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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-10
TWO BELOW TODAY

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all over the state We're lowering close
to zero last night. and indications were
that they would continue to flirt
around about that stage for the next
thirty-siX hours.
There has been no heavy snow in
except for the slight flurry~in Topeka
at noon today Wichita report
ed a temperature of zero this
morning, Dodge City 4 below, Kansas
City below. st. Joe below.
Knowing that fond mothers and
fathers are vitality interested in the
state of the thermometer in Fort Sill,
the State Journal Will hereafter give
the report from Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City is only a short dis
lance east and north from Fort Sill
and Camp Doniphan and the tempera-
lures in the two places are about the
same, never varying over one or two
degrees. The report from Oklahoma
CITY this morning gives temperature
of 6 degrees above
The Official Forecast.
The official forecast for the day
saws to look for cloudy and unsettled
weather tonight and Tuesday with
somewhat warmer temperatures in the
west portion tonight and in the east
Tuesday
Shippers should protect 96-hour
shipments in any direction against 0
temperatures. Shipments north will
encounter temperature of below;
east and west, 0; and south above.
The highest temperature ever re-
corded for this date was in 1890 when
the mercury touched II degrees, and
until today the low mark was reached
in 1892 with a reading of above.
Temperatures this morning started
25 degrees below normal and the av-
erage for the day did not contain
much promise of betterment. Read
ings this afternoon were expected to
reach about 10 degrees above; posi-
bly, reaching 20 by 2 o'clock tomorrow.
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W. A. BIBY TO SPEAK
National Treasurer X. & L. of S. on
Current Topic Club Program.

Tonight will be ladies' night at the
weekly meeting of the Current Topic
club dinner at the Y. M. C. A. and
with the low gas pressure that is caus-
ing home cooking to be mostly a MEM
DRY of better days, a large attendance
is anticipated.
One of Topeka's best after dinner
silver tongue artists will be the chief
attraction after the feed is disposed
of. He is w. A. Biby, national treas
urer of the knights & Ladies of Sc
curity. His subject will be THE Fra
ternal Beneficiary System"
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GERMAN EYES ON SIBERIA.
Bolshevild Gaining Control of Rail-
road-Would Be Boon to Kaiser.

London, Dec. 1O.-The Bolsheviki
are gaining control of the Siberian
railway and are likely to reach Har-
bin, according to word reaching here
today.
Control of Hardin and of the trans
Siberian railway system would open
the vast resources of Manchuria and
Siberia to German influence in the
event of separate peace.
Hope CT an ironing out of the Rus
sian situation in London's view TODAY
rested upon success of the revolt
raised by Generals Kaledines and
Korniloff, officially reported in a
proclamation of the Bolsheviki report
e 1 here.
Every indication today was that the
Bolsheviki are making a last desper-
ate effort to jam thru their peace with
Germany before being toppled over
The constituent assembly, it is recog-
nized by the Trotsky-Lenine combine
ton, will immediately curtail much
of their power, even tho the Bolshe-
Wiki should obtain a majority
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TAKE TOPEKA'S

