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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01
RAID "REDS'" PAPER
Get Bomb Plot Evidence in Office of
''Tho Blast"

San Francisco, Jan. 1.-Officials of
the district attorneys office raided the
editorial rooms of The Blast, a local
anarchist organ last Saturday and
seized the subscription list, letter and
paper files, manuscripts, private cor
respondence and cartoons, it was
learned here today. The raid was
made, it was said in hope of procur-
ing evidence to be used in the prose-
cutiQn of Thos. J. Mooney. alleged ring
leader in the conspiracy which had its
climax July %, in a bomb explosion
which caused the death of ten persons
during a preparedness parade.
handed Conduct, Says Editress.
MONEYS trial will begin Wednes-
day. According to District Attorney
Charles F'ickert, The Blast had
some information we wanted and we
went and got it. The bomb plot was
Matched in the riast office"
Miss Eleanor Fitzgerald, assistant
editor of The Blast, said the officers
were in possession of the office for
three hours Their conduct" she said,
was high handed, Illegal and without
Justification
The Blast office was raided by the
district attorney deputies July %, but
on that OCCASION, Ffckert said, Alexan-
der Berkman, the editor was present
and they got nothing of value.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01
Fifty-Fifth Anniversary of
States Admission.
"Kansas Day" and "Peace
Day" To Be Celebrated.
ASKS FOR SUNDAY SERMONS
Program Fitting to Occasion in
Public Schools.
Movement Follows Visit OF
Ex-President Taft.

Governor Capper today issued an
official notice proclaiming Sunday,
January % as Peace Sunday and
Monday, January 20 as peace Day"
in Kansas. The governor urged all
ministers to preach special peace
sermons and further urged adoption
of peace programs in schools and a
general movement for extension Of
statewide peace movement and added
support for the Kansas branch of the
League to Enforce Peace.
Monday, January 20, will be both
Kansas Day and Peace Day in this
state Being the fifty-fifth anniver-
sary of the states ADMISSION to the
Union, the governor declared that
the day should fittingly be observed
for the double purpose of celebrating
a state birthday and the peace move
ment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01
TOMMY TO FRITZ
CannOns ef=AH Calibers Send
New Years Greetings.
BOmbardment at Midnight
Along Entire British Line.

With the British Army in France,
vio London, JAN 1.-The arrival of
1917 was welcomed on the western
front by the British and French SOL
diers as a beginning of the end of the
great world war. There may be vary
ing views and theories as to how the
end is to be brought about but there
is no question that thruout the Brit
ish army there is a conviction that the
next twelve months will bring a vic
torious peace to the allies.
On most sectors of the British front
the New Year made its bow with lit
tie ceremony. So many flares and
rockets are sent up from the trenches
on these long dark winter nights that
it is impossible to say how many of
these tonight were in honor of 1917.
There is one sector, however, where
the British artillery followed the
practice adopted last year of welcom-
ing January 1 with "salvos'' against
their enemy from guns of all cali
bres. Along this front everything
from machine guns TIC the biggest of
the heavies joining in firing.
In sending this fiery greeting to the
Germans there was a further compli-
cation of difference of time, the Ger
mans observing continental time
which is one hour ahead of the Brit
ish and French clocks. To avoid all
doubt the British artillery fired signal
salvos both at IL o'clock and midnight
Low, black clouds scudded over the
battle area this last night of the old
year and it's successor was borne on a
bowling wind which caught up and
carried away the thunder of the guns.
The grim booming was swept far be-
yOnd the battle lines until it mingled
with the church bells summoning the
people to prayer in the war-bound viii
la Fra
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01
THE PAPER SITUATION.

