas public utilities commits
sion. A restraining order in
the case was granted in St. Paul sew
eral months ago. At that time fed
eral judges held the utilities commits
sion order confiscatory. Both Judges
Booth and Campbell sat in the ST.
Paul hearing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-02
DEAD ON
HIS FEET

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and gently carry off the Ill effects of
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and lining of the kidneys and expels
the poisons in your system. Keep your
kidneys in good shape by daily use of
GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules
and you will have good health. Go to
your druggist at once and secure d
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ernment chemists and declared pure
before coming into this country.
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HARLEM OIL imported direct from the
ancient laboratories in Holland where
it is the National Household Remedy
of the sturdy Dutch. Look for the
name GOLD MEDAL on every box.
Accept no substitute. Your druggist
will gladly refund your money if not
as ted--Advertisement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-02
THEY DEMAND PROBE
Friends of Ed Bennett Not Satisfied
With Story of His Death.

Friends of Ed Bennett, the Jamaica
ginger "fiend," who died from in
juries received in the city Jail Satur-
day night, are demanding an official
investigation
Several people have called up
about it, said w, E. .tchison. county
attorney, today. They say they are
not satisfied with the explanation
given as to the manner in which he
came to his death. 1 don't know what
I'll do about it. 1 have been so busy
getting the criminal docket started off
! haven't had time to give it much
thought"
The explanation given at the city
Jail is that while in a drunken stupor
Saturday night, Bennett rolled off a
table and struck his head on the floor
SO hard it caused his death.
Some of the people who have
called" said Mr.. Atchison, SAY the
man had hole in his head which
couldn't have been inflicted by falling
upon a cement floor
Bennett has been in the city Jail
frequently in the last fifteen years.
His offense has always been the same
drunkenness.
When called before the police his
reply has.nearly always been the same
Jamaica ginger. Once he was a
switchman, and former employers say
he was one of the best the local yards
ever knew.
The supreme court of Kansas has
never held that Jamaica ginger is d
Misunderstanding drink. The court of
this state has had but one case before
1t in which Jamaica ginger was an
issue. That case came from Junction
City some months ago. In deciding
the case, the court held the drink was
intoxicating
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-02

lessons entirely too difficult for them,
suffer the humiliation of seeing their
playmateS pass above them and en-
dure the gibes of the other children
because they are SLOW and stupid.
Hope to DO Better.
Next year we hope to have enough
teacher-specialists and school room to
take care of these 200 laggards in
learning" Superintendent H. B. VIII
son said today. lone of our handicaps
today is the attitude of the parents.
They resent the placing of their child
rem among the other sub-normalS and
insist on their being placed in reg
ular school which is not adapted to
take care of their special needs. They
are almost certain to fail and they
must endure the humiliation of being
placed with children much smaller
and younger than themselves. But
their parents resent the implied CLASH
fication of mentally defective which
they think attaches to their children
when they are placed in the ungraded
rooms. In most cases a few months
or few years in the ungraded room
would place their child on an equality
with other children"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-02
YOUR SICK CHILD
IS CONSTIPATED!
LOOK AT TONGUE
furry, Mother! Remove pOisons
from little stomach, liver,
bowels.
Give California Syrup of Figs"
if cross, bilious or
feveriSh.

No matter what ails your child,
gentle, thorough laxative should al
ways be the first treatment given.
If your little one is out-of-sorts.
half-sick, isn't resting. eating and act
ing naturally-look. Mother. see il
tongue is coated. This is a sure sign
that it's little stomach, liver and bow
ers are clogged with waste. When
cross, irrita BILE, feverish. stomach sour.
breath bad or has stomach-ache,
diarrhoea, sore throat. full of cold.
give a teaspoonful of California Syrup
IF figs and in a few hours all the
constipated poison, undige sted food
and sour bile gently moves out of its
little bowels without gripping. and you
have a well, playful child again.
Mothers can rest easy after giving
this harmless fruit laxative" because
1t never fails to cleanse the little ones
liver and bowels anG sweeten the
stomach and they dearly love its pleas
ant taste. Full directions for babies.
children of all ages and for grown
ups printed on each bottle.
Beware of counterfeit fig syrups.
ask your druggist for a 50-cent bottle
of California Syrup of Figs" then
see that it is made by the california
Fig Syrup Company" Advertisement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-02
GIVE BEST
TIPS, SAYS LEADER
OF BELLHOP UNION

