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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-18
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Card of Thanks.

Card of Thanks.
We wish to express our thanks to
all friends and neighbors for their
Kindness during sickness and death
of our wife and mother Mary E. Arm
itage. G. ARMITAGE.
MRS. ]. c. FREER.
MRS. L. c.. GIsADEN.
ADV.
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WATCH HOTELS NOW
New York Health Officers Fight Hard
to Halt Epidemic.

New York, July 15.-Hotel and
boarding house keepers throughout
the state were notified by the local
health officers today that they were
expected to do their part in the pre-
yention of the spread of the epidemic
tnfantile paralysis. The local health
authorities acted under instructions
from DR.. Hermann NJ Biggs, state
commissioner of health who was led
to send out new circular of informa-
ton owing to the fact that the thou
sands of families have left New York
for the rural districts to safeguard the
health of their children.
Proprietors of hotels and boarding
houses will be required to notify
health officers of the arrival of any
children from infected districts. Those
who fail to do so, DR.. Biggs said, will
any unfaXorable DEVELOPMENTS.
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the voters refuse to become feverish
concerning the outcome of either bat
tie and the long, expensive campaigns
In both districts have occasioned less
general anxiety than a rumor of
Hessian fly in the wheat.
Republican State Contests.
Republicans will contest for nomi-
nations for state auditor, state treas
urer, secretary of state, and state SUI
perintendent of public instructions.
But the average voter does not know
the names of the candidates and has
made little expression as to his per-
sonal preferment for any or all of
the jobs.
Candidates for state treasurer are:
Walter L. Payne. Burlingame; Wiley
Cook, Kansas City, assistant treas
urer; Charles Evans. Goodland; and
Matt weightman, Topeka. For state
auditor, Frank Organ, present assist
ant; and Dan B. Dyer, Smith Center,
will contest for the nomination with
Fred Knapp of Beloit, also a candi-
date. w. D. Ross wants third term
as state superintendent of instruction,
while Miss Lizzie Wooster of Salina,
is directing the chief opposition to
Ross ambition to become an eStab-
lished state institution. Eli Payne of
Emporia, is also q candidate. J. T.
Botkin, secretary of state, was COM
PEELED to make a fight for renomina-
ton when Frank Brown, a former
Democratic leader, paid an entrance
fee and became candidate for the
Republican nomination.
One of the real issues pushed before
the voters-in fact, the only SEM
blance of an issue that appears in the
campaign-concerns the fight of the
ms and the outs. Through a sort of
mutual understanding and fellowship.
friends of candidates who seek to adj
vance from assistants in state offices
are lined up behind other candidates
with similar situations. On the other
hand, the fight of the outs has be-
come general against the ms. The ar
gument is advanced that the state
house has been turned into a training
school for future state officers with
out a chance for the man on the out
side. That is the one real issue. The
fight involves the office of auditor
treasurer and state superintendent
Aside from the one bomb, the cam
paign has been as serene and tranquil
as nest of turtle doves-so far as the
are concerned.
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Germans Show Fierce Resist
ance in Night Battle.
English Report Capture OF
1000 in "a Hours.
FRENCH CITIES CHASTITY RUINS
Hundreds of Dead Buried Deer
Beneath Debris.
OviIlers Shell Swept Until Not
2-FoOt Wall Stands.