CONTINUED rom rage One.l
sheep from the goats and give places
where there are old people or illness
preference in deliveries" Fellows said.
Carey was optimistic about the out
come of the situation He said that if
every one would buy only moderate
supplies temporarily the situation
would soon be alleviated.
From State Mines.
! Kansas is to receive the full output
from the mines of this state as well as
from the mines at Canyon City, Col,
for the first three days of this week.
Assurances of the delivery of this sup
ply to Kansas towns was received by
Governor Capper this afternoon from
Emerson Carey, state fuel administra-
TOR, and is based on an order by Harry
A Garfield federal administrator.
Every mine in the Cherokee-C raW-
ford county district, as well as the
Leavenworth county mines and such
county fields have been ordered to
route their output until Wednesday
pight to Kansas towns. Several hun
dred small towns of the state are
practically without a pound of coal
carey told Governor Capper The
output from the Kansas and Canyon
City mines is expected to materially
relieve conditions in this state.
Reports of intense suffering and
hundreds of cases of sickness have
been sent to the state house. Ell
dorado, the oil boom town of 10000
people, was built to accommodate
1000 people and men, women and
children are sleeping in tents and
shacks which cannot be protected
against the below zero weather.
There are several hundred towns
in Kansas where conditions are just
as serious as in Eldorado," Carey told
the governor.
Sheriff Purcell, of Butler county,
kept some of the forty wobblies in the
Isfdorado jail from freezing to death
today. He wired Governor Capper
tAat his 1. W. w guests were shiver-
ing and not a lump of coal was to be
had. A. car of coal was rerouted at
Newton and three tons of fuel was
Sent to the Jail for the comfort of the
disturbers in the Butler county Jail
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=
Halifax, Dec. 10.-Daybreak today
found Halifax rapidly emerging from
the chaos into which the city was
plunged by the explosion last Thurs
day. The successive snow and rain
storms which followed the disaster
greatly hampered all efforts to allevi-
ate the suffering of thousands of in
jured and homeless people, but the
return of fair weather yesterday made
possible more systematic work.
All relief agencies now have been
co-ordinated. Enough doctors and
nurses have reached the city to take
care of the hospital duties. A consid-
cradle quantity of supplies already has
arrived and more are on the way, so
that the danger of famine has been
averted and there is ample clothing
for all. These supplies must be care
fully conserved, however, and the au-
thorities today were doing their best
to enforce the requests published yes
terday that non-residents not here. on
urgent business should leave the CITY
and that others should not come here
for the present
The work of repairing the innum-
cradle damaged buildings was well I'M
der way. Lumber. glass and other
building materials are needed in great
quantities.
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TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS

Chicago, Dec. 1O.-CORN-Corn prices
developed some strength today as a result
of cold weather which seemed likely to
retard the movement of the crop. The Sc
we're fall in temperature was said to be
against efficient operations of the railroads
and also to be hampering the transfer
of grain from farms to country elevators
Buying here, however, was not of an ag-
gresive character. Opening prices which
ranged from the same Saturdays finish
to sc higher, with January 81. 2OA to
$1.20$s and May $1.1S52 to $1.1S% were fol-
lowed by moderate gains all around.
Later the market underwent something
of a setback owing to prospects that the
embargo on shipments to the east would
lead in the near future to a rapid accumu-
lation of stocks: The close was unsettled,
January $1.209s to $1.2034 and May $1.19,
with the market as whole &c lower to 3sc
advance, compared with Saturdays finish
OATS-Oats hardened with corn. The
demand was chiefly from scattered shorts.
PROVISIONS-Higher quotations on
hogs lifted provisions. Besides, shipments
of meats showed considerable increase.
The fact that hog receipts were much less
plentiful than had bbee expected caused adj
ditional upturns in the late trading.
Chicago Grain and Provision Market.
(The range of ,rices on grain futures on
Chicago Board of Trade as reported by
'Thos. j. Myers, 301 N. e. Bldg.)
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Wall St, New York, Dec. 1O.-STOCKSN
Trading was confined to the narrowest
limits at the dull opening of today's stock
market. Changes were of the usuaa II
uIar character. in important ins .
varying more than a fraction. Gains
losses were about equally distributed \
decline Of IL points in American Tobacco
was the only noteworthy feature Events
over the week end SCENE to exert little In
Huence. Prices hardened generally bfore
bonds were steady.
The market improved later on a mod
crate inquiry for Steels, Coppers and Ship
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Kansas City, Dec. Observation-Disclosures
1000. Market &c higher Bulk of sales
81 -15d 17:4O; heavy. S1T.3jd1T.45; packers
and butchers, $17.-5N17-40. light, S17 .O06t
ATTLE-Reeeipts Ii ZOO. including no
soutberns. Market strong Prime fed
steer5, s14.J0N16.00: dressed beef steers.
$11OOM14OO;t western steers. S960H12 90:
southern steers. 500 1000: cows $500
1850; heifers, $6-50Q1250; stockers and
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pings. Leaders Of those divisions gained
1 TO Ia points. Reading and Union Pa
cific also responded to support, but the
general list made little Roadway. Special
ties were sympathetically affected by the
break IN American Tobacco, Oils and re-
rent weakness developed in foreign bonds,
the entire French group establishing new
low records Liberty IS sold at GIG to
81. 80 and the 3h's ct 9S-4s to $3.50.
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Chicago, Dec. 10-HOGS-Receipts 81 900
tomorrow 1900. Market strong. 15e to 25e
above Saturdays average. Bulk Of sales
S1710M1I-50; light. $4,000 17.45; mixed.
$16sO@17.e0; heavy, S1js5H17.G0; rough.
SIG S5M17.05; pigs, So. T5G1575:
TTLE-Receipts 5000. Market steady
Native steers, $7.30d1550: western steers,
$4,000 1870; stoekers and feeders. $G1O0
HOO; cows aud neifers, $510d1I40; calves,
$50 a 1900
SHEEP-Receipts 10000 Market weak
Wethers SSS06i12.90: lambs. 81. jOd1675.
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ing at the Stock Yards, Kansas City aud
reported over long distance telephone di-
rect to the State Journal by Clay Robin.
son & Co.. live stock commission mer.
chants.l
Kansas City. Dec observation-disclosures
II 900 head. Market steady.
HOGS-Receipts 600 head Market 1Oc
to 15c higher. Bulk Of sales, ST -20M17. so !;
top, sits.
: sHEEP-Reeeipts 1000 head. Market
slow and weak
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REVISE DEATH FIGURES
Estimate 1900 Dead, 1000 Missing,
5000 Injured in Halifax.

