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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-15

Mrs. Ida Jarvis. Mrs. H. D. Eddy,
Mrs. c.. "A. Reniker, Mrs. J. L. Tenant,
Mrs. Michael. Mrs. Y. Toothman,
Mrs. A. H. Perkins, Mrs. Jesse Will
son, Mrs. Oliver Shurtleff, Mrs. Pc
que, Mrs. Cora Barr. Mrs Gladys
Walls, the Misses Sallie Martin, Cora
Lee Monroe, Mary Powell and Iva
Toothman. The regular Mothers meet
ing was held after the party. Mrs.
Lowe of Bassnetville, was honored by
being voed in as life member Of the
w c. T. u. /.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-15

Sails. Heswons q conquest and what
would be the ioy3ot conquest Il nc! one
knew any thing about ft.nn
Don't syonFthink; tJim,that perhaps
the man Is not always SO much OF q
cad as you are Eliminating" He may
|ibe much In love with the woman and
In think one Of the chiefest Joys OF love
|to}aSwoman Is being able to talk
about It. Every woman even II her
love is secret and the telling Of It
means disgrace, tells someone am
sure.
"Jim. where you men make the mis-
take of your lives is in. not giving
the woman hecredit Of being human.
She likes her conquests to be known
also..s
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-15
S

l was very much worried when l re
ceived Eleanor's last letter, little book.
First I knew that she must have
money to get away from the city, as
Dick had confessed to me that all the
money she had had for months he had
given her. /,
OF course I knew, little book, that
that l had sent the money, but 1t
would not, be necessary for her to ac-
knowledge 1t. The conventions would
be- respected: She could sooth her
conscience with the idea that she
was not perfectly sure who had sent
it. i did not write her any more let
ters and two days afterward Jim Edie
came over to the houseand said-"Dtd
YOU know, Margie, that Eleanor Fair.
low had gone to Chicago to ltve?"
Dick began to blush and act SO
strangely that I was afraid that Jim
would notice it and SO hastened to
remark, Eyes, poor girl, she told ms
that she had found out that she was
not strong enough for nursing and
she was going to Chicago to act as
her mothers. 1 think she Will be
happier there"
Eleanor Fairlow has always
seemed to me to have been spoiled by
too much luxury and indulgence"
said Jim. "She Is one of those women
who must be taken are Of; one OF the
perfectly useless females, who, never
theless can be very amusing and at
times most interesting. In fact she
isl the type of woman that most men
like-soft and yielding, who never
quite succumbs, because she is not
sufficiently tempted. Eleanor Fair
low would think she was desperately
in love with a man and would give
herself unreservedly and say to her
self she was justified because she
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-15

pistol to her temple, pulled the trig-
ger and fell dead.
hobart now Is in st. Joseph's hos
pital fighting for his life. When con-
scious he gasps: "If i live, I'm going
back to my wife and kids"
Pinned to the waist of the woman
whom Joliet people thought a wife,
the police found this notes
"The wages Of sin and deception is
DEATH"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-15
DIVIDED SKIRT FOR
WOMEN WHO BOWL

Mrs. leila Davis, a star among wo'
men bowlers of Cleveland, O., has IN
troduced a bowling skirt that prob
ably will become popular among wo'
men who follow the sport.
The skirt is divided, like the kind
sometimes used for horseback riding
There is a panel that buttons across
the skirt when it is to be worn on
the street, SO it cannot be seen the
skirt is divided.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-15

Joliet knew until recently as Mrs. Ro-
bart entered.
"WIil you take me back" she
cried,
away.
Mrs. Fy1er drew a revolver from her
muff, one she had had charged to Ros
bart's account. She fired, and hobart
fell, shot through the neck:
The woman placed the muzzle OF the
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-15

ITO John hobart one revolver, So"
read a bill from a hardware firm as
John hobart, head Of the Joliet Weld.
ing Co, Joliet, Ill. entered his offices.
What the devils this" he ex-
claimed to his secretary.
AT that moment the door was flung
open and Mrs. Lillian Fyler, whom all
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-15

