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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08
Il ZU-MlLE BAllLE'
RuSs-AustrOs in Desperate
Clash at CzartOrysk.
German Report Says Russian
Drive Is Halted.
ALLIES BOMBARD DARDANELLES
Resume Land and Sea Attack
on the NarrOWS.
Parliament AdjOurns; LulI in
COnscriptiOn Row.
ALLIES BOMBARD DARDANELLES

London, Jan. S.-The Russian often
sive still occupies the most important
place in the news of the war, with
the capture of Czartorysk as the latest
achievement reported. The Russians
claim full possession of the village
but the AuStrians deny they have ad-
Vanced any further than the cemetery.
The Austrians apparently are fight
ing desperately in this region in the
effort to hold their positions as a
screen for Kovel and a link between
the Austro-Germa armies in Galicia
and those further north in the neigh
borhood of Pinsk, which is threatened
with development as a result of the
Russian advance.
A German report dated later than
that of the Russians claims that all
the lost ground at Czartorysk has been
retaken. On the British front in the
west the Germans have attacked near
the -Lllte-Armentier railroad, but
according to officials British advices.
have been repulsed. Both the British
and German heavy artillery were
busily engaged yesterday.
Constantinople reports the allies
have again bombarded the Narrows
from land and sea.
Adjournment of parliamen over the
weekend has brought a lull in the con-
troVerSy over compulsory military
service.
Twenty Mile Battle Line.
London, Jan. S.-Fierce fighting on
a twenty miles front along the bends
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08
Germany Will Not Send Army
to Suez.
Ottoman With Million Men
Could Handle Situation.
BY CARL w. ACKERMnN.

Berlin, Jan. S.-Germany will send
no armies to the Suez canal, it is gen.
orally believed here. Turkish forces.
differed to some extent by Germans
and supplied with munitions from Ber-
lin will constitute the force that will
invade Egypt.
Discussion of the Egyptian cam
paign, the chief item of interest here
for several weeks, was revived today
by statements in the English press de-
riding the possibility that Germany
could hold her lines elsewhere and
send troops to the Suez.
1t was pointed out here that the
Turks now have an army of more than
a million men in the field. Within a
short time they will be well equipped.
1t is understood that German Off
GERS who have lived in Egypt and un-
derstand the problems of Egyptian
campaigning, will be assigned to the
invading armies.
1t is now possible for the Germans
to send supplies to Constantinopie and
thence to Damascus within a short
time.
Within a few days a new time table
will go into effect, showing fast trains
running from Berlin TO Constantine
DIe in thirty-nine hours.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08
SUPREME COURT
JOLTS The P. u. C.
Holds That Commissions Acts
Are Subject to Review.
Holds the Courts Cannot AS
sumo Rate Making Powers.
CITY OF Topeka wins A CASE
Passes Judgment for Damages
on to a Property Owner.
Other Decisions Handed Down
by Highest Tribunal.
CITY OF Topeka WINS A CASE

Kansas public utilities today won
battle over the Bristow utilities COM
mission when the supreme court held
that refusal Of the commission to ap-
prove new rate schedules is subject to
court review. The decision was in a
modification of an injunction by the
Shawnee county district court in a
suit brought by the Emporia Tele-
phone company.
The Bristow commission ignored a
new telephone rate filed by the EN-
poria company. 1t refused to receive
the new rate and the telephone COM
pany then went into the courts to en-
join interference in the adoption of the
rate The courts decision today
denies to the courts the right to as
sumo rate making powers, but COM
pels the commission to file such rates
as a utility may schedule. Action of
the court affords relief to Kansas cor
porations when the Bristow commits
sion persists in its alleged policy of
refusing to act.
The utilities act provides that rates
in effect January l, 1911, can be
changed only with the consent of the
commission. These rates must be
filed with the commission The Ell.
poria Telephone company scheduled a
rate of 81 a month for four party tele-
! phones Later it asked for a 81.
rate and the commission refused to
/ hear the application or approve the
new rating.
An injunction to prevent interfer-
| ence was secured by the telephone
+ company when it took its troubles to
! the district court. That court, how
ever, held that the $1.25 rate was just
and in this matter is said by the su-
preme court to have assumed a rate
| making power. It was held to be
| within the province of the court to
| hold the 81 rate unjust discriminatory
| or confiscatory but in no way to seek
to dictate a new rate. In this point
the original order was m modified.
Relief for the utilities was provided,
| however, in the order which permits
the filing of such rates as the corpora
tons may deem just. Should the COM
mission later deny the rate, the cor
porations are entitled to court relief.
Individual Must Pay.
where a city has been held liable
for injuries sustained by a person law
fully using a defective sidewalk, the city
can recover from the abutting prop
erty owner whose active fault caused
that condition of the sidewalk" That
was the decision of the supreme court
today in affirming suit for damages
/ brought by the city of Topeka against
the Central Sash & Door company.
Suit for damages was filed against
the city of Topeka because of in
juries to a pedestrian while walking
on a sidewalk near the property of
the Central Sash & Door company.
Action was then begun by the city to
| compel the sash and door company
to pay the Judgment of $631.15 and
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08