Chicago, Oct. observation-disclosures
and vaudeville-are the best tippers.
This was made known officially at a
meeting OF the Chicago Federation OF
Labor by Henry Morris, president of
the Bellhops' union. He was explain
ing how the bellhops were paid.
Bell boys get S12 a month at some
hotels" he said. They pay 81 INSTALL
ment on their uniforms and give the
captain SO. Then they depend upon
the patrons of the mouse for their
wages. The actors give US the best
tips"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-02
START LONG TRIP
Women's Hughes Special Left New
York Today.

New York, Oct Woman presi-
dental campaign stumpers and their
adherents showed mere men politi-
clans how to make a real demonstra-
ton today when the special train OF
the Hughes alliance-for women only
pulled out of the Grand Central sta
ton for a trans-continental tour n
Hughes behalf. The twenty-five
feminine stumpers who will make the
trip were escorted by a band and
several hundred lusty voiced admirers
mostly feminine.
The party had a cheer 1eader-Miss
Marie Dressler the comedienne-and
her war dance and yells aroused
the station crowds to a roof-shaking
sendoff for the first women's trip of
its kind in history. Report had it
that there were one or two men scat
tered through the train as innocent
reporters of events, but if so they were
very, very. obscure and quiet about it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-02
SLIPS MONEY IN BEER
Man Accused of Stealing $50 Pushed
1t in a kcg.

Joe Dwiggins IS being tried today
in the first division of the district
court, on the charge of robbing
Thomas J. FaXon, IN aged Shawnee
county farmer, of three ten dollar
bills.
The charge is that Dwiggins met
Mr.. FaXon on East Third street last
May, talked to him a few minutes.
then Faxon missed the money.
Thomas Morgan, police sergeant,
who made the arrest told his story on
the stand today.
THE chief and 1 were driving down
East Third street in the patrol wag-
on" he said, when we saw Dwiggins
walking east rapidly with this old gem
leman trotting after him 1 jumped
from the car and caught hold of
Dwiggins. Just before I got to them
1 heard the old man say Give me back
my money and I'll let you CO. 1 ar
rested Dwiggins and placed him in the
patrol wagon. We had a half-ba rrel
of beer in the wagon and Dwiggins sat
across the barrel from me. While we
were driving along 1 saw him place
his hand in the barrel and drop some
thing. I caught his wrist and fished
into the barrel and brought up three
ten-dollar bills"
Morgan stated that all the time they
were driving to the station Faxon was
complaining about the loss of the
three bills. Later they were turned
over to him by the police
The defense indicated today that its
contention would be that Faxon gave
the money to Dwiggins to keep for
him. Faxon denies this
Mr.. F'aXon lives four miles south of
Tecumseh. He is the father of Ralph
FaXon, former private secretary to
Senator Chester 1. Long, and a former
Kansas newspaper man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-02

