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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02
II. G. L. HAS CUPID
ON THE RUN, K. c.
RECORDS REVEAL

Kansas City, Mo, March Cupid
is retreating before the advance of
the cost of necessities for the home.
judging from marriage license records
here.
You can't blame the little fellow"
said the marriage license clerk The
advance in cabbage, potatoes and
beans is too much for the young man
contemplating housekeeping Take
the figures recently issued by the
Restaurant Mems association and Just
note the advances. An advance in
cabbage during two years of S25 per
cent is enough to keep experienced
buyers figuring to make ends meet
Why, in February, 1915, according to
that list, cabbage was quoted at -
OF cent a pound and in February
1917, nine cents pound was the
price asked"
Examination of the list referred to
by the clerk revealed the following
advances:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02
r. B. and Elmer Miller Are Ar
rested by Police Today.
They Are Accused of Perpetrat-
ing a $4,000 Fraud.
TWO BANKS THEIR VICTIMS
Farmers National of Hutchin-
son Caused Arrest of the Men.
A Topeka Dealer May Lose as
Result of Operations.

Hutchinson, Kan, March 2.-R. B.
Miller. president, and his son, Elmer
Miller, secretary and treasurer of the
Miller & Stevenson Grain company
with offices at Hutchinson, Wichita
and Topeka, were arrested here this
morning on a forgery charge. The
two Millers are accused of forging
eleven bills of lading said to aggregate
$4,000. The Millers were released
when each produced a $4,000 bond.
The warrant was sworn to by Joseph
E. Smith, cashier of the Farmers Ma
tional bank at Hutchinson, of which
Former Congressman Medley is presi-
dent. This bank has lost approx
mately SCI, 900, according to state
ment made in Topeka this morning
by Edward Huckstep, local manager
of the Miller & Stevenson Grain COM
l any with offices on the second floor
of the New England building. The
Topeka offices will be closed.
A Wichita Bank Loses.
"A Wichita bank was out on a
limb temporarily said Huckstep.
but the amount of loss is small, only
$780, and that will be made good by
the Stevensons, who are men of high
solutely straight and my customers
at the Topeka office are satisfied.
Also, in a measure, l will be able to
take care of the Derby Grain COM
pany, which had drawn draft for
S1,O6245 against the Wichita offices.
The NJ w Cardwen Grain COM
pany which has drawn a draft against
the Topeka office has been saved.
merely held one bill of lading for a
time, on legal advice. have sew
eral hundred dollars in our bank ae-
count in Topeka and, it is possible, it
will be applied to the $1,062.45 draft
of the Derby Grain company drawn
against the Wichita office, unless the
Stevensons take care of the draft"
George and Henry Stevenson are
well known, wealthy Hutchinson peo-
pie, formerly of Topeka years ago.
Huckstep says they are innocent vic
Tins of the manipulations of the Mil
lers. John Starr of Pratt, is another
member of the firm, whom Huckstep
saws was innocent of transactions car
organization of the Miller & Steven
son Grain company a few months ago
MiIIers Mill Men.
Prior to the organization of the
Miller & Stephenson Grain company,
the Millers operated the Turon Mill
& Elevator company, which they had
bought. This company became in
volved and finally was taken over by
the Hutchinson bank, together with
two farms owned by the Millers, ac-
cording to Hucksteps statement
Even then the liabilities of the COM
pany overshadowed the assets by
SCI 900, according to Huckstep.
Then, it is claimed, the alleged
forgeries began to get in their WORK.
It is charged that the Millers floated
these forged bills of lading, secured
cash amounting to $35, 600 on the bills
of lading, placed the alleged forgeries
as part of the assets of the Miller &
Stevenson Grain company and ap-
piled the cash received to the account
of the Turon Mill & Elevator COM
pany.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02
IF IT'S WAR, HIT HARD
Saws RooseveIt-U. S. Can Figure
Germany Will Try Again.

