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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
GERMANY AS OUTLAW
british Representative Would Cut Off
Supplies From NeutraIs.

London, March 24.-The promulga-
ton of a new allied doctrine against
Germany is demanded by Carlyon Will
troy Bellairs. Unionist. in a resolution
laid on the table of the house of COM
mons for debate next week.
The resolution provides that. In
view of the murders and the shocking
violations of international law on the
higl seas by the German government,
this house recognizing that Germany
mas placed herself in the position of
an outlaw, declares tFat the time has
come to enforce the new European
doctrine that no supplies may come
out Of or go into Germany or her al
lies: that prize court procedure was
devised to meet conditions of civilized
warfare which do not exist; that con-
sequently supplies for neutral Euro
Dean countries must now be ratiOned
on the basis of an entire cessation o.
their trade with Germany"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
Negro Lad Holds Up White
Boy at Point of Gun.
He Orders His Victim to Shell
Out q Nickel.
THREE CENTS ALL HE HAD
But Bold RObber Showed He
Meant Business and Got 1t.
Officers Catch Negro Boy With
Gun and Money.

At the point of a 3S-calibre re-
volver Clyde Bell, a 13-year-old negro
boy held up William Wallace. a IA
year-old white boy, today and forced
him to turn his pockets wrong-side
out. He got three cents-all Wallace
had.
Bell denied Indignantly that NOV
ing pictures or dime novels had any
thing to do with his amateur bad
man" stuff.
Nav, that didn't have rothin' to do
with it, he said.
The hold-up was staged down on the
banks of the Kaw, where there are
few people even in the day time. Wal
lace said he was walking along at
tending to his own business when the
negro boy stepped in front of him and
demanded nickel.
He poked the big gun in my face
and told me to shell out the nickel"
said Wallace Il didn't have but
three cents and 1 showed it to him
to prove that was all I had. He told
me to come across with that He
pointed the gun at my head and saw
him pull on the trigger. 1t began to
go back and 1 have him the three
cents"
Bold Robber Caught.
Immediately after turning over his
funds Wallace headed for the nearest
part of town. He found Officer Bill
ings and told him he had been held
up down on the river bank. Billings
aided him and with WaIlace's descrip-
ton he was able to locate Bell. The
boy still had the revolver and the
three cents in his possession.
The revolver was loaded and is
dangerous looking weapon. 1t was
taken to the police station along with
the owner and properly labeled Bell
was placed in Jail and for the present
the charge is that of carrying con-
cealed weapons. He maintains that he
merely wanted to borrow five cents
from Wallace.
Wallace lives at SCI Fairchild.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
RemOrse Over Starting War
"POiSOnS His Existence"
Besides Foreign Foe, Menaced
by 3 Enemies at Home.
FEARS UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE
Kaiser Himself Fought Against
Break With e. s.
But Murmuring of Hungry Sub
jects Threaten Crown.

Paris, March 24.-The abdication of
the German emperor is forecast by
the former German magistrate who
wrote the celebrated book "JAccuse. .
in an interview published in Oeuvre.
He says:
THE kaiser is obsessed by the
thought that he is responsible for the
war, thought that poisons his whole
existence. He feels that he is men
aced by three enemies al home, with
out counting those abroad:
First is the crown prince. the real
author of the war.
Second is the junker pan-German-
ist-you cannot imagine the smolder-
ing hatred of the emperor for those
whom he believes are the maniacs,
driving him into an abyss.
Third are the people, not the So
cialsit party, but the people who are
starving and who he feels are growing
in number and risking little by little
against those who organized the war.
THE other day at the meeting Of
the parliamentary presidents and the
ministers of the federal sovereigns, at
which the new submarine campaign
was decided. the struggle between the
kaiser's party and that of Won Tirpitz
was most bitter. He was personally
opposed to break with President
Wilson. Documents will bepublished
some day proving that he did every
thing not to bring America down upon
MIN and that he considers that the
rupture was an irreparable mistake
The failure of the submarine war soon
will show that he was light.
Hunger Cry Growing.
THE people he fears most are the
anti-militarists, anti-Prussians, Lib
eraI-Republicans who want the reich
stag to be based on universal suffrage.
That is why Wilhelm is so anxious to
convince the nation that he did not
want war. All his protestations are
to appease the Liberals md his fam
ished and ruined subjects whose muir
murings are growing stronger. He
wants to continue popular at any
price. That is why he spoke the first
word of peace. But the submarine
war came and spoiled everything.
TT is hard to realize how this en-
peror suffers in his pride He alone,
perhaps, in Germany knows the whole
truth since he alone has in his pos
session the elements for forming COM
pIete Judgment. How can he resist
morally and physically under such a
strain? He sees the isolation of Ger
many become more and more COM
plete.
No Course but Abdication.
"Once he tried to initiate peace ne
gotiations and failed. To try again
would be to admit and proclaim to the
whole world but above all to the Ger
on paOa TNUo1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
Lid Goes OF on Patriotism Here
Night of April 10.
Military HOnOrs for the Three
Well Known Guests.
STIMSON, PEARY AND COUDER
Governor Capper Will Be a
Fourth Prominent Speaker.
Universal Military Training
Likely Topic in Addresses.

