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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-24
The President VIII Be Accom-
panied by His Bride.
More Popularity Added to His
Visit to Topeka.
WILL Be HERE FIVE HOURS
The Party Will Be Entertained
by Governor Capper.
Thousands of Visitors From
Over the State Expected.

Kansas will receive a formal intro
duction to the first lady of the land
when President Woodrow Wilson
comes to Topeka Wednesday, Febru-
airy ?. Official announcements from
Washington state that Mrs. Wilson
will accompany the president on his
western speaking trip. In Topeka the
presidents party will probably be en-
tertained at a luncheon at the home
of Governor Capper.
With the news that Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson is coming to Kansas, a social
feature was today added to the state
wide political concern in the visit of
the president The presidents party
will spend five hours in Topeka and
Kansas society will make the most of
the opportunity to meet the presidents S
bride in those few house. Because
President Wilson has urged that his
speeches be recognized as non-parti-
san, the committees in charge of the
entertainment will be composed of
both Republicans and Democrats. By
the same token, Governor Arthur Cap
per, Republican, will be host to Presi-
ident Woodrow Wilson, Democrat.
VIII Reach Here at 10.
The presidents party, including the
president, Mrs Wilson and members
of the presidents official staff, will ar
rive in Topeka at 10 O'Clock Wednes-
day morning, February 2 The trip
Z Il
made by special train over the Rock
Island. The train will take the pres
ident's party in the afternoon, leaving
here at o'clock
Preparedness will be the principal
topic discussed by the president TeIe-
grams from Washington announce
that the president will outline in de-
! tail his policies before congress and
will urge national support of these
measures by both parties. Need of
national defenses and the administra-
tion's program for a larger army and
navy will be discussed in the speech
in Topeka.
Thousands Are Coming.
Plans now being worked out by
persons in charge of the meetings
probably will result in bringing thou
sands of visitors to Topeka for the
meeting. Several special trains prob
ably will be run to accommodate out
of-town persons who desire to hear
the presidents speech. Messages re-
ceived by hotels today indicated that
| every Democrat of note in Kansas
would come to Topeka for the Wilson
meeting probably the president
only visit to this state during the cam
! paign-
Requests that the president and
Mrs. Wilson be entertained privately
while in Topeka have resulted in plans
for the presidents entertainment al
the home of Governor Capper. A Sc
lect party of prominent Kansans will
attend the luncheon.
The president will speak at
o'clock in the afternoon. Immediate
ly following his Topeka speech, he
will leave for Kansas City, where he
will speak at a night meeting.
After Topeka-to st. Louis.
Washington, Jan. 24.-Presiden
Wilson decided today to include ST
Louis in the itinerary of the middl,
western trip he will begin Frida,
night He will visit st. Louis tn,
morning of February 8, on the wa!
back to Washington from Topeka
Kan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-24
Y net SET MEETING OF NOTE SENT TO BELOIT
TheIma Grant Is Committed to
Industrial School.
Violated Her Parole When She
Left Topeka.

because she felt the need of a va
cation and took it at a very inoppor-
tune time for county officials. Thelma
Grant. 13. has been committed to the
girls reformatory at Beloit. The
Grant girl was the complaining wit
ness in the case of the state against
Arthur Davenport, defendant in one
Of the numerous state hospital scan
dal cases. who was charged with a
statutory crime against. the negro
girl.
1t was her testimony which was
taken at Davenport's preliminary in
the court of Topeka and introduced
at the trial in the first division of the
district court that convinced jury
that Davenport was guilty as charged
Davenport is facing a term in the PEN
itentiary of from five to twenty-one
years.
Thelma Grant got herself into trou-
BILE a few days before the Davenport
trial in the district court when she un-
expectedly left the city and went to
Iowa. County officials have informa-
ton that Davenport took her to the
depot when she left town.
A few days after the trial was over
the girl returned to Topeka quietly as
If she had done nothing out of the or
binary. The county attorneys office
sent a deputy sheriff after her and
in the county attorneys office she told
Robert Carver and w. e. Atchison
that she just needed a vacation and
took If
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-24
Big Attendance at Kansas Day
Club Banquet.
It Promises To Be Largest in
History of Organization.
MANY WOMEN ARE COMING
Miss Esther Dykes viii Be One
of the Speakers.
Only Fight for Office VIII Be
on Secretary.

