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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-01
HAS BIC FIRE LOSS
Total for Topeka in Year Just
Ending S223,115.
Three Times as Great as That
of 1914.
ABOUT COVERED BY INSURANCE
Property Owners Received a
Total of S216,O2O.
Palace Blaze Furnished Bulk of
the Heavy Loss.
ABOUT COVERED BY INSURANCE

Topeka lost a total of $223,11576
from fire during the present year, ac-
cording to the records In the city fire
marshaPs office. This amount is three
times as great as the fire loss during
the year 1914
insurance companies have paid to
Topeka property owners this year a
total of $216,02O.35 and there are still
claims pending. Last year the total fire
of $37.243.63 paid by the insurance
companies. The big loss this year was
to contents of buildings rather than to
the buildings themselves. The loss to
contents was $173,780.74, as against
$49, 3S5.02 to the buildings.
The present year would not have
been a particularly bad year if it had
not been for the Palace fire which de-
stroyed both the building and con-
tents. entailing a loss of approximately
$3.50, This is just about the
for 1915 over 1914. Added to that is
the Greenbaum store in which practi-
cally all of the contents were de-
stroyed.
Even the number of fires has been
greater this year than last. The total
last year was 256, as against 296 this
year, showing an increase of forty. The
average damage per fire for this year
has been $753.77.
One noticeable thing about the fig
ures in the marshaps office is the fact
that only three automobiles were dam
aged by fire, as against fourteen for
1914. There were eleven incendiary
fires in 1914 and seventeen so far this
year. Defective chimneys caused most
of this years fires; a total of forty
two
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-01
FIFTY YEARS AGO

Continued from Page One.J
onstration trips up and down a side
track.
On the first train into Topeka was
James II. Lane, former United States
senator. When Senator Lane came to
Topeka fifty years ago today, he
might have indicated any town lots he
desired and the town would have
given him a deed to them. AS for
the railroad officials they might have
taken the entirs town. r. NJ. Shoe
maker, general superintendent of the
railroad; Charles A. Farris, of the
Lawrence Journal. and James Chris
tan were on the train with Senator
Lane.
Met by a Band.
About 500 citizens of Topeka with
n nand, met the party" says the rec
ord of the State Historical society in
t"Early Days On the Union Pacific"
t"A cannon awoke the prairie dogs
land Senator Lane made a speech.
Many bottles If champagne were re-
quired."
That is all the record contains as to
that important day in the towns his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-01
AN EXILE
Serbian King Destitute From
Ravages of War.
Way of Ruler Was Always
Strewn With Rocks.

Vienna, Jan. There is a second
king in Europe without a kingdom,
as a result of the war. Peter OF Ser
bia is today no better off than the
king of the Belgians. Karageorgo-
witch is a fugitive before the advance
of the central powers and Bulgarian
troops His two capitals Belgrade
and Nish, are in the hands OF the in
vaders For a time King Peter trav-
eled in a special train. At Krusevatch
he had to abandon his movable court
AS he stood in the station building of
that town and waited for the automo-
bile that was to take him to other
parts, tears streamed down his cheeks.
One of his dwindling encourage muir
INJURED a few comforting words, but
to these King Peter merely nodded.
Today he is said to be on his way to
Scutari, Albania.
In many respects King Peter is the
most dramatic figure of the European
war. Two regicides are intimately
connected with his history, the muir
der of his predecessor, Alexander
Obrenovitch, and his queen, Draga,
and the assassination of the archduke
of Austria, the dual monarchys helr
presumptive. There are those who
claim that King Peter knew of the
two plots that, indeed, he was the
instigator of the former. How true
this is would be hard to say in the
absence of more evidence than has so
far been produced. Certain 1t is only
that King Peter showed no inclination
to be severe with the regicides in
either case He even managed to be
ON good terms with Major Misitch,
arch villain of the crime in the old
Konak of Belgrade thirteen years ago.
Peter Karageorovitch never forgot,
and never was permitted to forget,
that he had taken the place of man
who had been foully murdered Only
a few sovereigns consented to meet
him, and he was always so i'll at ease
in the presence of strangers that he
usually Stunned them.
Hobnobbed With Gar.
King Peters family, it is said, is of
Gvpsv origin. The original Kara
georovitch, or "son of Black George"
however, was a shepherd King Peter
himself spent much of his life in
Switzerland, where the summons to
Serbia's Inflated throne reached him.
Shortly after his election to the
kingship, Peter entered into close rela-
lions with the Russian crown large
annual revenue was settled upon him
with the understanding that in all
matter affecting Serbia's foreign
policy he was to keep Russia's inter
ests on the Balkan Peninsula in mind.
I The attitude of the Serbian Liberal
I party made such course by Russia ad-
visable This party had favored the
/ establishment of a republic in Serbia
after Alexander and Draga had been
murdered. This, and the fact that the
/ Liberals in those days were not the
ardent pan-Slavists which they be-
came later, recommended the rein
forcement of the Serbian crown finan-
] cially. In Petrograd it was felt that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-01
"BABY week" IN MARCH
new NATIONAL FESTIVITY

