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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-22
R. RS SHOOT BACK
Association Replies to Censure
Hurled by ChicagOan.
Grain Dealers Use Half Cars
for Export Wheat.
ASK 200 CARS, GET q OR 5
Chicago Market Practically Cut
Off, Griffin RetaIiates.
Yet Railroad Spokesman Says
"NO Emergency Shown"
ASK 200 CARS, GET q OR 5

New York, Feb. 22.-The American
Railway association issued a state
ment here today on behalf of its car
service commission which is cooper
ating with the interstate commerce
commission in the car shortage sltua-
ton in reply to the request made upon
the eastern railroads yesterday by j.
H Griffin, president of the Chicago
board of trade that the embargo be
imposed upon all eastbound commodi-
ties except fuel and food stuffs.
The associations statement asserts
that representatives of the chicago
board appeared before the car service
commission in washington few days
ago were assured every thing would
be done to meet emergencies but that
the grain men had shown no emer-
gency." 1t was asserted to the COM
mission the statement says, that fifty
per cent of the cars Chicago needed
were for export grain.
1.-TWO representatives of the Chicago
board of trade appeared before the
commission on car service on Monday
and Tuesday" the statement reads.
Ask 200 Cars a Day.
'sThey said they had been getting
at Chicago 200 cars day for east
hound grain and that they considered
sidering the general shortage. They
said they only wanted assurances that
thev would continue to get 200 cars
day after the new car service rules
of the American Railway association
went into effect on February 81.
1.-The representatives of the board
! of trade stated that if they did not
get 200 cars a day the grain mer-
chants of Chicago would lose more
money and that it would discriminate
against them in favor of Kansas City,
Omaha and other grain centers.
1.-The commission on car service told
the Chicago men that they would have
to look to the individual eastern lines
at Chicago for equipment. 1t was
stated to the commission on car serv-
ice that so per cent of the cars were
needed for export grain.
| The commission OH car service as
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NAB G. @. P. LEADERS
County Chairman in Quintet Arrest.
cd for AHcgcd Election Frauds.

Evansville, Ind, Feb. Pleading
Republicans of Vanderburg county
were arrested today by United States
marshals on election fraud indict-
ments. Among those who gave bond
for appearance to answer charges
were Charles Sihler, former postmas-
ter; Charles Aries, jeweler; Frank De
Jarnett, Republican county chairman;
Matt Foster and Herman Euler.
Ten Democrats Surrender. Too.
All five were accompanied by their
bondsmen, two of whom are the lead
ing citizens of the city. William H. Nc
Curdy, wealthy manufacturer, and
Marcus S. Sonntag, bank president.
Ten Democrats, including Chief of
Police Edgar Schmitt, and E. B.
Oslage, city controller, and two Re
publicans, surrendered and were re-
leased on bond last night. Thirteen
negroes gave themselves up and were
released on their own recogniz-
ance. A total of % Evansville per-
sons, Al Democrats and 81 Repub-
licans. were indicted, according to
Marshal StoFen
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NAME BANK OFFICERS
Illinois Man Head of st. Louis Farm
Loan institution.

Washington, Feb 2a.-officers for
the new federal loan banks at New
Orleans and st. Louis today were an
nounced by the federal farm loan
board. These banks will be active
agents of the new rural credits system
The officers for the st. Louis bank
are as follows:
Herman w. Danforth, banker and
lawyer of Washington, Illinois, presi-
dent; Carl E. Hopkins, farmer of
Tonti. Illinois. vice president; James
A Johnston, miller of Poplar Bluff.
Mo-, secretary: William S. Mitchell in
surance man of Little Rock, Ark trea-
surer; d. Ward King, farmer and
road builder of Maitland, Mo, director
and w. w. Fry, banker and lawyer at
Mexico. Mo. register and attorney.
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Both Unrest and Apathy in Con-
gress Over Bread Riots.
New York Representative Bit
terly Assails Spectators.
PROBE PROSPERITY LEAK NOW
Nation "Surfeited With Gold.
Lacks Bread for Workers.
BOrIand BlameS Committee for
SmOthering Resolution.

