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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-05
LAWYER is A SUICIDE
Prominent Iowan, Former Partner of
Senator Kenyon.

Fort Dodge. Ia, May 5.-Within "a
hours after reconciliation with his wife,
Maurice OConnor fired a bullet thru
his breast Friday afternoon and died
early today in st. Joseph's Mercy hos
pital here.
O'Connor was a former law partner
and was a brilliant lawyer until a
nervous breakdown two years ago
caused him to have decisions about
his wife. He brought divorce action
alleging his wife called him insane and
he also imagined attorneys We're in
conspiracy against him.
Reconciliation With aFmily.
Judge Saliner, of the Iowa supreme
court, after a hearing held O'Connor
sane but placed him under bond.
OConnor visited his wife and three
children Thursday night for the first
time in many months. There was a
reconciliation and O'Connor remained
over night with his family
About p. m. Friday, a shot was
heard in the Smell office building
where O'Connor had suite Doctors
found O'Conncr collapsed over his
desk, bleeding from a wound in his
left side. The bullet had lust missed
the heart and had punctured both
lungs. Before losing consciousness
O'Connor gasped:
1T is a painful thing for a shot that
missed - 'e
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-05

Second Presbyterian church returned
Friday from Kansas City where he
assisted in the Endowment campaign
being carried on for the College of
Emporia.
The manse committee of the Sec
ond Presbyterian church will hold a
meeting at the church Sunday at 3
p. m.
John M. Williams, a Washburn law
student, who has had training in the
navy aboard a warship, has made ap-
plication for admission into the FIT
Riley Officers Summer Training
camp
A. NJ. Petro, druggist."Adv.
Let me give you an estimate on your
next job of printing. Marvin Boyle,
phone 1878. Fifth and Jackson.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-05
OFFER AID TO STATE
Fire Underwriters Want to Help Hus-
band Food Supply.

A state wide campaign, with assist
ance of the National Fire Underwrit-
ers association of New York, will prob
ably be launched shortly by state Of
ficials to preserve the food supply by
elimination of the fire menace in food
repositories of Kansas.
Governor Capper today received a
letter from r. NJ. Bissell, president of
the fire underwriters association, Of
fering the services of the organiZa-
tons experts to keep fires in eleva-
tors, wholesale houses, and other
places where foodstuffs are kept in
large quantities, down to minimum.
Should the offer be accepted, the let
ter stated, a large corps of experts
would Immediately be sent to Kansas
to cooperate with state officials.
Immediately upon receipt of the
letter Governor Capper declared that
he would take the matter up with the
state insurance department and the
state fire marshars office. The offer,
it was said. would probably be ac-
cepted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-05
STAY With PLOWS
Farmers Will Be the Last To
Join Ranks.
That Is Information Given Out
by Kansas Officials.

Kansas farmers who work at it, will
be among the last to join the nations
fighting ranks in France, according to
a letter which ]. Q. Mohler, secretary
of the state board of agriculture. to-
day sent to r. o. Stewart of lden, Kan
plans as understood by officials in
Topeka. will permit use of an adequate
number of men on the farms
This week Stewart sent letter to
Secretary Mohler concerning the eff
feet of the CONSUMPTION bill. Stewart
is handling SIS acres of land and is
engaged in intensive farming. He
operates tractors and employs several
experts to handle the machines. If
his operators are called to the colors.
Stewart declares the production from
his farm must slump. Secretary
Mohler. however, believes that actual.
active farmers will not be taken from
the fields by the federal government.
In letter to Stewart, the secretary of
agriculture, said:
''All males between the ages that
will be specified in the selective con-
scription law must register. Then if
they are called and pass the physical
examination. the selective part of the
program will be put in operation
Wherever it is shown that a man who
Qualities for the army is needed on
the farm he will be excused from
military duty for farm work.
This is the information from the
office of the adjutant general of Kan
sas, and is authentic. 1t is not vet
known just what ages will be specified
in the selective CONSUMPTION law.
Under the operation of the law. as
outlined above, the farm labor supply
will not be depleted, a very wise pre-
caution, and in fact this plan NAV
result in the needs of farmers being
Iully met with respect to labor"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-05
SAVE SURPLUS FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-05
GUSTAVE STOLPE DEAD
He Had Been in Service of the Santa
Ee 30 Years