Final details for the entertainment
of nearly 1000 Republicans at the
annual banquet of the Kansas Day
club are being worked out today by
officers of the club. Ticket sales have
indicated the largest crowd in the his
tory of the club. One man today
bought 100 tickets, while several
towns sent messages that they would
send delegations of from so to 100
Republican workers.
Unusual interest centers in the Re-
publican banquet this year. The fact
that the state committee meets Sat
urday has given a new interest to the
affairs of the club. Again, the re-
ports that many of the Progressives
of 1912 and 1914 will attend the BAN
quet has tended to boost the ticket
sale among conservatives who desire
that the returning prodigals be prop
erly welcomed. In addition to these
situations. a half dozen or more po-
litical booms Will be unloaded in the
hotel lobbies preceding the banquet
proper. Then, too, the mixup in the
party as to an instructed or un-
instructed delegation, has occasioned
concern and many Republican leaders
Continued on Page -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-24
INCOME TkXIS
UPHELD BY u. S.
SUPREME: COURT
Fifty-Year Fight on Federal
Tax Closes.
Imposed First During Civil
War, Then Lapsed.
FIVE CASES ARE At ISSUE
In Each Case e. S. Won in the
Lower Court.
Law Adopted as 18th Amend
ment on March 1, 1918.
In Each Case Z. S. Won in the
Lower Court.

Washington, Jan. 24.-The supreme
court today upheld the constitutional
ity of the income tax law.
Five separate suits to test the con-
stltutionality of the new income tax
We're brought in the federal courts
throughout the country soon after the
law became effective and all found
their way to the supreme court of the
United States soon after.
For nearly fifty years the fight for
and against a federal income tax has
been somewhere in the courts.
Attacks Not Serious Then
The income tax imposed during the
Civil war and the years Immediately
following were not attacked with the
seriousness of later cases. 1t was not
until the Cleveland administration
placed an income tax in the Wilson
tariff act that the fight became
serious
An agitation for an amendment to
the constitution came to nothing until
President Taft recommended the en-
actment of an excise tax on corpora
tions to be measured by their income
and an amendment to the constitution
to permit the levying of an income
tax on all income. The amendment
was submitted to the state at once
and was proclaimed the sixteenth
amendment to the constitution on
March 1, 1918.
Gives Congress Power.
1t provided:
''The congress shall have power to
lay and collect taxes on incomes from
IContinued on Page Four.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-24
Two Missouri Concerns Enter
Pleas in Supreme Court.
Others Are Expected to Follow
in a Short Time.
ORDER OF CUSTER is ISSUED
In the Case of the Syndicate
BOttIing Company.
Kansas City BreWeries Com
pany Will Pay $1,000 Fine.

Missouri brewers this afternoon
gave up their fight to do business in
Kansas and two of the six concerns
recently proceeded against by S. NJ.
Brewster, attorney general, entered
pleas before the supreme court Other
brewers are expected to follow this ac-
ton. Companies which surrendered
this afternoon were the Syndicate Beer
Bottling company and the Kansas City
Breweries company, both of Kansas
City.
The elimination of the fight be-
tween the state and breweries came
this afternoon when attorneys for the
two defendant companies went to the
attorney generals office and stated
that they wanted quarter. Both COM
panies then went before the supreme
court and judgment in favor of the
state We're entered III both cases.
In the case of the Syndicate Beer
Bott1ing company, a complete order of
custer is issued. This order prohib-
it's the company doing business in
Kansas or sending its wagons or
trucks into this state for the purpose
of delivering intoxicating liquor. Sew
eral weeks ago the attorney general
brought custer suit against this COM
4
delivery of liquor on the Kansas side
I by wagons and trucks owned by the
/ defendant company. The order issued
/ by the supreme court in the case of
the beer bottling company is a perpet-
ual order of custer.
Fine of $1,000.
/ With the plea of guilty by the Kan
sas City Breweries company, a fine of
! $1,000 is carried Recently the su-
preme court issued a contempt cita-
ton against the company for viola =
ton of an order in the brewery GUS
ter suits of 1908. 1t was charged in a
recent petition by Brewster that the
company had violated the courts or
der and was engaged In the delivery
of intoxicating liquor in violation Of
the original order The plea of guilty
in this case means that the breweries
company has given up its fight and
agrees to leave the state for all time.
A fine of $1,000 will also be paid.
Both companies also agree to pay
all the costs in the case. These costs
amount to several hundred dollars.
One bill is for $500 for the feeding of
several teams owned by the brewery
interests. These teams were seized
when the court issued an order against
the defendant companies several
wee ks ago. Winfield Freeman, re-
ceiver for the companies, must also
be paid.
T. A. Pollock, of Kansas City, repre-
senting the brewing interests, appear
ed before the attorney general today
in the settlement of the case.
According to reports received at the
state house. the Dick Brothers com
pany and other wholesale liquor con
Germs will probably enter pleas in tht
custer and contempt cases in a few
| days. The pleas today are accepted
as a surrender of the fight by the
brewers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-24
ON KANSAS
Frank p. MacLennan of Topeka
at Los Angeles.
On Kansas Day Program There
With Governor Johnson.

