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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-13
TO GRAND JURY
Evidence Ready Against Two
n. Y. Draft Judges.
Net Also About Alleged "Ex-
emption Agent" for Board.

New York. Aug. 13.-Evidence was
ready for presentation to the federal
grand jury today in the case of Louis
/. Cherry and DIR. Samuel ]. Bernfeld.
two of the three members of exernp-
ton board SO, who were summarily
removed from office by order of Pres
ident Wilson. The grand jury, it was
said. also would hear evidence against
Kalman Gruber the alleged "exemp-
ton blank distributing agent" for the
board.
Reports of wholesale frauds to
evade the CONSUMPTION act in New
York City We're denied today by As
sistant United States District Attorney
Knox. Mr.. Knox admitted, however.
that other boards in the city were be-
ing investigated but declared II was
not fair to the majority of the boards
to credit reports of wholesale frauds.
The revised figures of the work Of
the 189 exemption boards as far az
the various districts had reported up
to today show that 60.152 men had
been examined, of whom 40.s67 quail
flied. OF the total 13,47S, or about
% per cent. apparently had been ac-
cepted.
The district draft board, Of which
Charles E. Hughes is chairman, today
began hearing exemption claims ap-
pealed from local boards. This board
will have about $4,000 cases to decide.
Fix Judges Bail at $1,000.
New York. Aug. 13-The two menu
bers of exemption board 80. Louis I.
Cherry and DIR. Samuel j Bernfeld,
who have been in the tombs prison
since their removal from office and
arrest charged with conspiring for pay
to exempt men eligible fer draft were
arraigned today before United States
Commissioner Hitchcock ard neld in
$4,000 bail for action by the grand
jury.
Kalman Gruher accused as an "ex-
emption blank distributing agent I"
was arrsigned at the same time and
held in 81. bail. All three waived
examination. A new boaro has been
named in their stead.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-13
CONTINUED Oh Page TwoI
CLOSE K. c. BARS
Govt Order Due to Troop Camp
at Convention Hall.
Hits Big Downtown Hotels
Shuts Half Saloons i'm City.

Kansas City. Aug. 13.-rJ hited States
deputy marshals today wore "advis-
ing between 200 and 500 saloon
keepers principally in the heart OF
the business district to cease the sale
of intoxicating liquor in line with
President wilson's recen. proclama-
ton ordering saloons cl -sed within
half mile of military camps
Continuance of sale afrer the warn
ing today will result in tn immediate
filing of complaints agains. the saloon
keepers, Francis NJ. Wilson. United
States district attorney, announced.
Practically all of the larger hotels were
affected by the ruling, as units of the
Missouri Buard were quartz red at Con-
vention hall in the uptown district.
Other units of the guard stationed in
other parts of the city. caused Mr..
Wilson to estimate that about half
the bars In Kansas CITY. would be
forced to suspend the sale of liquor.
Dry First Time i'm History
Saloon after saloon was closed by
the proprietors imm ediately after re-
ceipt of the warning. Federal offic-
ials expected that the outcome would
make the uptown district of Kansas
City dry" for the first time in its
history. Possibility that injunctions
would be asked restraining action
against the saloonkeepers was admit
ted but federal officials expected the
order would stand and that the Sa-
looms would remain closed or their
activities confined to the sale of soft
drinks"
The troops quartered here were call
ed into the federal service August 5.
and were awaiting call for mobiliza-
ton at Nevada, Mo. the state mill
tary reservation. The order for en-
trainment to Nevada has been held
up, according to word from that city
| because of a shortage of tents and
mess equipment These have been
ordered and the troops may be moved
out of the city within a few days and
the saloons permitted to reopen.
Close A Saloons i'm f. ST. Louis
East St Louis, ILL.,, Aug. 13.-Forty-
| four saloons here today discontinued
/ the sale of everything except tobacco
and soft drinks because they are WI: H.
in half mile of military camp.
| United States Attorney Karch told the
| saloonkeepers there was no objection
to their remaining open so long as
| they sold no intoxicants- Mr.. Karch
said any person who bought a drink
/ of intoXicants within the prescribed
| district and fails to report it would
! be subject to arrest
! In reply to the intimation of CITY
! officials that the salOonkeepers within
| the prescribed district are willing to
1 pay the expenses of moving the mil
| itary camps so the saloons may con
! tinue to sell intoXicants, Mr. Karch
| said it was the purpose of the .aw
/ to keep saloons away from the camps
and not military camps away from
saloons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-13
3 KANSANS LISTED
Get Officers Commissions at Leon
Springs. Tex, Training Camp.

