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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28
FIGHTS FOR HER CHILD
Mrs. Carter-BrOwn Files Affidavit in
Support of Her Claims.

Dispositions have been filed in the
supreme court in an effort to prove
that Mrs: Mary A. Carter-Brown is
competent woman to care for her own
child. The affidavits are signed by
Mrs. Lucia o. Case, Mrs. A. M. Smith,
Mrs. S. j. Clark and other Topeka
women. The dispositions are filed
with the supreme court in habeas
corpus proceedings concerning custody
of the child.
The child in controversy is a
daughter of Mrs. Brown and the late
Howard Carter. The daughter was
under the custody OF Henry and
Louise Fricken of Kinsley, and an
effort was made by the mother to win
possession of the child. Affidavits
and counter affidavits have been filed
concerning the ability of Mrs. Brown
properly to care for her daughter
The case will be heard in the supreme
court May 2.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28
OLD COTTAGE HOUSE RAzED.
HiaWatha Structure Had Stood for
Nearly Fifty-Six Years.

Hiawatha, Kan, March 2S-Work-
men have almost finished tearing
down the old Cottage house, one of
Hiawatha's last relics of early day
buildings. The building, which was
an early day hosiery and saloon, was
erected fifty-siX years ago of cotton
wood lumber hauled to the HiaWatha
town site from White Cloud. When
the building was torn down this week
this lumber was found to be as sound
and much harder than it was when
put into the building. Among the in
teresting finds made by workmen in
tearing down the building, which
stood just opposite the Moreland hotel
on Oregon street, is d pint bottle of
gin, many years old, and a hoop skirt
of the style of thirty-five or forty
years ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28
THEY own IS CARS
The Billiard Brothers Add a New Stutz
to Their COLLECTION.

Robert Billiard has purchased an
other two passenger Stutz roadster,
geared at rs miles, 60 horsepower,
wire wheels and with a more up to
date engine than the old one. The
new car will arrive within a month.
The old Stutz roadster was traded in
when Mr.. Billiard purchased the new
one in Kansas City last Saturday
This makes sixteen automobiles
owned by the Billiard boys. They
started in with a Metz. then purchased
two Fords. later two OVerlands, eight
Speedwells and now three Stutz cars.
Ownership of these cars hasn't been
entirely one round of pleasure for the
Billiard boys. A few months ago Robert
Billiard broke an arm while cranking
his machine in the early morning
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28
POUND is STILL MISSING.
Glen Elder Man Eluded Guard and
Wandered Away From Home.

Mankato, Kan. March 2S.-Sea rch-
ing parties are out trying to find E.
A. Pound of Glen Elder, southwest of
here, who disappeared last Wednes-
day evening. Pound, who is a mer-
chant of Glen Elder, has been in very
poor health for some time and re-
Gently underwent an operation. His
mind was affected on account of his
sickness and a watch was placed with
him. On the evening of his disap-
pearance he eluded the watch and
nothing has been heard of him since.
The Solomon river has been dragged
several times and blood hounds have
been used in the search.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28
KANSAS GAME WARDEN SHOT.
Oscar Walker Probably Fatally In
iured by JarbaIo StOrekeeper.

Leavenworth, Kan. March rs
Oscar Walker, a Jarbalo section hand
and state game warden, was shot
through the abdomen and probably
fatally wounded by Del North. a
storekeeper at Jarbalo in front of
North's store, following a quarrel said
to have been started by Walker
After the shooting Walker was
brought to Leavenworth on railroad
motor car and taken to st. john
hospital. DR.. E. S. Woods attended
him at Jarbalo and accompanied him
to the hospital, where he performed
an operation in an attempt to save his
life. Walker is 35 years old
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

was made, and the citizens who have
the matter in hand will be able to go
ahead with the subscription of the
stock.
The institution is to be a corpora
ton, organized under the laws of the
state of Kansas. The capital stock
will be $4,000. 1t will not be neces-
sary to issue the full amount of cap
ital The shares of stock will be 500
par and will be sold for 500.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28
KANsANs TO CONFERENCE +
MankatO Banker Layman Delegate 70
Chicago NJ. E. Meeting.