Patriotism of Topeka and Kansas
will be given every opportunity for
display in Topeka. Tuesday, April TO-
when big patriotic mass meeting
will; be held probably at the Chamber
of Commerce and High school audi
forums. The Chamber of Commerce
is ma king elaborate arrangements TOT
this display which will be made at the
same time Henry L Stimson, former
secretary of war, Rear Admiral ROBERT
E Peary and James COuder, an at
torney of international fame, come 10
Topeka to speak on universal tram
ing. All three men are representa-
tives of the National Security League
Bands, hundreds of flags, Battery
and half a dozen other patriotic To-
peka organizations will be pressed
into service for big demonstration
in an attempt to arouse patrlOuc en-
thusiasm in the people OF Kansas
Preceding the demonstration a dinner
Will be held at the Chamber of Com
merce. Complete details of the meet
lnSs and demonstration will be an
nounced in short line. Like meet
ings and demonstrations are being
held turnout the country.
Govern Capper expressed the be
lief today tina the country has every
confidence in The president and would
stand behind him in any move Presi-
dent Wilson made following the meet
ing of congress. April >
Il do not care to make any state
meut on the subject az this time,
said Mr.. Capper today. when asked
whether he stood for universal mill
tary training.
sentative men of the state will be
asked how they stand on the universal
training propaganda. There has been
a wide expression in Kansas favoring
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
OUT OF BELGIUM
American Relief Workers and
Minister Withdrawn.
Neutral Nations to Take Over
Work of Feeding Belgians.

Washington, March 24.-American
relief workers in Belgium and Ameri-
can Minister Brand Whitlock have
been formally withdrawn from Bel
GUM. Official announcement to this
effect was made at the state depart
ment this morning
The American relief commissioners
will be replaced as far as possible by
members of a joint neutral commits
sion. largely under the supervision of
Dutch military officials. Brand Whit
lock will go to Havre, France, resum-
ing his duties as minister at the tenn
porary Belgian capital
Presages Actual War.
The Whitlock withdrawal was taken
as a forerunner of actual war.
For some time the department has
debated giving up the relief work, and
ships by German submarines has dis
couraged further attempts to run the
relief work in American channels.
Realize Seriousness of Move.
The following announcement was
given out by the state department:
by direction of the president. the
minister at Brussels has been instruct
ed to withdraw from Belgium. with
foreign diplomatic and consular Of
ficers, and take up his official resi-
dence at Havre.
After consultation with the COM
mission 1Or Te4l6I III btlSluHls MI
Whitlock has also been instructed to
arrange for the departure of the
American members of the commission.
This step, the seriousness of which is
fully appreciated by the government,
was taken only after careful consid-
Grafton and full consultation with all
the interests involved.
when diplomatic relations with
Germany were broken off the normal
procedure would have been to with
draw the minister at Brussels and the
American members of the relief COM
mission Both this government and
the commission, however, felt a heavy
moral responsibility for the millions
of innocent civilians behind the Ger
man lines and it it was decided that
the work of the commission must be
kept going despite all difficulties until
continued American participation be-
came impossible.
Feeding 10 Million.
For over two years it has been the
single minded purpose of this govern
ment and the commission to see that
these ten millions of civilians were fed
and with this end in view. the Ameri-
cans concerned have submitted to re-
strictions forced upon them by the
German authorities, which under or
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
OKLA. WON BOTH ENDS
Victorious Over Kansas and Colorado
in University Debates

