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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-06

Marriage licenses were issued Mon
day to William Botkin, SO, of Argonia,
and Rosie Hinkie, 10, of Usage City,
and Ross Johnson, 25, and Hazel
Blake, %, both of Topeka.
The Eastern Kansas Holiness asso-
citation will hold its regular all day
meeting Wednesday. March Z. at the
Free Methodist church, on Lake
street. Preaching morning, afternoon
and evening.
Building permits were issued Mon
day afternoon by Fire Marshal Joseph
Hanlon to j. W. Keele to remodel a
building at 215-17 West Sixth street.
and to H. H. Hall to build a ware
house at SS3 North Quincy street.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Siegel will en-
/ terrain the members of the Epworth
| league of the First German NJ. Z.
street this evening. The party will be
given in honor of Fred Siegel, jr.
Clarence Woodall, a negro, living at
301 East Crane street, was arrested
Monday on a charge of disturbing the
peace. Woodal was accused of Civ
! ing his wife a beating. He was I'M
able to give bond and is held in jai.
pending trial.
Prof. Raymond A. Schwegler of the
University of Kansas, addressed the
Topeka Training school for Sunday
school teachers at the Y. w. c. A.
d
This was the third of series of lee
lures which Prof Schwegler is deliv-
ering to the training school
Edward johnson, who was run
down by a motor car Sunday morning,
| is in much better condition today, DIR.
A. H. Marshall who is treating him,
says that his recovery is only a mat
ter of time. His only injuries seem
to be cuts and abrasions. No bones
were broken in spite of the fact that
1 l. fl,.@ III,
him.
| The city commission has voted to
| sign the agreement to bear half the
expense of a bridge across Butcher
| creek at Twenty-first street, provid-
| ing the county would bear the other
half Also they voted to stand half
! the expense of the construction of a
water main from Eighteenth to Twen-
.tieth street on Harrison street pro-
viding the county commissioners see
fit to stand half the expense.
When the police raided a crap
game at 420 Kansas avenue late at
night, one man thought so much of
his liberty that he jumped thru a
2-story window and escaped Nine
other negroes We're caught and taken
to the police station. Hardly had
they been locked up until they began
police station. In some manner one
of the negroes had hidden a pair of
dice while the officers We're searching
them.
! Because her husband. John L. Mil
| Ter, spends all his money for booze
not to be used for medicinal purposes
AIRS. Myrtle L. Miller III West
! Second street, has filed suit for divorce
in the district court Mrs. Miller
states that her husband is capable of
earning a good salary, but that he
spends all of it on whisky and then
comes home and takes special delight
IN abusing her. The plaintiff asks
the custody of their daughter, Eulalia
Phillis, seven months old, and ali
mOny.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-06
LIVES in DANGER
Three Chicago MilliOnaires Are
Threatened With Death.
All Have Received Letters Stat
ing They'll Be Killed.

Chicago, March 6.-Threats of as
sassination received by a number of
Chicago millionaires whose names
have figured prominently in recent
Investigations of the high cost of food.
resulted in armed guards being placed
around their homes.
The millionaires are: Joseph p
Griffin, president of the board of
trade; J. Ogden Armour, president
Armour & Company; Nelson Morris,
chairman board of directors, Morris
& Company, packers. So.
The plot was revealed by Mr.. Crit
fin, who received an anonymous let
ter which read:
Between I o'clock a. m. March 2
and the same hour March 8, Mr..
Armour, Mr.. Morris and yourself will
be killed in your homes"
1t is understood that similar letters
have been received by other promi-
nent business men, but government
officials who are working on the case
refused to make public their names
Hinton G. Clabaugh, head of the
local investigating bureau of the de-
partment of justice, who is in charge
of the investigation said:
Authorities After Writers.
Several packers received such let
ters We have definite clews as to
the identity of the writer and 1 would
not be surprised TO see my operatives
bring him in in a few days. Anony-
NOUS letters are difficult always to
work on, but this time we have def
mite angles of information"
Investigation proved that the j
Ogden Armour and the Nelson Morris
homes were guarded so closely that
there was no possibility of an intruder
approaching unseen.
At the Morris home a guard stool
at the front and rear entrance.
1T is evidently the work of som
fanatic said Mr.. Griffin, who has
become excited because of the high
cost of foodstuffs. l suppose he saw
our names published in connection
with various food stores and therefore
blamed us for the high prices
All the notes which have been turn
ed over to Mr.. Clabaugh are in the
same handwriting, according to the
government Investigators statement
They We're scrubbed in pencil on
school tablet paper and mailed in
Smeared white envelopes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-06
LABOR LAW WINS
WOrkmen's Compensation o.
Three States Sustained.
Supreme Court Acts OH Those of
WASH, n. Y. and Iowa.