Mankato, Kan, March 2S.-DlstrlcF
Superintendent H. M Templin, former
pastor of the Methodist church at this
place and now residing here, was
chosen by the ministerial conference
at Concordia last week, as delegate
to the national conference at Saratoga,
New York.
D. H Stafford, president of the
State Exchange bank of Mankato, was
selected by the layman's electoral con-
ference at Concordia, as delegate to
the national conference.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

Kansas counties in the matter of hard
roads. 1t means education and de-
monstration and then the people, in
town and country, are ready to invest
in 365-day roads. Every man who be-
lieVeS in rock roads or hard roads
should be willing to stand up and ad-
vocate their construction for the day
will soon come when the pioneers in
the good roads movement will be
called blessed by every man, woman
and child in the land.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28
MAY BUILD NEW HOSPITAL.
Plans for $25,OOO Institution at Lyons
Arc Nearly Completed.

Lyons, Kan. March 2S.-The prop
osition of building a first class mod
ern hospital in Lyons which was start
ed about three months ago, is now
about to be brought to a conclusion.
The details of the building have been
gone into thoroughly since the start
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28
STRUCK BY TRAIN-UNHURT.
PaIco Two-Year-OId Went to Sleep on
Railroad Track.

Palco, Kan, March 2S.-The two
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs Towns,
while asleep on the Union Pacific
track, was struck by an engine. The
child was thrown clear of the track
when the pilot struck him. A small
cash on his head in the only injury
The boy evidently had followed his
brothers to school but became so tired
at the track that he went to sleep.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

Arthur Capper. secretary of the
Kansas Republican league, issued
call today for a meeting of the execu-
tive committee of the league to be
held at the Copeland hotel next Fri
day evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

J. h Bair of SO W. Sixth street re-
ported to the police that his chicken
coops have been receiving visits from
marauderS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

Atlanta, Georgia. Charles A. Dana,
editor of the New York Sun, was in
the city for a few days. Asked about
the outlook for 1892, he said: No
body can tell. One thing is certain.
The Farmers Alliance will run its
course and die
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

A. A. Robinson. general manager of
the Santa Fe, returned from Chicago
today.
Frederick Archer will be here at the
First Methodist church April in an
organ recital.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

Lawrence Record: 'In accordance
with the breezy style of western
hyperbole a state paper calls Mrs.
Lease The Amazon of Kansas The
Amazon has a mouth $50 miles wide"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

A notarial commission was issued
today to Charles f. Lagerstrom of
Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

John G. Searle, one of the old resi-
dents of the city, has gone to Dayton.
Ohio, where he will enter the old
soldiers home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28
Is Years Ago
in
Topeka
From the columns of
THE STATE JOURNAL

March %. 1891.
Commissioner of Elections Reed and
his corps of assistants have been
busy all day figuring up the total
registration, and at four O'Clock this
afternoon secured the total registra-
ton which is S,935; that is 1853 more
than were here two years ago. To-
peka is now ahead of Kansas City,
Kansas, in the number of her voters.
6325 men registered and 2,610 wo-
men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28
Aliens Foot-Ease for the Troops

Many war zone hospitals have ordered
Aliens Foot-E the antfseptic powder,
for use among the troops. Shaken into the
shoes or used in the fOot-bath. Aliens Foot
Ease gives rest and comfort takes the fric-
ton from the shoe, and prevents the feet
getting tired or foot-sore. Drug and De-
partment Stores everywhere sell it, 25c
Don't accept any Observation-Disclosures
ment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

Mrs. f. +. Wear of Potwin is con-
valesciEg after a severe illness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

Hon. David Overmyer has returned
from his Washington trip.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-28

W. w. Manspeaker is in the city.
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1916-10-08

Tlr Junior liigh school has 900 uA
.rrd.uliy good report tor thr wcrh
There has h,.u trn i"N uIJir.
aui 90 least thrc, iour,hs OF tHr bb
s'nfe,. have been called out ct ,ghou.
90 account OF sickness.
There las been several pupils 90
tered the Junior High school lhls
ock among vhI include Cydo Hor
go of iuar'''r Nyfrs euuham OBJ.
C0r.uc OKLA llo,U parkug.ua
NH0 vas Kept from entering tH'
opening o, s.ho.. 600 account oi d
hr'.,u Jog EroI Griffin oi Milford
Texas WUH, kHE u CLOVIS 81
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1916-10-08
"LoOk Pa, How
'Gets.li' Works I"
Lifts Your Corn Right OF.
Never Fails

