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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-11
PLAN FOR BIG DAYS
Academy of Science in Topeka
This Week.
Many Important Subjects on
Annual Program.

F'orty-two papers covering subjects
varying from world wars to chemical
characteristics of the ground will be
read at the annual meeting of the
academy of science to be held in To-
peka January 14-15- A large at
tendance of members is expected at
the annual convention of the society
Meetings will be held in Memorial
hall.
The meeting of the society will be
concluded Saturday evening with
banquet for the members ]. A G.
Shirk, Pittsburg; is president of the
academy of science, while J. E Todd.
Lawrence; and F. G.. Agrelius. En-
poria; are vice presidents l. D.
Havenhin, Lawrence, is treasurer, and
]. T Lovewell, Topeka, is secretary.
Papers to be read at the meeting
this year have been submitted by W.
Knaus Edison Petit, l. C Wooster,
A A Graham, William E. Connelley,
J. NJ. McWharf, D. z. Lantz, j. A g.
Shirk, Paul Testor, w. H Twenhofel,
L. J. Reiser, T. J. Willard, ]. c. Crum-
bine. F. c. Dockeray. L. A Congdon,
G. N Watson, L. E. Sayre, c. F. Nell
son, y. f. Sherwood. W. J. Baumgart-
ner w r. B. Robertson. B. NJ Allen,
P. F. Walker. A c. TerrilL J F. Todd,
E H. S. Bailey. W. S. Long and 3. w
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THEY like Topeka
Farmers Union, 5000 Mem
berS, in Convention Here.
Voluntarily Choose This City
for Annual Session.

]. Will Kelley. secretary of the Com
mercial club, received an unexpected
telephone call from Salina today an
nouncing that 1000 or 5000 members
of the Farmers Union would arrive
here Feb. 1 to hold their annual con-
vention. The convention will close
Feb. 4. 1t was one or the biggest con-
ventions held in Topeka last year but
there had been no intimation that it
would be held here this year.
This is certainly welcome news
said Mr. Kelley today. THE Farmers
Union is one of the largest organiza-
tions of its kind in the state and it
speaks well for Topeka to have it come
back again voluntarily
Morris McAuliffe. president of the
union, telephoned to Mr. Kelley He
asked if quarters could be obtained
and arrangements already have been
made to hold the convention in the
Auditorium. Mr.. A;cAuliffe told Mr..
Kelley that a complete program had
not been arranged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-11
VERY MUCH ALIVE
FOrty-Six States, $50 Delegates
at Bull Moose Meet.
Roosevelt Derides National
Policy in Message.
FLIRTING WITH REPUBLICANS
Auditorium and 500 Hotel
Rooms Reserved for June z.
Perkins's Speech Last Night
Loyalty Progressive.
FLIRTING WITH REPUBLICANS

Chicago, ILL.,, Jan. 11.-When the
Progressive national committee was
called to order today telegram OF
greeting from Theodore Roosevelt.
standardbearer of the party in the
1912 election, was read. In it Colonel
Roosevelt emphasized the need of pre-
paredness not alone in material ways,
but in the soul and spirit of The citi-
zens of the nation.
The message was received with ap-
plause by the committeeman and was
followed by the reading of MESA ges
from other leaders, including Hiram
Johnson, governor of California and
Albert j. Beveridge, former senator
from Indiana. The message from
Colonel Roosevelt follows:
Il send you my hearty greet
ings. We as a country are fac
ins a great world crisis in which
for the last eighteen months this
nation has fallen far short of its
duty both to it's own people and
to the law-abiding and Justice
loving nations of mankind. There
is crying need that we shall cast
aside all purely partisan consider
ations and disregard all but the
vital issues affecting the national
TCOntinued ~ Page TwC.l
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Points Out BIunderS in Tariff
and Bank Reforms.
FEARS UNITED G. 0. P. PARTY
''We're Too Radical-Went Too
Fast and Too Far"
NewlandS of Nevada Springs a
Sensation in L. S. Senate.

