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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-24
CRAFT
EXPOSE BECINSIN
CHICAGO SCANDAL
Women Assessed to Pay Cam
paign Debts, Is Charge.
Mrs. Rowe Forced Assistants to
Split Salaries With Her.
ALDERMEN CAUGHT IN NET
One Charged With Getting a
Vice Trust RakeOff.
Another Accused of Connection
With Merriam Murder.
ALDERMEN CAUGHT IN NET
One Charged With Getting a
Vice Trust RakeOff.
Another Accused of Connection
With Merriam Murder.

Chicago, Ill, Feb. 24.-Uproar and
confusion marked the opening session
today of the city council committee in
vestigating the split-salary charges
made by Mrs. Page Waller Eaton, re
signed superintendent of social sur
veys, against her former superior. Mrs.
Louise Osborne Rowe, commissioner of
the department of public welfare. Mrs.
Eaton entered the committee room un-
observed by a summons server from
the civil service commission, where an
other investigation was in progress
Her testimony was delayed by the eff
forts. of Oscar Depriest, negro alder
man from the Second ward. and one
of Mayor Thompson's supporters in
the council.
Mrs. Eaton related how Mrs. Rowe
had offered a position paying $3.50
monthly in the department of public
welfare and that she would be obliged
to turn over one-third of her salary
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BUY GRAIN CROP
AustrO-German Syndicate Gets
Rumania Yield.
Second 100000 Carload Con-
tract Is Closed.

Milan, Feb 24-The Bucharest
correspondent of the Socolo says that
the second contract for 100000 car
loads of corn, oats, barley and other
cereals has been settled between the
Austro-German syndicate and Ru-
mania and that it only remains to ar
range the method of payment. 1t is
said that the Austro-Germans have
agreed to deposit half the sum in
volved in the National Bank of Bu-
charest. The delivery of $4,000 car
loads of the first contract will be
made a month earlier than was ex-
pected as the Danube has not frozen
over this year.
The correspondent adds that the
Austro- Germans have also undertaken
the purchase of any surplus left over
from the 1915 crop above the 100000
carloads mentioned and after Ru-
manias own needs are supplied. 9th
er contracts. he says, finally have been
entered into, including one for pur-
chase of locomotives in Germany. A
special committee is to draw up a list
of articles needed by Rumania which
will be exchanged against articles
needed by Austria and Germany.
British Claim Share.
Since February. 1915, conflicting re-
ports have been received regarding
contracts between purchasing COM
nllIteeS OF tIe centrdl empires ana OF
Great Britain and a committee of Ru-
manian exporters for the purchase of
considerable quantities of grain. The
only definite statements made were
that British representatives had pur-
chased $4,000 carloads of grain and
Germans 10000
The Bucharest correspondent of the
London Times said on February 81
last, that the Rumanian government
had asked parliament to pass a law
prohibiting the expectation of all ce-
reals but that such law would not eff
feet the contracts just mentioned be-
tween Great Britain and GERMANY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-24
SINK PRIZE SHIP
Raiders Land Prisoners, Then
ScuttIe Vessel.
German Prisoners Taken From
Many Captive Ships.
MOEWE REPEATS APPAM ACT
Takes Steamship Westburn to
Canary Island Port.
After Sinking Craft Raider
Starts to Sea Again.
MOEWE REPEATS APPAM ACT

London. Feb. 24.-The British
steamship Westburn which yesterday
entered the port of Santa Cruz de
Teneriffe. Canary islands, in charge of
a German prize crew, with 206 Pris-
oners aboard, was sunk by her captors
outside the harbor today, according to
latest reports. After landing their
prisoners taken from various vessels
sunk by a German sea raider. believed
to be the Moewe, the German prize
crew put to sea again, the message
said, and sank their prize.
Advices received last night from
Santa Cruz stated that the British
steamer Westburn. which had left
Liverpool on January 21 for Buenos
Aires, had put in there for repairs.
flying the German flag and with a
German prize crew of one officer and
seven men aboard besides 206 prison
ers taken from various captured ves-
sells. The crew was believed TO be
from the German raider Moewe, which
had captured the British passenger
steamship Appam and had her sent
with a German crew to Newport News.
The Westburn was a vessel of 1900
tons. built in 1903 and owned by
Westall of Sunderland.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-24
Pretty Topeka Waitress Wants
$4,000 From Restaurant.
Gasoline Stove Blew Up-Hurt
Chances of Love.
WORK II HOURS A DAY
Cora Winters Fed Starved
Brakemen at All Hours.
Said She Didn't Know Date of
Birth-"WaSn't There"

