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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
Petrograd Sounds Warnings OF
"Final Breach"
Russian Delegate Goes Home
on Recess Tuesday.
new MUT|NY IN THE NAVY
SIays Execute 81 Naval Officers
at SebastOpOl. J
Russian "Art City" Looted by
Soldiers; POpulace Flees.

London. Jan. 14-Warnings of the
possibility of final breach IN the
Russo-G German negotiations is the OUT
standing feature of the current news
from Petrograd. In the meantime
according to the correspondent OF the
Daily Mail in the Russian capital, the
armistice had been extended until
February- 1S-and the Russian edelega-
ton returns to Petrograd tomorrow,
but the peace negotiations will be re-
sumed after an interval at Warsaw.
Premier Lenine has returned to
Petrograd and is reported to be taking
an important part in guiding tne ne
gotiations with the central powers. al
tho avoiding the limelight. The cor
respondent of the Daily Mail says that
some extremists are dissatisfied with
Foreign Minister Trotzky's conduct or
the negotiations. thinking he is too
willing TO meet the German views, ana
they suggest that Lenine take his
place at future conferences
Mutiny at Scbastopol.
| A dispatch to the Times from ode ssa
| describes the disorders at Sebastopol
| in which sixty-two naval officers were
| killed as the result of two days OF
| butchery in which the horrors OF
Kronstadt were re-enacted. 1t Is ADD
( ed that most of those killed were
/
l1912 under the old regime held an
| inquiry into the rebellious sailors rev.
| olutionary union, which resulted in the
execution of many sailors and the exile
of others. The affair, apparently for
gotten, has now been brought uI
against those responsible, who were
regarded as meriting death. 1t is re-
ported in Odessa that the number OF
officers killed is greater than sixty
two.
The town of Killia at the mouth
of the Danube, which has been called
tie Russian Venice, another dispatch
Ito the Times says, was looted during
1.-The Christmas holidays by soldiers sta
toned there, assisted by hoodlums
Much of the town was burned, the
rioters firing the buildings after the
houses and shops were sacked The
work was done Systematically. show
ing that preparation had been made
beforehand.
The population fled in terror. Some
crossed into Russia while others scat
i tered into the surrounding country
here they are destitute. Still Others
came to Odessa by steamer. The per
petrators of the outrage also came t6
take trains north without being
molested.
Foreign Loans Void.
The superior council of nationa
commissaries. according to a Reuter-
dispatch from Petrograd, has drafted
a decree declaring null and void al
national loans issued by the imperia
and bourgeois Lvoff- Kerensky) gov
ernments. All domestic loans held b.
foreigners are to be annulled withOu
reservation.
! The only loans to be declared valit
are short term loans and the series o
the national treasury.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
Deny Capt. Whistler Was Given
Privilege of Killing Self.
Went to Room at Once Upon
Hearing of WOrnall's Recovery.

