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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
CATCH SHERIFF SLAYER
Louisiana Posse ON Trail Days;
Fell Him With BuckshOt-

Lake Charles. La, Aug. 17.-Helaire
Carriere, who shot and killed Marion
L. Swords, sheriff of st. Landry parish
July 16. and was the object of sem
sationa1 man hunt through the woods,
swamps- and cane brakes near Ope-
lousas and Eunice for seven days ana
nights, was captured today at an aban-
doned saw mill near Elton, La, ~
miles northeast of here.
The capture was made by Sheriff
Reid of Calcasieu parish.
Sheriff Reid with five deputies, sur
rounded the mill and waited for Car
riere About o'clock this morning
Carriere was seen walking toward the
mill carrying his rifle. The sheriff said
he called to him to surrender. but Car
riere ran toward the doorway and
Reid fired with a rifle loaded with
buck shot Carriere fell wounded.
Physicians said his lungs were pune
tured by buckshOt.
Carriere was a former convict and
was being held in Jail at Jennings
under murder charges when he es-
capped last spring. Sheriff Swords went
to cabi near Opelousas, where he
learned Carriere was hiding, to arrest
him. The fugitive opened fire, killing
Sheriff swords and wounded deputy
and two negro guides. He escaped
into the SwampS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
TALK WITH LOBDELL
Topekans to Have Conference With
Farm Loan Board Member.

Charles E. Lobdell. Kansas member
of the farm loan board. will pass
through Topeka either today or to-
morrow on his way to Washington,
where he will meet other members of
the board. From Washington the
board will make an extensive trip over
the United States for the purpose of
choosing the twelve districts for es-
Establishment of farm loan banks.
S. E. Cobb, chairman of the farm
loan bank committee of the Topeka
Commercial club. will be notified in
advance of the time that Mr.. Lobdell
will pass through Topeka. Mr.. Cobb
will get on the train and ride with Mr.
LobdelI to Kansas City or some ether
point. He will endeavor to ascertain
from the Great Bend man the best
methods to be pursued in approaching
the board and the nature of the data
that will most impress the members.
Mr.. Cobb was given several hundred
letters today from bankers and inf1u-
entail citizens in the state urging that
Topeka be chosen as the site of a farm
loan bank
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
DEMAND DESTINATION
England Will Forbid Trade With
Sweden If Denied.

London, Aug. ia proclamation
is about to be issued prohibiting the
expectation to Sweden of all comm obi
ties except on presentation to the Gus
toms officials of Swedish trade com
mission guarantee. 1t is explained in
this connection that the Swedish war
trade of 1916 makes it illegal for 4
Swedish importer to furnish an ex-
porter in the United Kingdom with in
formation as to the disposal of goods.
The exporter therefore, is often
obliged to admit he is unable to fur
nish evidence that he has taken rea-
sonable precautions to insure that the
goods exported by him have in fact
reached the destination specified when
the goods were shipped and thru no
fault of his own but owing to the oper-
ations of the Swedish law he becomes
exposed to heavy penalties.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
ASK FOR JUDGMENT
Mandamus in Supreme Court on
100000 Note.

Because he found for the defendants
in a suit involving a 100000 note,
mandamus proceedings were filed in
the supreme court today to compel
Judge George ]. Downer of the Thirty
second Kansas district to enter judg-
ment for the plaintiffs. The suit is
an echo of the financial troubles of
Frank Yantiss .jitney' railroad.
The case before the supreme court
was brought by the Commonwealth
Trust company of st. Louis, which
held mortgage on the little railroad
line from Scott iCty to Winona. Suit
was brought against signers of the
100000 note and mortgage to recover
the balance due. The court found for
the defendants. ordering the cancel
lation of the note and setting aside of
the plaintiffs claim. Now the supreme
court is asked to issue writ of man
damus against Judge Downer, COM
polling him to enter judgment for the
pIaintiffs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
DEADLOCK IN GOTHAM
Street Railways Officials and Union
Fail TO Agree.

