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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12
ALL BUT 10 PASSED
Results of Civil Service '.Steno' Ex-
aminations Announced Today.

Forty out of fifty who took state
civil service examinations for steno-
graphic positions have passed the ex-
animation, according to an announce
ment made by the board this morn
ing. At least half of this number
comprises stenographers now on the
states payroll who took examinations
to protect themselves. Nine were young
men.
Announcement was further made
that a waiting list of attendants is
exhausted at the state penitentiary,
state industrial reformatory, state or
phans' home, school for the deaf, Osa-
watomie state hospital, state sana-
torium for tuberculosis, hospital for
epileptics, Larned state hospital,
school for the blind, state home for
feeble minded. girls industrial school
and the Topeka state hospital. Elk
aminations will be held April %.
On April 20 an examination will be
held at Representative hall to create a
list of eligible for positions as inspec-
tor for the department of labor and
industry. Another examination will
be held at the city hall in Kansas City,
Kan, and Wichita and the court house
at Salina to create eligible lists for as
sistant grain inspectors, grain sam
piers, weighmasters, helpers and 1nois-
ture tester.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12
STIR UP NAVY SCRAP
Senate Demands FIske Letters DAN
iels Refused to Deliver.

Washington, April 12.-The con-
and Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske,
former aid for operation, took a new
turn today when the senate adopted
without discussion a resolution by
Senator Lodge calling for correspond
ence Mr.. Daniels declined to produce
before the house committee during
hearings on the naval appropriations.
The resolution described the letters
as written to the secretary in Novem-
Der, 1914, one by the general board
and one by Admiral Fiske. They are
reported to contain warnings of the
unreadiness of the navy for war.
Before the house committee, the
secretary was asked if he has not re-
ceived such letters, following his
statement that his difference with Adj
miral Fiske had not arisen over any
preparedness issue. He said commu-
nications with the general board were
confidential and would not produce
the letter.
Admiral Fiske told the same COM
mittee he had resigned as aide be-
cause he differed with Mr.. Daniels
over the navy readiness for war.
In his testimony Secretary Daniels
said the disa greement began with his
refusal to appoint F'iske commander of
the Atlantic fleet, although F'iske had
also disapproved vigorously the order
doing away with navy officers wine
mess
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12

required number of names that the
law calls for
At 2:3O this afternoon it was a
foregone conclusion that the bond is
sue will be defeated for the various
clerks who are checking on the lists
all report that the per cent Of in
eligible names are piling up and no
lists are showing enough increase to
even hope that the measure Will
carry.
Out of 81 petitions examined and
officially counted there appears, out
of a total number of 1,549 names, 756
reported as good to 1913 bad. The
great trouble the clerks are ina.rg is
til. a large percentage of those in
eligible live outside of the city limits.
When j. Will Kelley. secretary of
the Commercial club. was informed of
and said: I'm case we find that we
have not enough names of course we
will at once circulate new petitions but
am in hopes that those names yet to
be examined will reveal that we have
more than enough names who will
prove to be eligible to vote on the
question. 1t will only mean setback
for we will start in at once on new
petitions if it is found necessary"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12
R0CKISLAND MOVE
Order Granted Dissolving Big
Holding Company.
Assets Will Be Turned Over to
Receiver Dickinson.

Newark, April IAN order dis
solving the Rock Island company
holding company for the Rock Island
railroad system and in receivers hands
was granted here by Vice Chancellor
Howell.
The vice chancellor also signed an
order whereby the receiver Chaun-
cey G. Parker, will turn over to ia
cob M. Dickinson. receiver for the Chi
cago Rock Island and Pacific Railway
company certain assets of the Rock
Island company and receive in return
5000 in cash and SIS, 900 in demand
notes.
The items referred to consist in all
assets held by the Rock Island COM
pany in the Dallas Union Terminal
company, the Housan Terminal Rail-
way company and all the capital stock
of the Rock Island Improvement COM
pany and the Rock Island Coal COM
pany.
Receiver Dickinson is also to with
draw by direction of the court claim
for 100000 on the Rock Island
company which was disallowed by Re-
ceiVer Parker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12
HOT FOR CAPPER
LansdOn Promises to Go After
Governor in Earnest.
He Plans to Show Up Ineffi-
cheney of Administration.

