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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-18
BILL TO A VOTE
Army Measure Probably Will
Be Passed by Senate.
National Guard Defenders Re-
sent Recent Attacks.

Washington. April 1S.-Considera-
ton of the army reorganization bill
continued in the senate today with in
dications of it's passage before ad-
journment tonight. BY agreement
voting on the measure with all pend
ing amendments was to begin at 5
o'clock this afternoon.
Champions of the National Guard
are prepared to defend the organiza-
ton against any further attacks, the
latest defenders being Senators Reed
and Pomerene.
They answered charges made
against the guard by Senator Borah
in which he declared that federal ap-
preparations were 'shamefully wasted
and sometimes embezzled."
Senator Brandegee's amendment to
increase the proposed strength of the
regular army from $50, 900 to 100000
was to be passed upon today. All eff
forts to amend the bill yesterday were
defeated
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organization commenced to furnish in
surance to the state banks.
1.-The financial laws of the country
are being changed and rememst
If we do not attend to our business
that we will be crowded out of busi-
ness. Our national friends are at this
time asking permission to permit their
national banks to have branches in
their own city. The next thing they
will be asking for branches in the
same county and then what? You an
swer, I do not blame them for at
tending to their affairs but 1 do blame
the state bankers for going to sleep at
the switch
"A federal reserve law has been
passed that for all practical purposes
closes its doors to the state banks if
for no other reason than the fact that
only about one bank in four is eligible
because of its capital stock. Now the
politicians are trying to fool the peo-
pie by passing a rural credit bill that
so far as the farmer-borrower is con-
cerned is surely a joke
Wool Over Eyes
''It is true that it will take care OF
the faithful by giving a large num-
Der of friends a fat job. Why is it,
we cannot be big enough and broad
enough to do the right thing without
trying to pull the wool over someone s
eyes? The politician who thinks he
is deceiving someone by voting for the
makeshift of a rural credit bill is
badly mistaken and unless miss my
! guess the same politician will find out
that he has only fooled himself when
the votes are counted this fall
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HALT INVASION



been much increased, according to
the same reports, by their knowledge
that Villa, dead or alive, had never
gone as far south as Parral and their
constant inability to understand that
the American cavalry men were il:
that district except on the assumption
that they were really invading Mexico.
The misery of the poems, ravaged
by disease and facing starvation, is
making it more difficult than ever for
the authorities tc keep them in con-
troll, it is said.
villa Death Still Mystery
San Antonio, Tex, April 1S.-With-
out official confirmation of the re-
coyery of the body of Francisco Villa
and satisfied that all the essential fea-
lures of the Parral incident have been
received and reported to WASHINGTON,
General Funston and his staff Off
GERS again give to the campaign of the
punitive expedition their undivided at
tention. Whether Villa is dead or
continuing his hide and seek with the
American troops is not a subject of
speculation at General Funston's
headquarters. General Pershing made
no report on the alleged discovery, nor
did news come from any other Ameri-
can source, official or unofficial. The
Mexican consulate here received the
unconfirmed reports from Consul
Garcia, but nothing more definite was
available in any quarter here.
Cannot Stretch Line Further.
General Funston said that the main
line of communication, now as far
south as Satevo, could not be extended
further south with the present num-
Der of troops available, and frankly
expressed his conviction that opera
tons further south could not be con-
Quoted unless authority was secured
for the establishment of new border
base, the free use of railroads or the
material strengthening of the forces
now in Mexico. He said that in
stretching the line to Satevo, the
maximum of its elasticity had been at
! tanned.
! Detached columns of cavalry are
! operating south of Satevo but only so
I far as rations for man and horse can
be carried. The three detachments
that met at Santa Cruz, eight miles
from Parral, now have left there and
probably fallen back on the line al
! Sateyo. General Funston explained
that the country in that district was
absolutely barren of foodstuffs for
either the men or the animals, and UNI
less they had returned to Parral, thei1
return to Satevo must have been nee
essary. He assumed they had not re-
turned to Parral.
The last reports received from Gen.
eraI Pershing in which mention was
made of Villa gave as his location tht
mountains north and west of Parral
officers here are convinced that he die
not get as far south as the Chihuahua
Durango state line.
Courier Is Missing.
Not many details of the ParraI in
cident were added today to the infor
nation already received. Genera
Pershing reported the names of tn,
dead and wounded, which included
that of Lieut. James Ord of the Sixth
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Find ME--HkzEL"