The situation regarding white paper
upon which newspapers are printed
grows from bad to@worse. Publishers
all over the country.are adopting Eari-
Gus expedients in the way of conserv-
ing the supply and are meeting the
enormous increase in cost by advanc-
ing both subscription and advertising
rates.
The Sioux City Tribune, in an an
nouncement made on December %,
said that after January L they were
obliged to add 4 cents a week to the
paper delivered by carrier in Sioux
City, and to make a SO per cent in
crease on papers sent out by mail; at
the same time raising their advertis-
ing rates from "a cents per inch to SO
cents per inch, with this announce
ment:
1.-The extraordinary conditions existing
in the paper market, shortage of product
and excessive prices, with rising cost in
all materials and labor. make it necessary
for the Tribune to increase its advertising
charge and advance its subscription prices
in Sioux City and by mail All of these
sources of revenue together do not cover
the increased cost of production of the pa
expense together, and the paper must wait
for that desirable contamination"
Mr.. MacLennan of the State Jour
nal has just returned from Minneapo-
lis and ST. Paul, the headquarters Of
the Minnesota paper mills district,
where he went to investigate condi-
tons. He found them unsatisfactory
and with publishers generally very
much perturbed and concerned. 1t is
difficult to get paper at any price.
Some publishers are now paying 175
per cent more for their supply than
they recently paid. wiping out all hope
of profit under their existing sources
of revenue, and mourning an additional
expense of many thousands of dollars
year. The mills are behind three
weeks in supplying the State Journal.
Three cars are overdue. This paper
daily edition alone.
Owing to these delays, the State
Journal is printed today on paper
supplied thru the courtesy of the To-
peka Capital. This will account for
the temporary reduction of the size
| of the page from eight columns to
seven columns.
| 1t has been several years since
either the Capital or State Journal has
been obliged to call upon the other
for courtesies of this kind. Some
years ago, the State Journal printed
the Capital on its presses for four
days.
From Minneapolis on Friday, ten
tons of white news print were shipped
to publishers by express in order .'tc;
keep them going
In addition to other increasing
costs, the Topeka papers, under their
contract made a year ago, advanced
all employees in their composing rooms
SO cents per week, beginning today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01
SANTA FE CHANGES
Appointments Announced From To-
peka offices Today.

Louis Bergman. for more than ten
years travelling auditor for the Santa
Fe, with headquarters in Topeka, will
leave shortly for Chicago, where he
will enter the office of the president
of the road, E. P. Ripley. Mr.. Berg
mans appointment to the presidents
office is effective January 1. c. w
Cahill, travelling passenger auditor
with offices in Chanute, will come to
Topeka as Bergman's successor
Fl. s. Mnchin. transportation inspec-
tor with headquarters N Topeka, is
another traffic department man to
leave the first of the year for a better
position Mr.. Minchin will go to Chilli
cothe, Mo, where he will be train
master, replacing Albert Ewing, who
goes to Slayton, Texas, as superintend-
ent of a new division of the road
Other changes in the traffic de-
partment are expected in a short time,
some of them being effective January
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01
START IN KANSAS
State Offers Opportunities for
Every Kind of Business.
Many Towns Are Now Seeking
New Industries.

If you have a flour mill. a lumber
yard, a bank, brick plant or a mu-
sic store, but especially a flour mill.
there is place in Kansas for you. In
recent number of THE Earth" a
Santa Fe publication. a partial list of
industries for which Kansas towns are
asking, is published, and includes
those named above, as well as several
others. The list mentions three flour
mills, milk ccndensing plant. dairy,
a music store, a monument works, two
banks, two brick plants a cold stor-
age plant. a general store. a lumber
yard a poultry and egg shipping firm,
a power plant and a hotel
Usage City asks for the largest num-
Der of the industries. Usage City, ac-
cording to the Commercial club, wants
the milk condensing plant. the dairy,
the music store, the monument works,
and the capital to start a brick plant.
Neosho Rapids is asking for a power
plant.
Banks Are Needed.
Agricola, in Coffey county, asks for
one Of the banks; Belvidere, in Kiowa
county, asks for the other. as well as a
lumber yard and general store. Gar
field, in Pawnee county. wants one of
the flour mills; the others are asked
for by Belle Plaine, in Sumner county,
and Medicine Lodge in Barber county.
Medicine Lodge has room also for a
poultry and egg shipper Moline, in
Elk county, wants a brick plant, and
has fine shale for the purpose of max
ing bricks there. Sylvia, which is in
Reno county, is looking for a good no.
tel
Most of the towns which are Gin the
market" for the various industries
mentioned, are offering special induce
ments to persons or companies capab BILE
of tablishing them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01
As WOMEN Die
Insane Patients Flee and Suf-
fer in Zero Weather.
Sisters of Charity Rescue 1876
Inmates and 30 Girls.