Hartford. Conn. March Eff we
go to war with Germany we must
strike hard with the largest expedi-
tionary force that can be raised" de-
clare Colonel Roosevelt in an inter-
view published here today, endorsing
the Connecticut plan of taking a mill
tary census.
mo fight was ever won by parry
ing along" he continued. "A fight
must be won by hitting. 1t would be
ruinous to go to war a little. and not
much. 1t would be ruinous to pre-
pare a little. but only little
Commenting on the disclosure of the
attempt to align Japan and Mexico
against the United States, the colonel
said:
What Germany attempts to do
now, even should it fail it will try to
do some time in the future
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02
SUFFS AMALGAMATE
Congressional Union Unites With Ma.
tionaI Woman's Party.

Washington, March 2.-Amalganna-
ton of the Congressional Union for
women suffrage and the national
woman's party was planned at a joint
convention of those organizations
which opened today and will end Sun
day with suffrage demonstration be-
fore the White House gates
Leaders in the merger movement
stated the new body would bear the
name of the National Woman's party.
Plans were formulated for organized
activity of women in war times and for
an accelerated campaign ON behalf of
a federal suffrage amendment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02
SWELL CHICAGO CLUB PUTS z
BAN ON TIPPING employees

Chicago. March 1.-The South
shore Country club, one of the
largest social organizations of the
kind in the city. announced today
the abolition of tip giving. A small
vote taken during the last few
DAYS showed a preponderance
among members of about 20 to
against the giving of tips to en-
ployes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02
CARELESS BUTCHER DIDN'T
KEEP MEAT IN THE SAFE!

Chicago, March 2.@That Chica-
go robbers have given up the more
improbable lines was evidenced
last night when five men entered
a meat market on the north side.
held up the butcher, and took fiji
teen hams and two dressed lambs.
They made their escape in a large
automobile which the police be-
lieve was stolen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02
IT'S CLOUDY, ANYWAY
Temperature Exactly Normal Today
Unsettled Weather Here Tomorrow
Hourly temperature readings for the
day, reported by the local office of
the United States weather bureau:

The average temperature for to-
day IS degrees below normal The
wind was blowing from the northea st
with a velocity of II miles an hour
at o'clock this afternoon
This is the nearest to rainy weather
that Topeka has had for more than
a month but. Mr.. Flora states. it
doesn't mean rain until it begins to
spatter. The forecast this morning
reads unsettled weather tonight and
Saturday with 10 great change in
temperature"
The temperature at I O'Clock this
morning was rs, which is the exact
normal for this date. The mercury
will not go as high today IS was fore
cast Thursday but will reach around
35 degrees.
The states on all sides of Kansas
Continued on Page Two.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02
DRYS SCORE AGAIN
Congressional Conference Report on
p. o. Report Adopted by House.

Washington, March 2.-Legislation
barring shipments of liquor into pro-
hibition states, even for personal use
became virtually assured today as a
result of the adoption by the house last
night, of the conference report on the
postofflce appropriation bill contain
ing the Reed bone dry" amendment
The report now goes to the senate
where favorable action is looked for
before tomorrow night and then it
will go to President Wilson for his
approval.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02

Smith, Snyder. Sutton, Thompson,
Wilson'S
Against: Bergen, Terrell, Kimball,
Laing, Nixon, Price, Wark-7.
The bill was messaged over to the
house Immediately after its passa ge
in the senate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02

THIS is the time of the year when
all good women's thoughts turn TO
housccIean ming.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02

WEATHER FORECAST for Kansas:
Unsettled tonight and Saturday.
Not much change in temperature.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-05-10
HYPoTHEEK.

The bad condition of the road from
the Hypotheek mine to the Pine creek
spur forced the company to suspend
shipments until the road could be
placed in a passable condition. This
was accomplished last Friday and ore
began to move to the railroad on Sat
urday. Since that date two carloads
have been shipped. While shipments
were at a standstill the accumulation
of concentrates and high grade ore
amounted to over 800 tons, and this
is now being reduced as rapidly as
teams can be obtained to handle 1t.
Since taking charge of the property
superintendent Sam Linn has opened
UP ore above the 100 level in places
where ore was not known to exist be-
fore and thereby frightening the ore
shoot both east and west. 1t is be-
lieved probable that other discoveries
will be made which will make a SUBJ
stantial increase in the known ore re-
serve which is already large.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-05-10
GUELPH.