Washington, March 1.-THE first
compulsory workmen's compensation.
or industrial insurance law-that of
Washington state-tO come before the
supreme court, was today upheld as
constitutional.
II. II. Men Recover Damages.
Washington. March 6.-Declaring
valid the New York state workmen' S
compensation act. the supreme court
held today that railroad employees in
interstate commerce may recover
damages for personal injuries under
its provisions.
Many similar state laws are affect
ed by the opinion.
Employer Brought Suit.
Washington, March 6-Iowa' s
workmen's compensation law was to-
day declared constitutional by the SUI
preme court in the case of J. c. Haw-
kins, Newton, Iowa, manufacturer of
paper clips, against John L. Bleak ley
Iowa state auditor and Warren Garst,
state industrial commissioner
Railroad Wins From Swift.
Washington, March 6.-The SUI
preme court today affirmed a decree
of the Ohio supreme court which held
the Hook Valley railroad had right
to collect demurrage charges from the
Swift Packing company for cars
owned by the Swift company held on
tracks it claimed as its own.
No Decision on S-Hour Law.
Washington, March 6-The decision
on the constitutionality of the Adam
son railroad law was not announced
today by the supreme court, altho it
had been expected.
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Trade Commission Finds Con-
spiracy liked the Price.
Fix Price of $3.50 a Hundred on
Six Months Trial.
GOVT BOARD AS ARBITERS
Scale of Prices Also Fixed iOr
Less Than Car Lots.
Small Publishers Bilked for as
High as $3.50 Ton.

Washington, March 6.-The federdi
trade commission accepted today i
proposal by news print paper manu-
facturers that it fix a price for thelI
product, and named $3.50 a hundIeu
bounds as a reasonable charge Higher
prices were set for paper in less imam
carload lots and for sheet paper
Acceptance Of the arbitration pa 10
was announced oy the commission III
a preliminary report to congress or
its news print investigation saylnE
there had been no real shortage q
paper. but that important mahula a.
turers of the United States ana Cahdu l
had banded together to secure unrea
sonable profits The commission
findings we're outlined briefly in the
following summary;
Report Recommends Economy.
The increases in the selling prices
of news print paper for the year III
in most cases were greater than could
he Justified by the increases in cost
There is not now and has not been
a serious shortage of news print. 1lle
commission finds that there is enough
news print paper to meet all the strict
" necessary demands of publishers IN
1871 There is, however, close pal
ance between supply and demand anu
the commission recommends inc
strictest economy in the use OF news
print paper.
The increase in prices has been
due in part to the fact that free com
petition has been seriously restricted
in the news print paper industry nm
portant manufacturers in the United
states and Canada were banded 10
eether TO secure unreasonable proIlts'
The Publishers We're Hit Hard.
some small publishers have al
ready been put out of business and
81 N SlffpF the
fate, and some large publishers will
he financially ruined and many 9TH
ers will be unable to make any profits
unless conditions are remedied."
The commission makes it clear that
it is not acting as an agency of the
government to fix prices, but is serv-
ing only as an arbiter. 1t declined
to act until both publishers and paper
jobbers agreed to the manufacturers
proposed and promised corporation
Jobbers have agreed to handle and
distribute paper put at their disposal
10y the commission at rates the com
mission prescribed.
In Force Six Months.
The prices fixed will be in force six
months and contracts calling for
prices higher than those set will be
abrogated. Besides the price of $2.50
at the mill in carload lots the COM
mission named three prices--less than
carload. $2.75; news print sheets III
carload lots 1925; less than carloads,
$3.50. Jobbers will charge not more
than per cent on carload lots; 1919
per cent on less than carload lots
and 20 per cent on less than ton lots.
Conditions in the newspaper pub
fishing industry are serious, the COM
mission sets forth.
Ate All Up Profits.
within the last year. it says,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-06
North Side NeuUs
A POOL FOR PARK
Porter Wants Bathing Pavilion
Built at Garfield.
A New Lease Must Be Made for
This Summer.

