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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
MONEY FOR PEACE
Kansas Gives S2,065 in Audi
tOrium Meeting.
Enthusiasm Over Visit of Elk.
President Taft.

Kansas gave So, O65 to the campaign
o. the National League to Enforce
Peace. In , minutes Charles
Kitchener, with the Taft party, col
lected pledges in excess of s2,000-or
an average of little more than 5000
a minute.
Governor Capper and Frank P
MacLennan We're the heavy contrib
utors. Each gave $3.50 to the cause
of national peace, listing their sub
scriptions as from Mr.. and Mrs. Ar
thur Capper and Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
P. MacLennan and Miss Mary Mac
Lehman. Other prominent Kan
sans gave sums ranging from So
to 800. Walter Roscoe Stubbs who
presided at the meeting, gave 500.
Another 500 contribution came from
c. b. Merriam of Topeka while c. S.
Gleed, Clay Hamilton and Auerbach &
Guettel each gave $50. Will Wayman
&c Emporia gave $25.
Michemer's plea for funds came at
the conclusion of the meeting and
Immediately followi a vivid descrip-
ton of European war horrors by
George Sherwood EdLy, who pleaded
with Kanisans to take the lead in the
movement for -orld peace. Cards
were dis ributed anon men and wo-
men in the hall and many pledges for
81 and 50 contributions were received
number of state officials and MEM
bers of the 1917 legislature attended
the meeting. Special invitations had
been sent to all legislative members
and nearly half of the men who will
participate in the oming session
heard the Taft speech.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
CAYUSE COST $25, 900
Once Rich Farmer Tells How He Was
Swindled Buying War Horses.

Omaha, Neb.. Dec. 16.-Peter Alli-
son, once prosperous farmer of La
Platte, and later owner of Omaha
property valued at $4,000, but now a
farm laborer at California Junction,
Ia, told a jury in federal court here
today how one Arizona wild horse cost
him $4,000. He was a government
witness in the case against the United
States Live Stock company and the
Omaha Land Investment company for
using the mails to defraud in cases of
wild horses in Coconino county, Ari-
IONA. A million dollars, the govern
ment alleges, was secured from the
sales of wild horses, supposed to
range on a government reservation in
Coconino county.
Allison testified he traded his
Omaha property for 500 wild horses
and spent $4,000 building corrals and
employing horse wranglers to capture
the animals. After many weeks, two
horses We're captured, he said, but one
one of his cowboys.
After he had lost his property Alli-
son said he was employed as a sheep
herder and then as a farm laborer.
The purchasers of the wild horses
did not always know the market value
of mustangs ranged from IS to $20 a
head, but accepted as true representa-
lions that the horses were selling for
$50 a head on the Kansas City mar
ket
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
WANT NEW FIRE LAW
Movie Men Will Confer With State Of
ficials Here Next Week.

Kansas fire chiefs and movie oper-
ators have been called to Topeka for a
conference next Tuesday with state of
ficials. They will confer with repre-
sentatives of the state labor bureau
and state fire marshars office con-
corning changes in present laws.
Changes in the methods of operat-
ing motion picture shows have de-
manded a number of amendments to
existing laws. according to statement
today by representative of the state
labor department. In working out
these changes, fire chiefs from a num-
Der of the larger towns of the state
have been urged to attend the confer
ence. A number of motion picture
show operators will also come to To-
peka for the conference to be held in
the state house
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
100000 FOR CARDS
That Is Price Mrs. Britton Asks for
Her st. Louis Ball Club.

st. Louis. Mo, Dec. 16.-Attention.
YOU bidders for control of the St
Louis Cardinals. The sale price of the
most nearly sold" ball club in the
United States was set at 100000 to-
day by Mrs. Helen Britton. 'presi-
dentess" and owner of the Cardinals
This price came from New York to-
day, where the only woman baseball
magnate is mingling with the moguls
of the National league.
The sale price, according to the tel
egram, does not include the real estate
where the Cardinals have been ca
vorting for years and years. 1t in
cludes only the inheritance of the
players, Millers, Higgins and other
managers have been having more or
less success for years and the right
to one position in the league standing
So far the first time the sale price
of the club that has been reported
sold" and being sold" more than
any other club in baseball became
known There was no announcement
as to a rush to purchase the club at
the announced figure
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GROCERIES CHEAPER
State Able to Cut Down Bill for In
situations.

