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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-03
Shortage of $1,000 in Waite
Bride Fund to Kane.
Doctor Admits All; Intended
to Stay Wife, Too.
is EXAMINED BY ALIENISTS
Officials Also Probing Baff
Murder Mystery.
$4,000 Subscribed for Poultry
Dealers Assassination.

New York, April "a side issue of
the main crime today occupied the
attention of members of the district
attorneys staff who are investigating
the Peck murder case. DIR. Arthur
Warren Waite has revealed every de-
tail of how he planned to murder his
father-in-law and his mother-1n-laW,
Mrs. Peck, and last night he admitted
according to his attorney that he in
tended also to kill his wife, to re-
move the last obstacle between him
and the Peck fortune. But DR.. Waite
apparently does not know what be-
came of part of the $4,000 which he
gave to Eugene O. Kane, to induce
Kane to testify that he used arsenic
in embalming Mr.. Peck's body. This
is the point the district attorney now
is anxious to settle.
Seek Man Who Sent Wire.
Kane, the embalmer underwent an
other examination today. Hitherto he
had not explained why, when he sur
rendered to the authorities the money
Waite gave him as bride, it totaled
only $500. The detectives believe
that the telegram signed *. Adams"
which first aroused the suspicious of
the Peck family in Grand Rapids, has
an important bearing upon this mys-
terry.
A description of the man who sent
this telegram has been obtained and
it was said that another arrest might
follow today. DR.. Waite was not we'll
enough this morning to undergo the
ordeal of arraignment to plead to the
indictment charging him with murder.
At Bellevue hospital he was examined
by an alienist engaged by his attorney
and also by a physician representing
the state. These experts are gather
ing evidence for use if the case finally
hinges upon the question of the pri-
souers mental condition.
Four Held in Murder Plot.
New York. April Testimony as to
the methods of hiring murderers will
be presented at the trials of the al
legged slayers of Barnet Baff, on to-
days calendar in the supreme court
Baff, a wholesale poultry dealer, who
had incurred the hostility of some of
his business rivals was shot and killed
as he left his store on the night of
November "a, 1914.
OF the four men awaiting trial Giu-
seppi Arichillo is accused of firing the
fatal shot and the others of being
lookouts and driving an automobile in
which the murderers fled.
The authorities assert they have
witnesses who will testify that $4,000
was collected to pay for Baff's muir
| der
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He MEANS BUSINESS
Receiver of l.. r. & S. W. Gives Up
His Other Interests.

w. A. Austin, receiver for the Leav-
enworth and Topeka Railway, has
rendered his resignation as secretary
of the Leavenworth Chamber of Com
merce to become effective April 49, A
Chamber of Commerce was organized
in Leavenworth two years ago and Mr.
Austin was employed as secretary, 60
ing there from Atchison
Mr. 'Austin's work as secretary has
been highly satisfactory, according to
E. D. Lysle, president of the Leaven-
worth commercial organization. 1t
was largely through his efforts that
one of the most extensive white way
systems in the state was established in
Leavenworth and he has been active
in a freight rate fight waged by Mis-
souri, river cities. 1t is probable that
he will retain his residence in Leav-
enworth.
Employees of the Leavenworth and
Topeka Railway company did not re-
ceive their salaries Saturday when
they were due. This was on account
of the railroads being placed in the
hands of receiver. However, the
men will get their pay Tuesday, ac-
cording to notification contained in a
bulletin issued by Mr.. Austin. There
are about seventy employees on the
road.
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Yep RAIDS

" IIOH fdSe OueJ
of the German statement regarding
LIS was shot down.
German Reports Misleading.
''It was unusually clear Friday
night said an official. eff the Ger
the localities they visited under ideal
weather condition, how can they hope
to do material damage by Zeppelin
raids under less favorable conditions?
You know, for yourself, how near
the truth are the German claims re-
garding bombs dropped on London.
The reports of batteries silenced and
factories attacked in certain localities
are equally absurd"
Kills Two at Dunkirk.
Paris, April "a Zeppelin appeared
over Dunkirk last night and threw
bombs which killed two civilians
Dunkirk, the northernmost town of
France, is a strongly fortified port on
the Straits of Dover. During the war
it has frequently been shelled by 4
LONG, range German gun.
Visit From p. NJ. to 1 A. NJ
London, April "Details of last
nights Zeppelin raids over eastern
Scotland and the northeastern and
eastern counties of England have not
been given out officially, but from
such reports as have been received Il
is evident the Zeppelins covered A
wi6e1 area than during the visitations
of the two previous nights.
Trains and street cars were held up
and lights were dimmed for several
hours. The Zeppelins were about
from p m. until after 1 a m.
The Zeppelins which visited the east
coast of Scotland, hung over the dis
trict for Is minutes. during which
time 30 bombs were dropped. No de-
tails from that district have been an
nounced-
A zeppelin which appeared over q
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MOOSE AT K. C. TODAY
Missouri Progressives Hold Convention
to Elect National Delegates.

