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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23
SNATCHED HER PURSE
Negro Robbed Miss Lillian Geihl and
Escaped in Darkness.

The savings of months, 1892, set
aside for the support of two orphan
nieces, was in the pocketbook snatched
from Miss Lillian Geihl by negro on
West Tenth avenue about 1890 O'Clock
last night. Miss Giehl, head trimmer
in the millinery department of Crosby
Bros store, was almost prostrated by
her loss today.
Every policeman. plainclothesman
and detective on the police force is
working on the case, but no arrests
have been made. Miss Giehl, contrary
to statements made. cannot give a
description of the man who took the
purse. She did not see him, except as
a form in the dark.
| Miss Geihl and Mrs. Amanda john
son were walking out West Tenth
street, returning home after attending
! a picture show. negro stepped out
of the alley on the north side of Tenth
between Topeka avenue and Tyler,
snatched the purse and ran. Sew
eral women, among whom was Mrs
Robert Carver, heard Miss Geihl and
her companion scream and ran to-
an automobile accident. The negro al
most ran over them in the dark. He
ran west and north.
All the available officers were put
on the case at once but there were no
| DEVELOPMENTS last night This morn
policeman, found the remnants of a
bank book and a bunch of check
stubbs in a yard at Fourth and West
| ern avenue. There is a vacant house
next door and the police believe the
| thief stopped there and threw away
what he did not want. Later in the
morning the purse was found at Sew
enth and Polk streets, with nothing
! in it
| Besides the money the purse orig
| inaIly contained a gold watch. Miss
Geihl lives in Kansas City and was
| planning to return there soon. She
| had not been in Kansas City for sew
| eral weeks and accounts in that way
| for the fact that she was carrying
| 1892 around with her. While here
| she makes her home with Mrs s. NJ
| Hostetter at 524 West Tenth street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23
ABOUT ROOSEVELT.

The Republicans say they want to
beat Wilson. Well, here's one way:
Four years ago Roosevelt represented
the views of the majority of the Re-
publicans who had been aligned with
the party for years and years. He re-
ceived 4,11s,5o7 votes; Mr.. Taft, fine
man that he is and was, received only
3,4s4,s5s.
If the Republicans mean business
now and will name Roosevelt as the
man of the hour, they can start with
these four million voters and there are
a whole lot of standpatters and DENT
ocrats who are going to vote fo-
Roosevelt, too.
How many votes could the Repub-
licans feel positive of, if they nomi-
mated Fairbanks, or Cummins or La
Toilette or Burton or Weeks; that is,
absolutely sure votes? Taft was a
very excellent man. but misunderstood.
Could any of the favorite sons poll as
many votes as he? Maybe they could
they might not poll as many as Roose-
welt. Here is some food for thought
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23
TRIALS OF A STENO
Some Employers Give Dictations
While Playing Golf.

Boston. May 23.-The tribulations
of business stenographers in defend
ing themselves from masher employ
ers were put in the shade today when
Miss Gertrude Ford, financial secre-
tary of the Stenographers' Union, told
how she had to dodge a mashie while
taking dictation.
Her employer, she said, was ac-
customed to smoke and swing a golf
club for practice while giving her die
tation.
This was one of many instances re-
lated to prove that the strain on a
stenographers mind was sufficient to
justify her in working only eight hours
day. Some golfing employers are
even said to take stenographers to the
links to dictate letters
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23
PUTS ON A CONCERT
w. f. Roehr Entertains COOPERATIVE
Club With Music.

Classical music telling the love
stories of Sunny Italy, the amorous
dreams of the Spaniards, the rudy
life of the Norwegian, the melancholy
passion of the Scotchman and the fly
by night life of the French invaded the
prosaic Throop hotel this noon and
turned gray-haired business men into
drea my eyed, sentimental imaginative
youths. 1t was all brought about by
the novel introduction of canned music
at a COOPERATIVE club dinner, a talk
on music by w. F. Roehr and an ex-
PLANTATION of the love songs by Miss
Thompson, a diminutive brunette,
daring and escaping with much credit
a variety of rainbow colors worn by
SO many and looking pretty on so
few.
Read and Played Poems.
After telling his audience of the
aims and ambitions of the talking
machine people, Mr.. Roehr introduced
selections of poems transformed into
music and Miss Thompson read the
poems and then played them.
Wanted Rag Time.
And so dreamy musical selection
after selection was played and the
business men dreamed-all expecting
one, Colonel L. NJ. Penwell-he gets
enough of that at funerals.
Say" exploded the colonel, Tets
have little Rag Time"
Many compliments were heard on
the excellent service of the remodeled
Throop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23
New York Cotton Market.
QUAKER MEDITATONs.