State institutions this week spent
SIS, 1880 for groceries for the six
months ending June 80. The pur-
chases do not include flour and sugar,
which state representatives today de-
cided to buy on the open market. Two
years ago the grocery account, includ-
ing sugar, amounted to $95,715.51
Hardware purchased this week cost
$2,l7O.S4, as against $1,374.99 two
years ago.
Institutions under the state board of
control this year purchased groceries
to the amount of $57,217.49, as against
purchases in 1914 for a similar period
at a cost of $5S,92S.S3. This year the
grocery account for Dodge City SOL
dlers' home and Mother Bickerdyke
home cost $S,312.39; institutions under
board of corrections, S15,01649; and
institutions other than those under
supervision of the board of control,
spent $36,S37.6S for groceries.
because of the present conditions
OF the wheat ard sugar markets, heads
OF state institutions voted to buy sugar
and flour on the open markets A
sugar quotation received by the state
today was 40 cents a hundred pounds
below quotation received earlier in
the week
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
TO TAKE OVER SHOPS
Santa Fee Will Operate Its Own Plant
at Ottawa.

The Santa Fe is to take over the car
shops at Ottawa, the largest in the
state with the exception of the shops
at Topeka, on January 1. it is an
nounced. The shops have hitherto
been operated under contract by A. c.
Battelle. Mr.. Battelle took charge of
the works there in April of 1909, and
since that time has paid out more
than 100000 to the $50 men en-
ployed there.
1t is probable that the shops will
continue under the same superintend-
ent now in charge, when the Santa F'e
takes them over. Plans for the man
agement of the shops have not been
completed here.
The employees at the Ottawa shops
will become a part of the Santa Fe
force when the change goes into eff
feet. 1t is possible that some of the
local shopmen will be sent to Ottawa
as foremen and officials, tho no an
nouncement to that effect has been
made.
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R. R. AND BIG a CONFER
Would Settle S-Hour Controversy Out
of Courts

Chicago, Dec. 16.-Hale Holden,
president of the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy railway. who was chairman
of the committee of railroad executives
which met President Wilson and the
brotherhood o ficials in Washington
last summer when a railroad strike
was threatened confirmed today that
informal conferences had been held
by railroad representatives with broth
erhood officials concerning a settle
ment out of court of the controversy
between the railroads and their en-
ployes.
w. G. Lee. president of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen also an
nounced at Evansville, Ind, last night
that negotiations are under way be-
tween leaders of the four brother
hoods and operating officials of sew
eral railroads looking to a settlement
of the entire matter before January
1, when the Adamson law is to go into
effect.
Both Mr.. Lee and Mr.. Holden said.
however, that the discussion had not
progressed for enough even to sug-
gest a basis for a permanent settle
ment.
Il do not feel that I can say much
more than that the conferences have
been held between the brotherhood
men and the railroad officials, Mr..
Holden said: 1.-The meetings have been
of a purely informal nature and to
date, there has been no suggestion of
an ultimate adjournment"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
DAILY WEATHER REPORT.

Furnished by the weather bureau office
at Topeka, Kan, for the twenty-four hours
ending at a. m. Saturday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
SHOWS BIC CAIN.
Santa Fe Prosperity Extends to
All Departments.
Freight Revenues Jump III Mill
lion in Year.

