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The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-14
NO BASE FOR ARRESTS
Department of Justice Stalled in Elec-
tion Fraud Investigation.

Washington, Oct. 14.-Faced by
charges in a dozen states of pro-
posed frauds in the coming election,
the department of justice today said
1t has no basis for arrests in the new
est angle of the cases-charges by
certain Democratic officials that me-
groes are being taken by hundreds to
northern states, particularly Ohio,
New York and Indiana.
Officials CLOSED up" when asked for
details of the charges. Chagrin was
shown at the department when it was
learned that some one had spilled"
information about the charges. Sena-
tors Taggart and Kern of Indiana are
known to be among Democratic office
holders who have expressed fear that
the negroes are to be used in the elec-
ton.
William c. Heron of the justice de-
partment, who is handling the cases
in the absence of Assistant Attorney
General Wallace, refused to comment
on the charges.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-14
SHE'S A MOVIE FAN
That's Only Occupation of Girl Regis.
tered to Vote in Topeka.

Petit and demure, with the air of a
debutante, she tripped into the city
clerks office and said she wanted to
register-said it thru a fetching smile
and with her chin tilted at a danger
Gus angle.
Miss Alice Peyton, registration clerk,
began the usual routine of questions.
What age?" she asked.
rs that necessary-absolute ?"
Certainly, but we won't tell any,
one.''
Twenty three
Thank you. What occupation?"
Beg pardon?"
What occupation?"
oh. you mean what do 1 do?"
Yes"
II don't do anything"
Miss Peyton held consultation
with Mrs. E. E. Roudebush, registra-
ton clerk. The registration books
had a place especially reserved for
the recording of OCCUPATIONS of pros
pective voters. In a last effort, Miss
Peyton turned to the woman and
said:
Don't you do anything at all?"
We'll. I'm a movie fan, if you want
to put that down.
Miss Peyton put it down.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-14
HE LIKES Topeka
New Pastor of First Nj. E.
Church Pleased With City.
"First Pulpit in Prohibition
TOwn-What a Relief!"

This is the first time I have ever
had ap ulpit in prohibition territory.
What q relief" This was the Senti-
ment expressed by DR.. Edmund James
Kulp, the new pastor of the First M.
E church wha arrived Friday.
WHAT particular devil do the
clergy fight here" DIR. Kulp asked a
representative of the State Journal
In my former charges in Camden,
N. J., st. Louis and Kansas City the
ministers were always having to line
up against the encroachments of the
liquor intere ests.
nj St. Louis I was in the fight
made by the ministers against a Ii
quor-framed ordinance proposing tc
make it a misdemean for any minor
to buy liquor IN a saloon, violation
of the ordinance to be punished by
fine and Imprisonment of the minor.
The ordinance was beautifully calcul-
ated to take the responsibility and
danger of selling to minors off the
Saloonkeeper's shoulders. We downed
that scheme in st. Louis but had to
buck the same thing in the last ses-
sion of the Missouri legislation. In
Camden l was chairman of the COM
mittee on legislation, for the local
ministerial union and in that capacity
ha toe lash with the liquor interests
time and again"
Tomorrow morning he will preach
his first sermon in his new charge.
Pending the completion of repairs be-
ing made at the parsonage, Doctor
Kulp and his wife are guests at the
Joab Mulvane home for a few days.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-14
POOR WORK HERE
J. C. MOhler Criticises Efforts
of Shawnee EnumeratOrs.
Census Takers in This County
Were DereIict in Duty.

