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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
OFFERS CITY COAL
DIR. II. w. ROby Wants Vein on
His Place Worked.
Commissioner Newland Sug-
gests Development Company.
CITY CANNOT USE SUCH FUEL
Private Families Would Like to
Get 1t, However.
No Doubt About 36-Inch Vein
Being Worth Effort.

A plan for the city of Topeka to
operate it's own coal mine within the
city limits, was unfolded today before
the city commissioners by Or H. w
Roby. DR.. Roby owns land on he
west side of Kansas avenue, just south
of Shunganunga creek, under which
it is believed there is a three-foot vein
of very good Usage coal at an average
depth of 10 feet.
Dr. Roby proposed to the lily com
missioners that they open a mine and
operate it, paying a royalty % the
owner. Any other plan of operation
thru which all concerned would get
a square deal would be acceptable to
DR.. ROby, he stated
The municipal coal mine plan was
referred to Frank M Newland com
missioner of water and light. who will
conduct an investigation.
May Form Company.
''As to whether the city could np-
crate such a coal mine legally 1 do not
know at this time" said Commissioner
Newland. Such coal would not be
suitable for our use in the electric
light or water plant.
1T undoubtedly could be used by
private individuals in their stoves or
furnaces. The formation of a com
pany to develop the possibilities of
1OpShd COdl WOulQ iOOh SOOU
to me-"
The vein of coal was discovered for
ty years ago. In the sos Jay Ward
owned a large dairy barn on the block
now owned and occupied by DIR. Roby
At that time water for stock was hard
to get in the dry season and Ward
built a large cistern as a reservoir
during season.
The cistern being inadequate an ar
tesian well was drilled into the rock
1S5 feet deep. The drillers got water
all right, but they also ran into gas
salt and coal. The vein was three
feet thick, and of the grade of Bur
lingame and Usage soft coal. Enough
gas was found to give a light blue
flame when ignited.
Make Vein Pay.
1t has been proven at Leavenworth
that an eighteen-inch vein can be
made to pay. The vein which has
been worked to some extent west OF
Topeka was found too thin to be
profitable. But three foot coal, it is
said, should furnish to Topeka the
long needed opportunity of getting q
plentiful supply at a price that con-
sumers can afford to pay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
BAND WILL BE HERE
Republic Motor Truck Musicians En-
Route to Coast.

The Republic Motor Truck COM
pany's band of fifty pieces will be in
Topeka Thursday. to give two con-
certs and a public parade. The band
will play on the state house grounds
in the morning, will march down Kan
sas avenue in the afternoon and will
give a concert at Gage park in the
evening.
The band left Alma, Mich, May %.
and is en- route to Los Angeles. 1t has
visited many prominent cities since
leaving it's starting point and has
spent a week in all the larger cities
like Chicago, New York and st. Louis.
A number of special attractions are
carried by the band, including a SOLO
list who sings all the latest songs. The
tour is being made under tie manage
ment of F. j. Major and the band will
be entertained by Rehkopf Bros.
Topeka agents for Republic tires,
while in this City
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
THE HOUSEHOLD
When They're Fresh.
Edited by Anne Rittenhouse.

When you go marketing, remember
that:
Fresh poultry may be known by its
full bright eyes. pliable feet and moist
skin; the breast is plump, white or
nearly white. The feet and neck of
chicken suitable for broiling are
large in proportion to its size; the end
of the breastbone is soft and easily
bent between the fingers
Roots and tubers must be plump,
even sized. with fresh unshrivelled
skins and are good from ripening time
until they begin to sprout.
All green vegetables should be very
crisp, fresh and juicy, and are best
just before flowing
Beef should be of a bright red col
or, well streaked or marked with yell
lowish fat, and surrounded with a
thick outside layer of fat. Good NUT
ton is bright red. with plenty of hard,
white fat. Veal and pork should be
of bright flesh-color, with an album
dance of hard, white, semi-transpar-
ent fat. Lamb of the best kind has
delicate rosy meat and white, almost
transparent fat.
Fish when fresh have firm flesh,
bright. clear eyes, rigid fins and rudy
| gills. HOLSTERS and crabs must be
bright in color and lively in motion.
Nowadays intelligent marketing is
perhaps, pdlTlolC Outy. mat is lC
say, with food at the prevailing high
prices. it is really worth while, and
| one way to help conserve food, to see
| that every bit of it that enters your
kitchen is in such good condition that
it can be utilized to its greatest limits
To choose something that has just
| gone out of market for example
asparagus. 1t was far better economy
! for instance, to choose a more expen-
! sive bunch of aspagarus that was
fresh and tender than one not so ex-
pensive that was also not 20 fresh and
| tender For of the tender bunch ever
| the ends could be used fsr soup-if
| not for a cream of asparagus soup
| for flavoring in a vegetable soup.
i So it is well to remember tina. ever
the humble task of marketing has ar
/ economic aspect nowadays
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04