Washington, Jan. 11.-Senator New
lands of Nevada. a Democrat. at
tackled his partys records in the SEN
ate today. delivering a long prepared
speech in which he criticised the tar
lff and banking reforms-the chief
legislative achievements of the Wilson
administration. He declared that be-
cause there had been Industrial and
commercial depression coterminous
with Democratic control of legislation
the party would be in danger of de-
feat at the next presidential election
unless the European war continued
and made the presidents saga acious
and firm" handling Of foreign affairs
the overshadowing issue.
Although he characterized the gen.
eral trend of Democratic legislation as
commendable. the senator asserted
that the party was too radical and no
political party can hope to remain in
power which adopts radical instead of
evolutionary methods of reform
War Averted Defeat
Danger of a Democratic defeat in
the congressional elections of 1914" he
said, was averted only by the Euro
pean war, which brought into sudden
contrast the presidents policy of
watchful waiting with the mad haste
of the European nations as they
rushed into war"
we are about to face a united Re
publican party, chastened by adver-
sity and eager to persuade and the
question is whether the Democratic
party, having done much under this
administration in the interest of gen
uine reform, is again to be thrown
out of power and deprived of the OPP
portunity of continued usefulness,
simply because an Intervening period
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-11
CAN'T FIND K0ENIC
Hamburg Line Secret Service
Head Has Disappeared.
New Charge Against German
Under $4,000 Bond.

New York, Jan. 1.-THE police
searched today for Paul Koenig, the
socalled chief of the Hamburg-Ameri-
can line secret service, who is at lib
erty under $4,000 bail on a federal
Indictment charging him with con-
spiracy to blow up the Welland canal.
A warrant for Koenig's arrest was is
sued yesterday by a magistrate. charg-
ing him with corruptly Influencing
Frederick Scheindl, formerly a clerk
in the National City bank, to deliver
letters and kilograms to Koenig.
Scheindl was arrested and released on
bail some time ago. The new charge
against Koenig is misdemeanor
which carries a maximum penalty of
three years in the penitentiary. The
police say they were unable to find
Koenig at a hotel where he was sup
posed to be living.
The federal grand jury continued
today its investigation of alleged alien
plots. 1t is said that only the edges
of the conspiracy have as yet been
touched by federal authorities Other
indictments must be returned against
persons whose names have not been
publicly mentioned in connection with
| the alleged conspiracy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-11
HEARSE AT DEPOT
"COrpse" Left Coach Instead of
Baggage Car.
Phone Operators Relayed Com
ing Home Message Wrong.

Bennington, Kan, Jan. IA long
distance telephone message from
northwest Oklahoma was received by
William Smith. living several miles
north of here near the station of Wells
on the Manchester-B Barnard branch of
the Santa Fe, to the effect that Mr..
Smiths father, f. J. Smith, had died;
that the remains were being brought
home, and as there would be no Sun
day train on the branch instructions
were to meet the train at Manchester
that is the way William Smith got it.
Accordingly the services of an un-
dertaker at Minneapolis were engaged,
and since there was no good reason
for postponing the funeral which
might as we'll be that afternoon, brief
services were held at the little church
in Wells after which the funeral party
with hearse and undertaken went to
Manchester the train arriving soon
after.
why so many take such a morbid in
terest in matters more or less grew
some, and when the door of the bag
gage car was slid back a gaping crowd
stood near that they might see a plain
rough box handed to the platform and
thence conveyed to the waiting hearse
So engrossed was this morbid curious
crowd that they were oblivious to the
fact that but two passengers stepped
off the train. and not until the elder
Oh lne Two slapped one OF lhe Dy-
standers Familiarity on the back asking
the cause of the excitement was the
spell broken, for the two passengers
were E. J. Smith and his son-in-law
r. c. Pennington.
1t was but another of those serio-
comic mistakes not at all uncommon
in the transmission of long distant
telephone messages, this one being
from Beaver county, Oklahoma, hav-
ing been repeated several times by az
many operators, finally reached its
destination somewhat distorted, main
ly to the effect that the older Smith
was dead, to meet the Manchester
train with a hearse for the remains
whereas the original message was tC
meet the train at Manchester because
of no Sunday train at Wells near the
Smith home.
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Decennial Census Report Is
sued by j. c. MOhIer Today.
LOSSES FOR WICHITA, TOPEKA
Former Loses 5000 and Latter
5000 in One Year.
Growth of Capital City Indi-
Gates Figures Are Wrong.