Los Angeles. Cal. Jan. 24.-Frank
P. Mac Lehman, owner and publisher
of the Topeka State Journal of To-
peka. Kan, has been invited to speak
before the Kansas Day club of Cali
fornia at their banquet in Los Ange-
les, January %. Several hundred for
mer Kansans will attend the banquet
and preparations are being made for
the entertainment of a number of Wis
itors.
California Republicans who former
ly lived in the Sunflower state have
adopted the practice of observing the
anniversary of their native state. Mr..
MacLennan and family have been in
California several weeks and the To-
peka publisher has been selected to
deliver the messages from the folks
at home" THE Kansas Message to
California" will be the subject of his
address. Governor Hiram Johnson,
Progressive, will respond with Cali
fornia's Message to Kansas"
Mr.. MacLennan spoke before the
Woman's Republican league here last
week
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-24
NET SET
Fleeing MOntenegrins in Grave
Danger of Capture.
Invaders Spring Coup to Cut
OFF Retreat.
PLAN LAST STAND AT SCUTARI
Little Nations Civilians Now
Fear AustrO Vengeance.
Entente Powers Ready to Make
Greece Big Loan.
PLAN LAST STAND At SCUTARI
BY HENRY WOOD.

Rome, Jan. 24.-The remnants of
the Montenegrin army are today in
grave danger of capture. Austrian
troops, having occupied the Montene-
grin seaport of DuIcigno, are moving
eastward to cut off the Montenegrin
retreat to the Adriaic from Scutari.
The situation of General Martino-
vitch's forces is most critical
If the Montenegrins escape the Aus
trian net and reach the Adriatic, they
will be transported to the island of
Corfu. AS rapidly as possible the Ser
bians in Albania are being loaded
upon troop ships for Corfu. Within
a fortnight only Italian expeditionary
forces in Albania will dispute posses
sion of the eastern Adriatic coast with
the Austrians.
Montenegrin government officials
who arrived here today from Brindisi,
said the complete evacuation of their
little country by Montenegrin troops
had been planned before they sailed.
The Montenegrins were to fall back
across the Albanian border upon Sou
tari, being joined there by few thou
sand Serbs and Albanian irregulars
under Essa6 Pasha- They planned a
last stand at Scutari, hoping to be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-24
POOR OLD ST.LOUIE
Missouri City Is Certainly Sore
at Little Topeka.
President Wilson Passed Them
Up for Kansas Capital!
N.Y. Myi Ach Louie!

st. Louis town is wroth. In addi-
ton to the general peevish DISPOSE
ton that is apparent in the town, re-
ports from the town indicate that
even the beer wagons are draped in
mourning 1t is all because President
Wilson cut st. Louie off his itinerary
to come to Topeka Ach himmeli Just
think. The president passed the oasis
of the West to come to strictly dry
territory. st. Louis can't understand.
Last week VIXEN the presidents S
original itinerary was prepared, it in
cluded st. Louis. Then a change was
made President Wilson wanted to
carry his preparedness message to
Kansas. st. Louis was wiped from
the slate and Topeka's name written
on the official itinerary.
Why should the president ignore
St. Louis for Topeka ?" asks the st.
Louis Times in four-column, two
line, first-page heading announcing
the fact that St Louis had lost Then
for two columns it tries to eSplain,
But St Louis is slow to understand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-24
POWDER
Factory
BL0WS-UP
KILLS IS
Kelker Blower Company Plant
Scene of Blast.
Three-StOry Building Crumples
When Boiler ExplOdes.
SCHOOL CHILDREN IN PANIC
Building They Occupied Nearby
Partially Wrecked.
Two Score NOrkmen Buried;
Fire Breaks Out.
kelker Blower Company Plant
Scene of Blast.
Three-StOry Building Crumples
When Boiler ExplOdes.
SCHOOL CHILDREN IN PANIC
Building They Occupied Nearby
Partially Wrecked.
Two Score NOrkmen Buried;
Fire Breaks Out.