Every so often someone appears
with a new definition of the word
work. But you Geraldine-you whom
it fatigues to play a half dozen rounds
of bridge or maybe two sets of ten
nis--how does this sound for a girls
formula? Out of bed in the morning
at 4:30 a half hour to make your
toilet and then behind a counter at
3 o'clock Ga. m.) in a railroad restau-
rant serving a starving brakeman or
q fireman, "ham-and" or pork and
beans. All day long you sling orders.
Between times you sweep out the res
taurant do a little cooking and give
the entire restaurant a thorough clean
ing, snatching a few bites to eat your
self between times. Compensation;
S5 a week with a raise to 81 if you are
worth it. And, oh, yes-we almost
forgot-you are through with nothing
to do until tomorroy al 10 o'clock p. m.
TeStifying that she did all this and
that if there was anything else to do
she did 1t, Miss Cora Winters, age 20,
went on the stand in the second divi-
sion of the district court before Judge
Whitcomb and a jury today in ner
own behalf to tell her story in her
Continued on Page %
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Will co TO COURT
The Orient viii Ask for a
Writ of MandamuS
Compelling the p. U. c. to Let
It Make a Bond Issue.

Mandamus proceedings are TO be
filed in the supreme court to compel
Joseph L. Bristow and the public utili-
ties commission to grant a $51, BAL
500 bond issue sought by the Orient
railway. The bond application was
recently denied by the state commits
sion.
Twice the Orient has gone before
the commission with requests for
bond issues. Refusals of requests. il
is claimed, have blocked the reurgan-
izatiOn of the railroad and the troubles
are to be taken into the courts. Late
today. probably, the Orient will ask
the supreme court for a writ of man
damus, compelling the commission to
grant the bond request.
Several months ago the Orient
and stock issue of Il million dollars.
Following a hearing, the state com
mission rejected the application. Re
mental petition, asking permission TO
issue slightly less than 50 million
dollars worth of stock and bonds. This
request went the way of the first ap-
plication. 1t was denied by the com
mission. Now the railroad will ask
court relief.
The Orient application includes d
request for an issue of $27,573.333 in
non convertible preferred stock, $15,-
0O3.60O in par value. five per cent
first mortgage gold bonds, and So
364,667 in common stock. 1t was this
petition for a stock and bond issue
which the state commission recently
refused to approve.
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Offensive Strikes at Heart G
French Nation.
Advance Today Within GunshOt
of Verdun Forts.
HALF MILLION IN STRUGGLE
Capital Is 1872 Miles From Ene-
mics Big Guns.
Estimate $4,000 Men Fallen in
Wars FierceSt Battle.

London, Feb. 24.-Under the
eyes of the kaiser, the crown
princes army has smashed for
ward to within gun range of the
great fortress and city of Ver-
dun, in one of the greatest bat
ties Of the war.
The German war office this
afternoon announced the capture
of the villages of Brab-Fur-
Meuse, Haumont and Herbe
woods, within less than e:ent
miles of Verdun, and also the
capture of Samogneux, a bare
six miles from Verdun's north
ern outskirts.
The French war office admitted the
loss of Brab-Fur- Meuse under the
Germans battering attack, and the
loss of a portion of the Caures WOOD.
lust west of Haumont, but claimed the
repulse of terrific German ASSAULTS
against SamogneuX.
The losses on both. sides pTopaply
range well above $4,000.
Front Extends % Miles.
Both sides reported no cessation in
the steady pounding of great guns OF
all calibers along the 25 mile front
north of Nerdun.
The French war office claimed the
repulse of heavy German onslaughts
against Samogneux and reported thar
enormous losses were inflicted on the
attacking forces at Haumont, north-
west of Verdun. Paris also announced
a successful air raid on the Lorraine
capital of Metz.
The German war office reported not
only great gains in the French posi-
tions around Verdun, but the capture
Of a French advance post with gar
rison of SO south of Metz.
German heavy siege artillery will be
brought at once against Verdun's forts
if the Teutons can maintain the posi-
tions they claim they have gained.
Not Anxious for Paris.
No great anxiety is felt here, how
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-24
FLY u. S. FLAG
Company to Restore American
Prestige on the Pacific.
New Company Puts Is Mer-
chant Ships in Service.