Montreal, Jan. 1.-Frag mentary de-
tails of the disastrous fire which
destroyed the insane asylum at St
Ferdinand de Halifax, in which forty
six women persisted, reaching here to-
day, brought word of narrowing
scenes enacted while the flames swept
the structure.
Situated far away from any town
equipped with fire fighting apparatus,
the asylum was a roaring furnace
soon after the blaze was discovered.
211 Inmates Were Asleep.
There were Pill insane women and
girls in the home. Some are said to
have refused to leave the building
Others rushed directly into the flames
in their wild frenzy, and others jump
ed from windows on the upper floors.
Women who escaped ran wildly thru
the village. Many were overtaken by
residents of the village and carried to
the homes of the latter, where they
were cared for.
The temperature being far below
zero here, those who escaped the
flames suffered severely from exposure.
The fire broke out Saturday night
while the inmates of the asylum were
asleep and all who fled escaped only
in their night clothing.
Far From Habitation
One sister is reported to have per-
ished while endeavoring to save some
of the inmates.
The old building was in a remote
district, far from other habitations,
and not single man reached the
place until after the forty-six women
had persisted and the sisters had saved
the remaining 1875 inmates and thirty
girls attending school conducted in
a wing of the structure. Advices re-
ceived indicated that the loss would
not exceed 100000. The cause of the
fire was not known
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01
NAME MRS. RHODES
Topeka Woman Made Instructor IL
Indian School.

Mrs. Wilma Cross Rhodes, widow
of the late Howard N Rhodes, in the
office of the secretary-treasurer OF the
Santa Fe, was notified by wire TINS
morning that she had been appointed
instructor in domestic science in
government school for the Indians at
Sapulpa, Okla. The appointment is
effective Immediately.
Since the death OF MT; RnodeS
few weeks ago, Mrs. Rhodes has
maintained her residence in Topeka.
She is a graduate of the Kansas State
Agricultural college at Manhattan, in
which institution she specialized in
domestic science work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01
MODEL. MURDERED
Beautiful Young Woman Slain
in Her Apartment.
Silk Shirt and Bloody Collar
Only Clues Found.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. IA man yet
unnamed no by day was known as
a successful business man with resi-
dence in Philadelphia and New York
and held membership cards in some
of the casts best known clubs, is be-
ing sought today by the police here
as the murderer of beautiful Mrs.
Grace Roberts, young model who
was found dead in her apartment late
Saturday night. Out of the scores
of men the twenty-two-year-ol beauty
had met as she fluttered like Trall
moth thru the gay cafe life, there was
one man who loved her insanely, grew
jealous of the other admirers ana then
brutally slew her.
Philadelphia, Jan. 1.-Altho score
of detectives are working on the mys-
terry surrounding the murder or Grace
Roberts. a young artists model, in her
APARTMENTS here Saturday, no clue
leading to the identity of her slayer
had been found up to an early hour
TODAY. The girls body was found late
Saturday night by a janitor at the
apartment house where she lived. she
had been brutally beaten, her skull
crushed, apparently with an electric
fIatiron, and a silk stocking was ued
tightly about her neck.
According to Captain Tate of the
detective bureau Mrs. Roberts, who
was about % years old, was widow.
A dozen or more photographs of men
were found in the room but whether
anv Of them have been identified, the
police decline to say. A mans SILK
shirt and collar, both blood-stained
were found in a closet in the room.
The owner of these the authorities be-
lieve to be the murderer. The police
believe robbery was not the motive of
the murder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01
TURN OVER ARMY!
This Is Latest Demand on Greece bv
Allies

Athens, Jan. Greece is hurry
ing transfer of her troops southwark
with all possible speed, the pinch of
the allied blockade now being gener-
ally felt. New demands from the
allies. presented yesterday by the ItaI-
ian minister, are expected to hurry
this movement of troops. The new
demands are for more detailed com
pliance with the allied demands that
the Greek government place itself in
a position where it cannot in any
measure interfere with the entente's
campaign in Macedonia, and it is ex-
pected King Constantine will ac-
quiesce in them as he has in the pre-
vious less detailed demands
Transfer of the entire Greek army.
except that portion necessary to pre-
serve order to Peloponnesus is the
principal requirement made in the lat
est note of the allies
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01
6 BOUTS IN X. C. TO-DAY
The 1917 Squared Circle Season Begins
With a Big Bill.

Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. 1.-Kansa
City's 1917 boxing season will be
ushered in today with six bouts and
seventy-two rounds of milling on the
New Years menu Sam Langford and
Jim johnson are scheduled for a ten
round bout here this afternoon.
Tonight Benny Mcneil meets Benny
Chavez in a fifteen-round bout and
Otto Wallace meets Edward Butler,
also in fifteen rounds. Three pre-
liminaries by locals make up the re-
mainder Of the program
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01
Outlook Editor Is Dead.

