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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21
COAL RETAILERS
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lowed the Peppmeyer prices and his
books showed a net earning of cents
ton.
1t was Frank McDerrnid, of Hutch
inson, who produced the only optim-
ism in the frigid meeting of self sym
figures. With lower freight rate
than that afforded Topeka dealers,
MeDermid sold his Cherokee coal for
So ton and was confident he was
earning a profit of IS cents a ton.
Dealers in Topeka and other towns
cross examined McDermid at length
and he concluded his statement by
saying he was not sure about the
amount of his profits, altho he knew
he was earning good living and
paying an income tax from his groc-
cry, hardware and coal industry. Nc
Dermid said he had been selling coal
81 years and appeared happy, con-
tented and reasonably prosperous. Yet
his absence of a detailed cost system
and failure to pay himself salary
caused the Hutchinson dealer no lit
tie trouble in explaining to the dealers
who distributed unit ton costs from
horse shoes and barn paint to freight
charges.
Statements before Governor Capper
and John Hunt, assistant attorney
general, were decidedly informal. No
effort was. made to ira ,lscribe the
statements and several of the dealers
, will probably be called at the coal in
| QUESTION announced by S. M. Brew
Ster, attorney general. Brewster, how
ever, left today for Syracuse, N. Y,
and the date for taking testimony in
| the coal cases has not been deter-
mined.
Santa Fe Denies Statement.
A statement, made during the con-
| ference by a coal retailer, to the eff
feet that twenty-five thousand tons
of coal stored in the Santa Fe yards
are slowly burning today because of
combustion" was promptly denied by
! Santa Fe officials when it was check
ed up to them by State Journal re-
| porters.
Officials in the shops, the fuel de-
partment, and the general manager
office declared that the Santa Fe has
no such amount of coal stored here.
I'VE do have a little trouble with
southern Kansas coal because of slow
combustion when it is stored" said
one official. I'VE never lose any coal
! tho, and no pile of coal containing 25,-
| 900 tons is on fire today.
I'VE have some storage coal in the
! Emporia and Argentine yards, and
lots of times the heat produces a
| chemical action that makes it smoul-
| der and blaze a little but this never
results in a loss if the coal is watched
and looked after. We always do this
| When pile begins to show signs of
beginning to burn a man, always on
/ the job, remedies things and then
stays on the job until a fresh tfny
| WhiSp of smoke is seen"
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FRANK HARBAUGH
tcontInued from 1.aee one,


didn't ask for the place. I offered it
to him. That was on May 80. At that
time 1 knew the then chief of police
was due to 'blow'-that he had, in
fact, already blown 1t was apparent,
within two weeks after his appoint
ment, that he was wholly untitled for
the place.
''Harbaugh is a plain, plug citizen.
There is nothing brilliant about him.
He neither scintillates nor cor
ruscates.' He may make good chief.
He may me a 'flivver' 1 don't know.
speculative proposition. But Har-
baugh has certain qualities which /
fancy in a chief of police. He is hon
est, cool-headed, has plenty of horse
sense and is abundantly endowed
with both moral and physical courage
A chief of police can get along without
a lot of physical courage, but moral
courage is an essential He is pulled
and hauled about by so many differ
ent and conflicting elements of the
citizenry that a rigid spinal column is
necessarily part of his equipment
Harbaugh has one
Must Please Mayor.
IF Harbaugh makes good he will
stick as long as 1 stick. If he doesn
I'll get another chief of police. But
there is one point 1 wish to make per-
fectly clear. He doesn't have to make
good with any newspaper. any preach
er, any club, any organization, any
race or creed. All he has to do is
to make good with me-
There is one other point 1 wish to
make clear. I didn't appoint Har-
baugh to clean up the town The town
is in good shape, altho 1 do not pre-
tend that it is chemically pure. Some
liquor comes in. A certain number OF
bootleggers operate internationally. A
few fallen women surreptitiously piy
their trade. Once in a while a gentle
man who believes a back room poker
game owes him a living tries to col
lect it But for twentyeight months
now no dealer in liquor, no purveyoI
of vice, has been able to conduct his
business at a profit We do not an
ticipate any change in this situation.
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Lennie Lyons, Topeka Bootleg
ger, Accused of Murder.
He Escaped After Shooting
Man in Cleveland, Ohio.
POLICE HERE ARE NOTIFIED
1t Is Believed He Is Headed for
Old Haunts.
He Was the Beau BrummeI of
TOpeka's UndesirabIes.