kansans are moving to the larger
towns of the state. according to the
decennial census report issued today by
j. c. Mohler, secretary of the state
board of agriculture. Twenty-one per
cent of the population of the state is
shown to live in the 1872 towns of
more than 1000 population, as
against 20.7 Pr cent in 1873 towns
contained in the assessors returns for
1914
Two towrs-Wichita and Topeka
will have the big kicks on the re-
turns. for 1915 Observers of condi-
tions in both towns will be amused by
the showing of heavy losses il both
cities. Wichita is hit by a loss of
more than 5000 over the asse essor' S
returns for year ago, while Topeka
suffered a loss of 5000. A year ago,
the assessors returns for Topeka were
so flagrantly inaccurate that the
state board refused to accept the
report. In the judgment of a good
many Kansans, the 1915 report has
not improved. Mohler. however
merely compiled the figures. The To-
and children.
In Fourteen Towns.
OF the 1,672,545 residents of the
state, according to the report, 351,-
173 of them live in the fourteen towns
of more than 10000 population. There
ara this year fourteen towns in the
10000 class, as against thirteen last
year. independence climbed into the
five column figure class by a jump
from fifteenth to tenth place, crowd
ing Parsons into eleventh place. Thai
was the only change in the relative
standing OF the larger towns.
A number of towns show ever
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ReOrganizes Entire City De-
partment for New Work.
HE'LL GO AFTER THE BUTCHERS
Rigid Inspection of Meats and
Their Ice Boxes.
Fruits and Vegetables and
Sanitation Included.

Beginning Immediately all of the
meat and food inspection for the city
is to be taken from the food inspector
and placed under the jurisdiction of
DIR. L. w. Rowles. city milk Inspector
And coincident with this change an
incipien+ revolution looms up for GER
tain people who butcher and handle
meat for Topeka consumption. The
inspection of foods and meats now
comes under the direction of w. H.
Gilfillan who is listed as food, weights
and measures inspector.
The proposed change has been un-
der consideration by w. L. Porter, city
commissioner, for some time but he
declined to have it announced until
today He expressed the opinion that
the new plan would bring about a
radical change in the food inspections
in Topeka. With all the boasting done
about Topeka the food inspection has
been a joke and has depended almost
entirely upon the efforts of the state
ment has been crippled for want o1
funds and inspectors. No more money
will be spent under the new plan an6
there will be no additional employees
but by combining the milk inspection
department and the food inspection
department everyone can be kept busy
all the time, under a responsible head
Will Keep GilfiIlan.
1t is not the intention to let In.
spector Gilfillan go. He has done
good work far his time woulc
permit. The plan is to use him as az
inspector under the new arrangement
and turn over to him some of the les.
technical work in the milk inspection
department now done by DIR. Rowles
Continued on Page 81
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MORE SNOW AND COLD
Continued Drop in Temperature Is
Forecast by Weather Bureau.

Rain, snow and sleet last night to-
tailed .05 inches of moisture. though
the depth of the snow on the ground
this morning was one-tenth of an
inch. More snow and a continued
drop in temperature is expected The
forecast calls for snow tonight and
Wednesday; colder tonight and in the
eastern part of the state Wednesday,
A temperature of about 10 degrees is
predicted for Topeka tonight
The shippers forecast indicates zero
temperatures for 36-hour shipments
north ana west; south and east, 10 to
8 degrees. The lowest temperature
last night, which continued up to 10
o'clock this morning. was 23 degrees.
2O-mile wind from the northeast
made the weather seem colder.
temperatures varied only slightly
today. The reading of 7 O'Clock this
morning was "a degrees and at 2
o'clock this afternoon was the same
The wind blew at the rate of I2 miles
an hour from the northeast Follow
ing are hourly temperature readings
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-11
MENACE ON TRIAL
Publishers of Anti-CathOlic
Paper Get Into Court.
Charged With Sending Obscene
Literature Through Mails.
TRIAL BEING HELD IN JOPLIN
Paper Has Made Bitter Attacks
on Roman Catholic Church.
Four Men Are Under Indict-
ment on Eight Counts.
TRIAL BEING HELD IN JOPLIN

Joplin. Mo-. Jan. 11.-Selection of
a jury promised to be slow procedure
today in the trial of four men alleged
to have been connected with the Men
ace Publishing company of Aurora,
Mo-. and who are charged in federal
court here with sending alleged OBJ
scene matter through the mails. Early
in the proceedings Judge Arba S. Van
Valkenberg ruled that the mere fact
that a prospective juror was a sub
scriber to the Menace, a weekly news
paper. would not disqualify him from
jury service in the case.
The newspaper published by the
Menace Publishing company was
charged by the district attorney with
being unfriendly to the Catholic
church. In examining the talesmen,
Mr.. Wilson declared however, that the
case was not based upon the question
of religious belief but solely upon the
question whether the laws relating to
sending of obscene or indecent mat
ter in the mails had been violated.
One Count Dismissed.
Objections to Mr.. Wilson's questions
to the talesmen were frequent on the
part Of ]. 1. Sheppard. chief of coun-
sci for the defendants.
One count of the indictment against
the defendants was dismissed at the
request of the government prosecutor.
was leveled at the alleged publication
of an advertisement as to where might
be procured a book said to bear the
title: The Pope. Chief Of White Slav-
ers and High Priest of Intrigue"
Seven counts remained against the
defendants. charging the circulation
through the mails of certain articles
and passages alleged to have been
printed in the newspapers and the
book referred to.
Federal Grand jury Indictments.
Indictments were returned against
the Menace Publishing company, a
corporation having its offices in Au-
rora, Mo, and Wilbur Phelps, Bruce
NJ. Phelps, Theodore c. Walker and
Marvin Brown, alleged to be con-
1 nected with the corporation, by a fed
eral grand jury sitting in Joplin, Mo.
on January 13, 1915. The indictments
which were in eight counts, charged
generally violation of that section OF
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villa Bandits Hold Up Train of
Mining Men.
Order Americans Aboard OFF;
Then Shoot Them.
WORK OF GEN. RODRIGUEZ?
List OF Those on Train Fur
nished by Company.
Telegraphic Information Brief;
Details Are Lacking.