Only one shift is working at the
Guelph, but another will be put on just
as soon as it is possible to get sup
| plies up to the mine. There is much
snow yet and it will probably be sew
eral weeks before the road is open to
traffic. The shaft Is down $50 feet
Ianl the purpose is to extend it to a
depth of 800 feet before prosecuting
1t is possible, however. that the shaft
may cut the vein before that depth
lis reached. The Guelph group lies on
the north side of the Hercules and
adjoining that famous property. On the
west is the Ambergris, upon which a
shoot of high grade ore~has been open
ed not far from the Guelph line, and
it Is the same vein that is to be de-
veloped by the Guelph shaft, which Is
said to be about 500 feet from the AM
bergris shaft.
A meeting of the stockholders Of
the Guelph company was held at Kel-
lcgg last Monday evening when the
following directors We're elected b.
Coyle, of Walla Walla, president; T.. J.
Marlborough, Of Spokane; s. d. Lee
mieux of Black Bear; John Steffes
of Kellogg; j.. l. Joy and william
Boyle, of Walla Walla. A. B. Corby
was elected secretary of the company
and Mrs. John Steffes treasurer, both
of Kellogg.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-05-10
NO. IS.
THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1917.

| There is one other thing Of which
] would sound warning, the danger
from the first dying down of enthusi-
asm The United States has never
had war without it's bungling and
it's mistakes. DO not let us republic
cans join in the band of faint hearts,
who, when criticism comes withhold
their support The inevitable short
comings of democracy in preparing
for war will come. Then will be the
time for the stout hearts to stand by
our country and say; No matter what
mistakes have been made we are for
our government and our country Let
us do this when the faint hearted and
the scurrilous are crying down our
government. Let us stand by the
president as we stood by Lincoln when
the faint hearts We're saying: The war
is failure
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-05-10
SAVE DAYLIGHT LIKE THE
FARMER.
SAVE

mining and Scientific Press)
Daylight saving is a most desira BILE
economy. A plan that has met with
favor abroad, and that is threatened
in the United States by bill pend
ing in congress, is to play huge ma
tional joke, setting the clock ahea
and soaring the people out of bed at 5
ia m. under the belief that it is really
IS. The sentiment of the victims to-
ward the time piece convicted of tell
ing lie regarding the relation of the
sun to the local degree of longitude, is
likely to be expressed in explosive
language. Wherein the scheme viii
save more time than by merely blow
ing the whistle earlier on summer
mornings is difficult to see. In all
seriousness it would seem that the end
sought might be attained with less
disturbance of the settled order of
things by a general agreement to be-
gin work at an hour that would take
advantage of the earlier dawn. The
farmer has always done this without
Juggling with the clock. These
changes, moreover, would disarranse
the railroad schedule twice each year,
and in railroad operation the familiar
time table is the safer. The idea is
more amusing than important.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-05-10
FOURTH OF JULY THIS YEAR.
(Boise Statesman)

NBOlSe StateSman)
Already many eastern towns and
cities are announcing that they will
give up their usual Fourth of July
celebrations this year.
That's high patriotism. If the Am
erlcan eagle is to do any screaming
ON the fourth it should be along the
Hindenburg line-wherever that var
liable streak may be by that date
II any powder is to be shot or dyna-
mite exploded on the fourth of JULY
TINS year 1t should be along the Ger
man trenches.
Millions and millions of dollars are
usually spent every year on fourth of
July celebrations. This year the mon
ey should be put into war bonds or
into food fors the hungry millions
abroad
When we have again made our IL
berty secure by defeating Germany It
viii be time enough to celebrate the
fourth-and the American people
should awaken to the fact that until
Germany is defeated our liberty is in
danger.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-05-10