Camp Funston, Jan. 14.-Major
John c. H. Lee, chief of staff, today
made public the details leading up to
the suicide Saturday of Captain Lewis
R. Whistler, who Friday night robbed
the army bank here, killing four per-
sons and wounding fifth. Major
Lees statement was given out to re-
flute a suggestion that Captain Whis-
Ter had been given an opportunity to
commit suicide as a form of main
tanning the honor of the army
Major Lees statement follows:
Captain Whistler was sitting in his
Office in Company E barracks and
overheard a conversation between the
top sergeant and company clerk in the
next room. One of them made the
statement that Wornall had recov-
cred sufficiently that he believed he
could select the name of the mur-
derer from the list of depositors.
Captain Whistler opened the door
between his office and the room where
the two men were talking. and said:
What's that you said about Wor-
nall recovering ?'
Repeat His Last Words.
''Whisler was told what they had
just been saying and seemed to stand
dazed for minute. Half to himself
ana half to the sergeant and clerk. he
said:
We'll, if that's the case, they are
bound to catch the murderer
Those were his last words. Going
back into his office, he closed the
door, and in a few seconds the report
of a rifle was heard, followed closely
by the second shot. The door to his
office was not locked and men rushed
in but he was dead before they reach
ed him.
( ITO include Captain Whistler in the
class where the lenient terms of the
unwritten law of the army applies is
to slander the sense of justice and
right of the officers of this command"
kearney Wornal1, the only survivor
of the five men who were in the army
bank, is recovering steadily at the
base hospital at Fort Riley. AS he is
the only man who has an intimate
knowledge of the affairs of the bank,
the exact amount of the missing funds
probably will not be known until he
RECEIVERS sufficiently to assist in the
calculation.
Whistler May Have Used Mails.
Federal bank examiners and mill
tary accountants have been una BILE so
+ far to determine the exact balance
supposed to be in the bank Friday
night Major Frank Wilbur Smith
based his estimate of $1,000 to $780,
| 900 as the amount missing on the
guess of Wornall who arrived at those
figures merely from watching Whistler
put the money in a sack.
! Investigators under Major Smith
head of the intelligence department
are working today on the theory that
the mails were used by Captain Whis-
Ter to send the loot to an accomplice
So far as the investigators would an
nounce this theory is based on circun-
stantiaI evidence suggested by the fact
that CAPTAIN Whistler was a railway
mail clerk before entering the officers
| training school at Fort Riley.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
WRECK KILLS 16
Fast Train Crashes Thru Switch
Into Passenger, Train.
Bursting Steam Pipes Scald
Trapped Victims to Death.

Calvert. Tex, Jan. 14.-The north
bound OWL passenger train on the
Houston & Texas Central railroad
five miles from Bremono, at 3:45 this
morning, killing sixteen persons and
badly iniuring fourteen others.
The secoI coach, which was a
chair car, was smashed into splinters
The dead include four soldiers,
three women, two boys about Is, two
babies and five men No Identified
tions have yet been definitely made.
Several of the dead were badly
scalded by live steam escaping from
broken heating pipes of the shattered
day coaches. The Pullman coaches
did not leave the rails, according to
reports from relief parties. The acci-
dent was caused by the splitting of a
switch at the Hammond blind siding,
according to the best information OBJ
tainable.
Houston, Tex, jan 14-Sixteen per-
sons were killed and twenty injured
when a Houston & Texas Central
north-bound passenger train (the
"Owl') split a switch at Hammond
TeXas, early today, according to word
reaching company officials here at
noon.
The dead and injured were all on
eAlid tTdln NO 400. Dallas to Hearne,
standing on a siding at Hammond
The rear cars of the north-bor1nd
Owl cut the switch, crashing into the
extra train, bursting the steam pipes
and scalding the passengers to death
Several Soldiers Killed.
According to reports here several
soldiers are among the dead.
The train was No. IT. known as the
| Owl, and left here at 1880 last night
The wreck occurred when the head
end coach split a switch. The loco
motive tender, baggage car and mai
! car had passed safely over, but the
head-end car, with several other cars
took the siding. Several cars were
| overturned.
The wreck occurred at 1925 this
| morning. Hammond is on the mair
| line six miles south of Bremond and
! 131 miles north of Houston
The railroad wires went down dur.
ing a heavy rain storm.
/ Five soldiers, a woman, two girl.
and a baby were counted among the
| dead according to word from Bre.
| mond, near the scene of the wreck
| One man of the score or more injured
| also died shortly after the derailmer1t
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14

the federal district court in Kansas
City, Kan, today. Defendants with
Doctor Harding include Raymond L.
Moore, Mrs. Leonora WarneSon
Moore, his wife, and Earl Browder,
already convicted and under sentence
for similar offenses.
Attorneys for these three, it is said,
will ask dismissal of the charges on
the grounds that they cannot be placed
twice in jeopardy for the same offense.
Attorneys for the defense already have
filed motions to quash the indictments
or failing that postpone the trial.
The other defendants are Ike Gil
berg of Topeka, Ernest Newman of
Topeka, and George w. Kleihege of
Fort Scott, Kan. The charges grew
out of a meeting held in Topeka last
May at which it is alleged resistance
to the draft law was counseled-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
Million Dollar Fire in Quarter
masters Supplies.
Flames Sweep Thru Entire City
Block of Capital.
kiUNITION STORES "LET GO"
Flames Made Danger
Gus by Many Explosions.
Secretary of War Baker Starts
Investigation To Find Origin.

