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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18
Regiment In Egypt Rebels;
SIay British Officers.
Other Native Troops Refuse to
Fire on Mutineers.

Berlin, Feb. 1S.-(By Wireless to
Sayville. a mutiny of Hindu troops
in Egypt is reported by the Cologne
Volks Zeitung as quoted by the Over
tire regiment mutinied. killing twelve
officers. including a major, and that
other Hindu troops went over to the
mutineers. After a battle of two
hours, it is said, the mutinous troops
were routed.
The news agency statement follows:
1.-The Volks Zeitung publishes a
report received from reliable sources
in Cairo. that strong opposition has
developed among the Hindu troops to
the British. A captain of the Aus
tralian troops named Brown, on jan
wants who had made a mistake, the
VOlks Zeitung says. Two Hindus who
witnessed the incident killed the cap
tain with a bayonet.
1.-The whole regiment then mutinied.
A majority of the officers saved them
selves by flight, but twelve of them,
including the commander of the regi-
ment, and the major, were killed.
''Other Hindu troops were sent to
suppress the uprising but refused
to fire on the mutineers, to whom part
of them went over. After two hours
of fighting with Australian regiment,
part of the mutineers fled into the
desert. The others were killed or
wounded
There have been other cases of
mutiny, but the British have pre-
vented publication of the details
Move MOhammedan Troops.
Berlin, Feb. 1S. The Volks
Zeitung says that Major General Sir
John Maxwell, commander of the Brit
ish forces in Egypt, has ordered the
withdrawal of Mohammedan troops
from the Suez canal and their trans
portation to another war theater
where they will not fight against other
Mohammedans. 1t is said there have
! been frequent deseTtions among these
troops.
Tribes Fight Each Other.
London, Feb. 18.-Reuters' Cairo
correspondent says that many eastern
tribes of Bedouins are seeking protec-
ton of the British authorities. owing
to violent dispute between the west
ern and eastern tribes, which arg
hereditary enemies. Both Joined in
the recent fighting against the British
in which the eastern tribes suffered
severe losses. Subsequently the con-
! flict among the tribes arose and the
! fasteners are now flocking to the
Egyptian refuge camps.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18
RIVER IS COMING UP
Rise Is Due to the Continuous Warm
Weather of This Week.

The Kaw river is rising rapidly and
had reached a stage of 13 feet this
morning. This is 3.S feet higher than
on Thursday morning. and shows a
steady rise for three days. The stream
is full of ice, but there seems to be no
tendency to jam and it is expected
that the ice will go out without dam
age. A heavy jam is reported at
Rocky Ford. on the Blue river. and
there might be trouble in case the dam
strain. Several bridges along that riv-
er were taken out by the floes Thurs
day.
Fair weather with moderate tenn
perature is forecast for tonight and
Saturday. Tomorrow will be sunshiny
and warm. although the mercury to-
day and Saturday is not expected to
reach the mark Of yesterday and the
day before.
The shippers forecast indicates
temperatures of 26 to 80 degrees for
th1rty-six hour shipments in all direc-
tions The minimum at Topeka to-
night will be between 25 and 80 de-
grees.
The lowest temperature of the "a
hours occurred at Z o'clock this morn
ing, when the reading was 81 degrees.
This is three degrees lower than the
reading Thursday morning, but it is
10 degrees above normal. A 12-mi1e
wind from the northwest kept the
mercury down, and the rise today was
slow. The highest temperature on
record for this date is 6S degrees. es-
tablished in 1913. The lowest, de-
grees below zer~. occurred in 1903.
Temperatures today averaged 6 de-
grees above normal. but the weather
was far from the April variety that
prevailed for several days past.
Following are hourly readings fur
0iShed bV the weather buTeau-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18
Pig Passenger
A Puzzle For
Port Officers

London. Feb. 1s.-A pig.
A passenger on H. NJ. s Car
mania, is the subject of a porten-
tous announcement, occupying
more than half a column in the
London Gazette"
The unfortunate porker, appar-
emily an alien, is indisposed, and
the board of agriculture has,
therefore, issued a special order
defining Whale Island, Ports
mouth harbor, as a quarantine
station for the specific purpose
of landing of animal described
in schedule hereto" The sched-
u1e reads: "One pig at present
on board H NJ. S. Carnania."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18
UNNEUTRAL ACT
TO ACCEPT new
SUBMARINE LAW
ScOrns Kaiser's Late U-BOat
Rule as Revolving.
Senator Lodge Defies Admins
tration to Accept 1t.
WOULD DRAG U. S. INTO WAR
Aims to Make America Sea-
Murder AccOmplice.
Tears Down Century Old Rights
of NeutraIS.
Senator Lodge Defies Admins
tratiOn to Accept 1t.
WOULD DRAG U. S. INTO WAR
Tears Down Century Old Rights
of NeutraIS.