Gustave E. Stolpe. veteran Kansan,
born in Lesjofors, Sweden, died Friday
at his home, 204 Topeka avenue. Mr..
Stolpe was employed in the Santa Fe
drafting department. He came to Kan
sas directly from Sweden and settled
near Madison, Kan, in 1877, coming
to Topeka five years later and enter
ing the employ of the Santa Fe as a
pattern maker. During his 80 years
of service for the Santa Fe he at
tanned the position of chief locomotive
craftsman for the entire system.
He is survived by two sisters, in
Sweden a daughter, Mrs. Harry
Roehr of Topeka; his wife. Caroline.
and three sons, William, Fred and
Paul Stolpe. The funeral will be held
at the home at $3.50 Monday after
noon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-05
MISSOURI DEFEATS AMES
Tigers Win Dual Track Meet by Score
of so to Al

Columbia, Mo-, May 5.-The track
team of the University of Missouri de-
feated Ames Gowa State) here today
by a score of so to AT
Captain Robt. Simpson, the worlds
champion high hurdler. won % points
for the Tigers, winning the two hur-
die races, the 220 yard dash. and the
broad jump, and taking second in the
100 yard dash. He also ran in Mis-
souri, victorious half mile reIav team.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-05

The funeral of William Kemp will be
held Sunday morning at II O'Clock from
his home, miles north of Topeka. Burial
in Rochester cemetery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-05

Word was. received in Topeka today. of
the death of Mrs. Lou Montgomery, for
merly of Topeka. Mrs, Montgomery died
Thursday in Chicago as the result of an
operation. She is survived by two daugh-
tiers, both living in Topeka. Miss Jessie
Montgomery and Miss Maggie Montgomery
The body will be sent to Colorado Springs
for burial
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-05
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Marriage licenses were issued from
the office Of the probate judge today
to the following persons:
Herbert w. Cook LaJunta ......23
Eva L. Higgins, Topeka ...........21
Ceylo White. Topeka Observation-Disclosures ~
Myrtle Darner, Topeka .....-.---....2 20
Henry Bell. Topeka ................2
Corolla Conner, Topeka .-..-.......... ID
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-05
DEATHS AND FUNERALS

MRS ROSA f. PAXSON, age As. died
Friday at her home. at 1107 North Kansas
avenue. Funeral arrangements have not
been completed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-05

The funeral of Edith C. johnson will
be held at O'Clock Sunday afternoon
from the Swedish Bethel church. Burial in
Topeka cemetery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-05
NOTED JOCKEY DYING
Arthur Redfern. One of Best Riders
America Ever Produced.

New York. May arthur Redfern.
once called the best jockey who ever
rode on American tracks. is dying to-
day in Coney Island hospital from in
5uries received when he was pinned
under his automobile as it overturned
His wife, also thrown under the ma
chine, escaped with slight injuries.
Redfern has been running a garage
since he retired from the track in 1904
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-05

New York-Ninety members of the
West Point cadet choir will arrive here
tomorrow to sing in Columbia uni
versity chapel at the farewell to stu
dents and alumni who are leaving for
military training camps.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-05

Lords Flowers Satisfy Eel SIT
Adv.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-01-18

The w. G. T. U. will meet at
the home Of Mrs. c. C. Woods on
West Ohio street on Friday, Jan.
uary 10, at 3 o'clock p. m. Hoff-
man memorial day will be OBJ.
served.
7 NJ TAorp~ formerly of the
general delivery department of
the Kansas City postofficc, who
was transferred to route six out
Of the Butler office. has rented
the residence on Ohio street for
merly occupied by Glenn flag
gard.
The Times good friend Il. l.,
Mckown, of Millikcn, Colorado,
writes us tilat-hc is doing well in
that country and that it looks as
though crops would be good this
year as snow, which is Il requisite
for good crops in that country
was p plentiful this w'1T:
The Sunshine Band, the young
ladies class of the Ohio street NJ
E. Church, have been working
hard for the last week rchcarsing
a play, THAT Girl,' which they
will produce at the church Thurs
day night. Miss Francis Catron
is the coach, and that insurrs the
success Of the entertainment.
You read and enjoyed +. Phil
lips Oppcnhcim s excellent story,
Under Suspicion when it ran in
the Saturday Evening Post some
time ago. 1t has been dramatized
and YOU can SIC it at the Electric
Theatre next Monday afternoon
and night. 1t is Red Feather
which insurcs it being good
show. 1t is detective story, full!
of life and action from first to
last.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-01-18

Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Trimble
spent few days the first of the
week in Kansas City visiting rel
atives and taking in the sights.
Tom Cannon and Andy Doll,
two prominent farmers Of the
Maysburg ncighborhood were
county seat visitors Wednesday.
Mrs Elmer Fuller, Of Spokane,
Washington, will arrive in Butler
today for an extended visit with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. II.
Holloway and brother, II. II. Hol-
I loway and family.
Monday morning when the
folks in Butler and vicinity woke
up and looked ont Of the windows
they found that the ground was
covered by about three or four
inches of snow that had fallen
during the night. Since that time
the temperature has been hover
ing just above the zero mark and
the snow is staying with us.
Mound Branch is frozen over with
good smooth ice and the young
folks are having ii lot Of fun skat-
ing.
Judge and Mrs. A. b. Owen
returned Monday from Kansas
City where they had been visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. o. X. Davis. They
spent Sunday at the McCune
home for incorrigiblc boys as the
guest of the superintendent, j. NJ.
Taylor, who was at one time
principal of the Butler public
schools. OF course they took in
Hip Hip, Hooray,'' at Conven-
ton Hall and like others from
Butler that saw it pronounce it
the best ever
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-01-18

Wendell Atkeson left the last
of the week for Columbia, where
he. will attend school.
Mrs. Fanny PopaliskA of Buf-
falo, New York, is Il guest at the
home of her brother, A. G. More
land.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Coberly will
leave the last Of the week for
| Kansas City on a business and
pleasure trip.
Renew your subscription for
the Kansas City Post with Chris
Black, Agent. Terms: 45c per
month: 6 months $3.50; one year
$3.50.
j. A. Cobb returned Monday
from an extended trip through
New Mexico and Colorado. Mr..
Cobb reports times as being good
in the west.
Rev. Barley Meador, travelling
representative of Christian Evan
grlist, Of st. Louis, spent Sunday
and Monday in this city in the in
tcrcst of his paper.
4 large number of Butler folks
went up to Kansas City last week
to attend Hip, Hip Iooray, at
the Convention Hall, and they all
report that it is the greatest ever.
Chas. Hall, a skilled chauffeur.
from Kansas City, has been en-
rloycd by Harley Smith to run
the motor bus between the depot
and the Fraternal Inn. Mr..
Smith will devote all of his time
to the hotel.
Relatives in this city received
ii telegram Monday announcing
the serious illness of Mrs. George
Logan, at her home at Cairo.
Illinois. Mrs. NJ. c. Arnold. her
mother, and w. $. arnold, her
brother, left Monday night for
Cairo. Mrs. Logan will be rrmnm-
bcrrd by her Butler friends as
Miss Maggie Arnold.
Elmer Hawkins, colored, was
tried before a jury III Squire
Catron s court Monday charged
with stealing mule hide. About
two weeks ago a yearling mule
belonging to John WiX fell lii IA
well on the Lane place, southwest
of town and was drowned. Mr..
! Wix hauled the mule from the
we'll and the next day went out
to remove the hide, but found
that some one had beaten him to
it, and Hawkins was suspected
and arrested but succeeded IN
convincing the jury that he was
innocent, so they turned Inn
loose. Silvers & Silvers rrpreS
sented Hawkins and Prosecuting
Attorney Dawson the state.
From Mr.. Ernest Linn of The
firm of Peterson & Linn of near
Amsterdam we learn of the won-
derful record by a Holstein cow.
lcgis Fayne Johanna, owned
by Oliver -Cabana, Jr., Elma
Center, n. Y, is the first
cow in the world to make oO
pounds of butter in week. She
calved in December, 1916, at 3
years, 2 months, II days and gave
in I consecutive days 73O.s
pounds of milk containing fat to
make 5O.6S pounds SO per cent
butter. She was fed 30 pounds
grain. 40 pounds silage. lOO
pounds beets, - pounds beet pulp
and IL pounds alfalfa hay every
81 hours. 1t takes feed and
breeding to make butter and
milk.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-01-18