Washington, Jan. IA quantity of
army supplies, including $1.0OO.0o0
worth of food, was destroyed. the
quartermaster warehouse ruined and
several other buildings damaged by a
fire today at the Washington barracks
occupied by engineer troops The
flames were given impetus by the ex-
plosion of a quantity of gasoline stored
in one part of the big warehouse
After hard fight of an hour and
a half, the fire was extinguished. An
ordnance building containing a guam
tity of small arms ammunition was
endangered but soldiers removed what
was store d there. The origin of the
fire has not been disclosed by officials
at the post. A limited quantity of
clothing and shoes was destroyed
Fourth Mysterious Fire.
The blaze was the fourth of a series
of mysterious fires to break out in the
building during the last ten days.
Altho Lieut.. Col. }. II. Earle, in
charge of the post, stated no one is
suspected of firing the structure
three-story brick building covering "A
! solid block-the guard was doubled
around the grounds soon as the
flames were discovered and no cne all
! lowed to leave or enter No arrests
/
! Today the first flames were noted
about o'clock on the second floor
where mattresses and wood shav.ngs
were piled. This had no sooner been
extinguished than second fire broke
out in an adjoining section.
Burned Entire Block.
Washington, Jan. 14.-Fire of mys-
terious origin destroyed the quarter
masters storehouse and post commits
sary building al Washington barracks
= here today. The building, it was stated.
contained no explosives
Immediately after the fire broke
out, marines were thrown about the
grounds and no admission was grant,
ed, pending inquiry.
| The fire surged thru an entire city
square of buildings containing muni-
tions, food, clothing, general stores
Much of the structure was old and
officials long have feared that a dis
astrous fire might occur. Huge COL
umns OF smoke rose up from the
building. obseuring the entire south
eastern part of the city. Explosions
OF small arms which occurred from
time to time, rendered dangerous the
task of fighting the flames.
Sergeant White. Company B, engi-
neers, was injured when he Jumped
from second story window.
! Shaken by Explosion.
At 1905 o'clock terrific explosion
shook all buildings in the vicinity. 1t
was reported by the police that a large
quantity of ammunition had been
touched off
Shortly after 10 o'clock. Colonel
Earle sent two men into one portion
of the building and removed part of
the ammunition, all rifles and pistols.
1t is stated no other storehouses are
close to the burning structure.
Secretary Baker, informed of the
conflagration, went to the scene per-
sonally to start the investigation of its
cause.
Police reserves from eight precincts
were called upon to assist the military
in keeping outsiders from entering the
grounds and preventing anyone Ieav-
ing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
Must Get 500 Tons of Coal or
Close Down.
An Urgent Appeal Sent to Fuel
Director Today.
USE STORAGE SUPPLY NOW
Supply in Transit Only One
Third the Requirement.
City Will Be Paralyzed This
Week without Aid.