Kansas City, Mo-, April 3.-The
state convention of the Progressive
party is being held here today with
727 delegates from the ia counties of
the state. The main business of the
convention will be the selection of
delegates to the national convention to
be held in Chicago.
Missouri is entitled to twenty-fou
delegates at the Chicago meeting.
Four of them will be elected at large.
Each county in the state is entitled
to delegates to the convention here
with one additional for each $50 ties
or major fraction thereof cast for
Roosevelt in 1912. The city of ST.
Louis, constituted as a county under
the state laws, will have the largest
delegation being entitled to 101 dele
gates under the ruling for representa-
ton made by the state committee, of
which L. A. Ellis of Kansas City s.
chairman. Jackson county, including
Kansas City, comes second with ninety
five accredited delegates here today.
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LOOKING FOR GIFTS
President of Washburn Sees Donations
. in the Future.

big subscriptions to the Washburn
endowment fund are pending" an
nounced President P. P. Womer, of
Washburn college today, on returning
from a trip east in the interests of the
campaign. Enough actual subscrip-
tons were secured to make the trip
substantially worth while, but we have
hopes of some large gifts to be Sc
cured in the future
Dr. Womer refused to make public
the actual subscriptions secured on his
eastern trip or to divulge the names of
the people from whom he expects
eventually to gain some heavy dona-
lions. The actual subscriptions Sc
cured will be announced at the meet
ing of the executive committee of the
trustees Tuesday night.
Several trips east will be necessary
before the endowment campaign in the
east will be finished" said DR.. Womer
| Business conditions there are unsat-
| isfactory. Business is still rather at a
standstill except in the case of the
munitions max endowments
and charity are not in their line.
Preparedness is an overshadowing
issue in the east. The war is muSh
! closer to them and all else is thrown
work is much more active there than
here. My trip was rather a 'feeler',
| but the results came decidedly up tc
my expectations.
! Il will devote the next few months
to finishing up the campaign in Kan
sas. The weather conditions in jan
uary and February put a quietus on
hope to bring that part to a successful
close.
After Kansas has been thoroughly
canVasSed I will return east
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noon. in which the volume of trading
stealing steadily diminished.
United States Steel was in moderate de-
mand, rising fractionally to So and In
dustrial Alcohol led the issues of its par
ticular class, advancing to 1884,. Vary
ing degrees of strength were shown by
Mercantile Marine preferred, Maxwell
Motors, American Cotton Oil, International
Paper preferred and International Nickel.
Representative stocks were neglected with
heavfness in New York Central.
Bonds were steady, with continued activ-
ity in Anglo-Fre SIS.
Prices evinced a higher tendency at to-
day open ing but with the exceptions of
better known specialties no marked
changes from last weeks final quotations
were registered Their weree / to , point
gains in American and Baldwin, Locomo-
tive Crucible Steel, Colorado Fuel and AS
ISOLATED Oil, with new records for South
Porto Rico Sugar, which gained 91a to
21912. and Jewell Tea on its rise of AZ to
50. Disappointment over latest advice from
Mexico was indicated by the backwardness
of Mexican Petroleum and American Smelt-
ing, both, however, soon recovering.
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SHE'S FIxER TOO
President Wilson's Daughter
Gets School Boards Scalp.
Miss Margaret Wins in Cam
paign for Civic Centers.