owned twenty. Today. they are ac-
cumulating knitting bags.
A closet half filled with these CAV
bits of handwork is exhibited with
pride among women. When a woman
isn't knitting, she's making a bag for
knitting for herself or for someone
else. When a dressmaker offers an
evening wrap, size offers an evening
knitting bag to go with it; along with
hat and muffler for the motor, goes
motor knitting bag. There are bags
for train travelling, for house parties
and for evening gowns of satin and
lace.
The knitting bag shown in the
sketch is a novelty offered by a great
house. 1t is made of figured uphols-
terry silk in mauve tones, and is curl
ously shaped. with an opening held
out by whalebone covered with
shirred ribbons Japanese and Philip
pine cottons are sometimes substituted
for the silk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
AIR RAIDERS ACTIVE
Thirteen German Planes Brought
Down on the French Front

Paris, Sept. 4.-Thirteen German
aeroplanes were brought down in ex-
traordinary aerial activity on the
French front Monday, today's official
report announced.
German airmen bombed Dunkirk
and Calais. killing and wounding a
number, and let bombs fly over the
Nancy and Luneville regions, without
striking any victims.
In return, French aviators bombed
enemy aviation fields and other sta
tons north of scissors, in Belgium, at
Roulers, Licitervelde. Frescati, Thon-
vile, Cambray, Colmar and Metz
Ciphy.
The official statement also detailed
unusual activity in raiding At Sap
igneul the French raided an enemy
salient and destroyed the garrison.
On the Souain- Sottepis road (Cham-
payne sector) the French raided the
enemy lines over a front of 500 meters
approximately half a mile), penetrat-
ng first line positions, destroying gas
machines and taking prisoners.
A German assault on Hurtebise farm
Chemin des Danes sector) was brok-
IN up under French fire with heavy
losses to the enemv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
so LONG, MARY
Queen of TOpeka's Underworld
to State Prison.
Mary Chesney, Broken Old
Woman, Ends Career.
ARRESTED IN KANSAS CITY
Convicted of Importing Kansas
City Girls to Topeka.
Stroke of Paralysis Halted
Laws Hand Temporarily.

Some time this afternoon Mary
Chesney, known in Topeka court circles
for a quarter of a century, will be met
ar a Kansas City Jail by Mrs S. H. Alb
bot, county matron, and quietly coz
Quoted to the Kansas state peniten-
tiary.
Mary CheSney'S race is run. After
clashing successfully for generation
with Kansas laws and the men who
enforced them, she met defeat. That
and failing health have put her out of
the running. She goes to the peniten-
tiary today to begin an indeterminate
wreck of the flashing-eyed, we'll
dressed. bejeweled woman who, times
without number, has defied courts and
the laws thay would enforce.
She goes to the penitentiary to serve
time for having conducted a disor-
derby house in Topeka; for having i'm
ported two girls from Kansas City to
Topeka for immoral purposes.
Queen of Underworld.
Time was in Topeka when Mary
Chesney was a power, when anyone
who would have predicted her finish
in a penitentiary would have been
laughed at Her business was known
same line. But they were mere satel-
lites. She was the queen" What
she said went Topeka tolerated her
and her kind and she prospered.
Gradual changes she could not COM
prehend took place and the lesser
lights went elsewhere. But Mary stay
ed on. She had stood her ground
so long she thought her position i'm
pregnable. City and county admins
trations changed. New laws went on
the statute books and with them pub
lie sentiment changed. Mary became
an Outca hunted nv police and
frowned upon by men whose good
name she had protected.
Finally thai happened which every
one except Mary expected. She was
arrested with the goods on her" A
stroke of paralysis and imnlinen;
death delayed the hand of the law
for a time That past, Mary turned
| to her accustomed means of livelihood
in Kansas City, was caught, and today
she goes to the penitentiary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
GOLF TOURNEY ON
Players in Topeka From All
Over the State Today.
More Than 100 Expected To Be
in Qualifying Round.
Two TOPEKANS SHOW WELL
DR.. Allen and J. L. Duncan
Qualify With Low Scores.
Out-Of-TOWn Players Will Quail
ffy Tomorrow.
TWO TOPEKANS SHOW WELL