Washington, Feb 22.-Determined
to force some action from congress
that will al least temporarily relieve
the serious food shortage that has
caused bread riots in New York and
which the federal trade commission
prophesies will spread to every large
city. Representative Fess. Ohio, today
informed Representative Meyer Lon
don. Socialist. of New York. he will
introduce a resolution providing at
London, explaining that he believes
least temporary food control. e'-ti
congress should Immediately enact
permanent government food control
law, announced he would support
such a measure absolutely neces-
sary to get over the present emer-
gency.
Fess intimated he would Introduce
his resolution today. despite apparent
disinterestedness shown by many
members of congress.
Such a resolution will have sup
port of Representative Borland. who
announced he would press his provi-
sion appropriating 100000 for a fed
eral trade commission investigation of
the food shortage by lacking an
amendment on the sundry civil bill
when it reaches the house floor.
Call Department to Aid.
In the meantime the federal trade
com mission, the interstate commerce
commission-and the department of
agriculture and the commerce depart
ment-have been called into aid in
affording some kind of temporary re-
| lief.
The American Railways association
will work with the interstate COM
| merce commission in an effort to do
what it can to remedy any conditions
car shortage may have caused.
Discussing the situation today, Rep
resentative London bitterly assailed
/ food spectators as the chief cause
| Il call on the house to take up the
food control question now" London
said. I'VE are giving hundreds OF
| millions of dollars for preparedness
and preparedness programs for the
future, but we are disregarding an
! exigency already created by the Euro
pean war.
IF these starving people in New
York have any fault, it is not that
/ they do not work, but because they
work too hard-beyond human en-
| durance-and cannot make a living
Prices of food have risen so high
as to become inaccessible to the
masse.
| Not RiotS-Outcries to Heaven"
| THESE are not riots, but outcries
! to heaven for relief.
These people want bread-not in
| CONTINUED on Page Twol
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BREAK INEVITABLE
Austria's Reply to U. s. AL
ready Known at Berlin.
Declares Wilson Will Sever Re-
latiOns When He Gets 1t.

Berne, Feb 22.-Austria's reply to
the United States defining her posi-
ton in the submarine war is known
at Berlin, according to the Frank
furter Zeitung, which declares
breach of relations between Washing
ton and Vienna is inevitable. The pa
per's Berlin correspondent says:
THE memorandum which President
Wilson has sent to the Vienna govern
ment leaves no doubt that the breach
of relations between the United States
and Germany will soon be followed by
breach with Austria Hungary. The
Austro-Hungarian government will an
swer President Wilson's memoran-
dunn and what this answer will be is
known. Mr.. Wilson will be able to
draw his conclusion therefrom and
will break off relations.
Climax Appears at Hand.
Washington, Feb. 22.-The Aus
trian-American situation today held
the center of the international war
stage.
The climax of this silent drama,
which has been going on since the
United States broke with Germany,
appears to be at hand.
Within forty-eight hours, it is now
generally believed. this government
will know whether the scope of its
severed diplomatic relations is to be
extended to Austria-Hungary.
The state department and White
House say nothing as to what is going
on behind the scenes. When the cur
tain falls. however, one CT the most
dramatic and Interesting stories in
the worlds history will be written
the story of a great nation struggling
to restrict the spread of the great
war and another nation trying at once
to please a powerful friend and at the
same time support an ally.
Other Central Powers Would Follow
The Austrian government is por-
trayed here as struggling hard to pre-
vent the threatened break. That she
must and will support the German
decree is the official fear here. Should
she do this, it is taken for granted
President Wilson will Immediately or
der passports to Austrian representa-
tives here and request the withdrawal
of United States Ambassador Penfield
from his post in Vienna.
1t is felt certain that break with
the other Germanic allies would
shortly follow While the great panto-
mime goes forward it is allowing time
for movement of thousands of Ameri-
cans from central power countries.
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ments, are here for the love feast
The gathering tonight means some
thing more than the annual gathering
of the Bourbon clan. 1t is the formal
celebration of the Kansas landslide to
Wilson in the 1916 election.
1t is not disgruntled, downtrodden,
disheartened representation of the
Democrat party which came to To-
1eka to eat and tell now Kansas was
placed in the Wilson column in the
916 election. Instead the men who
aid railroad fare and spent a night
the best rooms in Topeka's best
hotels, are holding the best political
Jobs in Kansas. These men came to
town to radiate hope and joy and
pump enthusiasm into the Democrat
campaign workers who will shoulder
the burden of next years fight.
Full of Spirit.
There is a vast difference in the
spirit of the Bourbon crowd which
came to Topeka today and the crowds
which came in the days when Repub-
licanism was at high tide and a Demo-
crat couldn't be elected township road
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CONFIRM 1000 KILLED
Dresden Munition Catastrophe Great
est of Its Kind Since War Began.