Washington. D. c., Feb. 1S-Senator
Lodge, ranking minority member of
the foreign relations committee, made
a speech in the senate today declaring
that abandonment by the United
States at this time of the principle
that its ports We're open to and its citi-
zens free to travel upon merchantmen
of belligerent nations, armed solely for
defensive purpose. would be an un-
neutral act and a step toward war. He
said it would make the United States
The ally Of the belligerent whose mer-
chant marine had been swept from the
seas. The senator spoke at length,
dwelling upon the history of internal
uonal law relating to the arming Of
merchantmen for defense and citing
precedentS in the record of the Unit
ed States. He referred to reports that
the administration was preparing to
change its policy which have been de-
MED by Secretary Lansing since the is
suance of the German and Austrian
memorandums, announcing their in
tention to treat armed merchant ships
as war vessels after February %. AS
late as the presidents note of May 13,
1915, signed by Mr.. Bryan, Senator
Lodge aid, this government .Dcog-
nized that American citizens We're
within their undisputed rights in TAX
ing their ships and in travelling wher-
ever their legitimate business calls
them upon the high seas
Surrender of Rights.
Such" he added, has been the
practice of all nations in regard to the
armed merchantmen. 1t seems utter
~ incredible that this position should
be in any way altered now or that our
government should be ready to sur
render the unquestioned rights OF
Americans to travel or ship goods on
a belligerent merchantmen subject to
all the rules which have been estab-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18

Complaint charging Hazel Gardner,
the 17-year-old girl who ran away
from her home in Topeka in company
with Pearl Higginbottom, age 13, last
Tuesday and was found at Grove
Thursday dressed in boys clothes,
with inducing the Higginbottom girl
to run away with her for immoral pur-
poses. has been filed in the court of
Topeka. The complaint is sworn to
by Sheriff L. L. Kiene. When found
the Higginbottom girl was also dressed
as a boy. Miss Gardner is II years
old and was a student at Dougherty' s
Business college.
She is under the care of the matron
at the Jail. Pearl is still at the de-
tention home. The two girls were
brought back to Topeka late Thursday
evening by Hugh Larimer, undersher-
iff following their apprehension at
Grove.
The Gardner girl, Sheriff Kiene says,
does not look to be as old as she is.
During a conversation Thursday even
ing, the sheriff in an effort to be pleas
ant remarked to Miss Gardner that she
did not appear to be seventeen years
old.
well, 1 am" she returned. And if
| you uOn I ike II, Wndl are you going
to do about it?'
| Sheriff Kiene then informed the
| girl that the warrant would be issued
| The girl said nothing.
Their Stories Conflict.
! Stories told by the two girls as to
! who was responsible for the esca pade
conflict. Pearl, the 13-year- girl
| according to officials, says Miss Gard
ner was responsible. In the matron's
ward at the county Jail the Gardner
| girl claims that the HigginbOttom gir
was responsible. She claimed to Mrs
! Abbott that Pearl induced her to star
out. She also told Mrs. Abbott that
she wasn't satisfied with things at hel
| home.
Both girls tell an exciting story OF
their experiences. Miss Gardner claim:
| that they were without anything tC
eat for two days At nights they made
| their beds in straw stacks and claim
| that they were pursued by coyotes
despite the fact that coyotes are the
most timid of prairie animals so fal
as their relation to human being i,
| concerned.
At the detention home, Miss Higgin
bottom is the picture of despair. Th'
other girl officials say. does not pro
fess to be so sorry about it.
County officials in issuing the com
plant for Miss Gardner accuse her o
inducing the younger girl to run away
for immoral purposes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18
WON'T TALK POLITICS
Roosevelt Arrives in West Indies
Seeking Rest Cure.