Euffa'o Jan. aI.-Ifftcen workmcn
were killed and as many more prob
ably fatally injured in an explosion at
the plant of the KcIker RIowcr COM
Uany i'll Harrison street here this af-
tcrnOOn.
Without warning the hoiler i'm the
plant exploded with terrific force and
the three story building crumpled to
the ground burying the two score
Eorl<men in its ruins. Few escaped
uniniured and these entered into the
work of rcscuing their less fortunate
comrades.
Fire broke out in the ruins. The
explosion broke every pane of glass in
school No. 26 across the street from
the wrecked factory and threw the
several hundred pupils into panic.
The school fire alarm was sounded
and the children marched out with
out disorder. None was hurt.
The Blower company is operated
lnder the Larkin company and man
ufactured glass and pottery ware and
is said to have been engaged in the
manufacture of gun powder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-24
BREAK "HEAT" RECORD
Temperature Reached go in Topeka
This Afternoon.

The temperature record for this
date was shattered this afternoon
when the mercury mounted to so de-
grees at 2:4O O'Clock. The previous
high mark was 5S degrees, cStab-
Iished in 1892.
Weather of the April variety pre-
walls in Topeka today, but the pros
pect is for a reversion to near-winter
tempera ture. The kaw river is fall
ing but there is still a large amount of
ice, and some danger in case of rise.
The situation is not so serious as two
days ago as the river has fallen to IL
feet. The stage on Saturday was
feet.
The forecast calls for unsettled
weather tonight and Tuesday; colder
tonight and much colder Tuesday.
Fresh to strong northerly winds are
also predicted. The wind this morn
ing was in the south, but there was a
prospect for a change by tonight.
The lowest temperature last night
was SO degrees This is the normal
night temperature for the first week
of April. This morning one might
imagine he could hear the birds sing
ing" said s. D. Flora, local observer.
I'm fact lady told me that she had
seen a woodpecker here. In case OF
extreme cold weather there is danger
to the fruit as the high temperatures
of the past few days has brought out
the buds on the trees
In 1894 the mercury went down to
IA degrees below zero, the lowest tenn
perature on record for this date. The
high mark is So degrees established
in 1892. The temperature today was
expected to go near this point. as the
mercury at 10 o'clock was up to A
degrees.
The lowest temperature at Topeka
( tonight will be about 30 degrees. The
shippers forecast calls for 10 degree
Temperatures for SO hour shipments
north and west; east and south. 90 tc
"a degrees.
The average temperature today was
! 22 degrees above normal Temper
atures in the extreme northwestern
part of the country are reported as
Z low as IS degrees below zero.
/ Hourly temperature readings for to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-24
IT IS her CHANCE
Chicago Girl Tries to Take Ad-
vantage of Leap Year.
Seeks to Get a Line on Eligible
Men in Kansas.

Looking for a housekeeper-one
who admits she is only twenty and
pretty?
W. O. Rigby, postmaster, can put
you next He has letter from a Chi
cago girl, Eleanor Smith, who is inter
ested in Kansas men. 1t is men" just
now. She expresses a Willingness to
become interested later in a Kansas
man She wants to correspond with
some young gentleman and asked Mr..
Rigby to give her letter publicity in
the town newspaper
Eleanor writes a nice hand. says she
is a good housekeeper. that she is 20,
fair of complexion and pretty. Eleanor
may be an actress. She doesn't say
But she asks that her letters be sent
in care of the billboard" a theatri-
cal publication
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-24
DIG OUT VICTIMS
800 Men Seek More Bodies in
Avalanche Wreck.
Death List of Train Disaster
Now Has Eight Dead.

Seattle Jan 24.-Three hundred
men continued digging today in the
huge pile of snow and debris which
marks the spot where an avalanche
Saturday morning wrecked two cars
of the westbound Cascade limited train
The men are seeking the bodies of
Mrs Fern Wallace and her baby, of
Lyons, Wash; Ralph Batterman of
Wenatchee, Wash, and an unidentified
passenger. Eight persons now are
thought to have lost their lives in the
accident.
Other gangs of men, assisted by
large rotary snowplows, were striving
to clear away the slides which block a
part of the Great Northern's trans
continental line.
The snow in some places is piled
sixty feet deep.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-24
KANSAS CANNOT
SEE GREATEST
FEATURE FILM
State CensOrs and Appeal
Board Kill Big Movie.
'Birth Of Nation" Given a
Double Blow Here Today.
MANAGEMENT WILL FIGHT
Owners of Great Drama viii
Go to Courts Soon.
Ross Said He Didn't Like 1t,
So Killed 1t Himself.
MANAGEMENT WILL FIGHT
Owners of Great Drama Will
Go to Courts Soon.

