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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-23

touch with the greater activities of
life. Besides the enjoyment derived
from sightseeing, fall or winter vaca
ton in any of our large cities. such as
New Yory. Boston, Chicago. Minneap
oils ST. Louis. New Orleans and San
Francisco, can be made to yield a
good percentage on the investment in
an educational way. Similar advan-
tages are to be found in all sections of
the country at prices within the scope
of a meagre purse. In New York post
graduate courses in many lines can be
had free by taking IN the lectures of
the Board of Education. The theatres
are open and the opera and musical
season are at their height during the
winter The larger stores, always mag
nets to the visitors are more attrac-
tive than ever IN the cooler months.
The railroads in many rural CON-
munities offer reduced-rate or excur-
sion trips to the nearest large cities,
and at such times as the holiday sea-
son and at Easter the stea mship lines
along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts
advertise inexpensive tours attractive
for those in rural communities as well
as in the cities. One who has worked
in the open field all summer plough
ing, planting and cultivating needs
rest before beginning with the winters
work: a woman in the country who
has been canning fruit and vegetables
all summer besides doing the usua.
housework or keeping boarders, or just
helping to keep the farm going, de-
serves an outing and an opportunity
to shop at the bargain counters in the
city. Let the boys take care of the
farm and get in some of the wood and
let daughter Jane be given an oppor-
tunity to develop her muscles in the
kitchen, while mother and father run
away to the city for vacation. They
will find the farm more attractive
after seeing how the other half lives
Nor would it be at all surprising if
these British land battleships" the
armored and gun-mounted caterpillar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-23
Current Events at HickeyviIIe.

One of the pool balls suddenly flew
off the table and disappeared during
a game in the Golden Nugget saloon
five weeks ago and its whereabouts
was a mystery until yesterday, when
Amariah Ti1son, our tonsorial artist,
found it in Grandpa Hibbins' whiskers.
Am got a drink for taking it back
to the Golden Nugget and says he is
going to examine all whiskers in the
future. Who knows but some day he
may find a pianola or a 45-candle
power automobile?
1t don't pay to rub cat or
plug hat the wrong way. T. Egbert
Peavey expects to leave soon for the
city to accept a lucrative position as
second mandoli.- in a barber shop.
Amos Butts, livery, feed and sales
stables and undertaking with neatness
and dispatch, also folding chairs to
rent, says he has got a roam gelding
which went better than three-ten on a
kite-shaped track to trade for three
bushels of potatoes and cord of
wood.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-23
Isn't 1t a Joke?

When two women get o quarreling
as to which shall have the privilege of
paying street car fare and either one
opens her purse.
When a $1,0O0-a-year minister gets
up and tells an audience of substan-
life.
When a lady who has never seen
anything but East Lynne" and
Uncle Toms Cabin reads a paper
before her club on 1.-The Trend of the
Modern Drama"
When a man passes millinery
store window with his wife and tries
to engage her in an absorbing CONVEX
sation on the political situation.
When a newspaper man gets mar
ried and SAYS: with all my worldly
goods I thee endOW"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-23
Up to Date.

Constable-But didn't you hear the
chicken thieves?
Farmer-Why, yes, I heard EN-
But they had an automobile and was
all so intoxicated 1 thought they was
a party of gentlemen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-23

A printer tells this: In the old days
when typo laid off he had to provide
a substitute. A printer named jerks,
wanting to lay off, was compelled to
persuade a man who was not a printer
to take his place at the case, explain
ing to him that he could be taken sud
denly sick and get away from the Of
flee before the fraud was discovered.
Shortly after the fake substitute
lined up before the case with its curl
Gus little boxes full of loose type, he
was seized with fake pains.
whats the matter with your
asked the foreman, coming to his side.
81 don't know" said the fake
printer. I'm terribly sick. I can't
work. You can see that. I'll have to
close up for the night
And he reached up and turned the
upper case down over the lower one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-23
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cents a week TO any part OF Topeka or
suburbs or at the same price in aay Kan
sas town where the paper has a carrier
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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-18
WAYBURN'S WIFE IN TEARS.
sorry to sue Theatrical Wan for
Divorce. h Tells .Judur.