London, Feb. 22.-The explosion in
ammunition factories in Dresden dur
ing the Christmas holidays was the
greatest disaster of the kind which
has occurred anywhere since the war
began, according to a Central News
dispatch from Christiania quoting a
Dresden dispatch. More than 1000
persons were killed out of 10000 en-
ployed in the wrecked factories. En-
peror William visited the scene on the
following day.
A Paris dispatch dated January 81
said that according to a letter taken
from a German soldier and written
from Dresden, the Dresden arsenal
had been blown up and 1000 women
and young girls killed. The letter was
date December 80.
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NEAR DRY RECORD HERE
-Four More Days and No-Rain Figures
Will Be Shattered in Topeka.

The longest period without rain or
snow in the thirty years weather bu-
reau records in Topeka was for SO
days. This is the thirty-third dav
without precipitation. Four more
days and all records will be shattered
Meteorologist Flora announces today.
There is no rain or snow in sight.
The cold wave SCHEDULED last night
and today did not arfiv.. due to
low pressure area in Nebraska which
blanketed the northern storms. How
ever it is still ia below zero in Min
nesota and North Dakota and colder
weather must come.
The forecast calls for colder in this
continual on Page Two,
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AN HISTORIANS TRIBUTE TO WASHINGTON

d 20 To d the Gre IN a n mi
0 h to is o
t pbn WORSHIP o Il
ory-R oertc winthrop in The
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U. S. Consul Cables Details to
State Department.
Sailors Given Ten Minutes to
Take to Boats.
NO LIFE LOSS; CREW LANDED
U-Boats Show Renegsd Aetiv-
ity, Widely Distributed.
Swedish Minister at Berlin Con-
tinues Filing Protests.

Washington. Feb. 22.-Five Ameri-
cans were aboard the Swedish steam
ship Skygland, sunk by a submarine
eff the coat of Spain on February Is,
Consul Hurst at Barcelona reported to
the state department today.
The Skygland sailed from Norfolk
with a cargo of coal for Bagnoli,
Italy.
Consul Hurst reported that the ship
was stopped six miles south of Para
coma at 6 o'clock the morning of
February IS. The crew of tyventy-six
men, five of wrOTn were Americans,
were given ten minutes to take to
their boats. The submarine crew then
crew was reported injured and they
were landed at Paragona shortly
afterward.
Five Claim American Citizenship.
Those who claimed American citi-
zenship are:
James Bremen. Brooklyn; Leo
Cartwright, Portsmouth. y. H: j.
town, Pa. and Joseph Brown, Eliza
/ beth, y. ].
The skygland. a vessel of 1887
tons net, sailed from Norfolk, Janu-
airy 26, for Bawnoi, Italy,
The Skygland undoubtedly is the
same vessel as that reported from
Paris yesterday as the Skogland,
which was mentioned as having been
sunk February IS. There is a Nor
wegian steamer Skogland which sailed
from New York, January IS, for
Kirkwal1 and Tron6hjeim.
Sink Fertilizer Cargo.
Stockholm, Sweden, Feb. 22.-The
Swedish minister at Berlin has been
directed to file a protest against the
sinking of the Swedish motor ship
Hugo Hamilton. Nothing has been
learned regarding the fate of the
crew.
The Hugo Hamilton was on the way
from Valparaiso with 1000 tons of
salt petre consigned to the Swedish
ly needed on account of the scarcity
of fertilizer in Sweden. She carried
a crew of more than 80.
Several days ago the Swedish gov
eminent asked Berlin far particulars
regarding the sinking.
Dutch Vessel Sunk.
Paris. Feb. 22.-Official announce
ment was made today of the sinking
on February 81 of the Dutch steam
ship Ambon, 3,59S tons gross and of
a British traveller.
steamship Alice, 700 tons. and of a
Russian steamer of 2.194 tons, also
was announced.
London Feb. 22.-Lloyds announces
that the British steamer Corso has
been sutk.s
The Corso was a vessel of 3,242
tons.
! 6,OOO-Ton Ship Down.
| LonNon, Feb. 22-The Holt liner
Perseus has been sunk. Three Chinese
! and one European of those aboard are
missing.
The PerSeus was a steel screw
steamship of 6,72S tons and was
owned by the Ocean Steamship COM
| pany, limited. and managed by A.
| Holt & Co. She was built in 1908.
Her port of registry was Liverpool.
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Strike Pack If Rights Are Further
Invaded, He Exhorts.