The state appeal boaFd-GOv- 4.
ernor Capper, S. Nj. Brewster, at
torney general. and j. L. Botl1in,
secretary of state-thiS afternoon
affirmed the decision of the pic
ture censorship board and barred
the display of the Birth of
Nation film. II. 4. Sherman,
manager of the film company,
announced that the case would be
taken to the courts.
Action by the appeal board was
taken in secret conference follow
ing hearing. After the decision
had been announced, Sherman
stated that an effort would be
made to show the picture regard
less of adverse action. He said
that the picture would be brought
to Topeka February 21 and in
junction proceedings filed to
block state interference.
Mornings Action.
The action taken by the state NOV
ing picture board proper this morning
follows:
Vestlng himself with the power of g
state and the judgment of 1870, ,00C
men. women and children, w. d. Ross
as the state censor board rejected
The Birth of Nation" the greatesl
film production the world has eVel
known. Ross did not so much as con
fer with Miss Carrie Simpson, state
who favored the showing of the
picture He admitted having "over
heard" a conversation which indicated
the attitude of the appeal board il
event the picture was rejected. 81
Ross acted.
"The Birth of a Nation" Ross de
cided, was too immoral for Kansas
That was the decision of one man who
decided for a state on perhaps the
greatest motion picture the world hal
known.
"The picture is rejected because
is not proper, is not instructive, anC
from its false title through its tissu'
of misrepresen entations of the north, tn
(Continued on Page 81
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-24
YUMA FLOOD TERRIFIC.
Refugee Floated Six Hours on House,
Tells of Disaster

Yuma. AriZ., Jan z4.-First hand
reports of probable loss of life and
great property damage on the Cali
fornia side of the Colorado river be-
gan arriving here through refugees
today The town is crowded with
refugees. John Seldom, the first man
in. said his house in the Bard Indian
reservation of the Yuma irrigation
project, was washed away.
He said he took refuge on the roof
and floated about in the flood waters
for six hours, before being able to
reach land. While on the house he
saw a man, woman and two children
float by, clinging to a buggy. Seldom
lost all his livestock and said other
residents suffered similar losses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-24
Not SenSitiUe
About Her Age
Was Only $50

Bakersfield, Cal. Jan. "a
Mary Tecuyas, an Indian squaw
said to be $50 years old, died from
natural causes. according to the
report issued by the authorities
following an inquest here today.
She was the oldest member of an
almost extinct tribe known as the
Teions living in a canon near here.
The TRIBE is said to include be-
tween fifteen and twenty persons
more than 100 years old.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-24
Jap Girls Who
Planted Sacred
Rice Are Lucky

Tokia. Jan. 24.-The japanese
virgins who planted the sacred
rice used during the recent coro-
nation of Emperor Yoshihito have
received countless offers of mar
riage from all parts of the empire
and the young men who tended
the sacred rice have been invited
by prominent families to become
adopted sons Participation in
the holy rites of the coronation is
supposed to be accompanied by
many blessings and the young
women and men who had to do
with the sacred rice are very
greatly respected. Many of the
girls have already been welded.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-24
u. p. President
While Skating
Cracks Uranium

Omo ha, Jan. 24.-1he condi-
tion of A. L. Mohler. president of
the Union Bacific Railway COM
pany. who was injured while
skating yesterday, was reported
as very satisfactory early today.
President Mohler had fully re-
covered consciousness and his
physicians reported his pulse and
respiration normal, and that aside
from The shock and a slight con-
cussion OF the brain he had suf-
fered no i'll effects from his fall.
He is expected t. be out in two
or three days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-24
EMPEROR i'll AGAIN
MaIady of Aged Franz Joseph of Aus
tria Reaches Acute Stage.

Paris, Jan. 24-Press dispatches
from Rome say that considerable
anxiety is felt in Vienna in conse-
quence of the illness of Emperor Franz
Joseph. whose chronic bronchitis has
assumed an acute form. They add he
is confined to his bed, that all court
receptions and audiences have been
suspended and that he is not even re-
ceiving the military authorities. He is
being nursed by the Archduchess Zita,
wife of the heir to the throne. accord
ing to the same dispatches