Ever In your lite GOO c0rn come
ont like tls' lH.k ll tHs 'run srIn
uuH meat. Goth .7 Gao palm OF
..fFH. hand.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-08
ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD
AWARDS CITY CONTRACTS
'r"Ns'nEs Ordered Installed Aiopr|
N"rth A'rn"r In IInrton Heights.
Draw Strnns Tor Work

"a" administrative Board yesterday
"""I"'' contracts for trench work to
y. w MAYNARD. and FOR Inlet atone,
Tor catch basins To j. G. cheatwood
TWO liius mad" hi'!s of the same ne
ar" '"i tho trench work. and they
settled IA" question between Them
selves 10y drawing siraws. MIR. May
nard winning.
TN" board Instructed the City Enui-
n""r I" advertise for bids to Law vi,rt
ned hrick crossings i've foot wide on
North Avenue, from Foo street To
if""iSland Boulevard. Barton Heights.
ana Tor SraHit" *pall crossings at Tho
intersection Of Observation-Disclosures Road
fro"Sland Boulevard aud pill stree,
l"nuinS I" TIA" liiEhland I'arl, schooI
inc CITY Attorney was directed IN
"rhw up 20 contract between tho city
ana IN" chesapeake ana Onto Railroad
ON ANY Tor tho lcas" Of a triangular
Sirir OF land at seventh and Orlean,
streets. Fulton. Tn" lcaa" is for 81
!" E"ar. Tho railroad company granting
IN" lis" "f tho land for playground
for Fulton citizens
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-08
SIGNAL CORPS DRILL
W III set ~ Wireless Spuur,,us n,
I"tr Grounds This
StcruUun.

me richmond Signal Corps. nndci.
command of Captain T.. : SpIa,.. viii
"s"cmhI" at tn" armory this afternoon
~ " "cl"ck ana march on, 80 Tho
fair Grounds where ID vii cr,.,.. -,
mounted drill work to-ni.h, ana TO-
morrow There Viii hc twcniy-liy..
mounted men. ON" wirc car; a,d on.
f'di" station 1t iS probable also ,l;t
ia"l" station vii! lie set lp =, al
William Iiryd rarl>
h" Military Horrd. Governor Str,r,
an" a number "f CRY "ncial. nave
"''h invited To witness the nrld wan,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-08
senator nurhnnan IL u".pi,nl.

state ScnNtoT JOhn r. 'iuChNmNn. uf
Marion. Is confined 81 the johnston Vii
lis Hospital Senator I;uchauHu was
talscn sick towards Tho end of the
legislative session aud was IN tho h"s
piial uutil after Adjournment Shurt
lN after he returned home ~" found it
necessary to come back 10 Richmond
for further treatment.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-08
UNIVERSAL PEACE TO COME
THROUGH GREAT IDEAL.
DIR. {. \lpli"p>o Smith Lectures ON
INTERROGATION az War and
Literature.
} WNE FART GuLp, FART DEOSS
Would Ecdctliratc f'iHitin. Qualities
of Men to Triumph of Truth in
Battle N.aiust ErrUr-llcrOi>m
Other Than by Combat.

Universal nca"c viii ,"n'c 10y Tia"
emulsion power Of great ideal Ma
- tia" only diScipliu. i community now
hH~. and "" win witucs. its u"rrurs
"rd rINaG"s until Sometimes h"ticr
takes ITS place. 'rhr literature "t ,l.,
world has suggested its equivalent. l..t
us sh"w our u"hir and hcr"ic qualities
r Hn"th"r "uh 3, better WAN l."t us
folio" tn" uH'h suggested us W"rls-
V"'n aud r@hi f"r h-h iJctlz. r,ut
""irni HAT rr's,ut w"itH stand iI.t.
h"t u"rH from We'll I" hetl"r.
-r'akin= last ut-ht in the audi. "riu,
"i ,h' J"hu Marshall 'i-h -cno"l t."
"n .'udi m'" ~ l;trh.uu,,u i-.rh,rs "u
tue ini' rrci1tt"n az var aud literature.
i'I"i ss"r g Nlph"u~" :,ul'N .'d-ar
Milan Foe professor "r litcrtturc ar TIA,
N""#ity "f Nir=iuI, aiud "u" ,rfuo
10" Welt ">ohau-" professor 80, tn,
'utN"r~IlN 90 E,rlut cNprr. cG tlr ,"u-
Nr'i"n tN'i universal ro,,r rear
81 "'n' mat uic world u"w wit
CONE" h" "aid. hN a calculated exchange
90 on" thim- fpr :uuthor. nu, WIN TIA.
r"'iiIa'i"n that th"rr - - wa, OF .c.-
H'h'i'uG r""i u"hlNry :,rd h.r"..r,
other than 10y ,"mhat "u the u.id of
k.til"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-08