There was no liquor question to settle
IN East Youngstown, for of the 20
saloons all but two had burned and
those two had been looted.
Watchmen Guard Bridge.
The trouble began late yesterday
when the day shift at the plant of the
Youngstown Sheet and Tube company
quit for the day. The plant is located
on the flats of the Mahoning river.
several hundred feet from the hillside
on which is built East Youngstown.
where most of the workmen live. The
mills are reached from the town by
high bridge spanning the railroad
wards. This bridge has been carefully
guarded ~ private wauchmen since
the lahore : at the plant several days
ago joined the laborers of the Repub-
lie Iron and Steel company and other
mills for an advance of 25 cents a day
A crowd if men and women esti-
mated at zoo had gathered at the East
Youngstown end of the bridge and
jeered the workmen as they crossed
Suddenly a shot was fired and guards
taking this as a signal fired over the
heads of the crowd. The mob replied
and another volley came. A num-
of persons including two women fell
to the street and the mob broke and
ran up the hillside. A block away it
reformed and set fire to the building
occupied by the Tube company's en-
plOyment bureau A little later the
mob fred a small warehouse and then
turned their attention to private
property.
A saloon stood on the corner and a
rush was made for the door. In a
minute a shouting crowd filled the lit
tie room and helped themselves to
what they saw. When the looting was
complete the match was applied A
clothing store nearby was next entered
and the stock passed out to the con-
stantly growing crowd in the street by
those inside. Clerks fled for their
lives and when the looting was finish
ed the place was fired.
Mob Danced in Frenzy.
By this time the mob was in a
frenzy. Men danced and sang and
women joined them. Liquor was
passed around freely and those who
had no cups scooped it up in the hol-
low of their hands for within half an
hour other saloons had been looted
and the fire was spreading rapidly.
For fully an hour or more the moi
was content with the small shops and
saloons on the side streets but then ii
turned its attention to the more pre-
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08
LOOKS like HUNG JURY
Still Enable to Reach Verdict in New
Haven Case.

New York, Jan. 8.-The jury in the
case of VIM. Rockefeller and ten other
former directors of the New York
New Haven and Hartford railroad
charged with conspiracy to monopo-
lize the railway traffic of New Eng
land in violation of the Sherman law
was still out carly today.
After failure to reach an agreement
at IL O'Clock last night. having consid-
cred the evidence for nearly ten hours.
the jurors were locked up for the
night.
Later: The fate of the eleven for
mer directors of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad accused
of criminal violation of the Sherrnan n
antitrust law still hung in the bal
anee today The jurors at 1:30 o'clock
had been out for "a hours without
reaching a verdict
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08
SEX AN ACCIDENT
"TherefOre Women Should Not
Be Denied Ballot"
Is Argument in Suffrage Bill in
Senate Today.