Halifax. N. s., Dec. 10.-Revised
figures were issued here today regard
ing casualties resulting from explo-
sion as follows:
Known dead 200.
. Unaccounted for 1000.
Dead which have been identified
800
wounded 5000.
Homeless $4,000
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The food administration reports that
during the month Of June, cities in the
United States having a total population of
15,0OO,0O0 reduced the amount of food
thrown away by - per cent below the
month of June, 1916.
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FROM MISSOURI AND KANSAS.
Joint Order for Reconsignment of All
20 Coal.

jefferson City, Dec. 1O.-Fuel Ad-
ninistrator Crossley, of Missouri, and
Fuel Administrator Carey, of. Kansas,
to-day issued a joint order prohibiting
alt reconsignment of coal, except when
the coal, before reaching a terminal
shall be recOnsignedr while in transit.
Only one such reconslgnment of a
given shipment will be allowed.
Coal not shipped under the recon-
signment order will be diverted by the
fuel administrators of Missouri and
Kansas to places where it is needed.
Financial arrangements will be made
TO prevent loss.
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Town of 4eO Has Homo fsnarli

Richmond, Kan, Dec. 10.-Altho
Richmond has a population of but
400, the town has a company of home
guards with a membership of $50.
There is an average attendance at
drills of so.
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sbofu IamDS aud sheep &c under ahors
prices. Positively cannot use sheen -
laInhs unless fat OF
Topesss (irain Market
lFurnisned py j. B. Billa Ri. corner Kan.a.
Ave and Curtip ST
OATS Gon65S Let 1u
NEW CoRN-$1.30
Topeka Hay Market
PRAIRIE dAY-S11 90 49, IL
ALFALFA-$20 o.
Poultry and rRRs
q Furnished by the Topeka packt,, -.
pany, corner Laurent aud Madison jan
u Topeka. Kan, Dec. 10
HFNS-5h lbs nd over ISt.. I1u,ta- q,
los, 15c; springs. over lbs lsc 8. roos,.-S
lzc STACEY young BOOSTERS. I3c: hro;isrs.
= lbs. aud under, pc DioHera
EfiGS-f4c.
EgSs are retailing In Topeka. 45a4e.
BUTTER-4s6d49c. -o'e soe-
Retail nay.
sFurnisbod by y. 4 sii.cbr1st 6o,, nr,o..
Street 'es
PRAIRIE HAY-x20.O 90. -' DEC L.
ALFALFA-x25.00.
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The first year of the great war will cost
the United States $4,000, 100000. Since the
war began the allies have spent over $780,
OOO,OOO,OOO. Congress will appropriate for
the fiscal year ending June 80 1918, nearly
half of the incomes of the American peo-
Dles
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Kansas City Produce Market.
Kansas City Dec. 10-CORN-Cash Mar
ket &c to Toe lower No. mixed, 81. 606
1-62; No. 8, $1.53d15S; No. 2 white, $1.70@
IFS; No. 3, nominal; No. yellow, $1.751
1S0; No 3, nominal
OATS-Market steady. No. white,
7415c: No. mixed, 70 O. 74c.
RYE-$1.75.
KAFIR AND MILO MAIZE-S3 1563 30.
HAY-Market strong to 81 higher Choice
timothy SIS. 50629 90: choice prairie, S27. 90
@2S.0O; choice alfalfa, $34.O0035.00
SHORTS-$2. 25tI2 50.
BRAN-S195.
WHEAT-Receipts 81 cars.
overwhelmingly, 42c; firsts. 40c
seconds, 3Sc; packing, BE
EGGS-FiFsts, 45c; seconds. 310l32c.
PoULTRY--Hens, 19c; ROSTERS, 15c;
brouers, e4025c.
= CORN-Close: December, $1.27; Janu-
airy, $1.22; May, $1.20.
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To Cure a Cold in One Day.
Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tab
lets. Druggists refund money IL it fails to
cure. E. W. GROVES signature is on each
box 30c--Adv.
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sa NeE e aGff 500 Haesaes
refined, steady, unchanged to 20 points
lower: cut loaf, 9.65d9.S5; crushed. 9.4cG
9 60; Mould A, S.65 a S.S5; Cubes, S9Od9 IL /:
xxx powdered, s.35ds-55; powdered, $50
a $50: fine graduated. S15Ms.35 diamond
4, S15d s-35: Confectioners A, S056S p I;
No. l. S.00HS.2G-
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New York, Dec. 10-BUTTER-Mark
firm. Creamery higher than extras, 49lh a
SOC.
EGGS-Market firm. Fresh gathered ex-
tras, 5SG59c.
CHEESE-Market steady. State fresh spe-
Gals 23d231ac
POULTRY-Alfve, unsettled; dressed,
steady
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chicago Produce Market.