juice Ernest H. Wells viii hear ar
Sniu"nt In nc llustimgS Court Fart
IT, to-day on tho motion made TO lave
TIA" verdict Of tho jury SGT aside ia
Tia" C"s" "r Richard II. Barnes a.ains,
tn" Virginia Hallway and Power COM
rhnN. hN which he WAS awarded SEQ
DAMAGES for personal injuries
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-08
Judge Itarhnm Drsirnuicd

judge Thomas j. l:arham. "f New
port News, has been designated 10y the
Governor 1" sit for judge James II
Fletcher. Jr., Of A"cnmac, III the trial
OF certain cases over which judge
Fletcher has certified that il would hc
Improper FOR him to preside
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-08
Fined For Stealing n.c,clc.

Henry Dixon, indicted on - charG o
or stealing bicycle, MAS convicted
Yesterday in tho Hastings Court, aud
uas nucd 81. Tho case Camc M on
aprcal from Police Court, where Dixon
was sentenced To four months i'm iaiI
'ranl, Walker, Indicted ON Z, chargc
Of stealing y h"r"c from W. ~. l:raurr,
we placed ON irirl. hut TIA" jury Ca'Io,l
to ngrcc. and ~" casc wIa continued
10 Tia" neat term.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-08
Nnhbrry ItcpOrtrd

inc poio" wcro notified yrs,erdsv
morning that a"mc rmo Ju,,,y H..
night previous some ono had ontcrcd
me saloon Of - lurlollu-. 100 Wcei
broad stree md rtcl'u 500 en-
trance Das eM"cicI through a coi..f
door.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-08

''ut" \ hutn"y. who has been So
ri"usly i'll at tn" Johnston Willis Hos
rital. is rcpnri"d as improving
New Britain herald., 1916-01-10
the field, on the principle that they Cannot defeat somebody with noA
CoIiarIess Texans.
Cleveland Leader.)

Almost any day the Washington
 dispatches may herald it as 8 fact that Hon. James Harvey Davis of Sulphur Springs, Texas, Representa-
 tive-at-Large, has bought himself d clean shave and further electrified his colleagues in the lower house of con- gress by appearing in a starched col lar for the first time in 0 long and untrammeled life. Already, accord ing to advices from sources hitherto found reliable, the 'Texas cyclone" has had his whiskers trimmed and reconciled himself to temporary sep-t aration from the high boots that have been the companions of his lifetime. Thus is individuality over- whelmed by societys crushing weight. So despotic custom tramples out the last vestiges of personal liberty.
 True, mankind might have wished a more impeccable champion to wage it's unequal struggle against the linen collar. MT. Davis's avoidance of the article is attributed in thet main to the circumstance that the extreme efforescence of his chin has always enabled him to dispense with collar and cravat, or even shirt, and escape detection. It is not clear that his antipathy to shirt collars rests on the highest of moral grounds
 Even so, his 1one-handed campaign of passive resistance might attract support if he persevered. The collar has little enough to commend it., heaven knows. Come to think of it. what can be said for the collar? It could hardly be called beaut'fu even in it's highest state of outline, tex ture and unbending spotlessness. It lends it's wearer no comfort save the consciousness of submission to mob rule. It partially conceals ths male neck, but keeps it neither warm nor cool If it serves any purpose of art or utility, the fact is not ap- parent. It may benefit the manufac- turers, dealers and Iaunderers. but to the wearers it brings only expense. uncomfort, anxiety, bother and tho same craven sense of subjection to society's will that convict feels i1 his prison stripes. And what sight more pitiful what sensation more loathsome, than those afforded wit nesses and wearer by tall poke collar hopelessly crumpled after a few fox trots?
 It is gravely to be feared the Hon. Cyclone Davis will never qualify as mans liberator, but will none other appear? Must the less deadly branch of the species go on suffering for ever, in it's poor, dumb way, without hope of relief from the two-for coll lar, to say nothing of the close shave. the creased trouser and the stiff hat?
New Britain herald., 1916-01-10
An Ozd Roman Stronghold, ShuftKe-C0ck 0f AH Balkans