Lennie Lyons. former Topekan, ex-
convict. and Beau Brummel bootleg
ger. shot and killed a man in Cleve-
land, O., at s o'clock Monday night
according to a telegram received to-
day from the Cleveland police depart
ment by the Topeka police After
the shooting Lyons escaped. The To-
peka department was asked. in the
telegram. to watch for Lyons.
Details of the crime are lacking
here. The telegram did not say who
was the victim of the Topekan's gun.
1t simply stated that Lyons had shot
a man" and requested the police here
to hold him on a charge of murder
should he show up.
Killed Man In Michigan.
The Cleveland murder cIimaxed a
long list of offenses that Lyons has
been charged with. He is an ex-con-
vict, having served term in the
Michigan penitentiary on a conviction
of manslaughter. The conviction was
the result. according to police in
formation. of Lyons killing a barten-
der in Detroit
After his release from the Michi-
gan institution Lyons came to Topeka
of getting into trouble in Michigan.
Shortly after he came here he en-
gagged in the questionable vocation OF
selling liquor which, of course, was not
at all in harmony with Kansas pro-
hibitory laws.
No sooner did he beglr to "selI''
than he got into trouble With the po-
lice and county officials, cot once but
many times In Topeka, Lyons lived
in the 200 block on Jackson street.
He is a brother of Catherine Tas-
sci, of Topeka, and his wife, Maggie
Lyons, lives here.
Extraordinary BoOtleggeP.
Lyons was one of Topeka's most ex-
traordinary bootleggers His dress.
always imma culate made him some
thing of Beau Brummel of the I'M
derworld and he was known in police
circles as a good sport ard good
spender."
Lyons's spectacular antics here did
not wholly consist in breaking the
law They varied At one time. not
long ago, he drove a monster Odds
mobile touring car straight off an, en-
bankment of Soldier creek near the
Boys Industrial school The car. con-
tanning five passengers, hurtled 125
feet thru the air and landed right side
up in the bed of the creek. No one
was injured
Lyons left Topeka last March, say
ing he was going east"
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Atty. Gen. and Appeal Board
Brewster Different Men.
Good Voters, However, Do Not
Seem To Know This.
THIS WORRIES SIN BREWSTER
Many Appeal to Him To Save
Them From Army.
Candidate for Governor Has No
Say in the Matter.

Old Man Trouble is trailing s. NJ.
Brewster, attorney general. Because
E. E. Brewster of Leavenworth, is a
member of the draft appeal board in
this district, the attorney general is
becoming quite unpopular with a
good many constituents. And the
two Brewsters are not so much as re-
lated.
When the draft appeal board began
sessions in Topeka last week. the at
torney general began receiving letters
from dependent and widowed mothers
who wanted their boys to stay at
home. Fathers with cookie burr
patches and COW pasture and wheat
field, also wrote. They asked BrewS-
ter to please exempt their boys from
service They were needed to hoe the
cookie burrs and drive the cows to
water. Besides, the government need
ed farmers on the farm and all the
other pleas for the soldiers of the
soil"
Appeals Denied.
For a few days Brewster sent the
appeals to the Leavenworth macaroni
maker, who was sitting with the ap
peal board at Ninth and Kansas aV-
enue The appeal board Brewster
favored exemptions for farmers who
simply couldn't dodge farm RESPONSE
bilities. But that was all. So each
day the appeal board announced a
lOIl6 llSL OIL pIlOl ueIIdlS LOT lar
mer lads. Brewster, the attorney
general, is hearing from the folks in
the rural district Some of the things
they are saying are far from compH-
mentary.
Almost half of the misdirected let
ters intended for the macaroni maker
Brewster reach Attorney General
Brewster. All of which keeps the at
torney general awake nights. In the
years the attorney general has been in
Topeka as a state official, he has
seemingly been impervious to criti-
cism or newspaper policies. But when
he was handed the responsibility for
sending several hundred Kansas
youngsters to the war, he lodged.
In talk with state house press rep
resentatives, Brewster actually admit
ted he would appreciate a clear record
of identification.
His Slate Is Clean
So Brewster. the attorney general
and candidate for governor next year
is not a member of or connected with
the draft appeal board. And E. E.
Brewster, the maraconf maker, who
is concerned chiefly with local politics
in Leavenworth county, is quite posi-
tive and firm in his convictions con-
corning responsibility in a war crisis
and probably doesn't care whether the
Kansas farmer votes for Jones or
Smith or Brown in the next election.
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DEALERS UP NOW
Coal Retailers Before Governor
and Brewster Today.
State Wants To Know What
Profits They Make.