Poor business policies and ineffi-
ciency'' will be campaign charges
against Governor Capper, according to
statement made this morning by w.
c. Lansdon of Salina, Democratic can
didate for governor. Lansdon passed
through Topeka this morning on his
way home from the Democratic con-
vertion at Hutchinson.
Governor Capper's action in slicing
the $4,000 appropriation for a revolv-
ing fund at the state prison IS costing
the taxpayers of Kansas thousands of
dollars, said Mr.. LanSdon. AT the
time he did the slicing sisal sold at
"a hundred pounds. now 1t is SELL
ing at $7.35 a hundred. We've lost
all that and in addition, from informa-
ton received, I learn that in order
to keep the Irvine plant going the state
has borrowed $4,000 from Leaven-
worth banks. This seems strange
when Earl Akers, state treasurer, tells
us that the state has two million dol
lars on deposit
Mr.. Lansdon launched into a criti-
cism of Governor Capper's action in
cutting the appropriation for the At
Gibson home and for the alleged inef-
ficlent management of the home
He tries to throw blame on the
shoulders of a Democratic board of
CONTROL" said Mr.. Lansdon. "Yet he
is the man who forced the appoint
ment of Willis, the present superin-
tendent. He vetoed an appropriation
for a manual training school there and
yet it has been built and. by doing so
other departments have been forced to
suffer-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12
WILSON is CONVICTED
Negro Found Guilty of Statutory
Charge Against Geneva jackson.

Elmer Wilson, a negro, was found
Guilty of a statutory crime against
Geneva Jackson, a 16-year-old col
ored girl, by the jury in the second
division of the district court, this af-
ternoon. Wilson has not been SEN
fenced but under the verdict he is sub
ject to a term of from one to five
years in the penitentiary.
The case was on trial all day, being
first on the docket this morning The
court room was filled with negroes.
Geneva Jackson and Nine Scott were
both complaining witnesses and all of
the witnesses were colored. Both
girls are under age.
Sordid facts brought out in the
cross examination of witnesses may
form the basis for future prosecutions
along the same line. The case was of
particular interest to county officials
for the reason that it emanates from
Park Place." a resort that has given
officials a great deal of trouble. 1t is
charged that liquor has been sold
there regularly and that many colored
girls make that a hangout, but the
Wilson case is the first statutory case
that has reached the courts.
The jury took the case at 1880
o'clock this afternoon and brought in
a verdict at $3.50 o'clock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12
were PLOT PROMOTERS
England Explains So Men Seized
Planned New Moewc Raid.

Washington, April 12.-Great Britt
aims note replying to the American
protests against the seizure of SO AUS
trians, Germans and Turks from the
American steamer China near Shang-
hal was made public today by the
state department. 1t follows the line
of argument previously indicated and
contends the seizure is justified on the
ground that the prisoners had been
engaged in plots against Great Britain
in the far east and were attempting to
return to take up arms. 1t contends
that they were not clothed with the
immunity which would attach to en-
envy subjects who merely were travel
ing
Great Britain alleges that the prt-
soners were engaged for some time
past in the collection and transmits
sion of arms and ammunition both for
cIandestine transmission to India, and
il possible for the arming of a ship
to play the part of a far-eastern
Moewe and were bound for Manila to
continue their work, having been ex-
posed to the British authorities at
Shanghai.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12
The Evening Story

(By Arthur Wallace Peach.

