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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-10
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

Ernest F. Ballard of Hanover,
Washington county, stopped in Topeka
for a few hours today. He is on his
way to Hutchinson to attend the DEM
ocratic state convention.
Topeka lodge No. ., Fraternal Aid
union, will give a card party Tuesday
evening after the business meeting. A
movement has been started to prepare
some changes in the laws to be intro
duced at the next session of the SUI
preme lodge.
Robert Jamison, the 16year-old boy
who was injured when Roy Devine,
driving an automobile struck him a
week ago Sunday. has been taken
home from St Francis hospital An
agreement between the father of the
injured boy and o. W. Devine, father
of Roy Devine, was reached by which
Mr.. Devine agreed to pay the doctor
bill, the drug bill and to pay the boy
IS a week until he is able to return
to work.
Although totally blind, Thomas
Cain of 124 West Curtis street, has
been suspected of selling whisky for
weeks, and Saturday night the police
made a raid on his house. They found
one lone bottle of whisky in a double
backed cabinet. The officials believe
he had received a tip on the raid and
that he had missed the one bottle in
making away with his stock. An in
be held in jail pending the outcome.
Modern homes in Topeka are badly
needed, according to statements made
by real estate dealers. While a big
influx of people causes them to nab
almost any kind of a home all are
holding out as far as possible for the
modern cottage, which. apparently can
be rented at any and all times. The
five and six room cottages appear to
be those most in demand and prospec-
tive renters want them close in. State
ments to this effect have been made
by ]. E. Torrington, NJ. Cottrel and
william A. Neiswanger.
S. j. Butts of IT'S Lincoln street,
who has for a number of years repre-
scented the Waterman-W Co.,
of Minneapolis, Mimi. in Kansas, Mis-
souri, and Nebraska as salesman and
field agent, left Topeka Sunday after
noon for Pennsylvania He is to have
charge of the sales force in that state
for his firm which is engaged in the
manufacture of heating and ventilating
systems and sanitary supplies for
schools. He recently returned from
Illinois where he has been busy dur
ing the winter organizing the sales
force in that state. He still retains
his home in Topeka where Mrs. Butts
will remain at least till late in the
summer.
The Conference club of the 7 w
c. A. will meet tonight to decide who
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-10

will be sent to the big summer confer
ence at Estes Park and to discuss ways
of raising money for the expenses of
the delegates. Miss Vivian Bernard
is president of the club.
The High School Y. w. c. A. will
meet tomorrow afternoon. Miss
Louise Fowler will lead the discussion
on "a School Girls Sense of Honor"
The Rev. J. K. Youngman will speak
at the new mill tomorrow noon.
There will be a Bible class at the
old mill Tuesday noon.
The Rev. J. w. Wfttenbraker will
speak at the water service Wednesday.
the machine shop Thursday noon, led
by the Rev. ]. H. Crockett.
A. E. Peterson will conduct a Cos
pei meeting at the telegraph school
Friday.
NJ. L. Robey will speak at the new
mill Friday noon.
The United Telephone company OF
Abilene made application this morn
ing to the public utilities commission
to increase its stock issue S117,5OO
hearing on the application will be
held on April is. Tomorrow the COM
mission will go to Clay Center to hold
a hearing on an application for a spur
track on the Union Pacific at Idana.
made by r. B. Trechel and ]. S. Full
ington, grain man and lumberman
respectively. The next day the com
mission will go to BelIeville to hold a
hearing for an application for in
creased telephone rates made by the
Belleville company.
The Socialists of Topeka will hold
their regular Monday night meeting
this evening at the home of E. Nipps
at 906 Monroe street
Spring has been recognized at the
Y W. c. A cafeteria by the placing of
a geranium plant on each table.
The opening of the Y. W. c. A
baseball league will take place tomor-
row evening at the Y. w. Six teams
have been entered in the pennant race
and the opening will be between the
Midgets and the White Sox tomorrow
evening at o'clock.
Plans are being made for the sec
ond annual indoor field meet of the
Y. w. C. A. April II.
Miss Lucy Riggs, field secretary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-10
16-Year-Old Boy Prisoner Was
in Favor of the Court.
When Taken From Jail He Was
Found With Weapon.
TRIAL ON STATUTORY CHARGE
Mother of the Girl Tells Her
Story on the Stand.
Declares She Is Not Willing for
Young Couple to Marry.