Another round of the coal contro-
versy is being fought today in Cover
nor Capper's office. Retailers are
on the carpet to tell of selling margins
profits. alleged price agreements and
reasons for the enormous increase in
the expense of maintaining and OPP
Grating the family furnace. Operators,
who were before the governor and S.
M. Brewster, attorney general, at
Mondays hearing, will be hailed into
an inQuiSition to show their books and
testify under oath.
The hearing in the governors office
today concerns the knowledge of the
retailers concerning the alleged long
profits in the coal business. Thirty
operators offered to take solemn, ser
ious oaths that the profits did not stop
with them. In fact the Jackson
Walker interests commended that earn
ings were so narrow that in one month
recently the company earned less than
cents ton profit on it's output
Long Profit Somewhere.
Nearly seven million tons of coal
are produced from Kansas mines each
year. The selling price to railroads
averages, in the main, from $3.50 to
$2-75 ton, operators stated. Retail
ers buy supplies at present from 1926
to $3.50. Sometime, somewhere, some
how, someone seems to draw down a
long profit state officials believe. To-
day the retailers are telling the gov
ernor and attorney general their sor-
row tale.
Following the sad and heavy heart
ed coal operators to the stand, the re-
tailers today came to Topeka to assure
the state that the profits from retail :
ing-countipg shrinkage, losses, haul
ing, bad accounts and a few hundred
other items-caused the poor coal
man to fight for existence and strug-
gle for a meagre living
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Early>Mornins Gossip.
FURNISHED by the Topeka Board of Trad,


Chicago. Aug. 21-The Herald says: Trad.
ers were more mixed in their opinions last
night. The break of &c on December ana
s on May from the high pSin oat o 81
among many local and outside traders who
had good profits to take them on the De
lief that had we had bread enough for the
present. rally of SIC to 3lzc late In
was ali the he market was going to break
for the present. Others said that might
be some further upturn but they do not
Bears in corn said that so long as the
present weather holds it will be hard to
The hot weather is forcing the crop along
more rapidly and each day removes the
number Of the big local snorts re-
duced their lines on the break Monday.
few took the long side after covering but
the trade mostly said they expected to see
all rallies meet increased selling pressure.
Country offerings were not large. and ship
took took hold freely Local elevator men were
also buying to go to store While indus
tries appear to be staying out Of the Chi Chi,
picking up round lots TO arrive at Omaha
and other western points almost daily, &C
trade This serves the double purpose of
helping to depress prices by leaving Chi
cago without apparent support while fi,tr at at
! New York, Aug. 21.-Dow Jones sum.
| of Union Pacific, coal traffic head Car
| riers ordered to give preference to coal
! moving to northwest by way of Great
Lakes Lovett's appointment expected to
avert what threatened to be a serious coal
famine in states depending on rail and lake
for soft coal supply.
| Secretary Daniels plans immediate and
big expansion facilities for building de-
stroyers.
| British federation miners vote against
British labor participation in Socialist con-
ference at Stockholm. reversing previous
| decision.
! House ways and means committee to dis
| cuss possibility of government issuing
New York state soon to issue some short
! term notes.
| G. NJ, Schwab conferred with bankers
here Monday regarding additional fnan-
| cling OF bethlehem steel corporation.
Washington now having faith in Car
ranza's government intimates to bankers
| that it will lend moral endorsement to loan
Twenty industrials s1.27. off rs. Twenty
rails 81 Al, off 81.
New York, Aug 21-Financial Bulletin
| Unsettling price fixing rumors are en-
courag ing professions to work for recess
sion. There are good reasons for believing
that the talk is very much exaggerated.
During heaviness we think u. S. steel,
Southern Pacific, crucible and marine
should be bought.
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JAP WINS NET MATCH
Ideal Weather for Opening National
Patriotic Tournament.

Forest Hill, L. L, Aug. 2O.-Perfect
playing conditions greeted the en-
trants in the opening round of the Ma
tional Patriotic lawn tennis tourna-
ment here today
Hardly had the tournament got I'M
der way when startling upset oc-
Cured in the first t.r the grand stand
court matches. Holcombe Ward, ma
tional singles champion IN 1904, de-
feated S. H. Voshell ga. lie, 6-3.
Seiichiro Kashio. the Japanese
player. was the victor of the second
grand stand court match He de-
feated F. B. Ransom, of Beaver Falls,
Pa TO, rs, and 1913.
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SHOWERS ARE ON WAY