Washington. Aug. 13.-Among the
commissions awarded students at the
Leon Springs, Texas, officers reserve
training camp. announced by the ad-
jutant general today, were three for
Kansas men:
Second lieutenants infantry, o. r.
c.. Jerald d. Eakin. Bonner Springs,
Kan; James f. Strair, Atchison,
Kan: captain cavalry, William H.
Manning. Victoria. Kan.
Kansans at Fort Smelling.
Washington. Aug. 13.-Commissions
awarded to the students at the Fort
Smelling. Mimi, training camp an
nounced by the adjutant general today
include the following from Kansas:
Fred NJ Hall, Goats, second lieuten-
ant; Joseph Leo McMinimy, Kansas
National Guard, second lieutenant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-13
NEGRO HAS RIOT ALIBI
DIR. Bundy Denies He Led Blacks;
Says He Wasn't in f. st. Louis.

Cleveland, Aug. 13.-An echo of the
East st. Louis race riot last month
was heard today when police arrested
DR. ReLoy N. Bundy, a negro dentist
of that city on a fugitive from justice
charge.
sent thru the country requested that
Bunday be apprehended in connection
with the murder of two mel. during
the race riots. Bundy has an office
in the East st. Louis negro district,
where he practices dentistry.
Bundy denied to police thai he was
implicated in any violence during the
riots
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-13
TAFT BETTER; SITS UP
Several Days, However, Before Ex-
President Will Be Able to Walk.

Clay Center, Kan. Aug. 13.-Con-
tinued improvement was shown today
in the condition of former President
William Howard Taft, who was taken
i'll here with intestinal Indigestion a
week ago tonight.
Mr.. Taft now has commenced to
eat regularly, altho in small quaint
ties after several days of enforced
fasting and today he sat up in his
bed for the first time since the at
tack. Doctor B. F. Morgan physician
in attendance, said, however, it prob
ably would be two or three days be-
fore the former president would be
able to walk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-13
IL MILLION MILE CUT
Railroads of Central States Use Knife
on Train Schedules.

Chicago, Aug. 13.-Further extern
sive reductions in passenger train
service are to take effect soon in the
central territory. When completed,
reductions for this year will amount
to twelve million passenger miles, ac-
cording to R. H. Aston. chairman of
the central committee of the railroad
war board.
States in the central territory in
clude Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Ken
lucky, Michigan. Minnesota, Missouri,
Nebraska. North and South Dakota,
Ohio, West Virginia, Wisconsin and
Illinois. Reductions will be made by
lengthening trans-continental sched-
11laS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-13
HUMAN ARM BY MAIL
Son of Woman to Whom 1t Was Sent
Can't Be Located.

Lexington, y. c.. Aug. 13-To
whom the human arm, delivered here
by express to Mrs. Walter E. Conrad
yesterday. under the label of cab
bage" belongs, and whether that per-
son is alive or dead, remained I'M
solved today as kilograms to Mahon-
ington, Pa, failed to locate Raymond
Conrad, son.
Fear that Conrad. an employe of the
Pennsylvania railroad, fas met with
foul play is held by the police. The
cabbage" was marked from Mercer.
Pa -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-13
KANSAS PROTEST WINS
c. c. Sustains Excessive Freight
Charge Made by SaIina Mill.

Washington, Aug 13.-Upon COM
plant of the Western Star Milling
company, of Salina, Kan, the interstate
commerce commission today found
that combination rates on shipments
of wheat from Beloit. Asherville and
Simpson. Kan, to Kansas City, Mo-.
are unreasonable in that they exceed
the thru rates contemporaneously in
effect from said points of origin to
Kansas City, plus l cent per loo
pounds for out of line haul.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-13
HOLDUP IN BIG CROWD
Three Chicago Bandits Make $500
Haul in Masonic Temple lobby.

