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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-10
LOVE PAT A KNOCKOUT
Kaiser Jared Kings Nerves But He
Is Going Back Again.

Amsterdam, Feb. 10.-F'or the first
time since the kaiser gave him the
hearty slap on the back that broke off
friendly relations between the two
rulers for several years, Gar F'erdi-
nand of Bulgaria, is to visit Berlin in
the near future, the Vossische Zeitung
reported.
on Ferdinand's last visit to the
German capital, the kaiser to empha-
size a humorous remark, slapped the
Bulgarian ruler vigorously between
the shoulders. The blow was SO uneX-
pected, so the story goes, that Ferdi-
nand lost his military poise and nearly
fell to the floor.
On his return to Sofia, he let it be
known that the kaisers democratic
back-slapping was most displeasing.
Ferdinand Arrives.
= Berlin, Feb. 10.-(By Wireless to
Sayville) king Ferdinand of Bull
garia, accompanied by Premier RADIO
slavoff and General Jecoff. command
er-in-chief of the Bulgarian forces,
have arrived at the German head
quarters, according to the Overseas
News agency. DIR. Won Bethmann-
Hollweg. the German imperial chan
cellor, and Gottlieb Won Jagow, the
German foreign minister, were pres
ent when they arrived.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-10
Secretary Daniels Defends Pre-
paredness in Address.
Benjamin Franklin Led Move.
He Tells Chamber.
OUTLINES NAVAL PROGRAM
Committee Advocates Increase
in Marine Forces.
Council Makes Recommends
tons to Commerce Chamber.

Washington, Feb. 10.-Secretary
Daniels of the navy defended the ad-
ministration naval increase program
and advocated immediate building up
OF an adequate merchant marine in a
speech here today before the session
of the chamber of commerce of the
United States devoted to discussion of
national preparedness.
I'VE can no longer live unto our
selves" said Mr. Daniels ION our
farms we grow more than the republic
can consume. We must feed much of
the world We have the right also to
have large share of clothing the
world and supplying people in every
CLINE with whatever is manufactured
in our mills and factories. But how
can we fill our larger mission? What
avail teeming harvests and large pro-
duction in factories without adequate
and reasonable water transportation?
The securing of an adequate merchant
marine is a pressing problem and it is
so tied up with the charging and
strengthening of our navy that the two
cannot be wisely separated.
Franklin Preparist.
"The naval program offered by the
administration is a constructive, pro-
gressiVe one, and if built according to
the continuous five year program-the
first continuing program ever proposed
by an adninistration-it will give US
by the year 1921, thirty-three capital
ships of the first line and twenty-five
battleships of the second line with ten
armored cruisers, los destroyers, 175
submarines and smaller craft in pro-
portion" Mr.. Daniels declared him
self to be a disciple of Benjamin
Franklin on the question of prepared
ness.
This philosopher statesman de-
clared that there never was a good
war nor a bad peace but he did more
to be prepared for the impending
revolution than any other man." he
said. mo man in the revolutionary
period could be preferred before him
achievements for preparedness may
well be studied by the people of this
day and generation"
Name Army and Navy Growth.
Universal military training, restora-
ton of the American navy to second
place and creation of an advisory
council of national defense, composed
of men representing all forms of ma
tlonal strength, were advocated by
the national defense committee of the
chamber of commerce of the United
states in report today submitted to
the chamber. The council of national
defense, composed of the president
the secretaries of state, war, navy com
merce, labor and treasury, chairmen
of important congressional commit
tees, ranking officers of the army and
navy and some civilians would per-
form advisory and co-ordinating func-
lions.
A general staff for the navy and a
staff of industrial mobiliza ton TO sub
NIT to congress carefully detailed
plans for the use of national economic
strength in case of war are recon-
mended.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-10
THE LENGTH OF WARS.