William Elliott, 16 years old, charg-
ed with a statutory crime against IA
year old Tillie Patterson, whose case
came up for hearing in the second d.
vision of the district court today,
threw away his opportunity.
Because of his age the county at
torney and his assistants had a kindly
feeling for the boy. They were dis
posed to recommend that the judge
and jury be not too harsh with him.
This afternoon the case is on trial and
there is no disposition on the part of
the county attorney to show him any
quarter, and all because the boy
showed poor judgment. Deputy sher-
if Hixon was sent over to the county
Jail to bring the boy into court An
other prisoner passed the tip to Hixon
that it might not be bad idea to
search him.
Hixon placed handouts on the boy,
then searched him. In his pocket he
found an improvised weapon and
Hixon has since learned that it was
Elliott's plan to use it between the Jail
and court house and make his get
away Elliott had removed one of the
heavy chains from his bunk and tied
it up in a rag. 1t made dangerous
weapon.
have handcuffed Elliott in taking him
to the court house and the boy would
have had ample opportunity to use
the weapon. 1t was just such an i'm
provised weapon that prisoner used
on Mitch Bundy, jailer a few years
ago, and knocked him into uncon-
seriousness. Four prisoners escaped at
that time.
Elliott had nothing to say in expla-
nation. But he did himself lot of
Il la mage with court officials.
Tillie Patterson. the complaining
witness, is a pretty little girl in short
dresses. Her mother testified that she
Is fourteen years of age and she does
not look older than that. The mother
went on the stand, testified as to the
girls age and told what she knew of
the charge against Elliott. She testi-
| fled that she went to the Elliott home,
a three-room house in North Topeka,
and found the girl ir a room in COM
pany with William Elliott.
The specific charge against Elliott
grew out of evidence the Patterson
woman gathered when she entered the
room at the Elliott house.
HE told me-" said Mrs. Patterson.
referring to Elliott, that he had
knocked over a chair on which my
daughter was sitting and was just
| picking her up. but l know better
| Mrs. Patterson testified that Mrs.
We're two other children in the house,
| but none of them in the room with
| Elliot and the girl.
w. 1. Jamison attempted to have
Mrs. Patterson testify that the boy
and girl were engaged and that it was
their intention to marry, but she de-
MED every statement vehemently.
would you be willing for him to
marry her?" was asked.
Il certainly would not" she replied.
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met with the high school advisory com
mittee. and the high school cabinet
this afternoon at tie Y. w. c. A.
The Kresge club of the Y. w. c. A
will assemble this evening for a
Spread and business meeting. Pre-
ceding the business meeting the two
Kresge club indoor baseball teams will,
play a practice game. Both teams are
entered in. the Y. w. C. A. indoor
league.
Joe Holman. deputy sheriff, return
ed from Williamsburg today with
Henry Twaites, a negro, q. custody.
Twaites is charged with passing a
worthless check on w. L. Robinson of
Topeka. Robinson alleged that he
cashed a check drawn by Twaites on
the Williamstown State bank for $40
and that the check was returned label
ed no funds"
Pauline Hubbard and Carrie
Thompson, two colored women, are
charged with assault with intent to
kill, following their attack upon Her
man Anderson with knives on Fourth
street just west of the Throop hotel
unable to find any excuse for the as
sault. Anderson says he never saw
the women before and that he had had
nothing to do with them. One knife
cut is just below the left shoulder
blade Anderson is employed as a
machinist at the Santa Fe shops
Despite the fact that the county at
torney of Ellis county charges that
Joseph Rumback, a prisoner in the
state penitentiary. used his wife and
daughter for immoral purposes and
that he has never been known to
work steadily, half a hundred Ellis
politicians professional men and bust
ness men have signed a petition ask
ing for Rumback's parole Once be-
fore Rumback, who is serving a sem
tence for white slavery, appeared be-
fore the state board of corrections
asking for a parole If the law is per-
mitted to serve its course Runback
will be released in 1919. He is
wears old now
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-10
FLEET IN FOR REPAIRS
Most Powerful Flock of Warships Ever
Assembled There, Is Coming.