Summit. y. J., Jan. Hamilton
Wright Mabie, the noted author and
editor is dead at his home here. AS
associate editor of the Outlook, he
paid his last visit to the offices of the
magazine three weeks ago. Since then
his condition became very much worse
and he never rallied. A weak heart
oyerburdened with other ailments was
the cause of his death. He had been
i'll for a year. He was born in Cold
Springs, N Y, December ID. 1916.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01

South Cardinals Child Labor Law
Goes Into Effect Today

Columbia, S. c., Jan. South
Carolina's new child labor law pro-
hibiting the employment of children
under fourteen years of age in the
textile esta Adjustments went into effect
today and employment of about 2,400
children automatically ceased, accord
ing to figures of the state department
of agriculture.
The old law made the minimum
age-limit for employment twelve
years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01
Total 37,165 Much Smaller
Than Previous Months.
52O,017 Casualties Since SOmme
Offensive Started.
take TWO RUMANIA CITIES
German Thrust Now
Across MOldayia Border.
TeutOns Capture 1000 Men,
CannOnS and Machine Guns.

London, Jan. 1.-The total of Brit
ish casualties reported in the pub
hshed lists from December 1 to De-
cember %, was:
Officers 815. men $3.50. No lists
were published during the holidays.
The effect of the cessation of the
Somme offensive. with the advent of
unfavorable weather conditions. is
shown in these figures, which give q
daily average of 1.54S casualties for
the twenty-four days covered by the
report. In November the daily aver
age was 2,488. and in October 1882.
The losses reported in December bring
up the total casualties since the be-
ginning of the Somme offensive to
52O,O17.
Continue Advance in Rumania.
Berlin, Jan. 1-(by wireless to Say
ville).-On the Moldavian front yes
terday the Austro-German forces.
continuing their heavy attacks, cap
tured several height positions and two
towns in the Zabala valley, the war
office announces. Violent Russian
and Rumanian counter attacks were
repulsed.
In Wallachia the Russians were
again defeated, being driven back to
positions half way between Rimnik-
Sarat and at Fokshani. The Danube
army has driven the Russians to the
Braila bridge-head. In Dobrudja the
Teutonic allies captured 1000 men
four cannon and eight machine guns
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01
Victim of Collision Dies.

Mcpherson, Kan. Jan. Jacob
Glantz. who was injured last week
when a buggy in which he and his
family were riding was struck by a
Rock Island train near here, is dead
Mrs Glantz was killed instantly in the
crash and 3-year-old girl was seri-
ously injured A baby was thrown
from the buggy but lodged on the pi-
lot of the engine and was unhurt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01
SUFFRlGISTS SEND PLEA
IN GREETINGS TO S0L0NS

Washington. Jan. In the mail
of each representative and senator
today was a postcard bearing New
Years greetings from the National
American Woman Suffrage associa-
ton and a verse containing these
lines:
And what SO good a gift can
be
AS freedom. won't you set US
free?
Vote for the federal amend
ment-'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01

TemperatpreS averaged degrees
above normal The wind is blowing
at the rate of 8 miles an hour from
the southwest.
day in all parts of the United States.
i.che lowest reading reported in North
america was degrees below zero at
.5heridan Wyo Temperatures hero
were barely below freezing, and the
leet and snow that fell Sunday were
practically gone by daybreak this
morning The total precipitation at
'opeka was L of an inch No rain
4 vas reported IN the western part of
I Kansas except "a of an inch at Con-
fordia and .O2 at Wichita. No mois-
atre fell in any part of the northwest
Ned States, the weather map
lowest temperature here This
ing was 20 degrees at O'Clock
LConunued on Page Flve.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01
Harry LADDERS Son Killed.

London, Jan. Captain John
Lauder, son of Harry Lauder, the
Scotch comedian, has been killed at
the front, it was announced today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01
WEATHER IS FINE
Moderate Temperatures Prevail Near
Iy Everywhere in the Country.