The lease of the Coca Cola Bottling
works upon Garfield park expired this
winter 1t is now up to the city TO
release the premises. Commissioner
Porter stated today that if the Gar
field Operating Amusement company
wants to lease the park, that the Guy
will take favorable action on the prop
osition.
Previously the Coca Cola company
held the lease and granted sub
lease to the Amusement company. by
the time the Coca Cola people paid the
city 10 per cent of the gross receipts,
and the Amusement company had paid
its rent to the Coca Cola people, the
sub-leasee was losing money The
city Found the arrangement unsatls-
factory.
Now Commissioner Porter states
that when the Garfield Operating
Amusement company want to present
their bid for lease, the city is ready
to talk business. The sentiment on
the North side is largely in favor d
the granting of a DIRECT less to the
Amusement company. 1t has never
yet had chance to make money on
its concessions. and it is felt by many,
and particularly by citizens in the
First ward, that the park cannot be
kept up to standard ty a company so
unfavorably situated that it makes no
profit.
Porter states that one thing may be
asked of whoever leases the property.
That is the erection of a bathing pa
yilion BY Porter's plan the company
would pay for and use the pavilion
during the operation of its lease, and
at it's expiration would sell the pavil-
ION to the city at its appraised valua-
ton.
The election of the North Topeka
drainage board is in progress today
of 10
A misleading report was circulated
that J. B. Billiard would not run. This
report was denied today by Mr. Bill
lard's friends. His name appears on
while he has made no active fight
for the office, yet that he will serve
if elected.
Work has commenced on the ware
house to be erected at the rear or the
Rutter Furniture companyS building,
on the Quincy street property. The
building is being built by H H. Hall
who will lease it to Mr.. Rutter. II
will be so by rs feet. The walls are
to be of corrugated iron and concrete,
the roof of a fireproof asbestos prep
aration. The whole affair will be alb
solutely fire proof: The contract
price is $4,000. Cook & Son hold the
contract and will attempt to complete
it in thirty days.
Social and Personal.
Victor Council No. 3. X and l.. OF
S. will meet tonight at its hall, 1000
North Kansas avenue. There will be
an initiation.
The p A P girls will meet We'd
nesday evening at the home of Miss
jeanette Emert, 1885 North Monroe
street few outside guests will be
invited in honor of Mrs. Ruth Bower
man. a sister of Miss Emert, who will
leave in a short time to make her
home in Ohio.
Fred Beuchner. who has been re-
covering from an operation for APP
pendicitis at a local hospital, will re-
turn home Wednesday.
The Christian Endeavor society OF
the East Indianola church will hold
a business meeting and social Wednes-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-06

day evening at the home of Miss Vera
Morns
Thursday evening a Junior En-
deavor will be organized at the East
Indianola school house. The meeting
will Immediately follow the close OF
school.
Frank Bechtelheimer went to May
eta Monday on horse buying trip.
A. NJ Petro. Druggist-Adv.
The Helena Chapter of the Eastern
Star, No. 21O, will meet this evening
at the Masonic Temple.
C. L. McCarty of Tacoma, Wash
ington, who has been visiting in
North Topeka with his daughters, Mrs
Ed Speer and Mrs. Guy Robinson for
the last few months will return to his
home "Wednesday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-06
SUCCEEDS FUNSTON
Rank of Major General Conferred by
Nomination on Hunter Iiggett.

