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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07
GAS CASES co
To U. S. COURT
Receivers of the Kansas Nat
ural Checkmate P. e. C.
Litigation Is Put Up to Federal
Judge Pollock.
HIS POWER IN CASE SUPREME
Can Try 1t or Turn 1t Back to
State Court.
Action VIII Do Away With
Multitude of Trials.
HIS POWER IN CASE SUPREME

Receivers for the Kansas Natural
Gas company today beat the Bristow
utilities commission at its own game
when it brought suit for the removal
of the gas cases from the state to the
federal courts. Transcripts in the case
will be filed with the United States
district court, following action of the
receivers today in serving notices of
removal in the supreme court.
Only an order from Judge Pollock
remanding the case back to the state
coarts can now save the F;ristow COM
mission from making its rate fight in
the federal court. All of the issues in
volved in the suit of the state commits
federal court and to force an adequate
supply of gas are now taken before the
federal court. White the supreme
court will probably direct a formal
hearing on the removal petition, there
is seemingly no chance to block a re-
moVaI.
THE supreme court mas no more to
do with the gas case now than you or
l." declared George McDermott of the
firm of Stone & McDermott. who to-
day filed the removal petition for the
Kansas Natural receivers.
Petitions in the removal action re-
cited that the business of the Kansas
Natural is handled through it's pipe
intothe states of Kansas and Missouri.
This pipe line is a unit, it is asserted.
and the state courts cannot for that
reason hold jurisdiction.
Recent action by the receivers to
Continued on Page 81
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UP TO THE JURY
Verdict Expected Today in
New Haven Directors Case.
VIM. Rockefeller and Ten 9th.
ers on Trial Since Oct. 13.

New York, Jan. THE case
against William Rockefeller and ten
other former directors of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford railroad
charged with criminal conspiracy
under the Sherman law, was sub
mitted to the jury this afternoon.
The eleven former directors of
the New York, New Haven
& Hartford railroad who have
been on trial for nearly three
months, charged with criminal viola
ton of the Sherman antitrust law,
expect to know their fate today.
All that remained before the final
submission of the case to the jury was
the delivery this forenoon Of Judge
Hunts charge. This occupied two
hours.
The eleven defendants are William
Rockefeller and Lewis Cass Ledyard.
New York; Edward d. Robbins, New
Haven, Conn. Charles f. Brooker,
Ansonia, Conn: D. Newton Barney.
Hartford Conn; Robert w. Taft.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07
YECCS CETMILLION
Booty Is in Z. S. Revenue
Stamps and Currency.
Blew Open Safe; Get Away
With 800 Pounds Bulk.

st. Paul, Jan, IA million dollars
worth of internal revenue documen-
tary stocks. weighing 800 pounds, and
between $4,000 and $1,000 in currency
were taken from the internal revenue
department here last night
Police detectives expressed the be-
lief that the robbery had been com
mitted at about o'clock this morning
and that the robbers made their es-
cape in an automobile. Both federal
and city authorities, however, profess
to have no tangible clue.
How the robbers entered the build
ing, located in the heart of St PauIs
business district, is unknown. The
janitor. in opening the offices of the
department, discovered the theft. The
safe door was blown off. The tracks
of an automobile in the alley behind
the building lead the police to be-
lieve that an automobile was used to
carry away the bulky stocks.
The robbers were apparently unable
to get away with $1,000 worth of
stamps which they took from the vault
and left in the building
Immediately upon discovering the
robbery F. J. Lynch, revenue collector
instig9ted an investigation. Collector
Lynch stated that the robbers had
taken negotiable stamps and had left
unacceptable stamps in large
amount. Federal agents and police
said the investigation indicated the
robbery had been planned carefully.
The robbers effected an entrance to
Mr.. Lynch's office during the night
( They used n electric drill in opening
the outer door of the big vault. With
a charge of high explosives they blew
off the door. The second door of the
vault was opened by picking an ex-
posed lock. The third door, that di-
rectiy guarding rhe large amount of
stamps, was unlocked, it is said and
offered no resistance to the robbers
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P. U. C. is ENJO|NED
Judge Whitcomb Issues Restraining
Order in Atchison Gas Case.