New York, April 1O.-Preparations
are being made at the New York navy
yard for the arrival of the largest and
most powerful fleet of warships ever
assembled at the yard. The fleet,
which is expected there within week,
will include a battleship squadron,
several destroyers, seven submarines
and seven tenders.
The warships are to remain at the
navy yard from two weeks to two
months undergoing repairs. In the
fleet will be the battleships Oklahoma,
Nevada, New York, Texas, Wyoming
and Arkansas: the destroyers Cassin,
Cummings, McDonough, Ericsson,
Nicholson, Winslow, Wadsworth,
Cushing and Surrows; the submarines
G-1, G-3, GA, XII, K-2, KS and KS;
the auxiliaries Somona, Ontario,
Yankton and Solace; and the Terror,
one of the old monitors.
Two of the II inch guns on the Ar
kansas are said to have been d4m-
aged in target practice and will be
either repaired or replaced.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-10
FIGHT FOR Gas
Contest To Be Staged at WASH
ingtOn This Week.
For Possession of Valuable
Leases to Indian Lands.

Questions to be presented this week
before the secretary of the interior in
Washington will probably decide the
future of the Kansas Natural Gas
company supply fer Kansas towns.
Questions involving extensive Okla
homa leases and a supply of rs million
cubic feet a day are to be presented
to the federal department by the
Usage Indians tribal council
High salaried representatives of the
giant gas company will be in Wash
ington this week to discuss the gas
question with federal officials. The
question of contracts and leases for
six hundred thousand acres OF val
liable gas lands will be submitted End
must be approved by the secretary of
the interior.
May Reject All Bids.
1t is necessary that a contract with
the Usage Indians tribal council be
approved by the secretary of the in
terror. If he feels that offers for gas
leases are not sufficient, ne may veto
any agreement with the Indian coun-
Gil
Industrial concerns are said to be
after the rich Indian leases. II ri.ey
win, it means a shutting off of the
Kansas Natural territory to a large
extent. While several fields outside
the Usage territory are unexhausted,
the big undeVeloped fields are on In
dian land. Use OF the supply from
this field for Industrial purposes, is
said to mean a short life to the Usage
gas fields. For domestic purposes,
however, the field is regarded as suf-
ficient to meet the demands of Kan
sas and Oklahoma under normal con
ditions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-10
NOW FOR AUSTRO DRIVE
Prepare for Gigantic Offensive Along
Entire Italian Front.

Rome, April 1O.-The Austrians are
preparing an offensive on a large
scale along the whole Italian front
according to dispatches received here
which state that this action was de-
cided on at a recent conference be-
tween Archduke Eugene and the other
Austrian commanders.
Strong bodies of troops have been
withdrawn from the Roumanian Dor
der and quantities of munitions are
being sent from the interior of The
empire The Italian military chiefs,
the dispatches further said, have made
all preparations to break the offensive
and to force the Austrians back on the
defensive.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-10
is WITH EVERYWOMAN
Miss Marian Bradbury, Formerly of
Topeka, Is in the Cast

With the company that will come
here April Is to play "Everywoman"
is Marian Bradbury. a former Topeka
girl who take the part of Self in the
play. Miss Bradbury was born in the
Bradbury addition to the city and
spent her early childhood here While
she was a pupil in the Quinton Heights
school here parents moved from the
city.
Besides her experience on the stage
Der of New York artists and her like
ness appears on many canvases m
eastern galleries. Her stage career
was begun with the Woodward stock
company in Kansas City.
Her uncle, William Bradbury, re-
sides at 1901 Topeka avenue and she
will be a guest at his home while in
Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-10
LIGHT COSTS MORE
Expenses of the City Electric Plant
Show a Marked Advance.