Senator Brady has arranged with
the department Of agriculture to send
out large number Of farmers bulle-
tin No. Els. entitled THE Small Vege-
table Garden" This publication is OF
special interest at this particular time
when the government is urging citi-
gems to utilize every foot of available
space for raising vegetables. 1t makes
suggestions for utilizing limited areas
and gives diagrams showing the most
profitable use to be made of small
plots in town and cities heretofore
unused. Senator Brady will be glad to
have this bulletin mailed to every cit.-
zen who Is sufficiently interested to
epply for 1t.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-05-10
OBLIGATION OF THE GOVERN.
MENT.
(New York SUM

New York SUM
War is a government function. The
people declare it. The people pay for
it. The sons of the people fight it.
But the government must conduct il.
! To fill our armies the state must
take from their daily employment
some millions of men. Many of these
have families The same govern
ment which assumes the burden Of
clothing, housing and feeding it's sold
iers in the field. must clothe, shelter
and sustain the wives and children
they leave behind.
Costly Undoubtedly. War is a
costly thing. But neither justice no.
humanity will uphold state which
would ask its citizens to risk the
perils of war and at the same time
endure the torturing thought of love1
ones left at home in restitution.
In our Spanish war; and again dur
ing the period of the detention of
our citizen soldiers on the border this
righteous obligation of the govern
ment was shifted to the shoulders CT
private citizens The employers of
the men called to the front were asked
to pay all or great part of their
wages to their families while the
wage earners We're away Most of
them to their high credit, did so. But
it was an unfair demand which the
state should have been ashamed to
make.
We should not repeat this blunder
this year, At the outset official notice
should be given that a subsistence al
lowance shall be made from the ma
tional treasury to the dependents Of
soldiers in the field. There should be
no opportunity for the public to de-
mand pledges from employers. Only
gross injustice can come of voluntary
assumption of this burden, just as
gross injustice proceeds from volun-
AIRY military service in place Of uni-s
'ersal liability and CONSUMPTION. Tie
generous employer who continues to
,ay wages to his workmen with tic
'olors will have to pay the same taxes
IS his niggardly neighbor who refuses
uch a contribution.
The whole matter should be covered Il
" taxation. The sustenance of the
older and the support Of his family /.
hould alike be met from the public
urse. 4
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-05-10
THE PARTY OF LOYALTY.
eDuluth News Tribune)

NDulutn News ITlDune)
President Wilson has reason to give
| thanks for the republican party. His
own party deserts him; the republi
cans stand by him.
OF the military committee of the
house eight democrats and but four
republicans voted against his meas
ure for conscription and for the VOL
unteer service, while five republicans
and but three democrats voted with
him for universal service.
In the senate committee five demo-
Gratis and five republicans supported
the presidents measure, while four
democrats and but two republicans
opposed him.
In the house a peculiar situation
las resulted Congressman Kahn Of
California, the ranking republican
member of the military committee,
win represent the president and be
floor leader for the CONSUMPTION bill
he insists upon.
On this crucial measure of Mr. Will
sons program, it is the republicans
upon whom he must depend for sup
port.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-05-10
BULLION.

Last Thursday James II. TAYLOR.
manager of the Bullion Mining com
pany went to the mine. He was ac-
companied by J. c. Semple, mining
engineer who made surveys to deter
mine the location of the face of the
crosscut with reference to the vein.
Some months ago the crosscut encoun-
tered fault which was believed to be
the vein and which the men proceeded
to follow. They had gone so far be-
fore the error was discovered that It
was decided to continue, as the fault
would finally cut the vein, The only
difference being that 1t would be ne
cessary to run further than 1t would
have been IL the straight course had
been kept. Mr. Semple returned from
the property Monday. He found that
1t would probably be necessary to run
go feet to reach the vein, although this
distance might be varied to "A great
extent at that depth by change in
the dip Of the vein.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-05-10
ROOT WILL CARRY HOPE AND
HELP TO THE RUSSIANS.