New York, Feb. 24.-Eighteen
steamers will compose the fleet of the
New CASTOR, Williams and Wigmore,
steamship corporation organized here
to operate lines across both the At
lantic and Pacific oceans. In addi-
ton 10 six vessels which have been
purchased for the new lines, the COM
paay announces, six others unnamed
have been chartered, two others
which are being built by the Great
Lakes Engineer works. will be taken
over and four other steamers will be
built for the new corporation when
it is well under way.
1t is said that a large share of the
business of the new line will be done
in trans Pacific service. The Pacific
route will be run from San Francisco
to points in China, Japan and Russia.
Vladivostok will be the Russian port
of call.
Liners for Atlantic.
The understanding is that most of
steamships in the Pacific service will
be freighters. In the Atlantic service
the steamer will operate between New
York and Archangel when that port is
open to navigation and it is probable
that shipments also will be made to
British and continental ports. Some
of the vessels in the service may carry
passengers.
Hilliard j. Rosenthal, director of
tn. far eastern division of the present
firm of Castor, Williams and Wig
more said the new company plans 70
restor the American flag to the
trans-Pacific service and to develop
the trade to its fullest possible ex-
tent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-24
SUCCEEDS FIR. MURPHY
Father Michael O'Leary of st. Bridget,
Comes to Topeka.

The successor to Father Murphy.
who retired recently as priest of Holy
Name parish to enter the missionary
field, has been named. Father Micha ell
O'Leary of st. Bridget, Kansas, has
been chosen and he will arrive here
some time next week to assume his
duties. Father O'Leary is a young
man, having only been ordained
about six years, but his success with
his parish at st. Bridget, one of the
largest Catholic colonies in the state,
has won him considerable renown in
Catholic circles.
Father O'Leary will procede with
the work of finishing the cathedral
and school for Holy Name parish.
which was begun by Father Murphy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-24
MARCH DAYS RETURN
The Forecast Calls for Continuation
of Good Weather.

March weather has returned and
temperatures are again above normal.
The mercury did not go below the
freezing point last night. and it rose
rapidly today in spite of the northwest
wind. A temperature not not below
25 degrees is expected tonight.
The forecast calls for fair weather
tonight and Friday; somewhat colder
in the eastern part of the state tonight
The shippers forecast indicates tenn
peratures of not lower than 25 de-
grees for 35-hour shipments in all di =
rections.
The wind is blowing at the rate { {
l ) miles an hour from the northwest.
The temperature, climbing in the face
of the wind. reached 43 degrees at 10
o'clock. The Kaw river is falling
slowly. A drop of only three-tenths of
a foot was registered since Wednes-
day morning, making the stage today
81 feet.
on this date in 1895 the tempera-
ture reached Sc degrees, the highest
on record. The low record is de-
grees below zero. established in 1913
Temperatures today averaged 8 de-
grees above normal. Following are
hourly readings for today. furnished
hrr 111
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-24
Shapely Danes
of u. S. Big Ad
for u. s. Corsets

New York, Feb. 24.-American
women are more shapely than their
sisters in Europe-so much so that the
European women took to American
corsets to enhance their charms. This
is the version of why American corset
manufacturers sell more than $50
100000 worth of corsets every year
and employ more than 1900 work
ers in this industry. told to the Cor
set Manufacturers association by
their president. Daniel Kope, at their
convention here.
We are selling corsets wherever
they are worn" said Kope. In
achieving our success we had one help
we had never counted on-the 3eau-
tifully formed women of America.
European women, seeing their lovely
forms, adopted the same makes of
corsets."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-24
Yep CREWS FATE
Bottled Notes From Captain
Found in North Sea.
Writes Motors Failed and Crew
Drowning.