Continued from Page one.I
1t was after her marriage, it is
charged, that Hazel Stewart learned
the sad story. Schmitz had a wife in
Oklahoma from whom he had neglect
ed to secure a divorce. Then other
realizations came to the Garrett girl.
The ardent lover became cruel, abus-
i've and the girl wife was beaten and
mistreated, it is claimed.
Schmitz married the Stewart girl
in July. last year. After several eff
forts, he met the girl. won her love
and induced her to consent to hasty
marriage. Then they left Garnett as
suddenly as Schmitz had appeared.
No word came from them until last
winter. One day the bride sent a mes
sage home.
please, for Gods sake, find me-
Hazel"
That was all. The sister who re-
ceived the message went to the An
derson county officials. Her parents,
aged and broken in health, are in the
soldiers home at Fort Leavenworth
and were unable to aid. So the young
er sister made the fight alone. In
lvestigation showed Schmitz had desert
ed his Oklahoma wife a month before
his marriage to the Stewart girl.
Schmitz was married to his Okla
homa wife under the name of John
Smith. ''At one time recites a cir
cular issued by Sheriff Switzerland
! of Anderson county. "he attempted to
take the life of this woman by locking
her in close room and turning on the
gas. 1t is also stated by this woman
that he is an escaped convict from
some penitentiary'
Another paragraph from the circu-
lars seeking the arrest of Schmitz re-
cites:
This good woman'-the Kansas
wife-'is being held against her will
IL -
| locked in their room when he is out
and beaten by him when she rebels
A reward of $3.50 was offered fol
| the mans arrest. He was traced
through southern Missouri n
was arrested by federal officers in
Cape Girardeau. The government held
the man on a charge of violating the
Mann white slavery law. It was stat
ed today, however, that the man would
probably be released and turned over
to this state for prosecution. Prose
cution in this state will probably be
Lon a bigamy charge,
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Five Bodies Recovered; More
Than 30 Injured.
Search Embers of Wreckage for
80 Other Three Victims.
EXPRESS CRASHES INTO COACH
Engine Sets Fire to Wreckage;
Gas Tank Blows Up.
Flames Consume Debris Before
Rescuers Reach Three.

=. bradford. r. l.. April 1s.-A search
offthe wreckage resulting from the
',-ear-end collision of two trains on the
New York, New Hampshire & Hart
ford railroad here last night. continue
toaav in an effort to determine wheth-
or n contained any bodies in addition
10 the five persons who are known to
have lost their lives 1t was said that
al least three other passengers had
been unable to extricate themselves
from the burning mass. The known
dead are:
THOMAS BOARDMAN. West
erly employee OF the Bradford
o.. DYE association.
MISS JEANETTE CLARK,
'a westerly, daughter of William
clark. president of the Westerly
mill of the American Thread COM
-. MARGARET BLISS. address
WILLIAM BARBER. Westerly.
carpenter. -
80 MRS. OSCAR MARTELLE,
South Bridge. Mass.
- All-Victims in Rear Coach.
More than thirty other persons were
hrlNreH most OF them suffering from
cuts and bruises. All the victims were
Occupants OF the rear car of local
train. which had started to run on a
H
when the Gilt Edge express from Bos-
ton crashed into it, Goals from the
express locomotive and the explosion
of "A gas tank set fire to the wreckage
and the flames spread so rapidly that
the nearby station and freight house
were destroyed together with four
wooden coaches of the local train.
As there is no fire department here.
no adequate fight could be made
against the flames until the arrival
of apparatus from Westerly. six miles
distant.
No5one was injured on the express,
which proceeded to New York soon
after the accident. Trainmen agreed
that the signal nearest the local train
was set for danger, but Charles H
Mansfield, engineer of the express
said the signal next behind this showed
a clear track ahead and that when he
caught sight of the Home light
shining through the thick fog, it was
too latssse0s stop his speeding train.
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FUSS ON ASSESSMENT
Banks Question Tax Appraisers Right
to List Stock at 20 Per Cent.

