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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30

The heavy run Of new hOnors
from the kaiser must cause Won
Ihndenburg to wonder whether
the double cross will be next.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30

Irish independence is fine
idea and we favor it. but let us
wait until we know whether the
United States i to remain indie
pendent.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30

Now that Hoover and Charlie
Mullemar have told us how to do
it, Ignorance will not be regarded
as an excuse.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30

More than 10000 loyal Ameri-
cans have proved their patriotism
by getting on Uncle Sans payroll
since the war started.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30

Can a woman knit and listen
to a sermon? We don't know.
but we think the war may go on
a little longer before trying it
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30

Daily war hint: pom arising,
rehearse Father HooNer'> food
card and highly resolve that YOU
will obey it.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30

The Chicago Board of Trade
has stopped trading III November
and December corn. but the War
goes on and the government at
Washington still lives. We re-
member when some people said
that Montana would go to heck f
licensed gambling MAS abolished.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30
COULDN'T De RIGHT.

Casey is me partickler frind, Ord
have We know" 49,
"G'wan! If he was partickler he
wouldn't be yer frind."
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30

The game Of finding the but
ton is easy compared with the
difficulty La Toilette Will have III
finding a senatorial candidate
willing to carry his endorsement.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30

The great number Of German
spies in This country leads rs to
believe that there i a shortage
in brick walls.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30

We are looking for the wise
fellow who saw signs of short
winter.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30

Until the next Liberty bond is
sue, keep your bank roll where
YOU can reach it.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30

A man may hurl thunderb0lt argu-
ments at his wife. but she can usually
think of something to say when he IL
through.-Atlanta Constitution.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30

Until the end Of the war let
us make. every Sunday a day Of
prayer for the nation.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30

Missoula might work toward
drinkless day by trying a
drunkenness day.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30

One report has it that the kaiser
will rush to the front to cheer the
soldiers" If he waits a little he will
not have to rush SO far.-Albany Jour-
nal
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30

This is grand time to settle
the old question of whether we
eat more than we need.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30
TUESDAY, ocroseR 20, 1917.

No peace is better than peace
at the kaiser's price.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30

That back to- the~ farm longing al
ways seems more intense after the
crops have been harvested.--AtlantQ
Georgian.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30
THE WRONG LINE.

He-Each hour l spend with you is
like pearl to me.
Shc-Aw. quit stringing me.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30
HE WENT IN, ALL RIGHT.

Bill would have liked Jonah.
Hll-What makes you think so?
on, he Was no piker. He went IL
'or big fish
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30

= :. WHY is Jones SO. anxious about the
pursuit of his health" ..r
Il suppose he has found it is run
down"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30
SPREADING II,

Countryside think of our forest
preserves.
City-How about our subway Jam?
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30
THE MORNING SMILE.
A lingo.

A lingo.
"Father." said the small boy, what
is a jingo'"
"A lingo, my son, is a man who
shoots off his mouth. but never learns
to fire a gun - -
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30
Causation,

Law Profassor-State briefly two
grounds for divorce.
Student-.Iitney income and limou-
sine Wife.-Judge. -.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30

ideas change With the set
SONS" says the Butte Miner. We
are Interested and viii watch the
effect of the cold wave uu The |.
". w. residents of Butte. W.
will be rceoncil"d 10 4 hard viii
ter if il will make into worthy
men these serpenI- nf treason.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30

If you love your country YOU
will learn to love corn bread.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30
Distributes Them.

she seems TO take great pains with
her piano playing" %
Yes, and gives more than she
takes"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30

We are glad 10 W"Icom" Sent
tor Walsh to Montana, and to
wish for him ra-ttul vacation
after his WearylnG WORK III The
most trying and jmpnrtant Sr>-
sion of congress i'll the history Of
The nation. The only duty that
will interfere with III" senator's
needed recreation, 81 far "a We
know. will be the selection Of u
capable United States district at
torney to SUCCEED Wheeler.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-30

Nearly 300 years ago sugar was
81 scarce that il was worth 500
pound. Yet there lived and
grew to fame some very worthy
citizens, including those who
came to Plymouth Rock and
Jamestown and established The
thirteen colonies Of America
Therefore. let lI> not be diNrnnr-
aged az to the future if The Wal
cnmpelS us to cut off matinc"
chocolates for brief period.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-25
INSURANCE co. PAYS
Settle Famous kimmel Case by Full
Payment of Premium.