There has been great deal of fool
ish talk, chiefly among persons who
do not happen to know the subject
under discussion, as to the ability or
inability of the combatants in the pres
ent war to last for variously estimated
periods of years. says the Army and
Navy Journal. History has shown that
communities which have attained a
high pitch of endeavor, concentra-
ton of effort and a certain frenzy of
am bition. can last for unbelievable
periods of warlike strain. Wars con-
tinue as long as human determination
endures. There is for instance, little
South American country called Para
quay About the time of our Civil
war Paraguay boasted a population of
100000 souls. Then the reigning
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-10
PLATFORM PLANKS.

And the chief argument used by the
Democratic statesmen in forcing the
Philippine independence bill through
the senate was that such action was
incumbent as a redemption of the
pledge to this end that is a part of
the platform adopted at the last DEM
ocratic national convention. And how
convenient it is, and especially for Mr.
Wilson, that these same statesmen are
not in a position to enact legislation
that would put in force that other
pledge in the same platform which
committed the presidential candidate
of the same convention to the princi-
pie of single presidential term.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-10
Be BUSH SLAYER
Prisoner in Webb City, Mo-, Claims
He Killed Salina Farmer.

Webb City, Mo-, Feb. 10.-Chief of
Police Port McGaw received a long
distance call from the sheriff at Sa-
lima, Kan, at noon today in regard to
Otto Hess. who surrendered himself
to the local police last night and who,
according to the police. confessed to
the murder of a farmer near that city
last month.
The sheriff announced that he
would arrive here late tonight to take
charge of Hess. 1t is not believed that
Hess will fight requisition papers,
There is a reward of $3.50 offered for
the arrest of the murderer of John
Bush. $3.50 OF which has been offered
by Saline county and 500 by Govern
or Capper. Local police will claim
the reward,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-10
SAVES DOOMED MAN
Governor Willis of Ohio COmmutes
Death Penalty of Russian.

Columbus. Ohio. Feb. 10.-Goyern-
or Willis this morning committed to
life Imprisonment sentence of Peter
Skribner, confined in the prison death
cell under sentence to be electrocuted
shortly after midnight tomorrow
morning. Skribner shot woman in
Toledo and then shot and killed po-
liceman who attempted to arrest him.
The board of pardons recently refused
to recommend clemency for Skribner.
Opponents of capital punishment
became active in behalf of the prison
er and the Russian consul at Pittsburg
visited Governor Willis and made
plea for a communication of Skribners
sentence, the latter being a Russian by
birth. Evidence was presented to
Governor Willis to show that Skribner
is mentally unbalanced.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-10
HE WAS TOO LATE
Buyer of Marriage License Calls
to Get Money Back.
Bride-TO-Be Changes Her
Mind Before Ceremony.
APPEARS WITH ANOTHER man
Woman Willing to Marry and
Recover Her Child.
Court Holds the Plan Is Not a
Good One.
APPEARS WITH ANOTHER man

A few months ago Lew Frost, we'll
known by Shawnee county well
fare workers, appeared in the office
of Hugh MacFarland, probat e judge,
and paid the customary So for a mar
riage license Kate Branner, who has
been a person toward whom much in
vestigatiOn has been directed recently
by Judge mcfarland, officials declare
was named as the bride to be- Then
something went wrong Anyway the
lady of Frosts dreams turned him
down cold, he claimed. The next day
Frost again wandered into the probate
judges office and wanted his money
back This time his request was
turned down by the judge who had
made the returns or the license.
Today it was Kate Rranner, who put
the weGding-beH proposition up to
Judge MacFarland and thereby hangs
u tale.
Shortly after the alleged Frost
Branner episode the juvenile officers
had cause to investigate Mrs. Branner
on complaint sworn out by the King
humane officers to the effect that
Mrs. Branner's IL year old daughter
was not in proper hands. Then Frost
was continually making complaints to
MacFarland. A probe into Frost's
case satisfied county officials that his
principal reason for complaint was the
fact that Mrs. Branner had trans
ferred her affections. Frost, before
the marriage license incident, off
Gals say, had been rooming with the
woman and afterwards she changed
her mind and kicked Frost out into
the cruel cold world, taking in his
stead another boarder, Judge MacFar-
land said this morning.
Not a Proper Person.
Following investigation into the
complaint of the Kings Judge Mac
Farland says it was found that Mrs.
Branner was not a proper person to
care for her little girl.
The child, a delicate little girl who
won the heart of every stenographer
in the probate court and the keepers
was temporarily committed to the de-
tention home pending satisfactory ar
rangements to be made for her.
Today Mrs. Branner appeared in
probate court and opened negotiations
to recover her daughter With her
was a man giving his name as l.
Dryer, 1919 Gordon street, whom she
claims to have been keeping house for
the last three days
Mrs. Branner was told by the judge
that she must reform and do it quick
ly if she was permitted to take her
child again.
Would it be all right if 1 got mar
ried ?" was her question to the judge.
She didn't say whom she had in mind
for a husband but Dryer shifted from
one foot to another and blushed
through a coat of tan on his face.
THAT will not do at all if you are
marrying to obtain the girl the judge
told her. Mrs. Branner spoke up and
sta ted that she intended marrying for
a good home. Following a lengthy
plea Dryer and Mrs. Branner left the
court room and sought an attorney.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-10
TEACHER ADMITS ARSON
Fake Letter Written to Exonerate
Himself Clncnes Guilt.