10y Arthur WdHdco Hedcn.)
Merriman was seated at the front
window of his club. The Common
spread out before him in its dim
promise of spring did not brighten his
thoughts. He was weary of the lily
and all it suggested. Then came the
thought that made him sit up-an
idea that offered the spice of adven-
ture and the unusual
Far up in the northern part of
Maine he had a camp which was the
pride of his heart. For the last three
seasons, it had been broken into by
thieves in spite of the man he. had
hired to look after it. Much valuable
ceding fall he had told his old guide,
Acton, that if he did not stop the
th1eving he would lose his job. Acton
had been excited, for the money Mer-
rlman paid him was a large sum, and
the old man did not want to lose it,
He had promised to do everything he
could to save the camp; but Merriman
was half suspicious that the old fell
low might be mixed up in the looting.
SO he decided to make a flying trip
to the camp earlier than he had ever
gone before and see what he could
learn by being on the premises.
He made his preparations and
clened up his business affairs in a day.
At the close of the next, he reached
the lake into which the river flowed
on which his camp was located. From
| the boathouse where he had stored his
boats he got out one of his fastest ca
noes, and, after slowing in it the nee
essary articles, headed toward his
camp. Half way up the river he
camped, and the next morning went
on. He figured that his coming
would not only be a surprise to Acton,
but to any of the thieves who were
/ accustomed to Dluuder the campS of
the region as soon as the snow left.
When he reached camp, the first
signs he saw were tracks of small
feet from the door of the camp to
4 the dock. "Boys-that's just who
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12
Oklahoma Names Delegates.

Oklahoma City, April 12.-Nine del
egates at large with fractional votes
were named by the Democratic state
convention in session here Tuesday to
the Democratic convention in ST.
Louis. Thomas Wade of NARROW was
named national committeeman by the
convention.
The only contest in the convention
was over the selection of a commit
teeman and Benjamin Lafayette of
Choctaw, who opposed Wade, with
drew after a test vote and Wade's cleo
ton was made unanimous. The con-
vention named eight presidential cleo
IS and two presidential electors at
large.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12
PETTIooAT GUARD IN K. G.
Makes Flying Speech at Depot, Then
on to Kansas.

Kansas City, April IA delegation
composed of "a women members of
the National Congressional union who
are making a cross-country journey in
behalf of woman suffrage, was in Kan
sas City half an hour today, en- route
to Topeka, where they were to spend
the day in behalf of the suffrage
cause.
From a motor car on the union sta
ton plaza, Mrs. Harriet Stanton Batch
of New York, chairman of the union,
delivered an address to the crowd of
Kansas City club women who had
gathered to welcome the visitors.
I'VE are going into Kansas to free
the women of Missouri from the
shackles of northumberland" de-
clared Mrs. Batch. I'VE are going
into the west to free the women of
the east. We are going to build up an
an independent women's party. 1t
will support the political party that
supports us"
Mrs. Batch declared her intention
of qualifying to vote in Kansas. Mrs.
Katherine Morey, a member of the
party from Massachusetts, also will go
to Kansas to qualify as a voter, she
said.
The party will leave Topeka tomor-
row noon for Emporia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12
IN KIEHL CASE
Judge Dana viii Award Gus
tody of Child Saturday.
After Long Neglect, Father
Seeks to Claim Girl.

Judge A. w. Dana, of the first di-
vision of the district court, will hold
the case involving the custody of ~
year-old Helen Kiehl Turner under
Amusement until Saturday. He heard
the TESTIMONY yesterday afternoon and
expected to announce his decision at
1880 o'clock today but was not ready
to decide. His decision will determine
whether the child shall remain in the
custody OF her grandmother or go to
her father, Herbert Turner who had
NOT seen her for eleven years until last
week.
Helen. who is now IL years of age,
has been in the custody of Mrs. j. w.
kiehl, of 81 Madison, since she was
two years old, when her mother died.
She was legally adopted by Charles
and Mrs. Cora Harris at that time but,
1t was shown in court, has always
been in Mrs. Kiehl's care. Mrs. Kiehl
is the mother of Mrs. Harris.
Turner has not lived in Topeka in
recent years and evidence introduced
in the case shows that he has paid
no attention to the child in eleven
years. The mother of the girl was q
daughter of Mrs. Kiehl and upon her
death the husband left this section of
the country
Returned Last Week.
Turner now lives at Shelton, Wash
when he found that divorce proceed
1ngs between Mr.. and Mrs. Harris
were pending. He thought he saw d
chance to secure the custody of the
child for the reason that she had been
legally adopted by the Harris family
Mrs Kiehl took the stand in the
court room and told of her interest in
the child; how she had dressed her
and supported her, how she had sent
her to the best schools and given her
the benefit of music lessons Wit
nesses were placed on the stand to
show that she is exceptionally well
advanced for a child of her age-all
tending to show that she is in good
hands.
Turner was given a grilling on the
stand because of the apparent neglect
he had shown towards his own child
1t was shown that he had written her
no letters and sent her no money.
The child did not know him when
he went to the school she attends and
met her in the office of the principal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12
FAMOUS PASTOR QUITS
DIR. VIM. Williamson of ST. Louis De-
cIined Call to n. Y.