Washington, D. C., Jan. 10-"Du- razzo, where the debarcation of Roman legions is reported to be talk ing place once more, is now scarcely a shadow of the fourishing Adriatic seaport of before the days of Christ and during Roman empire, whose merchants traded beyond the boun- daries of the known world," begins 8 study in war geography just pre- pared by the National Geographic society, which tells of the Albanian port that recently awoke to feverish industry with the landing of Italian troops there for service upon the Serbian flank. At one time, Du- razzo then Dyrrachium, was a ia vorite starting point for expeditions of conuuering Rome; for Viagnatia. q great military road, led from this city to Thessalonica, now Salonil<i, and, so. into the kingdoms of the north and east The 1egions that subdued the chaos of the Grecian world and first brought Rome into contact with the Slave passed through Dyrrach- ium.
 "Durazzo lies upon the Adriatic, across from the Italian port of Bari, and 50 miles south from the Albanian capital Scutari, or, as the natives call it. Scodra. It is built upon the rock peninsula of Pelu. which marks off the broad Bay of Durazzo from the open Adriatic. Old walls still surround the city, and the gigantic ruins of an ancient Byzantine citadel are overgrown with plane trees. Along the coast, around the town. are the dismal marshes that made it an al most impregnable point for defense in early Roman times. The harbor has slowly silted up The milen- niums of Albanian misfortune arc reflected in the present desoation of the port.
 tEpidamnus, as Durazzo was call- ed in it's infancy was founded by q joint colony of Corcyreans and Cor inthians in the 7th century B. C., It soon became 9 wealthy trading cen ter, and a hotbed of political dispute; for the democrats and aristocrats fought such a bitter struggle there over the Rights of Man. that Athens, Corinth, and Sparta were drawn into it. This struggle is considered among the contributing causes of tho Pe1oponnesian war. Epidamnus became great and popu'ous. Tn 229 R. C.. it passed into Roman hands and changed it's name. Augustus gave the city to a colony of his vet erans after the Battle of Actium in 31 B, C., and through the next four
New Britain herald., 1916-01-10
For His XNifc'S Sake.
(Tit- -BitS.)

Well, what do you want?' saId the master of the house, sternly, to Dreary Samuel, the tattered tramp, as he stood outside the door. shiver- ing with the most accomplished art.
 1T am looking for york; replied he of the unemployed brigade. "Ain't you got no scrubbin' or washin' or cleanin' or nothin, that an honest boy could do?"
 This earnest appeal for work made the householder think that he had misjudged a real honest British lab orer out of work.
 "Ah,' he said, "now you speak like a man. I like to hear of any one willing to make an effort I never thought you wanted work of that kind"
 No more I do,' whined Samuel shuddering at the bare idea. ''It's work for my wife that I'm looking for.'
New Britain herald., 1916-01-10
WHY NOT WORK TT OUT?

nce in a great while good idea hst upon the waters and allowed Irift on into ports unknown. It b we'll sometimes that these Ights be given harbor. Hudson
 jim, the inventor, in an address Ire the Aeronautical Society of Irica, recently let loose this morsel sh has all the ear-marks of a new I, one that if carried out or put in k definite form might have great Int in shaping future legislative les of the United States. It is this: E not compel all candidates for
 on of some kind before being |ified to hold the office? A com Live examination would eliminate waste material and simmer the Hidates down to good, hard, rock
 om material. MT. Maxim put it
 way: "Our Congress is made up nly of lawyers and political nbers. Congressmen are not re- led to undergo any civil service tnination. Often the Congressional al committee, whose Judgment is I, knows no more about what the V needs than it would know about forming a surgical operation or ting a poem. * * *"
 here is much truth in what the