Ypsilanti. Mich, Feb. 1O.-C. w.
Alexander. a former school teacher of
Decatur. ILL.,. left here today for De
catur in custody of A. H. Rogardus.
jr., deputy state fire marshal of ILL.,
nois, to answer a charge of arson. 1t
was announced by Bogardus chat AL
cXander had confessed to burning his
own home at Decatur in November.
1914, to obtain the insurance.
The confession, it is said, came as
q climax to an investigation made by
the Detroit News, of a letter alleged
to be from David c. Guffcy'' of De-
troit, who on his deathbed confessed
he had burned AleXander's home for
revenge, because Alexander had won
the girl they both loved.
No David c. Guffey" could be To-
Gated but there were found speci-
mems of AleXander's handwriting re-
sembling the handwriting of the
"Guffey" letter. AleXander's confess
sion followed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-10
BOY ARMY CROWS
Scouts Show 46 Per Cent In
crease During Year.
President Praises Organization,
Now 1892 Strong.

Washington, Feb. 10.-An increase
of 46 per cent in membership during
last year was announced today at the
annual meeting of the National coun-
ell of the Boy Scouts of America The
increase to 1882 boys and scout
masters made the year the most pros
porous in the six years history of the
movement.
Among the significant items of the
chief scout executive report were that
scout troops had been organized in all
most every church denomination in
the country; that 3,4S9 troops met in
churches and 3,SS6 troops met in
school buildings, armories and COM
munity institutions; and that the 1867
scout masters included clergymen,
physicians. lawyers, teachers and 9TH
er professional men, all of high char
acter.
other features were a department of
education provided by two special
gifts training courses in several uni
versities and colleges; budgets pro-
vided in forty cities, and a library de-
partment concerned with the influence
of books on boys.
Late today President Wilson re-
ceived the members of the national
council at the White House and spoke
to them of his high regard for the
work they are doing.
Mr.. Wilson, as honorary president
of the scouts pinned an eagle scout
badge, the. highest honor in the or
ganization on Raymond Scaggs of this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-10
Usage ORANGE DYE.