The selection of Elihu Root to head
the commission to visit Russia for the
purpose of assisting the new republic
in solving the many problems that
confront II and to bring about close
cooperation in prosecuting the war
against the common enemy brings in
to the active service of the govern
ment the greatest statesman and dip
lomat of the period. He will go to
Russia with message of cooperation,
hope and helpfuness. The appoint
ment of Mr. Root it is hoped will
mark the beginning of a policy on the
part of the president of calling into
the service of the nation the best abil.
ity. instead of limiting these appoint
ments to the party in power in order
to monopolize all the honor and cred
IT, Mr.. Root knows no party when
the welfare of the country Is at stake.
His attitude in this respect was finely
expressed in a recent address before
the league of republican clubs in New
York. He is patriot first and poii-
tician afterwards, as is indicated by
the following extract from his speech:
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-05-10
THE NEW "a. w. W."
Chicago Herald)

There is need for a new Il. W. W.
movement all over the United States
il should be Joined by every one OF
the hundred millions of Americans in
the United States. II should spring
from their individual initiative.
Every home should be local lodge
of great Il Won't Waste" movement
with the wife as presiding officer and
chief executive and the rest of the
family occupying positions of honor
and Importance suited to their special
tastes and willingly cooperating.
No form of government is neces-
sary. No particular pledge to any
body is required. All that the situa-
ton calls for us for patriotic Ameri-
cans who want to serve their country
to realize how greatly they can do II
by cutting down waste Of every kind
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-05-10
THE ALASKA INVESTMENT.
(New York Evening Post)

New York Evening Post)
Commenting on the semi centennial
of Alaska under the American flag
Secretary Lane estimates that the
land for which we paid $7,2O0,O00 in
1857 has brought more than $750000,-
900 into the channels of American
trade. This item shines out like n
candle in the gloom of national thrift
lessness, to which our attention is so
regularly directed. After the $780,
000,0O0 which we throw away annual
ly by our prejudice in favor of cows
butter as against peanut butter; after
the $250,0O0,0 900 which we lose annu-
ally in productive human lives by re-
fusing to keep trespassers off the rail-
road rights of way; after the $685.
0O0,00O which we could have but do
not, by introducing business methods
into the federal government; after
the half-billion dollars annually
thrown away in the form of food val
ues in skinned milk; after the vast
sums the farmers squander in their
prejudice against decent roads; after
ever so many other uneconomic fac
tors which make it puzzle how this
nation has managed to keep out of the
poor-house, it is comfort to think
of at least one investment that shows
forethought and thrift. Perhaps it is
the enormous profit we have realized
on Alaska that has served to keen
this country going.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-05-10
EDISON MAY RENDER BOATS
USELESS.

The submarine is an American in
vention. as are almost all the modern
devices for fighting in the air, on
land, on water and under water. Hav-
ing given the world all these instru-
ments of destruction, it Is now up to
America to devise an effective method
of defending herself and her allies
against them. This has particular
reference OF the submarine, for 1t is
plain that launching a new ship for
every one that is destroyed by the u
boats may not prevent England from
being starved The ship that is sunk
carries with it cargo of food or 9TH
er supplies, and the new ship may
never reach the English coast. The
real solution OF the submarine prob
lem is yet to be worked out, and the
man who makes the discovery will be
the greatest hero of the war.
We are told that Edison is working
eighteen or twenty and sometimes
twenty-four hours day on a device
in which electricity plays the most
important part and which will afford
complete protection from submarines.
1t is intimated that ship provided
with this apparatus will be enabled to
explode a torpedo before 1t can be
struck by it, but no details have been
given out. When it became known
that Edison had enlisted" there was
a feeling throughout the country that
the great inventor would find a way
to combat the submarines, so ,fniver-
sal is the confidence in his ability to
do things beyond the ken of ordinary
mortals. 1t now seems that they are
not to be disappointed, and that Am
erica is to have the honor of finding
the means to destroy the instrument
of death we created .