A temporary injunction restraining
the public utilities commission from
putting into effect its order authoriz-
ing Kansas gas companies to discon-
tinue distributing free gas to cities
has been issued in the district court
by Judge George H Whitcomb.
The restraining order is effective
pending the outcome of the suit of the
city of Atchison against the commits
sion
The city of Topeka is expected to
file a similar suit IN n short time. Since
the commission issued its order. mu-
inequalities over the state claim that
the rule is a violation of the constitu-
tion and that the gas companies have
been furnishing the free gas under
franchise agreement.
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SUE FORD PARTY
Tourist Agency Threatens Ac-
tiOn for $13,5O0.
Discharged StenOgrapher Also
Demands ReparatiOn.
S. S. MCCLURE QUITS JUKKET
New Delegate Seeks Founding
of Jew Nation.
Plot On to Kick Ben Lindsey
Out of leadership.
S. S. MCCLURE QUITS JUKKET
BY CHARLES p. STEWART.
written for the State Journal. }

NNHIttCH lOF LAIc StstCt OOuIIA1A-j
Copenhagen, Jan. Life for the
Ford peace party is just one threaten
ed lawsuit after another.
The Bennet- Tourist agency today
threatened to sue for $4,000 kroner
($13, 5000, alleging the Ford lieuten-
ants cancelled reservations for a ship
voyage to The Hague, after getting
permission to travel by land through
Germany. They presented a pay or
be sued" ultimatum, while Ford lead
ers were packing for the trip through
Germany. Rexford Holmes, discharged
head of the Ford crew of stenog-
raphers, was still threatening suit for
SANDER today
To add to the gayety of the party,
the Danish newspapers are printing
lurid reports about the Austro-Ameri-
can situation. Some of the delegates
are growing very nervous over the
trip through Germany. They fear
trouble between America and the cen
trail empires.
Mayor Lindhagen, of Stockholm,
has resigned from the Swedish peace
delegation on. a plea of foo much busik
ness but four other Swedes have arr
delegation to ten. Among the Danish
peace delegates is Louis Fraenkel, a
Zionist, who expects to make the ma
tionaliZation of Palestine one of the
conditions of peace.
Before leaving for The Hague, the
Ford steering committee contributed
$2,7OO to Copenhagen peace societies
S. s. Mcclure. New York publisher,
(COpfiDnad IN paga gTuro
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07
BRITAIN TORN
ASUNDER TODAY
Governments Position Critical
in COnscriptiOn Row.
Cabinet Under Fire for Darda-
neIleS Failure.
PARLIAMENT is FOR ASQUITH
Despite Bitter Fight, Ministry
Finds Strong Support.
Election Demanded to Solve
Compulsory Service Dilemma.
PARLIAMENT is FOR ASQUITH

London, Jan. THE governments
position is most critical today. Faced
first by the bitter attitude of labor to-
ward it's conscription bill, the cabinet
found itself also under heavy fire be-
cause of the Dardanelles failure.
The London press today divided
space between accounts of the action
of the national labor congress in con-
demning the CONSUMPTION bill, edi-
torial denunciation of the govern
ment's Dardanelles policy and the de-
bate in parliament last night preced-
ing the first vote on conscription.
General Hamilton's final report of
the Dardanelles campaign. frankly
ascribing the British defeat to the gov
ernments failure to send reinforce
ments he had asked, was printed in
the morning papers today. The oppo-
sition newspapers seized upon it as an
other basis for editorial attack on the
Asquith ministry, using the Lloyd
George accusation: TOO late.'
Support Asquith Regime.
Powerful men of all parties, how
ever, are coming to the governments
assistance to prevent a general cleo
ton in the midst of the world war.
The conscription crisis that threatens
a cabinet upheaval at the same time,
Continued on Page Two.)
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COUNTY DODCES LUTEN
Makes the Bridge Contractor Respon-
sible for All Royalties.

Shawnee county. according to the
county commissioners will not worry
over the Luten bridge royalty. At a
meeting of the county commissioners
which began this afternoon. opening
of bids and awarding contracts for
the erection of the Kansas avenue
Butcher creek. the Dover road and
the Fitzgerald bridges began
Luten royalties on Shawnee bridges
have. in the past, totaled about 81, 500
annually. However, Shawnee county
has paid but very little of the money.
In the future the county commission
ers expect to pay none at all.
In the contracts this afternoon there
will be clause whereby the contract
ors assume all expense and Liabilities
for patents and patent appliances used
on Shawnee county bridges The
commissioners have little doubt that
the clause will leave Shawnee county
in the clear. The insertion of the
clause followed a consultation of the
commissioners and the attorney gen
erals office wherein the advisable
of the county's assuming the liability
for the patents was threshed out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07
POSTSCRIPT
CALLS SPECIAL SESSION
Governor Dunno Summons Legislature
to Convene Next Tuesday.