Mrs. Helen n, Wayburn. who appeared
in the supreme Court Yesterday "a
testify IN her divorce suit against Ned
Wavburn. the theatrical producer. wen,
while she was on the witness stand he.
fore Justice Newhurger. She said /,
made her extremely unhappy to he com.
PEELED to sue her husband.
The Wayburns were married in Ter.
Soy cay in 1909 and have one son
Edward g, lr. Mrs. Wayburn has beer
receiving $40 a week temporary ali,nony
and she told Justice Newhurger she
would he satisfied to get this sum per.
manently.
One of the witnesses was Arthur r.
Evans OF 1870 Post avenue. who testified
that he saw Wayhurn and Mabel Wood.
row together in an apartment at 24s5
Broadway III March. 1918. He said tina,
In the previous year the couple lived al
sol West 111th street, Ezekiel c. Cold.
well. a theatrical man. said he saw tho
defendant and correspondent together in
1911 In a hotel in Rochester. The case
was not defended and the court reserved
decision.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-18
ARNOLD DOUBTS STORY.
Both Victims Fathcr and Police
Are Incr~duIOus.

Police Inspector Faurot sent a tele-
gram to the chief Of Police at Provi-
dcnoe yesterday afternoon asking for
information regarding the alleged con-
fession OF Edward G. H%lennoris, a con
Wet in the Rhode Island state prison,
that he assisted in burying "A girl
thought to be Dorothy Arnold, who dis
appeared la December. 1910. The po-
lice seemed inclined to doubt the story
and refrained from action until they
might learn more about it direct from
Providence.
The Arnold family and their attorney,
John S. Keith, discounted the story al
together,
Inspector Faurot said that IL the po-
lice Of Providence attached any ere
dence to the prisoners account he
would Immediately investigate and,
if possible, recover Miss Arnold's re-
mains. Officially. thoIAh, the police
knew nothing about the latest devel-
opments in the case.
Francis u. Arnold, head of the nrm
of Il. Il, Arnold & Co, manufacturers
Of perfumery. said that he thought the
convicts story probably indicated the
manner in which his daughter disap.
pcared, hut that he doubted the story.
ut ooks to me- said Mr.. Arnold,
THAT the man Is talking NONSENSE.
further develops and that I leave Il
tho prison authorities and the Chief
OF Police Of Providence. ! believe tha,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-18

is the way my daughter disappear red.
but I cannot believe this mans story
Mr. Keith also lacked official infor-
nation about G~lennoris's alleged con-
fession. He said that the investiga-
,ions. which were carried on for months
after Miss Arnold's disappearance. had
satisfied both him and the family by
more than court evidence that the prem
Uses Of the convict's story were no,
true. Mr.. Keith added. however. that
Ec was ready to lend every assistance
to the police In their Investigation OF
tEr e., uvict's statements.
\ report that the story as told bS
tn" prisoner was known to the warden
Of the prison two or three weeks ago
was regarded here as supporting the
doubts Of the family. the police and the
Arnold attorney.
The police say that the prisoners real
nam" is Octavius Genonces that he
is about 20 years old and lived on
staten Island when he was arrested
and sentenced to Elmira on July 10.
1909. for grand larceny.
He was released from Elmira on Au-
gust 10. 1910, and was not arrested
again until March Is. 1918, when he
was sentenced TO Sing Sing for two and
one-half year FOR attempted extortion.
liz, was arrested again last summer
IN Providence OF a similar charge and
sentenced to the Rhode Island stat.
PRISON for eighteen months
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-18
MAY RAISE WHEELER SIEGE.
- stice Dele hantY Hears of On~r to
Pay AnmOny Pieccm~aI.

Supreme Court Justice D~elehanty
heard argument yesterday and reserved
decision on the application by AlbcI@
';allatin Wheeler .Ir. the broker. to set
aside the order of arrest obtained by his
wife, Claudia CHrlstedt Whctle~, Oh the
ground that he owes her 80, 900 alimony.
william +. :. Hart. counsel for
Wheeler. told the court that an agree
ment was made recently In Philadelphia
by which Mrs. Wheeler was to accent
$500 down and 500 monthly ON the un-
paid alimouy until the amount was paid.
lie said that s300 was paid tn Emil T..
Fuchs. then Mrs, Whceler's attorney,
and "A chcck for $500 was turned over
later. Then Wheeler came here. rented
an office AT - broadway. and went TO
live At the Union League club, but Mrs.
Wheeler engaged a new lawyer and got
the order of arrest on the ground that
her husband might leave the state.
IF the deputies were called of and my
client were able to attend to business
said Mr.. Hart. at would not he long
before he could pay the current aiimony
at $500 u month and to settle the back
alimony,"
Justice lbclchanty said thai IL he
found that Wheeler was induced to come
here AS "A result of the agreement as to
alimony, and had complied with his part
OF the agreement. he would vacate the
order of arrest.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-18
THAW'S BODYGUARD SUES.
nabIr to stand on Wifc's Sprinu
Drives. Detective Says.