London, Feb. PA bottle has beem
picked up from the sea containing last
messages from the commander of the
Zeppelin Lis, which was wrecked in
the North sea, addressed to the COM
mander's parents, wife and little son.
The last message stated that the air.
ship had dropped and the crew was
drowning, says a Reuter- dispatch from
Copenhagen.
The yacht Stella picked up the bot
tie containing the messages from Com
mander Uhle, near Gothenburg. Four
letters were found, two addressed to
the parents of the Zeppelin comman-
der and one each to his wife and child.
The letters were written at successive
periods. The third states that airship
was then 100 metres above the water.
that the motors had failed and that
all were expecting at any moment to
drop. The fourth letter states that the
airship had dropped and the crew was
drowning.
Refused to Rescue Germans
The L-19 was wrecked in the North
sea shortly after the Zeppelin raid
over England on January 81. 1t is
believed to have been damaged either
by British aircraft guns or by Dutch
coast defense guns which fired on a
dirigible that flew over Dutch terri
tory at a low altitude. The captain of
the British trawler King stephen re-
ported he had encountered the Lis
in a sinking condition in the North
sea but did not attempt to rescue this
Germans as they outnumbered his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-24
BOMB IN CAPITOL
Suspect Plot to Blow Up Ne
braSka State House.
Explosion in Furnace Leads to
Police Investigation.

Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 24.-An attempt
was made to blow up the Nebraska
state capitol building last night, a
four-foot bomb. enclosed in a steel
casing being exploded in a trash burn
ing furnace in the west wing.
Discovery of three pieces of gas
pipe in the waste furnace of the capi-
tol following an explosion, damaging
the furnace last night led to a police
investigation today. The janitor said
the pipes were filled with explosive
Whether they were experimental
bombs made by the aviation depart
ment of the National guard or brought
in by outside persons has not been
determined.
The pipes were about three feet in
length, two inches in diameter and of
brass. Each was filled with three
inches of cement at one end, next to
this nine inches of light yellowish
powder. which Chief of Detectives
Antics believes to be an explosive.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-24
\ $4,000. 900 SHIP DEAL.
Pacific Mail Company Adds Three
Largo Vessels for Canal Trade.

Pacific Mail Company Adds Three
Large Vessels for Canal Trade.
San Fancisco, Feb. 24.-Purchase
from the Royal Dutch West India Mail
of three large passenger and freight
steamships by the Pacific Mail Steai1fS
ship company under the joint controf
of the American International corpora
ton of New York and w. r. Grace &
Company of San Francisco was an
nounced here today.
The deal, involving an expenditure
of $4,000,000, was consummated in
New York yesterday. The vessels will
operate out of this port to Central
American and Panama ports. 1t was
announced that two more vessels, the
plans for which are already drawn,
will be AIDED to the fleet. The three
vessels purchased are the Venezuela,
Colombia and Ecuador. sister ships.
When the Panama canal is reopened
the run of the vessels, it is announced,
will be extended to Caribbean points,
and, when the two additional liners
are built, to South America. The
Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador now
fly the Dutch flag. but it is announced
by their new owners that if laws per-
NIT they will be placed under Ameri-
can registry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-24
THRU TOPEKA
Three Hundred Tons on Special
Santa Fe Train.
Ten Steel Baggage Cars
$4,OOO,OOO Cargo.