Washington, Jan. S.-The Susan B.
Anthony amendment providing for
equal suffrage was reported favorably
today to the senate by the suffrage
committee.
After pointing out that the govern
ment of the United States is one of the
delegated powers, the report says:
Manhood suffrage has been from
time to time extended. Every en-
largement of the franchise has been
a natural and logical development of
the principle of popular sovereignty.
We may assume that universal male
suffrage is an established factor in
our system of government.
I'm our opinion, every argument
and every principle upon which uni
versal manhood suffrage rests de
mands the extension of it's privileges
and responsibilities to women. They
are subject to the laws, are taxed for
the support of government and sub
ject with men to a common politicar
destiny. They comprise fifty per cent
of our population. They are citizens
in all other respects. Together with
the men they constitute the people.
In patriotism, intelligence, devotion to
welfare of the government and in
capacity for franchise, they are in no
wise inferior to men.
Half Disfranchised
Neither logically nor justly, there
fore, can unlimited suffrage be recog-
nlzed as an essential to our republican
fern of government and its existence
at the same time be limited to one
half of the people, arbitrarily segre-
gated frnm the other half ~ 5he &C
cident OF sex
''Womans activities. her participa-
ton, sacrifices and her misfortunes in
the great conflict now raging over
three continents, have for all time
disposed of the contention that she
should not be armed with the ballot
because she cannot WELD the sword.
She has taken mans place in all the
industrial pursuits of organized so
ciety.'
Senator Ransdell, Democrat, voted
for the report, but his name did not
appear on it when presented. Sena-
tor Catron, Republican, of New Mex
leo. dissented, and Senator Johnson,
Democrat, South Dakota, did not sign
the report.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08
200 FROM u. S.
DOWN WITH SHIP
Official Report Says Brindisi, With
425 MOntenegrins From Amer
lea, Hits a Mine.

Paris, Jan. S.-The sinking of
vessel with the attendant loss of
200 Montencgrins en- Ivute from
America is told of in an official
MOntenegrin statement under date
of January Z, received here from
Cettinje, as follows;
IAN Italian steamer from
Brindisi with some hundred tons
of supplies and 425 Montenegrin
recruits from America on board
touched Il mine yesterday near
san Giovanni de Medua in the
Adriatic sea. The ship sank inn
mediately and 200 passengers per-
ished.''
Norwegian Ship Sinks.
London, Jan. S.-The Norwegian
steamship Bonheur. 1,15S tons gross
has been sunk. Fifteen members o
her crew have been landed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08
GASOLINE TO 40 CENTS?
United states Faces Oil Famine Says
Texas Oklahoma Operator.

Dallas, Tex, Jan. 8.-M. n. Baker
prominent Texas-Oklahoma oil oper-
ator and chairman of the Dallas park
board, has returned from Oklahoma
alarmed over the decreased oil pro-
duction. He predicts gasoline at 40
cents a gallon in the near future and
oil by-products 35 to so per cent high
er than at any time in the history of
the United States
In other words, the United States -
he said, land especially Texas and
the southwest, faces an oil famine. It
is not coming. 1t is already here"
Baker stated that oil wells in Okla
homa and Texas have slumped in pro-
duction from 35 to SO per cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08
CLOSE HISTORIC INN
Dry Wave Gets Last of Elizabethan
Age Taverns.

London, Jan s.-"The Three Pig
cons" one of England's oldest an1
most famous inns, and the sole exist
ing tavern of Eliza bethan times, was
closed yesterday by the Middlesex Ii
censing justices, in accordance with
movement Inaugurated some time ago
by the Temperance leaders to restrict
the number of licensed inns. The
T'hre Pigeons" was used as a back
ground for the low comedy scenes in
1.-The Merry Wives of Windsor" Ben
Jonson's 1.-The AIchemist." and Gold
smiths ''She Stoops to Conquer" and
is alluded to in Dickens's "Our Mu-
tual Friend" The inn perhaps has
had more literary associations than
any other English tavern.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08
Militia Rushed in Autos to
QueII Riot in Struthers.
Youngstown Strikers Leave
Million Ruins in Wake.
STATE MEDIATOR TO SCENE
Three Regiments National
Guard Now in Charge.
Ten Blocks in ASheS-StOreS
and Saloons Looted.
STORES AND SALOONS LOOTED
Police and Firemen Helpless
Before Onslaught.
Residents Flee Before Frenzied
Youngstown Mob.
STORES and SALOONS LOOTED
Police and Firemen Helpless
Before Onslaught.
Residents Flee Before FrenZied
Youngstown Mob.