Charging hat his wife beat him
severely and wouldn't let him leave his
home to attend to his business, Norman
J. Fitzsimnons, for some years a dctec.
ti~ve-scrgcant attached to the District At
torney's office, b%odyguard for Harry X
Thaw in the haheas corpus proceedings
last ummer. and nov hcad OF a private
detective bureau. filed suit in the Su,
prcmc Court yesterday for "A separation
from Mrs, Agnes NJ. Fitzsimmons.
Fiizsimmons said that Immediately
after their marriage in 1898 his wife be-
gan to treat / In a cruel manner. lie
says the act which compelled him Ia
leave his wife for his " safety oc.
CURED on March 20 last. when she
awakened him and ordered him from
their bedroom at 6l9 West ia7th street.
81 arose and went to AN adjoining
ROOM says the defendant. Then she
appeared and hurled "A marble figure al
me, While ] was attempting to ~unfastcr
the door. being arrayed only In my night
clothes. the defendant caught me by the
throat. liberated the left side Of my race
and neck, and then threw herself on the
floor and screamed, Murder Police and
woke M all the tenants n the house.
CARRIED ~ ! was, ! went to the supcrin-
tendent's and remained In hiding
for two hours. Then I returned to the
apartment and the defendant wouldn't
permit mo 20 leave until II 4. ~"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-18
GEORGE M. CONAN ASKS
RELIEF FROM 80 PIGS
Musical Herd of Great Neck
NciIhbOr Drives Comedian
to Court.


Geoige VI Cohan. who has stood Tor
many kinds OF music IN his feversh
,,,,o .i,, - ,, .
~
Possr' play virgin ana manager mas set
his foot down al last, II" carno stand
the oirs OF his ,;rent Neck n..rhhor
,.. a -
$500 - w "uu''""S =
e.. :" - 49,
oo,,o -, Iu,, ~" ~
IT., ,, ,n
E.iahhar rssa,.
r',isan ~ vi ,"u,'
s" o'''' " "'''Nn ~ ','!' J.
,,,,'sa'ton o ''r,r" 80
o.. ha.i,r no"a. =, $500" "
,onn,, ~, ,ho ,ay, ""'
r. r,ha, o,.n nn -.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-18
DOUBT ON LYMAN'S MARRIAGE
>rrOmd Wife May Have Been Vie.
tim Of Illegal Ceremony.

~. John Grant Lyman. who is now
under charges Of using IN" mails to de
fraud. may have been Illegally married
TO the present Mrs l.y man. according tc
a statement made Yesterday by Abncr :
Wcrhlin. attorney for Lymsu's receiver
IN bankruptcy Nj Wethllu says the
testimony taken 10y the +, fierce in bank
ruitcy tended to SHOW that when Icy.
mans former wife. Mrs. Emma Brown
Lyman, got a liz orCc from the promoter
In i;ucklaud county ~ lHl3 tho court is
sucI e dc0ic" rroh,hitin: LYMAN from
nla.iyl. = again ia the state.
Nj NcrhlIn asSerud that Lyman ad.
mlttci Ne married l"onora I.ockett. d.
rorcci vi" o' = Er,tish naval officer. a;
Hcmpst"ad, /. /, on November . last
~ III" iigst hearing before Stanley W
Dexter. Tho '~cfcIec. Mrs. Emma Brown
Lyman and Mrs %I.eonora I.ockett Lyman
came fac. t. face
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-18
SOS PRICE QUOTED FOR
DENTIST CERTIFICATE
Detective Says Woman in Har-
lem Bought and Sold
Blank Forms.