New York, Aug. IA conference
today between Frank Hedley, general
manager of the New York railway.
company. and a committee of union
leaders and employees failed to bring
their differences which threaten re-
newal of the recent street car strike
any nearer a settlement. Hedley told
the men that only the president and
the directors of the company had
authority to deal with their new griev-
ances- Whereupon VIM. B. Fitzgerald.
general organizer of the Garments
union, announced that unless those Of
ficials consented to meet the commit
tee tomorrow, the entire matter again
would be placed before Mayor Mitchell
and Chairman Straus of the public
service commission, who brought
about the agreement which the union
leader charge the company with vio-
lating. Mr.. Hedley promised to try to
bring the company officials and the
men together.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
WOMAN WITH A GUN
She Chases an Intruder From Her
Front Door.

After making him two bread and
butter sandwiches and two filled with
salmon Mrs E. Y. Mervin, 1924 Lane
street, was peeved when Peter Nor
risen threw them away and tried to
make friends with her dog.
That was two weeks ago.
She told Morrison to cut out his
display of affection for the dog and
to get out of the yard. He fired the
sandwiches he had begged from her,
over a fence, and declared neither he
nor anyone else would eat such stuff.
Morrison also told her he wasn't
afraid of a living dog, a policeman
nor woman with gun Mrs Mer-
vim went into the house after a re-
volver ard when she returned Morri-
son was gone.
Morrison is a scissor sharpener. He
travels around over town doing work
wherever he finds it. Apparently he
had forgotten his clash with Mrs.
Mervin and today he dropped in at
the Mervin home to see if there were
any scissors to sharpen.
Mrs. Mervin gave him a good look
asked him if he wasn't the same man
who asked for something to eat and
who threw away what she gave him
a week before.
He denied the charge but he looked
towards the gate when he did it.
That convinced Mrs. Mervin and she
reached for the gun she had kept
handy. Morrison stood his ground
until she flashed the gun then he
headed for the street. Mrs. Mervin
wasn't far behind but she did not
shoot Morrison did not stop run
ming at the gate. He hurried right
on down the street and out of sight.
Mrs. Mervin called the police and
reported the trouble. Chief Harvey
Parsons and Robert Miller drove out
to that vicinity and picked Morrison
up nos many blocks away. He denied
having made any disturbance except
that necessary in getting out of range
of a woman with a gun.
Morrison is So years of age and
has been picked up by the police on
several occasions. The charge lodged
against him today is that of disorder
ly conduct.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
DESSERTS AND
COCKTAILS FOR
COWS, NEW IDEA

Marquette, Mich. Aug. ,7.-"Cows
have their hopes and ambitions like
human beings and when they go to
their meals they should be fed in
courses with a cocktail as ar appetizer
and a dessert for the finish
This is the assertion of Senator Al
ton T. Roberts of this city. who is
looking after the welfare of fancy
dairy
Several years ago. one of my lien
tried photographic n,as;c as means
of inducing the cows to give more and
better milk. For time the soothing
tones brought results. but after a while
the cows became tired of the music
and we began to experiment on other
things"
The senator is not feeding cocktails
to his cattle. Instead he is using the
red table beet as an appetizer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
MEET in STATION?
Suggestion That Mo. p. Be Used
for a School.
Plenty of Time Between Trains
for Rotations!

The pupils of Lincoln school may
have to learn their three RS in the
waiting room of the Missouri Pacific
station next fall as result of the diff
ficulty of the school board in finding
suitable temporary quarters during the
erection of the new school,
For three months the school board
has been on search for suitable quar-
tiers only to have to register a goose
egg after each prospect. The d. G.
Kline property just south of the school
grounds is being held at an exorbitant
figure, according to the finance COM
mittee. Negotiations were almost
completed for the old Washburn med
ics.l school, but a disagreeme mt among
the trustees quashed that proposition.
Other localities have all presented I'M
sa tisfactory features. Kirkpatrick hall
is disliked because it is in the dan
gerous" downtown district.
The weary and Disguised building
committee composed of Superintend-
ent H. B. Wilson, L. M Penweu and
p. w. Grisgs have almost agreed to
dicker for the use of the Missouri Pa
town." declared PenweIi. THE train
leaves before school time and never
gets in till after bed time. There is a
long brick platform for a school
ground with nothing to hinder the
most extensive romping.
There's long line of boxcars
which haven't been moved within the
memory of the oldest inhabitant and
would make fine playthings for the
kiddies.
The rails could be utilized IN spe-
cial balancing exercises.
THE occasional passengers who
would wish to use the waiting rooms
would be fewer than the parents and
relatives who visit the school any
way"
1t is imperative that the board Sc
cure quarters within the next few days
as extensive alterations to meet the
safety first requirement of Kansas fire
laws must be made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
CAPTURE A U-BOAT
British Cruiser Brings Trophy Into
Port, Liner Passengers Say.

