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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
$4,000 To CITY
FINS Written Today in Old
Sewer Scandal Case.
Surety Company Makes Final
Payment to WATSON.

F'iniS was written today by the city
commission to the Brooks & Gilmore
sewer scandal.
w. H. WATSON, finance commission
err, received a check for $4,000 from
the Title Guaranty and Surety COM
pany, bondsmen for Brooks Gilmore,
ment on a judgment for $4,000 OBJ
tanned by the city against the Surety
company recently after a fight in
coutrs which lasted many years.
The sewer scandal began a short
time after Brooks & Gilmore were
awarded the contract for installation
of a sewer in Topeka. Things didn't
go right and the city, then under the
council form of government, was
forced to make an investigation which
disclosed, it is claimed that the con-
tractors padded estimates.
Credit to Dreaming.
After considerable see-sawing thru
different courts the city sued the sure
ty company as the bondholders. Frank
H. Dreaming, city attorney when the
scandal was disclosed, has had charge
of the cases ever since for the city. His
bulldog tendency to hang on to the
case, when everyone else wanted him
to stop, was responsible for the judge
ment.
The $4,000 of the $2O,sOO which
was previously paid the city was sent
to WATSON recently in the form of
two $4,000 installment checks.
Under the motion of Commissioner
WATSON today the city commission has
directed a release of judgement to the
surety company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
Hope to Add S2O,OOO,OOO Thru
out q. S. Today.
Also Begin Campaign for 10000
Volunteers to Army.
EXPECT AN OVERSUBSCRIPTION
Workers Hustle to Run Fund
Past 100 Million Mark.
Military Strength Up 100000
Men in Last 3 Months.

New York, June 25.-The total in
Red Cross campaign to pledge $780,
600. 900 for war relief work reached
sS6,625,14s46 at noon today. OF this
sum, New York alone has subscribed
s32,674,562. Cleveland, Ohio, remains
the banner city of the country.
Miss Katherine Stinson, Red Cross
aviator, landed at Governors Island
after a morning flight from Albany
shortly afternoon today. She expect
ed to resume and complete the flight
from Buffalo to Washington this at
ternoon, hoping to reach the national
capital in time to catch a 6:O5 p m.
train back to Chicago
Every City Helping.
Washington. June 25.-Seventy
thousand recruits for the regular
forces this week and about $20,OOo,-
900 Red Cross funds by tonight
those are needs for which American
war chiefs strove today.
Every city and town thruout the
land is aiding both movements.
This is "Pershing day''-in the Red
Cross campaign for $1OO, OOO,O 900 and
in their last hour efforts. Red Cross
workers the country over are des-
heavy over-subscription by the time
Red Cross week formally ends to-
night.
Enemy Watches Every Move.
Meantime street corner recruiting,
mass meetings, newspaper advertising
and boosting are aiding the gathering
of the needed 10000 men to fill exist
ing gaps in the regular army. War
chiefs here say that the enemy
watches and that hence America must
show that, despite selective draft
America still has the volunteer spirit
The army, navy and marine corps
have added over 100000 men in the
last three months. about as follows:
Regular army increased from the
loo, 900 mark to $50. 900 .-s-.--
National guard rose from l 900 to
1000. e
Marine corps from 1900 to nearly
10000.
The navy has added $4,000 or more
to it's list while some thousands OF
engineers or other special branches
have been added to the military
branches. making the total around the
half million mark.
Chicago Shy IS 800 900.
Chicago, June 25.-While s3,500.0OO
was lacking today to make up Chi
Cages allotment of s5,000,000 to the
$10O,000,e00 Red Cross fund leaders OF
the campaign expressed the belief that
the amount would be raised before the
close of the campaign at midnight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
KNOWS The MAN
Larimer To Lay Details Mary
MyerS's Death Before Parents.
Facts To Be Kept Quiet Until
They Act.

