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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-13
''RED LIGHTS" GO OUT
1000 Women Leave District as Lux
uriOus Resorts Are Closed.

Storyville. New Orleans, La, Nov.
13.-" -"Storyville''-so named because
it was established by an ordinance by
a man named Story-passed out of
existence at midnight last night.
Luxurious resorts and hotels alike
were closed at the stroke of 12-at
the request of the navy department
More than a third of the famous dis
trict's 1000 women are estimated to-
day already to have left the city. A
local ministers association has an
nounced it will undertake to care for
a number of the women until they
can obtain employment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-13
Mother and Boy, 8, Dead; Two
Daughters Wounded.
Mrs. HI. o. Wick and Children
Alone in Home.
NEIGHBORS SAW FLEEING MAN
Tragedy Occurred at Parsons,
Kan., About $3.50 A. NJ.
Father, Travelling Man, in
Oklahoma at the Time.

Parsons, Kan, Nov. 13.-Mrs. H. o.
Wick, SO years old. and son Harlan,
8. were shot to death, a daughter was
probably fatally wounded and anoth-
er daughter was shot in the thigh in
their beds in their home here early
today and their assailant escaped with
out leaving a clew. The slayer shot
Mrs. Wick and her son first and en-
terins the room where the two girls
had been sleeping fired at them. He
then ran from the house.
The police, assisted by a posse, are
searching for the man, and blood
hounds are being used. Mr.. Wick, who
is a travelling salesman for a Joplin
bakery company. was in Henryetta,
Okla, when notified of the murders.
Mrs. Wick Lived Five Hours.
Mrs. Wick lived about five hours
after she had been shot. She could
give no clew to the murderer beyond
telling that he was a large man who
wore a white mask over his face.
Genevieve Wick said that they were
awakened by the shots fired at their
mother and brother and then the man
came into their room and fired at
them. As he went down the steps, she
said he said:
This is l." or something that
sounde like it.
Neighbors who were aroused by the
shots saw the man fleeing down the
street.
So far as is known, the Wick family
had no enemies and the mother aud
the girls were at a loss for the motive
in the shooting. Immediately after
the police learned of the crime hunt
for the man was begun, and later q
posse of the anti-horsethief assoc;a-
ton was organized. BIoodhounds
from Kansas City also will be used ir
an effort tO trace tho fItoitive
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-13
BLAST KILLS MINERS
Gas Explosion Snuffs Out Three Lives
in Oklahoma Mine.

Whburton, Okla. Nov 13-Three
men were killed in a natural gas ex-
plosiOn at the No. 40 mine of the Rock
Island Coal company, ten miles from
here, last night, according to word
reaching here today.
It was said that only one of the men
had been identified.
All those killed were shot firers.
They had gone into the mine after the
regular shift of miners had quit work
to fire the blasts
Accumulated natural gas exploded
when the first charge was fired
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-13

degrees below normal.
The mist was so heavy this morn
ing that the government gauge showed
a precipitation of .0O1 of an inch.
Prophet Flora says that Indian
summer has gone the way of all good
things, but he gives hope of a con-
tinuance of the present temperatures
Prospects are not very bright for
much sunshine, but the sun may
break thru for while tomorrow. The
wind has been blowing three miles
an hour from the north. at whicn
speed it is unable to disperse the
heavy fog that has been hanging over
the city since Monday night
The first reading of the thermome-
Continued on Page Two.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-13
MINING ENGINEER
FINDS NEW METAL
THAT'LL END WAR

Chicago. Nov. 13-MOlybdenum.
That's what will win the war. ac-
cording to Maj. W. A. Mench, a min
ing engineer from san Diego. Cal.
who was en- route 20 Washington to-
day to confer with the government
war board about "moly"
This metal is found in large guam
titles in the far northwest and IL de-
veloped will prove more effective in
shipbuilding. gun making and in air.
ships and submarines than our finest
steel" said Mench.
1T will cost less. weigh less and be
more efficient"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-13
CARGO OF TURKEY AID
FIXIN'S REACH SAMMIES