jefferson City, April 1S.-An appli-
cation for a writ to prevent the ST.
Louis board of equalization from as
sessing ST. Louis bank stock and sur
plus at 20 per cent of its value was
filed in the supreme court today by
three St. Louis banks. The banks
making the application were the
Mercantile Trust company, the Mer-
chants-Laclede National bank and the
International bank.
The state board of equalization re-
Gently assessed bank stock and sur
plus at so per cent of its value. The
st. Louis board held that this was a
minimum, and that it had authority
to increase the assessment.
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infantry The others were of the
Thirteenth cavalry. With the excep-
tion of one of the wounded, the in
juries were described as slight.
Pursuit Hats.
Camp of General j. J. Pershing at
the Front, April 17.-By motor and
wireless to Columbus, N. NJ, April s.
The American pursuit of Villa is at q
standstill because of the unprovoked
attack upon American cavalrymen by
the insubordinate soldiers of the Car
rama garrison at Parral. At General
Pershings headquarters, there seemed
no prospect of the resumption of the
chase, while there were numerous in
dications that a continuation of the
pursuit would meet with armed re-
sistance.
A small party of American officers
was fired upon near here last night.
none OF the Americans being injured
This coming on the heels of other re-
ports of shipping is responsible for the
belief that the expedlt1onary command
is confronted with serious problem
A report received here from Car
rama sources that a Villa colonel can
tured near Cusihuiriachic had prom
lsed to lead party to a grave in
which Villa was said to have been
buried last Friday, is generally dis
created by military authorities here.
Has Fine Chance to Escape.
San Antonio, April 1S-If Francisco
villa is not dead he has now an ex-
cellent opportunity to escape into ter
ritory far beyond the most advanced
of the American attachments because
the punitive force has penetrated
about as far south as it is going to go
with the present organization Of
fetal admission that il was impossible
to extend the main line of communi-
cation south of Satevo was taken to-
day to mean that the field of opera
| Il -
trict over which attachments of cav
airy with provisions for one or two
days could ride. Beyond the arc of
! that fan Villa would be safe so far as
the Americans are concerned.
General Pershing is believed to have
explained in detail this phase of the
situation in a report to General Fun
ston and to have made recommends
lions that more effective facilities for
the pursuit of Villa be authorized.
Troopers Must Be on Guard.
The drive of the three cavalry col
umns to Parral and it's environs es-
tablished the fact that there is nc
region and that every force sent for
ward must depend wholly upon the
quartermasters with the main column
for supplies. They were reported to
have fallen back to Satevo, but wheth-
er they have started out again to beat
the trails in the district beyond, has
not been told.
| officers here regard the Parral in
cident as indicating clearly that Gen
eral Pershing's men now have to guard
| themselves not only against attack by
| Villas men, but by those detachments
| of Carranza's army that are antag-
onlstic to his announced attitude OF
cooperation. General Funston sem
messages today asking that a repor
be made to him at once on the un.
official rumor that a train load of for.
! age shipped from Juarez to Chihuahua
and intended for the American troop.
had been seized by the Carranza au.
thorities. The arrival of some of the
! supplies sent to Chihuahua has beer
reported, but no advices that they hat
reached the army had been received
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Kansas City Live stock Market.