and Concordia, OF. No rain was re-
corded at Wichita or Dodge City.
The same condition of local show
ers will prevail for the next forty
eight hours. The eastern sections will
probably receive light thunder show
ers this afternoon.
The official forecast reads partly
cloudy weather tonight with local
thundershowers in the east and partly
cloudy Wednesday with Lot much
change in temperature" The mer-
curry Monday might fell to 1T degrees,
just two points above the normal
mark, and will, probably rise to SIS
this afternoon. Tonight the mercury
will return to the 65 stage and to-
morrow it will again go to 85.
The highest temperature on record
for this date is 101, in 1913, and the
lowest, 56, in 1889.
The river was falling this morning
Today's reading of the stage reported
height of Z feet, g of a foot below
Mondays record.
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WILSON RUSHED
Confined from Page onel
common ground has yet been reached
by any of the belligerents officially
Wilson Too Busy to Answer


by any of the belligerents officially.
Wilson Too Busy to Answer.
Washington, Aug. 21.-WhiIe the
world today looked to President Will
son for the next peace move, quiet
continued in all belligerent countries
on the subject of the pope's prefer.
England alone has sent a reply The
people of this country, busy with their
daily chores, are silently leaving to the
president the solution of the problem
The president, himself has been too
engaged with pressing war business
to discuss the peace note with anyone
Having directed priority shipment of
coal to the Great Lake regions yester-
day, the president today was awaiting
word from the man he has asked to
become the country's fuel dictator
Answer is expected today.
1.-THE federal trade commissions re-
port on oil production costs is ready
for the president The steel cost re-
port, completed some days ago, will
be submitted probably today.
The shipping board expected to an
nounce today contracts for standardiz-
ed fabricated steel ships and stimuli
taneously 1t was learned that threat
ened ship yard strikes will be pre-
vented by general increase in wages
from the government
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FURNISHED by the Topeka Board of Trade.)
Worlds shipments of oats last week were
2 POI, 900 bushels, all from America.
An Australian cable said: shipments
of wheat are good, as tonnage is fair and
supplies at docks are large"
The International Institute of Agriculture
at Rome estimates the wheat crops of
Spain, France, Ireland. United States, In
dia and Japan at 1856 million bushels, or
Z of 1 per cent more than the yield of
1916 and 1873 per cent of crops of 1915.
The crop in ireland was 4,347 900 bushels
or "a per cent more than in 1916 and 1877
per cent more than in 1915.
Worlds shipments of wheat last week.
as reported by Broomhall, were 9,661 600
bushels, compared with S747.000 bushels
in the preceding week and 9.3O2. 900 bushels
a year ago. Shipments from America were
,217, 900 bushels, including 900 bush
els as flour. Argentina shipped 172.00O
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New York. Aug 21.-MoNEY-Mercanti
paper 4A@5. Sterling 60 day bills. 4.T2 );
bills on banks, All; commercial go day
bills, 4.71& demand, 4-75, cables, 4.7e 7-1e.
ers. demand. 41% cables. Al 15-16 Lires,
demand. 1884,; cables, 1924. Rubles, de-
mand, 20%E cables. Pts. Bar silver ssA
Mexican dollars, 6S3- Government bonds
steady. Railroad bonds easy. Time loans
easier; 90 days. -4d4A 90 days, 4AG4A
six months. Az as.
Call money steady; high. 8; low. 2: rul-
ing rate. 2a closing bid, ~ offered at 2;
last loan, 2
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tralia ]. $50 600 bushels Canada continues
to ship heavily under sealed orders.
Elevator stocks of wheat In Kansas City
increased S5.6S2 bushels last week and now
amount to ISL 992 bushels; corn, 2S, 7o4
bushels increase 14,106 bushels. oats. 1885,
794 bushels, increase. 107. $50 bushels; kafir
none decrease 1877 bushels: rye, 3.4s5
bushels, unchanged. A year ago stocks
9716094 bushels of wheat, 22I, 226 bushels
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DRAFT LAW LEGAL
Upheld as Constitutional by Georgia
Federal Court in Test Case

Washington, Aug. 20.-The draft
law was held constitutional by Fed
eral Judge Emery Speer, il the south
ern district court of Georgia today, &C
cording to official word rom Macon,
received here. The decision was hand
ed down in the case of several men
who appealed from their arrests for
failing to register on the ground that
the law was unconstitutional.
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strong. Centrifugal, $7.39: molasses. 1851 {:
refined, steady, unchanged to. 10 points
@onld sss toat cubes f f5asnss x2& Xxx
powdered, $S.60@9.20: powdered. $3.50
9.15;. fine graduated, SS.40@9.00; diamond
A, $50: confectioners A, SS-30QS.9O; No.
l. IS 256SS5
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Kansas City Grain Market.