Roy Long left the last of the
week for eastern Oklahoma on a
business trip.
Mrs. Mary Atherton and daugh-
ter, Jessie, have returned from a
six weeks visit to Miami, Okla
24O acre farm for rent for cash.
Mrs. Dora Harshaw,
1927" Butler, Mo.
Coleman Wood left Saturday
for Casper, Wyoming, where he
has a good position with the
Standard Oil Company.
Mayor Heinlein, of the Bennett
| Wheeler Mercantile Company. is
attending tn" Implement Mems
Convention in Kansas City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orville Stansbur-
ry and son, David, of Okmulgee,
Oklahoma, arrived in this city
! last week on a visit to relatives.
+. ID. Young came in Saturday
night from La Plata, where he is
engaged in the clothing business,
TO spend a few days with home
folks.
will give $3.50 per bushel for
timothy seed, mixed with Red
Top or clover.
T.. f. Laughlin,
! l3-2to Foster, Mo.
Bruce Steele, Of Lamar, Colo
RADIO. was called to this city the
last of the week by the serious ILL.,
ness Of his father. Judge +. NJ.
I Steele.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Radford,
who have been visiting relatives
near Spruce, returned to their
home at Lovcland, Colorado, the
latter part of the week.
/ Mrs. Nucl Mills, who has been
spending the last week or two in
this city with her parents, MIR.
and Mrs. W. $. Arnold, returned
/ to her home in Kansas City Sun
day.
Dan Thomas, Of St. Louis, was
called to this city Tuesday morn
ing by the serious illness of his
mother. Mrs. Sarah Thomas. who
is suffering from an attack OF
pneumonia. On the account Of her
advanced age there is but little
hope fof her recovery.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. X. Davis and
daughter, Miss Irene, motored
down from independence Thurs
day. of last week and spent the
day visiting friends, returning
home Friday. Judge and Mrs. A.
H. Owen accompanied them home
for Il few days visit.
Sunday while attending Il meet
ing Of the Loyal Sons Bible class,
Fleetwood Thomas was stricken
with an attack of heart failure.
He was taken to his home on
South Main street, where DR.. Il.
f.. Crabtrcc soon pronounced HIM
out of immediate danger,
Mrs. Fred NovOtncy, who has
been visiting at the home Of her
parents Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
Englchardt, in the west part of
the county, was called to her
home near Pratt, Kansas, last
week by the news Of the serious
illness of her sistrr-in-law.
A. W. WcMott and Claude
Major, the entcrpriSing harness
men. went to Kansas City Tues
day to take in the big implement
and harness makers show at Con-
vention Hall. II there is anything
new in the harness line WcMott 4
Major want to know about it.
Il. W. Lowrry. of Lincoln. Me-
braska, was called to this city by
the serious illness of his aunt,
Mrs. :. NJ. Lowrcy, who is very
i'll with pneumonia at her home
in the north part of this city. Mr..
Lowrev was ut one time Il citizen
of this county being ii son Of .Io-
Scph b. Lowrcy, Of Foster.
DR.. VI. ! Hurley, who has been
doing work in Bates and Cass
counties for the Agricultural En-
tension of the Agricultural Col
| I l.,
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-01-18

DR.. VI. ! Hurley, who has been
doing work in Bates and Cass
counties for the Agricultural En-
tension of the Agricultural Col
lcge, was in the city Tuesday and
in talking over the hog cholera
situation said that he had been all
.over Bates county. and did not
find a single ease of cholera.
Radford and Thomas, the horse
buyers. will leave Thursday for
Toronto. Kansas. where they will
spend several days buying horses
on big war contract. Both men,
bers of this firm have been in the
horse business for many years
and they know good horse when
they see it and they pay the top
prices.
Clay Mauwk, an cnterprising
young farmer of Hudson town.
ship was in the city one day the
first of the week and dropped i'll
to The Times office and ordered
the paper sent to his father, JUL
JUS Mauck. The Maucks are
straight republicans and mighty
fine men. but they wanted all the
news. so of course they subscribed
for The Times.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-01-18