Youngstown Jan. 8.-General
Speaks has received an appeal
from citizens of Struthers to
send help at once to the village
for protection from rioting
there. The message stated that
a mob has formed and is engaged
in a general fight in the streets,
men shooting and beating up
each other. General Speaks at
once sent two companies of mill
tia to Struthers in automobiles.
Struthers lies across the
Mahoning river opposite East
Youngstown. Earlier in the day
200 citizens led by Mayor Slough
armed themselves and massed
on the bridge leading across the
river ready to repel a threatened
invasion of strikers. A charge
of fifty pounds of dynamite was
placed beneath the bridge to be
exploded the moment a mob
started across. A notice was
posted to this effect and all per-
sons warned away from the
bridge.
Later reports said that the
situation in Struthers was under
control but troops will be kept
on duty there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08
Kaiser Did IT.?
You're Wrong;
Blame Wagner

New York, Jan. perhaps
you thought the kaiser was to
blame for the war. Well, you lose.
1t was all Wagner's fault. Take it
from Ernest Ansermet that it was
the great composer who reused
the Gearman people to war. And
with the Teuton populace once
stirred by WaSnerian BRAIN
storm. he says. it was easy for
Straus to maintain their bellicose
spirit with his militant motif
Result, the great war Q. Z. d.
The man who thus relieves
Wilhelm from the blame is here
from Switzerland to conduct the
Serge de Diaghileff, Russian bal
LET
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08
HERE'S MUTE EVIDENCE
Ancona Iifeboat. Riddled With Shots,
Is Picked VI. Adrift.

Rome, Jan. s.-A fishing vessel put
in at Anzio today with a lifeboat from
the steamship Ancona, which 1t re-
Gently picked up Examinations of
the boat seems to bear out the asser-
ticn that it was fired upon by the sub
marine that attacked the Ancona,
while containing passengers. among
whom were women
Many hair pins were found in the
boat Several holes in it, apparently
made by shells. had been stopped up
with shawls and torn skirts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08
No Ballot, No
Taxes Is Def
of Suffragist

st, Louis, Jan. S.-A month ago
Assessor SchraInm sent final no
tice to taxpayers advising them to
send in returns upon their prop
erty Among the notices was one
to Miss Stella O. Dickey, stenog-
rapher and suffragist
Yesterday the assessor received
Miss Dickey's return. 1t bore no
information concerning her tax
able property but instead only the
challenge: mo taxation without
representation" The challenge
was accepted. Schramm says the
law which provides for a double
assessment on all property not re-
turned will be enforced. The court
will decide.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08

st. Louis, Jan. S.-The annual Jack
son day banquet which is to be held in
St. Louis tonight under the auspices of
the Twenty eighth Ward Democratic
club, has drawn to the city Democrats
from all parts of Missouri. The rriI;-
cipal speech is to be made by Senator
Hoke Smith of Georgia. Senator Reed
of Missouri will speak if he arrives
today. and addresses probably will be
delivered by former Governor Folk,
Governor Major and several candi
dates for the Democratic nomination
for governor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08
z CENTENARIANS Die
Peoria's Man Dies from FalI-New
Mexico Woman Was 1O3.

Peoria, Ill. Jan. Simon Surfin.
Peoria's oldest citizen, died here to-
day. He was 100 years old Christ
mas day. A fall sustained on his
birthday caused injuries resulting in
his death.
Santa Fe, y. M, Jan. S.-Mrs. Maria
SediIlos, aged 1O3, is dead at Torren.
Torrance county. She has lived IN
New Mexico under Spanish, Mexican,
American, territorial and state gov
ernments. The youngest of her three
sous Is 6g wears old
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08
U. S. IN A PROTEST
Vigorous Complaint to Great
Britain Today.
Demand That English Stop
CensOring Mails.

Washington, Jan. S.-The United
States has sent to Ambassador Page
at London, for presentation to the
British foreign office a note vigorously
protesting against the British authori-
ties interfering with and censoring
mails from the United States to neu-
trail European countries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08
Confirms Report, American Lost.