Ell PasO, Jan. 11.-Fifteen
Americans were murdered, rob-
bed and stripped of clothing and
a trainlOad of provisions and
money was looted by bandits un-
der Gen. Jose Rodriguez, at
Kilometer on the Mexico North
western railroad, west of Chi
huahua, according to an Amer
lean on the train, who escaped.
He reached MADEIRA and wired
today to the American Smelter
and Refining company repre-
sentative here.
The American Smelling and
Refining company here re-
ceived a telegram from Chihau-
hua City today stating it was re-
ported there that a trainlOad of
employees which left the capital
yesterday for .Cusihuiriachic,
western Chihuahua, had been
held up by Villa bandits, and all
the Americans killed.
According TO a later report
here there we're 40 mining men
on the train of whom Is Ameri-
cans were taken off the train
and shot. 1t is surmised that
the shooting was done by troops
of Gen. Jose Rodriguez.
The names of Americans on
the train compiled here follow :
c. L. Watson, w. J. Wallace, NJ.
B. Romero, c. NJ. Evans, c. A
Bimble, NJ. Anderson, r. E. Nc
HattOn, E. L. Robinson, r. H
SeamOns and the following
whose initials were not known
here: Coy, Hall, Watleigh, New
man, Hand, BlOmb Tor Blum
ard Anders.
{. L. Watson is the general
manager and principal owner OF
the Cusihuirachic Mining Co.
operating in the district of thai
name, which is in western Chi
huahua on the branch of the
Kansas City, Mexico and Orient
railroad line connecting with th'
Mexico Northwestern at Ii
Junta.
Efforts to secure information
from the interior of Chihuahua
officials of the American Smelt
ing and Refining company said
were hampered by a censorship
at JuareZ.
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CONTINUED on Page 2.)
TRIAL ENDS; HOUSER
HAS SCARLET FEVER
Prisoners Illness Brings Murder
Hearing Abruptly to Conclusion
in Omaha Court.

Omaha, Jan. 11.-The trial of
Arthur :. Houser, charged with
the murder of w. r. Smith, ma
tionaI cashier of the WOodmen of
the World, came to an unexpected
end this afternoon when il was
discovered that HOuser is suffer-
ing from both scarlet fever and
tonsiIitis. Court was quickly ad-
jOurned and the prisoner ordered
isolated.
The jury was just drawn and
testimony was about to be taken
when the discovery was made.
Judge English adjourned court
until tomorrow morning until an
Investigation of HOuser's condi-
ton can be made.
The county attorney in opening the
case against Houser, insisted that al
Jurors favor death penalty. Seventy
men were examined up to 2:30 o'clocl
this afternoon. One colored man
when asked if he were opposed to th'
death penalty, said: THE good booI
says thou shalt not kill and 1 believe
what it says
r. w. Connell. Omaha city physi
symptoms of scarlet fever. He recon-
mended that the defendant take to hi
bed Immediately. The court took a re
cess until $3.50 o'clock tomorrow Whel
it is probable that the trial will be con
tinued until Houser RECEIVERS if tn
physicians assertions prove true.
The court room was jammed whel
the announcement was made. Their
was a hurried scamper to get out tn
doors.
Edward Rooney, attorney TO
Houser. stated today that he did no
know just how serious the defendant
trouble was.
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NOUN DAY IN PEN
TOpekan Begins Term of Two
Years at LeavenwOrth.
Found Guilty of Misusing Mails
in Land Deal.