washington, April president
Wilson's daughter, Miss Margaret Will
son, is showing Washington today that
her father is not the only member of
the White House family gifted with
powers to bring congressman and
such into line.
Miss Wilson for some months has
been engaged in a battle of politics
with Washington's board of educa-
ton, a conservative institution APP
pointed by courts and not responsible
to the people. Her battle is about
to come to a successful conclusion in
the house, where Representative
Johnson of Kentucky, has introduced
a bill intended to bring the board in
to line, broaden the schools field of
usefulness and add another scalp to
the already large Wilson collection.
Miss Wilson mas advanced ideas
about a city. She believes school
houses may be used to advantage by
grown folks as community centers,
civic forums and such. The people
were in favor of it, all along.
Finally, Representative Crosser of
Ohio, introduced a bill providing that
school houses might be used as civic
centers. Senator Hollis sponsored the
bill in the senate. Permission was
granted for mothers and fathers TO
meet at the schools to discuss school
| dlLdlIS, POllllCS, wei, dilO IL IiACy
wanted to, fashions. Citizens asso-
Citations. of which there are about
seventy-five, also made use of them.
In the Grover Cleveland school. one
! of the first to take advantage of the
law, the people decided to meet on
! Sunday afternoons. The board of edu-
cation didn't see 1t that way. If there
were to be any meetings, the board
said, 1.-THE board-would say when
they were to be held.
Miss Wilson went right up and saw
the congressman about it. She didn't
have to go any farther than johnson
of Kentucky, chairman of the district
committee.
Early in March G916) the board
of education walked up to find that
congress was by way of passing a bill
which said that ten schools, in given
sections, should be named as COM
munity forums.
Further, the bill said specifically
that the people in the sections, if they
wanted to organize, could go right
ahead. When they were organized
the bill went on, they were to name
the time and place of meeting. The
board OF education, left to hold the
sack, was told it was made respon-
sible for the plan, and that its duty
lay in seeing that nothing went wrong
with the plan.
All the board has to do is jump
| right up and say, Yes, SIR" when a
properly organized section voices a
desire to meet at the schoolhouse
The bill itself looks innocent enough
1t says, in parenthesis. that it was
introduced "by request"
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border, have continued their ablu-
tons so constantly that some are COM
mencing to suspect they are trying to
wash their color off. The lectures
that were delivered by the officers
before starting into Mexico on the sub
ject of typhus have worked on the
imaginations of the colored troops, and
the long lines of naked white men up
and down the river are speeked every
few feet by black dots.
The Mexicans eye the dark skinned
troopers with amazement. They are
familiar enough to the people along
the border, but are brand new spe-
cies to the natives this far inside.
The crap game follows the guidons
of the black cavalry. At night when
their camp chores and when the dust
Of a weary hike still powders their
faces, someone spreads a saddle
blanket on the ground; the cook
oblingly lends lantern and familiar
cries echo across the sacaton fields
of Mexico.
He's comm out.'' sings a cusky
soldier, rafting a pair of dice allur-
ingly in his hand and here is a wild
rush from all parts of that particular
Iy surrounded by dark faces. CHASTITY
in the dim light with their masks OF
dust.
"Two bits he don't get thah.' SAYS
a private, Tipping a coin TO the cen
ter of the blanket. Soon the air IS
filled with wild appeals for 'Jimmy
Hicks, the barber" and for big Dick
and the rest of those mythical persons
who people a crap game with theil
elusive personalities.
In the lee of the tail-gate of q
supply wagon sits a sombre soldier
dealing BLACK jack" game. That is
to say he would deal it were there
any call for dealing, but business has
not been prosperous with him lately
The crap game is getting all the play
So he sits there, cross-legged before
his blanket, yarning prodigiously tC
all Corners. He has a knack of max
ing up his stories as he goes alone
and some of them are mighty thrilling
yarns at that.
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BOMBED MUNITIONS PLANTS.
Berlin Report States These Were Tar
gets for Zeppelin Raids.

Berlin, April 3.-(By wireless to
Sayville. 1.-The official German ac-
count of Saturday nights Zeppelin
raid over England follows:
During the night of April L..
naval airships renewed the attack on
the east coast of England. For a period
of one and one-half hours explosive
and incendiary bombs were thrown on
blast furnaces, large iron works and
Industrial establishments on the south
bank of the Tees and on the port es-
Establishments of Middlesbrough and
Sunderland. Large explosions, fires
and demolitions were caused and the
successful effects of the attack were
clearly noticeable.
Notwithstanding heavy Smelling of
our airships they suffered neither
losses nor damages"
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UPHOLD SWEDE RIGHTS
Swedish Newspapers Protest CurtaiI-
ment of Declaration of London.