Certain Shawnee county census
enumerators as well as some in other
counties, came in for sharp criticism
today from J. c. Mohler, secretary of
the state board of agriculture, follow
ing the issuance of the census figures
for 1916. But in Shawnee county
conditions were so bad that the fig
ures of last year were substituted for
Topeka city and several townships.
1.-The population figures said Moh-
Ter, "as shown, are certified to the
board by various county clerks, except
ing Shawnee county. In Shawnee
county some enumerators were so in
different and careless in their work,
according to the statement of the clerk
appended to his abstract. that the
publication of the incomplete returns
as representing the total population
would be a gross injustice that the
county should not be compelled to
suffer.
Hence, the census figures of last
year were substituted for Topeka city
and for several townships, and the
Ecounty's population, as given in this
report. is the result. 1t is indeed un-
fortunate that certain officials were
dere1ict in their duty but we'll
lacked that loyalty and pride which is
satisfied only in presenting their COM
munities to the world in the most ia
vorable light warranted by the facts. -
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-14
SUFFS AMBUSHED
Hughes Woman Special Is
Heckled by Wilsonites.
Ridicule Ladies With Banners
and Caustic Jeers.

Portland, Ore, Oct. 14.-Screaming
''Wilscn, We want Wilson," and
where's the casket, fetch a coffin,
a huge crowd of Democratic women
greeted women campaigners for
Hughes WREN they left their special
train ct the Union station today and
started for the Multnomah hotel.
AS the first visitors stepped upon the
platform a cheer for Hughes went up
and band began pumping out rapid
melodies. Then the shouts of welcome
and the music were drowned in a gale
of shrill shrieks for Wilson. Police
estimated that the Wilson women out
numbered the Hughes supporters three
to one. 1t was a well-planned ambus-
cade and resulted in scenes of corfu-
sion.
Who Laid the Golden Egg?
A squad Cf shouting women pressed
thru the mob, carrying Wilson ban
ncrs. One bore the words in staring
black letters:
which Goose Laid the Hughes
Special Golden Egg; Was 1t Mrs. Bel
mont or Mrs. Smelter Trust Guggen-
heim?"
In spite of the commotion the
Hughes delegation gained the street
police pushing a pathway for them
thru the crowd. The enemy, how
ever marched along step-for-step and
hurled cauStic comments. At the
Multnomah hotel, where breakfast
was served, the Hughes crowd was in
an overwhelming majority and rs the
automobile parade arrived, 4 big
Hughes demonstration started.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-14
KANSAS MAN ELECTED
Haymaker Heads Church of Christ
Convention-Next Meeting at X. c.

Des Moines, Ia, Oct 14.-By unani-
nous vote Kansas City today was
chosen as the meeting place of the
1917 national convention of the
Church of Christ. The date for the
meeting will be drcided on later.
Judge j. N. Haymaker of Wichita,
Kan, was elected president of the
general convention.
The other officers are: First vice
president, the Rev. George A. Camp
bell, Hannibal. Mo-; second vice presi-
dent, E. NJ. Bowman, Chicago; third
vice president, R. S. Latshaw, Kansas
City, Mo-; treasurer, Col. Fred w.
Fleming, Kansas City, Mo-; recording
secretary, the Rev. w. E. Crabtree,
San Diego, CAL; corresponding secre-
tary, the Rev. Graham Frank, Lib
erty, Mo.
c. c. Chapman, Los Angeles, and
the Rev. ]. H Goldner, Cleveland, O.,
were elected to the executive commit
tee for terms of four years each.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-14
BLOOD WILL TELL!
Four -Year-Old Indian Attempted t
Instigate Jail Delivery.

The youngest prisoner in the city
Jail attempted to engineer a Jail de-
livery Friday night. Four-year-old
Stella Skay. the little Indian girl who
narrowly escaped death at the hands
of her parents Wednesday, is guilty.
Her father and mother were fined
SIS each in police court Friday after
noon for mistreating her. They had
no money and the father left the
mother and child as security while he
went back to the reservation tc raise
$50. The little girl has been staying
in the women's ward with the mother.
During the night the little Indian
girl awoke and looked for the matron
She discove red the latter was asleep.
She crept back to her mother.
white woman Sleep" she said, 1--WE
lock 'um up. We git away"
The squaw mother told the matron
about it today.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-14
COMING TOO Near.
q. s. Might Consider Coast
Warfare Unfriendly Act.
Congress Must Act to Extend
Nations Jurisdiction.