Kansas City, April 1S.-HOGS-Receipte
@97O; heavy, S9.65G9.T5; packers and
butchers, ss.5O@975; light, s9-5o@9eo; pigs.
CATTLE-Rece1pts 5000. Market steady.
Prime fed steers, $9.25@9.75; dressed beef
steers. $S.00@9.25; western steers, $SO0@
$50; heifers, S700@9.5O; stockers and feed
ers; SIO0@S75; bulls, $5.75@I60; calves,
sHEEP-Receipts 10000. Market strong.
Lambs. SO 1-50; yearlings, s.: 500 1850;
wethers, IS. 75@9.50; ewes, SS0@S.75; stock.
ers and feeders, $600@10.50.
Kansas City Stock Yards, April 1.-THE
cattle market last week was distinguished
of this break later in the week, the close
equal to the high time this year on all
classes Events during the week indicated
that killers had better outlet for meats
than they have had for a few weeks, and
prospects closed good. The run Of 1000
the point that killers have a good outlet
for the meat. Southern Nebraska and Kan
fed steers at $9.05 to 1925 in most cases,
few common pulpers at $3.50 to $3.50,
Oklahoma corn and cake fed steers at $50
yearlings to killers at $3.50 to $40 New
4 Mexico yearlings to killers at $9.1O, Texas
lbs, Arkansas steers at 5000, possibly a
record price, and the usual mixture from
nearby territory including steers from $s.25
! to $40. The wide area from which sup
plies were drawn today points to an i'm
mense reserve power in the beef making
business, but the moderate total indicates
scarcity at this time. Cows and heifers
sold strong today, best up to $S-25,
most of the heifers $7.50 to $3.50. liberal
share of the supply today was stockers
and feeders and they sold steady with
| close of last week, most of the stock steers
| at 81. to $780, feeders $7.75 to $S.35, a
few fleshy feeders up to $S.75.
j.. Hogs closed last week equal to the best
time this year, $3.50 for tops, and a narrow
range of sales lights at S975. Today the
! run is $4,000 head and prices are steady
to 10c lower Order buyers paid up to
$3.50, choice load from Nebraska bring
ing that price, packers stopping at 1915.
bulk of sales $9.45 to 1910, light weights
up to 1910. Strength nnderlies the hog
market situation, although packers con-
tend for lower prices continually High
beef and mutton preclude any attraction to
those meats of pork eaters, and consump-
ton of fresh pork is very heavy. is al
ways the case when workingmen are find
| ing plenty of work.
Sheep and lambs reached new price levels
last week, but the lamb market Is 25c low
er today, most of the good lambs selling
at $11.30 to $1140, receipts 10000 head.
Fat goats sold at $575. best fat goats
worth around IS. some common brushers
today at $780, good ones worth up to $3.50,
the goat market steady today. Sheep are
also wanted, and would sell steady today.
best Texas clipped wethers worth. around
$7.75. Northern Colorado is closing out Its
lambs pretty fast, and only about one more
Valley hence return to stronger prices
is expected within a few days.
J. a. RICKART Market Correspondent.
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APRIL SHOWER Time
tcontinued from Page one.I


record, 81 degrees, occurred in 1888
This is. the earliest date in the twen-
ty-nine years that the local records
nave been kept, on which the mercury
has not dropped below freezing
The Kaw river has fallen two-tenths
of foot, making the stage ga feet.
Temperatures today averaged 10
degrees above normal and the day was
the warmest since last Wednesday
The wind is blowing at the rate of 25
miles an hour from the south.
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TOWN WATCHMAN SHOT
Searching for Village Marshal Who
May Know Details.

Medina, O., April 1s.-John Gates,
village night Waterman, was murder
ed early today by an unknown as
sassin.
Gates was killed on the public
square with a shotgun held close to
his head. Officials are searching for
Henry Blakeslee, village marshal, in
the hope that he can throw some
light on the crime.
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Native beef steers. s7.so@s-s0. western
steers, $7.75@S.65; stockers and feeders.
$5.S5@s.55; cows and heifers, $4.O0@e-2o;
calves, S7.25@1O5O.
SHEEP-Receipts 10000 Market steady
Wethers, S6.90@9.15; lambs, $7.65@s1.65-
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Lisbon Naval school AfIre.

Lisbon, April 1S.-Fire broke out
today in the naval school forming part
of the Lisbon arsenal. Two buildings
facing the school were destroyed be-
fore it was brought under control.
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Lawrence Pioneer Is Dead.