Even light has not escaped the high
cost habit, according to figures issued
by Commissioner Newland. who has
charge of the city's electric lighting
plant, for they show that advances in
costs of material have taken place
from to 100 per cent in commodities
in that line. Taking the time from
1914 to 1915 as a basis, below is a
record of the advances made showing
per cent of increase. In only two
ca ses, it will be noted, has a decrease
in price taken place and only three
articles show the cost to be the same
now as then
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-10
Diplomatic Fuss Over Flour Sacks.

Paris, April 10.-The Temps pub
fishes a dispatch from Athens quot
ing the PATHS of that city to the eff
feet that the ministers of the entente
have complained to the Greek gov
eminent that $1,000 flour sacks be-
longing to Russia have been handed
over by Greek authorities to Bulgaria.
These sacks were requisitioned by the
Greek commissary department for the
army, but are said to have been trans
ported clandestinely to Bulgaria.
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sion representatives of $50. 900 railway
men of the United States and Canada
will discuss the condition of organized
labor, wage scales and working hours.
Each of the nine organizations af-
filiated with the department is repre-
scented by its president. The organiza-
tons are the machinists. blacksmiths,
boilermakers, sheet metal workers.
electrical engineers, carmen, switch
men, clerks and steam shovel and
dredgemen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-10
Found Real indian, Bang,

Chicago, April 10.-A youngster, va
liant in a cowboy suit and equipped
with a small rifle, came upon a real
Indian in a residential district here.
He fired promptly and then ran. The
Indian was Chief Sendehoa, a Mo-
hawk A surgeon removed the bullet
from his leg and the Indian COM
planned to the police
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-10

New York, April 10-MONEY-Mercanti
paper, 3@3A per cent. Sterling, 60 days,
4.72% demand, 4.76 ZIG: cables, All
Francs, demand, COS; cables, 500. Marks.
demand. 72$s cables, 7215. Kronen, de-
mand. 125s cables. 121s. Guilders, demand,
42A cables. ~. Lires demand, 6.57; ca
bles, csc Rubles, demand, 31% cables,
315s. Bar silver, 62Ac; Mexican dollars,
4SAc. Government bonds. steady; railroad
bonds. irregular Time loans. weaker: 60
days. 21z@3; low, ~ ruling rate, .: last
loan. 2: closing bid Ia offered at 2.
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RAILROAD men MEET
Delegates of 100000 Workers Open
Ten Days Session in X. c.

Kansas City, April 1O.-The Railway
Employees department of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor began its
biennial convention here today. Dur
ing the ten days the meeting is in ses-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-10
Tbrows Bomb at Police Head.

Annoy, April 1O.=An attempt was
made to assassinate the chief of the
military police. A bomb thrown
through a window of his residence
damaged the building badly, but no
one was injured. The assassins es-
capped to he hills. The United States
cruiser Cincinnati arrived today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-10

New York, April 1O.-Bank clearings in
the United States for the week ending
April 6, as reported to Bradstreet's, aggre-
gate 81, s43 067 900, against 81. 05S 064 900 the
previous week and s., 800 997, 900 in the cor
responding week last year Following are
the returns with percentages of change:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-10

Kansas City. April 10.-Baylis
Steele, the new postmaster, nominally
assumed his duties last midnight, and
w. n. Collins, who for months has
been conducting the affairs of the Of
fee as acting postmaster, assumed
charge as assistant postmaster and su-
perintendent of the finance division
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-10

pianos have a bag of
gold tied to them.
But this you will
fin d-Reliable in
struments from re-
liable makers, mark
ed and sold at the
lowest prices in the
United States. In
vestigate. c o M
pare.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-10

you the names and
addresses of a dozen
people who h a v e
bought the S e f.
same piano f r o m
them at any such
price as they are
asking during the
time the purchase
coupon is good.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-22

Mgr. Section Dead-After having
ably filled the editorial chair of La
Ricossa," of Braganza, for over a
quarter of a century, Mgr. Section
recently laid aside his pen for the last
time. Death from heart trouble
closed his active career at the age
Of seVenty-one, in Padua, Italy.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-22