Belle Corro. former agent OF the state
Dental Association. VINO Was accused Of
accepting hr hes from unlicensed dentists
a: a hearing before Deputy state Comp
lroll.r Roardman IN the Woolworth
building Thursday. was charged yester-
day with having furnished a Mrs. brown
with ten or twelve certificates OF regis
,ration signed in blank 10y the assocja-
ton.
In an aHdav!' Waluo ! Morse. Ir
asserts that Mrs Brown. whp has a
dental oHirc at Mad,son avenue u
l2jth street, has said that She sold one
Of these certificates to an unlicensed
dentist named swift for SOS. Morse said
H.. would take this afidavit to the Dis
trict ATTORNEY,
When the hearing was resumed ,cst"r-
day Judge Nathan = Bushnell 81 I'eeks-
kill. y. V, and William Harvey Reggie.
editor Of IN" Rockaway JorroI. APP
reared ms character Witnesses for Morse.
detective for tho Alli"d Dental Council.
who is defending an action brought 10y
~. william carr Of the stat" Dental
Society To revoke his license as a private
detective on the grounds that he is in
competent, guilty Of perjury ana Of
spreading REPORTS that Or Carr and
William 4. Purrinaton, couns"l rnr the
society, had accepted hribcS
Morris kamiusky, 2u3 Fast Tooth
street. employed ny Nor" L help him
get evidence arains, men practising den
tistry without a license, testified that he
had listened TO q conversation bet wcen
Morse and an attorney named Shipero.
no said there were 1000 Ia 2,jo0 IN
licensed dentists practising in this city
Morse. h. said. told Shipero To go to the
District Attorney about II.
What did Shlpero say to that asked
Mr.. burlington. who was conducting the
cross-eNamination.
lie barked like a dog" said Ka-
minsky.
Later in describing a conversation he
tween Morse and another lawyer he said
the lawyer was su excited he was like
a mad dog.
did he bark like NJ. Shipero:" in
CURED Mr.. Brardman,
mo" replied the witness, he roared
like a wolf"
The hearing was adjourned until 10
o'clock Thursday.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-18
STRIKERS JEER WORKERS.
Hastings Conduit Plant May Make
Terms To-day,

HASTINGS, y. V, April 1.-Two thou
sane strikers at the National Conduit
and Gable Company's plant to-day hung
around the factory gates and jeered at
the l.500 men still at work, but there
was no serious trouble.
Sheriff Wles, ndanger. Thomas J. Good
win. Village President, and Police cant.
Cronnel formed IA committee to arbitrate
with President Perot of the company, He
promised to decide by 2 o'clock to-mor-
row morning what the company would
do. Tn. strikers want an increase of
Ave cents an hour. Their present wage
runs from 90 to 20 cents an hour.
One OF the strikers was driven out Of
town by the sheriff and his deputies for
trying TO incitc strife, The Sheriff staff
has been increased from thirty to fifty
and "A guard of loo men is employed by
the conduit company.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-18
MRS. RICHTER CAN'T GET SON.
Brooklyn WOmRn's Plra for Kid
napped BOY Refused In Georgia.

ATLANTA, April Tiff she wishes to
regain possession of her kidnapped son,
Robert Striker, whom she believes to he
in possession of Mrs. Jessie Scot, Allng.
better known here az Mrs. Sinclair. Mrs,
Ruth striker Richter of Brooklyn will
have to resort to the courts. The police
authorities here have decided to take no
action.
Mrs. sinclair ~ the sister OF Victor
lines. now under arrest IN Atlanta for
larceny after trust, an aftermath of tho
disappearance OF the Nelms girls two
years ago. She Is here to aid in the
defence of her brother. It is said that
she was accompanied by a boy who
bears every resemblance 10 the missing
Striker boy who WAS kidnapped from st.
Petersburg. Fla, two years ago,
Mrs. RichttG made an appeal for help
direct to Gov. Harris and he instructed
a thorough inquiry. Information OBJ
tanned by Sheriff G.. w, Mangum has
satisfied him, II IL said, that the hoy
is the son OF Inncs by his first wife /;
that he was awarded /" Innes when he
got a divorce and that, lnncs has turned
the hoy over to Mrs. Sinclair pending his
trial. The Sheriff will 30 report to the
GovsgaoL
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-18
SENT TO HOSPITAL BY FEAR
Giri Brnt~n two Year Ago Vie.
tim Of IA