Lawrence, Kan. March 24-Okla-
homa defeated Kansas in a debate
here Hast night by a decision of two
to one. The Oklahoma team had the
affirmative side of the question, Re
solved, That compulsory investigation
of individual disputes as embodied in
the Canadian compulsory investigation
act should be adopted by the United
States The Kansas debaters were:
Edwin Price, Joseph Harris and Paul
w. Schmidt.
Affirmative Wins Again.
Norman, Okla, March 24.-The Uni
versity of Oklahoma debating team
won over the University of Colorado
here last night by a 2 to i decision.
taking the affirmative on the uues-
ton: Resolved: That the principle of
compulsory investigation of industrial
disputes as embodied in the Canadian
act should be adopted by our con-
gresS"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
$50 REMEDIES AND
$12O WORTH OF DRUG
CURES HICCOUGHS

New York, March 24.-Three hun
dred and fifty remedies were suggested
for James F. McCabe. former chief
who nearly died of hiccoughs. Sug-
gestions were mailed and telegraphed
from all parts of the country. One
man paid $3.50 for telegraph tolls on
an elaborate description of a method
by which Mr.. McCabe was to be
frightened out of his attack. McCabe's
physician announced that he had been
cured by repeated doses of a rare
form of Chinese musk.
This drug costs IS a grain. 1t re-
auired 1920 worth to do the work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
TO MEET TONIGHT
First Steps to Organize Hos
pital Corps Here.
Major HammeI Urges All Who
Are Interested to Attend.

First steps toward organizing a
field hospital corps of the National
Guard here will be taken tonight at
a meeting to be held in the office of
Major Seth Hammel, who has been
commissioned to organize such a unit
Major Hammers office is in suite 713
Mills building. Sixty-seven men and
six officers are need to organize the
corps. of which Major HammeI will be
at the head. Four officers, including
Major Hammel, and about % men
have already been obtained
Besides the commanding officer
those who have agreed to accept COM
missions as Heutenants in the corps
include: DIR. Merrill Lindsay. DIR. P
A. O'Connor and Dr. Harry s. Rodgers,
the latter of the Santa Fe staff.
Forty or fifty prospective
recruits, it is expected, will attend to-
nights meeting. Major Hammel said
today final organization of the corps
will probably begin next week so as
to be completed before the probable
call for mobilization of the guards.
The Equipment.
Equipment of the unit will consist
of eight wagons. fifteen horses and
thirty-three mules. However, it is
probable the Topeka organization will
be given motor conveyances instead
of horses and mules as the majority
of such units are being given that
kind of equipment
In war time the field hospital CORPS
four of which accompany each divi-
sion is generally stationed four or
five miles back of the firing line. Be
tween them and the line are station
ed the regimental aid and the dress
ing stations. The Topeka corps will
have a patient capacity of about 200,
and in case of war will probably be
connected with the division embrac-
ing the Kansas infantry and other
units.
The two officers-lieutenants
to be chosen will probably be selected
tonight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
MORE CAUGHT IN NET
Grand Jury Indicts 20, Including For
mer Chief of Police HeaIey.

Chicago, March 24.-The grand jury
has returned thirteen additional in
dictments against twenty Chicago po-
lice officials, saloon keepers and ward
politicians. The charges were con-
spiracy.
William Skidmore, saloon keeper,
and ex-Chief of Police Healey were
those against whom true bills were
drawn by the grand jurors Healey
was indicted upon five counts charging
bribery
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24

The temperature Tor the day aver
aged 10 degrees above normal. The
wind was blowing % miles an hour
from the southwest at 2 o'clock this
afternoon.
A pleasant out-of-doors Sunday is
predicted by the local weather bureau
office. Topeka and vicinity will have
the most pleasant day on record, ac-
cording to his forecast The wind
will not be too strong and the telE-
perature will not not go below IS all
day. The forecast calls for fair wealth
err today and Sunday with warmer
temperature tonight.
The lowest temperature Friday
night was SO, degrees above the
normal night temperature for this
Continued On Page Two)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
12-YEAR-OLD BOY GOES To
SCHOOL ARMED WITH RIFLE

Laurel. Mont. March 24.-W. G.
Lotus, who lives eight miles south
west OF Laurel is in Jail in Billings,
charged with arming his 12-year-
old son with a 1886 Winchester
rifle, which the lad took to school
each day much to the annoyance
of teacher, children, parents and
others.
LOTUS feared coyotes and wolves
and even other things might jump
from the woods and injure his son,
he said, hence the gun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
CARRIED593 PRISONERS
AIoewe. German Sea Raider. Returned
Loaded With Captured Men.