Washington, Jan. PLANS for
a nationwide observance of Baby
Week. during the first week of
March rapidly are maturing, ac-
cording to an announcement today
by the federal children's bureau
More than four hundred COM
munities representing every state
are making preparations for baby
week. Baby shows will be held
and generous prizes offered for
high scoring infants. The stork
will be heralded with baby showers
and special festivities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-01
NO STAGE SN0W-THIS.
1T CAVES IN OPERA HOUSE

Flagstaff. Ariz., Jan. 1.-The Ma
jestic Opera house here collapsed
under the weight of snow which
has fallen steadily for the past as
hours. and which continued I'M
abated today. Many other roofs
buckled-
The snow fall measured 50
inches on the level at the end of
s hours. Weather forecasts pre-
dict a continuation of the storm for
another "a hours.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-01
SEARCH FOR BODIES
Six in Ruins-Company Making NUM-
tions-Federal Investigation.

Chicago, Jan. SEARCH for thu
bodies OF six persons missing in the
$2,T0O.000 fire which yesterday de-
stroyed the South Chicago plant OF the
American Linseed company was re-
sumed today.
H. C Clabaugh. chief of the fed
eral bureau of investigation, started
an inquiry about the cause of the fire
as a result of report that the COM
pany was manufacturing war supplies
for the alIi0s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-01
CHURCH NOTES

Walnut Grove Methodist church,
Sixteenth and Harrison streets, E. W.
Spencer, pastor. Morning service; mu-
sic by the Juniors and talks by Mrs.
H. B. Lantz and the pastor. Evening
subject, "a Look Into the Future"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-01

Euclid Avenue Methodist Episcopal
church, Edwin Locke, D. D., pastor
Morning sermon subject, Gods
Pledge" Evening, Taking Stock"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-01

Second Presbyterian church, North
Jackson and Gordon streets, Joseph P.
Hicks, pastor. Quarterly communion
celebration. Sermon in the morning,
I'm the Passing of the Years Some
Things That Abide" In the evening
Justice John Marshall will deliver a
lay sermon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-01
TODAY'S MARKET REPOV.

Hansns city Live stock Martr-
Kansas City. Jan. 1.-HOGS-feceipts
1,00c. Market strong. Bulk of sab. s6.55
dGs0: heavy. sc T50G.S0: packet and
pigs. 81. $4,000.
Receipts 200 Marks steady.
Prime fed steers S9.0Om95O: dressed beef
steers. S6.5Oas.50: western steel. s6.OO0
s.25; southern steers. SJO0Md5; cows.
s4-00q 100; heifers sG.00N9.OO3 stockers
and feeders. 81. JOM 90: bulls b. 2jG76 Is
calves. SG.JoM9.50
HEEI'-Receipts none. Maket steady.
Lambs. SS.5O0925: yearlings 81 O0er s. 90 !:
wethers, SG.0OMG.G5: ewes fS5. 2566 Is !:
stockers and feeders. $4.25@Sk
At IL o'clock the Yibratbns on the
seismograph were continuing violent
~ It was impossible to d aermine thu
direction from which thsJ came.
Hiram writes that he's ben dropped
from the squad" Ian saksl' shrieked
Mrs. Haymow. them hazerf cont think
ANYTHING Of ziskin a boys lif AID limb
Buffalo Express
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-01

Westminster Presbyterian church.
Huntoon and College avenues, Ralph
Ward, pastor. Morning, communion
service. Sermon subject, Abundant
Life" Evening. Divine Guidance 8"
New members will be received at the
morning service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-01