The stage is set and real action has
started in the tenth annu;.I golf tour
nament of the Kansas State Golf asso-
citation. Ideal weather ana the excel
lent condition of the green's marked
the opening of the qualify ing flight
OF the so entries this NOR ing.
The race for the champ anship is on
and a good race it will he according
to contestants who prophesy the low
est qualifying figure in the history of
the cub. Last year the Qualifying
mark was 81 and it promises to be
around the IS mark this year. 1t will
be real golf tourney, according to
every contestant
The morning rounds We're notice
ably quie+ with large score marked
against the entries. Only 'wo scores
were reported below the 81 mark. DIR.
G.. II. Allen, and ]. L. Duncan, both
of the Shawnee club, proved in form
In their first rounds. Both men re-
ported scores of "a and we're practi-
cary assured that they had qualified.
other scores of the MORNINGS rounds
showed as high as 10. Most rec
Ords. however, were around the SO
mark.
Qualifying matches scheduled for
this afternoon promised to bring out
some of the lowest scores of the sea-
SON The program TOT the AFTERNOON
Included rounds by o. A. Bonebrake,
the 17-year-old favorite of the course,
h Olcott of Lawrence, and DR.. Cor
don White of Newton. Golf gossip
around the clubhouse this morning
indicated that the whole afternoon
would bring out some of the record
scores for the year.
Following is a table of the qualify
ing rounds played this morning and
the scores reported to ]. c. Watson OF
Kansas City, in charge of the con-
test:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
IN FRANCE SOON
Two TopekanS to Do Y. M. G. A.
Work in Trenches.
Thomas Lee and John Trembley
Are Chosen.

Thomas Amory Lee and John
Trembley of Topeka are among five
Kansans assigned to duty on the
French front in the Y. NJ. G. A. war
work propaganda. Notice of their Sc
lection as workers in the gigantic
plan to provide healthy recreation for
the soldiers in the trenches was re-
ceived in Topeka today. The three
Kansans assigned to similar tasks are:
p. A. F. Applebloom and F. A. j.
Cooper of the romance language de-
partment of Kansas university, and E.
b. Collier of AtchiSon.
Lee has been directed to proceed
Immediately to Rockford, Ill, where
he will do preliminary work in an
army camp stationed near there. 1t
is expected the others will leave for
France within month. Lee is a To-
peka attorney Trembley was man
ager of the ]. w. Jenkins Sons Music
company in Topeka.
These men were ordered to report
at the war work council headquarters
at Chicago two weeks ago. Each
man ranks as a second lieutenant in
the United States army but will not
be subject to call to arms by the gov
eminent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
DINNER STORIES

A tailor was suing a customer for
the price of a suit of clothes. Coun-
sells point for the defense was that
an agreement had been entered into
between the tailor and his client to
the effect that the latter would have
three months in which to pay, and.
as that period had not yet expired
the case ought never to have been
brought On this point the clothier
was subjected to a searching cross
eXa mination.
Now, SIR" said counsel, in a domi-
neering tone, IF 1 had ordered that
suit of clothes, instead of the de-
PENDANT, would you have sued me for
the price at this stage?'
mo, sir, was the reply
"Ahi" and counsel beamed round
the court with the air of a man who
sees victory, "and why, pray"
Because in your case 1 would have
demanded cash down."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04

and the privilege of keeping THAT she
already has.
She states that within few months
after their marriage Clayton lef-
without announcing the time Of his
leaving or the date of his return.
Finally he returned but not fol long.
In March of this year, she says he
left without leaving his address and
has not returned. She asks that the
court relieve her of all semblauce of
a husband
Mrs Clayton also asks that the
court grant her title to three lots Or
jackson street occupied by two houses
and her household goods. She says
she owned these before she was mar
ried to Clayton. That and a divorce
is all she asks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
LOCAL MENTION