playmates. A third class, or about
As, are below their proper grade
merely because of Irregularities caused
by sickness, accidents or some other
cause.
These are the results announced to-
day from the survey of the 5000 grade
school children of the city conducted
by Miss Ellen Heartburg. Miss Della
Rankin and Miss Blanche Dodge. Five
thousand children We're individually
given the 'Binet tests and 1900
romped thru them easily. But to tive
hundred of them replying to such
commands as give the opposites of
good, outside. false. like. etc. re-
quired long, painful consideration, and
then many of the answers were
ludicrously and pathetically wrong"
A Hopeless Stare.
To such questions as define justice,
charity and goodness" more than
hundred returned nothing but hope
less stare to the questioners.
The familiar picture in the Binet
test representing human face lack
ing some feature was Immediately
seized upon by $500 children with
''Why, that man has only one eye"
But to more than one hundred it APP
peared that the picture was all right.
This year provision has been made
for forty-five of the sub-normal chill
dren. There are two "ungraded
rooms" at Harrison and one at Grant.
The remaining 155 must remain with
the average children in the schools.
They will not get the special instruc-
ton from such teachers as Miss Heart
burg, Miss Rankin and Miss Dodge, all
of whom have studied in the psyche
pathic school at Vineland, n. ]. They
will be subjected to the hardship OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-02
EXECUTE A MAYOR
Cananea Official Slain for Re-
sisting Election.
Twenty-Five Others Shot Down
by Carranza Soldiers.

Nogales, Ariz., Oct. 2.-Because ne
attempted to resist the annuiiment OF
his election as mayor OF Cananea,
Margarito Rios was captured by Car
rama soldiers and executed short
distance from the copper camp. ac-
cording to meager telegraphic advices
reaching the border Twenty-Five as
sociates of Rios. who attempted to
support him, also were captured and
executed.
Carranza soldiers are reported TO
dominate the situation against large
civilian population of pro-V1lla senu-
ment. Street gatherings of more than
two people are forbidden with PEN
atty of execution for violation OF the
order. Mateo Ortiz, the candidate de-
feated in the elections by Rios has
been seated as mayor by the military
authorities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-02
WOMEN DEMOCRATS
New Yorker Will Speak to Topeka
Pocahontas Club Wednesday.

The Pocahontas Democrat club, an
organization of women established to
further the candidacy of Woodrow
Wilson, will hold an open meeting at
2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at
the National hotel. An invitation is
extended to all women interested in
the Democrat party to meet with the
club members
Mrs. w. A Harris, president of the
Woman's Wilson league of Kansas,
and Mrs. Kelley, of New York, a rep
resentative from the national Demo-
crat committee, will speak. Both viii
explain and urge the organization
work now being carried on by Demo-
cratic women in Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-02
POLICE GUARD CARS
Mobs Halt Attempt to Run Surface
Cars-Try Again Today.

New York, Oct 1.-THE police of
Mount Vernon. Yonkers, New Rochelle
and Pelham guarded the trolley lines
of West Chester county, today in pre-
paration for another ATTEMPT to re-
sumo operation, prevented yesterday
by mobs who stoned the cars and beat
the conductors ard motormen-
In this city leaders of the striking
street car men today submitted their
appeal for a general strike to con-
vention of organized labor leaders
whose decision is expected to be final.
Motorcycle police, like cavalry.
charged the strikers. Union heads
failed when they counselled order In
the city proper. cars run normally. but
the expected formal calling off of the
of President Mahon. of the interna-
tional body. from Europe.
Car Strike Over Employees Fired.
Albany, Oct 2.-Street car service
in this city and suburbs was at a
standstill today as the result of a
Street Railway Employees union. The
strike was caused by the refusal of
the company to reinstate a motorman
who had been disciplined on the
charge of having run past dead
stop" sign. 1t involves about eight
hundred men.
Strike for Union Recognition.
Atlanta, Ga, Oct. with the po-
lice under instructions to prevent
crowds gathering ON the streets and
to arrest any one interfering in any
way with car crews, service on the
local and suburban lines of the
Georgia Railroad & Power company
on which a strike of carmen was
called Saturday to enforce recognition
of the union, was resumed early to-
day. Officials of the street car com
pany asserted that less than 100 out
of more than 1000 carmen had quit
Union officials asserted that nearly 400
men were on strike
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-02
This Invention For Rupture
Sent On 60 Days Trial
Won't Cost You Cent If the Two Months Test
Doesn't Prove All Our Claims

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-02
HOOSIERS' GALA DAY
Indiana's Tooth birthday, Beinr
Celebrated in Elaborate Style.