Berlin. March 24.-The Moewe
brought 593 prisoners into port, ac-
cording to announcement here TODAY
Count Donna, her commander, ar
rived Thursday at his home port lie
reported sinking twenty-seven vessels
in all
An official German statement re-
ceived yesterday by wireless an
nounced arrival of the A+oewe at her
home port but made no mention of
prisoners aboard her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
Third of New Albany, Ind, Left
a Mass of Ruins.
SCHOOL HOUSE A DEATH TRAP
More Than Score of Children
Killed When 1t Collapsed.
Martial Law Observation-Disclosures
To Be Shot on Sight.
Tornado Damage I'm Indiana Dur
ing Two Weeks.

New tle,-Twenty-three kill
ed, fifty injured, $50 houses de-
stroyed, property damage $1,000
900. Two others killed in sur
rounding territory.
New Albany-Thirty- known
dead, nearly 200 injured. 800 homes
destroyed. property damage $780,
900; five killed and fifty injured in
surrounding territory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
EXTENDS BLOCKADE
Germany Intends to Cut Off Supplies
to Russia by Arctic Route.

Christiania March 24.-The for
eign office received official notifica-
ton today that Germany had insti-
tuted a blockade of the Arctic ocean
between Norway and Spitzbergen.
The new blockade is manifestly
aimed to prevent shipments to the
Russian port of Archangel. which will
be free of ice within a few months
and which has always been a great
center of import for Russia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
win reach Military Training.

Williarnstown, Mass, March PA
regular course in military training will
be started at Williams college Monday
under the direction of an army officer
The course will be for two years and
is aimed to train reserve officers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
TAKE OVER CONSULATE
U. S. office in Rumania Now in
Charge of Constantinople Embassy.

Berlin, March PA telegram from
Sofia says that the American embassy
at Constantinople has taken charge
of the legation at the Bulgarian cap
ital The legation was formerly con-
Quoted il connection with the Buehar-
est legation.
Charles J. Vopicka was formerly
American minister to Rumania. Ser
bia and Bulgaria After the capture
of Bucharest by the Germans, MIR.
Vopicka, then in residence there, was
asked to leave in common with other
neutral ministers. Fie returned to the
United States and since then American
affairs in the Balkans have been in
the hands of charges d'affaires.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
Interest Increases in Final
Hours of TOpeka's Election.
Twenty-Three Candidates Are
Out for Seven Positions.
NO CONTEST IN TWO OFFICES
Primary Will Have No Effect on
the Standing of Four.
Red White and Blue Will Wave
at Every Polling Place.
THE CANDIDATES.

THE CANDIDATES..
Jay E. House.
l. L. kiene.
J. B. Billiard.
Herbert J. Corwine.
Commissioner of Finance.
w. H. WATSON.
Jonathan D. Norton.
Commissioner Water and Lights.
Frank NJ. Newland.
George f. Burnam.
w. G. randy.
II. c. Stevens.
l.. r. Lane
Commissioner of Parks.
w. L. Porter.
Isaac Giiberg.
w. II. kerle.
!. A Ramsey.
James o. Stevic.
Board of Education.
L. NJ. Jones.
j.. w. Griggs.
James B. Mullin.
s. A, SwendSOn.
Frank B. Brown.
Frank Curry
George Hughes
Elimination of candidates for four
city offices will be effected Monday at
he primary elections. There are SIX
contested offices but in only four are
here a sufficient number of candl-
dates to force anyone out at the pri-
maries There are twenty-three can
1idates in the field and at the pri-
naries, seven must be eliminated.
Probably the most heated contest is
over mayoralty. There are four can
lidates for that office. Five men seek
he job of commissioner of parks and
public property. That includes w. L.
Porter, present incumbent. who is a
candidate for reelection. In only one
1ther fight for commissionership will
here be an elimination following Mon
lays election. That is in the office of
of streets and public i'm
w. G.. Tandy, present
Incumbent, is a candidate for re-elec-
ion. Two others aspire to the office.
CONTINUED on Page Two)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24
SUNDAY A FINE DAY
All Topeka Can Get Out of Doors
Tomorrow, Weather Man Says.