Berlin, April 3.-The press of
Sweden protests unanimously against
the British order in council cancelling
adherence to certain sections of the
declaration of London which make
distinctions between the treatment of
absolute and conditional contraband,
says the Overseas News agency.
These newspapers state that as a
matter of fact Great Britain previous
ly had hardly adhered to the prin-
ciples of the declaration. The Tidnin-
gen of Stockholm says the situation is
serious and calls for united Swedish
policy to protect the nations rights. -
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TODAY'S MARKET REPORT

Chicago. April NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
that the domestic winter crop at present
showed the lowest condition for any CORE
spending time since 1904 sent wheat prices
today sharply up grade. According to a
leading authority here the percentage is 7S.S
as against $50 last year. On this basis
the probable maximum yield for 1916 was
estimated at 490.000000 bushels compared
with 655000,OO0 in 1915. Opening prices,
which ranged from &c to &c higher with
May at $1.1615 to SLIT and July at $1.151s
to Sligo, were followed by rise to more
then a moderate reaction.
Subsequently, the foreign buying of flu
lures mere and the need of rain in Kansas
and Nebraska tended to lift prices higher
than before the rise in some cases much
as cents a bushel The volume of bust
ness was much larger than has been the
case for a long time. Prices closed strong,
41sc to 45sc net higher, with May at $1.201s
and July at $1193s.
CORN-Corn west higher with Wheat,
there were also reports of continued large
sales at Kansas City for shipment to Bal
timore. After opening a shade to H03sc
higher, the market scored some addition
gains.
An unexpected decrease in the visible
supply total brought about a further up
turn in values. The close was firm at &c
@4c to 1c net advance.
OATS-Oats reflected the strength of
other grain. big elevator company led
the buying.
PROVISIONS-Advanc in quotations
of hogs and cereals carried provisions up
grade. The market, however, was uneven
and trade light.
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Elevator stocks of wheat in Kansas City
decreased 1SS, 262 bushels this week and
corn stocks increased 81 100 bushels.
Exports from the United States and Can
81 900 barrels of flour 5000 bushels of
corn and 100000 bushels of oats; wheat and
flour combined 1,026,000 bushels.
Condition of wheat in Oklahoma is esti-
mated at 81 compared with .73 a month
ago and sc year ago; oats 10, year ago
81. Corn acreage to be planted.
The first spring Missouri state crop
bulletin issued Saturday shows a wheat
condition of COS, compared with 80 in
December and SO a year ago. OF corn
blowing So per cent is done, compared
with 30 per cent a year ago; oats sowing,
20 per cent completed, compared with 3s
per cent q year ago.
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Kansas City Produce Marke,

Kansas City, April 3.-WHEAT-Cash !:
Market 3@4c higher: No: 2 hard, $11d@
49, No. 3, $1-09G11S; No. red, $113GI
LII; No. 3, S1.09@115
C0RN-Market 1a@1c higher. No 2 mix
ed, 6914 @694e; No: B 6s19@o69c; No. !,
yellow, 73G7315c; No. 3, 7012@71c.
OATS-Market unchanged. No. white,
47q4Sc No. mixed, 41@43c.
RYE-SS@S9c
HAY-Market steady. Choice timothy,
So. 50G13.50: choice prairie, $10.50@11.00 =;
choice alfalfa, S15.50M16.OO.
KAFIR-No. 3 white &c
WHEAT-Receipts IA cars.
BUTER-Creamery, 35c; firsts, 33c; sec
onds, Bic; packing, BIC
EGGS-Firsts. 20c.
POULTRY-Hens, 15c; turkeys. Zoe
CLOSE: WHEAT-May, SLIP; July. Sill
CORN-May, 7o5sc; July, 72asc.
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WHEAT LOOKS GOOD
E. j. Smiley Makes Report on Condi-
lions in Kansas

Wheat conditions throughout the
state are promising, according to A
report issued by E. ]. Smiley, secre-
tary of the Kansas Grain Dealers as
ISOLATION. The extreme western coun-
ties are in need of moisture, Smiley
reroIts, although there has been no
suffering from drouth in any of the
counties. Some districts have reported
an invasion of the Hessian fly. The
raYages of the fly, however, ara not
considered greater than in former
years and alarm is confined to local
territories.
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CONDENSED NEWS
Medal to Roman Catholics

South Bend, Ind, April 3.-The
Laetare medal, annually awarded by
the University of Notre Dame to a
distinguished Roman Catholic layman.
will be awarded this year to DR.. Thorn
as J. Walsh, scientist and author of
New York city. The presentation will
be made shortly after Easter Sunday
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Cbinese Borrow 5 Million.