st. Thomas, D. w. l., Feb. IS
Theodore Roosevelt arrived here
Thursday from New York. In the alb
sence of the governor, who is at St.
Croix. he was welcomed by the gov
erpor's secretary.
Colonel Roosevelt inspected the re-
Gently completed harbor works and
drove about the town visiting other
places of interest He dined with the
governors secretary
The colonel declined to be inter
viewed on political affairs, saying he
had come here for a rest He will
leave st. Thomas today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18
GrolU Old But
Don't Admit IT
Is Age Recipe

Ackley. Ia, Feb. 1S-"Don't
think you are ever going to grow
DID," is the advice given t. those
who wish to live to be 100 by j.
o. Ackerman, Butler county piO-
neer, who celebrated his one hun
dredth birthday anniversary to-
day a. his home near Parkers-
burg.
Mr. Ackerman has smoked a
pipe for 80 years and admits he
takes a couple of good smokes or
50 a day now He also confesses
to having taken a wee drop of
liquor occasionally. He doesn't
think either habit has hurt him.
Mir. Ackerman has never been
III and reads without glasses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18
SteUenson's S Old
Letters Bring
Neat Fortune

New York, Feb. 1S.-If Robert
Louis Stevenson could have sold
his letters in his lifetime at such
prices as they brought at their
sale here he could have spent his
later years in comfort without
having to depend upon his literary
efforts. The tolal sum derived
from the sale of Stevenson's let
terS, books. manuscripts and
paintings was 3,116.->- They
were the property OF Mrs Sails
bury Field. of Santa Barbara.
Calf. The sale was concluded yes
terday. One letter, describing
Stevenson's visit to the Shetland
Islands, written when he was 10
years old brought $3S7.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18
HINDUS IN hAUTINY OLD BOYS IN BLUE
Members of Grand Army From
All Over Kansas.
Here to Honor Memory Of
Washington and Lincoln.

Blue clad Civil war veterans from
all parts of Kansas commenced to ar
rive this morning at the office of
State Commandant Meek in Memorial
Hall, for the celebration of the birth
day anniversaries of Washington and
Lincoln. The state officers have been
planning the celebration for three
months and a big out-of-town repre-
sentation is expected. Letters have
beee sent out to all the posts in Kan
sas and prominent G. A. r. men of the
state.
The celebration is the result of the
combined efforts of the G. A. r. and
all its kindred organizations. There
are about 450 members of the G.. A. r.
IN Topeka, and some five or six hun
dred of the women's auxiliary, as well
as about a hundred members of the
Sons of Veterans.
There are two programs, one at 2
o'clock this afternoon and one at 1880
this evening. At the meeting plans
for Kansas participation in the Ma
tional G. A. r. encampment at Kansas
City next summer will be discussed.
The programs for this afternoon
and evening follow:
Afternoon.
Song America .......
..... Led by George Adamson
Prayer ..... BY the Rev. J. X Miller
introducing by IDe
Patriotic Instructor Lincoln Post
c. A. Meek state commander ....
...... Taking the Chair
Patriotism p. II.
Coney, National Patriotic Instructor
Address -. -. Mayer j. E. House
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. ....
.-Tenting on the Old Camp Gronnd'
The Audience
Song .-.... Industrial School
Song .....S School Children
Lincoln's Life -. By DR.. Benz. Young
/ Toast to Flag Mrs. w. E. Fitzgerald
Song ..... ...... .Colored Quartette
/ Reading .... Sarah Rock
/ Benediction. The Rev. A. S. Embreo
Evening 1880.
Pianist 49,; Ms. Webster
| Marching" .....-....B By Audience
Prayer .. The Rev. J. II. Fazel
/ Reading. :. BY Mrs JAS D. Sullivan
Instrumental Music. Manus Clut
{ Lincolns Address ...........
I B BY Mrs. II. Williams Smurr
/ General Remarks .-........
{ ..... BY Gov. Arthur CappeI
Baltic Cry of Freedom ...
/ .... BY Mrs. b. B. Smythe
The Lfttlest Rebel ...........
/ .... By Miss NJ. Coovel
Address ..---.....B BY Robt. TaskeI
| star Spangled Banner .
.-. BY Mrs ]. NJ Wright
-. Mrs. Heigle Dept P of r. c
| Marching Through Georgia" ...
.... BY Comrade Mussor
Benediction. The Rev. w. G. Handley
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18
BIC war LOANS
ASuuith Asks for New British
Fund of Two Billion.
Hungary to Get 15O.OO0,OOO
Marks From Germany.