Lawrence, Kan, April 1S.-Mrs. B.
Brechelsbauer, aged 80. died at her
home here Monday. She had lived
here since 1851. Her husband was
killed in Quantrells raid shortly after
moving here
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Wall St, New York. April 1s.-STOCKS-
The international problems confronting
the country continued to exert a restrain
ing influence, advices from Mexico convey
ing intimations of fresh Implications in
that quarter Nevertheless, most special
ties made up a large part of their declines,
the firmness of rails, especially Coalers,
imparting some confidence.
Trading in Marines once more overshad-
owed all other shares, but the munitions
group, Mexican Petroleum and United
States Steel also were fairly active; a few
obsure industrials were materially lower
on light offerings. Extensive selling of
Anglo French SIS caused moderate irregu-
larity in bonds.
Free selling of specialties was again the
chief feature of today's early trading, with
one or two points declines in Crucible Steei,
Baldwin and American Locomotives West
inghouse, Mexican Petroleum, Studebaker
and Industrial Alcohol. Mercantile Marines
were active and strong as a result of the
latest statement of the company's earnings.
but even those issues soon reacted. New
Haven yielded a point with trivial opera
tions in other rails, although Norfolk and
Western rose II. sale of one block Of
$417 900. Anglo French SIS at 80, a frac-
tional recession, featured the bond market
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1.-THE following sales were made this morn
ing at the Stock Yards. Kansas City, ana
reported over long distance telephone d.
rect to the State Journal by Clay, Robin
son & Co.. live stock commission mer-
chants.l
Kansas City. April 1s.-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts 5000 head. Market steady.
HOGS-Receipts 5000 head. Market
steady to &c lower. Bulk of sales, $4,000
9.65; top, $9.70.
SHEEP-Receipts 1000 head. Market
steady
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DAILY WEATHER REPORT.

Furnished by the Local Office of the
Weather Bureau. Topeka, Kansas for the
"a hours ending at a. m. today.
Stations in Kansas
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IBy special wire TO r. J. Myers. Columbian
Bldg.l
Minneapolis wheat stocks have decreased
225 600 bushels, including 1,e09.00e bushels
from America
Worlds shipments of corn last week
were So. 600 bushels, compared with l.,
SIS, 600 bushels in the previous week aud
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600. Market slow at yesterdays average.
Bulk of sales, s9,s0@9.9O; light, s9.50G
1000; mixed, S9.60@ 1000; heavy, s9.45G
CATTLE-Receipts 5000. Market steady.
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Chicago Produce Market.

Chicago, April 1S.-BUTTER-Marke
unchanged.
ordinary first, 1914 @20c; at mark, cases In
cluded, 1S@2012c.
POTATOES-Market lower. Michigan,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Dakota white,
7Sc.
PoULTRY1aAlive, higher; fowls, 1s1hG
19c; springs, 20c.
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Chicago. April 1s.-wHEAT-Close May,
Sl14as July, SL14H September. SLIP.
CORN--May, 7612c; July. 77@771sc; Sep
TENDER, 76ssc.
OATS-May. 45A@45asc: July. 43A a
1880; September, 39Ac.
PoRK.May. s2317; July. s2310.
LARD-May, S11:72 July, s11S5-
SHORT RIBS-May, S1232; July, S1247.
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New York, April 1s.-BUTTER-Mark
nrmer. Creamery extras, 90 score BIC
EGGS-Market steady. Fresh gathered
extras, 23A 024c.
CHEEsE-Market steady State, held
specials, 1s1ac.s
POULTRY-Alive, firm; dressed, quiet
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New York, April 1S.-SUGAR-Raw,
firm; centrifugal, 6.02; molasses, SOS; re-
fined, firm; fine granulated, 7.15
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Chicago Grain Market.

The Chicago Board of Trade as reported
by Thos. ]. Myers. Broker. Columbian
B1dg.1
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New York, April 1S.-COTTON-Spot
steady; upland, middling 1910. Sales LOCO
bales.
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Kansas City Produce Market.
Market unchanged to lie lower. No. . hard,
$110@115 No. 3, $1.07 gill; No. red,
$114@1.1S; No. ), $1.O1Q1.16.
CORN-Market unchanged to &c higher.
No. mixed, 710711ac; No. 3, 69l1 @7015c !;
No. white, 71@711ac; No. g. 701a@71c; No,
? yellow, re; No. 3, 7112c
OATS-Market unchanged No. white
45@451ac; No: mixed, 40@41.
RYE-S6@S7c.
HAY-Market steady, unchanged
kAFIR-No. 3 white S104
WHEAT-Receipts ~ cars.
BUTTER-Market unchanged.
POULTRY-Market unchanged
EGGS-Firsts, 2115c
CLOSE: WHEAT-May $1.05%c; July,
$1.06 * @10634.
ocoRN--May. 7o%@71c; July. 7215@
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iClose of prices for the leading stocks on
The New York Stock Exchange as
ported by Thos. ] Myers. Broker. Colum
bian Bldg1