sarah Goldstc'n. 20 years old. ~ 2co
Bristol street. East New York, was
taken to The Kings County Hospital last
night suffering from %paranoia brough,
on by thoughts of another attack by
a man who beat her brutally abou,
two wears ago
This man was sent 10 prison for two
Years As IN" time for his release APP
preached Miss G"ldsteiu persuaded her
self that She would not he safe with
her assaiiant ~ large. She was Obliged
10 give up her position two weeks ago
from w"rvy, and saturday afternour
Will" visiting her sister. Mrs. Mendel-
helm, In Chester street. she became sud
denly violent and ran out of the hoise
crying Save me Her friends say that
her fears are entirely imaginary
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-18
SIPP BEING SUED BY WIFE.
Harlem Hotel Man, Graft witness
Accused Of Decciyinw Her,

George A. Sipp. the former HARLEM,
hotel keeper whose testimony in the
Nurran graft investigation three yea RI
ago resulted in the conviction Of pole,
Officials, WAS sued Yesterday in the Su.
rreme Court by his wife, Mary Il, Sipp
who seeks to set aside a sepa ration
agreement made In 1913 about the tim
Mrs Sipp vas having papers prepared
for a divorce.
Mrs, Sipp says she married Sipp in
1873 and has two sons. She says her
husband induced her to sign a separation
agreement in July. 1913. telling her there
would be no expense for her and that he
would retain attorneys for both. She
says that by causing her to sign the
agreement her husband intended to de.
ceive her and avoid giving her a suni-
cient sum for her support. She alleges
that she was overwrought and nervous
at the time and was willing to do any.
thing fox ppaeA
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-18

The gentleman appears to he suing
Us for trying 10 protect a business NJ
millions from An investigation in which
Ne we're refused 4 hearing said Mr..
Brown almost cheerfully. w are
ready for the suit
He brought forth a . oi the letter
files Of President Caldwell, who was
absent.
The American Fair Trade League in
February, 1915. sent ont "a circular Wit
the title. War on Manufacturers of
Trade Coupons, " said Mr.. Brown. re-
ferrinG 10 tho fle "Naturally We were
interested. MIR. 'Hldwel wrote 10 vari-
Gus officers. Charles II. 1ngersoll, the
president Secretary Whittier and
others, asking that before war was
started somebody investigate the bust
ness fairly and inpartiallN. ~" re-
ccived no satisfaction.
THE investigating committee was an
pointed some time in June and from
then on We wrote to tho league. tclc-
phoncd and wrote to Dr. galloway. ask
ing but one thing II we were going
TO he investigated to start right AT our
office. We would turn everything over
TO a committee. permit them Ia delve
and probe to their hearts content only
in an investigation all sides should he
heard. We received no satisfaction and
from that day To this neither Dr. Gallo
way nor any other person has ever
asked our side of IL.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-18
SUBWAY ENGINEERS STRIKE.
More Threaten TO Quit Unless Con.
tractors Act To-day.

Several hundred engineers employed
In a few sections Of the new subways
went on strike yesterday in support of
tho general strike Of 1000 subway
laborers and timbermcn. In other sec
tons the menS Remained at work in re-
Spouse TO requests of the contractors,
who said they were DESTROYS of settling
the strike and would like to have
an opportunity to do no without the
strike becoming general.
Michael Garraher, general secretary
treasurer Of tho International Tunnel
and subway Constructors Union. said
the strike of the engineers would he
extended to-day unless the contractors
did something definite.
Forty thousand metal workers have
been called to a meeting at l75 East
broadway at . T.. NJ. April 80 TO con-
slider a strike for an eight hour day,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-18
KAUFMAN SEEKS ANNULMENT
safety Razor Maker Says wife
Wasn't IcxsIIy Divorced.

The fact that Joseph Kaufman. who
made a fortune in safety razors, Is seek.
ing Ia annul his marriage to Mrs. An.
eela q. Kaufman became known here
yesterday through the filing in the
County Clerks office of an order trans.
ferring the case from Rockland county
to New York.
Kaufman IL paying his wife S75 a
week alimony u 81 900 counsel fees
under an order made in Rorkland
county. u" IL suing on the ground tina
when he married the defendant she did
not have "a valid divorce from her former
husband. John David Buckley. She Rot
that ds0gss " Nsvads Gvug years ego,