First United Presbyterian church,
Eighth and Topeka avenues. Edgar P.
Smith, pastor. Morning sermon sub
ject, "Our Conduct After Secret Pray
err" Evening, Gods Strength Proper
toned to Our Need" a New Years
sermon.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-07-06
Locating lceberqs,

The captain of an ocean steamer In
most cases finds out when his vessel
is approaching an iceberg from the
men down In the engine room. That
sounds queer. but it is fact never
theless. 1t appears that when a
steamship enters water. considerably
colder than that through which 1t has
been going it's propeller runs faster.
Such water usually surrounds the vici-
mage Of icebergs for many miles.
When the propeller's action therefore
is accelerated without the steam pow
er being increased word is passed up
to the officer on the bridge that ice
'bergs may be expected, and a close
lookout for them is established. There
are natural reasons for the propeller
acting in this way, and sea captains
will assert the same thing.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-07-06

Deputy State Engineer H. F. Boetz-
kes was in town Friday having come
from Walla Walla to make an exam
nation of the recently completed road
connecting Richland and Kiona. A
great many complaints have been reg
istered by Richland people with the
state highway commission regarding
the condition in which this road has
been left. 1t is practically impossible
in several places and unless something
is done it would probably have been
better to have left the road in its for
mer condition. Engineer Boetzkes
will make a report to the state en-
gineer.
The first carload of Richland pota-
toes was shipped this week and the
quality is first class, no potato being
shipped in the first class grade which
weighs less than two ounces and
rigid inspection is being enforced for
scab and other blemishes. Digging will
be on in full blast the beginning of
the week and the entire crop will be
marketed as quickly as possible. To
date very good prices have been re-
ceived by the Richland growers and on
account of the barring of California
spuds on account of the potato moth,
it is likely that the price will keep up
for some time.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-07-06
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

=, In the Superior Court of the State
of Washington, for Benton County,
I'm Probate)
Z In the matter of the estate Of Oscar
Howe, deceased.
By order of the said court made
herein on July 8, 1916. Notice is here
by given to the creditors of, and to all
persons having claims against said
deceased or against said estate, to pre-
sent them with the necessary vouch-
ers to the undersigned executor of
said estate, at the Office of C. L. Hol-
comb in Kennewick, Wash, the place
of business of said estate, within one
year from and after the date of first
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-07-06
One Good In FIimsy Houses.

The japanese have an easier time
than their confreres in Europe. Crime
in the land Of the chrysanthemum is
almost limited to theft and cases Of
bodily harm resulting from street
brawls. It is next to impossible, the
chief Of the Tokyo police says, for q
murder to be committed without some
one hearing of it at the moment. This
is due to the fact that the houses are
composed of paper and bamboo, SO any
noise in house occasioned by robbers
or assassins would not fail to attract
the attention Of neighbors.-Dundee
Advertiser.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-07-06
No Hope For Them.

"Some folks fuss with the world be
cause 1t won't turn to look at them"
says Georgia philosopher. .'but II 1t
should stop to hear their complaints
they'd soon be fussing because 1t
doesn't talk back There's no pleas
ing them this side Of heaven, and even
up there the angels wouldn't know
how to make 'em feel at home."-At-
lanta Constitution.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-07-06
Taken .t HI. Word.

He (after marriage)-What! You
have no fortune? You said over and
over again that you were afraid some
one would marry you for your money.
She-Yes. and you said over and over
again that you would be happy with
me If I hadn't cent Well, I haven't
q cent
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-07-06
Too Busy.

when a cook is making her bread
she is unlike the rest of the world in
one particular"
what is that?'
''She does not want her friends to
come to her in her hour Of knead."-
Baltimore American.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-07-06

publication of this notice or same will
be barred.
Date of first publication, July 6,
1916.
II. A. HOWE,
AS Executor of said estate.
c. l.. Holcomb
Attorney for Estate. 1858
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-07-06
HIGHLAND DEPT.