Chicago, Dec 1O.-BUTTER-Mafke
higher. Creamery, 3664715c.
EGGS-Market higher. Firsts, 47Cd50c !;
ordinary firsts. 43@4613c; at mark, cases
included. 43G49c.
POTATOES-M higher Wisconsin,
Michigan and Minnesota bulk, $1.S0G190;
ditto sacks. S1.S5@2.0 90.
PoULTRY--Alfve, steady; fowls, 16@
pic. springs. 19c.
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Pipe.iners Race With Weather
Weather Report:
WEATHER FORECAST for Kansas:
Unsettled tonight and Tuesday
Warmer west tonight, east Tuesday.

small that driving September
of
pipeiners no. a he
completion it probable
than miles laid miles
Altogether thrtywo
IN eighteen
Blackwell IS
has
he strain o
KANSAS NATURAL GAS co.
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MORE ZERO WEATHER DUE.
Cold Snap General Over U. S.-ZerO
Zone North of Oklahoma Line.


Chicago, Dec. 1O.-The Entire coun-
try was feeling the icy breath of jack
frost today-and there was no imme-
diate relief in sight.
While the lowest temperatures pre-
vail east of Mississippi river the frigid
area extends clear to the Pacific coast,
thence to the British northwest.
Following its usual policy, the
weather bureau will not officially
forecast conditions more than a day
ahead, but the Chicago office admitted
the middle west and east may look
for several more days of zero or near
zero temperatures. Comparatively
little snow has accompanied the cold
snap.
Freezing in Florida.
The. zero zones southern boundary
was in northern oklahoma and south
ern Missouri The eastern gulf states
Jacksonville, Fla, it was 80 and at
Miami, it was So, with a heavy frost.
Enormous damage has been done
thru freezing of foodstuffs. Railroads
have been unable to maintain their
schedules because of inability to keep
steam up in locomotive boilers. A gale
continued to lash the lower Great
eral freighters which are reported
overdue.
Coolest Spot in U. s.
The coolest spot in the United States
was Devils Lake, N. D., with a tenn
perature of 26 below zero. wiIliston,
N. d, reported % below; Huron. s
D., Moorehead, Mimi, and Pierre, s.
D., 20 below and Charles City, Iowa.
Harve, Mont, and Valentine, Neb, 16
below. The warmest place was San
Diego. Calf, with 81 above
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feeders, $7.00M11.0O;
bulls, se.5Oas.25

SHEEP-Receipts 1000. Market steady.
Lambs, $15150 1915: yearlings SD 5O67
400; wethers. $1150d13 1900; ewes, S1O5O61
100; stockers and feeders, $7.OO@17.OO.
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DAILY wE.lrnER TARLE.

Furnished by the weather bureau office
Topeka, Kan, for the twenty -four hours
ending at a. m. Monday.
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Sew York sugar Market.