Chicago, Aug. 13.-Ivors and Eu-
gene Wilder of the South Haven
Steamship company. today were won
dering at the calm deliberation of
three robbers who yesterday relieved
them of $500 they were about to de-
post in a vault in the Masonic tenn
Pile The robbery occurred 25 feet
inside the lobby of the building and
many persons were spectators. The
bag with the money was snatched
away by two of the men with drawn
revolvers. Then they were lost in the
traffic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-13
KILL NOTORIOUS MEX.
Rebel Leader Jose Salazar Meets
Death at Hands of Home Guards.

Juarez, Mexico. Aug. 13.-Jose Ynez
Salazar, revolutionary leader and
former chief of staff to Francisco
Villa. was shot and killed at the
NogaIes ranch, a short distance from
Ascension, Thursday
Americans arriving here today from
Casas Grandes brought the details of
Salazar's death at the hands of small
band of home guards who were organ
lied to protect the Casas Gran6es-
Ascension district
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-13
GIRLS, SOLDIER CHASERS
Conduct Near Camps Causes 500 In
crease in Juvenile Delinquency

Chicago. Aug. 13.-JuveniIe delin-
quency has Increased more than fifty
per cent in Chicago says a report of
the Juvenile protective association.
The war is blamed. Conduct of girls
near military camps occasioned many
OF the complaints.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-13
Anaconda smeIters to strike.

Butte. Mont, Aug. 13--Twenty-fo four
hundred Anaconda smeIter men will
vote to strike today. This was indi-
Gated b. early returns. The first sew
eral hundred ballots cast showed a
large majority in favor of a walkout
A full vote of the 2,40O men is ex-
pected- A two-thirds majority is
necessary before a strike can be
called.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-13
n C0LORS SEPT. 5
National Army to CantOnments
in Three Inerements.
so Per Cent Each on Sept. j,
10 and 30, Final Order.

Washington, Aug. 13.-The national
army will move to environments in
three increments of 80 per cent each
September 5. September Is and
September 30-the provost marshal
generals office announced today.
The dates specified for each move
ment of troops are for entertainment at
home stations The last 10 per cent
of the drafted men will follow as soon
after September so as possible
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-13
FIGHTS A SUBMARINE
American Vessel Escapes After Half
Hour BattIe-Neither Scores Hit

New York, Aug. ia half hour
engagement between a German sub
marine and an American steamship,
off the coast of Ireland, July 81, was
reported here today. The ships ex-
changed shots, neither scoring a hit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-13

The temperature today averaged 9
degrees below normal. Th4 wind was
blowing l 5 miles an hour from the
northeast at 2 o'clock this afternoon
still more sh Dwers are ahead for
Topeka, according to the weather pre-
diction made this morning. Thunder
showers will probable arrive in To-
peka early tonight or possibly this aft
ernoon. But Tuesday promises fair
weather with a return to sunny sum-
mer atmosphere.
The showers scheduled for Topeka
are coming from the southeast in the
Panhandle district of Texas and Okla
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-13
s17.4o New Record at Chicago

Chicago, Aug. 13--GooG to choice
hogs touched a new high level of
s17.40 a hundred pounds herr today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-13
Predict SIS Hog Near.

Kansas City. Mo-, Aug. 1:.-Eigh-
teen dollar hogs before the sirst of the
month was predicted by commission
men today. when hogs jumped twenty
to thirty cents. Top prices mere today
were S17S5
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-13
HOGS CLIMB TO $3.50
Porlzers Set New World Record Again
Today.

East St. Louis. ILL.,, Aug. 13.-Good
to heavy hogs sold at s17.5C mere this
morning-the highest pr.c>- ever paid
at the stock Yards
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-13
SHOWERS ON WAY
Prediction Calls for Rain Tonight
Fair and Warmer Tomorrow.