London. Feb. 1S.-New votes of
credit amounting to 40O,OO0,OOO
pounds. approximately two billion
dollars. will be asked by Premier
Asquith of the house of commons
on Monday.
The new votes will bring up the
total of war appropriations to
2,O62, ,OOO,OOO pounds.
Build PruSsian Railroads.
Berlin, Feb. 1S.-An appropriation
of 313, 100000 marks for the Prussian
state railroads is provided in a bill in
troduced in the PruSsian diet. The
money is to be used for construction
of new tracks and branch lines, COM
pletion of several lines. and for new
cars.
From German Bankers.
Berlin, Feb. 18.-The Hungarian
minister of finance has concluded ar
rangements with a group of German
banks for a loan of $50, 100000 marks.
The loan will be covered by per cent
treasury bonds redeemable in two and
a half years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18
New HamDshire Execution.

Concord, n. H, Feb. 1s.-The first
New Hampshire execution in 23 years
will be staged here today on the same
weatherbeaten old gallows from which
Frank Almy dangled for 16 minutes
in 1893 Oscar J. Comery, wife muir
derer, is todays gallows victim.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18
AFTER TEDDY'S SCALP
Boss Barnes of New York Leads an
Anti-Roosevelt Tour.

New York, Feb. 1S.-William j.
Barnes will not conduct in person a
western tour of Roosevelt en-
misaries to kill off the T. r. boom, he
said positively today.
Though it had been generally re-
ported that the Albany chieftain had
been picked by the Hilles-Crane lead
ers to act as chief executioner of
Roosevelt's hopes in the west, Barnes
himself denied the reports.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18

Hutchinson, Kan, Feb. 1S.-Dyna-
mite was used in an effort to save the
new bridge of the Anthony & North
ern railroad at Larned today. The
ice which took out bridges in Ford
and Finney counties has reached
Larned and is now threatening the
railroad bridge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18
To Re-open Louvre Museum.

Paris, Feb. 1S.-The sculpture sec
ton of the Louvre museum would be
re-opened to the public on March H.
In making the announcement of the
Petit Journal, Albert Dalimier. under
secretary for fine arts, said the 500
precious paintings which he had sent
to Toulouz for safe keeping after the
battle of Charleroi, will be kept there
until the end of the war. They arc
stored under excellent conditions and
are safer there than they would be in
Louvre. where there is always danger
of a mishap through a Zeppelin raid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18
KILLS HER ON CAR
"Wronged Wife" Stops ElOpe-
ment With Bullets.
Shoots "Other Woman" and
Fires at Her Husband.

Huntington. w. Va. Feb. 18.-Be-
Iieving that her husband. Leonard De-
Foe. a butcher employed in a West
end establishment, was clipping with
pretty Mrs Rosa Wood McMasters,
daughter of a prominent merchant OF
this city, Mrs. Lulu DeFoe late
Wednesday afternoon boarded a street
car upon which the couple were leav-
ing the city and after taking seat
behind them, drew a revolver from
school satchel which she carried on
her arm ana fired at the other wo-
man"
Turning the revolver upon her hus-
band, she was about to fire again in
an effort to end his life. when he
seized the weapon and. wrestling IL
from her. tossed it through a window.
Woman Dies in Car.
The bullet entered Mrs. McMasterss
left shoulder just under the blade and.
passing upward, severed the 1ugular
vein with blood squirting from the
wound. the victim fell from her seat.
dying three minutes after the shoot
ing.
The car was filled with passengers
and a panic ensued- The DeFoe wo-
man, who is aged 81, retained her
caImness and had no comment to
make on her action beyond the
charge: -'She was eloping with my
husband" Officers who were on the
car placed Mrs. DeFoe under arrest
The husband was also arrested
At the police station charge of
murder was entered against Mrs. De-
Foe, while the husband was held on
a charge of disorderly conduct on
warrant sworn out against him some
time before
Carried Suitcase.
DeFoe and Mrs. McMasters. who
had taken the car ostensibly for the
purpose of going to Catletsburg. KY,
carried a suitcase. strengthening the
wife's belief that they were about 10
elope.
The body Of Mrs. McMasters was
removed to the home of her father.
Frank Woods. where her mother is re-
ported prostrated by the affair. The
dead woman was 25 years of age.
while DeF'oe is 80.
Weather Forecasf for Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18
Grand Dukes Army Sweeps
On to Black Sea.
Occupies Barburt; TrebizOnd Is
Next Big Prize.
REVENGE ARMENIAN MASSACRE
Tribunal at EZerum to Probe
Turk Atrocities.
Wholesale Execution Will Be
Penalty EXacted.