With the American Army in
France, Monday. Nov. u. CBy the
Associated Press) A large ship
ment of turkeys. mincemeat. cram
berries nuts. raisins. oranges and
sweet potatoes for the ThanksgiV-
ing dinner of the American soldiers
has arrived in France. 1t will be
distributed among the various in
struction centers and villages
where the troops are billeted.
The food is sufficient to feed
every man in the main training
camp area. Other consignments
along the same lines. are due in a
few days for the scattered "spe-
cialty camps" of the American SOL
diers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-13
WATCH STREET BATTLES.
Report Lenine and Trotsky Have
Taken Refuge on BattIcship

Petrograd. Nov u. Delayed) -
Petrograd was in the throes of civil
warfare today after desperate street
battles on Sunday in which "A handful
of brave military cadets was killed or
captured by Bolsheviki forces upon
whom the cadets inflicted considera-
BILE losses. Meanwhile the city awaits
anxiously the coming of Premier Ker-
ensky who is reported TO be nearing:
Petrograd, but seems to have his
Headquarters at Gatchina.
This new Bolsheviki government
headed by Nikolai Lenine and Leon
Trotsky is having anything but an
easy time in controlling the city as
the committee on public safety which
includes all the elements opposing
them is Seeking to esta blish new
Socialist government They continue
to placard the streets with demands
that the Bolsheviki realize their
folly and consent to lay down their
arms and await the coming of Ker-
ensky."
Release the Kerensky Ministers.
Most of the ministers Of the Ker-
ensky cabinet who were captured af-
ter the eight-hour battle at th win
ter palace last Wednesday night have
been released from the fortress OF st
Peter and St Paul NJ. Terestchenko
and A. /. Konovaloff are still behind
the prison walls as are the military
cadets captured in the battle at the
telephone exchange on Sunday.
Agents of the committee of public
safety have gone 70 Gatchna in an
effort to effect a compromise with
Premier Kerensky on an all-Sociaiist
government.
There are conflicting reports from
Moscow and other large cities. The
Bolsheviki reports officially that Mos
COW is still in their hands, altho a
telegram to the committee Of public
safety on Sunday said that the Keren-
sky adherents there had driven the
Bolsheviki into the Kremlin. where
they were besieged.
Lenine and Trotzky Flee.
Among the reports heard Is one in
dicating that Lenine and Trotzky are
Continued on Page TwoD
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Demokratcn under Mondays date.
Stockholm, Nov. 1S.-Premier Ker-
ensky's troops have entered Petrograd
and are masters of portion OF the
city according to a telegraph agency
dispatch received here today.
This is the first word indicating that
the fighting. known to have been in
progress for the past forty eight hours
around the capital. has actually
reached the city itself.
The dispatch asserted that keren-
sky's forces now controlled the New
sky Prospekt. No details of the bat
tie were given but from private re-
ports it was believed that the fighting
had been sanguinary The Bolshe-
Wiki were reported by the Telegraph
agency to be fleeing to the Smolny
institute. their governmental head
quarters, for refuge.
The provisional governments loyal
forces deployed around the historic
Nevsky Prospekt and swept thru other
thOrofares. According to unofficial
reports. the fighting was from bar
ricade to barricade in the streets
themselves. but with the BolshevilSi
making fainter and fainter resistance
as the strength of the loyal troops was
made apparent to them.
Scene of Many Battles.
The Smolny institute was reported
in previous dispatches to have been
put in a state of defense preparatory
to withstanding a siege if necessa ry.
The Bolsheviki numbered sailors Of
the Kronstadt garrison in their forces
and were fairly well armed with both
rifles and machine guns.
Apparently the fighting centered on
the Nevsky Prospekt-the same
street which has already been repeat
edly dyed with the blood of various
revolutionists. 1t was along this thor
ofare that the cars guards made
their last stand against the victorious
duma revolutionists back in March:
where the Kronstadt rebels swept
along with their automobiles a few
months later. spattering death: and
along which. during the last week. the
BolsheviH executed their coup i'm seiz-
ing control of governmental machin-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-13
GUARD EGG HOARD
Federal Agents ''F'ind'' in N. Y. Store
houses Now Total S4,294,OOO

his hunt for hidden food in New York
Chief Flynn of the secret service to-
day placed guards over $1,00O,OO0
worth of eggs. unearthed in cold stor-
age here. This discovery brings the
total value of boarded eggs found to
$4294,434. Flynn is awaiting advices
from Washington before seizing the
boarded foodstuffs and necessities
here and putting them on sale
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-13
WILSON BACK AT HELM
Makes No Depot Speeches But Shakes
Hands on Trip from Buffalo.