Every item of freight and passenger
revenue, and the amount of freight
and passengers carried over the Santa
Fe increased for the fiscal year end
ing June 80. 1916, over the figures for
the year ending June 80, 1915, accord
ing to the tabulated comparative re-
ports published in the official maya
zine of the company.
The tons of freight carried over the
road for one mile increased 1.444, $780,
257 from 10, 020,4S4,732 to II, 464, S14,-
$50. The increase amounted to 14.41
per cent, while the miles run by
freight cars loaded and empty, in
freight and mixed trains, increased
62,769,949, or S.43 per cent. The
mileage of such trains increased
1,S1S,402, or sos per cent. The reve-
nue. from freight increased during the
year from $S.504.393.33 to $91,43
42S.97, or $10,92S, 035.64. The aver
age freight train revenue per freight
train mile increased from 1885 to
$3-74, on account of the fact that the
trains were more heavily loaded, car
rying on each mile more revenue pro-
ducing freight by SO per cent.
Passenger Receipts Increase, Too.
The passenger revenue showed an
increase of $3,745, 536.6S In 1916 The
number of passengers carried in
creased 294.1S1, from 14,59S.264 to
14,S92,445. The number of passengers
carried one mile increased from
1,341, TIA to 1854, 46O,499, or 242,-
! 7S5.3S5. The increase amounted to
1910 per cent, while the miles run by
passenger cars in passenger and mixed
trains increased 15,232,3O1, or 1914
per cent, and the mileage of such
/ trains increased 1,243,013, or 4.S6 pei
cent.
While the freight operating revenue
increased I1a fyni I,f
service rendered, as measured in tons
transported one mile, increased 14.41
per cent; and while earnings from
passengers carried increased 1916 per
cent the passenger service rendered
as measured by the number of pas
sengers carried one mile, increased
1910 per cent. The revenue for each
ton mile of freight carried dropped
| from -974 cents in 1915 to 1929 cents
in 1916, and the average revenue pei
passenger per mile dropped from
2.074 cents in 1915 to 1892 cents in
1916.
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FURNISHED by T. J. Billiard. corner Kansas
Ave. and Curtis ST.
Topeka, Kan, Dec. 16.
WHEAT-$1.55d1 .Go.
CORN-SSc.
OATS-50@4c.
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CHARGE ZINC COMBINE
Attorney General at Capital to File
Price Control Evidence

Jefferson City. Mo, Dec. 16-Frank
w. McAllister, attorney general-elect.
came here today for the announced
purpose of filing the evidence taken
before him as a special commissioner
OF the supreme court in the inquiry by
the state attorney general as to wheth-
er about twenty zinc smelling COM
panles were in an unlawful combina-
ton to control prices
Mr. McAllister said he would not
make any recommendations but mere
ly would submit the testimony adduced
at several hearings at Joplin, Mo-, and
elsewhere.
The information alleged that there
was combination of the big smelling
companies under which stipulated
prices would be paid for ore. 1t was
filed about eighteen months ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS

Chicago, Dec. 16.-WHEAT-Big adj
vances in the value of wheat were scored
which prices of late had dropped. On a
wild rush to the buying side. the market
went soaring 103c a bushel before the
rise was checked. General reversal of opin-
ion as to the chances of n quick stop to the
war formed the sole reason for the ad-
vance. Judgments of the situation seemed
to be largelr- based on assertions that no
comment suggestion from the United
States government would go forward with
ain and her allies. The course of the
Russian duma in re Getting the peace offer
acted as n decided bullish influence. Open
ing prices, which ranged from 312c to 1012c
higher were followed by many rapid
changes within the initial limits, and then
a comparative pause at about &c to &c
of May and July wheat. the principal op-
lions. were respectively s1-59 to S1.64!la and
Pessimistic Washington dispatches re-
garding the attempts at peace negotiations
led afterward to fresh advance in prices
here. Word Of large export sales counted
also in favor of the bulls Ten steamships
were said to be scheduled to arrive next
week in Baltimore to load grain for Europe.
The market closed unsettled. AZ c to &c net
July at s137 to 81 37H.
strength of wheat. Upturns. however. were
only moderate and trading not heavy At
ter opening 11ac to 25sc higher. the market
hardened a little further, and then sagged
about cent
Corn strengthened more notieeably when
in the last hour wheat began to bulge again
The close was firm at 23sc to Be net adj
vance
OATS-oats duplicated the action of
corn. Commission houses were the chief
PROvIsIONS-wea kness ruled in pro-
visions. although declines were not severe.
The downturns were the result plainly Of
/ the less promising outlook for peace.
Liverpool Grain MerEet
LIVERPOOL! Dec. I6-WHEAT-Spot No.
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LIVING TOO FAST
100000 Annually Rejected by
Life Insurance Companies.
Estimate Insurance Carried by
Americans, 20 Billions.