A. H. Purdy. superintendent of the
Topeka Edison Co. today appealed to
Emerson Carey, state fuel director,
for from 500 to 1000 tons of coal to
be delivered this week Unless that
amount of coal is obtained a shut
down of the monster power plant
here, which will shut off steam heat
ing, electric lights and power in the
city. is inevitable, Purdy told Carey
in a telegram. The telegram ad-
dressed to Carey says:
Using Storage Coal.
western Coal and Mining company,
Kansas City, shipped on our order Jan:
10, fifty-five tons, Jan. IL sixty i've
have been at least one hundred ana
fifty to two hundred tons day:
two hundred tons Started today, and
will need not less than a total OF eleht
hundred to one thousand tons shipped
to us this week. otherwise shut
down will be inevitable. which will shut
off all steam heating. electric lights
and power Nov have bacifsc in transit sner sersn
intendent Of Osawatonie' has been & aa.
vised of car numbers None OF THIS
coal is in yet"
The Edison power plant here, ac-
cording to Purdy. is today running
totally on storage coal. which mus
be crushed at the storage yards anc
hauled to the plant in trucks ant
wagons BY straining every effort th'
Edison company has succeeded in ob
tanning sufficient labor to do the work
The storage coal, Purdy says, VII
not last until Friday. Coal already il
transit must arrive before Friday ol
the city will be plunged in darkness
and will be without steam heat ant
| street car service
Little Coal in Transit.
| -.surdy today said that the tota
|, ipme:,ts in transit are comprised o
one car shipped Monday, three car
| Tuesday, three cars Wednesday, tW'
| cars Thur day, and two cars Friday
Nothing has been shipped from TN
mines Saturday, Sunday or today
/ The total amount of coal in transi
| is only about one-third enough to sup
ply the power plant for period cor
r,sponding with the time in which
| left the mines.
The Edison superintendent said thl
1lorning. that the moderated Weathe
| has relieved slightly the heavy steam
| load the Edison plant has been carry
! ing for the last several days The fue
situation, mo ever, is alleviated bu
| little.
Carey Promises Coal.
| C. H Danner, Shawnee county fue
/ director said today that he has ha
! the Edison company situation up wit
| Carey. Carey, Danner says. wired tha
he would see that coal was shipped! t
the Topeka company. None. however
has arrived
The coal shortage in Topeka grey
more critical Several yards wer
without fuel for sale and others ha
low supplies on hand
Two cars were delivered in the var
of one firm Sunday. The yard. as tn
cars were switched in, was crowde
with women, children and men, wit
baskets, sacks and wheelbarrows.
The waiting Topekans piled ont
! the cars filled their containers an
! carried them to the company scales t
be weighed. In a few minutes one G
the cars had been totally emptied.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
CITY MOURNS LOSS
Body of Trench and Camp Editor.
Slain by Robber. Arrives
at Springfield.

Springfield Mo. Jan. 1.-THE body
of John w. Jewell, one of the victims
of theV Camp Funston bank robbery
and murder arrived here this morn
ing. accompanied by Charles Nc
Gregor, father-in-law of the decedent;
Lieut. T w. Duvall. a close friend of
the Young publisher. and a delegation
of close friends of the family. The
body was taken to a local undertaking
establishment and is to be conveyed
to the home of the parents later in
the day.
Contrary to reports received by
relatives of the slain man. the face
was not mutilated by the axe blows
from the murderer and it will be pos
sible for the parents, widow and other
relatives to view the body.
stream of message of coincidence
have poured into the Jewell home
from all parts of the country and To-
cal florists are swamped with orders
for floral tributes.
Funeral Tuesday.
No change in the funeral arrange
ments have been made and the service
will be conducted at the residence of
the parents at 2:30 o'clock. Tuesday
afternoon. Interment will be in Ma
pie Park cemetery here.
1t became known today that young
Jewell and his father were to make
a trip east on January 20 and in all
probability the young man would have
been transferred to the government
service at Washington Mrs. Jewell
had delayed joining her husband at
Manhattan. Kan. after her Christ mas
holiday VISIT with her parents. because
of her husbands contemplated trip.
Trench and Camp, for Camp Fun
ston which is published from the of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
SPY WRECKED LINER
German Pilot Accused of Running
Ship Spokane on Rocks.

Seattle, Wash, Jan. 14.-Federal
agents asserted here today that Ger
man pilot masquerading as a helms
man, under the name of civilian
Swanson" stood at the wheel of the
Alaska liner, Spokane, when she
crashed on the rocks off Idol Point,
b. c., on the night of November -,
1917, while bound from SoutheasterE
Alaska for Seattle with 237 passen-
gers.
Swanson" has disappeared, the
agents said. with Carl Else. Ger
man, and Carle Wiltsche. an Austrian.
members of the crew. he was arrest
ed November % on his arrival here.
The three were released December I.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
CAPITOL IN MOURNING
Senator Brady's Body Will Be Gre
mated and Sent Back to Idaho.