Chicago, Jan. 7.-Governor Dunno
today issued a call for a special ses-
sion of the Illinois general assembly
to convene at noon next Tuesday. The
principal subjects listed in the call are:
Amendment to the primary and cleo
ton days so as to effect a saving in
election expenses; consideration of the
proposed issuance of 800, 100000 good
roads bonds.
State regulation of the sale of
serum and virus to prevent the spread
of hog cholera. Increase of appropri-
alton for farmers losses through the
foot and mouth disease.
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TOPEKANS ARE INVITED
Governor Capper and Albert t. Reid
Asked to Speak at Miami, Fla.

Miami. Fla. Jan. 7.-Governor Cap
per of Kansas and Albert T. Reid, well
known editor and artist of Topeka,
have been invited to be speakers and
guests of honor at the annual banquet
OF the Kansas Day club here the last
of this month.
The Kansas Day club of Miami is
one of the largest in the country. An
unusually well arranged program has
been planned for this year. Answers
to the Capper and Reid invitations
had not been received today.
Governor Capper and Mr.. Reid had
not decided this afternoon on the re-
quest to speak before the Miami club.
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Assurance Submarines Won't
Shoot without Warming.
MAKES OTHER CONCESSIONS
Note Received Weeks Ago, but
Kept in Secrecy.
Shot Was in Accordance with
War Act of Reprisal.

Washington, Jan. Proposals
which the German government be-
leves will end the controversy over
the Lusitania disaster in manner
satisfactory to the United States were
received here from Berlin. Count ven
Bernstorff had an appointment to con-
fer with Secretary Lansing this after
noon.
Germany is believed to have agreed
to pay an indemnity for the Americans
lost when the liner was torpedoed: at
the same time basing a reservation of
any wrongdoing upon the contention
that the destruction of the vessel was
an act of reprisal in retaliation for the
British blockade of Germany
Germany is also understood to be
ready to give assurances that her sub
marine commanders operating in the
Mediterranean will not torpedo with
out warning privately owned vessels OF
any description, including liners,
freighters and tramp steamers Ger
man assurances in regard to suhma-
rine warfare in the North sea include
only liners in passenger service.
Must Consider Passengers.
1t was also stated with authority
today that Germany virtually had
agreed with the position of the United
States in regard to small boats not
for passengers aboard a ship about to
be destroyed.
These last concessions are under
stood to have been contained in the
last note from Germany regarding the
sinking of the ship William p Frye.
The communication reached the state
department several weeks ago, but has
been withheld from public on the
ground that it had a certain bearing
Continued on Page p
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WRECK 80 HURT BOAT DEATHS is
Mate Complies Passenger List
Showing Number Lost.
Cabin of Sunken Packet Kama
wha May Hold Bodies.

Parkersburg. w. Va, Jan. RE
ports today from the point on the Ohio
river where the packet Kanawha was
wrecked Wednesday night said that
the body of Mrs Beegle of Racine,
Ohio. passenger. had been picked up
on the river bank.
o. e. Sisson, second mate, who has
completed a list CT those on the boat,
places the missing at sixteen. 1t is be-
heved other bodies will be found when
the falling of the river permits exam
ination of the cabin.
Parkersburg, w. Va, Jan. Hope
was abandoned today, that Mr.. and
Mrs w. L. Hoblitzell, sr., and Mr.. and
Mrs. Hoblitzell, jr., and their baby boy
had survived the Kanawha disaster.
The Hoblitzells formerly lived in Ur-
sina, Pa, where the senior Hoblitzell
was in charge of important construc-
ton for the Baltimore & Ohio.
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STORM HAS GONE BY
Fair and Warmer Weather Is Prom
ised by the Forecasters.