St Louis, April 25.-A final settle
ment in the famous Kimmel insurance
case was authorized in the federal dis
trict court here when Judge Dyer gave
an eastern insurance company author
ity to pay $7,736 in cash to the First
National bank of Niles, Mich. This
bank had secured possession of the
insurance policy of George A. Kimmel,
made out in favor of Kimmel's sister
Mrs. Edna X. Bonslett of Chicago
Suit for a settlement of a $4,000 insur-
ance policy brought in the federal
court here resulted in three trials.
The money to be paid, according to
the compromise settlement, includes
the $4,000 insurance and S2.736 re-
funded premiums. Under the agree
ments each side is to pay its own ex-
penses of the litigation.
Convict Claimed He Was KimmeI
kimmel disappeared in Kansas City
Mo, August /, 1895. His sister late,.
brought suit for the policies, declaring
that he was dead. Later a man in
New York penitentiary declared that
he was the missing Kimmel. The in
surance company sought to prove his
identity and he was taken to Niles, the
former home of Kimmel where old
residents were divided in their opinion
as to whether he was Kimmel or not
The mother and sister of Kimmel
in court testified that he was not the
missing man.
The National Bank of Niles is now
insolvent and under the jurisdiction of
the comptroller of currency at Wash
ington, who agreed to the compromise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-25
IN BIG WHISKY HAUL
Officers Arrest Three Men and Get
10 Cases of Booze.

The biggest whisky haul made in
or around Topeka since the bone dry
law went into effect was made this
afternoon when Officers McGovern
and Scott made three arrests and con-
fiScated ten cases of whisky John
Hoffman, Lawrence Mills and Richard
Jones were arrested, altho there is
some question about the responsible
ity of Mills and Jones.
The police charge that Hoffman
came in from Kansas City with the
liquor in an automobile and broke
down outside of Topeka. They stated
this afternoon that Mills and J~nes
went to his rescue with another car
and that the whisky was loaded into
both cars before the broken-down car
was pulled in.
The arrests were made in an alley
by McGovern and Scott between
Quincy and Monroe and Third and
Fourth streets. Each of the ten cases
of whisky contained twenty-four bot
ties, making a total of 24O half pints
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-25
DROP IN FOOD PRICES
New Garden Produce Makes Table
Costs Cheaper in Topeka.

Following a drop of 10 cents a hun
bred pounds Tuesday, flour recovered
that amount today, due to the Initiation
of cash wheat quotations on
the board of trade. Sugar
remained stationary. Reports from
distributors, however, were to the eff
feet that the commodity shows
slight promise of weakening, insofar
as the exorbitant price of S10.1O and
5000 a hundred pounds is concerned
Garden produce formed the greatest
offensive against the high cost of liV-
ing. This morning William Green &
Son, grocers, were selling green beans
at the rate of pounds for 25 cents
Asparagus on the Topeka retail mar
ket sold six punches for a quarter.
Head lettuce sold at 10 cents; rhubarb
pounds for 5 cents, and radishes
two punches for cents. Two punches
eff onions sold for cents.
Altho no increases of any conSe
quence were registered today, the DROP
in flour did not bring similar one
in the price of flour products includ-
ing some lines of breadstuffs, crack
ers, cookies and similar commodities
Crackers and cookies, plain and fancy
have gone up in the last two weeks
about cents a pound as whole.
Fancy goods, sold by the box, have
gone up from to cents a box, ac-
cording to brand and quality. Oyster
crackers and graham crackers are
among those that have increased 8
cents 4 pound, on both the retail and
the jobbing trades.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-25
A GOOD CROP WEEK
Weather Conditions in Kansas Have
Been Favorable.

Weather conditions were favorable
for crop growth in all parts of Kansas
this week, according to a report from
the local weather bureau today The
severe drought was broken in the
northwestern counties on the 18th and
goth after a high wind and dust
storm had occurred. and from half an
inch to an inch of rain fell over much
of the southern and eastern portions
of the state, with moisture sufflclent
for present needs in nearly all parts.
Temperatures ranged above normal,
and the week closed with almost mid
summer weather. Frosts were report
ed on Friday and Saturday mornings,
but the damage resulting was insign1fl-
cant.
Wheat. where It was not killed by
the winters drought, made good
growth, especially in the eastern and
southcentral portions. In the north
western and northcentral counties it Is
thin on the ground and, while the
warm weather and rains have started
it to growing nicely, its condition in
that part of the state is very poor.
Corn planting is well along in the
southcentral and southeastern coun
ties, and has begun in all parts except
the northwestern and extreme western
counties The ground is in fine con-
dition and much corn is coming up IN
the southeastern counties.
Oats are generally up to a fine
stand and, while they will be benefited
by a general rain. they are not suffer-
ing anywhere. Barley is backward in
the western counties. Kaffir and
other grain sorghums are being plant
ed in the southern counties. Potatoes
are coming up and making fine start
in the south portion.
Alfalfa has made a fine growth in
the eastern two-thirds of the state,
tho it shows the effect of considerable
winter killing. In Reno county it is
a foot high. Pastures are also making
a satisfactory growth and are ready
for stock in the eastern counties.
Pears, cherries and plums have
bloOmed in the southern portion of
the state and are in full bloom farther
north. Apples are beginning to bloom
generally. Strawberries are bloom
ing and the crop is in fair condition
in the important producing counties
in the northeast part of the state, tho
blackberries and raspberries are badly
winter killed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-25
ARE READY TO DRILL
Topeka Aero Corps Will Begin Work
Saturday Night.