Washington. Oct. 14.-It has been
declared authoritativeIy at the state
department that the operations of bel
ligerent warships on the high seas
close to, but beyond the jurisdiction
of the United States, might be consid-
cred by this government to be un-
friendly.
It was pointed out that the British
cruisers lowering off New York harbor
and to which the state department OBJ
jected, were more than fifty miles
from the American shore but in the
steamer lanes
There is excellent authority for the
statement that this government is con-
sidering seriously the PRONUNCIATION OF
a proclamation putting into effect a
regulation affecting hospitality to bel
igerent warships somewhat similar to
that of the Dutch government. II
would deny to such ships the privilege
of entering American ports for any
purpose whatever except for repairs
or unless they should be driven in by
stress of weather.
1t was stated an act of congress
would be necessary for this govern
ment to attempt to extend its juris-
diction over seas beyond the 3-milt
limit established by international law
Some authorities assert, however, that
the notification by the state depart
ment to belligerent governments OF
the intention of the United States to
consider unfriendly warlike operations
close to American shores in a manner
that would interfere with American
commerce would have the full force
of the law. No act of congress. it was
said, would be necessary. Foreign
governments cannot go beyond the
state department in seeking the will Of
the American peOple
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-14
WOMAN DIES OF FRIGHT
Strike Police Rush in to Search for
Firearms. Cause of Scare.

Bayonne, n. J., oct. IA fourth
death was attributed indirectly to the
strike today Mrs. Anna Toup, 60,
died of fright when police burst into
her home in a search for firearms.
Chance of compromise was seen to-
day in the offer of Superintendent
Newman of the Pacific Coast Borax
works to give all workman who re-
ceive less than SO per day a 12 per cent
increase and to all men who receive
50 or over, an increase of seven per
cent.
-Four thousand employees of the
standard Oil plant at Bayway, near
Elizabeth, were expected to quit work
this afternoon. Boilermakers and still
cleaners already have gone out, de-
manding a 20 per cent increase in
wages tor men earning less than SO a
day and a thirty per cent increase for
those earning less than 50 a day-the
same demands made by the Bayonne
strikers.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-14
GUILTY OF "ASSAUET"
Man Who Made Attempt on Baby Goes
Back to Reformatory.


Noble Wiltshire, the 25-year-old man
accused by his sister, Mrs. Arthur
Hustled of PIT East Fifth street of an
attempted crime against her IA
months-old baby girl. pleaded guilty
to plain assault in the court of To-
peka today.
Officials of the Hutchinson state re-
formatory were communicated with
by the county attorneys office and
Wiltshire will be returned to the re-
formatory to serve out a term for
horse-stealing. He still has seven
years to serve. Officials stated after
examining MIN today that he does not
talk like a rational man.
Wiltshire served a part of his time
in the state reformatory on a horse
stealing charge. but was paroled a
short time ago and located at Man
haitian.
Mrs. Hustled does not know much
about her brother. The family was
broken up when the children were
small Not long ago Hustled, a Santa
Fe employe. was sent to the hospital
and Mrs. Hustled needed help. She
wrote to her brother at Manhattan
and asked him to come and stay with
her She expected him to work and
give her assistance while her husband
was in the hospital.
The brotI er came. few days later
Hustled had disappeared. He cid not
work She suspected that he had
taken the money and it was that re
port which took the police to PIT East
Fifth street Friday. While the Off
GERS were there Mrs Hustled broke
down and told them of the more seri.
Gus crime she had witnessed.
Mrs Husted and the little baby cir
were at the courthouse today wfer
Wiltshire pleaded guilty. to ASA ult.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-14
BIRTHS REPORTED