Snow measuring 20 inches. but
which will only amount to .27 of an
inch of water, fell here yesterday and
last night. Indications are that the
storm is over. The wind remains in
the east and little change in tempera-
ture is expected tonight The mer-
curry rose slightly last night and today
was several degrees warmer than yes
terday-
The forecast calls for generally fair
weather tonight and Saturday: warm
er in the western portion of the state
tonight. Temperatures of from 10 to
Is degrees for 36-hour shipments
north and west are indicated by the
shippers forecast; Is to 20 degree
temperatures are expected to the
south and east. The temperature at
Topeka tonight will be between l 5 and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07
100000 men
$500 GUNS
Rig BATTLE
Guns Roaring Incessantly
Along 36-MiIe Front.
Terrible Conflict Now Growing
Worse on Frontier.
RUSSIANS ARE ADVANCING
SIavs' Progress Impeded by
Wire EntangIements.
Red Cross Trains Leaving Daily
to SuccOr Wounded.
SIavs' Progress Impeded by
Wire EntanglementS.
Ked Cross Trains Leaving Daily
to SuccOr Wounded.
BRITISH SUBMARINE SINKS

London. Jan. 7.-The sinking of d
British submarine off the coast of
Holland was officially announced to-
day.
The entire crew, numbering 33, was
rescued by the Dutch cruiser. Noord
Brabant. and brought into the Dutch
port of Hcldcr.
Paris. Jan. Fighting on the Rus
sian frontier is fast growing in inten-
sity and assuming great ferocity, says
the Petrograd correspondent of the
Havas agency in a dispatch filed
Wednesday. Dispatches from Kieve
declare the noise of cannon can be
heard along q distance of thirty-siS
miles and that windows in all the vii
lagos in this region have been broken
by the conclusions.
The battle is raging with particular
fury on the TarnopOl-Trembowl front
where more than 100000 men with
$500 cannon are engaged. Long
Austro- German Red Cross trains are
leaving this front daily for more re-
mote and thinly populated towns,
wherc hospitals have been organized
Wounded Russian officers report that
consequences of this battle already are
being shown in certain sectors ny the
blowing of first line German trenches,
and the slow but irresistible progress
of Russian forces. The same OFFICERS
tell of enormous difficulties the Rus
slams had to surmount on this front,
where eatanglements of barbed wire
arc often laid twenty-four deep and
charged with powerful electric cur
rents supplied from stations especially
erected.
An immediate approach to these en-
tanglements is impossible. The Rus
sian soldiers have invented the fol
lowing method of surmounting the
difficulty. Good msrksmen fling
ropes with hooks at the ends over the
barbed wire, then pull until they have
broken one of the lines of wire and
continue the method until the whole
ENHANCEMENT is removed.
Made Peace Overtures.
London, Jan. Count Okuma,
Japanese premier. told interviewers
today that Germany has made over
lures both to Japan and Russia for a
separate peace. but that they have
been rejected, the Toxic correspondent
of news agency reported. Count
Okuma attributed Germany's desire
for peace with Japan and Russia to
acute financial difficulties.
Aviators Bombard Station.
London, Jan. 7.-Russian aviators
have bonn barded the railway station
at Czernowitz several times in the last
few days. according to Bucharest dis
patches today. The Slavs have cap
tured two sections of Austrian trenches
west of RardnOze, a few miles from
Czernowitz and are hammering the
Austrian front with artillery Of all
oalibers.
French General Dies of Wounds.
Refinement, France. Jan. Cen
eral Serret, who was in command OF
one of the divisions of the French
army in the Vosges, died today from
wounds received in a recent engage
ment.
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State Roads for
Horses Only in
NeU York NotU

Albany, n. Y, Jan. 7.-"Give the
horse his share of the road and .
chance to live and prosper" The New
York Association of Horsemen ad-
dressed this petition to the 1915 legis-
Iature here today. The object of the
new organization is the preservation
of Old Dobbin and the increase of the
horse breeding industry.
The Legislature is asked to reserve .
part of all state roads and highways
exclusively for horse drawn vehicles.
The great numbers of autos are keep
ing the trotter and PAGER in the stabis
for safety first reasons, horsemen de-
clare. Statistics give an automobile
to every Al persons in the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07
COTTON TO GERMANY
Texas Farmers Union Will Ship I'm
der L. S. Flag Via Sweden

Washington. Jan. president H.
H. Pope of the Texas Farmer union
outlined today to congressman from
the cotton states the unions plans for
shipments of cotton to Germany by
way of Sweden. He said the cotton
would be concentrated at Houston.
that this first ship would sail soon and
that regular sailings were planned
The cotton would be shipped. Pope
said, in ships owned by native Ameri-
cans and flying the American flag.
InaSmuch as Great Britain and Ger
many both have put cotton on the
contraband lists. this latest move may
revive the contentious of the United
States against their action.
Ships for Gulf Trade.
Galveston, Jan. Purchase of two
steamships for service between Gal
weston and the Mexican ports of Tam
pico, Vera Cruz and Puerto Mexico is
announced by the Gulf Coast Fruit and
Steamship company The ships are
the Norwegian steamers Fort Gaines
and Fort Morgan, which have been
under charter for several years to the
United Fruit company. The new own
ers will change the ships to American
registry.
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Fails as Poet
Tries Burglar
NOUS in Jail