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
Many an Irishman breaches Home
Rule, but his wife practices it.
Even the fat man may shrink from
his duty without losing any weight
When we think of the money spent
to advertise cigarettes. it's no wonder
they are puffed up.
A woman may smile. though her
heart is breaking; even though the
enamel may crack on her face
Some people are so analytical that
they are never even happy without
trying to figure out why they are.
A word to the wise is worth two to
the foolish.
Death stared a woman in the face.
sYou don't seem a bit afraid" said
Death. "Oh, we women get used to
being stared at she replied.
LAS ye SOW, SO shall we reap" quoted
the Wise Guy. Yes, provided your
neighbours chickens don't interfere"
replied the Simple Mug, who was ex-
perimenting as an amateur gardener.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23

Willy wood-rat not only loved neat
ness and order, he liked fun as well,
and he could play his little joke as
cleverly a. the next person. Every
night, after he had done his regular
work, he would snoop around in the
woods or along the edge of the creek,
and find some jolly thing to do.
You see Willy, alt -ough he was
good-sized for a rat, was small COM
pared with Mr.. Cater and some of
the creatures who lived near by and,
like as not, it was a good idea of his
to do all his work and an ms play by
night He was much safer that way
One night, after he had eaten
ma rticularly good meal. and was feel
ing in fine shape for some fun, he
said to Mrs. Wood-rat, I'm going
over to that tree over there I think
saw a chipmunk come out of there
this early morning, just as 1 was go
ing to bed. If L am right, there are
no doubt some fine nuts in his hole
in the hollow tree. Maybe We would
like to put them somewhere else.
And he winks slyly at Mrs. Wood
rat.
She laughed. for she well knew
that WHY'S favorite joke was NOV
ing the food supply of some indus
trious creaturei
Willy ran over to the old tree he
had pointed toward and into the hole
he had noticed in the lower part.
Yes, he had guessed right. There
was a chipmunk's nest and a pantry
full of good nuts, too
Willy chuckled to himself.
Il know a place where these nuts
would look fine" he whispered soft
". .IIl get Mrs. Wcod-rat to help
me, and we'll move them all this very
night"
He ran back to his own nest and
called to his little mate to come
quickly and help make the joke. Of
course she was glad to come-she
liked Joking as well as Willy, though
he was generally the one who did the
planning.
They set to work, and long before
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23
2O-OUR TWENTY-2o.

Kansas, as the reader knows, has
twenty delegates to the Republican
national convention which meets in
Chicago in a couple of weeks. OF
these delegates about fifteen, includ-
ing Billy Morgan, are said to be for
Hughes; one or two are for Root; one
or two for Weeks; none is for Roose-
welt.
The Topeka Capital and the Kansas
City Star recently spoke of the terrific
defeat of David w. Mulvane at the re-
cent state convention held in this city
to elect these twenty delegates. Let
the state Journal tell these two papers
and the reader confidentially that Mr..
Dave w Mulvane won one of the big
gest political victories in his life when
those delegates were chosen. We be-
lieve that out of the twenty, seventeen
would vote for Burton or Root or
Roosevelt tomorrow if Dave suggested
to them that they get in the band
wagon. --e --~.'-
Mr. Mulvane plays politics like the
gentleman he is; he plays the game
we'll He is like the writer of this
paragraph in some ways; he is not
a candidate for any office and does
not expect to hold any office. He
likes politics because it is interesting.
We do not always agree with Mr.. Null
vane, but we respect him and like
him. Personally we are friends, pol
itically I do not know just where he
is on the presidential proposition at
this writing, but the editor of this
paper is for Roosevelt. Dave ought to
be. Roosevelt and Mulvane should
be good friends politically. Both get
things done.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23
TWO CIVILIZATIONS.