Washington, Nov. 12.-Fresh from
a flying trip to Buffalo to address the
opening session of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor convention, President
Wilson resumed his duties at the
White House today.
On his return trip last night he
shook hands with the crowds at sew
eraI stations but made no speeches to
them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-13
SHELDON IN EUROPE
Topeka Pastor Lands SafeIy-Didn't
Miss a Meal on Voyage.

DR.. Charles NJ. Sheldon. Topeka
pastor, has arrived safely in England
according to "a letter read this noon at
the Congregational meeting at the
Chamber Of Commerce.
He arrived safely and hadn't missed
a meal on the voyage and his hair
isn't any greyer on account of the
trip, the letter states
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-13
QUESTION HIS LOYALTY
Indiana State University German Pro-
fessor Is Under Fire.

Bloomington, Ind. Nov. 13.-Prof.
w. E Zeuch of the German depart
nent of Indiana university was under
fire today on the charge of writing
pro- German letters.
letter which he is said to have
published was called to the attention
of the county council of defense and
an investigation ordered by President
William Lowe Bryan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-13

The committee in charge of raising
Topeka's apportionment is composed
of Mrs. Paul Walker. chairman, Mrs.
James Mcclure, Mrs Chas. L Mitch
ell, Mrs Clark Zugg, Mrs w T. Cros-
by. Mrs. r. H. Herrick, Mrs. David
Mulvane Mrs. Dick Alden Mrs.
Frank Foster. and Misses Mary Mac
Lehman, Violet Crumbine. Ernestine
Klein, Edna Hopkins, and Bernice
Ema hiZer-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-13
Forces of Former Premier Al-
ready Capture Part of City.
BOlSheviki Take Refuge in the
SmOlny Institute.
BATTLE RACES THRU STREETS
Nevsky PrOspekt Already Dyed
in RevOIutiOniStS' Blood.
Sailors From KrOnstadt Fight
ing for Lenine Regime.
(BUILETIN.)

Stockholm, Nov. 13.-Generai kor-
niIoff has entered Petrograd where
the entire garrison except for the sail
ors. went over to his side. according
to IA Pctrograd dispatch TO the Social
Demokratcn under Mondays date.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-13
INDIAN SUMMER OVER
Little Sunshine Is Promised During
the Next 48 Hours.

Temperatures for the day furnished
by the local office of the United
States yxeafher b11reau.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-13

WEATHER FORECAST for Kansas:
Partly cIoddy tonight and
Wednesday. Not much change in
temperature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-13
Lenine and Trotzky Flee.

Among the reports heard Is one in
dicating that Lenine and TTotzky are
Continued on Page TwoD
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-13

", NJ campaign workers should ]
collectors instead of solicitor
People should give without asking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-09
NEED RAIN BADLY
Farmers in All Parts of State
Praying for Moisture.
Corn About the Only Crop That
Hasn't Been Hurt.