Washington, Jan. 14.-Adjournmenf
of the senate and half masting of cap
itol flags were honors paid today to
Senator Brady of Idaho, who died of
heart trouble last night. Funeral ar
rangements will be made on the arrf-
val of the senator's two sons. who have
been storm bound in the middle west
while hurrying to Washington
Senator Brady's body will be Gre
mated here, probably after services
Wednesday. and the ashes taken later
to his former home at PocateIlo Ida
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
PUT EGGS ON MARKET
Government Will Force Cold Storage
Men to Give Up Stock.

ST. Louis, Mo. Jan. Announce
ment that a nationwide campaign
would be made by the food admins
tration to put on the market before
March 1, all eggs now in cold storage
was made today by Chairman Gephart
of the St. Louis food committee.
A price list to govern the sale of
storage eggs has been prepared and
the effort will be to prevent excess
profits.
Gephart said considerable food in
transit had perished during the recent
cold weather.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
IN SINGLE CASKET
Indian Boys Burned in Dormitory Fire
Will Be Buried in Steel Vault,

Muskogee, Okla. Jan. 14-The
bodies of all thirteen of the Indian
boys who lost their lives in the fire
which Saturday morning destroyed
the boys dormitory at Dwight Indian
mission, will be buried in one steel
vault Tuesday afternoon
The funeral services will be held in
the school chapel and the bodies will
he inferred in the cemetery at the
school
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14

The mercury climbed very reluctant
ly today and at o'clock had barely
reached the Is above mark. The
average temperature for the day was
13 degrees below normal At O'Clock
the wind was blowing six miles an
hour from the north.
Just lots of people spent today
thawing out water pipes frozen solid
CONTINUED on Page Two.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
r. R. HEADS ANXIOUS

New York, Jan. 14.-Asserting
right to know definitely just what is
in prospect, seventy-seven railway
presidents, representing 1T lines. will
ask the administration how long it in
tends to. continue operation of the
roads it was announced today. The
raiIroaders want the government to
definitely promise to give up the lines
after the war
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
$1,000 Fire at Cedar Rapids

Fire of an unknown origin late last
night destroyed the Ha wilkins building
in the wholesale business district A
loss of 100000 resulted. Fire brands
were blown for blocks by high wind
and only the deep snow saved the city
from a score of fires.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
CALL TRIAL TODAY NO "SU|CIDE Law"
TOpekans Accused of Opposing
Draft Are in Court.
Attorneys for Three Defendants
Ask for Dismissal.

Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. 1.-THE
trials of DR.. Eva Harding of Topeka,
Kan. author, clubwoman, and for
mer candidate for congress, and six
others, charged with attempting to in
terfere with the operation of the Sc
lective draft law, were to be called in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
1900, 900 MORE HUNS
That's What Russian Peace MeaT/ to
Allies on West Front
ondnn

London, Jan. 14.-The Russian
withdrawal from the war relieves l.
100000 Germans for use on the west
ern front, according to Brigadier Gen
eral Sir A c. Geddes, minister of ma
tional service, in "man-power" state
ment to the house of commons this af-
ternoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
Won HERTLING ILL?
German Imperial Chancellor May Re
sign, London Hears.

London Jan. 14-According 10
kilograms from Berlin today Count
Won Hertling, the German imperial
chancellor, is i'll and will probably
resign shortly. says an Exchange Tel
egraph despatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
WARMING UP SLOWLY
No Thawing Temperatures Here To-
day or Tomorrow, Flora Says.

Temperature readings for the day
furnished by the local office of the
United States weather bureau:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14

Trench and Camp, for Camp Fun
ston which is published from the Of
flee of the Topeka State Journal, will
appear regularly as usual every week
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14

WEATHER FORECAST for Kansas:
Cloudy tonight, Tuesday. Unset
tied. Colder south and east tonight.
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