The people of this country can gain
some satisfaction by comparing the
conduct of our Civil war on both sides
and the course of the European war
as it is revealed in authentic records,
says Golfers. When we think of the
hatchery at Louvain, the shooting and
manning of women and children, the
murder of hostages, the senseless spy
scares, the inhuman treatment Of
alien residents. the use of poisoned
gas, the submarine warfare against
passenger ships, the Zeppelin raids,
the publication of neurotic demands
for, barbarous reprisals signed by men
of letters. university professors. and
even clergymen, and finally the mill
tary lynching of a band of melancholy
poets and mystics-when we see all
these hideous happenings in a part
Of the world which many Americans
have regarded as the source of civiliza-
tion, we cannot help feeling a certain
satisfaction with a nation that not
even the distress and danger of civil
war could madden to a point of such
cruelty. The comparison makes us
greatly content to be Americans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23

4 OF course Topeka wouldn't like to
lose the headquarters of the Temper
ance Society of the Methodist Episco-
pal church but it is undoubtedly true
as it has been pointed out at the gen.
eral conference of the church where
the suggestion to change these head
quarters has been made, that these
headquarters are least needed in Kan
sas than in almost any other section
of the country. The big battles of the
future in this country against liquor
are to be fought out on the Atlantic
coast, and the proposal to locate these
Headquarters at Washington seem to
be no more tain businesslike.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23
TO I. R. COLORS
Republicans Complete Organi-
cations in 20 States.
Ex.Goy. Foss Believes Hughes
Wouldn't Accept.

Chicago, May 23.-The Roosevelt
Republican league announced TO-DAY
complete organization in twenty states
kilograms of endorsement, 1t was sAio'
are still coming in wholesale.
New York's downtown hotel loooies
today were filled with politicians ana
the buzz of gossip Among these were
former Senator Murray crane VI
Massachusetts, former Governor Foss
of Massachusetts, Roger sullivan, ne
tienal Democratic committeeman from
Illinois, John P. Hopkins or liinoiS
Norman E. Mack, national committee-
man from New York
Ex-Governor Foss said he DID not
believe Hughes would accept the Re
publican nomination; Murray crane
was completely silent as ever, ana
neither Mack nor Sullivan wanted 70
discuss politics at all.
Taft Leaders for RoosevexH
The Roosevelt Republican head
Quarters announced that Ex-Governor
Philip Lee Goldsborough of Mary
land, who led the Taft delegation at
Chicago in 1912 and General w. s.
Bird of Passaic, head of the league IN
1912, had both announced their sup
port of T. R.
over for few hours in St Louis
where he has been asked to MAKE
brief address on his way back from
Kansas City. Invitations have so Tar
been received from the City CLUB,
which wants him to address luncn-
con, or if not that, to make a speech
at IL o'clock and a number OF prom
inent Republicans have also sent re-
quest The coloners itinerary on the
way back after May 80 contemplates
a four hour stay at st. Louis, but ne
has not yet made up his mind whether
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23
EVE OF SHAKESPEARE
Feature Attraction for Washburn's
Commencement.

An evening of Shakespeare will be
one of the attractions of the Fifty
First commencement of Washburn
college to be celebrated the first week
in June In addition to the masque
All on Midsummer Night there
will be special program of Shakes
peare music and four well known
scenes from Tanning of the Shrew,
Macbeth, and two other Shakespeare
plays. Over sixty people will take
part IN the different scenes and spe-
cial lighting effects have been ordered
from Chicago.
Practically all the entertainment
events of the commencement week
will be conducted in the natural am
phitheater back of Boswell hall
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23
THAT LIBEL SUIT.