3 steam shovel which has been at
work on Helen's Run vas dastteyed
by fire. The fireman hadSSbsnked thp
fires and had gone to bank TIC hEe Of
the other engines and5sWhen ~ re-
turned at 8 o'clock the steam sloyel
was on fire.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-15

at trial OF his wife and two negroes
held for the crime, told how doctor
was killed and she seriously wounded
while driving in auto.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-15

II the leaves on your house plants
dry up, turn yellow and die, you may
know your house is overheated and
the air too dry. Venttlate!
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-15

Small Fire at Worthinaton.
A. L.. Anderson & Bros. met with
quite a loss on Thursday night. !
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-25
FOR CLEAR WATER
Wells and Artificial Filtration
Is City Solution.
Then 25O,OOO-GallOn Reservoir
Can Serve as a Filter.

Clear water wells and artificial
filtration plants at the city pumping
station as solution of this city's water
supply in a few years were forecast
in figures and opinions of experts on
the kaw valley water supply, pro-
duced by Frank Newland, water and
lights commissioner. Mr.. Newland
points out that should this come to
pass the $4,000 gallon reservoir, for
which the city advertised for bids this
week, can be made to serve as one of
the new wells and filters without
much alteration.
Government water supply experts
say the underflow in Kansas is reced-
ing at the rate of from eight to twelve
feet in twenty years. At Salina the
flow has receded twelve feet in that
length of time. At that rate it will
altogether. 1t has receded at Topeka
about eight feet.
Strong Salt Water.
At the city pumping station there is
a stratum of sand under the river bed.
Under the sand is a stratum of clay
beneath which is the gravel stratum
through which the underflow makes
its way. Beneath the gravel is bed
rock.
Tests made by the city some time
ago show the water under the bedrock
is unfit for use. A test we'll was bored
and soapstone, a skim of oil, a STRAIT
UNI OF coal and a bed of salt were
found at different depths. The salt
water was so strong the we'll has to
be plugged to keep it from polluting
the underflow wells.
The water taken from beneath the
first stratum of clay is filtered by a
natural process, Mr.. Newland points
out. If the underflow totally recedes
the water for city use must be taken
from the river bed. which of course
means artificial filtration. But that
Mr. Newland says, will not come this
year-the next or the next, but he ad-
mits he expects the condition eventual
ly.
The city wells now obtain their wa
ter from the underflow and the arti-
fetal filtration is not necessary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-25
VIII Come This Way Instead
via Kansas City.
OVER LEAVENWORTH & Topeka
New Traffic Will Make Old Line
Paying Proposition.
Make This City a More Inn
pOrtant Point.

All westbound Rock Island passen-
gers. out of Leavenworth, will be
routed over the L. T. through To-
peka, rather than through Kansas City
on the Kansas City Western electric
line. Announcement of an agreement
between the Rock Island and L. & T.
to this effect was made today by w.
c. Austin, receiver for the L. & T. Mr..
Austin is interested in a shirt factory
at Leavenworth and came here today
the Commercial club, concerning the
advisability of locating the factory in
Topeka.
Not only will this agreement affect
westbound passengers from Leaven-
worth but eastbound passengers from
Topeka to Leavenworth as well.
Saves Much Money.
In the past the Rock Island in SELL
ing westbound tickets out of Leaven-
worth was forced to send them over
the electric road to Kansas City and
fl en-, Kansas City west over the Union
Pacific tracks to Topeka In doing
this the passengers were victims of the
interstate fare which is considerably
in excess of the interstate fare exist
ing in Kansas.
The electric run from Leavenworth
to Kansas City consumes an hour and
thirty minutes. Then the run from
Kansas City to Topeka takes about two
hours. 1t takes about two hours for
the L. & T. to run from Leavenworth
to Topeka and after the agreement
becomes effective westbound passen-
gers from Leavenworth will arrive in
Topeka to make connections almost as
soon as their arrival at Kansas City
iD,1S he nSiu rim from X
City to Topeka
l.. & T. to Pay.
Mr. Austin declares that the L. &c
T. will be paying basis in short
time. Gradually he is forcing equit-
| able tariffs for the little road which
has been operated at a loss for SO
many years through such a fertile
/ country as Shawnee. jefferson and
Leavenworth counties.
Mr. Austin refused to discuss the
proposed acquisition of the L. & T. by
| promoters who would transform it in
to an electric road.
But from other sources it was
learned today that it is only a rumor.
Through Dead Schemes.
TT would mean taking three dead
proposition and putting life into all
three said a well informed railroad
man today. The Brighton mine near
| Lansing, from which the current
! would be supplied, has been nothing
but a hole for years. The L. & L. has
been dead and there are many other
| things concerned which would disturb
financial bones placed in their comm
years ago.
''Electrifying a line is a good prop
osition when the line extends between
big cities such Leavenworth and
Kansas City and st. Joseph and Kan
sas City. But to put an electric line
between Topeka and Lansing is huge
| in1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-25
JAS. PEABODY DIES
Chief Statistician of Santa Fe
in Topeka Hospital.
Well Known Official Here From
Chicago to Rest.