kansans, generally, haven't much
respect for the Usage orange tree, even
if it does produce as good a fence
post as there is in the world. It's
a soil-sapper, though, and more or
less of a nuisance to have around. But
Kansans, probably, will be interested
in learning that Usage wood is good
for something else besides fence
posts. Announcement is made by the
federal depa rtment of agriculture that
tract on commercial scale has been
esta blished. and this material is now
available for the tanning, textile, pa
per, and other industries, wherever
natural dye can be used. 1t is hoped
that this will not only serve to relieve
the situation caused by a shortage of
aniline colors in certain shades, but
also in normal times to replace the
use of foreign fustic by a wood indigo
nous to our own country. The study
of Usage orange as a dyewocd was be-
gun by the United States forest serv-
ice about three and one-half years
ago, and was the result of an investi-
CATION of the utilization of Usage
orange mill waste. AS about 1000
tons of fustic were imported annually
for dyes, a series of competitive dyeing
tests was made between the extract
obtained from Usage orange and that
from fustic. This work was then eX-
tended by the cooperation of a num-
Der of textile schools. Later the ma
terial was tried out as a leather dye
by DR.. L. E. Levi, of Milwaukee, and
the entire subject was brought before
the American Leather Chemists asso-
citation last May, at the Atlantic City
meeting. A prominent firm became
interested in the subject at this time
and is now producing the extract on =
commercial scale. Tie dye is the same
as that present in fustic, but it is q
pure compound, free from the varying
admixtul e of a reddish coIoring mat
ter. which renders The use of tropical
fustic somewhat uncertain. The
orange-yellows, old gold, deep tan,
olive, and chocolate shades obtained
with chromium and iron mordants are
equal to, if not better than, those OBJ
tanned with the use of fustic. The
mill waste alone from the present
manufacture of Usage orange amounts
to more than $4,000 tons annually,
and if this waste could be set down at
the mill for $40 to $l2 per ton, it is
believed that it could compete sue
cessfully with fustic in both cost of
production and quantity OF color pro-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-10
BLAST KILLS 800
SkOda Explosion Worse Than
First Reported.
CensOrs Suppressed News of
Factory Disaster in Austria.

Paris. Feb. 10.-A dispatch from
Bucharest to the Balkan agency which
was delayed for five days states that
the damage to the Skoda armament
ia Glory in Bohemia was more serious
thnn at first announced.
Rumanian official circles, the dis
patch says, have received confirma-
ton from Vienna of the destruction of
all the cannon which were in course
of manufacture as well as all the
plans and drawings in the draughting
offices. The dead number nearly 900
and several hundred were injured by
the explosion which caused the disas-
ter and which is said to be the work
of criminals, who employed melinite
for the purpose.
The dispatch adds that the Austrian
military censorship has prohibited the
publishing of news of the disaster IN
Austria Hungary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-10
VIOLATES HIS PAROLE
Joe BoIIock Is Arrested on Charge of
Beating His Wife.

On a charge of beating his wife SO
that she is now in bed in a bad con-
dition, Joe Bollock, eX-convict, was
arrested today by a party of police
men headed by Lon Sauls, sergeant.
Mrs. Bollock. according to the po-
lice and county officials, returned
home g. few days ago from the hos
pital, where she underwent an oper-
alton, which was necessitated, the po-
lice declare, by a similar experience
to the one today. Bollock, the po-
lice say, beat her and kicked her and
then choked her. Dr.. j. H. Rinehart
was summoned and treated her hurts.
Robert Carver, assistant county at
torney, stated this afternoon that Boil
lock was under parole from the peni-
tertiary, where, the police say, he was
sent for killing a man. Carver stat
ed today that the county would issue
a warrant for the man. BolIock was
arrested at his home. Sal Sardou ave-
nue.. Bollock was paroled by Stubbs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-10

treasures. The world despises the
miser and it despises still more the
utterly selfish rich who turn away
from the suffering and poverty that
have always existed and must always
exist as long as the world lasts. But
it Is a mistake to believe that the
people of this great country are d.
vided into only two classes, the suffer
ing poor and the insufferable rich.
In this land of golden opportunity the
toiler who is satisfied with the condi
tions of simple living and who is not
swept off his feet by the eager pur-
suit of a luxurious life can look for
ward hopefully to the day when he
shall have achieved a competence,
nave educated his children and pro-
vided satisfactorily for his declining
years. II is for him to win or lose.
In this republic-so highly favored of
God-the misery rich and the strug-
Cling poor are exceptions. not the rule.
On every side great institutions of
learning, hospitals for the care of the
sick, establishments for scientific de-
velopment, foundations for promoting
the public welfare, and libraries for
free instruction are provided with
hand so generous that we are the envy
of the Old World. This is the substan-
tial and recognized fact. 1t should
make the nation grateful and appre-
ciative not only of the bounty Of
Providence. but also of the intelli-
gence, the high mindedness and noble
purposes that animate the American
people and that make wretched pow
erty, and still more wretched miserli-
ness the excention and not the rule.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-10
LOVERS TREATY
Sweetheart Sued for $IO,OOU
and Shot SuitOr.
She Drops Case; He Declines TO
Prosecute.
WAITED q YEARS TO WE'D HIM
When He Refuses at Gun Point,
Plugs Him.
Tried Suicide; 1t Failed, Too
Both Declare Quits.