Hourly temperature reading for the
day, reported by the local office of the
United States weather bureau:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-24

DON'T forget your privilege at the
polls in Topeka all day Monday.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1917-08-23
ALIAS SIIMMONs

In the Probate Court OF Idaho County,
State Of Idaho.
Sprouse & Son, Inc, plaintiff, VS..
Lois M. Duffy, defendant.
The State OF Idaho sends greeting to
the above named defendant:
You are hereby summoned to appear
In the above entitled court to be held
at the office of the Probate Judge, In
the court house at Grangeville, Idaho,
In the above entitled cause, at ten
o'clock a. M, upon the Goth day of
Sept, 1917, and answer plaintiffs com
plant on file in said court, or plaintiff
VIII take Judgment against you as
prayed In said complaint.
The said action is brought to recover
Judgment against you for the sum OF
$215-25 with interest at per cent per
annum from May 18th, 1917, being for
balance due for goods, wares and
merchandise sold and delivered to you
by PLAINTIFF, in the years 1916 and 1917
or the reasonable value and agreed
price of $5S9.25, and no part of which
has ever been paid, except 1924 and
for costs of this action.
Witness my hand and the seal OF
said court this End day of July, 1917
(seal) WILBUR L. CAMPBELL,
Probate Judge and Ex-Oficio Clerk OF
the Probate Court.
A. s. Hardy, attorney for plaintiff
residence and postoffice address
Grangeville, Idaho.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1917-08-23

Generally speaking, races living at
nigh attitudes have weaker and more
mighty pitched voices than those living
10 regions where the supply Of oxygen
- more plentiful. Thus In South
America. among the Indians living on
the piateaus between the ranges of the
Andes, at an elevation of from 10000
70 $4,000 feet, the men have voices Ike
women and the women like children.
their singing being a shrill monotone.
Ine Australian native has a weak
voice, but knack Of sending 1t a long
distance, and the lowest tribes of
African bushmen would come into the
same category; but, 1t is said, of all
human beings the pygmies of central
Africa have. In point of volume and
compass, tne weakest or human VOICES.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1917-08-23

in and for the County Of Idaho.
Mary A. Fauley, plaintiff, vs. John
Fauley, May Woodward, james Ash
by, John Ashby, and the unknown
heirs and unknown devisees of Nor
gan III. Fauley, deceased, and the un-
known owners OF lots / and 2, and
SEA of NEA Sec. g, and SWN of
NWA Sec. 8, Twp 20, N. r. 2 E.,
B. NJ, in Idaho county. Idaho, de-
PENDANTS.
The State Of Idaho sends greetings:
To John Fauley, May Woodward.
James Ashby, John Ashby, and the
unknown heirs and unknown devisees
Of Morgan FL. Fauley, deceased, and
the unknown owners of lots and 2.
and SEA of NEN Sec. 6, and SWK
of NWH Sec 3, Twp. %, N. r. 2 "a.
b. M, in Idaho county, Idaho, the
above named defendants.
You are hereby notified that a COM
plant has been fled against you In
In the District curt Of the Tenth Ju-
dicial district Of the State Of Idaho
In and for the county of Idaho, by the
above named plaintiff, and you are
hereby directed to appear and answer
the said complaint within twenty days
Of the service Of this summons II serv-
ed within said judicial district, and
within forty days II served elsewhere /;
and you are further notified that I'M
less you SO appear and answer said
complaint within the time specified,
the plaintiH will take Judgment
against you as prayed in said COM
plant
The said action Is brought to OBJ
tain decree Of the said court Quieting
the title in the plaintiff to the follow
Ing lands described in the complaint,
to-wit: Lots / and 2, and Southeast
quarter Of Northeast quarter Section
Q, and Southwest quarter of Northwest
quarter Section 8, Township %, North
Range 2 Hast Of the Boise Meridian,
in Idaho county, State Of Idaho; and
to decree and adjudge that the said
plaintiff is the owner OF said lands and
that the defendants have no right, title
or interest In or to the said property
above described or any part or portion
thereof. or any claim thereon, and to
forever enjoin defendants from assert
ing any claim or interest therein OF
thereto, and for general relief.
Witness my hand and the seal OF
said District Court, this 9th day OF
July, 1917.
JOEN P. EIMERS,
(Seal) Clerk
BY HAROLD HARRIS, Deputy.
A. s. HARDY, attorney for plaintiff
residence and postoffice address
Grangeville, Idaho. sect