Washington, March 6.-President
Wilson today nominated Hunter Lig-
gett, now a briyadier general in the
army, as a major general to take the
place made vacant by the recent death
of Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston. Col.
Francis ]. Herman, of the Twenty
eighth infantry was advanced to the
grade of brigadier general.
In addition to the long list of old
nominations. which failed of con-
firmation at the last session of the
senate. President Wilson today made
the following other new nominations
Francis J. Kearful of Oklahoma
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City, assistant attorney general to sue
coed William Wallace, jr., resigned.
Peter j. Hamilton of Mobile, Ala,
United States district judge for Porto
Rico.
w. p. McGinniS of Muskogee, Okla.
United States attorney for the eastern
district of Oklahoma.
Miguel Antonio Otero, of Santa Fe.
\. NJ, United States marshal for the
Panama canal zone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-06
SUES MARY PICKFORD
Former Manager Claims That Movie
Star Owes Her S1O3.75O

New York. March 6.-Mrs Gladys
Mary Moore, known on the screen as
Mary Pickford, has been sued in the
supreme court for $103,750 damages.
The plaintiff is Cora c. Whitening.
formerly manager of Miss Pickford
The plaintiff alleges that she acted
as manager and promoter of Miss
Pickford's plays and stories in 1914,
1915 and 1916. but was not paid the
commissions due her She sues for
$103,750 for services rendered
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Kentucky Condemns Senators.

Frankfort, Ky, March 6.-The Ken
lucky state senate today adopted a
resolution condemning in unmeasured
terms the action of United States SEN
ators who prevented a vote last week
in the upper house of congress on the
armed neutrality bill.
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Declare Tariff Law Invalid.

Washington, March 6.-The clause
in the tariff law granting a per cent
discount in duties to imports brought
in American ships or ships of nations
with which the United States has fav-
ored national treaties was annulled
today as unconstitutional by the SUI
preme court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-06
Sentence Soldier to 5 Years.

Washington, March 6.-Sentence of
five years in the Leavenworth prison
against Second Lieutenant Jack Rig
don, second Arkansas infantry was
confirmed today by the president and
Rigdon was dismissed from the army.
Rigdon was convicted on variety of
charges ranging from absence without
leave to bigamy and embezZlement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-06
SN APP SHOT
The Why's of Life.
AT HOME NEWS

Why is it? we forget to buy
The candy and the flowers
When the wedding bells quit ringing,
And know that she is ours
-Nels Yingle.
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Iowa Reprimands Senators.

Des MoineS, Ia. March "a con-
current resolution condemning the
action of United States Senators Cum
minis and Kenyon of Iowa, in the fill
buster which killed the armed neu-
trality bill, was introduced in the Iowa
legislature today by Representative E.
D. Rayburn. The resolution, which
was laid over until the rules without
debate. ''repudiates the act in impos-
ing the rule of the minority upon the
senate as wholly unauthorized by any
considerable sentiment of the people
of Iowa.
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Motor watsers at Forbes Hdw. Co.
The American Jewish world., 1917-07-27
800

Die Zukunft has proved bon
ANA to Maximilian Harden Even
before the war it was said to yield
him an income of $4,000 year
something phenomenal in Germany.
In addition to his journalistic
work, he is also we'll known in Ger
many as lecturer. In his lectures
he does not confne himself to pre-
pared speeches, but adopts conf
dental attitude toward his hearers,
actually chatting with them. He is
excellent in repartee, and hecklers
at his lectures are more than likely
to suffer from the sting of his
tongue.
II believe everything I say" Har-
den wrote across photograph Of
himself presented to an American
friend. In those words lies the es-
sence of his personality. Change
able he may be, but he is always
Maximilian Harden No matter on
which side Of the fence he may
stand he is Harden, the writer, with
an almost Biblical power of phrase
ology, of indomitable courage, the
scorner of "les majestic" the scourg
er of shams.
"How does ne get away with it ?"
asks the man in the street.
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WHY HARDEN DARES.