of the United States. if there is fur.
Their invasions by ruthless acts to
resist as if the country itself were
being invaded, William H. Taft told
the Corset Manufacturers association.
Craven yielding when the honor
Of the nation is at stake. he declared,
is worse than war.
Declaring repeatedly that the couu-
try is on brink of war. Taft made a
plea for universal compulsory mill
tary training.
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oVerseer without a special act of con-
gress ana an order from the supreme
court. Now there are Democrats in
Utmost every court house in the state
rive or the eight Kansas coneressn3e1
are democrats, Democrat senator is
IN washington and with President
wilson in the White House, Kansas
Rouro0ns mold the big federal Jobs in
Men who have been on the politi-
cal map in Kansas during the Ia Ct
uarter of a century are promi,ent
the hotel Hobbies II
Judge Nortoni the Speaker
Judge Albert D. Nortoni of e.
III Keynote for the Kansas Demo
rats at tonight's dinner. He will toll
ne Bourbons of the things that han
meg ii.t IN 1916 and she events on the
ears ago Nortoni was a Progressiva
va Ihe thlrd party nominee for
Continued on Page T,voJ
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GERARD is IN MADRID
American Ambassadors Party Now at
Spanish Capital

Madrid, Feb. 22.-James w. Gerard,
former American ambassador at Ber-
lin, and his party arrived here this
morning on their way to the United
States.
The Americans were not at the
station by representatives of the for
eign office and by Joseph E. Willard,
the American ambassador, and his
staff
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WHITE BREAD, POISON
Anyhow. Doc Wiley Says So-Ad-
vises Whole Wheat Loaf.

Washington, Feb 22.-Next to
coffee. white bread is the nations
greatest curse, DIR. Harvey Wiley, food
expert, told a meeting of the Women's
Section Of Navy league today. white
bread is poisonous" he said. whole
wheat bread is the ONLY kind. If
America had been nourished prop
erly from the cradle up. the majority
OIL men today would not be unfit for
military service"
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WORK WAR PRISONERS
Germany Employs 10000 as Solu-
ton to Farm Labor Shortage.

Amsterdam, Feb. 22-Germany is
employing 10000 war prisoners as
farm laborers, according to a Berlin
dispatch, which quotes statements of
General Groener, head of the army
Ieed1ng department, made before the
relchstag. Garrisons in the occupied
territories will do much spring SOW
ing, he said.
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HoIdup wears Lavender shirt,

San Antonio, Tex, Feb. PA mask
ed man wearing Lavender shirt and
a hat" held up the International and
Great Northern ticket agent at San
Marcos, at 3:45 this morning, escaping
with 500.
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9 FIRES At ONCE
MunitiOn Factory Town Rem
devious for Fire Bug.
Mob HySteria Ensues; State
Guards Restore Order.

New Britain. Conn. Feb. 22.-New
Britain is under martial law today
with two companies of state guards
men patrolling its streets, following
nine simultaneous fires in different
parts of the city last night Two men
are under arrest on suspicion of hav-
ing started the fires.
Repairs are being rushed to the
electric fire alarm system, which
broke down when several persons
rushed to boxes and turned in stimuli
taneous alarms as the fires began to
light up the skies.
All local fire departments were still
at work early today quenching smoul-
dering embers that threatened to start
all over again. Volunteer engine COM
panies from Hartford, Bristol, Water
bury and P1ainfield, however, have
been sent home.
New Britain has many manufactur-
ing plants which have been making
munitions for the entente allies. The
belief was expressed that some fanatic.
hoping to stop their manufacture. set
the fires by means of time incendiary
bombs. but no evidence of bombs has
been found.
First Fire in Tenement House.
tenement house, three residences
a garage, a synagogue and a business
block were raked by the flames. The
damage is roughly estimated at about
$4,000
The first fire started early in the
night in a tenement house containing
many families. Built of wood, it was
rapidly consumed. Inha bitants pour
cd down the single stairway in the
house. Everyone left safely, but
1lremen took several from upper win
downs by means OF ladders.
While they were working, other
alarms began to come in, and soon all
apparatus was working. Police and
fire departments were totally unable
to cope with the situation and appeals
were sent to nearby cities for assist
ance.
Crowds began 20 march up and
down the streets. Mob hysteria was
growing in the air and Police Chief
Rawlings asked Mayor Quigley for
militia. Companies 1 and L, First in
fantry, were called out and soon had
the crowds under control.
By midnight all blazes were out
and the city quiet. No further out
breaks it was said. are expected. but
the troops are kept on guard as ]
matter of precaution.
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Big Dry Goods House Burns