New Orleans Cotton Market.
New Orleans. La. Dec. 10.-COTTON-
Spot, steady, 81 points up; middling, $3.50
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Kansas City Grain Market.
(The range of prices on grain futures on
Kansas City Board of Trade as reported
by Thos. ]. Myers, sol N E. Bldg)
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HALIFAX BARELY
Civ Emerges From Chaos.

CONTINUED from Page oneJ
when the steamer was examined later
Every man above deck was killed"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-02-05

E/OU}E probably noticed that
rather oily heaviness so COM
mon to many of even the most eN-
peusive cigarettes. That's bound TO
exist, no matter how good the tobac-
COS if the tobaccos are not blended
just right TO correct it.
OF course, such cigarettes cam never
be comfortable.
Fatimas, on the other hand. are
comfortable. The miIder t0baccos
The Benson signal., 1917-05-19
WESTERN.

A campaign against needless waste
of foodstuffs was inaugurated at a
meeting at Phoenix, Ariz.
American Socialists send message
to German Socialists saying that peace
cannot be restored unless kaiser is
banished.
Pres. Joe V. Prochaska issued a call
for the annual meeting of the Ocean
toOcean Highway Association, at
Globe, Ariz., June 8-9.
The national parks in California
will be thrown open for cattle and
sheep grazing as an emergency act to
increase the output of food, wool and
leather.
The National Council of Women,
representing 100000 members of
women's clubs in the United States,
in session at Chicago, decided to de-
vote all it's energies to performing
the maximum of service to the coun-
try during the war.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-19
SPORT.
of Western League Clubs.

The Western Golf Association will
subscribe $4,000 to the liberty loan,
using substantially all it's available
surplus.
The University of Nebraska, at Min
neapolis, defeated the University OF
Minnesota in a dual track and field
meet, scoring &c points to Minnesota's s
SO.
A dispatch from Youngstown, Ohio,
states that Charles C'Chuck") Barrett
of Bellevue, Pa, has enlisted in the
mosquito fleet" of the naval reserves
and has gone to assume his duties.
Red Toner, former Denver corner
lot star, is now hurting for the Ray,
Ariz., team and is anxious to see other
Colorado stars land positions with the
Ray club. Toner, it will be remem.
bered, some few years ago was a star
on the corner lots and also in the
Western league and was born and
reared in Colorado.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-19
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D DIN q 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTS, SUFFERINGS, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union news Service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

British retake most of ground lost
1t Fresnoy.
Great Britain's war cost to date is
b23,0OO,O00,0O
Germany is feeling effect of Amer
can blockade of food products.
Imperial German counsellor to pre-
tent statement on German war aims.
British troops recapture greater por-
ion of Bullecourt and repulse violent
counter attacks east of village.
Great Britain announces that despite
leavy fighting casualties have been
reduced from so to rs per cent.
Troops of German crown prince
make heavy attacks on British and
French before Laon and Lens.
Six enemy aeroplanes brought down
las been Americas "bit" contributed
against Germany since April 9Th.
Seven British aeroplanes shot down
seven German balloons in a resump-
lion of a vigorous aerial offensive by
British fliers.
Along Scarpe river east of Arras
sanguinary encounters are reported.
Advantage rests with British. POr-
lions of Roeux have been taken.
The loss of two prominent German
submarine commanders, in addition to
several previously reported, was dis
slosed in reichstag speech.
According to reports in Norfolk, Va,
naval circles the American torpedo
boat destroyer Davis was attacked by
German submarine near the war
zone.
In Macedonia the Serbian troops
have captured and held against coun-
ter attacks several trenches on Do
bropolye Heights, east Of the Cerna
river.
South of Souchez river, Teuton ar
mics make third attempt to recapture
lost ground. First success is defeated
by British counter attack Germans
use boiling oil.
The naval attack on the German
submarine base Zeebrugge, on the Bel
gian coast, was the most destructive
yet made by British warships. Two
submarine sheds we're blown up. Six
ty-three persons were killed and up
wards of a hundred others were taken
to hospitals.
On southern end of line held by
French, Germans Sunday morning
made strong attacks on plateau of
Craonne, on sector north of Rheims
and in region of Maisons de Cham
pagne. French put down all three at
tacks, with artillery and rifles, caus-
ing heavy casualties