Findlay, Ohio. Feb. 1O.-Just be-
fore Miss Ada Warner. Al, was to
have been placed on trial here today
on a charge of shooting her former
lover, Norris H. Powell. As. Novem-
Der l 3 last. it was announced that the
charge had been dropped by Powell
on condition that Miss Warner drop
her breach of promise action against
him for $4,000.
This settlement marks the end OF
one of the strangest cases ever
brought into the Ohio courts. Miss
Warner was charged with having
donned mems clothes and entered. at
night, Powelrs home where he lived
alone, demanding that he marry her
and when he refused she is said to
have shot him. He was found with
bullet in his lungs by neighbors and
told this story.
Miss Warner was found an hour
later at her own home a mile away
with a knife wound in her throat,
having evidently attempted suicide
Both lowered near death for weeks
and finally recovered.
Miss Warner. in her suit against
Powell. charged that he promised to
marry her % years ago and failed to
do so, that she waited % years for him
until mis- mother died and then discov-
cred he had decided not to wed her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-10
THREATENS INVASION
Bulgaria Declares Right 10 Enter
Greece to Get Enemy.

Sofia Feb. 10.-The government or
gan, Narodni Prava, publishes lead
ing article asserting that Bulgaria has
the right to invade Greece for the pur-
pose of attacking the French and
British troops there. 1t declares Bull
garia is not responsible for the fact
that her enemies have violated the
neutrality of Greece and continues:
Our enemies must not remain
where they are. We have the right
to seek our enemies and destroy them,
in order that they may not threaten
us
1T may be hard for Greece to see
foreign troops on her soil but we can
not permit ourselves to be prevented
from defending ourselves. We car
not possibly permit the enemy to re-
main near our border. He must be
driven out. We are prepared to meet
all possibilities with the fullest con-
fidence in our power to win a final
victory"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-10
MEXICO,S MISERY.

Such news as filters out of the act
ual conditions prevailing in Mexico
would seem to indicate that they have
never been worse during the past few
years than they are now. There isn't
as much big fighting going on as there
has been. but all parts of the country
appear to be infested with gangs of
suffering among the people are of
rather terrible proportions. "Watchful
waiting" has probably been even more
disastrous for the rank and file of the
Mexicans than it has been for the
Americans and other foreigners who
may have business in that sorry
stricken land.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-10
THE STRUGGLE FOR RICHES.

The hunger for riches in these days
of luxurious living is lamentable,
writes John A. Sleicher in Leslie's. 1t
is found among all ranks of life. 1t
is the struggle of the poor who have
nothing, of the thrifty who have some
thing, and of the wealthy who have
much. In this fierce contest for filthy
lucre, honesty in business is sacrificed
the honor of men forgotten and the
virtue of women made commodity.
1t is no longer sufficient to be COM
Portable in life, to have an abundance
of necessities for the table, a good
1t is the age of luxury and gayety-of
dining. winning and dancing. No one
has enough. Every one wants more.
Comforts of life are in the discard.
We must all eat, drink and be merry,
but we forget that tomorrow we die.
There is a pathos in the struggle of
the unfortunate TO put bread upon his
table, shoes upon his children's feet,
and provide an education for his boys
and girls and a good home for his
family. It is still more pathetic to
find one who has accumulated riches
thinking of nothing except a greater
accumulation of wealth and length of
days to walk the primrose path of
dalliance. Such as these plead with
the doctor to prolong their sfeverish
life. while they fit from health re-
sort to health resort to find the tabled
spring of perennial youth. the while
retaining their grasp on accumulated