Since Saturday noon Hugh Larimer
sheriff, has spent most of his time in
vestigating the mysterious death of
Mary Eliza Myers, the young school
mistress from Centralia, at the Roam
hotel in Topeka Friday morning He
has learned the identity of the young
man who brought the girl to Topeka
Thursday evening and took her to
the hotel. He has dug up a lot of
other facts which he will lay before
the girls family at Centralia. Until
he does that, he stated today, he will
not make the facts public.
The death certificate signed by a DR.
McGrew of Holton who was called to
the hotel, stated that the death was
due to acute pancreatitis Sheriff Lar
inner talked with DIR. McGrew since
The physician stated that the girl liy-
ed only a short time after he was call.
ed and that he spent his time trying
to save her life; that the Immediate
cause of her death was as he stated
but that he made no extended exam
ination and there might have been
other conditions.
After the matter has been taken up
with the family of the dead girl an
other and a more complete examina-
ton of the body may be made No ac-
ton will be taken until the Myers
family at Centralia has been consult
ed. 1t has been stated here that the
girls family is among the wealthy
and prominent families of their Sec
ton of the state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
TO CAMP TODAY
First Kansas Troops Leave
Home Station Under Orders.
Topeka Hospital Corps Goes to
Fl. Riley to Train.

The first Kansas National Guards
men to be ordered into federal service
at a post removed from their home
station, left Topeka this morning for
Fort Riley where they were mustered
into federal service at 1880 o'clock.
The troop ordered to Riley was
the Field Hospital corps No. 1, Kansas
national guards, composed of nine
men, four sergeants and five privates,
first class. The roll of the corps is:
First sergeant: Jim A. Hawkins.
Sergeants: Albert G. Gurther, Glen
F. Logan and Thomas E. Dewey.
Privates, first class: Sidney Arbuth-
not, Allie E. Holcomb, Henry H. Tay-
lor and James Weaver.
The nine men left Topeka this
morning on the 10:48 Union Pacific
train, bound for the fort They form
ed in marching line at the recruiting
station, at 112 East Seventh street
and marched north on Kansas avenue
to the depot, carrying their blankets,
canteens. and dressed for actual SER
vice.
Three Months at Riley.
The nine men probably saw Topeka
for the last time until the war is over.
according to DIR. Seth A. Hammel.
They will be stationed at Fort Riley
for three months attending the medi-
cal training camp that has been open
ed there for the hospital and medical
units of the. national guardsmen of
the west. At the end of the. three
months they will come back again to
the national guardsmen, but probably
not in Topeka. The guardsmen will be
modified and encamped by that time,
according to Hammel. So as the train
pulled out, nine men of Topeka saw
the last glimpse of the state house
dome in times of war.
The nine men will constitute a class
of the 500 medical students at the fort
All enlisted for the period of war AT
the end of their three months course
of study they will meet the Kansas
Sill Okla
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
OUT BY JULY 6
Topeka Engineers Expect To
Leave Here by That Date.
Equipment Has Been Ordered
Men Not Dissatisfied.

A company, Topeka engineers, or
dered into the federal service last
week, will leave Tapeka for Fort
Riley, July 6, according to announce
ment made today from the office of
Charles 1. Martin, brigadier general.
Equipment for the men has been or
dered and is expected to meet them
at Fort Riley. Meantime, they are
drilling at WaShburn campus.
Alleged action to stir up discomfort
among the men on account of lack of
equipment has been a failure, accord
ing to officials in the brigadier gen.
erals office. 1t was stated that Capt.
Glenwood McLain, commander of A
company, called at the brigadier gen.
erals office today, and volunteered
the information that any reported dis
satisfaction among the men was based
on error.
Their equipment has been ordered
and will meet them either here or at
Fort Riley" said a military official
today. I'VE didn't know they would
be ordered out first and consequently
made no effort to get their equipment
here before that of any other guard
unit. After it was learned they had
been ordered out, We wired to rush
their equipment, doing all that any
one could under such circumstances"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
Denounced in Scathing Resolution
Demanding His Resignation.