The first military drill of Company
3. aero signal corps, National Guard.
will be held Saturday night at Ham
ilton hall, SIG Quincy street, it was
announced today by Capt. Phil Bill
lard, officer in command. Captain
Billiard urged that every man be
present.
The aero corps was mustered into
the National Guards two weeks ago
with the roster full and comprised of
forty-five men. There is a waiting
list of considerable size made up of
men who wish to get into the organi-
zation. The corps is the only one of
it's kind in the state. An army officer
will be at Hamilton hall Saturday
night to look after the technical drill
and discipline.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-25
MAKE PLANS TONIGHT
Navy League Members to Meet at
Chamber of Commerce.

Future work of the navy league will
he arranged tonight at a meeting of
the organization at the Chamber of
Commerce. Details of the organiZa-
ton will also be worked out and com
pleted.
Plans will be perfected, it was an
nounced today, for the league to open
"a street entrance recruiting station
on Kansas avenue. Topeka and Shaw
nee county will be combed for recruits
for the navy by the league which has
adopted the slogan, ~. S. Navy. keep
it on the sea" All citizens of the city
are invited to attend the meeting.
Mrs. G. A. Supple, appointed chair
man of the state committee of women
to aid recruiting for the navy, has
issued a call for women to attend the
meeting. Mrs. Supple was appointed
by Governor Capper. Tonight the wo-
mn will outlin work which will con-
stitute their bit" in view of the ma
tional crisis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-25
GOOD CROP WEATHER
Weather During Last Week Favora bic
for All Vegetation.

Washington. D. c., April 25.-The
weather has been favorable for farm
work and adva nee of vegetation, ex-
cept in the extreme north and north
west portion of the winter wheat area
during the last week. 1t has improv-
ed in nearly all sections with rapid
growth in Oklahoma. While it has
improved in Kansas, it is at a stand
still and thin on the ground and in
poor condition in many places in this
and other states.
Seeding of Spring wheat made sat
isfactory progress. except where work
was delayed by rain iE northwestern
Minnesota.
Seeding of spring rye, barley, and
oats advanced rapidly and the prepa-
ration of the ground for corn is gen
eral. North to the fortieth parallel
some planting has been done in the
lower Ohio and Missouri Valleys
Planting of Potatoes and truck
crops is general, except in the extreme
North.
Fruit advanced rapidly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-25
X. and i. of S. Waiting for In
ducement to Locate Home Here.
Would Spend 100000 on Build
ings in Less Than Year.
Topeka HAS BIG COMPETITION
Cape Girardeau Has Offered
Site, Boulevard, Station.
Santa Fe r. II. Alone Exceeds
Orders Importance Here.

After investing more than $1,000
600 in Shawnee county, the home COM
mission of the Old Folks and Chill
dren's home hospital of the knights
and Ladies of Security are now asking
that Topeka offer their organization
some inducement to build the hospital
IN this city. The order brings in more
money to Topeka than any other or
ganization with the exception of the
Santa Fe railroad, according to a
speech made by j. NJ. kirkpatrick, ma
tional president of the lodge, Tuesday
night at a meeting of Capital Council
No. l.
More than $500, 600 will be invested
in the buildings and grounds of the
hospital within n year, according to
was appointed to secure a suitable To-
cation for the home.
Other Cities After 1t.
Topeka is not he only city to which
this hospital. school and home may
move. Cape Girardeau, Mo-, is among
Topeka's foremost enemies. That city
of 10000 inhabitants has offered the
lodge 800 acres of land, boulevard, ii
railway station, and a boat landing off
the Mississippi river. The claim for
the home is made on the strength of
this offer and on the reputation of
the local council there. other towns
ond cities have made offers but none
have approached this one.
The meeting of Capital lodge No. 1,
Tuesday night, opened the big booster
meeting week of the lodges. The 9TH
err five councils IN Topeka will meet
within a week and then a joint ses-
sion of all the councils will be held
May for the purpose of arousing in
terest in the home proposition. Topeka
Council No. will meet tonight; Victor
Council No. 4. Thursday night; Column
bus Council No. so, Friday night, and
Shawnee Council No. 8, next Tuesday
night. The joint meeting will be held
May at the Security hall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-25
HALT RATE RAISE
Il. C. C.. Announces Regular
Hearings To Be Heard.
Denies Report Commission Fa-
yOrs Is Per Cent Hike.