San Francisco, Jan. Poet.
playwright and author by day;
burglar by night-that's how
Frederick Glanz describes himself.
Upon a lot of hard hearted editors
he blames the combination. He
didn't have the nerve 10 face the
blue pencil, after several rejec-
tions, but he ha 4 the nerve to
turn burglar.
Il dreamed of romance" he said
but none came my way l found
my manuscripts turned down.
The poetry. the art was there. but
a Frankenstein monster had over
powered me. 1 had been hotel
clerk, gardener. bum: then / be-
came a burglar. But it didn't
seem so bad after I'd done my
jolt in the san Quentin PEN"
Now he faces the prospect of
another term
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07
Belgian
War Victims
On Tiny Tract

New York, Jan. Tn that por-
tion of Belgium which remains
free from German occupation and
which is so small it appears in
finitesimal upon the maps, there
are 100, 900 regular residents and
about as many more refugees
from the rest of that country. All
the refugees are dependent upon
charity. says Alloys Van De
Vyvere, Belgian minister of
finance, who is in this country to
inspect contracts given by Bel
gium-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07
Bald Heads,
Huge Gobs of
Consolation! &!

Monroe, Wis, Jan. THE flies
may worry you and the chorus
girls may joke about you if your
pate is free of hirsute ndOrnment,
but there is much solace in that
condition, according TO DR.. Robert
Il. Clark.
Il have examined several hum
dred patients regarding their san
ity." said DIR. Clark 81 have ex-
amined hundreds of others in in
sane asyIums throughout the
country. In all my experience
found only one bald-headed man
who was insane"
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LAST Minute NEWS
Rutherford Is Released.

Bloomington, Ind, Jan. AT the
request of E. o. Stiehm, the athletic
board of control of Indiana univer-
sity today released r. B. Rutherford.
who had been engaged as assistant
coach to Mr.. Stiehm, who comes to
Indiana this year as director of in
tercoIIegiate athletics. President Will
liam Lowe Bryan of Indiana tele-
graphed Chancellor Avery of Ne
braska university that Indiana would
be glad to concur in his request for
the release of Mr.. Rutherford.
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DOGS OF WAR IN new
ROLE RESCUE 5000

Berlin, Jan. THE dogs of the
army hospital service have a hos
pital provided for them in Jena,
and already a number of dog pa
tents have been treated. The hos
pital was built by convalescent sol
diers. So far during the war the
dogs have rescued at least 5000
wounded soldiers who otherwise
would have perished.
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AMERICAN BUSINESS MEN
IN BERLIN APPEAL TO U. S.

Berlin Cvia London), Jan THE
American Association Of Commerce
and Trade, embracing the American
business colony, has sent a wireless
appeal to the American secretary of
state and leading congressman asking
immediate action to save from ruin
American business men who have long
been established here and are unable
TO obtain non-contra band American
goods, owing to British interference
with neutral commerce.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-07
GIRL STRIKERS SMASH
FACTORY WITH ICICLES

Poughkeepsie, Jan More
than 100 girls, striking for higher
ages, gathered before the cigar
factory of Samuel I. Davis & Con-
pany here today and bombarded
the windows with icicles and sim
liar missiles. Three If the strikers
were arrested and fined IS each.
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Castle Rock, Colo, Jan. IA jury
of stockmen and farmers was agreed
upon the district court here today in
the trial of four former coal miner
st1ikers on charges of murder in con-
nection with the killing of Major P.
P. Lester in the strike disorders at
Walsenburg, in April. 1914. Major
Lester was in command of the hospital
CORDS of the Colorado National Guard.
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FRENCH TO Be GOOD
Captain of Cruiser Descartes Called
for Stopping U. S. Ship.

Washington, Jan. THE state de-
partment was advised today by Am
bassador Sharp at Paris that the
French government had ordered the
captain of the cruiser Descartes to act
with great care and circumspection
and not to stop any more American
vessels. The cruiser recently stopped
three in Porto Rican waters and re-
moved Germans who since have been
released.