Kansas City Grain Market.
Kansas City, Aug. 21.-WHEAT-Cash
wheat: Market Sc to sc lower. No. 2
hard, 81. 25@2 40; No. 3, S215@2 80; No 2
red, $214@215; No. 3, S2.1O@2.12
CORN-Market steady. No. mixed
$1.65@1 So; No. 3, $1.5S@1.61; No. white,
S1.70; No. 8, nominal; No. yellow, $166 (;
No. 8, nominal.
OATS-Market steady to &c higher No.
mixed, 54@55c; No. white, 561a @57c.
RYE-S1.75
KAFIR AND MILO MAIZE-S4 35d4.6O.
HAY-Market weak to soc lower. Choice
timothy, SIG. 00G1950; choice prairie, $40. 90
G19.50; choice alfalfa, $24.50.
SHORTS-$2.05.
BRAN-S1. 40.
Receipts wheat 102 cars.
CLOSE WHEAT-Sept., S2.13
CORN-Sept., $1.52; Dec, S1-07A; May,
S1.06as.
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Chicago, Aug. 21.-HOGS-Receipts 1000.
Market strong, 25c to CSC higher; top $50,
1866; light, $1s.15@19.90; mixed. $1s25@
1000; heavy, s1s.O0@19.s0 rough, $500
@1s.25; pigs, $13.00@17.25
CATTLE-Receipts 1000. Market weak.
Native beef cattle, $7.9O@15O0; western
steers, $6.s5@1230; stockers and feeders,
$6O06910: cows and heifers, $4.40@12. 10
calves $10.50@14.75.
SHEEP-Receipts 5000 Market strong.
Wethers, S7.75@11.O0; lambs, $10.O0@16.50.
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Chicago. Aus. -21-BUTTER-Mark
higher. Creamery, 361s@41c.
EGGS-Firsts, 35@36c; ordinary firsts,
30633c; at mark. cases included, 30@3513c.
POTATOES-Market higher. Virginia
barrels, 81 .50d4 400: Jersey bulk, S1.40@1. As
Minnesota bulk, 1.20M1 %.
POULTRY-Alive higher. Fowls, 100
23c; springs, 22@25c-
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MURDOCH GETS 1T
U. S. Senate Confirms Kansan's Ap-
pointment on Trade Commission.

Washington, Aug. 20.-Without op-
position the senate today confirmed
nominations of former Rep. Victor
Murdoch of Kansas, to the federal
trade commission and all except two
of nearly 200 major generals and
5riaadier generals recently named by
President Wilson.
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For an Aching Head

TAKE HORSFORD'S ACID PHOS-
PLATE. Healthful, and most agree
able to the taste. Refreshes and in
vigorates. Use it in place of lemons
Adv
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New York, Aug. 2.-BUTTER-Marke
firm. Creamery higher than extras, 4215@
43c
EGGS-Market firm. Fresh gathered ex-
tras 44M45c.
CHEESE-Market irregular. Fresh spe-
Gals state, 23s4 d24c.
POULTRY-Live poultry firm. Dressed,
firm.
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(The following sales were made this morn
ing at the Stock Yard, Kansas City, and
reported over long distance telephone d.
rect to the State Journal by Clay Robin
son & Co.. live stock commission mer-
chants)
Kansas City, Aug. 21-CATTLE+Re-
ceipts today 5000 head. Market slow,
steady.
HOGS-Receipts 1000 head. Market 40c
to 60c higher. Bulk of sales, S1S.50@19.75.
Top, $3.50.
SHEEP-Receipts today 1000 head. Mar
lot hi1her
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TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS

Chicago Aug. 21.-CORN-Light offer
ings and a continued desire Of shorts to
cover lifted corn prices early in the SEES
sion today, figures going about lie above
yesterdays close and then receding some
what. Present high prices of livestock
gave ground for belief the corn values
might not be materially lessened by a big
yield. Opening prices ranged from &c
lower to &c higher with December at
$1.0s1A to $1.09n, and May at $1.07 to
$1.01H. The early bulge took December
to $1.09B and May to S1.OS, from which
points they settled back to about the open
Ing figures.
Heavy offerings on the bulge caused a
reaction from the early advances. Most of
the trading was at about the opening.
Close steady, 7bc lower to &c higher, with
Dec. 81. 0s9s TO $1oSsz, and May at SLOT.
WHEAT-There was little trading in
wheat. The opening trade in September
was at $207 which was &c higher, than the
final figures yesterday. Desire to sell was
little in evidence and subsequent deals car
ried the figure to S2.1
Wheat trading was without significance
and the prices paid reflected the desire to
replenish holdings. The close was steady
with September at $40, an advance of SC.
OATS-Oats which opened easy, ad-
vanced and receded with corn prices, the
variation being on a lesser scale.
PROVISIONS-Provisfo continued re-
sponsive to the live hog advance and made
moderate gains. October pork made the
sharpest increase at outset F