st. Louis, April 1.-THE resigna-
ton of the Rev. William d. William
son, pastor of the Third Baptist church
last February, will be accepted by the
advisory board of the church tonight
it was learned today. DR. Williamson
is in a private sanitarium where he
was taken that he might secure a COM
plete rest.
DIR. Williamson, whose church here
has more than 1900 members, is one
of the best known Protestant clergy
men in the United States. For a time
he was president OF the Baptist Young
Peoples union, and he declined a call
to Calvary Baptist church, New York.
He formerly was pastor of the Bales
avenue Baptist church, Kansas City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12

A Rochester, n. Y. clergyman de-
clares that the people of New York
City spend a round million dollars a
day in dissipation" in which he in
cludes attendance at the movies and
so on and so forth. But inasmuch as
the City of New York has a population
of more than five million persons the
daily per capita expenditures for dis
sipation" does not seem to be ex-
'cessive. AS a matter of fact, the prob
abilities are that New Workers spend
considerably more than a million dol
lars a day on what some clergymen
consider dissipation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12
MAY FOLLOW KANSAS
Illinois Official Will Attend Head
Officer school at Topeka.

Springfield, Ill, April Secretary
of the State Board of Health Drake
announced today that Paul Hensen,
sanitary engineer of the board, will at
tend the Kansas health officers sum
mer school at Topeka, Kan, April "a
to 20, with a view of organizing such
a school in Illinois.
Should Hensen's report on the Kan
sas school be favorable, $4,000 Illinois
health officers will be called together,
probably in September at Springfield,
to undergo a week of instructions
from the mem bers of the state board
and hear lectures by the chief sani-
tarians of the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12
PETITIONS IN DANGER
Auditorium Bond Election May Be
Disqualified by Signers.

The city clerk this morning frankly
confessed that the petitions for the
bond election for the new auditorium
was in danger for, from their inves-
legations so far, the fact was re-
vealed that many signers have not
been registered
Look at this petition, and it is a
fair sample of all those we have al
ready examined" said Miss Covell, the
city clerk as she held up for inspec-
ton a petition, this shows that nearly
half of the names have never been
registered voters and unless there is a
let-up in the number of names we
have had to scratch off as Ineligible
1 really believe that the whole mea-
sure is in danger of not having the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12
UMPIRES NAMED
President Zehrung Announces
w. L. Indicator Men Today.
r. w. POntius the Only KanSan
on the New Staff.

st. Joseph, Mo-, April 1.-THE dou-
BILE system of umpires is to be used
altogether in the Western league this
season for the first time. according to
announcement of Frank Zehrung,
president of the league. Zehrung also
announced his appointments as UNI
pires as follows:
Harry C. Kane, Ell Paso, Texas; w.
J. Carney, Hopkins, Mimi; R. w.
Pontius Dodge City, Kan; Ed A. Eek
man, Chicago; Jack Ryan, st. Louis:
Ollie Anderson. San Aantonio, Texas;
DR.. Jay A. Andrews. Des Moines; John
Mullen, Pittsburg Pa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12

. Henry White, a former United States
ambassador to France, hits big nail
squarely on the head in his observa-
ton that the United States will never
assume its rightful place in the fam
lily of nations until politics ceases to
play an important part in the selec-
ton Of American diplomats and the
administration of the army and navy.
What we need, as Mr.. White points
out, is efficiency in our diplomatic
service and of course that cannot be
developed while all of our major diplo-
matte posts are used as appointive
places through which to pay political
debts or build up political machines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12

bush-leaguer into much of our politi-
cal thinking and acting. Glaring err
rors of judgment, painfully slow rea-
soning. persistent bear-baiting, and
poor team work mark our politics
from the village cracker-box sympo-
sium to the marketable gatherings in
the District of Columbia. America
can never hope to stick in the big
league unless she suddenly evidences
considerably more team work and
considerably less noise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12
MAKES BAD CHECK GOOD
Kirwin Boy Digs Up 81 to Pay Palace
of Sweets Bill.