The Sunshine club of the Swedish
Lutheran church held its annual pic
mic at Chesney park, Saturday. Those
present were: Mrs. A. ]. Ekblad
Mrs. c. F.. johnson, Mrs. e. c. Eek
nall, Miss Amanda Isaacson. Ruth
Jacobson. Mildred Ekblad, Alice
Johnson. Myrtle Hanson. La Vera Tu-
lien, Mildred Bjorkman, Josephine
Peterson. Hazel Gibbons. Rebecca ia
cobson. Bernice Ekblad, Charlina
Johnson, Florence Bjorkman, Evelyn
Nyman, Edith Nelson, Frances Lund-
gren. Bernice Danielson, Helen Mat
son, Elizabeth Knox, Agnes Hanson
Geneva Lulien, Ruth Nelson. Lucille
Nyman and Hazel Matson. The club
will hold its regular meeting Septem
Der 20. at the home of Miss Amanda
Tsaacson, 157 Grattan avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04

New York, Aug. 29.-There was a
time when women knitted everywhere
for the sake of Belgium and the SOL
diers in France. Then the fashion died
out to some extent. 1t was net that
woman's sympathy was dulled, but
they felt that enc ugh garments had
been supplied to clothe Europe
There was i we'll authenticated story
abroad in the land that the great mass
of Belgian refugees in France and
England were kept busy unravelins
the millions of badly knitted gar
ments that had been sent by sympa-
thetic women in this country.
The famous couplet supposed to
have been written by a French soldier
to an American woman, is probably
too well known by everyone to be
quoted here, but the pungency of its
wit made knitting something of a Jest
when it was done in public.
Knitting Mufflers for the Navy.
Now comes a new demand for knit
ting There is an almost hysterical
wave of sympathy for the men of our
navy, who are said to be freezing in
northern waters because they haven't
sufficient mufflers to wear about their
necks. Altho the truth of this is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
FORGETS TO GO HOME
Mrs. LYDIA Clayton Tires of Waiting
Asks Divorce

Ever since. they were married, Feb
ruary 2, 1915. Lynn S. Clayton has
had the habit of leaving home for
indefinite periods. according to LYDIA.
his wife, and the last time he left
he forgot to return.
Because of his continued absence
Mrs. Clayton has decided that she
Doesn't need a husband at all and
has filed suit in the district court of
Shawnee county asking for q divorce
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04

New York, Sept. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
paper 5@A. Sterling 60 day bills. 4T2 !:
commercial 60 day bills banks. All y !:
commercial 60 day bills, 4.713; demand
4.75 9-16; cables, 76 ZIG Francs demand,
5.I114; cables. 5.76I5. Guilders. demand.
41h; cables. 40. Lires. demand. 1.G2: cables,
1.61. Rubles. demand. III cables. 111h.
Bar silver. 1855. Mexican dollars. ~. Gov
eminent bonds steady. Railroad bonds
weak. Time loans strong; GO days, 8; 90
days. D: six months, 5A.
Call money strong; high. 6: low. 6; rul-
ing rate, 6; closing bid, So offered at g.;
last loan, 6.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04

Wall St. New York, Sept 4.-STOCKS-
Renewal of professional pressure combined
with enforced liquidation effected extreme
declines of to 10 points in today's active
market Sales approximately 100000
shares
Prices melted away in the final hour
when selling at its height. The close
was weak Liberty bonds. 99.SS to 1894.
detailed New York stock list delayed in
east: will appear in tonights postscript
edition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04

JdpdHSSS anu HlllpPIuS GOttOl
prints.
somewhat disputed in important cir
cles, there is another outburst of knit
ting that is equal to the first.
The motors on Fifth avenue are fill
ed with smartly dressed women knit =
ting by the sunlight during the day
and by the electric lights in the car
at night.
There are women knitting in the
subway and trolley cars. They fill the
porches of the country clubs with the
chatter of their voices and the clatter
of their needles. If the navy is not
supplied with enough mufflers for its
work in northern waters, then the
only reason is that the navy does not
wear the mufflers which are being
sent.
There is no woman so poor or I'M
important, so lost to emotional svm-
pathy that she is not trying to DO her
bit today. If the war lasts for months
or for years, the whole outburst of
sympathy will be shaken nto stern
organiza ton. Every women, however,
tries to do her best, and her sympathy
helps her and widens and blesseSs ntr
life, even if her work is not of direct
help to any individual or group.
Knitting Bags for Occasions
Now, all that has gone before is
preamble on the relation between the
knitting needle and the heartbeats of
sympathy. The merchants have seen
in this excitement and this desire to
do something a fine chance to exploit
different knitting bags for different
occasions.
Four years ago women accumulat ed
sweaters. Some owned 40, and some
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
NEW FOOD DISCOVERY
Hudson Maxim Would Feed Army on
Chinese Soy Beans.