Harden has been called the Ber-
nard Shaw of Germany, but he has
out-Shawed Shaw in his daring. 1t
would be more of a compliment to
the Irish satirist to be called the
Maximilian Harden of England. For
in Germany, prison yawns for the
outspoken critic of governmental
wrong more widely than in the Brit
ish Isles. Harden has already serv-
ed one term, but that was years be-
fore the war, and for his exposure
of and comment upon the "Round
Table" affair." The emperor's par
ticular FRIEND Prince Gutenberg,
was involved in that case in a way
similar to that in which a famous
poet, dramatist and essayist of the
past generation in England was in
volved in an affair which resulted
in his sentence to Reading Gaol.
1t has been limited that the Kaiser
fears Harden as he fears no other
man in Germany. A German liter
ary man has told the writer of these
lines that the reason is because Har-
den knows more about the 'Round
Table" affair than he has. yet pub
lished-things which would be made
known to the world if Harden were
put to death or imprisoned for a
long term Whether this particular
explanation is the right one or not,
it is undoubtedly true that the. Ger
man emperor has a most potent rea
son for allowing Harden the widest
latitude for discussing questions of
public policy.-National Defense
Digest.
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OoASOA ~ AA~ AN-ooS 80
dependent of all German periodicals,
will be forced to confne his brilliant
powers to the duties of mere mill
tary clerkship for the remainder of
the war; AS punishment for his
objectionable sin of fearless critic
ism Of the Hohenzollern dynasty he
has been deprived of further exer-
else of that privilege by being mo-
bilized as a military clerk under the
Auxiliary Civil Service law.
The permanent suspension of his
publication and his enforced military
service was the direct result of an
article in which Harden asserted
that the choice of peace or war
should be in the hands of the COM
munity and not in the will Of one
mortal. Harden was one of the few
writer's in Germany who dared to
write what he thought.
"The goal of our enemies is de-
mocracy and independence for every
race ripe for freedom" he said in his
latest. "If Germany sees blazing
over that goal the great celestial
sign of the times, then peace is
reachable tomorrow. Over all ques
tons agreement will be achieved
easily, but if that condition of things
for which millions of people sigh
appears to her to be ignominious,
then she must fight on until one
group conquers and the other falls
in exhaustion
That is the kind of thing, hurled
in the teeth of Kaiser and Junker-
dom and censorship, which has made
Maximilian Harden the most fam
Gus, feared, admired, and hated jour
nalist in Europe. Great as was his
renown before the war on account
of his celebrated exposure of the
Round Table" camarilla, and other
outbursts of audacious frankness, it
has grown by leaps and bounds
since August |, 1914.
During the war Harden has flung
every shred of caution from him and
has dared imperial wrath in series
of articles more sensational than
anything that issued before from
his pen. Those who know Prusslan
autocracy have gasped in wonder as
screed after screed from him, each
bolder than the last, have followed
in quick successions, throwing cold
water on German hopes, belittling
German victories, lecturing and sat-
irizing and ridiculing and warning
Germany's proud leaders.
Harden is the son of a Jewish mer-
chant. His real name is Witkowskl.
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MAMMALIAN HARDEN-THE JEW
The Personality Empire Drafted
Military Service.

Like that other daring German with
whom he is So often compared
Friedrich Nietzsche-h has Polish
blood in his veins. In his earliest
youth he showed signs of the fiery
independence which has made him
the most formidable figure in Ger
man journalism and one of the best
known in the world. His impatience
of restraint and convention led him,
when he was twelve years old, to
run away from home and join
troupe of actors, with whom he
wandered through small towns in
the north of Germany. After while
his father got wind of his where
abouts and forcibly brought him
back home, but the taste of gypsy
life had thoroughly delighted the
wild boy, and few years later he
left college and became an actor.
For seven years he stayed on the
stage. Even to this day, it is said,
he can remember not only all the
words of the parts which he play
ed, but he can recite the entire plays.
Often he entertains his friends with
defamation memorized in the days
when he was a wandering actor.
He gave up the stage when he
realized that the toad to fame for
him lay elsewhere. Journalism
tempted him while he was yet little
more than a boy. AS soon as he
set pen to paper he made name
for himself. The vigorous, fearless
style, now famous all over the
world, electrified his readers. 1t
was SO strong that, as one German
put it, ''it tells on one physically
He soon made himself known as
a great German authority on for
eign affairs. 1t is to his profound
study of international complications,
his extraordinary wealth of knowl-
edge about lands beyond the bound
aries of Germany, that he owes his
uncanny prophetic power, which
time and again has enabled him to
look far ahead of the moment and
enrage or delight people by the fore
shadowing of events, the unpalata-
bility of which to German appetites
has never restrained him from
spreading them out in Die Zukunft
1t is common knowledge in Ger
many that German statesmen never
miss a Zukunft article Nor does
the Kaiser. 1t is related of Will
helm H. that, after reading one par
ticularly violent attack on him by
Harden, he smiled and made a COM
ment in German slang, which might