F. j. O'Brien spent Friday and Sat
urday in Prosser on business
County Commissioner j. B. Glenn
ents was a traveller to Prosser Wed
nesday. Il
A. S. Murray was at work lass week
adding porch to Fred Carstens
bachelor quarters. .-..-...-
julius Hopp came over from Horse
Heaven to spend the Fourth WITH his
Richland friends.
w. H. Huffman, an X-Ray spec
ialist of Spokane, was a guest at
the home of C. D. Hopper last week,
Mrs. R. D. Sawyer entertained a
number of youngsters Friday after
noon in honor of her son James 10th
birthday. -
Miss Velma Wheeler left Friday
for Pendleton, where she expects to
cook for a threshing crew during the
harvest season. - 49,
Miss Eva Chellis left Saturday for
Spokane, Tekoa and .Tensed, Idaho,
where she will spend several weeks
visiting friends. "
Mrs. F. A. Rohse left the latter part
of the week for Nassau, Minnesota,
called by telegram announcing the
serious illness of her father.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Breithaupt
and Mrs C. Johnson and son Scott
were dinner guests Sunday at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. E. P. Cheliis.
The Fourth was exceptional in that
not single accident from firecrack-
ers or fireworks is reported, altho the
little folks seemed to have had their
share of the noise makers.
Arthur MORRISON, who has had en-
tire charge of the inspection of the
Strawberries thru the 1916 season for
the Marketing Union, has been COM
PEELED to leave Richland on account Of
illness.
Donald Stewart, who has made his
home for the past two years with Mr..
and Mrs. E. S. Hubbard, left Friday
for Portland, called by the very SER
ious illness if his mother, who is in a
hospital in that city,
DR.. F. C. Robinson, of Walla Walia
who owns a fine tract north of Rich
land, overlooking the Columbia river,
has purchased lumber and will start
building a house on his tract as soon
as the high water recedes and he can
get the material hauled.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Wheelhouse and
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Ames motored
to Richland Sunday from Arlington,
Ore. Mr.. Wheelhouse is brother of
Harry and Lou Wheelhouse of this
city and Mrs. Ames is their sister.
The visitors will remain over the 4th
at the home of Lou Wheelhouse.
C. S. Gibbs and Harry Maupin who
nave been out on the road for Fred
freeman, Of the Home Nursery COM
pany, selling nursery stock For TALL
delivery, came home the latter part
Of the week and report very success
full trip. They will remain in Rich
land with their folks until after the
Fourth.
Reuben Richter, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Herman Richter, met with a painful
accident on the Fourth while riding
his bicycle toward town from his home
near the river. Walter Shepard was
driving his horse and buggy in the
same direction and young Richter
made some error in turning with re-
suit that the bicycle and horse mixed
up, throwing young Richter and in
juring his arm.
The Richland TelephOne comnanv
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-07-06

Good actions ennoble us. and we are
the sons of our own deeds.-Cervantas.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-07-27
SCALE INSECTS.
Few Trees and Shrubs Are Immune
From Attack of These Pests.
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Few Trees and Shrubs Are Immune
From Attack of These Pests.
Ia. H Hollinger, Missouri station.1
Scale insects annually cost the farm
ers. nursery1nen, foriculturists and city
property owners thousands Of dollars
Few trees and shrubs are immune
from their attack. The best known ex-
ample Of scales is the, San Jose scale,
which attacks over a hundred kinds of
plants. and the oyster shell scale is on
nearly as many trees and shrubs
There are many other injurious kinds.
A few Of the plants attacked are ash,
elm, maple, dogwood, willow, gum,
poplar, oak, sycamore, walnut, box ell
der, pine, beech, Eastwood, blackberry
catalpa, locust, buckeye, all fruit trees
and many shrubs, such as the lilac,
rose and>viburnum.
Scales are about as varied in charac
ter as the plants they attack. Some are
circular. others resemble very small
oyster shells, some are gray or black in
color, and others are white or reddish
but all are very small, being about the
size of q pinhead. Sometimes they oc-
cur isolated on the twigs, branches or
leaves, but frequently they are massed
by the thousands on the bark of either
the trunk or the twigs They are all
injurious to a greater or less extent,
though the property owner may not be
aware Of the danger.
There may be several new kinds.
which if not found out and identified
might prove to be very injurious. The
circular scale on the trunk and branch
es of your red naples may be the COM
mon maple scale. 1t may, however,
prove to be scale new to science.
The white scale found on young elms
may be the common elm scale, but 1t
might be one which If not discovered
and controlled might become as danger
GUS as the San Jose scale.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-07-27
Notice to Contractors