Hourly temperature readings for
the day, reported by the ocal office
of the United States weather bureau:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-13

THE new Fort Riley student officers
should teach discipline to ma
Jority of OF civilians.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-13

Showers tonight. Fair and warm
err Tuesday
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-13

Mr. Gerard's comments on this
alleged telegram of the emperor at
tempt to prove that no greater mis-
fortune could have happened to the
world including the new world, than
England's non-participation in the
war. It is futile to argue against
such stupidity. The very imperial
document which Mr. Gerard publishes
proves conclusively what influence
worked with might and main in July,
1914. to prevent war"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1917-03-23

or the following in the Socialist paper
at Berlin, Vorwaerts, written by Phil
lip Scheidemann, Socialist leader in
the reichstag, would not have been
permitted to appear:
at does not require many words to
explain why almost the whole world
is arrayed against us. The answer
is given quickly. The whole world
sees among our enemies more or less
developed forms of democracy, and in
us it sees only Prussians.
I'VE have always answered by re-
ferring to the absolutism of Russia,
but now czarism has gone and the
emperors successor is to accept the
throne only if the representatives OF
the people agree. These representa-
tives are to be elected on the basis OF
universal, equal, direct and secret suf
frage.
I'm Asia the empire of the man
darins opposed every reform. They
desired an emperor with absolute
power, as long as he did their will
and thereby undermined the mon
archy and laid the foundation of a
republic. In the European central
empires similar spirits seek to build
similar Chinese walls and hinder
every reform. The clock shows five
minutes to ~. They imagine they
hold up the time when they move
back the hands to H."
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1917-03-23
The Russian Revolution.

No matter what changes may be
brought about through the European
war, the successful and peaceable
revolution in Russia will stand out
as of the greatest interest to human
ty, and almost gives credence to the
theory of Won Bernhard, that war
is essential in the march of human
progress. Certain it is that without
the present war the downfall of a
feudal aristocracy in Russia would
have been long postponed, and that
great nation, covering nearly two and
one-half times as much of the earth's
surface as the United States and with
100000 more inhabitants, would
have continued indefinitely in dark
ness and bondage.
Russia looms large not only in area
but in natural resources as we'll, yet
with all it's room for the individual
expansion and general development
modern progress was slower than in
duN OlllCI Win eiiO POooADAS
exception of China. For half a Gen.
tury a few idealists have sown the
seeds of this revolt, and their bones
line the road from Petrograd to Sib-
eria, yet the seeds sprouted and grew.
The world, Europe especially, has
been amazed at the unanimity with
which the revolution progressed. This
unanimity shows that the spirit of
democracy is coming to Europe, for
which the war is the prevailing
cause. 1t shows that the people, the
men on the firing lines, have been
thinking for themselves, and in those
thoughts have come to understand
wherein lay their salvation from such
suffering as they were enduring at
the behest of dynastic ambitions.
This quick and almost bloodless
winning of Russian freedom is prob
ably due in large part to the fact that
the people were the armies, and that
every man, physically fit, in Russia
was a trained soldier. When a ma.
ton is armed and trained to use the
arms it may have any kind of govern
ment it desires.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1917-03-23
Debt Limit Remains the Same.

The constitutional debt limit Of
cities and other municipal corpora
tions would have been practically
doubled under a decision of the state
supreme court February q, but the
legislature promptly enacted law
that provides debt-making power shall
be based on the valuation as fixed for
taxation. The supreme court held that
the actual, not the assessed value,
should be the basis for determining
debt limit. This decision runs counter
to the rule and understanding that had
prevailed in this state.
In fear that doubling the debt limit
would reduce the market for securities
because of laws in certain eastern
states prescribing the conditions on
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1917-03-23
Bank Guarantee Spells Stability.

The bank guaranty law passed by
the recent legislature is framed in
accordance with the experience Of other
states, and is piece of legislation
that will promote good business by
making certificate of deposit as good
as a government bond.
The guaranty of deposits absolutely
kills the power of rumor to wreck a
bank. 1T guarantees dollar for dollar.
Coupled with state examination it
frees the bank book of the last trace
of chance.
Depositors and bankers both will
profit by the new law. Depositors are
given state assurance of safety. Bank.
ers are given a new foundation upon
which to erect their institutions. It
is form Of cooperative protection
that gives the state a new tone of bust
ness stability.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1917-03-23
The BilIingsley Case.