New York, Aug. 11.-A captured
German submarine dashed to the side
of a British cruiser was brought into
the English port of Deal while the
Cuna1d liner Alaunia was being de-
tanned there, the Aluaria's passengers
reported on her arrial here today. A
British destroyer with heavy list and
evidently badly battered by shell fire
from the U-boat, was brought into
port at the same time.
The Subma rine was a large one, but
passengers of the Alaunia secuted the
possibility that she might have been
the Deutschland or Bremen, pointing
gu. that neither OF these undersea YES
sells is armed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
"TODYD HAMILTON DEAD
He Was Barnum & Bailey's Press
Agent Many Years.

Baltimore, Aug 17.-"Tody' Ham
ilton died here today. The veteran
press agent of Barnum & Bailey's cir
Gus. whose seldom used baptismal
name, is Richard Francis, succumbed
to heart failure at the home of his
brother-in-law, w. Howard Gibson,
1928 Old York road.
He was 10 years old. The serious
part of his illness had lasted only two
weeks. but he had been m poor health
for some years. His sister, Mrs. Glib
son, died last autumn. "Tody" Ham
iiton. who had come here on account
of her illness, remained at the home
of the widower who was his close
friend.
Hamilton is survived by his widow
Mrs. Emma E. Hamilton. The funeral
will take place Saturday afternoon.
Barnum once confessed that he
owed more of his success to ''Tody"
Hamilton than any other man. At
the height of his career as a press
agent. he is said to have written two
million words a year and to have
coined more words than any philolog-
list.
He invented the smashing style of
the circus program of which allitera-
ton and audacity were the most
compelling features. OF boundless
energy and winning personality, he
made thousands of friends in every
corner of the country and also in
Europe. He was the only press agent
who was ever the guest of honor at
banquet in Vienna. The newspaper
men of America gave him a dinner in
1906.
was managing editor of a New York
paper when he joined the staff at the
age of IL. He knew Charles Froh--
man as an office boy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
Her LAST PARADE
Topeka Girl Who Joined Circus Will
Be Brought Home.

; When the Barnum & Bailey circus
reached Wichita today and the parade
started. Margaret Z. Stricken, the
13-year-old Topeka girl, who Joined
II in Kansas City. rode the elephant
up Douglas avenue in all the glory of
her East Indian toys. The Wichita
police were waiting for her and a
telegram was received by the sheriff 8
office this afternoon to the effect
that she had been detained.
Hugh Larimer, undersheriff, will
so to Wichita this evening with the
probate court warrant, to bring her
back. The warrant was sworn to by
the girls grandfather. c. c. Houston,
1854 Lincoln street. 1t charges her
with being a delinquent child. That
was the only method the grandfather
could follow to get the girl back
home. She Joined the circus while
on a visit in Kansas City. was with
Il while it was in Topeka and since
then has visited Chanute. Hutchin-
son, Oklahoma City. Wichita and
other points.
Her part is TO dress up in turban
and sort of kimono and sit in the
miniature tower upon an elephants
back during the street parade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
WANT 10 PER CENT
State Officials Issue Call on Counties
for Tax Share.

Kansas state officials today made
demand on county treasurers for 10
per cent of the total taxes for the year
Warrants were drawn on all county
treasurers today by w. E. Davis, state
auditor, and Earl Akers, state treas
urer. Demands were made for $780,
57S.7O to pay the states August bills
The drafts were made on taxes COL
lected by county treasurers in Decem-
Der and June and availa BILE for use this
year. Seventy-five per cent of the
total state taxes for this year have now
been drawn. Under provision of the
Kansas law, the state may in Decem-
Der draw on county treasurers for next
year tax funds. 1t is believed the
money now in the hands of the county
treasurers will meet state bills until
the December drawing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
CONVICT UNDER KNIFE
Effort to Restore Mental Condition
Barber County Slayer.