Washington, April 25.-The inter-
state commerce commission today pre-
scribed the method of procedure IN
the l 5 percent rate advance cases by
permitting the railroads to file sup
Elemental tariffs covering the increase
This is in line with the commissions
tentative order entered a few days
ago.
The new tariffs will be subject to
protest, suspension, complaint, inves-
tgation and correction, the commits
sion announced, and their filing is only
preliminary to detailed consideration
of the application and does not dis
pose of the cases. The commission
issued the following statement:
Following requests by carriers
turnout the country to be permitted to
file supplements to existing schedules
proposing general increases in rates of
l 5 per cent except as to a few speci-
fled commodities, the commission has
recently heard in conference a large
number of representatives of carriers
and shippers. The purpose of these
requests is to avoid expense and delay
incident to full and detailed prepara-
ton and republication of all existing
tariff schedules substituting in detail
the proposed increased rates.
Public Interest Demands 1t.
The commission deems it to be in
the public interest that the question
of propriety and reasonableness of
considered and disposed of as prompt
ly as practicable consistent with JUS
tlce. Therefore, acting under discre-
ton with which it is vested by Section
of the act to regulate commerce, the
commission has issued the permissive
orders announced today authorizing
the filing of rate supplements as there
in stated.
In view of erroneous reports that
| nave been published it seems proper
| to state that the commission has
| reached no determination and ex-
| presses no view upon the question of
| the reasonableness or propriety of
| such proposed increases, which as in
| dicated in the orders referred to. will
| be subject to protest, suspension, COM
| plant, investigation and correction If
| in conflict with any provision of the
act.
! The effective date of the order
should it be finally approved is chang
ed from June l to July l."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-25
PEANUTS ON THE KAW
Lands Too Sandy for Other Crops Will
Raise Them.
BY COL. r. w. MITCHELL.

Raising peanuts instead of cotton
is bringing prosperity to the south
In 1908 they raised S12, 100000 worth
of peanuts. We are just discovering
the food value of this product, which
is higher than wheat.
Thousands of acres of land along
the Kaw river near Topeka which has
been overlooked. and too sandy for
sweet potatoes, or any other crops, is
adapted to peanuts.
The farmer who does not want to
harvest this crop after maturity can
turn in his spring farrow of hogs, that
has been raised on alfalfa during the
summer, on his peanut field about
September 5 of the same season. and
by December Is have hogs averaging
$50 pounds. It's easy money Alfalfa
and peanuts. Do it this season
The peanut belongs to the legume
family. hence takes the nitrogen out
of the air and deposits it in the soil,
thus leaving the soil bed in a much
better condition than before this crop
was planted, and makes it better for
other crops.
Nature will perform her duties if we
will irtelligently assist her.
Thirty pounds of peanuts, in the
null, Is abundant for an acre. Get the
unroasted peanuts at the seed stores
hull carefully, drill in rows three feet
apart, plant and cultivate as YOU would
corn. Plant the crop, in this latitude
any time after May l.
Get busy and plant peanuts next
week
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-25
Highway Commission Gets
Down to Business Today.
To Build 1000 Miles of Roads
in the State.
KANSAS TO GET FEDERAL AID
$4,000 Will Be Available in
July, 1t Is Said.
Every Part of the State VIII Be
Benefited.

The good roads program of Kan
sas today began to take definite form
for the first time when members of
the state highway commission, begin
ming a three-day meeting here, an
nounced that plans to build a mimi
mum of between 500 and 1000 miles
of highway are being perfected. +.
r. Moses, a member of the commits
sion from Great Bend, asserted that
the program would provide for max
imum construction of $500 miles.
The program will be carried out
with the aid of the federal highway
aid fund. provided recently, and which
provides s575.OOO for Kansas road
building the first year it is effective.
The state will receive this amount,
members of the commission SAID to-
day. i'm July. Next year the fund for
Kansas will amount to s75O'oo0.
Build Across the State.
The commission. consisting of r. II.
Moses. Great Bend; r. II. Herman
Fort Scott. and Governor Capper, con-
vened here today with the idea Of
working out definite plans as to the
exact location of the roadbullding ac-
tivities this year. Members announced
that their first plans would provide for
one or two east and west highways en-
tirely across the state and two more
roads running north and south and
running the entire width of Kansas.
These plans will be put in action and
the roads built before other features
of the program are carried out, it was
officially said.
The plans being perfected provide
for five years work. Right around
1000 miles of fine highway will be
constructed each year during that pc
riod.
Cover Entire State.
The plans being drafted are to cover
every part of the state. Under the
Kansas laws, providing that the cost
of such work be divided among the
state, counties. townships and prop
erty owners, the commission declared
today that it will be possible to launch
the greatest period of highway con-
struction in the history of the state.