Washington, Jan. S.-Confirmation
of reports that the Rev. Homer R.
Salisbury of this city, an American
citizen. was a passenger on the steam
er Persia, sunk in the Mediterranean,
was received today by the state de-
par -n'ent from Consul General Gaulin
ar Marseilles. Mr.. Salisbury took
passage on the Persia at MarseiIies,
the dispatch said. His name does not
appear among survivors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08
CARRaNzA MOVES MEX
CAPITAL To QUERETARO

Mexico City. Jan. s.--The capital OF
Mexico will be esta blished temporarily
at Queretaro, where - nustiano Car
rama will make his headquarters
while touring west. north and south.
according TO a statement made by
Minister Acuna last night The pub
lie offices and ministers will remain at
Mexico City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08

Chicago. Jan. s.--HOGS-Receipts 81. 600.
Market slow ioc ueder a. 10y yesserdays n aser ~ e
M6S0: mixed, S6.65d 7.10; heavy, $6.659
7.I5: rough. Sc 706I6.S0; pigs. S5.J0G6.60.
CATTLE-Receipts 400. Market steady.
Native beef steers. $6.30M0.J0: western
steers $G.3JdS S10 COWS and heifers, $3.100
$40: calves. ST.OOm1O.75.
SHEEP-Receipt 1000 Market steady.
wethers. $G.0O61 so; lambs, $1,000 1040.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08
MOTHER DECAPITATES
HER 4-DAY OLD BABY

Minneapolis, Jan. S.-Mrs- Samuel
Hokenfen today, with a butcher knife,
cut the head off her four day old baby.
She attacked the nurse Miss La Belle
who escaped with slight injuries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08
SECOND CITY IN
THROES OF MOB
A MOB'S VENGEANCE

Property loss $1.O0O,O0O.
One dead. 100 injured.
so buildings burned.
10 blocks in ashes.
20 stores and saloons looted.
5000 strikers take part
Postoffice dynamited.
L. :. regulars 20 scene.
Also three regiments militia.
100 strikers arrested.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08

Pennsylvania natives to the number
of ], 1,125,454 live in other states. 32,-
49S of them in Michigan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08

Sheet ard Tube company plant.
Brig. Gen. John {. Speaks ordered
four Cleveland militia companies
of the Filth regiment to the strike
scene
Two companies marched into
the plant to reinforce 100 strike
guards and the other two COM
paHiCs putrOllCd opposite the hill
to prevent mobs from organizing.
Operations of the mill are entirely
suspended today. Three hundred
Office employees are maroOned in
the plant where they spent the
night for safety and to keep fires
going.
The State Industrial commission de-
cided today to send Fred c. CrOxton,
head of the state statistical bureau. to
Youngstown to act as mediator in the
strike situation. He will confer with
employers and strike leaders tOmor-
row. He will arrive tonight accom-
panied by w. J. Boesel and George
Miles deputies.
Labor leaders promised today that
unless the strike was settled within a
few hours 10000 more men would
walk out.
Three Regiments MarshaIIed.
With three regiments of the Ohio
National guard. under BrigadieI
General John c. Speaks, patroling the
smOuldering ruins of the village OF
East \ cungstown. or encamped in the
mills rearby. the civil and military
authorities here today expressed the
belief that for the present at least ar
end had been put to the wild scenes
of rioting and looting which marked
last night and left the thriving little
city mass of embers. One life is
known to have been lost, fully ter
blocks of the town, including the en-
tire husine IS section, were burned an6
several thousand people were driver
from thei1 homes The loss wa,
placed at no less than $1,000. 900.
Two weeks ago laborers of the Re
public Iron & Steel company STRUCK
for an increase of wages from | 9 y
to 25 cents an hour. The Youngstown
Sheet & Tube company offered then
% y cents an hour Immediately afte1
the United States Steel corporation
had announced its increase of ten pc
cent for laborers This was rejected
by the workers and the strike ha
since been in progress Reports to
day are prevalent that strikebrea ker
had been imported. which precipi
tated the trouble. The laborers ar
mostly Austrians.
Physicians who were called to lool
after the wounded placed the numbe
at 100, although only fifteen had beel
brought to hospitals here. While tn
majority had been shot, there wer
many wounds from knives. bearing
out the statement that when the riot
ers were finally driven from Wilson
avenue. the main street of the towr
they began fighting among them
selves
Mayor Carroll Thornton of YOungs
town, two miles from the burned Iowr
was tNDC cted to issue an order toda
closing all saloons in the city Will
arrangements were being made TO re
strict and perhaps prohibit the sale o
firearms if the militia did not act
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08

ONE thing -.bOut the war-it serves
as a last resort in tagging CONVEX
sation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08

There was no liquor question to settle
IN East Youngstown, for of the 20
saloons all but two had burned and
those two had been looted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-08

WEATHER forecast for Kansas:
Fair tonight and Sunday; rising
temperature.