There is nothing much new in the
libel suit against the State Journal
brought by the Grand Opera house,
which wants $4,000 damages from
this paper, excepting that Bale w.
Waggener, one. of the ablest lawyers
in the state, will also represent the
State Journal in the case, Mr.. Z. D.
McKeever having been already en-
gagged.
No announcement has yet been
made that the Grand Opera house has
been made safe as ordered by the
state and city authorities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23

engagement; of the good time they
were going to have at Miami during
the Easter holidays, and of how much
they cared for each other. Then
Edythe started to talk about her
dresses Jim listened for a time be-
fore protesting, but finally he could
bear it no longer.
Listen, Mildred he said uncon-
sciously. II don't care, about the old
dresses. Let's talk"
He paused. wide eyed.
Edythe had sprung from the couch,
righteous indignation in her coal
black eyes,
You called me Mildred
.sWhat?"
you called me Mildred. Now, 1
know that you've been with her all the
time-that you were thinking of her
when you spoke to me-"
But I wasn't"
you were. You called me Mil
dred-" He smiled indulgently.
81 was only fooling."
you weren't I'm going upstairs"
you're not. Edythe, DEAR
"Why don't you call me Mildred
again.
Il was only fooling. You know I
was"
You weren't fooling."
Don't you believe me-"
"No"
slowly and deliberately took his wal
let from his pocket. From the wallet
he extracted a sheet of paper. Read
this"
''Why?''
81 want you to-"
81 won't"
"Please"
She took the paper reluctantly.
Il don't see what this has to do with
it,"
Then she read:
Some time during the night Tn
going to make Edythe angry by calling
her Mildred, and this note is to show
thatJI did it on purpose. and only tc
tease her.
The girl smiled and crossed the
room to where he was sitting.
so you were only fooling-aftel
aI!'
'Of course / was
The exponent of preparedness reach
ed out his arms, and Edythe accepted
their invitation.
You darling" she said.-(Copy.
righted, 1916. by the Mcclure News.
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23
THE DRIFT FROM HUGHES.

One of the new and most curious
of the incidents of the remarkable
situation surrounding the Republican
presidential nomination is the present
shifting of erstwhile Hughes enthusi-
asts TO Root. And their number is
considerable.
How is this to be explained?
Certainly no one will argue that
Elfhu Root and Charles Warren
Hughes are of the same type of states
men; that they are gifted with like
temperaments; or that they have the
same political ideas or ideals. Indeed,
in only one particular is there any
similarity between them. Each is a
man of remarkably distinctive acumen
and ability. But, assuredly, it must
be conceded on all sides that they are
as far apart on most matters political
as two men very we'll could be. They
belong to differing political schools.
even though they be affiliated with
the same political party.
Hence nobody, it would seem, who
once may have considered Hughes as
the most desirable presidential choice
for the Republican party could make
an eleventh hour switch to Root under
any impression that Root would rule
in the presidential office in the same
way that Hughes would; that Root
would be an acceptable substitute for
Hughes.
So there must be other reasons for
/ these sudden changes of heart.
One of them may be born of de-
sire on the part of a few Republicans
to get onto the bandwagon, and
they've been fooled by the talk that
certain Republican leaders have decid-
ed to name Root and to use. if neces-
sary, the steam roller methods that
made the last Republican national
convention SO disastrously famous to
| accomplish such an end.
But the chief reason for this deser-
ton of Hughes can probably only be
found in what should be the fact that
many of those who months ago looked
to Justice Hughes as the most avail
able presidential timber in the Re
publican party have reached the reali-
zation that they were mistaken in theil
judgment.
They had arrived at the conclusion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23

Possibly Governor Morehead of
Nebraska is not familiar with the
propaganda of the League to Enforce
Peace, although its name indicates
pretty plainly its purposes. He has
named Mr.. Bryan as one of the dele
gates to the convention of the or
ganization. which is to be held in
Washington next week. Mr.. Bryan
certainly can not be in sympathy
with any plan to preserve the peace
OF the world by force. if necessary.
That's too belligerent for him. But
perhaps Governor Morehead had the
idea that Mr.. Bryan is entitled to the
distinction of representing Nebraska
as delegate to something.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23

That story from Fakirville, which
happens to be designated on the map
as Winsted, Conn, about school of
pickerel amusing themselves by
jumping and flip-flopping over an
empty beer key that is anchored as
a buoy in a nearby lake is certainly
an interesting fish story: and is all
right except for the facts that pick
erel do not travel in schools nor do
they jump out of the water unless
they are putting up a fight for their
lives on the end of a trolling line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23

There has been some criticism of
the automobile on the score that it is
a new factor in keeping people away
from the Sunday church services. And
perhaps there is some basis for it. But
in Topeka, at any rate, the automobile
appears to be used pretty generally as
a means of conveying families to
church. In front of each of the larger
Topeka churches on Sundays more
automobiles are parked than is the
case in front of the movie" houses on
weekday nights, and that's going
some
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23
PASS PORTO RICO BILL
Women of Islands Cannot Vote, De-
cision of the House Today.