Following are the births reported to
the city clerk in the past week:
Clarence Edward Belts and wife,
Topeka, r. r., October 13, girl.
Harvey Percy Holt and wife, Her.
ington, Kan, September %, girl
VIM. T. Hayes and wife, Silver
Lake. Kan, September 21. girl.
Jacob Younger and wife. 127 North
Lake street, october IL, girl.
John Hefner and wife. 124 North
Chandler street, October IL, boy.
John r. Desch and wife. 219 Chan
dler street, October IL, girl
VIM. Il. Langeston and wife, 1909
Washington street, October -, girl
John Etzel and wife, 526 Sardou
avenue. October 10, boy.
Herman NJ. Steinbock and wife, 405
Lake street, October 8, girl
Walter A. Foster and wife, 1925
Brooks averue, October 6, girl
Andrew Harris and wife. 1000 Kan
sas avenue, October 9, girl.
Robert Chas. King and wife, 1876
North Madison street. October 6, boy.
Chas. Kruger and wife, Elmont, r.
r. No. ., October s, girl.
James f. Rabe and wife, Topeka
girl.
Jesse p. Myer and wife, 46 Oak
street. October 6, girl.
VIM. z. Reaser and wife, 1903 East
Sixth street. September IT, boy.
Milton Paul Massey and wife, GA
North Van Buren, street, October g.
girl.
Guy Peck and wife. Soldier Town
ship, September 5, boy
Chas NJ. Robinson and wife. 1926
North Harrison street, October 3, boy
Adonijah r. Bowers and wife, III
Topeka avenue, October 6. girl.
Fred K. Jordan and wife, 1900 Var
Buren, street, October 8, girl.
Nicholas Baum and wife, APP Ger
man avenue, October 10, girl.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-14
jAP-RUSS KICK
China CONTRACT
OF AMERICANS
Formal Protests Filed by Two
Nations at Peking.
Claim Exclusive Rights on Con-
structiOn Work.
$50, 100000 JOB INVOLVED
Russia Points to Chinese Prom
Use of IS Years Ago.
ST PauI Firm to Build Railroad
and Canal.
S6O,OOO,OOO JOB INVOLVED
Russia Points to Chinese Prom
ise of IS Years Ago.

pelsfng Oct. 14-Japan- and RUSSIA
entered protests today against ooIl ..ss
sions for railway and canal colIstl colIsIte5 ~
tion in China which have been grdi'eU
to Americans. se the
T,,1e-ian minister to China. LODGED
nrotest at the Chinese foreign Office
against the proposed American rMasl- ran
- from Feng-Cheng Shansi prov
jr,ce ro Ianchow- -Fuxe in kansu prov
ince. alleging that the Chlnese Nuns ms
ter in Petrograd promised yer lli =
eighteen years ago that Russla siio s,l1'CI.I ulu
have the privilege of building rallWays
in The vicinity of Mongolia. The dls-
puted line was to run approximately
400 miles. The agreement entered
into between the Siems-Carey com
many of St. Paul with he Chinese gov
ernnent empowers the American COM
nany to construct equal mileage else-
where if the protest holds.
Ian has Kick Coming, Too.
Baron Gonsuke Hayashi, the jap
anese minister to China, today pro
tested to the Chinese foreign otflce
against this governments agreement
viii, American contractors for the re-
construction of 200 miles of the Grand
canal in Shantung province. The Jap
anese claim by reason of their con-
Ouest of Shantung all the rights here
fnT0Te nSlG nN NTtA many III -
velopment of tina Chinese province.
The Chinese government contends
that Germany must be defeated before
such claim will hold good. The dis
pute involved the Siems-Carey agree
ment providing for the construction
of the northern half of the Grand
canal.
No Diplomatic Issue Yet.
Washington. oct. 1.-THE japanese
4f1a
nese contract with the American in
ternati 1nal corporation for railroad
building had not been officially re-
ported to the state department today
but officials expected to hear from
Minister Reinsch at Peking.
At present. however, there seems to
be no diplomatic issue to involve this
-oVernme Mt. The American Interna-
tfouaI corporation as a private Amer
ican organ: :zation secured the con-
tract thru 2 loan to China entirely on
its own account and without any COM
munication with the state department
As an American corporation, how
ever, it will be entitled to the good
offices of the government in case il
becomes evident that it's rights are be
. ing actually violated or in case i
makes direct appeal to the state de
partment for aid.
Contracts for foreign activities il
emma almost lnNaflably DrlnS 1Ortf
protests by other governments on tn,
grounds of violation of concessions.
100000, 900 Contracts.
Negotiations for American railwa,
construction in China were concluded
fortnight age and called for a $50,
600 900 loan by the American Inter
national corporation and the construc
uon as soon as possible of 500 mile
of railway thru the richest sections o
1aa-f E,a -,
" Paul George A. Kyle a Grea
Northern engineer, was appointed re
Gently and confirmed by China to bull
the road.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-14
RETRACT NOTHING
Hearst Stands Firm on Policy
of l. N. S. Papers.
He Is Proud To Be on English
Blacklist Roll of Honor.