New York. Dec 16.-'"The compos-
fte. physical American looks smooth,
pink and healthy. but he is trying to
crowd two lifetimes into one" E. E.
Rittenhouse. of the Equitable Life In
surance society declared before the as
ISOLATION of life insurance presidents
here today.
He is having some success Out lhS
strain is telling on him"
Rittenhouse made a plea for physi-
cal preparedness. declaring 100000
Americans are annually rejected by
life insurance examiners.
The average American is good
liver, hurries. has no time to waste
and dies at forty" Rittenhouse de-
clared.
en- so many and new ardous duties to
which they were not trained that they
are showing signs of rebellion
He is more than well rounded at
the belt and slightly so at the should
ers.
Under exercise he is short winded,
due TO lack of exercise or a bad heart.
He lies down by night and sits down
by day. He never walks when he can
ride"
Too Much Luxury.
President w. A. Day sounded a
warning against the extraordinary
,vastefiilpess of the American people.
This nation cannot long wallow in
luxuries and endure" he said. We
cannot longer view with indifference
the great modern American sin of
extravaganza.
Day urged that insurance men
should be "keenly concerned in the
remedy for excessive life waste that
IS going on in this country" for altru-
istie patriotic and good business rea-
sons.
Contrasted to this expenditure of
life were figures presented by Alfred
Eurrell OF the Prudential Insurance
company of Newark, showing that the
United States with a fifteenth of the
carth's population has more life in
surance in force than all the rest of
the world combined. over twenty bill
lions was his estimate of the insurance
on American lives and it is increasing
at rate of over a billion a year.
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Grain Gossip.
FURNISHED by T. J. Myers, Columbian
Building.l

Minneapolis wheat stocks have increased
620O00 bushels this week
Elevator stocks of wheat in Kansas City
have decreased 1J61IS bushels thus far
this week and corn stocks increased A. 361
bushels
Exports from the United States and Can
ada yesterday were $685. 900 bushels of
wheat. 10000 barrels of flour. 10000 bush
els of corn, 61,000 bushels of oats wheat
and flour combined, 1,05G, coo bushels.
Exports of wheat and flour from the
United States and Canada this week,
cording to Bradstreet's. were G,T26,ooO
bushels, compared with 6.726.000 bushels
last week and 10,2S5, O0G bushels year ago
Corn shipments this week were 301, 900
bushels.
Argentina exported 1892 600 bushels of
wheat this week, compared with 1.22S, 900
bushels actually exported last week and
2OS,OO0 bushels a year ago Corn ship
ments this week were 1,956,000 bushels,
against 2,414O00 bushels last week and p.
lo3,0OO bushels year ago. Oats shipments
this week were 100000 bushels
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CLEAR TOMORROW


continued from IaSe One.l
afternoon. The wind this morning
was blowing at the rate of II miles
an hour from the west and the sky
was clear Tonight the mercury will
hover around the 80 degree mark
and Sunday afternoon will climb to
between IS and 40.
To Be Clear Sunday.
Tomorrow will be clear, and prob
ably an ideal winter day, according to
the forecast, which calls for fair
weather tonight and Sunday; some
what colder Sunday. The shippers
forecast reads to protect 36-hour
shipments west against temperatures
of 25 to 80; north, east and south, 80
degrees. There was no extremely cold
weather anywhere in the United
States this morning, the lowest report
ed being below zero in Duluth,
MINI. In parts of Montana tempera-
lures were higher than in Kansas.
The entire first half of tonight will
be dark. as the moon does not rise
until 1854 o'clock. The highest tenn
perature on record for this date is 60
degrees, established in 1894. The low
record, 8 below zero. occurred in 1914.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
NOTED PROFESSOR DIES
Munsterberg Drops Dead While Lee
turing the Harvard Class.

Cambridge, Mass. Dec. 16.-Profes-
sor Hugo Munsterberg, of Harvard
University, noted German psychologist,
dropped dead today while lecturing to
a class of students at Radcliffe college.
Professor Munsterberg was lecturing
to a class in psychology of so persons
when he was taken suddenly i'll. He
fell to the floor and died within few
minutes after being assisted to a chair.
The medical examiner was summoned
but did not Immediately announce the
cause of the famous lecturers death.
With his last breath the professor
attempted to quen the disturbance
which spread thru his class of girls as
he fell to the floor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
TROOPERS NURT IN WRECK
Iowa ArtiIlcrymen Were En- Route to
he Mustered Out.

Grapeland. Texas. Dec. Height
troopers Of the Iowa field artillery
were injured when two tour. cars of
a special troop train carrying Battery
A and G, from Brownsville to their
mastering out station left the track
one mile north of this place today.
The injured were taken to a hos
pital at Palestine. 1t was believed all
would recover
The accident occurred at 1855
o'clock from a cause not yet deter
mined. There were 326 soldiers
aboard the twenty-nine coaches in the
train wreckage.
Conductor Albright and Brakeman
Davis also were seriously injured, but
all Will recover doctors said.
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TRANSPORT TOTAL WRECK
Last of Crew Taken Off by Coast
Guards in Life Boats.