London, Feb. 1S.-RussiarI
forces forming the right wing of
the grand dukes Caucasus army
are within so miles of the impor-
tant Turkish Black sea port of
Trebizond, according to dis
patches received here today.
The ancient city of Barburt. on the
road from Ezerum to Trebizond, has
been captured. il was reported. The
Slavs are pushing on toward the ~on-
tine mountains, barring their approach
on Trebizond.
The capture of Trebizond is expect
ed within another fortnight. Advices
from Petrograd today said 1t was co0-
sidered certain the srand duke would
send a force against the city and press
his campaign against the Turks to the
westward.
Investigate Outrages.
The Russian forces already have
taken steps to improve the condition
of the Armenians. A tribunal will be
established in Ezerum as soon as pos
sible and Investigations of Turkish
atrocities against the Armenians will
/ be begun at once. Wholesale execu-
ton of Turkish civil officers respon-
sible for the outrages are predicted.
Within twenty-four hours definite
statement is expected from Petrograd
as to the number of prisoners and
guns captured.
An official statement telegraphei
here today reported the capture of %
more guns and about 1900 prisoners
lin outer forts, but said The regtstr1-
tfon of prisoners and booty inside the
fortress had only begun.
The Posts Petrograd correspondent
today .-ttributed the capture of Eze-
rum to the 'cyclonic rush of the in
comparable Siberian troops"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18
No Brandeis Hearing Today

Washington, Feb. 1S.-No witnesses
were ready to be heard today before
the senate judiciary subcommittee
consic ering the nomination of Louis
D. Brandeis to the supreme court and
today's hearing was abandoned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18
HIGHER EDUCATION COSTS
EF1ETE MISS ST, $50 YEAR

northampton Mass, Feb. IS
The average annual expenditure of
a Smith college girl is $765. The
lowest cost of a years schooling is
$3.50. and. SO far as is known. the
most spent by a single student is
$3.50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18
Hazel Gardner, IL Years Old,
Faces White Slavery Charge.
Alleged to Have Enticed Pearl
HigginbOttOm, Age 13.
PUT "ULTIMATUM" TO KIENE
'"If You Don't Like 1t; What
Will You Do About It?"
Sheriff Then Informed Her of
the Waiting Warrant.

Late this afternoon Hazel Card
ner. the 17-year-Old girl who ran
away from home. masquerading
as a man, was released ON her own
rccogniZance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18
GEORGE CONCENTRATES NICK

liant Troops" at Erzerum.
London, Feb. 1S.-On receipt of the
news of the capture of Erzerum by
the Russians, King George dispatched
the following message to Emperor
Nicholas:
my heartiest congratulations on
the splendid achievement of your gal
iant troops in capturing Erzerum aft
er such hard fighting, which i trust
will have farreaching effects
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18
Carried Suitcase.

Weather Forecast for Kansas.
Fair tonight and Saturday. mod
crate temperature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18

THE pendulum is swinging back
now the railroads are asking for
an increase in freight rates in Kan
sas!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18

Now is the opportunity for Kansans
TO cut the weather stories out of
the newspapers and send to their
friends i'm California and Florida.
The Washington times., 1916-07-04
.B|RR:ELL IS BLAMED
FOR IRISH REVOLT
Royal Commission Holds Lord
Wimborne Is In No Way Re.
sponsibIe.

LONDON. July 1.-THE royal commits
sion which investigated the Irish rebel
lion says In It's report that the respons-
ibility for the outbreak does not rest
with Baron Wimborne. the lord lieuten-
ant since resigned, who Is declared to
have ben In no way answerable for the
policy of the government.
The chief secretary for Ireland. Au-
justine Birrell, who resigned soon after
The Suppression of the outbreak, was
hEd primarily responsible.
The main cause OF the rebellion APP
pears TO be that lawlcssness was al
lowed to grow up unchecked" the re-
port says. and that Ireland Tor several
years past rad been administered OIL
the principle that 1t was safer and more
expcdient &c leave the law in abey-
ance IL n collision with any faction
of the Irish people could thereby be
avoided"
The importation Of large quantities
of arms into Ireland and the tolera ton
Of drilling by large bodies OF men. hrst
in Ulster and then In other districts.
the report say. created conditions
which rendered possible the recent trou-
bles In Dublin and elsewhere.