New York, Oct. 1.-THE following
cable dispatch was received in this
city by William Randolph Hearst:
London, Oct. 14.-Beg for best rea-
sons possible to say that situation de-
pends absolutely on your immediate
personal action.
Suggest cabling personal guarantee
for -garbling by anyone under pain
of dismissal and publication all dis
patches exactly as received, adding as
result personal investigation offenders
being discharged. Hopeful of result.
Harris.
Hearst's Reply.
A reply was sent by Mr.. Hearst as
follows:
w. w. Harris, representative of In
ternational News Service.
Waldorf Hotel, London: 1 will
apologize for nothing, retract nothing,
alter nothing. The act of the English
censors is wholly unjust and unjusti-
flable l believed at first that their
attitude was based on some actual
error of Importance in our news serv-
ice. But 1 find on careful investiga-
ton that the couple of items Oh which
they based their claim were so trivial
as to prove the claim absurd and in
sincere.
1 am convinced that the exclusion
of the International News Service is
not due to any delinquency on its part
or on the part of the Hearst papers
but is due to the independent and
wholly truthful attitude of the Hearst
| columns.
Nothing to Retract.
Therefore, 1 have nothing to retract
or alter in the smallest degree. On he
contrary, 1 wish to assure the English
censorship and the English govern.
meAt that the Hearst publications will
continue to pursue the same indepen.
dent American course that they have
! been pursuing, with redoubled con
conviction of the truth, justice, pro
/ prlety and patriotism of that course
Instead of dischargins editors,
would rather raise their salaries whert
ever 1 find that they have honestly
and earnestly endeavored to sift the
exact facts out of the mass of mis-
representation which the English cen
sors impose upon this county.
The only obligation of our Ameri
can institutions is to our American
people and it is our firm policy ant
fixed purpose to print not the thing
which the English government desires
printed in this country, but the things
which the American people require fol
their accurate information and pa
triotic guidance.
Proud of Blacklist.
| 1 am proud to have our American
publications take their place with oul
American institutions on the roll o.
honor which the English black1is
constitutes; and 1 will take a persona
pleasure in giving our readers ant
clients the most complete information
of the utmost truth and in getting 1
from more trustworthy sources thai
the biased and bigoted English cen
sorship affords.-William Randolph
| Hearst
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-14
WaShburn Fund Most SatiSfac.
tory After Five Days.
s'We're Going to Get That $780,
OOO," Says President WOmer.
ONE MORE WEEK FOR WORK
Supporters of Blue Optimistic
Over TOpeka's Generosity.
JOab Mulyane Leads Days Sub.
scriptions With $1,000.