James Peabody, chief statistician
for the Santa Fe railway, located at
Chicago, died ct the Santa Fe hospital
in Topeka at noon today of bowel
trouble. Mr.. Peabody came to Topeka
week ago to rest up. He was not
considered in serious condition at that
time and his death came as a surprise
to Santa Fe officials. =
Mr.. Peabody was ore of the vet
cral railroad statistioians of the United
States. He was CHER statistician for
all of the western railroads in all cases
of recent years before the interstate
commerce commission. He was the
author of that famous rate book
known as 1.-The Oklahoma Formula -
1t is probable that the burial will
be in Chicago
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-25
FROM FIVE STATES
Representatives of Utilities
Commissions in Topeka.
Kansas, Texas, Arkansas, Mis-
souri, and Minnesota on Hand.
DECIDE ON VALUATION METHOD
Kansas City Southern Figures
Under Investigation.
Result of Conference Important
to Western Roads.

Representatives of public utilities
commissions from five states are in
conference in Topeka today concern
ing basis of railroad valuations. State
commissioners from Kansas, Texas.
Arkansas, Missouri. and Minnesota
are attending the conference which is
one of the most important utilities
meetings in Kansas in several years.
State commissioners are in Topeka
primarily to discuss the basis of val
uatior making as adopted in the case
of the Kansas City Southern. Adop-
ton of this method, however, will af-
feet all railroads and the meeting is
of vital concern in the making of
valuation figures in western states In
the case of the Kansas City Southern
valuation figures were compiled 10y
the bureau of valuation acting under
the direction of the interstate com
merce commission. Details concerning
methods employed were explained
this afternoon by c. B. Aitkison of
Washington, D. c., counsel for the
valuation committee of the national
association of railway commissioners.
They Are Far Apart.
There is a wide difference IN the
figures compiled by the railroads and
those gathered by the national asso-
citation of railway commissioners. Ev-
cry detail of the method pursued in
the case of the Kansas City South
ern was discussed at today's confer
ence. Approval of the method used
in collecting valuation figures in this
case. will mean adoption of similar
methods in the gathering of informa-
ton affecting other railroads. The
Kansas City Southern is the first road
in this territory to come under the
policy of the national association.
All members of the Kansas COM
mission are attending the conference
which is in session this afternoon in
the offices of the commission in the
state house. Six states-Kansas. Mis-
souri,, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and
Louisiana-are affected by the Kan
sas City Southern valuations. Louis
lana, however. maintains no state de-
partment for the collection of railroad
valuation facts.
Representatives from other states
are: r. D. Parker. engineer, and R.
Emmerson. inspector, Texas commits
sion; D. T Jurgensen, engineer Min
nesota commission; T. E. Wood, chair
man Arkansas commission. and How
ard B. Shaw, a member of the Missouri
state commission
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-25
MISTAKES ARE MANY
Primary Election Boards Undergo a
Second Revision.