Providence. r. l., Feb. 22.-The
wholesale dry goods establishment of
Taylor. Symonds & Co. was badly
damaged by fire today. The loss was
estimated at 100000.
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Only One More Day to Consume
All Liquor Supply.
Out of Town Husbands Wire
Orders to Their Wives.
SAD GATHERING OF The SPIRITS
HOarded Bottles Must Be Emp
tied of Happy Contents.
Most Drastic PrOhibitOry Meas
ure Soon Becomes Law.

Governor Camper announced today
that he would sign the bone dry bill
tomorrow morning: 1t is planned to
have the law published in the state
Journal, the official state paper. to-
morrow afternoon and at ; O'Clock 1t
viii be law 4ffisaliy mnd an 1iqn ani
sacramental purposes. Will he barred
from the state. Clerks in the secre-
engrossing the bill that it would
he ready for the governors signature
tomorrow. A demonf ration has been
planned bv temperance leaders when
Governor Capper signs the bill
Kansans with cellarettes and pri-
vate stocks of varied brands of liquid
refreshm ents are making one wild.
frantic and final effort to clean up be-
fore the bone dry bill becomes law.
Following the passage of the bill in
the senate Wednesday, hundreds of
Kansans called together their friends
and vainly sought to reduce their
stocks and escape the operation of the
most drastic liquor bill the nation has
known. No accurate record will ever
be available as to the hundreds OF
gallons of liquor destroyed in one
manner and another in the final hours
preceding the operation of theslaw.
The bone dry bill will probably be-
the official state paper-the State
Journal-Saturday. There is just the
possibility that the measure might be
signed by Governor Capper Friday
and rushed to publication the same
day. Such a course is not probable
however But Saturday is quite early
enough for the men who hold large
private stocks.
AS soon as the new law is pub
! lished, it will be operative All OF
/ which means you must drink it OF
pour it in the sewer. All railroads
and express companies have made the
most of the situation. Officials of ex-
press companies have refused to ac-
cept shipments of liquor which cannot
be delivered today. The Rock Island
railroad put the ban on all liquor
shipments the day the bill passed the
senate. Other roads will clamp dowr
today and Kansas will tonight be the
driest little spot in the nation-ex-
CONTINUED on Pare Threa
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Nearly 500 faithful, happy. hopeful
lansas Democrats are in Topeka to-
Law for their annual dinner Scores
Of happy, smiling men who hold post
office jobs or soft federal appoint
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Formal Celebration of the 1910
Landslide to Wilson.
NORTONI IN KEYNOTE TALK
st. Louis Attorney Will Tell OF
Bourbon 1918 Dope Sheet.
Banquet Begins at $3.50 z. NJ. at
Masonic Temple.
DEMOCRAT BANQUET PROGRAM.
Tho Sneakers.

Judge Albert D. Nortoni, St LOUIS
8. b. Freezing, attorney general
oklahoma.
Mrs. Lucy Carter Woodford' Bur-
1iugton. ,.
Judge A. 3. Reeves, Dodge Clty'
w W Gordon. Kansas City, Kan.
Time-6:30 p m
Place-Nasonic Temple
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George Washington
On Preparedness

ITO be prepared for war is the
most effectuai means of pre-
serving peace."-GeoIge Wash
ington in address to congress on
January 8. 1890.
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George Washington and, top to bot
tom left, his tomb, his birthplace,
his home at Mt Vernon and his.
wife. y
Wherever an American heart beats
the memory of Washington is honor
ed today. The crisis in the nations
affairs has led American statesmen
to ask: What would Washington
have done in similar circumstances 2"
So violently have conditions changed
since his day that some hold the adj
vice he gave the struggling young
republic cannot safely be followed in
every instance at the present day. (
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WITH the bone dry law ready to go
into effect and with Washingtons
birthday upon us, it is truly
hatcher period in Kansas.
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PARKMAN PRESIDENT

CONTINUED on Page Three.l
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WEATHER FORECAST for Kansas:
Much colder in east Friday and
in north and west tonight. Strong
shifting winds. Partly cloudy.