Leavenworth, Kan, Aug. IA
growth on the brain of c. Warren.
who murdered his sweetheart, Miss
Madge Phillips. last August in Barrier
county, Kan. was removed by SUR
geons at the state penitentiary herestu-
day in the belief that it had caused his
mental condition to be so deranFed
that he had shot the young woman.
Warren attempted to kill himself at the
time and a part of the bullet he fired
into his forehead was found in the
growth.
"If Warren RECEIVERS from the opera
ton he will be normal again. a state
he has not been in since before he
committed the crime" DIR. L. r.
Barney. who performed the operation.
said.
Warren is serving a life sentence.
He is 26 years old.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
FIGURES WON'T LIE"
A Woman of SO Has Daughter %
Years Old.

Hugh Mcfarland, probate judge,
blushed today when he stepped up to
a bride. who sat with small child on
one side and a grown daughter en- the
other, and asked a second time if she
was certain she was only SO years of
age. The bride was Mrs. Emma j.
Under, mother of half a dozen chill
dren. She didn't blush.
Sure, I'm only &c." she said.
We'll, all right said Judge Mac
Farland. Il just wanted to be GER
tain"
why. she's only &c." spoke up the
grown daughter. I'm only 20"
Lets see," said the judge, that
would make your mother IA when
you were BORN
Not another word was said. The
license was issued and Mrs. Linder
was duly wed to Andy Kurico, an Aus
Hungarian who was unable 70 sign
his own name to the application for a
license. He gave his age as 80.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
Topeka GrOcerS Tired of Retail
Clerks Activities.
Will Ask Mayor to Put a Stop
to Interference.
SAY ORDINANCE SUPPORTS EN-
Declare Customers Are Anxious
for Sunday Sales.
Grocers Ask Relief From
Bullying Police" and Clerks.

The Topeka Grocers' association
answered a call to arms at meeting
"Wednesday night and adopted reso-
buttons to be presented to Mayor House
which demand that the present alleged
practice of the Retail Clerks associa-
ton of ordering them fined and clap
ped in Jail for remaining open Sun
days without proper evidence, cease
Members of a committee appointed to
call upon Mayor House and present the
resolutions are: j. A. Devore. chair
man; f. d. Mattingly. ]. n. Baysinger,
George Urban and w. F. Kindard.
Evidently. the grocers intend to re-
main open on Sunday for the pur-
pose of selling articles of immediate
necessity. allowable, it is claimed. I'M
der the provisions of the ordinance
governing sunday closing. The resolu-
tons. in full. follow:
sunday Selling Necessary
whereas, We are law abiding citi-
zens of Topeka, engaged in the leGiu-
mate sale of groceries and other mer-
chandise. and the most OF us uolhs
business in localities. where some OF
our customers as consequence OF
their impoverished condition supply
themselves with provisions only Tor
ono day and one meal and Sunday sup
mixing of food is absolutely necessary.
provisions. drugs and medicines ari-
cles of immediate necessity that may
be sold without police interference,
and.
-."Whereas. we are annoyed from
time to time by members of the Re
tail Clerks association, who from ig-
norance of the ordinance. or from sell
fish or pecuniary motives are always
striving to have us hauled into court,
or call to their aid bullying policemen
who have at times chosen to coerce
men to refrain from selling what law
plainly says they may sell
Auegc Selfish Motive.
Therefore. be it resolved. that the
president appoint a committee of five
members to call upon Mayor House
and ask him to put a stop to police
Interference unless the officers see
that the ordinances of the city are Vio-
lated, or carry a warrant for the al
legged violator.
BE it further resolved, that this
committee also request of the mayor
that ne advise the city attorney that
when these spoilers of the clerks
association insist on a warrant for the
arrest of grocers under this ordinance,
that they be required to deposit the
probable cost of these cases, so that
the taxpayers will not have to pay for
the unlawful procedure of these men
whose motive is entirely selfish
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
Withdraw U. S. Warships.

San Diego, Cal. Anug- 17.-That the
Mexican situation has passed the crit
ical stage is indicated in orders re-
ceived by a number of the vessels OF
the United States Pacific fleet now on
patrol duty in southern waters to re-
turn to this port The collier Brutr,s
RADIO Friday. The cruiser Milwaukee,.
destroyers Hull. Hopkins, Truxton'
Whipple. Preble. Stewart and Paul
Jones will sail from La Paz on August
Is for this port The flagship san
Diego with Admiral William B. Caper-
ton on board, will arrive August %
and will probably be followed by most
of the remaining vessels of the fleet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
DEADLOCK STILL HOLDS
Southwestern Mining Conference Fails
to Agree Again.