DR.. d. NJ. Fisk of Washburn gave
the workers in the endowment cam
paign, at the rally today, new argu-
ment why Topeka should pledge the
$780, 900 needed to make up the $780,
900 of the endowment.
Did you KNOW" said Doctor Fisk.
that Washburn has been supported
by outside funds and that nearly two
thirds of its students were from To-
peka? During the first sixteen years
of the existence of Washburn 20 per
cent of the money contributed came
from the New England states. More
than half the money contributed to-
ward the running of this school has
come from the eastern states, from
outside Kansas. Yet the output, the
benediction, of Washburn has been
right in Topeka. That is the young
men and young women who go from
Washburn."
The Rev. E. w. Spencer, one of the
Methodist ministers who made the
fight for the Baker endowment and
won. declared that the citizens of To-
peka have done less for one of the
most powerful institutions than any
other town in the country. Outsidt
of the public schools and the church,
es,' said Doctor Spencer, there is no
more potent influence in Topeka than
Washburn. There is not town in the
country with such a fine institution,
which is doing as much good as Wash
burn. where the people of the COM
munity have done less than Topeka" :"
The total for the week went almost
to the $4,000 mark with the reports
at noon today. The pledge of Joab
Mulvane for $1,000 was announced
yesterday, but included in the report
of the workers at the noon rally 9th
er pledges reported today exceeded
the regular days work of $4,000.
Days Pledges.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-14
T. R. IN PENNSYLVANIA
Address Gathering of Miners at
WiIkesbarre Tonight for Hughes.

New York, Oct. 14.-Colonel Roose-
welt left New York today for his sec
ond quick thrust and return to base
before ne starts his big offensive in
the interests of Republican Candidate
Charles Evans Hughes next Tuesday.
He is to speak tonight at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, to a gathering of miners. He re-
turns here Sunday and leaves for his
big western swing Tuesday. The colo
mel goes into the heart of the mining
district "loaded for the Adamson
eight-hour law bugbear," as he put it,
less than q week after President
White of the United Mine Workers de-
clared for President Wilson
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-14
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Marriage licenses were issued from
the office of the probate Judge today
to the following persons:
Allen A. Nipper. North Topeka. age
21. and Anna E. Hayes. Topeka, age
"a.
Roswell o. Byerrum, Muscatine, Ia.
age 81, and Alice Louise Bresette, To-
peka, age 2S.
John c. Davis. Kansas City, Kan.
age %, and Adele Belle White. To-
peka, age Is.
Charles NJ. Soper. ST. Joseph. age
21. and Ida F. Koezel, st. Joseph,
age %.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-14
FEEL 1907 BETTER
BY M0RN|NG--TRY IT..

Don't stay bilious. sick. headachy. con-
stipated and full of cold. Why don't
you get a box of Cascarets from the
drug store now2 Eat one or two to-
night and enjoy the incest, gentlest
liver and bowel cleansing you ever ex-
perienced. You will wake up feeling
fit and fine. Cascarets never grippe or
bother you all the next day like calo-
mel, salts and pills. They act gently
but thoroughly. Mothers should give
cross. sick, bilious or feverish chill
dren whole Cascaret any time. They
are harmless and children love them.
advertisement
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-14
"AUS NIT" THE HERO NOISE
COPPERS NEED The MONEY

Superior. Wis, Oct. 4.-Dashlng
madly into burning buildings to
rescue fainting heiresses, jumping
in front of runaway horses and
steering nice old ladies across traf-
fic congested streets is fine for ro-
nance, but Superior cops want real
money for their work. They have
Just presented demands for 500 a
month. They get $50 now.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-14
Physician a Suicide.

Chicago, Oct 14.-Dr- Milton Ben
net Titus. 80, died in St. Luke's hos :
pital here today of poisoning. He
swallowed the poison in a street car
after he had been arrested in connec-
ton with an operation he was snp-
posed to have performed on Florence
Backus. now in BIidewen hospital
The Topeka state journal., 1916-10-14
Shoots Daughter and Herself.

Springfield. Ill, Oct. 14.-In fit of
insanity early today Mrs. Amanda
Bentz, wife of local saloonkeeper
shot and seriously wounded her
daughter and then turned the weapon
on herself. Both have slight chance
for recovery. Mrs. Bentz had been in
local hospital for several months
because of nervous trouble.