London, July 15.-The Germans at
one point have been forced back to
the third line of their defense under
rushing British blows, four miles be-
hind their original front, General
Haig reported to the war office this
afternoon.
'All is we'll at the British 'front.'"
said an official statement I'VE have
pushed our rear from Fricourt to
Mametz, capturing two thousand pris-
onerS in "a hours. The total number
of prisoners since the beginning of our
offensive now totals 10000.
I'm addition we have taken large
quantities CT material"
Terrific Fighting During Night.
London, July 15.-Heavy German
mentum of the new British advance,
in desperate fighting on the Ollivers-
Longueval front last night.
Tho British encountered most stub
born resistance after breaking
through the German second line and
gun fire in the district north of
Longueval. Notwithstanding this de-
termined opposition, the British troops
Continued to consolidate their posi-
tons and breakdown small German
positions in fighting that continued
we'll into the night
The newly conquered position, in
some cases on the slopes of rolling
hills whose ridges are held by the
Germans, are being made ready for
defense against even stronger enemy
attacks.
Shells Bury Victims in Ruins.
The Germans poured a hot artillery
fire upon the southern fringe of the
village of Ovilleres throughout yester-
days fighting. Correspondents at the
British front reported hundreds of
bodies lie buried beneath the ruins of
the town.
THE fighting for Ovillers has been
hard, bloody and close" said one dis
patch. MANY of our men died to gain
yard or two of the earthworks.
There have been fights to the death
between a handful of English or Irish
soldiers and a dozen or more Ger
mans. meeting each other in the
darkness of the deep cellars Quarried
out from the chalk subsoil.
"OvillerS is a place of abominable
ruin. There is not a wall standing
two feet high. The guns have swept
it flat, but underground there are
still great cellars quarried out by the
inhabitants and these the Germans
are holding out against our attacks
and commandments.
Most CHASTITY Is Ravaged City.
Heavy shells have opened up some
of them and filled them with dead
and wounded. The ground is pitted
with enormous shell holes. in which
the men lie buried. Ovillers is per-
| haps more CHASTITY than any cuiled
/ ground along this 'front.'
Not Much Doing at verdun.
/ Paris, July 15.-The repulse of
minor German attacks northwest and
southeast of Verdun was reported by
| the war office today, but no important
actions on the Somme front were
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BRIDE TO FRONT
Kansas Girl WEEDS Guardsman a
Eagle Pass.

Eagle Pass, Tex, July 15.-Blanche
Toland, IT, is another advocate of
preparedness When she arrived here
late yesterday to visit her sweetheart,
John Dean, 90, private in Company
H, First Kansas infantry, she had a
license and a written consent from her
parents to their marriage.
The youngsters were married last
night in the court house by Justice of
the Peace Hartup. Mrs. Dean an
nounced today that she will join the
Red Cross as a nurse and follow her
husband if his regiment is ordered into
Mexico. Mrs. Dean is daughter of
T. E. Toland, of Baldwin, Kan. Dean
Is a son of DIR. ]. S. w. Dean, of the
same place She travelled the thou
sand miles to the border alone.
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WILL CONFIRM CLARKE
Speedy Action on Hughes Successor,
Is the Forecast.

Washington, July 15.-Speedy con-
firmation of John H. Clarke as su-
preme court justice seemed certain
at once when both the Ohio sena-
tors-Pomerene (DeDmocrat) and
Harding (Republican) warmly
commended his appointment and
promised their heartiest efforts to aid
in his confirmation.
CLARK is not only a judge of the
finest courage and ability, but he is a
broad gauge man who has kept up his
interest in all public affairs" said
Pomerane.
THE president could not have
named a man whom I would have
supported more gladly" said Hard
ing
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MURDER A WOMAN
Crush Skull of Prosecutors
Wife; Shoot at Him.
Husband Summoned From
Home by Phone Call.