Washington, May 2S.--Tbe house
struck from the Porto Rican bill to-
day by a vote of 80 to So an amend
ment designed to grant woman suf-
frage to the islands. The bill then
passed without roll call virtually as
introduced.
The vote on the amendment showed
complete disregard of party lines,
though more Democrats than Rcpub-
hcanS voted against it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23

New York. May 3-MoNEY--Mercantile
paper, 3A per cent. Sterling, 60 day bills,
41234: demand, 4.75A cables. 4.761a.
Francs. demand, 5.92: cables, 1924. Marks,
demand, II; cables, 11lh. kronen. demand.
133s cables. 1917. Guilders, demand. AZ
cables, Il 11-16. Lires. demand. 6.31: ca
bles, $50. Rnbles demand, Bis cables.
31ss Bar silver, 11ssc. Mexican dollars
4Tc. Bonds. steady. Time loans. firm
60 days. 2Ad3: 80 days, 3; months, "a
Call money. firmer; high, 21a low. IN
ruling rate. pa last loan, pa closing bid
.; offered at pa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23
ESCAPE ATTEMPT FATAL
Mexican Prisoners Take Leave But
Rangers Shoot Straight.

Brownsville, Tex, May 23.-Col.
Louis NORM, charged with planning
an uprising in south Texas, and Vic
toriano Ponce, charged with partici-
pating in the wrecking of train near
here last October, attempted to escape
from rangers rs miles north of here
last night and were shot and killed,
according to a report reaching here
TODAY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23
THREE PER CENT MONEY.

The county and city are still receiv-
ing from Topeka banks only two per
cent on daily balances, when they
should receive SO per cent more.
Three per cent not yet. but soon.
Here's hoping.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau of Calculations.
American Newspaper Publishers
3 Association.

Mr. Grounding was wrong in the
predictions he made on February 2.
We've had three winters so far this
year, and the prospects for the third
enc, now on the boards. continuing,
seem particularly bright.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23

What do the few Topekans who con-
slider it a waste of money for the city
to develop it's park system think now?
A conservative estimate has it that
more than twelve thousand people Wis
tied the parks Sunday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23
Journal Entries.

Ideas and many persons are as ut
ter strangers.
= = +
Hope is a great thing but too much
reliance should not be placed on it.
= =
1t is really difficult for any one
afflicted with downright ignorance to
conceal it.
/. = =
The average man is about as awk-
ward in handling a baby as the aver
age woman is in throwing a ball.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23
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Een - 1cisahssran.ksdaee $50
WILLY WooD-RAT PLAYS A JOKE.

you would have thought such a lob
could be completed those two Wood
rats had moved every one of the chip
hunks nuts to a hole in another
tree, some twenty feet away.
Were they not industrious?
And they were honest, too. They
ate none of the nuts. They cared not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23

81 know a place where these nuts
would look fine," he whispered
softly.
a bit for stealing, but they could find
plenty OF good food of their own. All
they were thinking of was the Joke
Now" said Willy proudly, when
the last nut was tucked into the new
hole and some loose twigs were Iaid
up against the door the better to hide
the mole, Il must say that I'd like to
ture comes for his brcakfast,'
But Willy had to miss that part NJ
the fun. for just at that minute ola
Mr. Sun peeped over the horizon ana
the two little Wood-rats had to hustle
Judson-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23

Alaska, where the winter weather
has run on this year into late spring
and early summer, hasn't so much on
Kansas. OF course. zero weather didn't
remain on the job here, but it's been
mighty chilly just the same.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23
LOCAL MENTION

W. o. Rigby was today elected presi-
dent of the Kansas Postmasters asso-
citation, which is being held at
Wichita