With the exception of northwestern
Kansas and a few central and we@Srn
counties which were favored with
rains on June 27 and %, Kansas is in
the grip of a severe drouth that al
! ready has seriously damaged oats.
barley and even wheat in the western
counties and has cut short the potato
crop in all parts. Such is the far
/ from encouraging news contained in
the weekly summary of weather and
crop conditions in Kansas for the
week ending July 3, issued by the sec
ton center of the weather bureau
here.
Corn and grain sorghums and, in
the southwest counties, broom corn
are practically the only crops that
have not yet been damaged by the
drouth. declares the report. They are
all behind the season and much of
them have not been replanted. In
the northeastern counties corn made
a satisfactory growth this week, con-
tinues the summary, but elsewhere its
growth was slow and will be still
| slower unless rain comes soon.
Wheat harvest is under way gen
| orally in the eastern two-thirds of the
state with very favorable weather.
| says the report. I'm the southeastern
and central counties it has barely be-
| gun. In the extreme western counties
the condition of wheat is so poor that
| harvest will not be much of an event
Threshing will begin in the southern
Dat Crop Fine.
An unusually large and fine crop of
| oats is ready to cut in the eastern
third of the state. In the central
counties, oats has been prematurely
ripened by the dry, hot weather, and
in the extreme western sections the
| crop is a practical failure
THE second cutting of alfalfa IS
generally ready in the eastern coun-
| ties and its harvest has begun with
favorable weather. Like pastures and
/ prairie hay, it has been injured by
| the drouth except in a few localities
where rain has fallen lately.
Apples still are in fair condition
The use of early apples has begun in
the southern counties"
June Dry Month.
western Kansas experienced almost
a record breaking droutn during the
month of June, 1917, altho the month
| brought favorable weather in north
eastern counties, according to a report
! issued by the weather bureau here tC-
| day for June. The summary of
weather conditions is basel on sta
| tons in the state that cover conditions
! in every county.
June was an unusually windy
month, the report declares, with vide
| spread and destructive tornadocs and
hailstorms on the first and fifth. The
number of clear days has not been ex-
ceeded by any previous June on the
state record.
THE first three weeks were cool
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-09
IN HEART OF CITY
Girls Tell of Alleged Hotel Dis
orderly House.
AffidaVits Made by Women and
Two POrterS.
.JITNEY DRIVrr'n. CAUGHT IN NET
He Is Said To Have Hauled
Women to the Place.
Country Boy Caught When
Hotel Was Raided.
.JITREY DRIVE'n. CAUGHT IN NET

According to affidavits .rade today
in the county attorneys cffice by two
girls and two porters, the Sixth Ave-
nue. hotel, in the heart of Topeka. has
been operated as a typical disorderly
house for some months. Growing out
of the affidavits. signed ana sworn to,
warrants were issued this afternoon
charging CLONES against L. c. Bou-
ton, proprietor of the hotel. Archie
and Charlie Bouton, sons of the pro-
prietor and w. II. Scott, a jitney driv-
er.
L. C. Bouton is carged with operat-
Ing a disorderly house. Archie and
Charlie Bouton are charged with aid
ing in the operation of =. disorderly
house. Scott, the jitney driver, is
charged with aiding by hauling wo-
men to the lotel when they were
required for disorderly purposes.
The penalty for conviction on the
charges in the warrants - a term in
the penittntiary of from one to five
years.
The affidavits were made by Edith
Carter Esther Hulvey, Bud Bishop,
Leo. Mendenhall and F w. Mack
Bishop is a country boy from Emmett
who said he stayed at the hotel Sat
urday night because lie missed his
train to Kansas City. Men0onhall and
Mack are porters at the hotel
Edith Carriers affidavit was accom-
panied by a storm of weeping. She
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-09
JOURNAI-MONDAY EVENING, JULY

and pleasant, continues the sum
mary, with the lowest June tempera-
ture on record in the state on the Sec
ond, when the temperature fell to 80
degrees UnreaSonably cool weather
occurred again in the EASTERN counties
on the fifteenth. The last days of the
month were exceptionally hot, with
temperatures of 100 to 10 degrees in
almost all parts on the thirtieth and
an extreme temperature of 112 de-
grees at Phillipsburg, which is the
Kansas since the drouth of 1911.
Rain in East Good.
THE average rainfall over the east
the middle third, 2O7 inches; the
western third, 1.27 inches, and for the
whole state, 2.20 inches, which is 2.13
inches below normal and makes the
month the fourth driest June on rec
ord The amounts were deficient in
all except a few northeastern counties.
Most of the rain fell the first
week, except in the northeast portion,
where there was a fine rain June 81
and IS. By the time hot weather ar
rived last week, the drouth became
acute in the western portion, where
this has been the tenth consecutive
month with the precipitation below
normal At several stations in the
is a long weather record, the last
twelve months have been the driest
on record.
Crops made good growth in all
parts the first ten days, but in the
western portion oats, barley and even
wheat were greatly damaged the lat
ter part of the month";
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-09
SAYS STORY UNTRUE
Allan Knox, Perry, Okla, Says He
Didn't Buy Potatoes for Salinan.