The undersigned, board Of Public
Works for the City of Washburn,
will receive sealed proposals up to
the 18th day of July, 1916, at 7:3O
O'Clock p. m. for the construction
of storm sewer in the City OF
Washburn, Wisconsin, described as
follows: commencing at the man
hole in the intersection of Washing
ton Avenue and Bayfield, Street
East, thence running northeasterly
to the west line of First Avenue,
pursuant to the resolution passed
and adopted by the Common Council
of said city on the 7th day of July,
1916.
The material to be used in the
construction of said sewer to be
furnished by the con tractor.
The contractor bidding for said
work must specify in, said bid the
amount per foot for which he pro
poses to lay the sewer pipe and the
amount for which he proposes to
construct the man holes. such price
to include connection of the sewer
with existing sewers whenever
necessary.
All of said work shall be con
structed so as to conform in all re
spects to the plans and specifica
tions thereof now on. file in the office
of the undersigned. Board Of Public
Works said office being in the office
of the City Clerk of said City.
A form Of contract, with sureties,
to be entered into by the contractor
and the City of Washburn. for the
doing of such work has been. pre-
pared and is now on file ia the office
of the undersigned, and may be ex
amined by parties desiring to bid on
said work.
Dated July 18th, 1916.
By order of the Board of Public
Works.
ByL. N. Clausen. City Clerk.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-07-27
fABOUT BEES AND HONEY.

Frequently colonies become queenless
when it is not practicable to give them
a new queen, and the best practice I'M
der such conditions is to unite the
queenless bees to normal colony.
On general principles the best plan
under all circumstances is to try to
have a virgin queen in each colony in
the out yard at the beginning of the
honey flow. Every man should study
bis honey flow and know just when it
comes and at the proper time arrange
to have the queens in each colony. 1t is
we'll to have queenless colonies during
a honey flow. When one has a virgin
queen in that colony it is supposed to
be colony that is we'll organized, and
more bees can be supported from the
brood
AS soon as warm weather approaches
go over the entire apiary and examine
each hive to ascertain the condition OF
the bees. Usually a few colonies are
found where the bees are all right but
the queen is absent. This is quickly
noticed by the disconnected action of
the bees themselves, and then, looking
further, we notice that no breed is
present. Such hives should be placed
under other hives, with free access be
tween them. The queenless bees will
readily unite with the colony over
them.
Honey, like every other commodity
raised on the farm is bringing a good
price. Consumers are finding that with
the present high cost of living it can
In many cases be made to take the
place of butter as a spread for bread
or a top dressing for griddle cakes
Honey is not only a food; it is like
wise medicine. And there is no doubt
that in the gathering of the nectar
from the blossoms the little bees also
gather some qualities that are benef-
cial to health. for Mother Nature is the
best physician and has a remedy for
every Ill.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-07-27

ceIIini's Quick Cure.
Adv.

Benvenuto Cellini when about to cast
his famous statue Of Perseus, now In
the Loggia del Lanzi at Florence, was
taken with a sudden fever. In the
midst of his suffering one of his work
men rushed into his sick chamber and
exclaimed, "Oh, Benvenuto, your stat
ue is spoiled, and there is no hope
whatever Of saving it!' Cellini said
that when he heard this he gave a
howl and leaped from his bed. Dress
ing hastily, he rushed to his furnace
and found his metal "caked." He or
dered dry oak wood and fired the fur
mace fiercely, working in a rain that
was falling, stirred the channels and
saved his metal. He continues the sto-
ry thus: after all was over 1 turned
to a plate of salad on a bench there
and ate with a hearty appetite and
drank together with the whole crew.
Afterward retired to my bed, healthy
ard happy, for it was two hours be-
fore morning, and slept as sweetly as
If I had never felt a touch of illness"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-07-27
The Washburn Times
SUPPLEMENT
Thursday, July 27, 1910
Mail Order House Keeps Tab on
Advertisers

The advertising manager Oh
one of Americas largest mall
order houses recently told a
large convention Of advertising
men that his company maintains
"a bureau whose duty it is TO
read, each week the weekly
papers from a IL over the coun'
try. This bureau looks over
these papers, and when it finds
a town where the merchants are
not advertising steadily in the
local papers that town is I'M
nh ediately flooded with literature.
it always brings results far In
excess of the same effort put
forth in territory where the
local merchants constantly use
their local papers. !.