Lake Hopatcong, N. J., Sept. A.
Hudson Maxim, inventor of high ex-
piosives, declared today he made a
food discovery which he believes bids
far to revolutionize eating.
His discovery, he said, is the Chi
nese soy bean. Prepared in the man
ner which he had invented, this bean
is the most delicious and nourishing
food on Gods green earth" It is a
tasty food by itself, and mixed with
other edibleS it will make any dish
however unpalatable. taste exquisite
81 intend to offer my food invention
to the American army and navy
Maxim told the United Press today.
considering it's cheapness it will give
our fighting men the most inexpensive
and the most delicious and the most
nourishing ration of any of The armies
of the world"
Maxim said he had already men
toned the value to Herbert Hoover
food administrator
To demonstrate it, he invited George
Reno, head of the Cuban agricultural
department, and other food experts to
his estate here yesterday, and served
them a full dinner, consisting of soy
beans and other dishes garnished and
favored with the beans. Maxim DON
ned a white apron and did the cook
ing and serving himself
This beam" asserted Maxim. sis the
most valuable vegetable in the world
and it has been entirely overlooked. It
is only used in this country now for
feeding horses and making linseed oil
and other paint mixtures. If cooked
like ordinary beans, it's not edible. But
cooked as l cook it, this bean is the
fastest food you ever saw"
Maxim said he would continue con-
Quoting laboratory experiments with
the soy bean
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
Three Seriously Injured. Dozen 9th
ers Hurt in Sou. Pac. Accident

San Antonio, Sept. 4.-Three per-
sons were seriously injured and a doz-
en- others hurt when the Sunset linn
tied, westbound on the Southern Pa
cific lines was derailed about thirty
miles west of San Antonio today The
cause of the accident has not been
determined
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
DEATHS AND FUNERALS

MISS MAGGIE TODD, age ~, died Mon
Gay at her home at 1900 Reed street. The
funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon
from Stonestreet's chapel. Burial In To-
peka cemetery.
ANNA MARTIN. age 46, died Sunday at
a local hospital The funeral will be held
of Assumption. Burial in Mt Calvary ceme-
terry.
The funeral of Mrs. Nellie Monaghan will
be held at 30 o'clock Wednesday morn
ing from the Church of Assumption. Burial
in Mt. Calvary cemetery.
Lords Flowers Satisfy. Tel. SGT
Adv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
Visitors Play TOMORROW.

The days play was filled with
rounds by local men. The grounds,
according to Watson, in charge of the
tournament, will be cleaned tomorrow
for out of town guests, including a
large delegation from Lawrence,
Hutchinson. Wichita. and Salina. The
qualifying matches will be cleaned up
tomorrow, according to the players,
and the field will be set for the real
struggle.
The program for Thursday calls for
the first round of championship flight,
presidents flight and contests in the
directors flight. Thursday afternoon
the presidents, secretary's, directors
and Waterloo, and also the champion
ship and consolation flights will be
played. Thursday afternoon the sec
ond rounds of the three flights will
be played The first round of the con-
ISOLATION flight. made of defeated con-
testants in the championship race,
will be played.
Contestants defeated in the presi-
dents flight will open on the first
round of secretary's flight. Defeated
candid ties in the directors flight will
start on the first round of the Wa
terloo.
Semi-finaIs in the Waterloo. presi-
dents, secretary's and directors
flights will be staged Friday morning.
The third round of the championship
flight and the second of the consola-
morning.
The last stage of the minor matches
and the real race for the semi finals
of the championship race will be held
Friday afternoon. Then Saturday the
tournament will end. Finals in the
championship and in the consolation
flights will wind up the program.
Among the likely candidates for the
championship of this years tourna-
ment is T. B. Griffith of Wichita. In
1910 he won championship of the
state tournament held at Wichita for
the second time. The records of the
association skipped his name in plac-
ing for 1911, 1912. 1919 and 1914.
Then in 1915, Griffith stepped to the
front again on his home course.
Harlow Hurley a Topeka man. also
is in the fight for the title again.
Hurley broke into the golf light in
1914 when he placed in the tourna-
ment held at Wichita, with a medal
score of II. In 1915, he stepped to
the finals and enjoyed the distinction
of being runner-up in the meet. Then
in 1916. his success was climaxcd
when he won championship at the
state tournament at Emporia. Arthur
Bonebrake also is considered a favor
lite by many. He is said to be playing
in his best form now.
None of the favorites of the match
have shown their colors around the
course, with the exception of the dark
horse. They are waiting to close the
qualifying matches Wednesday after
noon.