On July the State journal printed
a story, telegraphed from Salina, to
the effect that the Santa Fe agent at
Perry, Okla, refused to ship a carload
of potatoes to J. ]. Sullivan of Salina
mission merchants had a corner on
freight cars. The story stated that
Sullivan said the potatoes were pur-
chased for 81 to s1.25 a bushel. Sew
eral other papers printed the story.
j. r. KoontZ, general freight agent
for the Santa F'e, has been investigat-
ing Su1livan's statements and declares
they are untrue. He produced today
an affidavit from Allan Knox of Perry,
wherein Knox stated he didn't buy
any potatoes for Sullivan. H R.
Teasdale, division freight agent, as
serts he interviewed grocerymen at
Perry and they said the lowest prices
for potatoes they have paid has been
S225 a buShel
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declared, in her sworn statement, that
she had stayed at the hotel a great
deal and had a regular room for
which she paid no rent. She stated
that she was subject to call by the
porters at all times, and that when
they called her she went to the room
designated by them. When she left
the room, she said, she gave the por-
ter so cents.
The affidavit of the country boy,
Bud Bishop, caught when the police
raided the place Saturday night. dove
tailed in with the Edith Carter affi-
davit perfectly.
Police Caught Him.
when went to my room, for
which I paid rs cents" he said, the
porter approached me-" Bishop then
states that the porter left and in
came Esther Hulvey and that they
were together when the police raided
the ulace.
The Hulvey girl made an extended
statement of her stay at the Sixth
Avenue hotel. She admitted in the
statement that she Thought a lot Of
paid any room rent at the hotel. She
told of answering numerous calls
made by the porters. 1t was thru her
affidavit that w. H. Scott, the Jitney
driver, was brought into the case. She
declared that when there was short
lars" was missing Scott was sent out
after them and that he took them to
the hotel
The affidavits made by the two porters
told practically the same story They told
of answering calls of men taking rooms az
the hotel and of taking either Esther
Hulvey or Edith Carter to their rooms
The girls gave a wealth of detail in re-
gard to the operation of the place which
can be used as evidence, in addition to the
statements made in the affidavits: No
charge has been made by the officers
against the two porters, in the court of
Topeka They were all arrested by the
police department and are either IN jail or
held under bond to the city.
If arrangements can be made the pre-
liminary hearing of those from whom
felony warrants have been issued will be
held Tuesday in the court of Topeka.
Both of the girls striking in appear
ance. They were well dressed and they
wept as easily as children while Hugh
Fisher, Chief Jim" Wilson and Paul Heinz
were taking their statements.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-09
PLAN BIG LODGE CITY
Topeka and Kansas Moose Start a
Mooseheart Boom.

Topeka members of the Loyal Or
der of Moose have started a campaign
to make Mooseheart, I'LL, one of the
greatest fraternal cities in the United
States. According to the plan sug
gested by the local order, every state
in the union will pay for the erection
of a lodge building at the hospital
school city of the Moose.
Kansas will probably be the first
state to have a building at the camp
built and named for a state. Topeka
lodge No. 524. will furnish $1,000 for
the building and other Kansas
branches will supply the rest of the
money. Already collections amount
ing to $3.50 have been secured from
Topeka Moose: L. M. Penwell, Gov.
Arthur Capper, C. B. Hypes and H.
L. Watson have been the contributors.
Definite action on the question of
each state building a single dormi-
tory, hospital or school will proba bly,
be taken at the national convention
of the order, to be held in Pittsburg.
Pa. July %
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STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
Bolt Hit National Guardsman Who
Was Guarding Bridge.

Paul Fonck, an enlisted man in
Company K, Third Missouri infantry.
was hit by a bolt of lightning shortly
after o'clock Sunday night while
standing guard at the north end of the
Rock Island bridge here.
The Missourian fell unconscious to
the ground. He was picked up by a
relief squad and carried to the COM
pany camp at Second and Tyler
streets. There, he was given first aid
treatment by Carl Kerchoof of the
sanitary detachment.
Fonck is still confined to his cot to-
day. 1t was said by those attending
him that he will recover.
The Missouri contingent, of which
Fonck is a member has been in To-
peka guarding the bridge since short
ly after the entrance of this country
into the war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-09
THE COMEBACK"

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