ST. Joseph, Mo-, July 15.-Mrs.
Oscar D. Mcdaniel. wife of the prose-
cutting attorney of Buchanan county,
died at hospital here this morning as
the result of an attack upon her in
her home about midnight last night.
She had been beaten about the head
with some heavy blunt instrument and
did not regain consciousness.
Shortly after the attack upon her,
five shots were fired at her husband,
who was returning home after re-
spending to a fake telephone call.
Prosecutor Mcdaniel engaged in a
pistol duel with the assassin.
Neither was hit and the man es-
capped.
The attack was evidently carefully
planned and the police connect the
tragedy with an anonymous threaten
ing letter received by Mcdaniel about
a week ago.
Called Down Town.
Mcdaniel was called down town by
a telephone call about 1870 O'Clock
last night. The voice at the telephone
said his brother was drinking in a sa-
loon and that he had better come to
take him home. Mcdaniel went in his
automobile to the saloon designated,
and found the call was a fake. He
hurried back home and as he stopped
his car in front of the house, a man
opened fire on him from behind a tree.
After his assailant fled, the prosecutor
hurried into the house upstairs to his
wife's room, where he found her I'M
conscious on the floor, her head ter
ribly crushed.
Bloodhounds are being used in an
effort to track the slayer.
Insane Escape Suspected.
An insane robber who recently es-
capped from the state hospital and who
had written several letters threatening
the life of the prosecutor, is believed
by the police to have killed Mrs. Nc
Daniel Two children asleep in one
adjoining room, slept peacefully while
their mother was fatally beaten.
The search of the house revealed
the theft of Mrs. McDaniefs diamond
wedding ring and other jewelry, in
dicating that robbery may have been
the motive. Police say there was no
evidence of a struggle. Beneath the
woman's pillow lay her revolver. 1t
had not been touched.
Blood Hounds Cause Arrest of 5.
The police have taken into custody
five men who are held pending inves-
tigation of the murder of Mrs. Oscar
D. Mcdaniel hero last night A ma
jority of them were quartered at a
rooming house to which bloodhounds
placed on the scent, led the detectives.
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KANSAS VOTERS
ARE APATHETIC
IN THE CAMP AIGN
The People Are Taking Little
Interest in Politics.
Few KhowsNhO Are Running
for the Nominations.
The OUTS AGAINST THE ms
This Is the Only Issue Brought
to the Front.
Nobody win Hazard a Guess
on the Result.
The People Are Taking Little
Interest in Politics.
Few Know Who Are Running
for the Nominations.
The OUTS AGAINST THE ms
This Is the Only Issue Brought
to the Front.
Nobody VIII Hazard a Guess
on the Result.

+ With the state wide primaries lit
Ae more than two weeks away, the
campaign in Kansas has passed I'M
noticed. A majority of the voters do
not know the offices for which norni-
nations are to be made. Political
writer's have passed over the cam
taign as the most colorless. feature
less political event in the state And
how almost on the verge of the pri-
mary, no one except the candidates
themselves has been willing so far
g forget the heat as to discuss state
politics.
2 One trouble with the primary this
year is the absence of an issue. An
other slump in interest is due to the
fact that no senatorial or guberna-
torial contest of general interest is on
hhe boards. War news has crowded
Politics off the first page and up
among the old reliable family remedy
displays and department store ads.
Local contests have failed to keep the
Voters alive to the fact that state
wide primary is booked for August
and the contest for nominations will
Probably be passed unnoticed.
No wise man in Kansas politics is so
foolish this year as to attempt to guess
Che winners in the contests for state
offices. 1t is just the proper situation
% produce any. result. No one will
discuss politics. No one will listen to
q discussion of politics. So the man
With an established record for political
sagacity, cannot fathom the minds of
the voters and he will not venture a
prediction as to results.
Not a Good Year to Guess.
"A school teacher in country
district knows as much about results
IN the primaries this year as does the
wisest politician in the state" ex-
blamed a political wizard who re-
fused to venture a prediction as tc
results. This isn't the sort of a
YEAR in which to venture guesses.
You can't tell what people will do
when they don't talk. Sometimes you
ran make a pretty smart guess on
Senator or governor or a congressional
Hight. Then you know something as
to the minds of the voters. But not
this year"
There is just one contest before
he.-DeHocrats this year. That is a
Fight between w. C. LanSdon of Sa-
lima and Ben S. Gaitskill of Girard
Tor the 30 drbon nomination for gov
ernor.
The Republicans win offer a fair
list of contests. But to date the
state has refused to become con-
cerned with the fights. In the Sec
Kressional districts, fights will be
Staged for congressional nominations
in the Fourth and Sixth districts
there is at times an evidence of pass
ing concern as to the results. But
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more while we have given greater at
tention to local, or peasant, needs.
500 Million in Co-Operatives.
1.-THE total investment in our coop
eratives is now $500, 900, 900, or equal
to the Anglo-French war loan floated
in America. We shall continue to in
crease"
I left the 65-year-old worker smil-
ing contentedly. His whole life has
been devoted to his people. Today his
cup Of joy is well-nigh full
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5 MILLION FOR SHARKS
Bill in House to Spend Big Sum to
Exterminate Maneaters.