Choir Of Policemen.-A qnartette of
New York policemen singing at the
funeral Mass of Father Sullivan, chap
lain of the department. last fall, has
resulted in the formation of choir
Of one hundred voices among the
patrOlmen.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-22
OLD WORLD NEWS

New Bishop of Rouen.-Mgr. Dubois,
Archbishop of Bourges, has been ap-
pointed by the Holy Father Arch.
bishop OF Rouen in succession to Arch
Dlshop Fuzet who died last January.
Bears an Honored Name.-Theobald
Mathew has been elected a bencher
OF the Honorable Society of Lincoln's
Inn in succession of the late Sir
Andrew Richard ScobIe. He is the
eldest son of Lord Justice Mathew
and a great-nephew of the famous
Father Mathew
Joins Redemptorist order.-Rev.
Patrick Brennan, who has spent
several years in parish work in Aus
tralla and at one time edited a Cath.
Ollie paper, The West Australian
Record, was recently professed as a
member of the Redemptorist Order
in Ireland.
African Chief a Convert.-From
Kenya comes the news of the CONVEX.
sion to the Catholic Faith of GiuseDpe
Naroli, the biggest native chief of the
province of Kenya (Africa), the Vicar.
late Apostolic being in the charge of
the missionaries of the Consolata of
Turin.
Dominican Centenary.-The seventh
centenary of the foundation of the
Dominican Order falls in the present
year. The Most Rev. Father General
F. Hyacinthe Cormier and the Rector
of the Angelica College in Rome have
desired Father Ludovico Ferretti, o.
F., the we'll known historian and critic
or art, to deliver a series of eight
lectures in the Angelica College treat
ing On the influence of this great
order in sacred art.
For Tomb of Plus x.-Eighteen
models have been prepared for the
monument to Plus x, to be erected in
st. Peters and will soon be adjudi-
Gated by the commission of Cardinals
in charge, Merry Del Val, Cagiano and
Bisleti.
Rosary in War Trenches.-A string
with number of knots-55 fast knots
fairly large and regularly spaced
and a chip of wood secured in the
twine after every tenth knot, and
there you have Rosary quite as good
and more durable than many another.
| had the pleasure of blessing num-
Der of these strings made by 1.-THE boys
in the trenches" and converting them
into holy Rosaries, writes Francois
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-22

survivor of the eight hundred Bishops
who attended the Vatican Council, OF
whom he was then the Youngest.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-22

Will Arrive in May.-Word has been
received that Bishop Dougherty, of
Jaro, Philippine Islands, expects to ar
rive at Vancouver, May 8. 1t is as
sumed that he will take possession of
the Buffalo See, TO which he has been
appointed by the Holy Father, about
the middle OF May
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-22

The "Watchman" incorporates
Incorporation papers for the Western
Waterman Publishing Company, which
succeeds the late Rev. d. S. Phelan
as publisher of the Western Watch
man and the Sunday Waterman, were
filed in St Louis recently. The CAPT,
tai stock is $4,000, fully paid.
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School Damaged by Fire. - The
Sacred Heart CPolishD school, SYRIA
cuse. N. Y, was damaged to the eX>
tent of more than $1,000 by a recent
fire.
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NEW WORLD ITEMS

Organ Donated.-A handsome organ
costing over two thousand dollars has
been ordered for the Church OF the
Holy Redeemer in East Warren, Pa,
by Mrs. Catherine White, a mem,
her of the parish.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-22

the statue of the Blessed Virgin, the
pedestal on which it rests being large
ly the work of the inmates OF the
Home.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-22

Enters NoVitiate.-The president of
the Danvers, Mass, Catholic Total
Abstinence Society, Mr. j. M. Caskins,
Jr, has entered the Xaverian Con
gregati0n.
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Franciscans Go to Utah.-Bishop
Glass of Salt Lake has announced that
the Franciscan Fathers of New York
have consented to take charge OF the
parish at Helper Utah, and the mis-
sions in Carbon county.