New York, April 3.-The loan to he
placed in this country by the Chinese
government will probably amount to
S5,OOO,OO0 and the proceeds will be
used in the purchase here of supplies.
it was understood in banking circles
today. This information was made
public coincident with an announce
ment that the bankers who were yes
terday appointed fiscal agents of the
Chinese republic in this country by
DIR. Wellington Koo, Chinese minister
had associated another banking con-
Germ with them in the flotation of the
loan which will take the form of
short term treasury bills, it was said.
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Kansas City, April 3.-HOGS-Receipts
1000. Market 25c to SOC higher. Bulk of
sales, $9,35@9.65; heavy, $9.55@9.75; pack
ers and butchers, $9.45M9.65; light, 50 256D
955; pigs, $S.00@S75.
CATTLE-Receipts 1900. Market 1Oc to
15c higher. Prime fed steers. $9.250i965 !;
steers. $7T5@9.20 southern steers, S7.O0@
SIS; cows, $500@S.00; heifers, S7O0@9.75.
stockers 81 and feeders. $675@s.75; bulls,
SHEEP-Receipts 1900. Market steady.
Lambs SO. 75@11.40; yearlin gs, SO. 50d 0. 80 :
wethers, $S.50@9.50; ewes, S7.756S. so ;
stockers and feeders, S6.O0@1O.50.
Chicago Live Stock Market.
Chicago, April 3.-HOGS-Receipts 49,
600. Market strong, 15c to 25c above Sat
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Minneapolis, Mimi, April Erred
Fulton, Minnesota heavyweight boxer,
has signed a contract with a syndi-
cate of five New York promoters. in
Guiding Tex Richard and Billy Glib
son, to meet three fighters in New
York for $50, 600, according to an an
nouncement made here today by Mike
Collins, Fulton's manager.
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Groton, Conn, April 3.-Expert me-
chanics from the plant of the New
London Ship and Engine company left
today for New York. whence they will
sail for Petrograd to work on sub
marines being built by the concern
for the Russian government.
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HARMONY AT ABILENE
Democrats in Convention Commend
Congress and Administration.

Abilene, Kan, April "a Demo-
cratic convention held here Saturday
was most harmonious. Resolutions
commended national administration
and Democratic members of congress
Delegates to attend Hutchinson con-
vention are: J. w. Howe. w. T. Har-
ris, Ed Arnold. C. K. Klamm, Herman
Hassler. Arthur Merrill. Joseph
Lynch, ]. s. Finn. T. E. Robson, J.
T. Prendergast. No instructions for
committeeman
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Chicago, April 3.-William r. Fors-
berg, part owner of the Brookline
Commercial and Savings bank, which
failed year ago, was sentenced to one
year in the Bridewen today by Judge
Marcus Kavanaugh. He was indicted
on charge of embezz1ement in con-
nection with the failure of the bank.
Two weeks ago he pleaded guilty, The
bank failed for about 100000.
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Memphis sheriff Not entity.

Reichman, of this Shelby county, has
been guilty of no official misconduct
which would warrant removal from
office according to an opinion rem
dered here today By Chancellor F. II.
HeiskeH in the custer suit filed by
the state.
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We desire to thank our many
friends and express our appreciation
for their kindness, sympathy and
beautiful floral offerings during the
illness and death of our beloved wife
and mother.
MARION LASSWELL,
and daughters, Edna and Elsie.-Adv
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Kansas City, April 8.


Chicago April 3.-WHEAT-Close: May
s.. 2O1k July. SL19ss September, SLY.
CORN--May, 76A@76asc; September
oATsEMay, 1850; July. 1850; septem-
Der. 41%c.
PORK-May. $23.15; July.
LARD-May; $1142; uJly, $167 ~
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northwestern district yesterday eve
ming remained about an hour and
half, but as far as ascertained dropped
only two bombs over a considerable
area largely agricultural.
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Baltimore, Nd, April 3.-Charles =.
Smith. former governor of South Car
DINA, died at the Johns Hopkins hos
pital here. Death was due to
a complication of diseases. Mr.. Smith
had been a patient at the hospital
since March 6. He was SIS years old