Washington, July ia resolution
was introduced in the house of rep
resentatives here by Representative
Bachdrach Of New Jersey, authorizing
the department of commerce to CO.
operate with state authorities in an
effort to exterminate the sharks Oh
the Atlantic coast and appropriating
SIS, 100000 for the purpose.
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GAIN IN IMPORTATIONS


Washington, July 15.-Value of i'm
ports from London during the six
months ending June 80 were 100000
900, as compared with $70,000,000 in
the corresponding period of 1915, the
bureau of foreign and domestic COM
merce reported today. Rubber, the
principal import, decreased nearly so
per cent, however, and wool imports
were found to be four times less.
Shipments of precious stones were
three times greater and art imports
were doubled
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chronicled in the official communique
On the west bank of the Meuse, the
French repulsed German grenade at
tack on a trench northeast of Avo-
court redoubt On the east bank of
the river violent artillery duels oc-
Cured and in the sector of Fleury the
French dispersed several German re-
commissioners. In Apremont forest,
French curtain fire checked several
attempted enemy advances
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choice prairie. ss.5o@1ooo; choice lafalfa,
So. 00@13.00.
KAFFIR-No. white, $1.2O.
BRAN-S3QS5c.
SHORTS-$1.0 5@1-15.
WHEAT-Receipts 1913 cars.
BUTTER-Market unchanged.
POULTRY-Market unchanged.
EGGS-Eirsfs. 22c.
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Chicago. July 15.-HOGS-Receipts H.
COO Market slow, &c under yesterdays
SO. 4o@99o; mixed, s93OaioO5; heavy. - as
@le05; rough S925@S.45; pigs, Ss.IoG
CATTLE-Reeeipts 800 Market steadx
Native beef cattle, $710@11.OO: western
steers, $s1o@s.25; stoekers end feeders.
$o;4ogs 40 cows and heifers, s3500s.60:
sHEEP--Receipts 5000. Market weak.
Wethers. S6.S5@S.40; lambs. S75O61OS5.
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Wall ST., New York, July 15-SToCKS-
Additional liquidation of speeialties ac-
counted for the uncertain trend of today's
narrow and professional market, after an
Initial period of strength. Tennessee Cop
per. was the weak feature, falling points
to its lowest price In two years and caus-
ing reactions of point or whereabouts in
other speculative issues. These losses
were largely retreievd later. United States
Steel was firm. Bethlehem Steel rose almost
ten points and rails were firm, when not
making actual gains. Shipping shares and
Mexicans were passive, and Sears Roebuck
featured the specialties Of its class with
gain of five points. The closing was irreg-
ular.
Bonds were steady
Gains far outnumbered declines at the
opening of today's moderate operations
specialties. particularly Motors, equipments
and shipping shares, evincing tendency
to make further recoveries. United Fruit
scored the most substantial advance, ris-
Ing over two points, with point or more
for Maxwells, Studebaker, American Lo-
connective, Tennessee Copper. United States
Rubber and Butte Superior. Rails, Pennsyl-
vania excepted, were fractionally higher
with United States Steel WESTINGHOUSE and
Pitsburg Coal. Dealings indicated the
usual week end settlements rather than
actual demand.
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CONDENSED news
Germans Launch Furious Attack.

Germans Launch Furious Attack.
Petrograd, July 15.-A furious
counter attack has been launched by
the Austrian and German forces
against the Russians west of the
Stripa The war office announcement
of today says that in this region the
Russians took 5000 prisoners and cap
tured two guns and fourteen machine
guns.
Hughes's First Talk in Detroit.
New York, July 15.-Republican
Candidate Charles E. Hughes will
make his first speech on his trancon-
tinentaI trip planned for next month
at Detroit on August z, it has been
definitely decided. Although Hughes
will make speeches in several of the
larger cities, only two outside of the
arranged. These are for Chicago and
ST. Paul The dates are yet to be set
Charlie Herzog to Giants.
New York, July 15.-Formal an
nouncement of the trade or sale of
Charlie Herzog, manager of the Gin
cinnati Reds, to the New York Giants
is expected to be made today.
President Garry Hermann of the
Reds, had a conference with Presi-
dent Hampstead of the Giants today
when details of the trade were dis
CuSSSQ- One III C1FCuldClOn mere
today was that Larry Doyle and one
other Giant would be traded for Her
zog. No confirmation was obtainable
as to the New York players to be in
volved in the deal.
Would Be Slave.
New York, July 15.-Having tried
half a dozen jobs and finding none to
his liking, Walter M. Schilling, 10, of
Bayonne, n. J., wants to be a slave.
He has announced in a newspa-
Ier advertisement as follows: --Brigh,
ambitious young man, excellent refer
ences, willing to work, will sell him
self into slavery for his keep. 1 have
got to eat. State best price" Schill-
ing said today he had attended the
public schools, achieved some success
in athletics and had in turn been a
newspaper reporter, stock keeper, ac-
countant in steel plant and automo-
bile supply salesman Most of these
jobs he quit
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FIND A new CASE !
Infantile Paralysis Discovered
at Larned.
Strict Quarantine Ordered by
Health Board.