Officer McGovern has received a
money order for 81 from a boy out
in Kansas settling up for a phony
check held by the Palace of Sweets
The money order came from Frank
Hubbel of Kirwin. The check was
made to Hubbel and had an endorse
ment on the back, but the endorser
didn't care about making good the
face of the check and it was put up
to Hubbel He asked Officer Nc
Govern for a few days in which to
make the check good and it was
granted. Today the money order
came and everything is lovely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12

Who would think that there is a
question as to whether or not the wat
ers of the Gulf of Mexico have high
er or lower surface level than those of
Die Atlantic? But there is, and the
chemists are at such loggerheads over
II. that the United States Coast and
GOedetic Survey has undertaken the
task of settling it. And. possibly,
when this matter is determined, the
Geodetic survey will have the time to
ascertain at what point on our sea-
coast. the ocean is closest to the shore.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12

come on apace and the theatrical
business is not as good as it was form
erly. But Topeka still patronizes a
good show which has been we'll and
thoroughly advertised. Witness the
recent great success of the play '1t
Pays to Advertise" Maude Adams, and
other first class attractions that the
Crawfords have brought here, includ-
ing Twin Beds" first production;
Forbes in Third Floor
Back" VIM. H. Crane, Norman Hack
EFT.
While this subject is under consid-
Mr.. Crawford advertises or does not
advertise, would have been untrue to
its public duty had it refrained from
announcing that the Grand theater is
now unsafe and unfit for the public,
based on the official statements to
that effect.
The official report of State Labor
Commissioner Mcbride, printed in this
paper yesterday, is startling. Wooden
stairways, frail fire escapes, the most
astounding condition of the electric
wiring, are all reported officially. The
State Journal is not asserting this it.
self, the authorities are merely being
quoted. Furthermore, the authorities
according to Inspector Mcbride, as
quoted in the governors own
newspaper today, say there is
but one theater in the city
which is wired according to the
standard electric rulesl This is shame
this time neglected their duty? Why
have they waited until the theatrical
season is closed instead of pointing
out these dangers last fall when the
season began? This paper admits
that the official facts which have
come out this week about such de-
plorable conditions are news to it.
Regardless of whether the owners re-
wire the Grand opera house as or
dered, take down the wooden stairway
on the south, strengthen the fire es-
capes on the north and do other
things which are ordered by the state
and city to be done within thirty days,
the fact still remains that those who
control the theatrical and amusement
activities and recreations of Topeka
owe it to this community to provide an
absolutely fireproof theater, modern
safe and comfortable.
L. NJ. Crawford has made a wonder
full success in Topeka as an amuse-
ment man. His son Roy has grown
up in the business and is a capable
manager. Mr.. Crawford was at one
time a bill poster in this city and, be it
said to his credit, through his energy,
ability and persistence became an
amusement magnate with fine the
aters in other cities; and with an ac-
emulation of money so that he could
occupy his time and means in other
ventures, notably in big ranches,
where, for instance. he grew high
grade lambs which sold for fabulous
sums, and made other successes.
We do wish Mr. Crawford would
put up better buildings in Topeka to
house his theaters, office tenants and
roomers. The Novelty is probably his
best constructed theater but he did
not build that. Mr.. Crawford is said
to have a very good, substantial opera
house at Wichita. Why not at To-
peka?
Mr.. Crawford really should erect in
this city real opera house to which
people could go with a feeling of en-
tire safety and comfort. Such a build
ing would tie a monument to his en-
ergy and success and Topeka, where
he has SO long lived, is the place for it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12

What fruit the submarines of the
Teutons could pick up, or rather pickle
in the depths of the sea, if it were pos
sible for them to work in the Pacific.
The American-Hawaiian liner. Homo
lulan, recently sailed from Tacoma for
Nladivostok with a cargo consigned to
Russia that is valued at 100000.
This ship is carrying what is said to be
the most valuable cargo ever booked
on the Pacific coast