Chicago, June 25.-Alderman Ker-
ner, chairman of the judiciary COM
mittee of the city council, at special
meeting of that body today, presented
resolution calling upon Mayor
Thompson to resign The resolution
was a substitute for the one intro
duced in Fridays riotous session, in
structing the committee to investigate
Thompson's actions toward the coun-
Gil and school board. with a view to
impeachment proceedings.
The resolution recited that the may
or had ''ruthlessly, wilfully and
wrecklessly trampled on the rights of
the city council and that he was
considered mo longer fit to be trust
ed with executive power" and that
his usefulness as presiding officer of
the city council is at an end" The
resolution concluded by calling upon
him to resign that the people may
choose a mayor more fit for the Of
flee
An alderman was sent to the may
ors office to summon him to defend
himself, but he was absent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
Soldiers Also Use BayOnets in
Irish Uprising.
One Killed and Hospitals Hold
Many Wounded.
WOMEN LEAD POTATO MOB
Raid Ships at Rotterdam; Seize
Ton of Spuds.
Germany and England Rivals
for Holland Cargo.

Cork, June 25.-Machine guns
were used on the Sim Feiners in the
disturbance here yesterday morning.
They were brought into action after
the police with clubs had failed to
restore order. The soldier cordoned
various points while the police chased
the rioters to side streets. After hav-
ing borne much Stoning the police or
dered that the guns be fired on the dis
turbers. One rioter was killed and
another severely wounded, while a
dozen were treated in hospitals for
bayonet and other wounds. The riot
was eventually quelled without the
troops coming into action.
Many Policemen Hurt.
London, June 25.-The number of
persons injured more or less seriously
in the rioting in Cork last night IS
given as about thirty. in a Central
news dispatch from that city. One
police inspector was injured seriously
and several policemen had narrow
escapes. When machine guns were
trained on the crowd most of the
rioters disappeared.
Food Riots in Holland.
London, June 25.-A dispatch to the
Times from Amsterdam reports that a
crowd of women Stormed a dozen
barges in the inner harbor of Rotter-
dam, Saturday and seized about a ton
of potatoes destined for England. The
barges which were loaded with IL. 600
tons OF were Inen removed 10
the outer harbor, guarded by police.
The trouble, whereof the foregoing is
a mere incident. has arisen according
to the correspondent between Holland
and England and Germany. Germany
expected last week a consignment of
new potatoes in return for German ex-
ports of coal to Holland.
Before a consignment could be
made IL 900 tons of old potatoes had
to be shipped to England under con-
tract The people of Rotterdam. who
are themselves insufficiently supplied
| learning that these potatoes were
awaiting shipment, raided the barRes
Meanwhile the Germans are threatens
| ing to cease coal supplies unless the
potatoes are sent.
The correspondent says that If the
| Dutch yield to German pressure. and
] send these potatoes to Germany they
will break their agreement with Eng
land and endanger their supply of
grain from America which might
p owe as serious as the loss OF German
| coal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
Kansas Farmers May Sow II
Million Acres This Fall.
State Council of Defense An
nOunces Future Crop Plans.
A STATE SURVEY
All Available Seed Wheat VIII
Be Listed by Workers.
President Waters of X. s. A. G..
Behind Big Campaign.

Henry j. Waters, president of the
Kansas State Agricultural college and
chairman of the Kansas council of
defense, announced today that the
1cil will Immediately begin a cam
aigr which it is hoped will result in
the farmers of the state sowing ten
million acres of wheat this fall, an
acreage far greater than any ever
sown in the history of the state
With this campaign in view the
State Agricultural college has had a
force of men making a wheat survey
of the state to determine the locali-
ties where better results can be OBJ
tanned and also to determine the dis
tricts from which the farmers can eX-
pect to get seed wheat for fall SOW
ing. These workers, President Wa
tiers announced, will report to the
council of defense at a meeting to be
held here next Monday.
Two Months Campaign.
The council of defense will devote
all of its time during July and August
to campaign to increase the wheat
acreage next year, and one of the
features of the program is that of
having all of the railroads of the state
run wheat specials which will be sup
piled with all the data gathered by
the agents of the agricultural college
and on which there will be men who
will urge the farmers to put in more
wheat.
One of the details of the drive for
the biggest wheat crop Kansas ever
produced is that of listing the names
and places where seed wheat can be
procured this fall Then an effort
will be made to put this information
at the disposal of all farmers who de-
sire to take part in the big drive but
who may not be able to get the kind
and quality of seed they desire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
Arrests for Failure to Register
Growing in Number.
Ray Daum, Farmers Son, En-
tiers Plea of Guilty.
NOT A STACKER IN Topeka
Walter G.. Vogel, Alien, Re.
leased; Given Zone Permit.
Twenty-Five Men Under Arrest
in the State Now.