A. plan has long been under
way to build Il first -class road be
tween Butler and TT. Scott. by
way of Foster and Hume. There
are three routes each asking to he
chosen as the official route be-
tween Butler and Foster, the Mar
vel bridge route, the Island bridge
route and the Ilaymakcr bria1c
route. Last fall there was big
meeting at Foster and at that
meeting a committee was select
ed to pick out the route. So far
the committee have made no re-
port. Saturday Wiley Wood and
+. l.. Thomas were in town
boosting for the Haymaker bridge
route. Both these gentlemen are
huStlcrs and if their route is not
chosen it will not be for the lack
of hard work on their part. The
Haymakcr route was the old mail
route between Foster and Butler
previous to the building of the
Madison branch of the Missouri
Pacific railroad.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-01-22

Flour is ten dollars a barrel, or two and half a sack, in the east just as ii is in Nome. Eight sacks a per- son is more than a years supply so that the annual flour bill for one is not such a mighty burden This of couAe apples only to those who make their bread at home. IL is different story for those that buy of the bakers who all over the country are now charging six cents a loaf instead of five Yesterdays breau" which formerly sold two loaves for five cents is now three for ten cents and often four for fifteen. Although Britain now plans to get more flour from Australia and forbids the mill ing of pure white flour and the Cast ing aside of the darker and more nutritious portions, it is said that the price of flour in the United States will continue to advance untl the end of the war is in sight. But even at tfat our flour bill woud not be in. to'erable if it were not for the fact that nearly everything else has risen and wlll continue to rise in propor- tion.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-01-22

others without the loss of single American. His laconIc announce
 mtnt or his victory electrified the couatiy anu the worlu. Inun When ai! sor.s ot instructions began to pour n on nm rom Washington he ordered
 .n" caoIe GU. 50 as not 10 be ham, per.a III nIs coAduct oI the uihlcult situation which he knew would arlse.
 Dewey shsn controlled the waters of Nanlla bay but not the city, anu all the leaalng powers of the world at oace sent sprong fleets to Manila to protect their own interests. Strong Ikt o1 lu~se Was the German unuS. AamIral DeitdIlchs who apparently nau been instructed to take hand Ill allaIrs there with q view to get ting a foothold in the Philippines N hen Dewey announced to the for eIgr con malders hIs mention of de- sn CS .ng the shore batteries the Ger man admiral showed an inclination 70 interfere and Dewey was compell- ed to send him an ultimatum in an unofficial way but none the less nind- IL ( The German then changed his tactics somewhat but very plainly showed his intention of engaging the American 1tot while it was under fire from the shore. In this he was frustrated by the action of Captain i chichester oj the British navy who moved his formidable cruisers be- ! tween the Germans and American | slips so that the Germans would have bten unable to fire on Deweys ves- sels without hitting the British. What ever understanding. if any. existed between Dewey and Chichester haA nc, been stated. But the English rlan showed his good will toward Ike -inIeri ns by ordering his band to play Dewey's favorite march "Ua- der the Double Eagle" while the < merican shIps steamed slowly past 10 gC into action
 The whole conduct of the Britishers .re'lous and subsequent to the bat 'le of Manila bay was of the most friendly sort, and for the first time in the history of our country was 7 ankiy rt.!ul without a strong un- Gerlying sel: interest. For once boou Nhs tHlcker thal water and it should Geyer be forgotten.
 By his wonderful victory over the Spanlards Dewey took a place among :nn great II val commanders of his- tory.
 Having been made admiral of the navy for life. in 1899. Dewey was showered with honors of many kinds. He was mentioned as a candidate for the presidency on the democratic ticket for the campaign of 1900 but | be cause of a premature refusal and il.- advised acts and words, due to ] his ignorance of political matters. his l boom ..il DC, make the headway | wlnc!I was easily possible.
 The ldst xteen years of his lie h. devoted to constructive work for tho navy as president of the general ! card, and this work, he has been
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-01-22

Fresh Rsindeer from the lomsn hsrd. drsssed n a skiIIfui and sa"' tary mannsr.
 Sweet er,ar Butter <0e per poucd by the cosc.
 PACIFIC COLD STORAGE co
 fhcne White 17.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-01-22

It would look to an innocent by stander that the longer the invesitga . tion of the leak is defered the hard : CT it will be to get at the facts which may conccivably be covered. If the books of the brokers anu banks and the records of the stock excha 1ge ever did have discriminating entries they should have been kept under guard from the first announcement of an investigation.