Carelessness of the Democrat and
Republican central committees IN rec
ommending names of those whom they
wished to serve on the precinct boards
in the primary election. is causing
much grief in the city hall. Because
the committees certified the names,
evidently without investigation. the
list of election judges, clerks ana SUI
pervisors has been revised twice, once
before it was advertised in the city pa
per, the State Journal, and 1t Is now
undergoing another revision
The clerks and judges as well as the
supervisor are appointed by the mayor
one member of the precinct board per-
sonally and the other four on recon-
mendatfon of the two central com
mittees The first list was drawn py
Miss Eta Covell and the mayor was
instructed by the commission 10 mar
the appointments as shown on the ns..
After the commissions action II was
found that eighteen or twenty persons
whose names had been certified eitner
refused to serve or were uhapie ~
do so.
The commission was forced to re-
scind its action and substitute the
names of other persons recomnehueu
nv the commit ees and the mayor
The list was again approved, the mayor
was authorized to make the appolnt-
mcnts and the list was advertised.
After the list was advertised 1t was
found there were about half-oozen
more persons who could not or would
not serve. Miss Eta Covei, city
clerk. asked George p. Hayden, city
attorney. for an opinion as to how the
vacancies could be filled Hayden
communicated with the attorney gen
eral and gave 1t as his opinion that
the vacancies could be filled at the
polls, the person to fill the vacancy
being chosen by the already certirled
members of the board.
Miss Coyell is demurring. On the
list there are two vacancies Tor su-
pervisors. One vacancy is in the FIRST
precinct of the First ward and the
other Is in the sixth precinct OF the
Second ward.
The supervisors must be appoint
ed before the polls open,' she said
THE supervisors are in charge OF the
ballots and books and the county clerk
and myself want to know that we are
giving the ballots and books out to
responsible parties.
IT am sure" she said, the vacan-
cies will be filled before the primary
from other names recommended"
In going through the list today the
name of P. S. Schafer was found 1t
could not be found on the registra-
ton books. The Republican central
committee was asked about it as it
certified the name.
so sorry" said the committee. but
really we meant H. D. Schaffer, 1913
East Seventh street"
The same committee also certified
the name of w. c. Cardwell for a
member of the board in the Second
precinct of the Fifth ward. The city
clerks office couldn't find any such
man in the city. However, they did
locate w. C. Carswell in the same
precinct and n. w. Cardwell in the
Fourth precinct of the Fifth ward.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-25

James Peabody, was born February
z, 1S45. He began his business career
as a steamboat clerk on the Great
Lakes in 1861 and continued in that
capacity until 1864.
From that year until 1868 he en-
gagged in lake and canal transporta-
ton and in 1868 he became an expert
accountant. From 1871 to 1874 he
was general agent for the Missouri.
Kansas & Texas railroad in Texas.
From 1874 to 1878 he was commercial
agent for the Chicago. Burlington <
Quincy railroad with headquarters in
Cincinnati.
From the latter date until 1884 he
was stationed in the general offices
of the Burlington in Chicago In
1884 he retired from railroad work and
engaged in the grain business in Ne
braska in which he remained until
1887 when he went back to railroad
work and accepted a position with the
Monon Route which he held until
1888 when he resigned to become edi-
tor of the Railway and Engineering
Review. In 1897 he became statis-
tician for the Santa Fe with head
quarters in Chicago.
A Versatile Man.
Peabody was one of the most YER
satile witnesses ever before the KAN
sas public utilities commission. On the
stand he fairly ran the state commits
sion's lawyers and rate experts to the
woods. In May 1915 Peabody was be-
tore the Kansas commission several
days as a witness. He defended his
Oklahoma formula system for the
distribution of expense units-and
fairly backed the commission off the
board in his analysis of his method of
dividing receipts and expenses.
The Oklahoma formula covered sew
eral hundred units. Through the use
of the system, Peabody was able to
show the distribution of a dollar of
revenue through the various operat-
ing departments. The formula was
offered by all of the Kansas railroads
in defense of their application for an
increase in passenger rates. Peabody
carried the burden of explaining the
technical side of the rate plan. His
testimony before the state commission
was one of the features of the long
drawn out hearing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-25
q LOOKS SUSPICIOUS
MoFphine Tablets Disappear When
Drug Store Porter Quits Job.