Twenty-Five men, according to Fred
Robertson, United States district at
torney, are under arrest in Kansas
and charged with evasion of the mill
tary registration law. Robertson de-
clared he expects to make as many
more arrests within the next two or
three days.
During the brief time a westbound
Union Pacific train stopped in Topeka
today at noon, the federal district at
torney. on his way to Belleville, in con-
nection with some registration arrests,
summed up the Stacker situation in
this state. In announcing the number
of arrests that have been made, and
the additional ones expected, Robert
son officially gave the three cities of
Topeka. Wichita and Kansas City,
Kan, which contain the largest popu-
lation of any in Kansas, a clean bill of
patriotism.
Il do not know" he said, "of a sin
gle positive case of failure to register
in any of those three cities. 1 make
this statement after a thoro investiga-
ton. From Shawnee county alone we
received reports totaling 200. Three
hundred reported failures to register
came from Sedgwick, containing
Wichita. When we first started out
probing cases we had about 100 to
investigate in Wyandotte. None of
those 900 reported cases materialized-
Not One Arrest.
1T was found that those who were
turned in as having failed to register
had either registered, joined some
branch of military service or were not
in the age limits. Not one arrest, 50
far as 1 know now, will be made in
the three cities of Topeka, Wichita
and Kansas City, the three largest in
Kansas"
Among those whom Robertson has
caused to be placed under arrest in
kansas is Albert C. Schroeder, Ellis
worth, and James Casper of Clay Cen
ter. Casper is an official of the I.
w. w, according to Robertson. He
was caught with his credentials in his
pocket.
Ysabel Guerra and Hipolito Comes,
two Mexicans, are under arrest at
Relleville The two refused point
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
New Angle Hurls Confusion and
Dismay in Senate.
House Passed Bill With Only
Five Votes Against 1t.
mo COMPROMISE" WILSON
President Centers His Guns on
Senate for Finish Fight.
Bone Dry Amendment Upset
Prospects in the Senate.

washington, June 25.-The liquor
question has hurled confusion. dismay
and vast uncertainty into the senate
fight for food control.
Just as it appeared that the admin
istration, holding the upper hand with
the aid of powerful Republican sup
port, was to force passage of the bill,
this week, the bone dry" amendment
adopted by the house completely up
set everything today.
Vets who favored the bill are
hedging. "Drys" are split on the ex-
tent to which war prohibition should
be inaugurated at this time.
Danger of a filibuster by the liquor
contingent in the upper house was adj
mitted.
President Wilson's position IN his
senate fight is for food control with
out compromise.
Friends of the administration mea-
sure are in complete accord with this
and declared today that opposition in
the senate, numerically at least, is
confidently expected to prove to be no
greater than in the house, where only
five votes were cast against the bill.
House Includes Bone Dry"
Inclusion by the house of a bone
dry section may split opposition to
the bill in the senate. That amend
ment and others adopted in the lower
branch served to scatter antagonists
in the senate to the point where con-
fusion is noted in their ranks today.
The senate will probably retain
some prohibition section but sentiment
is more inclined to favor the discon-
tinuance of distilled spirits manufac-
ture but not stoppage of beers and
wines.
Retention by the senate of this
CONTINUED on Page TwoD
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
TAFT AT WHITE HOUSE
Adviser of President on Draft Method
He May BE Judge.

Washington, June 25.-Ex-Presi-
dent William Howard Taft called at
the White House this afternoon on re-
quest of the president.
1t was presumed Taft was to discuss
the selective draft exemption regula-
tions. He has been one of the presf-
dents principal advisers in this matter
which will affect the ten million men
of America who registered for service
in the new armies of the republic
While the White House was silent
regarding the personnel of the "su-
preme court" of the exemption organ
ization which will have the last word
in excusing men who claim exemption.
it was authoritatively reported today
that Taft will be asked to serve as a
chief justice of this supreme tribunal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
RED CROSS GIRLS
COLLECT FARES ON
STREET CARS TODAY

Springfield, Mo-, June 25.-Girls
wearing Red Cross uniforms took the
places of the regular conductors on
the cars of the Springfield Traction
company today collecting and retain
ing all the fares for the local chapter
of the Red Cross.
The company's entire days receipts
were donated to the fund being raised
in Springfield for war relief work.
Few offered tickets in payment for
rides and it cost many a passenger
from dime to a dollar to reach his
destination.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
Garden City Man Made Commander
of New Kansas Regiment.