Kansas City, Aug. 1.-THE fourth
subcommittee, appointed late yester-
day, was unable to reach an Igree-
ment today on any of the six points of
difference between the coal operators
and miners in the negotiations for a
working contract for the states of Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkan-
sas Leaders of both sides declared
after the meeting this morning that
no progress had been made and it was
limited that the subcommittee named
in a last effort to break the several
weeks deadlock, doubted its ability to
reach a compromise. Another meet
ing is to be held this afternoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17

F. A. Rooster, D. D. s., ITO Mills
Bldg. Special attention given to pyor-
rhea and oral prophylaxis.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
ATTACKS BOY OF II
Case of Infantile Paralysis Reported
in Alta Vista.

Reports of another case of infan-
tile paralysis came to the state board
of health today from Alta Vista, Wa
baunsee county. The case is being in
vestigated by the board.
According to a telegram received in
Topeka today Herman Sommerman,
17-year old boy, is suffering from the
dread child disease. Nearly all cases
reported in Kansas have been among
infants. Because of the serious ma
ture of the disease, the state board of
health will send special investigator
to Alta Vista.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
BRYAN WILL MOVE
Plans to Locate in North Carolina
After the Election.

Washington. Aug. IL William
jennings Bryan is to leave Nebraska
finally after the elections in Novem-
her. He is to move to his home at
Asheville. n. G.. and re-enter politics
in. that state with the idea of being
elected later to the United States sem
ate.
This report was brought to Wash
ington by a Nebraskan who claims
personA knowledge of the plans of
NJ. Bryan. Ii caused something of a
hurry among North Carolina politi-
oians here, because they have no soma
rorship to hand over to him without
The displacement of a favorite son of
the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17

Safety razor blades sharpened better than
new 35c-35c doz Brunt Drug Co.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
RIPLEY STAYS HOME
Santa Fe President Doesn't Join Party
to Washington.

Chicago, Aug. 17.-Presidents of
five railways with headquarters in Chi
cago left for Washington today IN re-
Spouse to President Wilson's call. They
are: w. ]. Jackson, Chicago & East
ern Illinois, c. H. Markham, Illinois
Central: H. r. Kurries, Chicago. In
dianapolis & Louisville; NJ. J. Car
penter. Chicago, Terre Haute & South
eastern, and r. H. Ashton, Chicago &
Northwestern.
President Ripley of the Santa Fe
merely stated he would give the invi-
tation due consideration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
CURE MENTAL DISORDERS.
Sterilization Treatment Being Tried
Upon Women in wisconsin.

Chippewa Falls. Wis. Aug. 1.-THE
success of the long series of operations
OH men in the state institution for fee
BILE minded, in an effort to cure them
of mental disorders by Sterilization,
has resulted in the extension OF the
experiment to women patients In
every case the consent of either the
patients or their nearest relatives have
been secured, for the operation is such
that reproduction of the species is for
ever impossible to that individual.
Ten have been operated upon in
recent experiments. The results of
the experiment are being checked up
closely for the state health authorities
ard for medical reference work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17

DR.. John B. Murphy. perhaps the
most famous surgeon in America, if
not in the world, whose death is la
mented all over the country, was
born in Appleton, Wis. December 81,
1857, and was educated in the public
schools, the University of Illinois and
Rush Medical College, and in Ger
many. He became president Of the
American Medical association, and
president of the Clinical Congress Of
Surgeons of America. He died at
Mackinac Island, Mich.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
IMPROVE NAVY YARDS
Six Million Item for That Purpose
Retained in Naval Bill.

Washington, Aug. 17.-House and
senate conferees on the naval bill this
afternoon agreed to retain the &c.
000,0 appropriation to improve and
equip the navy yards at Puget Sound,
Philadelphia, Norfolk, Boston, Ports
mouth, N. H., Charleston and New
Orleans for construction of battlcships
The bill will be reported to both
houses tomorrow and probably will
be ready for the presidents sigma
ture tomorrow or Saturday
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17

Mrs. Paul Rankin of Lawrence is
visiting her husband, who is an as
sistant in the state printing plant.