DIR. c. o. Rooms, health officer in
Larned, Kan, has reported a new case
of infantile paralysis to DR.. s. j.
Crumbine secretary Of the state board
of health.
The case is the third one in Kansas.
One of the first two cases was re-
ported from Mcpherson, and the other
from Winfield. which was fatal
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New York, July 15.-MoNEY-Me Mercantile
pa 9PEn per cent Sterling, 80 day e bills
Francs, demand. 5.91; cables, 590ss. Marks.
demand, 5SA; cables. 1875. Kronen. de-
mand, Al 7-16; cables, Al Gle. Lires. de-
mand.r GAL; cables, 6.40.. Rubles, demand,
30ss cables, 30N. Bar silver, 81 &c; Mexf-
can dollars, 47%c. Government bonds,
steady; railroad bonds, steady.
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TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago, July 15.-wHEAT---sultry
moist weather in the northwest likely to
increase danger from black rust tended
to cause an advance today in the wheat
market here. Every field in some sections
of North Dakota was said to show black
rust on the stalks. The reports added
that the rust was not confined to an oc-
casional stalk but was general. Opening
prices. which ranged from. IS, off to a
like advance, with July at $1.0SH and Sep
ttember at 81 .o95s to s1.o9%, were followed
by a material upturn all around.
On all little setbacks, buying was active
and upward jumps in price became more
and more rapid. The close was strong,
3@3Ac to SIC net higher with July at
$111A and September at $1.13k.
Observation-Disclosures above 100 in Mis-
souri, and Kansas lifted the price of corn.
St. Louis reported that the intense heat
with lack of rain was causing the corn
near there to fire. After opening lac off
to NC up the market took decided up
ward swing.
Predictions that hot weather would con-
tinue acted as a stimulus to buyers. The
close was strong at lie to 21a@27sc net
advance.
OATS-Oats rose with other grain. The
bulls were also favored by an active ex-
port demand. f-4
PROVISIONS-Lower quotations on
hogs weakened provisions. Absence OF
support continued.
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New York Preduce Marked.

New York, July 15.-BUTTER-Marke
firm. Creamery extras, 90 score, 29c.
EGGS-Market steady. Fresh gathered
extra fine, 27@2711c
CHEESE-Market weak State flats,
fresh specials, 1514@15Ac.
POULTTRY-Alfve, firm; dressed. firm.
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Chicago, July 15.-wHEAT-Close: July.
$1.11% September, $1-13b; December,
CoRN-Juiy, 7sNc; September. 75Ac
December. 65M @651ae.
OATS-yuly, 42c; September, 4113c; De-
cember, 43c. ss---t
PORk-July, s25.45; September, s24.42
LARD-July, $13.15. September. $13.22
SHORT RIBS-July, $13.40; September.
S13.47.
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Nicholas Tchaykovsky Estab-
lished Colony Here in 1870.
But Slav Community Failed for
Lack of Funds.
TEMPERANCE HELPS PEASANTS
Saws Adjustment of Vodka
Has Worked Wonders.
Despite War, Slav Farmers Are
Rolling in Wealth.

I'm this article of Sims's series on
the common people of Russia he tells
what they have been given in place of
vodka and how it is has worked out.
-Editor.1
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New Orleans Cotton Market.
New Orleans, July 15.-COTTON-Spot
quiet and unchanged.
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New York Sugar Market.
New York, July 15.-SUGAR-Raw and
refined sugar market closed.