Col. w. Med. Rowan of Garden City
has been appointed commander of the
new Third Kansas Volunteer Infantry
regiment. Announcement of the ap-
pointment of Colonel Rowan was
made today from the office of Charles
|. Martin. adjutant general.
Colonel Rowan has been known in
Kansas military circles for years
Prior to his appointment as comman-
der of the Third infantry, Colonel
Rowan was lieutenant colonel in the
Second infantry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25

The temperature today averaged 2
degrees below normal. The wind was
blowing twelve miles an hour from
the south.
Hot weather and no rain is the pre-
diction for tonight and tomorrow
made this morning by S. D. Flora,
local meteorologist. Sunday precipita-
ton at Topeka measured only .01 of
an inch. Crops are feeling the drouth,
grass has stopped growing and every
thing is dry as the state itself
The predictions of the day promises
,Continned on Page TwoI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
T. RS SONS TO FRANCE
Theodore, Jr.. and Archibald Are
Members of Pcrshing's Staff.

New York, June 25.-With the an
nouncement from his own lips that
his two sons, Theodore. jr., and Arch
ibald, have gone to France and will
be attached to General Pershing's
staff, Theodore Roosevelt today made
good on half his pre-war promise
that he would give his four boys to
battle for Uncle Sam.
The colonel added that Kermit and
Quentin will follow. DR.. Richard
Derby, "T. RS" son -in-law, is a major
in the army reserve medical corps.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
SIGNS EXPORT BILL
President to Control Even
Cut Exports to Foreign Nations.

Washington, June 25.-President
Wilson today signed the export con-
troll bill placing into effect the license
and embargo provisions to restrict the
shipment of food commodities to for
eign nations.
The president coincidentally created
an executive council. to be composed
of representatives of the department
of state, agriculture, commerce and
food administration, to decide all
matters of foreign policy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
ENDS FLIGHT TODAY

Albany. n. Y. June 25.-Miss Kath-
crime Stinson, who is making an air
flight from Buffalo to Washington in
the interest of the National Red Cross,
left on the second leg of her trip
shortly after 10 g. m. today. She ex-
pected to reach Washington late in
the afternoon. She planned to fol-
low the Hudson to New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
CONTRACT MORE SHIPS
Jobs Awarded for 10 Steel, Wooden
and 20 HuIls, by Cocktails.

Washington, June 25.-Contracts
for ten complete steel merchant ships,
four complete wooden merchant YES
sells and twenty wooden ship hulls
were announced today by Major Gen
eral Goethals. general manager of the
emergency fleet corporation. Deliy-
cries will be made in 1918.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
BANK CALL ISSUED TODAY
National Banks to Report Condition
of Business of June 90.

Washington, June 25.-The comp
troller of the currency today issued a
call for the condition of all national
banks at the close of business Wednes-
day, June 20.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
REWARD AIR RAIDER
German Who Conducted Disastrous
Attack on England Gets Medal.

London, June 25.-An Amsterdam
dispatch to the Times says that Cap
tain Brandenburg, who conducted the
German air raid on London June 10,
in which a large number of persons
were killed and wounded, has re-
ceived the order Pour LIE Merite from
the German government
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
TO BE COOLER TUESDAY
No Rain in Sight for Topeka. Weather
Man Announces.

Hourly temperature readings for
the day reported by the local office
of the United States weather bureau:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25

RABBITS not only are cheaper than
chickens, but it's easier to skin
'em than pick 'cm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25

WEATHER FORECAST for Kansas:
Generally fair tonight and Tues
day. Cooler Tuesday.
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AFTER MAYORS SCALP

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