Clarence Richardson, a young nearo
who was picked up by the police for
Investigation, carried 400 morphine
ia Nets in his pockets. He said he
boHght them from a white man and
of@course he didn't know the white
man. That was Sunday.
Today the Brunt-Martin Drug COM
pany notified the police that they had
BEEN robbed of morphine tablets-a
lot of them. Richardson was ques-
toned The police discovered that a
weak ago Sunday he was employed as
a substitute for half a day by Brunts
porter. The porter paid him for his
work and still had a receipt for the
wstEes signed by Richardson. The
tablets disappeared that daY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-25
GIRL IN STATE HOSPITAL
Crlttcnton Home Inmate Who Ran
Away, Adjudged Insane

Mary Stahel. the girl who on the
eve of motherhood fought herself free
from matron and attendants at the
Crtttenton home and hid in the brush,
was found to be of unsound mind by
a commission in the probate court to-
day She will be sent to the Topeka
state hospital.
She was in the court room today at
tended by numerous persons from
Crittenton home. They told of her ac-
lions last week when she broke up fur
nitdre and dishes, frightened other in
mates and made her escape. A dis
tar3t relative who came to Topeka
when he learned of her escapade
gave the commission considerable of
heF life history. His statement was
that she has long been of unsound
mind and that her present trouble is
nof.due to her physical condition. She
lived in Overlook.
The girl was found the day of her
escape from the home five miles west
of tTopeka hidden in a hedge fence.
She was hysterical and the farmer
who found her had difficulty in per
81 Sding her to return to Topeka with
hin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-25
BABY HAS SMILED!
DefOrmed Child, Deserted, Tossed
About, GrinS just Once.

The baby who never smiles has
sfoiled. Mrs. Bundy, matron at the
county detention home, who knows its
history and its prospects, doesn't know
why it smiled. 1t has nothing about
which to smile, but it did smile. Mrs.
Bundy saw it, she told others who are
interested in the little unfortunate,
and they smiled.
Probably if the baby who never
smiles could look into the future it
would not go to the trouble to smile.
With no father. crippled mother who
does not want it, and deformities that
will forever bar it from speech and
from a good home, there is no reason
why it should smile.
During the months 1t was tossed
about-deserted by its mother, barred
from a hospital because it raised its
baby voice in protest against the in
justices of life. 1t did not smile. All
it could do was to cry.
But after the founding was placed
in Mrs. Bundy's hands there came a
change. 1t responded to a plentiful
supply of good food and to such
cuddling and fondling as normal
babies are born to. There were lulls
in the storm of tears. There came
whole hours when the baby was quiet.
And yesterday-not knowing about
any such thing as a future-the baby
smiled
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-25
AT THE THEATERS
At the Orphcum.

"The Phantom" is the name of a de-
tective story, filmed by the Triangle
corporation. featuring Frank Keenan,
at the Orpheum today. This actor has
DISTINGUISHED himself for his ability in
making up for different characters.
The Orpheum bill is ended with a
keystone comedy in which Fatty Ar
buckle is the principal. His laughing
reel is entitled THE Walters Ball"
At the Iris.
Marguerite Clark in "Gretna Green"
is at the Iris today and tonight and is
shown in a fresh new print direct from
the studios This insures a clear. clean
cut picture from beginning to end. A
Vim comedy, one of the new features
added by the Iris management, will be
shown today. Tomorrow, Mae Murray
comes in THE Dream Girl"