New York, Dec. 16-The United
States army transport Sumner, which
grounded off Barnegat. n. J., Sunday
night on the way to this port from
Colon, was abandoned by her crew
early today Heavy seas driven by a
northwesterly wind, caused the trans
port to pound heavily on the shoal
Shortly after midnight the vessel
leaked so rapidly that the pumps and
wireless were put out of commission
Captain Weber and some of the crew
left on the boat were taken off by
boats from the coast guard cutter Sem
eca and the Barnegat coast guard sta
ton. Others had been transferred to
the army transport fitzpatrick and
brought here last night
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WANT SHOES FOR XMAS
Provident Association Needs Fifty
Pairs for School Children.

Topeka people who responded last
September to the call for school
shoes issued by the Provident aSso-
citation, are being called on again now
for Christmas shoes
Last September, following the an
nouncement that fifty children were
unable to attend school for lack of
shoes. Topekans contributed generous
ly. But the school shoes have worn
out, even to the uppers, and snow is
on the ground
The Provident association is search
ing for shoe leather now for more than
fifty children. They have demands for
at least 100 pairs of all ages as well
as all sizes of feet. However. it is
shoes for the younger children and
little tots that seem hardest to get
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Wall St. New York. Dec. 16-STOCKS-
The probable attitude of the entente allles
toward the Germanic proposals, as sug-
gested by the Russian dumas firm stand
and other over night events, which served
to discourage the idea of early peace ne
gotiations, prompted much short covering
during today's brief session. Specialtles
made further recoveries of to points
with % for Bethlehem Steel Some OF TINS
advantage was relinquished in the dealings
of the second hour. Rails again STOOD out
for their consistent strength, the shares
comprising the southern group, substantial
Iy agumenting recent gains. High grace
issues also moved to higher levels Inc
closing was strong. Total sales were estl-
mated at 100000 shares.
Bonds were irregular.
Rejection by the Russian Duma of Ger
manv's peace overtures and other develop
menfs which offered little hope OF an i'm
mediate cessation of hostilities contributed
largely to the further vigorous recovery
of prices to today's opening United states
Steel changed hands in one lot or 2oOVu
shares at an extreme gain OF rs, with al
vances of 2 to 3 points in Central Lenther
I,ackawanna Steel. American and BALDWIN
Locomotives, Mexican Petroleum anu
Sugars Marine preferred rose IA ana
international Paper ) points Coppers also
made substantial gains and leading raiis
were higher by 1 to almost points
Kansas City Live Stock Market
Kansas City. Dec. 1G-HOGS-Receipts
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2 OIL REFINERIES BLOW-UP
Two Men Killed and Several Injured
Felt Shock Is Miles.

Wood River, ILL.,, Dec. 1.-two men
were killed and several others were
injured in an explosion that wrecked
two refining stations of the Standard
Oil Company here early this morning
The explosion was followed by a fire
which for a time threatened ten large
tanks filled with oil.
The men killed were working alone
in one of the refining stations. Six
men in the other station escaped be-
fore the building caught fire. The
shock was felt for fifteen miles.
Later: Investigation shows cause of
the accident was a pressure head blew
off a steel tank containing several
thousand gallons of crude petroleum.
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Kansas City. Dec. 16.-WHEAT- Cash !:
Market lie to 4c higher. No. hard. 81. ga
1.6I No. 3, $1.57@I641a; No. . red. s1.67
No. 5, S1.5S
CORN-Market 1c to 2c higher No 2
mixed, SSMS9c: No. 3, ST1k6ISSc: No. .
white, ss1Ac: No. B. SSc; No. , yellow, soc
No. ). SSMSS15c.
white. 54CT5415c: No. mixed 54c.
RYE-S1. 30M1.32
HAY-Market unchanged.
KAFIR AND MILO MAIZE-$1. 9612 OF.
BRAN-S1 29M1.31.
SHORTS-$1. 45M155.
WHEAT-Receipts lis cars.
BUTTER-Creamery, 391ac firsts, 371ac
secepds, s514c; packing, 2715c.
ECtSS-Firsts. 35c.
POULTRY-Hens. 1614c; ROSTERS, 121ac
turkeys. 24c.
CLOSE: NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $1.591A
May, $1.6k: July. $1.351k.
CORN-December, S712c; May, S91%c;
JULY S9Hc