Rest at ease, girls the war is not
going to put that silk Easter dress
out of business. Nearly 800 tons of
silk is racing through Kansas today on
it's way to New York city where it will
be made up into the frocks that will
appear April %.
The silk, which is valued at nearly
s4.0OO,00O. fills ten of the largest rail-
road cars in the world and left San
Francisco on it's eastbound trip on
Washington's birthday. The cargo was
brought into this country by the
steamer Chiyou Maru the same day it
began its race across the continent
and was handled at the wharf in rec
ord time.
The ten cars that are carrying the
material are new steel baggage cars of
the Santa Fe railway 20 feet long and
each with carrying capacity of 80
tons. They are travelling in a special
train on passenger schedule and are
due to reach New York Saturday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-24
WILL SUE The COUNTY
Judge MacFarland Is Denied Payment
for Work Done

Judge MacFarland today turned
over to the county assessor a list of
estates now under probation in his
court.
The list represents exactly $685.
746.75 in taxable Shawnee county
property and means $7,467 revenue
for the county. The law, Judge Mac
Farland states, requires that the
county pay his office 10 cents each
for the names of the estates. The list
was compiled by Miss Louise Goff. At
10 cents each the charge would
amount to about $50
When the commissioners notified
Judge MacFarland that there would
be nothing doing in so far as paying
for the list was concerned, the judge
stated that he would compile the list
and sue for payment and for similar
payment on two other lists.
This list means about s7,467 rev.
enue to the county, said the judge to-
day" and the commissioners refuse to
pay $50 legal fees for it. That is
their idea of economy
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POS TSCRIPT
HUMAN FLESH IDEAL
FOOD, SAYS EDUCATOR
Wisconsin University Instructor Says
CannibalisIm Short Road to
Health.

Madison, Feb. 24.-F'rom a pure
ly physiological standpoint cannibal-
ism would be the. best way to pro-
vide the human body with protein,
said DR.. H. c.. Bradley before a class
in health and disease at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin today.
Human flesh is the ideal food be-
cause its constituents such that the
digesting system would not have to
break down elements in proportion
with other proteins before tissue
structure could be started. Every
animal has protein particular to it
self and the more in proportion it is
with the animal consuming it, We
could live on meat protein alone but
it would not be economical"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-24
Not Only That, but She Ate
City's Groceries.
Topeka Official Reports Sensa-
! tiOnaI Discovery.
FOUR QUARTS MILK A DAY
This Aroused Suspicion of City
Sanitary Officers.
She Wanted Best Cuts Meat
and City Paid Bill.

That the city has been furnishing
groceries to a woman who has been
keeping a boarder and who has been
selling pies and cakes was the dis
covery made by the department of
Commissioner w. L. Porter this
morning.
Porter's first act was to cut off the
grocery supply.
His second was to notify the
boarder that he is under quarantine,
along with the woman and her daugh-
ter.
The name of the woman and that
of the boarder were withheld by the
department but the place is located on
East Fourth street.
Il wondered what that woman
wanted with four quarts of milk when
she gave her order for groceries yes
terday," said Clyde Tresner after DR..
H. A. Alexander made the discovery.
Since the daughter in the family
was quarantined for diphtheria more
than two weeks ago the city has been
furnishing the woman with all her
groceries Considering that there were
but two in the family the grocery or
ders have been lavish. Not only that,
but the woman has been a most par
ticular customer. She wanted choice
cuts of meat, the freshest of fresh
eggs and the best of everything else.
The orders were cut down in propor-
tiOn to the size OF the famlly OF TWO
after the first two or three days but
no particular investigation was made.
Finds a Strange Man.
This morning DR.. Alexander, city
physician. dropped in Unexpectedly to
take a look at the diphtheria patient.
He found a strange man in the place.
The woman explained in confusion
that the man was a boarder and that
as he had paid his board in advance
she did not feel like turning him out
4wher-the place was quarantined. The
girl is almost ready for release and
Dr. Alexander did not prescribe any
rigid regulations for the boarder. But
Porter, his chief, did.
An investigation was started and in
about half an hour a neighbor woman
was found who stated she had seen
people come to the door, hand the
woman money for pies and cakes and
leave.
rs it any wonder that woman has
been asking for enough groceries to
run a hotel?" asked Porter IF we
had given her all she asked for 1 sup
pose we would have been feeding
about half the people in that part of
town. If she gets any more supplies
from the city she'll get them through
some other department. I'm through.
She's had enough already for a spring
supply if she hasn't sold it