So far as the evidence for the pros
ecuton in the bribery case of the
Billingsley brothers against Mayor
Gill of Seattle goes, it looks like the
confessed bootleggers had put one
over on the federal prosecution Off
GERS. A careful reading of the evil
dence shows no confederation of the
testimony of the convicted criminals,
while the story of the bribery, as
told by Logan Billingsley has fishy
flavor.
According to Billingsley, he and the
mayor had never met prior to the
bribery, and on that occasion they
were but Is or 20 minutes together.
In that time, he testifies, without any
discussion as to the sum to be paid
he handed the mayor roll Of bills,
which the latter at once pocketed
without counting or examining. We
have heard a great deal Of criticism
of Mayor Gill, but never heard him
accused of being fool, of which this
story if true would certainly convict
him.
Dealing with a we'll known crook
whom he had been fighting hard for
months, even if Gill was willing to
accept $4,000 as bride, he surely
would have sense enough to examine
and count the money. There might
have been one bill wrapping scraps of
newspaper. Why, the veriest boob
would not fall for deal like that.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1917-03-23
ABERDEEN, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY MARCH %, 1917

which investments may be made the
legislature decided to restore the old
rule of using valuation for taxation as
the basis for creating debts.
The state constitution says nor in
cases requiring such assent (three-
fifths vote of the people, shall the
total Indebtedness at any time exceed
5 per centum on the value of the tax
able property therein, to be ascertain
ed by the last assessment for state
and county purposes"
The legislature assumed, and we be-
lieve rightly, that it had the power to
fix limit less than that prescribed
by the constitution, inasmuch as the
constitution decides merely that the
debt shall not be above per cent
Tacoma Ledger.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1917-03-23
The Adamson Law Upheld

Although the Adamson railroad law
was sneered at as campaign meas
ure that meant nothing last fall, it
has been decided by the supreme
court to be constitutional and is now
the law of the land. Now that it is
such, will it suit either side of the
railroad controversy? The railway
managers do not like it, as was evil
denced by their appeal to the courts.
Nor will the brotherhoods welcome it
if it is as far reaching as the text
of the decision seems to imply.
The railways estimate it will add
$60,0OO,O00 to their pay rolls, which,
of course, will be passed on to the
public in the way of advanced rates
If it be possible, but the brotherhoods
appear to have secured more law than
they desired if it means compulsory
arbitration. And that is what the
court seems to have meant, when it
declared both carriers and employees
engaged in business charged with
public interest subject to the rights
Of congress to arbitrate compulsorily
a dispute affecting the operating of
that business"
Whatever would be the right of
an employee engaged in private bust
ness to demand such wages as he de-
sires to leave the employment If he
does not get them, and by concert of
action to agree with others to leave
on the same conditions" said the
opinion, "such rights are necessarily
subject to limitation when employ
ment is accepted in business charg-
ed with public interest and as to
which, the power to regulate COM
merce by congress applied and the
resulting right to fix, in case of dis
agreement, any dispute, a standard
OF wages as we have seen necessarily
obtained"
The court in effect, says that where
the interests and welfare of 100000
people are to be affected injuriously
by the action of less than a million,
would be a ham-strung government
that was powerless to interfere. The
Adamson law seems destined to mark
an epoch in the settlement of labor
disputes.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1917-03-23
Farm Loan Rate.

The Federal Farm Loan board has
fixed the interest rate on farm loans
in the state of Washington at five per
cent, thus giving farmers the cheapest
money ever secured on the Pacific
Coast. The present average rates on
farm loans in this state is 10 per cent,
and eight-tenths of one per cent for
commissions, making the total Of 81
per cent. The new system should
stimulate a. ieNlture throughout the
state, and result in The early use OF
our logged-off lands.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1917-03-23
Worms Make Children Fretful

Children suffering from worms are
dull and irritable, puny and weak, Of
ten grind their teeth and cry out in
sleep, being constant source Of
worry to their parents. Kickapoo
Worm Killer is mild laxative remedy
in candy tablet form that children like
to take. Promptly effective, it kills
and removes the worm from the sys-
TEN. Irregular appetite and bowel
movement, lack of interest in play are
sure signs of worms. Relieve your
child of this burden. At all drug
gists, Csc. (2)