Moderate temperatures prevailed to-
Hourly temperature readings up to
noon today furnished by the weather
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01

WEATHER forecast for Kan
sas Lair tonight and Tues
day: warmer Tuesday.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-15
HAYNES SOCIETY

On Wednesday Mrs. N. C. Hanson of Haines entertained at an in formal luncheon in honor of the brides and brides elect of her home town Mrs. John M. Keller was an out of town guest. Mrs. Cowden the newest bride is the daughter of Frank Morris of Fort William H. seward; Miss Beecher, the bride to be is one of the nurses in the Presbyterian hospital of Haines, and will soon become the wife of Sergt. William Jesswein of Fort William H. Seward. The guests en- joyed a pleasant afternoon with sewing and other amusements dear to the feminine heart. Those pres ent were Mrs. N. c. Hanson, host ess; Mrs. John M. Keller of Skag- way; Miss Agnes Clarke, Miss June Grey and the honor guests, Mrs. RueI Cowden and Miss Eleanor Beecher.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-15
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

On Saturday, December 15, at the Presbyterian Manse, Miss Eleanor Beecher was married to Sergeant William Jesswein, the Reverend L.. II. Pedersen officiating. The bride was becomingly gOwned in a dark travelling suit and waS attended by Miss Agnes Clarke. The groom was in regimentals and his friend, MT. Archie Southern was best man. The bride has been one of the hospital corps at Haines and very popular with her friends. The brides maid is also a nurse in the same hospital. MT. Jesswein has hosts of friends, both in the Post and among the civilians. The young couple will leave for the south on the next Jefferson and Sergeant Jssswein will soon be on his way to France. ..
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-15

On Saturday last MT. and Mrs. A. c. Blanchard entertained at dinner which was the first dinner given by the popular young couple in their new home. There were presentM r. and Mrs. L. H. Johnston, MT. and Mrs. Fred w. Fickardt, Master A. c. Blanchard the second, Gordon Blanchard and MT. c. w. Cash from Whjtehorse, and the host and host ess. After dinner the guest ac- companied MT. and Mrs. Blanchard 10 the dance given at the Elks hall and later in the evening a number of guests went to the home of Mir. and Mrs. Blanchard where delicious supper was served.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-15

Mrs. Herman Grimm was a pass enger to Juneau on the Jefferson where she will take the first boat 70 Seward where she will join MT. Grimm and their son Victor. The GrJmms have long been Identified with Skagway but found 8 good business in the city to the West ward and will now make that their home.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-15
Weather Report

Whitehorse, cloudy, n. W. 27 below.
 Lower LeBarge, fog, n. W. 45 below.
 HootalinQua, cloudy, calm, 3! below.
 Big salmon, cloudy, calm, Carmacks, cloudy calm. Yukon Crossing, cloudy, Il. W 43 below.
 Selkirk, cloudy, n. W. A below. Isaac Creek, cloudy, calm, 42 be low. Stewart River, cloudy, n. ". As below.
 Dawson, fog, calm, 53 below. Eagle, 50 below.
 Circle. 50 below.
 Ft. Yukon, 50 below.
 Gibbon, 20 below.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-15
THE WEEK
 IN SOCIETY
(Continued From Page S.)

"The Crimson Stain Mystery" is the serial at the P. P. P. and there gre other very good attractions. During the cold weather the moving picture show is a good place to spend a pleasant even- ing. At present the show is being held in the Nugget theater, next door to the Golden North hotel.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-15
DELIVERY NOTICE

Frcn. now on until further mo- tice P. H. GaRty's store will make but two deliveries daily. One delivery at 10 D. III. will take all orders received from 1 p. m. of the previous day and until 9:SO of the day of delivery, Another de livery at 2:30 will take all orders received from 9:30 a. m. until ?. m. of the day of delivery.
 P. H. CAVITY. 12-14-2t, IL. ! "
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-15

The weather on the canal was very rough this morning and it is said passengers on the U. S. har- bor boat Peterson did not fail to remembA~ the fish. In time of plenty we should all give plenty.
 Sergt. Jesswein of Ft. Seward, and Miss E. Beecher, Of the Haines Mission hospital, secured a mar riage license from Commissioner R smuson today.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-15
SHIP WORKERS GET BONUS

Seattle, Dec. 15.-The United States federal government an aounced today it will pay ten percent bonus to all men in Seat tie steel ship yards who work six full days each week.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-12-15

Wednesday evening Miss Beecher Of the Presbyterian hospital enter taiped for Mrs. John M. Keller of Skagway, Mrs. Fay and Miss June Grey of Haines. The guests pass ed a profitable evening engaged in sewing. A very tempting luncheon was served.