Leavenworth, Kan. Jan. 11.-Don
A. Noun Day, found guilty of mis-
using the mails in connection with the
sale of lands in New Mexico, was re-
ceived at the United States peniten-
tiary here today to serve a term of
two years.
Noun Day and his wife were in
dicted by a grand jury following their
arrest at Topeka, where luxurious Of
fices were maintained Both were
found guilty.
Mrs. Noun Day was fined $500 and
the costs of the trial, which she paid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-11
NUTS FOR NUTS
Ford Party Scribes' Menu
AprOpOs, Considering
Hotels Are Full, So Press Oc-
cupies Vegetarian HOspice.
BY CHARLES p. STEWART.
written for state JournaI.)

The Hague, Jan. 11.-Because the
hotels are full, the fifty newspaper
correspondents accompanying the
Ford peace party have been quartered
in Dutch sanitarium.
No guest Of the sanitarium is per-
mitted to use tobacco or liquor in any
form. No meat is allowed to contam-
mate the bill of fare, which consists
largely Of nuts, ground cereals and
vegetables.
Guards OF impressive appearances
threatened to oust any correspondent
who fails to obey regulations
Madame Schwimmer arranged for
the quartering Of the correspondents
and a press caucus voted that she sent
the newspaper men to the toba ccoless
retreat out of revenge. She has been
very angry because correspondents
cabled home accounts of the various
rows among the peace delegates.
A Zoo Proposition.
Peace meetings began here today
but for some reason they are under
the auspices of the Royal Geological
and Botanical society instead of being
arranged by the Dutch peace societies.
Holland newspaper men declare
that the Ford enterprise has not yet
aroused the interest of Dutch peace
leaders.
Rev Jenkins Lloyd Jones predicted
todap that the permanent peace trib-
sunal will be established at Stockholm
instead of The Hague on account of
the friendly feeling of the Swedish
people toward the peace movement.
secret campaign is being waged by
several of the Ford leaders to win
places on this tribunal, which calls for
salaries and expense accounts.
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ANDY CONNOISSEUR; HAS
OFFICIAL PICKLE MAKER

Syra cuse. y. Y. Jan. 11.-Mrs.
A. r. Miner. of Canlsteo, is official
pickle maker to Andrew Carnegie.
He is able to choose from all the
pickle factories of the world, but
finds none to his taste but those
Mrs. Miner packs.
No matter in what part of the
world the Carnegie family may be
Mrs. Miner provides the pickles.
She recently shipped a large box to
the Laird of Skibo." 1t is ten
years since Mrs. Miner became
pickle maker to Carnegie.
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TlUice Arrested
and Stork Was
To Blame For 1t

Cincinnati, o., Jan. Ill was ex-
pecting a visit from the stork, Judge,
and was in a hurry to get home, SAID
Audry Abraham. when arraigned be-
fore Municipal Judge Fox charged
with speeding.
Have you ever been arrested be-
fore p" asked the judge.
Yes. about two years ago for the
same offense, and l had the same eX-
cuse."
MY. that stork is keeping you
busy" said Judge Fox. with smile.
"Costs suspended."
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ship To BOTTOM;
LOSS OF LIFE 13
Another British Steamer Vic
tim OF Submarine in Medi-
terranean; "a Reported Res
cued.

London, Jan. 1.-THE British
steamer Clan Mcfarland has been
sunk by submarine in the Medi-
terranean. it was announced this
afternoon. Thirteen persons per-
ished when the steamer was tor
pedoed. Twenty-fOur others have
been rescued.
The Clan Mcfarland left Liver
pool on December 16 for Bombay.
The latest marine registers con-
tain no further records of her
movements. she was 400 feet
long, 80 feet beam and % feet
in depth. She was built in sun
derland in 1898 and was owned by
CayZer. Irvine & Company, Linz
tied. of Glasgow
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MIGHT Be JAPAN
Believe Lord NOrthcIiffe Re.
ferred to "YeIlOw PERIL"
Cautions c. S. on Jap-TeutOn
Alliance After Present War.
BY J. w. T. MASON.

New York. Jan. 11.-Warning to
the United States to prepare for a
probable conflict with Japan is given
by Lord Northcliffe in his statement
to the United Press concerning the
lessons of the European war.
Americas wealth and defenceless-
ness. says the great British newspaper
proprietor, will inevitably persuade
some other nation to come and take
what she wants. Lord Northcliffe out
wardly wells the enemy by suggesting
it may be Lapland or Greenland, but
reveals an inner meaning by describ-
ing the invasion occurring on the Pa
cific coast. The seriousness of the
warning is emphasized by the possibil-
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