Indianapolis, Oct. 2.-What is ex-
pected to prove the largest celebration
of any kind ever held in Indiana
opened in Indianapolis today with an
afternoon parade of civic, patriotic
and fraternal organizations and with
an immense exposition of fine and do
mestic art, the product of Indiana for
the last 100 years, on display at the
Heron Art institute
The celebration Is that in honor of
the centennial anniversary of the
state. 1t will continue for two weeks.
President Wilson and former Presi-
dents Roosevelt and Taft will visit the
city during the celebration
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-02

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-02

New York, Oct. 2.-MONEY-Mercatil
paper, 312 per cent. Sterling, 60 day bills,
10. Francs, demand, 5.S31a; cables. 5.S3.
Marks, demand: 701z cables. TOSS. Kronen.
demand, 40 1916; cables. 10 i5-16. Lires,
demand, 6451a; cables. 6441a. Rubles, de-
mand, 319s cables, 31A. Bar silver, 69sc !;
Mexican dollars $3.50. Government bonds.
steady: railroad bonds. irregular. Time
loans, strong: 60 days 2A as; 80 days, "a
ash months, 81 @31a.
Call money, firmer: high, 90 low. 81. :
ruling rate. 2a4 last loan, 2s4 closing bid
Pig; offered at pa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-02
HE WASN'T FLIRTING;; WAS
JUST READING SONG TITLES

ST. Paul, Mimi, Oct. ARRESTED
for flirting. George Nee explained
he was merely reading the title of
a song in a shop window, Come
to Me Now, When 1 Need YOU
He beat the case, altho the viva
cious complainant, with fire in her
eyes, declared he was addressing
her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-02
NEED EXTRA WORK
Four Per Cent of 5000 Topeka
School Children Not Normal.
Should Have Special Instruc-
ton in Education.
SPECIALISTS FOR NEXT YEAR
Method to Take Care of Two
Hundred Laggards.
Results of Survey in Schools
Are Announced Today.

Four per cent of the 5000 pupils in
the grade schools of the city are below
normal in mentality and should have
special instruction under special
teachers in unEraded schools.
One hundred out of the 200 sub
normal children. or about per cent.
are classified as seriously handi-
capped" or of the iowest grade of
mentality. Forty more need from
few months to several years special in
stfuctions in the ungraded schools to
enable them to attain the level of their
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-02
U-BOAT IN ARCTIC
Sinks Three Norwegian Ships and
Stops Sea Traffic.

Christiania, Norway, Oct. "A
German submarine has made its way
into the Arctic ocean and has tor
pedoed three Norwegian steamships
there.
The vessels torpedoed were the
Sinsen, Rawn and Rolf Jarl. The
crews were saved. Steamship traffic
over the regular route covering the
northern Norwegian towns has been
stopped.
Since August the Germans have
sunk Norwegian boats valued at So
100000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-02
MET TERRIBLE DEATH
Fireman Pinned Beneath Engine Is
II ScaIded Until He Dies

Des Moines, Ia. Oct. 2.-Fireman
Jack Horne, of Moulton, Ia. was pin
ned beneath his overturned locomotive
and scalded to death when a Wabash
accommodation train for Moulton was
wrecked by a broken rail twenty miles
south of Des MoineS Saturday night.
The accident became public only today
when it was learned that the line was
still partly blocked.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-02
senator Curtis on COMMITTEES,

washington, Oct. 2.-Twenty-five
senators were designated today as
members of the congressional COM
mittee to attend the funeral at Little
Rock tomorrow Of the late Senator
Clarke of Arkansas, president pro-
tempore of the senate. The senators
were notified at their homes and will
go directly to Little Rock.
On the list are Senators Stone and
Curtis